I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 801 - 801 800.【Bud】

Chapter 801: 800.【Bud】 Chapter 801: 800.【Bud】 [Task Requirement: Magic Network Influence: 10,000,000/10,000,000]

[Congratulations on completing the career development task]

[Settlement begins now]

[Task Exploration Degree: 80%]

[Task Completion Status: Impressive]

[You have attracted a group of followers, full of motivation and bravery, but this is still not enough. Gather more from the Foreign Domain, attract more believers, create a more powerful Magic Network, stand firm in the tide of Pollution, and become a beacon.]

[Silence Points Earned: 50,000 points]

[Settlement completed]

[Please complete the task to receive your reward]

Lu Ban read it twice.

He hadn’t received such a low evaluation in a long time and was still getting used to it.

After careful thought, Lu Ban felt it might be due to the low-level knowledge he infused into the Magic Network.

Although the incident in Miskatonic was significant, the players’ participation wasn’t very high. Most were eliminated by the clan of Divine Beings in the early stages, unable to access deeper secrets. Concerning the knowledge about the Supreme God and the Outer Gods, even if placed in the Magic Network, players would not be able to view it.

Thus, it took a long time for the Magic Network’s influence to meet the standards.

To achieve a higher evaluation, both efficiency and quality are essential.

He needed to add more knowledge to the Magic Network and expand its influence quickly.

However, Lu Ban also noticed that the players he had chosen were already highly contaminated.

Facing the clan of the Supreme God, normal people should immediately fall into madness, either becoming eternal slaves to that clan or start killing each other on the spot, or their heads might explode.

Yet, these players were not only unaffected but were able to dismantle churches and destroy Divine Idols, which truly surprised Lu Ban.

Especially since these players didn’t experience severe mutations; their Superpower Abilities had merely grown stronger.

Because of this situation, the players began to truly believe that Lu Ban’s [The Silent Land] might possess some special power that could unleash human potential, endowing them with super abilities, and now they revered Lu Ban as a divine figure.

If faith had power, then Lu Ban might already be a minor land god.

This was also why the task evaluation mentioned an increase in Lu Ban’s followers.

However, seeing them calling themselves “Chosen by Gods,” Lu Ban always felt something was off.

Gathering his thoughts, Lu Ban shifted his focus to the upcoming tasks.

He needed to head to the Abandoned Capital and He Dao to gather materials, so naturally, choosing tasks from these two Foreign Domains was best.

On TV, the Miskatonic Film Festival’s Best Picture was awarded to a thriller about self-awareness.

The protagonist in the movie often fantasized about being in another world and believed his true identity was that of a powerful magician, thus dismissing reality as his delusion, ignoring his boss’s suppression, and even saving a woman on the road.

It was thought that the protagonist’s life would be troubled by this mental illness, but instead, he thrived and became a model citizen, a mix of irony, and somewhat bittersweet.

The movie’s imagery twisted, the faces of the award presenters suddenly sprouted many eyes, and numerous tentacles emerged from their sleeves. Their forms collapsed, turning into twisted, ugly monsters.

These monsters gradually merged together, forming bizarre and difficult-to-recognize text.

If it weren’t for Lu Ban knowing that [The Silent Land] had such a style, he might have thought something strange was happening in Miskatonic again.

Lu Ban looked at the text.

[Disturbance detected, repositioning task]

An unexpected explanation emerged; Lu Ban had never experienced disturbances in [The Silent Land] before.

The twisted monsters trembled wildly, forming new texts.

[Germination]

[Every journey has an endpoint, in the sea, it might be a continent, an island, or perhaps, a reef]

[Human fear of the sea dates back to ancient times, in the deep, cold, dark ocean floor, evil grows, awe-inspiring]

[Yet there are always those drawn to the sea, where they found wealth, fame, power, accomplishing greatness]

[You embark on a new journey, will you find the most precious treasure in the sea, understand the secret of eternal life, steal the authority of gods, or be hung on the beach, unknown to all]

[Just as every towering tree starts from a tiny sprout, all greatness begins with the first step of the journey, bravely step forth]

[“Why explore the sea? Because it is there!”]

[Task Difficulty: Splendid]

[Cooperative Task]

[Issue an invitation to known Chosen by Gods, or accept an invitation from a Chosen by God, when one fellow traveler arrives, the task begins]

[Fellow traveler count: 1/1]

The monsters, like seaweed, waved eerily.

“I already have a fellow traveler, and I can’t recruit any more?”

Lu Ban sensed an ominous feeling.

Moreover, he had no other tasks to choose from, it seemed he had to undertake this one.

When it came to the sea, his first thought was of the previous discussion with the young man, Howard.

Not only the sea, but human fear of things also diminishes with deeper understanding, yet increases again past a certain threshold, just like those living near mountains fear the forests, and those in the desert fear the vast sands.

This world’s oceans certainly held many mysteries, some of which were likely associated with an Evil God, the seals of the Evil God.

However, the difficulty level of this task was [Splendid], implying it would certainly involve topics related to the Ancient Overlord or the origins of the world, having only one fellow traveler made Lu Ban feel uneasy.

But since he had reached this point, Lu Ban had no reason to refuse.

He pressed the remote, and the monsters in the TV suddenly broke apart, reassembling to form a detailed task description.

Lu Ban looked towards the task’s objectives.

[Task Objective: Witness Germination]

[Task Objective: Survive]

“What kind of objectives are these?”

Surviving was indeed straightforward; Lu Ban had survived many times before.

But witnessing germination, he didn’t understand.

Connecting it to the name of the task and the explanations within, Lu Ban suspected that this task might involve planting something.

Perhaps farming?

Lu Ban wasn’t sure. After thinking, his gaze landed on the discounted [Madman’s Knowledge].

It had been a long time since he had spent on this, and he missed it.

Lu Ban directly spent points to buy a set of ten, hoping for good results.