Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 106 The Priest and the Dictionary

Then the overlord hugged his wife and started grinning foolishly, presumably dreaming of exchanging for advanced werewolf bloodline.

[Overlord is a mid-to-long-range firepower specialist... compared to Zero, he's not exactly a rearguard. And since he's willing, let's focus on strengthening him for now. If he's interested, and we have the spare money, we can consider something like a werewolf with fighting spirit...]

As he spoke, Mu Xiang looked at the three newcomers.

Zhao Yingkong said calmly, "I'll still choose to enhance the Flash Spirit, which I had my eye on before, and then use the remaining C-rank side quest to buy a weapon... Of course, I'll keep the rest for now, and I can use them if anyone needs them."

Mu Xiang nodded to her. Although Zhao Yingkong's reaction during the meal was lukewarm, she listened to everything discussed and was willing to follow the team's assignments. Before she expressed her opinion, the other team members who didn't know her well thought she would be a troublemaker.

In fact, Zhao Yingkong's need was to increase speed, and both normal and burst speed... Mu Xiang couldn't directly ask the main god about speed-related things, so he could only search slowly among the D and C grades, and finally found that the Flash Spirit Enhancement Gene really met Zhao Yingkong's needs.

Mu Xiang had actually considered creating a universal plugin, namely bullet time... but after considering everything, it seemed better to have Zhao Yingkong use one of the C-level side quests on the intermediate Shining Enhancement Gene. As for the other C-level side quest, given Zhao Yingkong's need for weapons, that might not be enough.

Although Mu Xiang had previously given Zhao Yingkong a high-vibration particle cutting dagger, it was certainly not as good as a magical legendary weapon in certain situations, so this request was reasonable.

"Let's strengthen the Shining gene first..." Mu Xiang looked at Zhao Yingkong walking towards the main god on her own with a headache, then looked at Qi Tengyi and Long Taobing: "You two have decided on the direction of strengthening, do you have any new ideas for the specific details?"

Qi Teng scratched his head: "I think the dictionary you found for me before is pretty good, and I'm quite confident in using it well, so let's go with that one. As for the other C-level exchanges, they don't really suit my strengths."

“Okay,” Mu Xiang nodded, “but don’t forget to buy yourself some high-tech weapons and armor. And save some reward points to strengthen your mental power…”

Long Taobing closed his eyes and contacted the main god. Even after Zhao Yingkong had silently completed the exchange and walked outside, he was still struggling with his decision.

"I feel like the Heart of Life or the Priest or something... I don't know which one specifically!" Long Taobing said in a pained tone, then turned his gaze to the senior members for help.

Mu Xiang thought for a moment, then tossed the Evil Eye he had seized to Long Taobing. Seeing Long Taobing scrambling to catch it, Mu Xiang continued, "This draws on life force to activate elemental energy. It's not really useful for us veterans; we were planning to leave it for you newbies anyway. You can enhance any healer you exchange for, and then you can replenish your own life force, right? It would be perfect for you."

Long Taobing looked at the gem-shaped evil eye with curiosity: "Ah, thank you, Captain... How did you know?"

"What do you know?" Not only Mu Xiang, but Zheng Zha also asked curiously.

“Every healer has a heart set on dealing damage!” Long Taobing became completely unreserved when talking about games, chuckling as he spoke.

Then he closed his eyes again, agonizing over which of these healer-related items to exchange for. This time, however, he did consider the compatibility with the Evil Eye.

Ultimately, Long Taobing decided to exchange for the Priest attribute, which surprised everyone. But Long Taobing explained, "I compared the Priest with other bloodlines. The Priest has the most skills at C-rank, and its healing effects seem to be the most comprehensive. Since I've positioned myself as a healer, I also have to consider my role in the team."

This statement surprised even the veterans, as considering a newcomer to the team right from the start was always a pleasant surprise. At least from a psychological perspective, the Zhongzhou team had picked up a promising talent.

Mu Xiang smiled and continued, "I discussed this with him before. It seems to be a matter of balancing effort and reward... Although priests are a profession rather than a bloodline, and their physical enhancements are not as good as other bloodlines, their initial healing effects are much better. Moreover, priests' group healing abilities are quite good. Even though it's just a basic priest exchange, it can still reduce the impact of some adverse status effects."

Long Taobing patted his chest and said, "That's right! I've always been a healer in the guild, so this is my specialty. Besides, I already have a kind of holy light energy within me, and if I infuse it into you, it will continuously transform into life force..."

Everyone nodded in agreement, but Mu Xiang poured cold water on their enthusiasm, saying, "Don't get so excited... Any enhancement is gradual, and his total energy and intensity are limited. Don't expect to get yourself all injured and then have him cure all your ailments."

The last one to be strengthened was Qi Tengyi. He was a little shy in front of everyone, which was quite different from his tall and strong appearance.

When the beam of light receded, he found himself holding a thick book.

"What is this?" Zhang Jie couldn't help but ask.

Qi Tengyi took a deep breath and solemnly stroked the book's cover: "The Hundred-Character Dictionary, the initial C-level exchange in the dictionary series." Mu Xiang smiled: "If someone else used this, they might not even reach the level of D-level enhancement... but for Qi Tengyi, it can unleash a much stronger level."

"So what's the effect?" Zheng Zha asked, leaning closer.

Qi Tengyi took another deep breath, and while everyone was puzzled, he silently turned to the title page, then bit his fingertip and dripped a drop of blood onto it.

Then, the book glowed with a faint red light, but only for a moment.

“Now that it has recognized its master, you can summon it at any time.” Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses, watching Qi Tengyi’s demonstration.

Qi Teng took another deep breath... This time Zhang Jie couldn't hold back any longer: "Can you stop being so nervous, kid?"

"We have to be nervous, this stuff can have a backlash." As soon as Mu Xiang said this, everyone looked at him in surprise... because recommending something with strong side effects to a newcomer was not Mu Xiang's style.

"It's alright, I'm confident." A strong sense of self-assurance shone in Qi Tengyi's eyes. "Let's see what's on the first page!"

When he opened the dictionary to the first page, a large character appeared on it, square in style, but incomprehensible to everyone else.

"Qi script? I didn't expect the first character it displayed to be so closely related to you," Mu Xiang said with a smile after taking a look.

“Solid!” Qi Teng read aloud, but there was no response.

Before Mu Xiang could remind him, Qi Tengyi's face turned pale, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Should we pronounce it in the ancient Qi pronunciation?"

As a strange syllable escaped his lips, an inexplicable force suddenly expanded outwards from Qi Tengyi's dictionary.

The next moment, a faintly visible square protective shield surrounded everyone.

With a thought, Mu Xiang instantly unleashed his strongest power under normal conditions, launching a ripple attack. However, the result was that Mu Xiang was forced back by the impact, shaking his hand with a look of surprise.

"Zhan Lan, connect to Qi Tengyi's spirit! This consumes a lot of mental energy!" Mu Xiang shouted immediately.

After being connected with Zhan Lan, Qi Tengyi's complexion improved considerably... otherwise, he would have almost collapsed to the ground.

Three seconds later, the square protective shield disappeared without a trace.

"Such strong defense," Mu Xiang remarked.

Qi Teng looked at everyone seriously: "This is the first character it manifests. As long as I pronounce it correctly, the meaning of this character will be activated. This character is 'Gu' in Qi script. Gu means firm... After the meaning of this character is activated, a defense that cannot be broken will appear for three seconds. Although I feel there is still an upper limit, it seems to be strong enough."

Zheng Zha couldn't help but gasp: "What if you pronounce it wrong?"

“If I mispronounce a word, I will suffer a mental backlash, which will deplete my mental state… Moreover, if I don’t invest reward points, it will only manifest one word per day. I must also pronounce the latest word correctly. Whether I try to avoid reading it or read it incorrectly, it will burden or deplete my mental energy.” Qi Teng said proudly, “And my language skills allow me to handle at least one hundred words at the C level.”

"Although there will be other dragon runes and such at higher levels of enhancement, Qi Tengyi will definitely be able to learn them." Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses, a smile creeping onto his lips. "I've discussed it with him, you know. His language talent is really strong... I can compete with him in recognizing characters, but when it comes to reading, I'm completely outmatched by him, hehe..."

This dictionary is a special exchange I designed for Qi Tengyi... Maybe it's because I do this every day, so I let this language genius try it out (laughs). Of course, the strength of this dictionary is not unlimited, and I'll talk about the load later.

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