novelraw Chapter 366-1: The Unexpected Reward of the Trial, Wet Nurse’s Offspring (1)
Chapter 366-1: The Unexpected Reward of the Trial, Wet Nurse’s Offspring (1)
[…]
[Transmission successful!]
[You open your eyes and find yourself in the familiar library, but Flanda and Kim are nowhere to be seen.]
[In the entire library, only you and the Librarian are present…]
[You hurry to the library door and crane your head out. The Angel Mother Nest also shows no sign of the two of them…]
???
“What is going on?”
Could the transmission have left Flanda and Kim behind? Or perhaps Flanda and Kim were never transmitted into the instance at all…
[You turn your head to look at the Librarian, only to see a slightly awkward expression on his face. With an embarrassed look, he says, Apostle, congratulations on passing the trial…]
[Clearly, as the Librarian, he naturally has the ability to learn the general situation within the trial. He already knows that you went through a trial of extraordinary difficulty.][You have no time to deal with his embarrassment for the moment and quickly ask where the two story characters have gone.]
[The Librarian’s expression becomes even more awkward. He adjusts the monocle on his face, the wrinkles on his aged countenance scrunching together as he hesitates and says that they are still inside the trial…]
[He does not know why, but some unforeseen accident beyond his control occurred within the trial, causing the two story characters to remain in the trial…]
[They also need, just like you, to achieve the objective of small-scale battle victory, or else they cannot exit the trial properly.]
Lin Xun could not help grinding his teeth. He had meant to have two demigod bodyguards carry him to an easy victory, only for the scheme to backfire.
Now great, he had directly dragged both Flanda and Kim into it.
[Seeing your dark expression, the Librarian hurriedly waves his hands to explain that no one had wanted such an accident to happen.]
[The original trial process should not have been like this. It was only after you were transmitted that the trial flow suddenly changed.]
[According to the rules, everything he did conformed to procedure, and opening the teleportation gate was also a valid method of entry.]
[The assistance of the two story characters was an advantage you gained yourself within the chapter.]
[There was no violation at any point in the process, and such an accidental incident should not have occurred at all. It is truly strange…]
[The Librarian also seems unable to figure out why an accident would occur.]
Lin Xun furrowed his brows.
Originally he had thought the administrator helping him was akin to cheating, thus provoking backlash from the Cursed game.
Only after the administrator’s explanation did he realize things were not as he had imagined.
If the content of the trial were likened to an ancient Western war, a down-and-out knight having no retainers and going alone to the battlefield would be entirely understandable.
But would it not be perfectly normal for a noble knight to bring several retainers with him to the front line?
If that alone were considered cheating, and the punishment was to make the noble knight solo the enemy’s fortress dragon, would that not be a bit too absurd?
Not only that, after the noble knight overcomes countless hardships, slays the dragon, and finally returns victorious…
The retainers are forcibly left on the battlefield and required to keep attacking the city.
Is that not even more ridiculous?
“It makes no sense… Why would it turn out like this?”
[You quickly ask the Librarian how the two story characters are progressing in the trial now, when they will come out, and whether you can enter the trial again to help them.]
[The Librarian shakes his head helplessly and says that you cannot return to the front-line battlefield, but the two story characters are currently not in any danger. You will understand in a moment.]
[He reminds you that the two of them still remaining in the trial may not necessarily be a bad thing for you.]
“My two top-tier bodyguards are both gone, and this can still be a good thing?”
Lin Xun could not help blurting it out.
On second thought, with the strength of Flanda and Kim, mowing down a bunch of Ascended rabble on the front lines would be a trivial matter.
Even existences as strong as angel warriors probably would not last a single round under their hands.
For the two of them, achieving the condition of small-scale battle victory was far easier than it had been for him.
Unless… unless they ran into another Wet Nurse’s offspring.
“Tch, tch, what a jinxed mouth.”
[The Librarian continues explaining to you that although the difficulty of the trial increased dramatically under the influence of an unknown factor, the rewards have correspondingly increased by a large margin as well.]
[The rewards for you perfectly clearing the trial are already extremely generous. Not only that, if the two story characters can also pass the trial, the rewards you receive can rise another level.]
[The Librarian signals you to be patient and suggests you first look at the rewards you have already obtained.]
[He slips a hand into his robe and takes out a bookmark to hand to you…]
[You have obtained Relic Bookmark x1]
“That’s it?”
Lin Xun had already obtained a Relic Bookmark in the previous chapter.
After using it, he was matched with an Apostle of the third difficulty, and the Relic he plundered after a successful invasion was only a pitiful S-grade, a Relic Fragment that provided merely a ten percent increase.
At the same difficulty, Relics obtained could not be equipped repeatedly. Lin Xun’s Type-III, Type-IV, and Type-V Relics were all Ultimate Relics with a fifty percent increase, so there was no need to swap out high-grade Relics to equip some trash Relic.
A low-grade Relic that could not be traded was basically worthless in his eyes.
Now that he had ascended difficulty once more, using a Relic Bookmark for matching would at best net him a low-grade Type-III or Type-IV Relic.
[The Librarian slips his hand into his robe again and takes out another bookmark to hand to you…]
[You have obtained Soul-Guard Bookmark x1]
[Soul-Guard Bookmark x1 (item): When the slaughter never stops, a single life becomes incomparably precious. While holding this item, if an invading Apostle uses a Soul-Annihilation Bookmark on you and you are defeated, this bookmark can negate the Soul-Annihilation effect once.]
[When your max soul strength drops, you can also use this bookmark’s effect to reduce the amount lost by 1 point.]
Lin Xun raised an eyebrow.
Soul-Guard and Soul-Annihilation stood in opposition to each other, one preserving life and the other taking it.
The Soul-Guard Bookmark could cancel out the soul obliteration effect brought about by the Soul-Annihilation Bookmark. Not only that, it could also resist reductions to the upper limit of soul strength.
Although Lin Xun possessed the Soul Secret – The Fire Never Dies, he still could not prevent his soul upper limit from being reduced.
Since there was no way to replenish or enhance max soul strength other than through Relics, the Soul-Guard Bookmark’s value was unimaginably high.
[Once he sees you stow the bookmark away, the Librarian again slips his hand into his robe and takes out yet another bookmark to hand to you…]
[You have obtained Reversion Bookmark x1]
“Hm, there is more?”
Lin Xun was a little pleasantly surprised. He had thought the rewards ended there, but they had not yet finished being distributed.
[Reversion Bookmark: People fear not death most, but regret. Using this item, you can ignore the difficulty limitation for chapters and randomly open a chapter world of the previous difficulty in The Book of Salvation.]
[When you return to a chapter of the previous difficulty, it will be considered a downgrade of difficulty, and until you ascend difficulty again, you will remain at that difficulty.]
“This bookmark… seems pretty powerful.”
He had thought the Soul-Guard Bookmark was already extremely precious, but the Reversion Bookmark was even more remarkable.