Legend of the Pinnacle of Online Games

Chapter 185 Relics of Civilization
The stone tablet hut looks quite small from the outside.

But once you go deeper inside, you'll find it's even smaller.

The interior space is less than ten square meters.

As soon as Lin Hanchuan entered, everything inside was reflected in his pupils.

Actually it’s nothing.

Beneath their feet was a glowing red array, and it was this array that protected the stone tablet hut from being broken into by others.

The walls and ceiling are carved with dense characters, and in terms of font structure, they are the same as those on the stone tablets outside.

Lin Hanchuan couldn't understand what it meant.

Of course, he has no time to study it now.

On the right side against the wall, there is a treasure chest covered with inscriptions. The black characters on the chest pulsate gently with the light emanating from the array beneath its feet, like tadpoles swimming on the surface of the chest.

[Monument Valley Map Treasure Chest]

Quality: Two stars
Note: This is a treasure chest exclusive to the Beigu map. It contains map-related items and can be opened with a treasure chest key.

While Lin Hanchuan was looking at the information on the treasure chest, Long Xiaochen said from the side, "We were also startled by this treasure chest when we came in!"

"I actually found a map treasure chest inside a small map in a miniature dimensional world, and it's even a two-star one."

Recalling the moment he discovered the treasure chest, Long Xiaochen's lips curled into a wide smile.

This was the first hut he entered, and this map treasure chest was also the first one he discovered. After playing the game for so long, this was the first time he had ever found a map treasure chest.

"Why don't you open it?" Lin Hanchuan took out the key and handed it to Long Xiaochen.

As a player, he could understand Long Xiaochen's excitement at that moment.

Long Xiaochen probably never opened a map treasure chest in his entire life.

"No, no, no!!" Seeing Lin Hanchuan hand him the keys, Long Xiaochen quickly stepped back, shaking his head and waving his hands. "Captain, you should do it!"

"Given my luck rating, I'm afraid I'll end up with a bunch of junk!"

"What you get from the treasure chest really has nothing to do with luck," Lin Hanchuan explained. "Moreover, this map treasure chest might be the first one discovered in District 9, which is of great significance."

Long Xiaochen thought for a moment, then firmly shook his head and said, "It still won't work!"

"When it comes to opening treasure chests, as players, we have to believe in the superstition. What if we do get lucky? Captain, you've opened some good stuff before, haven't you?"

"Boss, you should do it!" Cao Renjie spoke up for Long Xiaochen.

In fact, the moment they saw these map treasure chests, they all thought of having Lin Hanchuan open them.

Metaphysics is metaphysics.

It's better to believe than not to believe.

"Alright!" Lin Hanchuan didn't mind. He went to the map treasure chest, squatted down, inserted the key into the lock, and gently turned the key.

As the lock clicked open, the inscription patterns that had been rotating outside the treasure chest on the map seemed to have a sense of their own, turning into black lines and quickly shrinking into the inside of the treasure chest.

Lin Hanchuan calmly opened the treasure chest.

The moment it was opened, countless dense inscriptions rose up from inside the treasure chest. They swarmed around the room like locusts, and then stuck to the wall one by one, making the existing inscriptions on the wall appear three-dimensional.

Some of the characters even started to jump around restlessly.

"Could this house have come to life?!" Long Xiaochen exclaimed in shock, staring at the words dancing everywhere inside the room.

Lin Hanchuan frowned, then looked at the map treasure chest, which contained only two items.

A black command flag, about the size of a palm.

A scroll.

Lin Hanchuan took out a black command flag first.

From the outside, it looks ordinary, much like the little flags that children play with in real life, except that it looks like it has a better texture.

But since it can appear in treasure chests on the map, it must not be as ordinary as it looks.

Lin Hanchuan used the system to check the information.

[Monument Flag]

Quality: Special item.

Note: Possessing this item grants control over the text within the Inscription Hut.

"Word?"

Lin Hanchuan was puzzled when he saw this.

Then, information about the Stele Hut appeared on the panel.

【Inscription House】

Quality: One-star rare item
Note: The carrier of the Punk Inscriptions contains all the inscriptions designed by the epigraphers of the Punk civilization.

Tip: After becoming an Inscription Master, you will possess a command flag, which allows you to mobilize these inscriptions to provide assistance, whether in battle or in daily life.

Lin Hanchuan shared all the information in the Heavenly Dao Team chat group.

After they finished reading, Lin Hanchuan asked, "Have you heard of Punk civilization?"

Lin Hanchuan's face showed a hint of excitement at this moment.

Descent is an all-encompassing online game.

Besides killing monsters and completing quests, there is also civilization exploration.

Civilization exploration is a very niche term. According to the official setting of the game, it refers to the existence of many civilizations that once existed in the world but have since disappeared.

These civilizations often have their own unique products.

For example, the Punk civilization, as it stands, produced these amazing inscriptions.

If players can unearth this civilization from history, they'll make a fortune, with money, weapons, and even artifacts and divine legacies found in larger historical civilizations.

After all, no matter how a civilization develops, it still needs strong military power as its backbone, and some civilizations are even created by the gods themselves.

If it is a civilization related to gods, then when the civilization disappears, the gods that supported its growth will also disappear.

Lin Hanchuan wasn't sure if there were any gods behind the punk civilization, but if they dug deeper, they were sure to find something good.

"No!" Long Xiaochen immediately shook his head.

Cao Renjie shook his head, "No!"

Long Xiaoyue replied, "I hadn't heard of it when I was in the first district. It should be part of the Descent Project, a civilization designed for the ninth district."

"The small dimensional world of [Bia Wasteland] should be part of, or even the whole of, the Punk civilization. If we explore it slowly, we will most likely find some good things."

"Great minds think alike!" Lin Hanchuan praised Long Xiaoyue without reservation.

Back in Zone 1, most members of the Night Owl Squad just did what the captain said. If the captain asked them this, they wouldn't know how to answer.

Long Xiaochen and Cao Renjie inherited this old tradition.

Only Long Xiaoyue is often able to offer her own perspective at crucial moments. Lin Hanchuan needs different voices within the team so that he can view things dialectically.

"The last scroll in the map treasure chest is the Inscription Master job change scroll, right?" Long Xiaochen finally started thinking.

"Most likely!"

When Lin Hanchuan answered, he took the scroll out of the map treasure chest.

The scroll looks brand new, as if it was just put in yesterday, without any trace of the ravages of time.

It feels smooth to the touch.

Lin Hanchuan then checked the scroll's detailed information through the system.

[Inscription Master Job Change Scroll]: After use, you can obtain the secondary job - Inscription Master (Apprentice). After reading it, Lin Hanchuan casually posted the scroll's information in the Heavenly Dao Squad chat group.

Map chests are loot obtained through team operations, and all members of the team are entitled to know their detailed information.

Of course, most teams instinctively hide away anything they get immediately after acquiring it, let alone reveal its details.

"I'll use this job change scroll!" Lin Hanchuan said frankly, he wanted the Inscription Master secondary job. "If there's an opportunity in the future, I'll compensate everyone with a rare item each."

Even if Punk civilization is the smallest civilization, it is still a civilization.

Since it was able to come into being, it must have its unique aspects.

The inscription on the stele gave Lin Hanchuan a very unusual feeling.

Moreover, the profession of epigrapher is also a livelihood.

He had never actually heard of it before.

Very fresh.

It looks like it just came out of the oven.

If we could unearth the Punk civilization from the long river of history, finding three or four rare artifacts wouldn't be a problem at all.

After all, it's highly likely that a civilization developed on its own without divine support.

But if you say it doesn't have any rare items to back it up, that would be absurd. Some small guilds in the first district have rare items, so how could a civilization not have any?

Moreover, even houses containing inscriptions are rare in this punk civilization, so how could they not have other rare items?

"Captain, then I'll take it seriously!" Long Xiaochen rubbed his hands together and grinned.

Cao Renjie stared at the Inscription Master job change scroll in Lin Hanchuan's hand and said excitedly, "Boss, we can talk about rare items later. You should learn the Inscription Master job first and see what this Inscription Master is all about."

"And what will happen once all the inscriptions in this room are activated?"

The information on the inscription hut made Cao Renjie quite curious about the specific function of the inscription.

Long Xiaoyue's eyes widened, and she asked curiously, "Captain! Hurry up and learn!"

After obtaining everyone's consent, Lin Hanchuan did not hesitate and directly opened the scroll.

The white scroll, once opened, revealed inscriptions that appeared to be drawn in blood, densely covering the scroll, each inscription smaller than a grain of rice.

The moment the scroll was fully unfurled.

All the blood-red inscriptions, as if they had found a host, fell off the scroll and transformed into a flowing, narrow waterfall that cascaded back into Lin Hanchuan's body.

The system notification tone sounded immediately.

"Ding! Congratulations! You have successfully used the [Inscription Master Job Change Scroll] and obtained the secondary job - Inscription Master!"

[Inscription Master]

Level: Apprentice

Note: Holding the monument banner allows you to manipulate a small amount of Punk Inscription text, transforming it into special power for your use.

Hint: Able to understand all punk inscription text.

Current abilities: Binding, Acceleration, Jump, Fog.

After reading the introduction about the inscription master on the panel, Lin Hanchuan looked up again and looked at the dense text all over the room. He found that he could understand it all.

"Heaven, Earth, Man, I, He..."

Each punk inscription is like an independent living entity, constantly pulsating on the walls and ceiling of Lin Hanchuan's cabin.

When Lin Hanchuan looked at them.

They seemed to notice Lin Hanchuan's gaze and began to jump even more joyfully.

This scene is amazing.

It was as if, in an instant, I understood the power of certain words and became good friends with them.

"Dense fog!"

Lin Hanchuan waved the monument flag, attempting to utilize the power of the inscription master's apprentice.

As soon as the monument flag was waved, more than a dozen characters suddenly jumped down from the wall. They hovered in the air in front of Lin Hanchuan, jumped a few times, and finally formed a string of incantations.

The moment the spell was formed.

A thick fog, so dense that one couldn't see their own hand in front of their face, suddenly exploded in the air, spreading outwards and enveloping Lin Hanchuan, Long Xiaochen, Long Xiaoyue, and Cao Renjie, eventually filling the entire small house with dense fog.

"Fog duration: 1 minute!"

Immediately following, a system notification sounded in Lin Hanchuan's mind.

Long Xiaochen's exclamation could still be heard in his ears.

"Holy crap! Are epigraphers this amazing?! They said there would be a thick fog, and then a thick fog really came!"

"It truly is a case of words becoming law!"

"Captain, quickly try out the other skills of the Inscription Master."

"Binding!!" Lin Hanchuan waved the monument flag and unleashed another ability on Long Xiaochen.

Just like the formation of the fog before, the moment the monument flag was waved down, a dozen or so characters immediately jumped down from the wall, intertwining in mid-air to form a spell.

The binding power generated by the spell fell upon Long Xiaochen.

"They really have me bound!" Long Xiaochen gave the immediate feedback. "But the binding time isn't very long! Less than a second!"

By the time he spoke, Long Xiaochen had returned to normal.

"It only lasted about 0.6 seconds for me! I thought it would be a permanent restraint!"

"The inscription is at the apprentice level of a master!" Lin Hanchuan said. "For a level 35 player like you, this effect is already quite good."

"Once the inscription masters level up, the binding time will definitely be longer!"

"Yes, yes, yes! If this grows to god-level, Captain, wouldn't you be able to truly make your words law, and whatever you say will become the law!" Long Xiaochen started to let his imagination run wild.

Only Lin Hanchuan was at a loss for words, neither laughing nor crying.

Elevate your life and career to a god-like level.

It's not a simple matter.

In his previous life, every player who descended to this world had at least two or three crafting professions, and Lin Hanchuan had heard of them all being at the artisan level.

There are even demigods.

But to talk about truly god-like life professions.

Lin Hanchuan genuinely had never heard of it.

There wasn't even a rumor.

"We'll see what fate brings!" Lin Hanchuan wasn't too concerned about it, and as he spoke, the thick fog slowly dissipated.

After the vision clears.

Lin Hanchuan looked up at the punk-inspired inscriptions dancing all over the room, his eyes full of smiles.

To him, the books in this room were more precious than rare objects.

Just then, Cao Renjie suddenly asked a very crucial question.

"How do we take this inscribed hut with us?"

"We can't just keep carrying this burden!"

(End of this chapter)