Life Dungeon Game

He sensed a growing sense of danger emanating from Selena. He needed to determine if Selena was recovering her power, but it seemed that she wasn't; she was simply delaying her recovery.

It seems that her power recovery is not a linear increase, but rather an instantaneous recovery after a certain time has elapsed.

However, Yezora's innate ability to sense danger allowed him to foresee this risk and warn Heo.

He Ao found this danger-sensing ability quite useful, wondering if it was the 'talent sequence' that Job had mentioned before.

While pondering, He Ao continued flipping through the bookshelves. After realizing that Selena posed no immediate threat, he focused only a small portion of his attention on her, concentrating his main energy on the books.

Based on his ability to sense changes in the level of danger, he estimated that it would take Selena nearly an hour to recover her strength, while the ceremony would take about forty minutes.

So while the game system may not appear to have a time limit for completing tasks, it actually imposes a time limit in a roundabout way.

His plan to exploit a bug to gather more information before completing the mission failed.

Therefore, he must gather as much information as possible and complete the ritual before Selena regains her power.

As for killing Selena directly?

That's a good idea, but he's a law-abiding and good person!

Selena, who was pondering why He was ignoring her, had no idea that she had just narrowly escaped death.

She watched He Ao's movements, and saw countless pages being turned as tentacles danced, revealing the white paper inside.

These antique books are now mostly expensive, and people who can't get their hands on real books often choose to buy these modernly printed, aged fake books to decorate their image.

This is actually quite normal.

but,

Selena looked at He Ao's actions with suspicion. Wasn't this his own residence? Why was he searching so frantically?

What's he so anxious about? Did he realize he's reinstalling his operating system?

He noticed Selena's gaze, but he didn't...

He seemed to care; his actions were deliberately feigned, like someone who had just returned home and was anxiously searching for something.

Instead of a strange thief breaking into a strange home and frantically searching for valuables.

The difference is actually quite simple: when someone is searching through their own belongings, they will subconsciously cherish the items that are being moved, while a thief will not care about the owner's valuables at all.

So when He Ao was looking through books, he was also careful to protect them from being damaged. If he found a book he wanted, he would consciously close it and put it back casually after opening it.

With enough time to spare, He Ao only had ten minutes to browse through the bookshelves, so he skimmed through the books almost instantly.

Yezola's eyesight was not good, and if there was anything he missed, Heo would not go back to look for it carefully.

In the end, he flipped through the entire bookshelf in ten minutes. Unfortunately, he didn't find any books about the ritual, but he did unexpectedly discover a tiny book, no bigger than the palm of his hand.

The pages of this book are yellowed, and the edges are severely damaged. It was pressed into a corner on the edge, serving to hold the book together.

This book was not written in a language that Yezora knew, but in a simplified script similar to hieroglyphs, which was somewhat similar to the script of the Middle Kingdom, but not the script that Hoo knew.

Although neither Heo nor Yezola recognized the script, the book's cover was translated into a script familiar to Yezola.

The book is titled "Thirty Days to Become a Sword Immortal".

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Strange elements have been added again.

Is it serious that such a book exists within this worldview?

He Ao glanced through it; inside were some simple portraits, along with dense notes in characters he didn't recognize.

It seems the translator only translated the title and then couldn't be bothered with the rest, or perhaps they simply didn't know how.

Although he didn't recognize the words in the book, the illustrations inside seemed quite realistic, and it was the only book he had found that wasn't a primary school textbook. After thinking for a moment, He Ao put the book away and, out of Selena's sight, slipped it between two primary school textbooks and wrapped it up with his tentacles.

He then packed up many items in the cave that could 'please' the god of knowledge and headed back to the passage he had come from.

Selena seemed to realize what he was about to do and quickly shouted, "Yezora, didn't you say you obeyed the law? Do you know how much disaster summoning the evil god's offspring would cause? Do you know how many people would die? You can't do this!"

As He Ao was walking forward, he casually asked, "So which law stipulates that we can't summon the offspring of an evil god?"

"what?"

Selena was taken aback. How could she know if there were any laws prohibiting the summoning of evil god offspring? Wasn't the harm of summoning evil god offspring obvious? Shouldn't such a thing be punished by everyone?

Who would bother flipping through those thick, brick-like legal codes?

He looked up at Selena. This investigator had good combat skills and temperament, but she was a little too naive.

Naïve? You'll die!

As he spoke, he had already walked out of the passage and returned to the cave with the ritual array inscribed on it.

The glowing 'tuberous tubers' at the top, resembling stars, emitted a faint light, illuminating the dim cave. The massive ritual array within the cave flickered with fluorescent light.

He Ao wrapped one end of the metal wires that the confinement device had left inside his body around one of the tentacles and pulled them out one by one.

Selena felt pain just watching him move. Even without the power from the metal stakes, the metal wires were still covered with countless tiny barbs, like mosquito legs, each one deeply embedded in her flesh. She couldn't even imagine the pain of pulling them out.

But He Ao simply pulled out those threads with a blank expression, and then let go of Selena, who was 'empathizing' with him.

With Selena looking bewildered, the metal wires were tied around her body.

Selena: ?

After binding it up, He Ao turned his attention to the ritual array.

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Selena snapped her hands, and the tiny barbs on the metal wires pierced directly into her bionic skin. The intense pain traveled through the receptors to her brain, causing her to freeze for a moment.

The system is currently being reinstalled, and the basic system does not have the function of actively shutting down the sensors.

Moreover, the strength she currently possessed was insufficient to break free from the electromagnetic handcuffs and the metal wires entangled by He Ao, so she temporarily abandoned the idea.

She now realized that He Ao didn't seem to intend to kill her.

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He seems like a principled villain.

Moreover, the principle is to abide by laws and regulations.

Selena always felt that something was wrong with either the world or with herself.

But she had no time for such reflections. Looking at He'ao, who had already begun arranging the ritual items, she prepared to make one last attempt, "Yezora..."

"Anything not prohibited by law is permissible."

This time, He Ao didn't even look up, directly interrupting her.

"..."

Selena realized she couldn't win an argument with him.

Although the other person seemed like a rational madman, their logic seemed to be much more rigorous than his own.

Heo breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Selena calm down.

This person talks too much. If she keeps talking, He Ao is going to consider using a tentacle to shut her up.

When Job and the others placed the ritual items before, the placement was not very accurate. They were not professional at all, which made the failure rate of the summoning very high.

This is one of the reasons why He Ao had to intervene and interrupt them directly.

It's better to handle these crucial steps that affect the completion of the task yourself.

He Ao outlined a complete seven-pointed star pattern on the outer edge of the ritual array, and placed old elementary school textbooks, exercise books, pens, damaged schoolbags, dried ink bottles, human skull fragments, and human finger bones and knuckles on the seven points of the seven-pointed star in a clockwise direction.

The mystical significance of the seven-pointed star in this world is the pursuit of knowledge and the exploration of the unknown.

The seven items that He Ao arranged in order—textbook, notebook, pen, schoolbag, and ink bottle—represent 'student', skull fragments represent 'wisdom and thinking', and finger bones represent 'writing and recording'. Together, these seven items represent 'the seeker of knowledge'.

In mysticism, clockwise placement signifies positivity and piety, while counter-clockwise placement signifies negativity and betrayal.

This ritual is used to communicate with the god of knowledge, and the mystical significance of the entire ritual can be summarized as: a devout seeker of knowledge.

This is the image that the God of Knowledge likes the most, and it is also the easiest to attract the God of Knowledge's attention. If it is arranged haphazardly as Job and his subordinates just did, it will not only not attract the God of Knowledge's attention, but it may even attract the attention of other more insane and tyrannical evil gods.

As all the items were arranged neatly, a faint, pure white light shone once again within the ritual circle. The ritual circle, which had been drawn beforehand within the seven-pointed star, was the summoning circle. It had been infused with a sufficient amount of offerings, which would provide flesh and power for the descent of the God of Knowledge's offspring.

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As Ao watched the magic circle light up, he stepped back a few distance and casually moved the metal box that was near the ritual behind him.

The summoning ritual he set up seemed to please the god of knowledge, and soon he felt a deep and majestic gaze cast upon him from beyond the endless void.

And what comes with that gaze is an endless supply of knowledge.

This knowledge, like water rushing into a deflated balloon, instantly flooded his brain. It twisted and raged, constantly assaulting his thoughts. In that instant, his brain consumed a large amount of energy and generated heat due to the overclocked information processing, forming wisps of smoke on the top of his head.

At the same time, he didn't feel distressed by the near-burnout of his brain from overclocking; instead, a comfortable joy welled up from the bottom of his heart. This joy was accompanied by a strong sense of obsession and pleasure, and he couldn't help but murmur to himself.

"I love learning, and learning makes me happy."

Everything will eventually decay, but truth is infinite.

A solemn and kind voice, as resounding as a great bell, echoed in He Ao's mind.

Everything will eventually decay, but truth is infinite.

Then came countless chants and prayers, and Heo's thoughts seemed to be drawn to these people, gradually merging into their voices.

After summoning the offspring of the god of knowledge, the priest will have the opportunity to merge with the body of the god of knowledge, and will thus gain immortality.

Selena stared blankly at He's enormous body, his smoking head, his tightly closed eyes, and the murmured "I love learning" that he was making.

The scene looked somewhat comical, but Selena couldn't laugh at all.

As the radiance of the enormous ritual array grew stronger, the gaze projected across the void became increasingly clear.

Some crazy knowledge even began to flood into her mind following this gaze.

Ignoring the pain, she twisted her body and hopped about, trying to destroy the still-glowing ritual array.

He Ao just easily interrupted the ritual that Job and the others were holding. There must be a way to interrupt this magic circle. Perhaps disrupting the arrangement of the offerings would do the trick.