novelraw Chapter 156-2: The Shell of the President of the Direct Vision Association, the Mightiest Mage! (2)
Chapter 156-2: The Shell of the President of the Direct Vision Association, the Mightiest Mage! (2)
[You possess the Shell of the Knowledge-Seeking President of the Direct Vision Association!]
[Your eye sockets are completely empty. Your vision is pure darkness, you cannot see anything. Struggling to stand, you find both legs are crippled and you’ve lost all mobility.]
[You can only crawl forward, groping across the ground with your hands in darkness…]
Lin Xun couldn’t even complain about this hellish game anymore.
What’s with all the eyeball looting? Now he had to make another trip to Bennett just to get them transplanted again.
[In the darkness, the faint sound of a massive creature’s footsteps draws closer, growing louder…]
“Shit! The behemoth is back!”
Lin Xun immediately starts operating at lightning speed.
[You possess the Shell of the Corrupted Theater Dancer!]
[You leap to your feet. Ignoring the stunned Knowledge-Seeking Direct Vision Association Grand Scholar beside you, you dash toward the carriage like a leopard…][The Iridescent Scaled Wing Boots on your feet flash faintly, generating wind beneath your soles and making you run like the wind!]
[The Knowledge-Seeking Direct Vision Association Grand Scholar stares blankly at your rapidly disappearing silhouette in the mist. Hearing the approaching footsteps of the massive creature, he finally snaps back to his senses.]
[He follows your lead at the fastest speed of his life.]
[Soon, the carriage comes into view… Strangely, beside your shabby carriage is another, a finely crafted brass carriage.]
[Its door is wide open, and a graceful female Scholar is anxiously waving at you, signaling for you to hurry aboard!]
[You sprint to the carriage, grab Rona’s extended hand, and leap inside in one motion!]
[Behind you, the Knowledge-Seeking Direct Vision Association Grand Scholar, gasping for breath, stumbles and scrambles his way into the carriage as well.]
[The footsteps of the massive creature are now right behind you!]
[The carriage door slams shut. The brass carriage accelerates rapidly, nearly sending you tumbling from the sudden burst of speed.]
[This speed surpasses your defective carriage by more than double!]
[The carriage speeds into the mist, leaving this place far behind…]
[The footsteps of the massive creature remain at the ruins of the Direct Vision Association.]
Seeing they were finally safe, Lin Xun let out a long sigh of relief.
What he hadn’t expected at all was that Rona had actually come to the Direct Vision Association to rescue him.
Rona’s carriage was clearly high-end. If he had tried to flee using his own broken-down carriage with its slow start-up, the behemoth might’ve caught him before he even left the scene…
[Grand Scholar Rona gently pressed her chest, clearly still shaken.]
[She told you she had been in her office teaching your doll, when the doll suddenly vanished. At that moment, she knew something must have gone wrong with you at the Direct Vision Association.]
[She was still waiting for you to fulfill your promise, so there was no way she’d let you die in vain.]
[As she said this, Rona winked at you.]
[You instantly understood what she meant by ‘promise.’ It referred to two things: first, your confession to her; second, your plan to team up and kill the President of the Multivision Association.]
[Rona continued, saying she had thought that after arriving at the Direct Vision Association, at most she would join forces with you again to slaughter her way through the place.]
[She didn’t expect that the trouble you encountered would be the Veiled Aberration Overlord…]
[Rona paused, frowning deeply. She too seemed shocked that such a monster had emerged in Sophia City.]
[The Knowledge-Seeking Direct Vision Association Grand Scholar, seeing that you had gained another powerful ally, immediately wore a flattering smile and began explaining to Rona about how the Direct Vision Association was destroyed by the behemoth yesterday.]
[Rona paid no attention to the chattering Grand Scholar and simply winked at you again.]
[You once again understood Rona’s intent…]
[Do you want to team up with Scholar Rona to kill the Knowledge-Seeking Direct Vision Association Grand Scholar?]
Lin Xun smacked his lips. Rona was just too thoughtful.
However, he had his own plans. Now was not the time for killing and looting.
He pressed ‘No.’
[Seeing you slightly shake your head, Rona calmly returned to her seat, closed her eyes, and waited for the carriage to return to the Multivision Association.]
[The Knowledge-Seeking Direct Vision Association Grand Scholar immediately fell silent.]
Rona’s carriage was truly worthy of being called high-end.
The trip from the Direct Vision Association to the Multivision Association, which normally took nearly half an hour, was completed in just over ten minutes.
Lin Xun took this opportunity to eagerly open the Shell Panel.
He checked the attributes of the Direct Vision Association President’s Shell.
[Shell: Knowledge-Seeking President of the Direct Vision Association]
[True Name: Unknown]
[Compatibility: 113% (+45%) – Compatibility exceeds threshold, Shell quality increased!]
[Shell Quality: Epic+]
[Shell Level: 50]
[Shell Equipment: Knowledge Radiance Staff (Epic Equipment) – A small wooden staff with worn engravings. At its top is a pure white crystal, within which countless tiny characters surge like tides. While wielding this staff, your spells ignore most enemy magic resistance and deal greatly increased damage to defensive knowledge-based skills.]
[Shell Equipment: Association President Robe (Epic Equipment) – While wearing this, your resistance to knowledge-type skills is massively increased.]
[Shell Equipment: Stored Spell Treasure Ring (Epic Equipment)]
[Shell Skill: Knowledge Barrier (Epic+)]
[Shell Skill: Knowledge Radiance (Rare+)]
[Shell Skill: Knowledge Spear (Epic+)]
With his talent bonuses, the President’s Shell had reached the same tier as the Earth Giant, an astonishing Epic+.
And the Shell’s level was also an impressive 50!
The President’s weapon, the Knowledge Radiance Staff, was an unexpected delight. It allowed him to ignore enemy magic resistance and shred through defensive spells with ease.
No longer would he have to worry about lacking Knowledge to break through a Knowledge Barrier.
Looking at that row of Epic+ skills, Lin Xun felt immensely accomplished.
Only the skill Knowledge Radiance was a slight letdown, it was a mere Rare+.
The two Grand Scholar Shells he’d obtained earlier also had the same limitation. He suspected this skill’s ceiling was capped at Rare+, otherwise it made no sense given the power of the President and Grand Scholars.
Aside from the quality improvements, the President’s skills offered no new abilities compared to the Grand Scholars.
But with a moment’s thought, Lin Xun understood where the President’s true strength lay.
After all, the two eyeballs dropped from the President were both Epic+, and eyeballs typically came with powerful special abilities.
He opened his inventory and first selected the exclusive item, Visage of the Leader.
He appointed the level 50 President as the Leader!
[You have appointed the Shell of the Knowledge-Seeking President of the Direct Vision Association as the Leader!]
[Follower Shell – Knowledge-Seeking Multivision Association Grand Scholar: Shell Level increased to 50 (+5)]
[Follower Shell – Corrupted Earth Giant: Shell Level increased to 50 (+7)]
[Follower Shell – Corrupted Yellow-Robed Bishop of the White Moon Church: Shell Level increased to 50 (+28)]
[…]
A flood of messages scrolled down the screen. Every Shell in the Shell Slot had now reached level 50.
Lin Xun’s strength had undergone a qualitative leap.
He turned to look at the two newly acquired Epic+ eyeballs in his inventory.
He couldn’t help but feel excited about the new special skills they might bring…