novelraw Chapter 199-1: Bennett’s Parting Gift, Source of the Apocalypse, Omniscient True Knowledge (1)
Chapter 199-1: Bennett’s Parting Gift, Source of the Apocalypse, Omniscient True Knowledge (1)
[You have obtained Faint Spirit Essence of Sanctity *1]
[You have obtained Complete Forging Crystal Chunk *1]
[You have obtained Star Bone Corrosive Acid Sac (Material)]
[You have obtained Incomplete Star Map (Special Item)]
[You have obtained Ruminating Wrinkled Stomach of Containment (Special Item)]
[You have obtained Concentrated Starbeast Cultivation Fluid (Special Item)]
[You and the Battle Angel – Valkyrie landed on the ground…]
[With the depletion of your life force, you have suffered slight injuries…]
Lin Xun let out a long breath and canceled the Primordial Hermit’s transformation state.
The final boss’s health had been so absurdly high it was almost comical. Fortunately, the second phase of the boss had sacrificed its defense, becoming an all-agility glass cannon.Otherwise, even draining all the Hermit shell’s life force might not have been enough to kill it.
[With the death and fall of the Star Bone Sacred Beast, a massive page radiating dazzling light suddenly appeared in the mists ahead of you.]
[Do you want to step forward and touch the Fragment of the Book of Salvation – Resting Page?]
“At last, it’s cleared…”
Lin Xun felt a strange emptiness.
Every time he finished an exceptional novel, watched the final episode of a popular drama, or completed the last level of a single-player game, the same feeling would well up in his heart.
He didn’t rush to press ‘Yes.’ As usual, this was the time to inspect his spoils.
Opening the inventory, he reviewed the final gains of this chapter.
His stash of Spirit Essence items was piled high. Lin Xun made a rough estimate, counting the Spirit Essence from the final boss drop, his reserves had surpassed the 800,000 mark.
It was enough to buy two pieces of Epic+ armor or a single weapon of the same grade.
He had also collected quite a bit of forging material. Counting the newly acquired Star Bone Corrosive Acid Sac, he now had ten high-grade materials.
The best equipment he currently wore was only Epic quality. With so many premium materials, he could probably create one or two unprecedented top-tier pieces.
Unfortunately, the blacksmith’s forging skill was capped at Epic. If he wanted to forge higher-level gear, he would either have to find a skill book to improve forging in the Book of Trade or pay Spirit Essence to have the Book of Craftsmen craft it for him.
The boss had also dropped an Incomplete Star Map.
Combining it with the Star Map already in his inventory might yield a complete version.
Lin Xun thought for a long time but didn’t press the synthesis button.
If two Star Maps were enough to reveal the location of the hidden Star Deities, then as soon as he synthesized them, the Servant of Knowledge would sense it and summon him to the Temple of Knowledge.
After the Hidden Canyon incident, Lin Xun no longer yearned for the Temple of Knowledge.
Thinking back over every detail now, he realized the Temple of Knowledge and the Celestial Prison of Captive Stars were eerily similar!
Lin Xun had once experienced knowledge overload in the Temple and asked the Servant of Knowledge to purge the disorder from his soul.
After dying from knowledge overload, he hadn’t revived at the Resting Page but at the obelisk outside the temple.
Exactly the same as when he’d been in the Celestial Prison.
Every time he wanted to leave the temple, he could only have the Servant of Knowledge teleport him out.
Back then he hadn’t thought much of it, but remembering it now left him chilled.
“If it really is like I’m imagining, what would the Servant of Knowledge do once it realized I’d discovered the truth…”
Just imagining dying over and over, depleting all soul strength, yet being unable to escape the Temple of Knowledge, it was enough to make his hair stand on end.
Lin Xun didn’t dare gamble. If he lost that bet, he’d pay with his life.
Not the life of his in-game shell, but the permanent reduction of his soul strength cap, which would ultimately kill his true body.
“When it’s time to charge ahead, you charge. But when it’s time to play it safe, you damn well play it safe…”
Lin Xun left the Incomplete Star Map alone and looked at the next item.
[Ruminating Wrinkled Stomach of Containment (Special Item): A vast stomach sac filled with the digestive fluids of the Star Bone Sacred Beast. This organ can only digest specific things. After the digestive reaction, it will ruminate them back out, producing unexpected results.]
[Using this item to digest the giant egg left behind by the Knowledge-Seeking Veiled Aberration Overlord will ruminate out a tiny portion of Omniscient True Knowledge’s disordered divinity.]
After the Veiled Aberration Overlord died, it had dropped a giant egg.
Lin Xun had thought the egg was meant to hatch a summoned creature, so he’d left it in his inventory all this time without touching it.
Only now did he realize it wasn’t meant for hatching, it was for preserving divinity.
No wonder the egg had never shown any signs of life or movement.
He felt a bit speechless.
If he had chosen to help the Veiled Aberration Overlord defeat the Star Bone Sacred Beast during the final battle, then upon seeing this item, he would have ended up having to fight two final bosses at once.
“This cursed game really is hellish… But finally, the divine item I’ve been longing for is about to be mine.”
[You have placed the Aberration’s Newborn Egg into the Ruminating Wrinkled Stomach of Containment!]
[Digestive fluids submerged the Aberration’s Newborn Egg. Dense bubbles rose on the surface of the shell…]
[Digesting…]
Lin Xun waited a long time, but the digestion didn’t complete. He simply turned to inspect the next piece of loot.