I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 175 - 175 174. Halloween (Monthly ticket additional

Chapter 175: 174. Halloween (Monthly ticket additional update!)_1 Chapter 175: 174. Halloween (Monthly ticket additional update!)_1 After looking around, Lu Ban did not find an option to sell goods.

“Perhaps I need to wait until the next stage of the shop is unlocked to sell?”

He guessed.

However, for the next stage, he would need to accumulate five hundred thousand Silence Points, and he currently has less than one hundred thousand, so it’s too early to think about these problems.

Lu Ban now has nearly sixty thousand Silence Points, which seems like a lot, but it’s not much in front of [Corrosion] level goods.

Moreover, if he were to extract the essence of “Testament,” he would need to reserve fifty thousand Silence Points, so he actually has only a few thousand points available to use. Factoring in the rewards from a successful next mission and the rewards from a professional development task, he might have a loan capacity of less than twenty thousand points.

“So poor, want to go sell stuff.”

Lu Ban imagined that if he could sell items in the Silent Store, he could scavenge like crazy in the Foreign Domains. As long as he brought back something with extraordinary powers… well, took it, and had it appraised by the Silent Store, it would fulfill those objects’ wishes.

But then again, such plunderous behavior of players might already be undertaken by some Chosen by Gods. Such chaotic and evil acts would inevitably lead to resistance in the Foreign Domains, possibly even increasing risks.

“In the future, I’ll negotiate properly before taking anything.”

He made up his mind.

With buying power of only twenty thousand points, Lu Ban could only consider Fine quality goods, and the side effects of these items were obvious; some would cause problems just by being carried.

“Not as useful as a crowbar.”

Lu Ban concluded.

He took some extra compressed rations.

Since the mission mentioned that food is scarce in the Wasteland, and sometimes they even have to eat insects to survive, he didn’t mind tasting local delicacies, but it’s better to be safe. Bringing some food might enable him to trade with Wasteland natives for some powerful extraordinary items, just like the situations in novels.

“Moreover, if the Remains of the Sage are also hungry, I could throw some food its way. It’s been dead so long, it probably hasn’t eaten anything.”

He felt he was being incredibly considerate.

Thinking this, Lu Ban suddenly remembered an item.

Reopening the store, he proceeded to select and exchange for it.

“Halloween”

Fine

“In the Night Country, Halloween represents the day when the dead meet the living.”

“Pumpkins, as the legendary item capable of communicating with the dead, are the most common food during Halloween.”

“Eating it, Halloween will be the only thing left in your mind.”

“HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN!!”

“Price: 5555 Silence Points”

A palm-sized pumpkin appeared in Lu Ban’s hand, looking quite ordinary. If Lu Ban didn’t know this was purchased from the Silent Department Store, he might have thought it was just picked up from a vegetable market.

For just five thousand Silence Points, this pumpkin seemed to have a quite powerful mental control effect.

Though Lu Ban had the Speech Bullets from the Great Entity that could cause strong mental [Corrosion] to human-shaped beings, his experience from the last mission revealed that in the Silent Lands, beings devoid of rationality might far outnumber those with it.

For rational enemies, the Great Entity’s mumblings could incapacitate them.

But for the irrational ones, they are crazy enough already, and adding a little more to their madness might only drive them to self-destruction—before that happens, Lu Ban might have been completely devoured.

So, Lu Ban felt that against irrational enemies, he needed some unreasonable methods to overpower them.

Like this “Halloween” item. Simply put, if Lu Ban fed it to a rational enemy, the enemy would become a fool who only thinks about Halloween. In comparison, it might not be as useful as the Great Entity’s mumblings.

However, when facing irrational enemies, this item would be powerful, transforming senseless, unconscious monsters into fools obsessed with Halloween, allowing them to be brought under Lu Ban’s domain control.

It was somewhat ironic, like firefighters needing to start a fire before they could extinguish one.

But Lu Ban was satisfied.

Storing the “Halloween” pumpkin away, he checked the remaining time for selecting his mission.

One month.

That meant Lu Ban had a whole month to prepare.

“Such a long preparation time. If it were in other Foreign Domains, I should be able to gather some extraordinary items to enhance myself, right?”

Unfortunately, in the world he was in, although there were strange objects, too few could be utilized. Lu Ban was unsure if this world was in a state where spiritual energy was exhausted like in the last days of magic or if it was the beginning of a revival of spiritual energy.

If it was the last days of magic, then perhaps some hidden, mysterious organizations or sects held extraordinary powers, but Lu Ban was certain it would be difficult to get in touch with them.

If it was the beginning of a revival, then Lu Ban felt he might already be one of the forerunners in this trend.

Lu Ban thought that this world must be in the phase of a mystical revival; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to make films about the Foreign Domains so openly. If there were any hidden families, they would have likely found him by now.

Even though he could slack off for a month, Lu Ban believed that as time progressed, this world might transform more and more into a true “Foreign Domain.” Not to mention anything else, Corea, the dark-skinned man who had bewitched Zhao Gongping into building the hospital, was a very threatening target.

Therefore, he must improve himself as quickly as possible.

After a few days of preparation, Lu Ban packed his small backpack with some wilderness survival gear and came to the television.

“I’ve told them all I’ll be traveling on a gathering trip for a month. Shouldn’t be a problem.”

Lu Ban picked up the remote and turned on the TV.

Among the three channels, he chose The Nameless City.

The Nameless City

There are countless ruins in the Wasteland, few of them named.

To the Wasteland Hunters, these ruins represent food, wealth, power, and danger.

You join a team venturing deep into a ruin. Wealth fascinates, power enthralls, hunger drives one to insanity, and danger is omnipresent, looming like a shadow.

Each ruin in the Wasteland signifies the fall of a deity. Who can tell why the deity of this Wasteland perished?

Difficulty of the mission: Choose your own.

Mission requirement: Enter the Nameless City.

Mission requirement: Obtain the treasure of the Nameless City.

“Look on the bright side, at least when you die, you won’t be picked clean by vultures, right?”

The desolate words shifted, turning into the System’s explanation.

Lu Ban checked it out; in terms of difficulty, the [Mortal] box was grayed out and unselectable, meaning that this mission can only be chosen at a difficulty level above [Mortal], or the base difficulty is already high enough that choosing [Corrosion] difficulty might lead to some rather unpleasant situations.

But Lu Ban was not someone who shied away from danger. As the saying goes, fortune favors the bold. Without risk, where would the rewards be?

Moreover, he noticed that this mission did not include a requirement to survive until a certain point, meaning that as long as he could find the treasure of the Nameless City, he could immediately make his escape.

Thus, Lu Ban decisively chose the [Corrosion] difficulty level.

[Do you wish to enter the Silent Lands]

[Yes/No]

He pressed the remote, selecting the [Yes] option. In an instant, the desert within the TV spread out drastically, as if to invade this world.

In the scorching wind that stung his cheeks, Lu Ban saw the final words displayed in the shattered television.

[The flow of time in the Silent Lands is inconsistent with the outside world.]

[Time ratio for this journey: 2:1]

[Number of companions: 1]

[Heading to the Wilderness]

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