I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 195 - 195 194. New Ability_1

Chapter 195: 194. New Ability_1 Chapter 195: 194. New Ability_1 Lu Ban, although he already knew all the details of his new ability, still wanted to give it a try.

Sitting in front of the computer, Lu Ban opened a webpage and found an acrobatics video.

The video was simple, just a clown juggling balls, but the person in this video was juggling five balls simultaneously, which was quite difficult.

Lu Ban, holding “Testament,” watched this video seriously.

“Wow, that’s impressive!”

he exclaimed.

Then, Lu Ban changed into a different set of clothes, went downstairs, and bought some balls just like the clown’s from the supermarket outside the neighborhood.

As soon as he had paid and left the supermarket, Lu Ban started juggling the balls.

To the surprise of onlookers, he perfectly replicated what was done in the video. The five balls flew through his hands in a dazzling display.

Scattered applause sounded from the side.

Some people even took out change from their wallets and threw it in front of Lu Ban.

A moment later, Lu Ban stopped juggling.

He saw that he had collected a few dozen yuan in front of him.

“Thank you, thank you,”

he said, stuffing the money into his pocket, and glanced again at the cars driving on the road.

“Testament” materialized in his hand, and some sort of change spread from Lu Ban’s body.

Back to his neighborhood, on a deserted walkway, Lu Ban looked around.

The next moment, he suddenly shot forward, his legs exploding with immense speed, comparable to the cars he had seen on the road earlier.

“Are you practicing running?”

Lu Ban had just stopped when he heard a familiar voice.

Turning his head, he saw Qin Tiantian wearing a loose sweatshirt, jeans, sneakers, and carrying two shopping bags as if she had just returned from the big supermarket outside, with several days’ worth of supplies.

“Just a casual practice, aiming for the next Olympic Games’ men’s 100 meters,”

Lu Ban said.

“That would be quite something,”

Qin Tiantian praised with a flat tone.

“By the way, I need your help with something,”

Lu Ban said, thinking of his kind neighbor Qin Tiantian.

“What is it? You’re not planning to do another strange video for me to test watch, are you?”

Qin Tiantian asked guardedly.

“No, it’s something good,”

Lu Ban replied, asking Qin Tiantian to put the shopping bags on a nearby bench and, taking advantage of her momentary distraction, decisively shot her with “Testament.”

“Hm? Why does it feel a bit windy?”

Before Qin Tiantian could react, she found herself moved nearly ten meters forward, crashing headfirst into the flowerbed.

“Pah, pah, pah, what’s going on?”

She crawled out of the grass, brushed off the grass clippings, and looked at Lu Ban.

“Did you just push me?”

As soon as she asked, she felt something was off; even if Lu Ban had pushed her while she wasn’t looking, he couldn’t have pushed her that far away. It must have been more than ten meters, right?

“Maybe you’re just too skinny and got blown away by the wind,”

Lu Ban said as he put “Testament” away. He glanced over the contents of Qin Tiantian’s shopping bags: instant rice, instant hot pot, canned lunch meat, chips, cola, bread, jerked meat – almost all of it comfort food.

“Are you preparing for winter or something?”

“It’s getting colder, and going out is such a hassle, so I thought I’d buy more in one go,”

Qin Tiantian replied, rubbing her waist as she walked back.

“Don’t you cook for yourself?”

Lu Ban asked again.

“Why would I cook for myself when I live alone? It’s too troublesome,”

Qin Tiantian retorted decisively.

“Right, what was it you needed my help with just now?”

“No need anymore,”

Lu Ban replied earnestly.

“?”

Qin Tiantian looked at Lu Ban with suspicion, but after a moment’s thought, she decided not to ask further.

That guy was full of secrets; it was better not to know too much, lest she be silenced by him later.

“Speaking of which, I started feeling some neck stiffness and chest tightness during my evening live streams, so I went for a checkup at the hospital,”

Qin Tiantian chatted casually as she walked toward their apartment with Lu Ban.

“I told the doctor about these issues during my night shifts, and when the doctor asked what job I do at night, well, I really didn’t want to tell him I’m a virtual streamer, so I fudged the answer and he just ‘Mhm-mhm-mhmmed’ as if he understood, but what on earth did he make of it?”

“So, what was the final diagnosis?”

Lu Ban echoed.

“Just overworked. I still have a long way to go with this month’s streaming hours, plus several collaborative events. I really feel like slacking off…”

As Qin Tiantian spoke these words, she sounded like a corporate drone whose spirit had been ground down by society, full of world-weariness.

“Life is hard, isn’t it?”

Lu Ban shared the sentiment.

Although he already had a million in assets, and might become a millionaire at lightning speed, he could still empathize with the hardships of life.

After seeing Qin Tiantian to the ground floor and tentatively arranging to have hotpot together at home when there was a chance, Lu Ban went back to his own place.

He had completely mastered his new ability by now.

The new ability of “Testament” was essentially still mimicry.

But whereas before it was the mimicry of sound and text, this time it was the mimicry of states and actions.

For instance, Lu Ban could record the Clown’s ball-tossing movement onto his revolver, then use it on himself to replicate the Clown’s act, performing complex acrobatics.

Or, if Lu Ban recorded the state of a moving car onto his revolver, upon using it, he would be able to move forward at the vehicle’s high speed, and, if the corresponding Speech Bullet were shot into someone else, it could also cause that person to repeat the state or action associated with it.

However, this mimicry came with a very short time limit, at most under ten seconds to record a state, and it only worked once on other people.

Of course, Lu Ban could keep firing at Qin Tiantian from behind, which might cause her to accelerate continuously, speeding forward like a car.

But there was a slight delay from the impact to the effect taking hold, suggesting it’d be more like an old car, stuttering as it went.

“I could record a dance sequence; then I could shoot my enemies and making them dance involuntarily, achieving a controlling effect.”

Lu Ban murmured to himself.

He felt there were many ways to utilize this ability, which were yet to be explored.

As he had discussed with Shia, there was no such thing as the weakest spell, only the weakest Mage.

Lu Ban’s ability might seem like a mere recorder, and indeed it was, but if used skillfully, it could be quite extraordinary.

After testing his abilities, Lu Ban clicked open the Essence Extraction interface of “Testament.”

As expected, after this phase, “Testament” could undergo another round of Essence Extraction.

[Essence Extraction]

[Sublimation Qualitative Change]

[Expend resources in exchange for miracles]

[Recommended to try]

[Silence Points needed: 200,000]

[Required material: Lucky Amulet]

[Required material: Crane’s Ascent Legend]

[Required material: Winter Wolf’s Pale Heart]

Following his usual practice, Lu Ban first clicked on the explanation for the first material.

[Lucky Amulet]

[An amulet blessed by the Shrine Maiden of the Great Shrine of Harmony Island]

[People are accustomed to seeking blessings from deities, while Shrine Maidens act as intermediaries for the will of the gods]

[How it’s interpreted varies from person to person]

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