novelraw Chapter 412-1: The Self-Propelled Base of the Star Cage, First Meeting with a Sage (1)
Chapter 412-1: The Self-Propelled Base of the Star Cage, First Meeting with a Sage (1)
[You browse the document and absorb a massive amount of knowledge. Knowledge increases by 10,000. Current Knowledge: 32,000/40,800]
[The documents on the desk have been put into your pouch. You continue searching for useful things.]
[You open the desk drawer and find a Route Map blueprint. You also find a torn canvas that depicts a bright, clear star river in the night sky.]
[You obtained Route Map of the Ramsey Abyss Cave (Route Map)]
[You obtained Incomplete Star Map (Special Item)]
Lin Xun’s eyes lit up. After entering the secret room, the gains were indeed substantial.
Not only did he obtain the coordinates of a hidden map, he also collected another Incomplete Star Map.
The previous Star Map he had assembled and synthesized, and the Starrealm Leap skill he exchanged from the Servant of Knowledge, still had not been learned.
The Star Spirit Envoy in his Shell Slots, boosted by Compatibility, had reached mythic grade, already meeting the prerequisite for learning a skill one tier above.
After thinking for a moment, Lin Xun still did not have the Star Spirit Envoy learn that skill.He felt that later in the stage progression, he might be able to kill the Starrealm Envoy, possess it, and obtain an even higher-level Shell.
If he thought even further ahead, he wondered whether he might be able to Possess the already god realm Executor Lord…
A powerful skill should of course be learned by a powerful Shell. Having that watered-down Star Spirit Envoy learn it would be a waste.
“Sigh. If only I could transfer Shell skills. Otherwise, when Shells get upgraded and replaced, skills can’t be transferred. They can only be abandoned together with the old Shell. It always feels like a huge loss.”
Lin Xun sighed, then carefully searched the secret room again.
After confirming there were no more valuable items, he left the secret room and returned all the way to the third-floor transplant room of the branch building.
[…]
[The transplant room is a complete mess. Under the destructive might of Supernova Eruption, many star mages have been vaporized so completely that not even their corpses remain, leaving only large, mottled, dried bloodstains.]
[Many refined copper surgery tables have also melted and vaporized under the terrifying spell’s power.]
[You look toward the deepest part of the transplant room. Because you released the spell with your back against the wall, the wall decorations and that Starlight Cage painting were not affected.]
[You stride forward, arriving before the starry-sky painting that is as tall as a person…]
[The canvas background is a vast, boundless galaxy. One starlight cage after another is connected together. The canvas material seems to be some special paper, with a peculiar feel to the touch. The frame is refined copper and looks quite heavy.]
[You possess the Teleportation Badge for this painting. Do you want to teleport into the Starlight Cage?]
Lin Xun pressed ‘No’. He lingered in front of the painting for a long time, and the game only popped up the prompt asking whether he wanted to teleport.
He knew that to complete his devious operation, he had to rely on Flesh Authority to perform actions the game would not normally allow.
[Driven by Flesh Authority, you reach out and grab the refined copper frame on both sides of the painting…]
[You suddenly exert force, ripping the person-tall starry-sky painting down, along with the frame and the many nails that connect it to the wall.]
Lin Xun waited and waited, but the hellish game never prompted, ‘You have obtained the Starlight Cage,’ so he understood that even if he tore it down with devious methods, he still could not truly obtain it or put it into the Inventory.
His attempt was not over.
Earlier, from the Star Spirit Envoy he had obtained a storage item, the Star Silver Pouch. As long as he could stuff this painting into the storage item, his goal would be achieved.
Because according to the Teleportation Trap Device item description, the trap device had to be within one kilometer of the painting to take effect.
Only then could the secondary teleportation magic formation inside the device borrow the painting’s main teleportation magic formation, achieving the operation of forcibly teleporting a target the moment the trap triggered.
Lin Xun’s intent was to carry this painting with him at all times. If he ran into an enemy he could not defeat, he would directly pull out the Teleportation Trap Device.
He would do a ‘I call your name once, do you dare answer?’ routine. Whether the enemy answered or not, as long as the trap’s trigger conditions were met, he could forcibly teleport the enemy away.
Lin Xun had personally tested this trap. At the very least, it could affect demigod-level monsters. He estimated that as long as the target did not reach the god realm, they would not be able to break free from the forced teleportation.
And the forced teleportation destination was the Starlight Cage. Once locked inside, they could only take hits and could not fight back. The trap paired with the painting was an absolute ‘close the door and beat the dog’ combo.
Lin Xun smiled, pulled out the Star Silver Pouch, and continued trying his devious operation.
The game did not give any prompt to put the painting into the pouch, so he used the Flesh Authority to force the Shell to stuff it in.
At this moment, the hellish game finally seemed unable to stand it and popped up a warning.
[Please note: your item Star Silver Pouch can only load items of extremely light weight. Forcibly loading will cause this item to be destroyed!]
“Tsk. I’m just exploiting a BUG. Why are you getting mad?”
Seeing that this route was blocked, Lin Xun’s eyes turned, and he thought of another roundabout method.
Today, he was determined to exploit this BUG successfully.
[You reach out and set down the Starlight Cage painting, letting it lean against the wall at an angle…]
[You Possess the Shell of Fire-Worshipping Palace Master of Iya Palace!]
[You shake the purification wand and summon a loyal shikigami, Origin-Tracing Snow Woman of the Mountain.]
[The Snow Woman blinks her big eyes, waiting for the Dragonborn Lord’s command.]
[You point at the Starlight Cage painting and order her to carry the painting on her back and follow you…]
Since storage items and the Inventory could not hold it, he would simply install a self-propelled base onto the Starlight Cage painting. That would also achieve the goal of carrying it around.
[Hearing this, the Snow Woman immediately obeys. With her delicate body, she bears the heavy painting and follows you out of the transplant room…]
The refined copper frame of the painting was extremely heavy. The Snow Woman was also a caster type among yokai, the sort that was delicate, frail, and easy to push down. Carrying the painting behind her looked rather strenuous.
“Sigh. You can’t even carry a painting properly. Besides warming the bed, what can you even do…”
Lin Xun could only send the useless Snow Woman back and summon the Valkyrie to serve as the self-propelled base.
The Valkyrie carried the painting with ease, without the slightest fatigue. She could even fly while carrying it, a powered-up version of a self-propelled base.
Lin Xun then searched the Polar Star Society branch from top to bottom again.
According to the Star Priest’s memories, there might be a way to enter the headquarters hidden in the branch, but he turned the entire branch building upside down and still did not find it.
He guessed that the method of entering the Polar Star Society headquarters was some kind of portable item or something else. When the Starrealm Envoy went to the headquarters, it took that thing with it, which was why Lin Xun had not found it.
To be safe, Lin Xun searched again carefully. Only after confirming there were no omissions did he bring the Valkyrie back to Dexter Manor.
When passing through the teleportation formation, he was nervous, afraid that once he teleported back to the manor, the person would return but the painting would be gone.
Fortunately, the hellish game did not pull any more tricks. The Valkyrie successfully brought the Starlight Cage along with him and teleported back to the manor.
The scope of this BUG-exploiting devious operation was not broad. Earlier, when Lin Xun was in the Evil God chapters, he had also used the Snow Woman for experiments.