novelraw Chapter 183-2: The Arduous Tower Climb, Seeking the Star-Chasing Corridor (2)
Chapter 183-2: The Arduous Tower Climb, Seeking the Star-Chasing Corridor (2)
An hour later, his challenge progress froze at floor forty-nine.
This time, Lin Xun conserved every bit of the mage’s mana and the Earth Giant’s HP, using the most conservative approach.
He even had his other shells fight the low-level guardians.
Even so, he only managed to push his record to forty-nine, always falling short of the fiftieth floor by one.
When he encountered the guardian on the fiftieth floor, he blacked out from mental exhaustion the moment the enemy deployed a Knowledge Barrier, leading to immediate failure.
“At my current level, forty-nine floors is my absolute limit.”
Lin Xun shook his head and stopped trying to enter the illusion.
Previously, his Knowledge stat hadn’t been high enough to meet the requirements for using the Teleportation Scroll to go to the Star-Chasing Corridor.
But now, with his Knowledge cap reaching fifteen thousand, Lin Xun tried to click the item again.
[Do you wish to use the Teleportation Scroll of the Star-Chasing Corridor to teleport to the Star-Chasing Corridor?][Your Knowledge cap has reached the condition for teleportation.]
[You do not yet comprehend the true meaning of the Star-Chasing Corridor and therefore cannot teleport to the destination!]
His Knowledge stat had met the threshold and fulfilled the teleportation standard, but this accursed game still threw out a new requirement.
Lin Xun frowned, thinking it over.
Given the style of this cursed game, since the Star-Chasing Corridor had so many conditions to access it, its rewards were surely considerable.
The harder a place was to enter, the richer the rewards would be.
Before obtaining the Teleportation Scroll, he had never seen the words ‘Star-Chasing Corridor.’
Based on the teleportation requirements, if he wanted to understand its true meaning, he could only ask the story characters and see if they knew anything about it.
He went straight to the Eyeball Laboratory on the second floor of the Multivision Association.
[You step into the Eyeball Laboratory…]
[Bennett sees you arrive and quickly sets down the experimental apparatus in its hands.]
[It tells you that its technique for synthesizing eyeballs has made some progress.]
[Last time, it transplanted the eyeball of the Subterranean Shadow Fiend King for the True God’s Envoy, but that eyeball had a major flaw: it could not function in bright light.]
[It had tossed and turned over this, unable to sleep at night, feeling that an imperfect eyeball was unworthy of the great True God’s Envoy.]
[So it went to the Ancient Book Archive on the other side of the second floor to search for materials, trying to find a way to fix the flaw.]
[Fortunately, the Omniscient True Knowledge had bestowed its favor, and it successfully found the solution.]
[As long as the eyeball of a photophilic creature was synthesized with the Subterranean Shadow Fiend King’s eyeball, it would yield a pair of perfect eyes.]
[Even more fortunately, among the large batch of eyeballs it brought back from the Transplant Clinic, there was one that fit the requirements.]
[However, the qualified eyeball was mixed together with the rest in refined copper crates, and it needed to sort through dozens of crates one by one to locate it.]
[Since giant monsters roamed outside the Knowledge Association, and because of the Veiled Aberration Overlord the True God’s Envoy mentioned, it did not dare to open the crates, fearing it would attract danger.]
[You shook your head and told Bennett not to worry. The monsters in the city and the Veiled Aberration Overlord had all been slaughtered by you, so it could safely open the crates to search for the eyeball.]
[Bennett was overjoyed to hear this. It repeatedly praised the divine might of the True God’s Envoy and promised you that it would immediately begin sorting the eyeballs. The next time the True God’s Envoy visited, it would be able to eliminate the flaw.]
Originally, Lin Xun just wanted to ask Bennett whether it had ever heard of the Star-Chasing Corridor, but he hadn’t expected to trigger a special event.
Eliminating the Subterranean Shadow Fiend King eyeball’s flaw meant the Dancer’s stealth skill would be improved and no longer affected by environmental lighting.
Whether in dark shadows or bright areas, it would dramatically strengthen the stealth effect.
“Bennett, you really are a good person. I was too biased when I called you a profiteer before.”
Lin Xun couldn’t help sighing.
[You took out the Teleportation Scroll of the Star-Chasing Corridor and showed it to Bennett.]
[Bennett stared at the scroll in your hand, pondered for a long while, then shook its head. It told you frankly that it had never seen this item before, nor had it ever heard of the Star-Chasing Corridor.]
[Just hearing the word ‘Star,’ perhaps the cultists of the evil gods would know the secrets behind it.]
Lin Xun had a bad feeling.
What did it mean that perhaps only the cultists of the Stars knew the secrets… Don’t tell him he would have to join the Oath of the Radiant Stars to meet the teleportation requirement?
He quickly shook his head, trying to drive this ominous thought away.
Every field has its specialty. As a transplant doctor, it was understandable that Bennett didn’t know about the Star-Chasing Corridor; Bennett was only making a conjecture based on the place name.
If Rona hadn’t already left, he might have been able to get a key clue from the knowledgeable Rona.
[Bennett, seeing you silent, reminded you that the True God’s Envoy might as well go search the Ancient Book Archive, perhaps you could gain something there.]
[Do you wish to go to the Ancient Book Archive to look for information about the Star-Chasing Corridor?]
Lin Xun’s eyes lit up.
The Ancient Book Archive housed countless tomes, it was indeed a good place to search for records.
[You left the Eyeball Laboratory and stepped into the Ancient Book Archive next door.]
[Gazing at the towering shelves stacked layer upon layer, you began your search among the sea of books.]
[Searching…]
[You found a professional volume on the shelves titled On the Development Prospects of the Multivision School and the Dead End of the Direct Vision School.]
[You felt no interest whatsoever and tossed the book into a corner.]
[Searching…]
[At the bottom shelf, you found an adult novel titled My Days in the Abyss After Being Captured by Subterranean Demons While Exploring.]
[You were extremely intrigued and flipped through it eagerly… After a long time, you sighed that it was an eye-opening experience, then quickly lost all interest…]
[Your Knowledge increased by 1 point. Current Knowledge: 601/15,200]
[Searching…]
Lin Xun looked at the game text with a face full of black lines.
This cursed game would never change its ways, every now and then, it had to jump out and mock him.
[Searching…]
[You have roughly browsed the books in the archive but found no materials related to the Star-Chasing Corridor.]
“Even the Ancient Book Archive has nothing about it… Don’t tell me I really have to join the Oath of the Radiant Stars to teleport there?”
Lin Xun was a Vowbreaker.
Even if he wanted to, he could never again swear the Oath of the Radiant Stars.
Besides, judging by the Child of the Stars’ way of doing things, joining that star faction would definitely not be as comfortable as clinging to the thigh of Omniscient True Knowledge.
Just as he was secretly lamenting that every path was blocked…
He suddenly smacked his forehead, recalling a crucial clue.
The Teleportation Scroll had been obtained from the Grand Scholar Maguire, and the Multivision Association was Maguire’s old lair, its office was on the fifth floor of the building.
Inside Maguire’s office, there had to be related records!