novelraw Chapter 163-2: The Conditions to Unlock an Exclusive Item, Searching for the Behemoth (2)
Chapter 163-2: The Conditions to Unlock an Exclusive Item, Searching for the Behemoth (2)
[After bidding you farewell, the Servant of Knowledge waved its hand, and a white light once again enveloped your entire body…]
[Transmitting…]
[…]
[Transmission successful!]
[An ordinary wandering soul awoke inside the Transplant Clinic…]
“Managed to fleece a little benefit, but the current problem still isn’t resolved… How can I find an artifact like the Star Map to unlock the exclusive item?”
Lin Xun set down his phone and rubbed his forehead.
After thinking hard for a long time, he still couldn’t recall any related information.
Outside the window of the rental apartment, the sky had grown dark, and the faint starlight of night was visible overhead.
Unwittingly, he had spent an entire day cultivating in the game again. When midnight came, it would be time to go ‘raid’ the Armed Division.He walked to the window sill and looked at the few visible stars in the night sky, his thoughts gradually drifting…
In his inventory, there was still a Ring of the Radiant Stars, stolen from the Multivision President’s safe.
Equipping this special item carried a chance of being summoned by, or summoning, a starborn being.
After acquiring this equipment, he’d been caught by the Multivision President himself. Though the Omniscient True Knowledge dispatched a Beast of Disordered Knowledge to correct him, it had not summoned him.
Just now, the Servant of Knowledge hadn’t demanded this item either, suggesting that the creatures summoned or encountered through the Ring of the Radiant Stars did not qualify as true gods.
“But even if they’re just demigods or powerful star monsters, I still couldn’t possibly handle them…”
The Ring of the Radiant Stars clearly couldn’t solve his problem.
Then Lin Xun suddenly thought of something.
If the Ring of the Radiant Stars was useless, what about its owner?
The President of the Multivision Association had long since turned his back on the Omniscient True Knowledge in pursuit of the stars.
Perhaps he could glean some clues from that fellow oath-breaker of a President.
Lin Xun hurriedly picked up his phone.
He used a Resting Page from the clinic to teleport straight back to the Multivision Association.
[An ordinary wandering soul awoke on the first floor of the Multivision Association…]
[You opened your eyes. The first floor of the association building was empty and desolate, not a single figure in sight… It seemed there was a graceful silhouette standing by the tightly shut front doors.]
[She leaned against the door, leafing through a thick book, as if she were waiting here.]
[Would you like to approach and greet Grand Scholar Rona?]
Why was Rona waiting for him here?
Lin Xun recalled summoning the Valkyrie to help him open the chest in the clinic.
Most likely, in the middle of instructing the doll, the Valkyrie had vanished, and Rona thought he had gotten himself into some new trouble.
[You strode forward. Before you could get close, Rona sensed your presence. Seeing you safely returned, she told you that not long ago, she had heard a tremendous commotion in the mists outside the association. Judging by the sounds, it had been the Veiled Aberration Overlord.]
[She heard the Veiled Aberration Overlord fighting an ordinary behemoth. The uproar was immense, though the battle ended quickly. After that, there had been nothing but a series of terrifying chewing noises in the mist.]
[It was very likely that the Veiled Aberration Overlord had finished devouring the corpses of the Direct Vision Association’s scholars and left to hunt its own kind, consuming them to strengthen itself.]
[Fortunately, all the eyeballs in the Multivision Association had been sealed inside refined copper boxes. Just her presence and Bennett’s lingering scent were not enough to draw the Overlord’s attention.]
[She explained that when she saw the doll vanish, she had meant to go out searching for you, but had been blocked by the Veiled Aberration Overlord and couldn’t leave the association.]
[Rona let out a long sigh, saying that your constant summoning of the doll was causing significant disruption to her instruction schedule.]
[If you still needed the doll’s assistance soon, you should pause its lessons and take it with you.]
[Rona promised that after you join forces to defeat the Multivision President, she would remain in Sophia City until your agreement was fulfilled. Once the doll completed its training, she would then depart for the Imperial Capital.]
[Having finished speaking, Rona looked quietly at you, waiting for your reply.]
[Would you like the Battle Angel – Valkyrie to continue studying under Grand Scholar Rona?]
[Or would you prefer to go now with Grand Scholar Rona to the hidden laboratory where the Knowledge-Seeking President of the Multivision Association is located?]
Two options were laid out before Lin Xun.
One, he could join Rona right now, go to the laboratory, and eliminate the President of the Multivision Association.
Two, he could take the Valkyrie along to hunt Veiled Aberrations and obtain divine items.
From what Rona had just said, the Veiled Aberration Overlord had already set out ahead of him to hunt its own kind. For every one it devoured, that meant he would lose about a third of a divine item.
Thinking of this, Lin Xun could only put off the idea of taking down the Multivision President for now.
He decided to go into the mists and hunt behemoths first.
[You informed Rona that you would temporarily suspend the Battle Angel – Valkyrie lessons, and once you were ready, you would go together to the hidden laboratory.]
[Rona nodded, waved goodbye to you, and turned to walk deeper into the corridor, leaving you with a dashing, graceful figure.]
Lin Xun switched to the shell of the Direct Vision President and left the association building.
He boarded his new vehicle, the Refined Copper Carriage.
[You stepped onto the brass step extending from the base of the carriage and entered.]
[Please select your destination…]
He casually picked a route to the Doll Factory.
[As the carriage doors closed, the vehicle sped swiftly through the mists in a certain direction…]
Lin Xun silently waited for the text indicating he had encountered a behemoth.
In the end, he waited more than ten minutes without seeing any message about a behemoth, and instead received a notification from the wretched game informing him he had arrived at the Doll Factory.
“What’s going on?”
Normally, no matter which route he took, he would run into at least one or two behemoths on the way.
“Could it be that the Veiled Aberration Overlord already wiped out all the behemoths in the city?”
Lin Xun frowned, feeling that was impossible.
Rona had just heard fighting in the mists earlier, and every time the Veiled Aberration Overlord killed a behemoth, it had to spend time devouring and digesting it.
How could it have wiped out all the behemoths in the entire city in such a short time?
He gave the carriage an order to head to the Transplant Clinic.
This time, Lin Xun opened the carriage door, letting the cold wind blow in, just to spread his scent and attract the behemoths’ attention.
After thinking it over, he still felt it wasn’t enough. He opened his inventory, selected the Refined Copper Box Full of Eyeballs, and opened the box.
“I refuse to believe that with so many eyeballs, I can’t lure a behemoth!”