Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?

Chapter 265: Chapter 267: Return, the second form and second ability of the Book of the Sage

[You completed the main quest and acquired the Lord Skill·Life Enhancement]

[You completed the main quest and received the evaluation: SSS]

[Based on your evaluation, you have received the following rewards]

[1. Self-selected Special Building Blueprints×3]

[2. Four types of Special Resources×500,000 units each]

[3. Ten Self-selected Advanced Treasures]

[4. Two types of Common Resources×1,000,000 units each]

[5. Shadow Heart×1]

[6. Three Self-selected Lord Talents]

[7. 50,000,000 Gold Coins]

[8. Ten Troop Upgrade Vouchers (Champion Level)]

[9. Shadow Weapon×1]

[10. Shadow×1]

"???"

"Why is there a Shadow?"

Qin Muye couldn't help but comment, as he had not expected that reward ten would actually be giving him a shadow.

"Is it because of the Shadow Realm?"

"Just this time, why isn't there a Talent Ascension Scroll? Even without the Talent Ascension Scroll, a section on Profession expansion would be fine, or if not, a Self-selected Professional Certificate would also do..."

He had limited items he could use, namely the Shadow Heart, Self-selected Lord Talent, and the Shadow Weapon and Shadow itself.

The rest naturally fell to Black Hand to handle.

After he completely separated the Shadow Realm from the Human Realm and used his own magic power to invade the Shadow Realm, confusing its rules and logic, he successfully resolved this catastrophic Charge between the realms. As for why it was only SSS ranked, Qin Muye guessed it might be because this action could only isolate temporarily, not forever.

Therefore, it was only graded SSS. As for rewards above the SSS level, Qin Muye didn't think much about it, as the difficulty was too great.

He was able to separate the two realms through a trick, but permanently isolating them was not so easy. The Shadow Realm would not give up, and he estimated that in another hundred thousand years or so, it would make a comeback.

That's why it was judged as an SSS level evaluation.

"Now, the only task left to advance my rank by five levels is the number of ordinary troops. This isn't difficult."

"The rank conditions of the territory, along with the two special building blueprints given this time, do allow for an upgrade. It's just right to place the five ranks of Spirit Monsters."

"There are also ten Self-selected Advanced Treasures that seem worth exchanging."

Qin Muye didn't let Black Hand make the trade this time; instead, he exchanged them himself.

"The Sea God Necklace plus the Navigator's Hat can be synthesized into the Ocean Hat."

"The Undead Talisman, Vampire Cloak, and Death God Boots, to obtain the Ghost King Cloak."

"With five slots left, it'll be the Heavenly Gifted Divine Feet, Divine Hip, Divine Body, Divine Arm, and Divine Head then, combining into the Heavenly Gifted Divine Weapon."

Soon, three Divine Artifacts were exchanged by him. After a glance at their Attributes, seeing they were of no use to him, he disregarded them.

The Heavenly Gifted Divine Weapon was tossed into the Supplies Warehouse along with items like the Harvest Horn and Holy Blood Bottle. These items just needed to be placed in the territory to take effect.

As for the remaining Ocean Hat, it was given to a Hero with a naval Profession, and the Ghost King Cloak was given to the one with the highest level in Soul Summoning Technique, who had reached the Grandmaster level, because his aura could participate in battle without going to the battlefield, potentially recruiting the maximum number of laborers.

After dealing with the Divine Artifacts, he looked at the other rewards. The Shadow Heart was an Item that allowed a Shadow to awaken a second ability.

Under normal circumstances, a Shadow possesses only one ability, but a Shadow Heart is a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure that breaks the norm.

As for the Shadow Weapon, it was slightly inferior; it allowed the Shadow to adopt an additional form.

A Shadow typically has only one form, which is the Shadow Weaponry form. However, when utilizing Shadow Equipment, it could acquire an entirely new form.

Like Qin Muye's Shadow, aside from the Shadow Equipment form, it also has a book form, which other Shadows do not possess.

The final Shadow reward... he truly didn't see what use it had, but being able to return the Shadow back to himself was a good thing nonetheless."

Because if his Book of the Sage appeared in either the book form or the Shadow Equipment form, he did not have a Shadow, which was quite peculiar."

But with the returned Shadow from the reward, he once again possessed a normal shadow caused by optical transmission.

"This time with the addition of shadow and dead silence powers, I always felt that the Floating City seemed to have some obscure conditions."

Qin Muye was pondering whether it was better to use the Shadow Heart or Shadow Weapon first when he noticed the change in his territory.

It was mainly the adaptability of the two talents to the territory that caused the change, otherwise it was unlikely this situation would arise.

"Forget it, I'll talk about it when I have time."

He then decisively used the Shadow Heart and gained a second shadow ability.

[Book of the Sage II (Rank 1): Each level of knowledge attribute +1, +1 in knowledge-based judgments]

"Ah, this..." @@novelbin@@

"Although I really like the knowledge attribute, the difference between these two abilities is too much."

Qin Muye was not sure what knowledge-based judgments meant; he had never encountered them, as his battles were few and far between.

"Forget it, I'll take it as a consolation prize since it can be upgraded."

Afterward, he used up the Shadow Weapon, eager to find out what intriguing new form it would take.

[Your Book of the Sage has gained a new form: Crystal Beast]

"What in the world?"

When Qin Muye activated it, he saw his Book of the Sage suddenly covered by a black and red crystal, which then continuously expanded and eventually formed into a somewhat strange-looking creature with a crystalline body structure and a black and red hue.

More importantly, this thing was not alive; it looked like a mechanical creature controlled by the Magic Network.

Moreover, it did not seem symmetrical; it rather looked like a messily twisted cluster of crystals, reminiscent of the ancient shadow monster he had once stuck into the Shadow Cocoon.

Initially, his idea of stuffing the ancient shadow monster was just to mix in some attributes to give his Shadow Equipment a higher starting point, but he hadn't expected it would turn into a new form.

Perhaps it was for this reason that the new form was a Crystal Beast.

Even though it looked nothing like a beast, Qin Muye found that he could control its transformation, making it much more useful than a Slime.

Slimes could not necessarily transform at will.

"Forget it, I'll just consider it an extra mount for later use, and it can also be sent to bite people," Qin Muye felt somewhat helpless.

As for using techniques like the Prayer Technique or other functions, they could still be used, and in the form of a Crystal Beast, both abilities of the Book of the Sage were effective on him.

The principle was simple, because the book form was essentially not a Shadow Weapon but a shadow transformed by Qin Muye; rather, the Shadow Equipment and Crystal Beast were the real Shadow Weapons, so they naturally worked.

It was just as well since he didn't like wearing Shadow Equipment; he could use the form of the Crystal Beast and have an extra hand during experiments.

He then began to select 3 self-selected Lord Talents, skipping over those talents without any unique characteristics of the instance, and started to view the unique Lord Talents of the World of Shadows.

What can I say, this time there were truly many related talents, even more than those of the fairy tale world previously.

It might be because he delved deeper this time and developed his identity greatly, thus there were so many Lord Talents available.

It almost made Qin Muye's eyes spin, and if not for the limit of three slots, he would want them all.

[Shadow Body: Your awakened shadow's potential +1]

[Shadow Realm Space: Your awakened shadow has 1 cubic space]

[Ghost Shadows: Your awakened shadow has the ability to split]

Three talents, said to be Lord Talents, were rather Shadow Talents.

Qin Muye did not choose those odd-looking abilities but instead selected three abilities that seemed unrelated yet were, in his eyes, interconnected.

If he developed these three abilities further, he might be able to transform his awakened shadow into a shadow realm.

Only, this would require some time.

However, Qin Muye was relieved; what he lacked most now was time, but he wasn't short of just a little time.

If he truly succeeded, by folding the shadow realm into the Different Plane Floating City, then the area of his territory would grow once again, doubling in size — who wouldn't like that?

As for valuing combat capabilities, the combat power he now had was sufficient, and there was not much need to pursue more, especially since the increase in combat power was not significant; it was better to change and strive for a better future.

It's just that these three talents were a bit weak initially and needed Ascension.

But if his experiment succeeded, even without Ascension, it wouldn't matter; mainly, the outcome of his subsequent research was important.

"Let's put this aside for now; I'll create a 5th Rank Spirit Monster, and then I can make plans after that," Qin Muye pondered for a while, for his territory had already completed the upgrade to 5th Rank.