novelraw Chapter 376-2: SSS Interpretation Rating, Supreme Authority Flesh Authority (2)
Chapter 376-2: SSS Interpretation Rating, Supreme Authority Flesh Authority (2)
As the pain dissipated, a sense of unprecedented power filled his body.
No, his body was still suffused with a powerless fatigue. The sense of power came from his spirit, or rather, from his soul.
Dong, dong, dong!
“Mr. Lin! Mr. Lin! Are you all right?”
Urgent knocking sounded from outside the door as the manor butler called out anxiously.
With the sound of a key inserted into the lock and the turning of the handle, the butler pushed the door open and entered, several bodyguards following behind him. “Mr. Lin, the private doctor will be here any moment. If you do not feel well…”
“No need.”
Supporting himself, Lin Xun stood up. “Have you forgotten my previous instructions? Without my permission, no one is allowed to come in.”
“But just now you…” The butler’s words stopped halfway of their own accord because he saw that the usually gentle Mr. Lin now had a gaze that inspired terror.
The look in his eye was like the hungry, bloodthirsty stare of a lion at a sheep. That description was not quite accurate. More accurately, it was the scorn of a higher lifeform for a lower lifeform.That scorn contained no subjective emotion, just like a god overlooking an ant. Crushing you beneath its foot would not be because you blocked its path, but because you happened to be in the way.
You had no right to block a god. Being crushed as it passed by had nothing to do with you.
The butler instinctively avoided that terrifying gaze, immediately lowered his head to apologize, and retreated in a hurry.
The door closed gently, and Lin Xun collapsed onto the sofa in one motion.
He raised his hand in front of his face and focused his gaze on his fingertips.
Beneath the skin of his finger pad, something seemed to be wriggling nonstop.
With a flick of his will, a tiny fleshy sprout suddenly broke through his skin and emerged from his fingertip.
That single sprout was only the beginning. More fine flesh sprouts pushed out from his fingertip, twining and merging together to form a new finger segment.
In the blink of an eye, the finger segment split again into countless fine flesh sprouts, burrowing back into his finger and vanishing beneath the skin.
Lin Xun stood up. The fatigue in his body rapidly drained away, and he quickly felt that he was brimming with strength.
Without a word, he went to the bathroom and examined himself in the mirror.
At the movement of his intent, countless flesh sprouts emerged on his face. They arranged and combined, covering his entire face.
The person in the mirror instantly changed faces, becoming a complete stranger.
His bones crackled in a series of sounds. His frame stretched taller by a few inches, his body more robust.
Judging by appearance alone, there was now no way to connect him to the original Lin Xun.
At the moment, he had not manifested any Shell at all. All of these changes had been done purely by relying on the new power in his soul.
[Supreme Authority – Flesh Authority: the supreme main god authority derived from the Desire Wet Nurse.]
[Because you are too weak, you are currently unable to display all of the authority’s power, but the ability of the authority will gradually reveal all its might as you grow stronger.]
[Once you completely master the authority, you will likewise be able, like the Desire Wet Nurse, to decipher powerful life factors and merge them into yourself to complete a massive leap in both strength and the essence of life.]
Ever since obtaining the Flesh Authority, Lin Xun had felt as though he had undergone some kind of evolution.
It was not a transformation of his body, but an evolution of his soul.
In that moment, it was like he had evolved into a higher-dimensional being, like ascending from ant to god.
Lin Xun narrowed his eyes and immediately manifested the little dragonkin Shell of the Primordial Hermit.
The little dragonkin was still that same dark-skinned, ugly ‘caveman’ form.
Yet with the revelation of the Flesh Authority, the little dragonkin instantly turned into Lin Xun’s own appearance. Not only his height and build, but even a tiny mole on his arm was exactly the same.
And this body still retained the powerful abilities of the Primordial Hermit.
As long as Lin Xun wished, he could now transform into a pitch-black dragon and soar through the sky.
He opened the little dragonkin’s Shell Panel.
In the Compatibility line it read: [Compatibility: 93% (+55%)]
He frowned and channeled the Flesh Authority with all his might.
If before he had only manipulated the Flesh Authority to change the little dragonkin’s outward appearance, now he was attempting to use the Flesh Authority to alter it from within.
What Lin Xun wanted to do was to use the Flesh Authority to raise the Shell’s Compatibility.
Presumably, with a main god’s authority, he could easily alter the Shell’s structure and raise its Compatibility.
The numbers in the Compatibility line appeared to blur as if filmed over by a layer of water vapor, becoming hazy and hard to see clearly.
His heart leapt with joy, knowing this was a sign that the value was about to change.
“It really is a Supreme Authority… just a sliver of a main god’s authority can have such a powerful effect.”
But the text that followed completely exceeded his expectations.
[Rule conflict. The current priority of your Flesh Authority is too low. You cannot overstep the rules.]
As the text displayed, the Compatibility value sharpened once more and was still the previous 93% (+55%).
“…”
“Damn you, Cursed game!”
He had thought he had gained another powerful cheat, but it seemed that right now his cheat was still too weak and could not compete with the game rules at all.
After knowing part of the truth, calling it a Cursed game seemed a little inappropriate.
But then again, for the other worlds, was The Book of Salvation not exactly a Cursed game?
He came back to himself and clicked The Book of Salvation again.
[You step forward and touch The Book of Salvation. Your powerful soul resonates with the book…]
[Which function of The Book of Salvation do you wish to use?]
[1. Teleport]
[2. Start a new chapter]
[3. Solidify Relic]
[4. …]
Lin Xun immediately pressed the second option.
[You may randomly enter a sixth difficulty chapter.]
[Given that you obtained a D rating or above in the previous chapter, you may randomly enter a seventh difficulty chapter.]
[…]
[Given that you obtained an S rating or above in the previous chapter, you may randomly enter a seventh difficulty chapter (Hell).]
“There’s no higher difficulty?”
“Damn, what am I thinking, is Hell Difficulty not hard enough already?”
Lin Xun wanted to see whether the randomly entered chapter would be the World of Omniscience.
No matter the result, he planned to immediately use the Resting Page at the spawn point to teleport back to the Library, then choose to end the chapter and restart another day.
Yes, restart.
He urgently wanted to know the answer.
If everything had been arranged, he would restart, break away from the unseen existence’s plan, and change the already fixed ending.
If the answer was no, he would still restart and think of a way to enter the World of Omniscience again.
The first time an Apostle hits a wall in a chapter and exits to restart, they can enjoy a one-time waiver of the stuck-chapter penalty.
The Escape Bookmark that Li Xingyue had given him also allowed him to leave a chapter without suffering the game’s penalty.
Otherwise, when an Apostle restarts after getting stuck, they suffer a negative buff of all attributes dropping by 10% and reward gains dropping by 10%.
This negative buff can stack and remains in effect until they completely clear a chapter once.
[You have chosen the seventh difficulty chapter (Hell).]
[You have entered an apocalyptic chapter.]
[Chapter 6946157]
Seeing the chapter number, Lin Xun let out a long breath.
The text went on to say that he awakened in a residential pod in near-Earth orbit.
The randomly entered instance was a relatively rare future sci-fi instance, which did not match his path at all, and he was not very interested in such instances.
Without hesitation, he picked up the Shell provided on the ground, clicked the Resting Page, and escaped straight back to the Library.
Once he confirmed there was no giant hidden hand manipulating him from behind, Lin Xun felt his body and mind instantly relax.
“Then next, it is time to check the spoils.”