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Chapter 395: The Super Reward (Long - Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 395: Chapter 395: The Super Reward (Long Chapter Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

As Super Memory gradually unfolded, He Ao’s first sensation was ’pain’.

Intense pain, akin to soul rending, assailed him once more.

At this moment, the mental power he could muster through Super Memory was several times stronger than before, with a higher concentration and more forceful impact. When he mobilized these forces, He Ao could distinctly feel them rampaging erratically, like untamed stallions.

These wild stallions charged about fiercely, and waves of excruciating pain from his soul came crashing down upon him, threatening to tear apart He Ao’s soul in an instant.

He Ao endured the pain, calmed his mind, and slowly began to sort and control these turbulent mental forces.

Thanks to the meticulous control over mental power he had honed during his C-level period, this vast and chaotic force finally became docile under his command.

Seeing that the mental forces of Super Memory were completely subdued, He Ao breathed a sigh of relief.

If he hadn’t perfected his control over Super Memory to the utmost back when he was at C-level, his soul might have been torn to shreds by these savage energies by now.

He Ao once again mobilized the power of Super Memory and, after confirming there were no issues, he looked up and around.

His first impression at this moment was that his vision had become ’better’.

The observational range of Super Memory synchronized with the range that He Ao’s eyes could see. Super Memory, unlike Divine Sense, couldn’t penetrate walls; where He Ao’s eyesight was blocked, Super Memory couldn’t pass through either.

When he ascended from E-level to C-level, Super Memory’s vision had gained the ability to see ’soul’ shadows which resembled humans, and it could focus its power to strike at the soul. Otherwise, it was mostly unchanged from E-level.

Of course, his physical attributes had further improved, agility included.

Now, Super Memory had undergone a change in ’field of vision,’ and although still unable to see through walls, the things that He Ao could see were ’much clearer’.

If before, He Ao’s eyes were equivalent to a camera with five million pixels, his eyes now were akin to one with fifty million pixels.

Many details which previously required a macro lens to observe were now clearly visible before him.

He turned to look out the window, where distant high-rises and trees appeared with striking clarity, and even the previously indistinct figures of people were now discernible.

His visible distance had also increased several-fold from before.

And at this moment, He Ao could also see clearly the phantom soul shadows attached to people in the distance.

He had a premonition that now, if he used the power of Super Memory to attach to someone’s soul, he might be able to sense their surface thoughts and possibly even influence their thinking to a certain extent.

However, this power paled in comparison to the terrifying ability used by Elijah through the Thought Stone, which could directly override the will and modify the choices of others.

That kind of power was likely what a C-level Super Memory should truly possess.

Besides, He Ao could feel that the current power of Super Memory was unusually restless; if his soothing efforts were even slightly amiss, these forces would rampage within his body and rip apart his soul.

Moreover, his physical attributes had indeed increased to 137 after activating Super Memory, with no greater enhancement.

Super Memory had advanced, but it hadn’t fully advanced.

The current state of Super Memory seemed to be between C and D-level, much stronger than D, with half a foot already across the threshold of C-level, but not wholly stepped in.

In terms of He Ao’s own sensations, it felt as though the power of C-level Super Memory had not yet fully integrated with him, had not yet truly become his own.

He Ao turned his attention back to the words ’ritual incomplete’.

So, is the role of the ritual to ’assimilate’?

Under the ritual’s effect, could one transform superordinary power that didn’t belong to oneself into power that mostly did?

Previously, when He Ao had advanced to C-level, he had conducted the ritual first before taking the Secret Medicine, and the power had directly amalgamated with him.

Securing the Secret Medicine before completing the ritual was a first for him, which gave him a rough glimpse into the true nature behind advancement rituals.

After all, even in the Copy World, the vast majority of people probably only get one chance to advance to C-level, which may lead them to subconsciously think, "If it’s like this for me, it must be the same for others," without realizing the discrepancies in different situations.

Unlike He Ao, who has a wealth of advancement experience.

However, cases like ’Super Memory,’ which performs a ’virtual promotion’ before the actual ritual, are likely still rare.

He Ao closed off his Super Memory and rubbed the area between his eyebrows.

What comes next is to figure out a way to complete the ritual, but he currently doesn’t even know what the ritual entails.

Considering that upon advancing to E-level, he ’absorbed’ the Secret Medicine of a ’waiter,’ and for D-level, it was the ’Dancer,’ it’s very likely that the Talent Sequence for advancing to C-level wouldn’t be called Super Memory either.

His only option is to follow the clue related to the Dancer.

Even in the Copy World, it’s like searching for a needle in a haystack.

A good friend would probably know, but asking questions to a good friend always comes at a cost—knowledge isn’t free. Others might charge money, but a good friend demands soul and life.

Moreover, since Super Memory comes from this good friend, asking them about it would be tantamount to blowing his own cover.

As He Ao grappled with his dilemma, the text in his field of view began to change slowly.

This time, the system seemed much slower.

[Task reward is currently being calculated]

[Original task reward: Martial Artist’s spear]

[Due to your comprehensive task assessment of SSS, you’ve triggered a super godly mega lucky crit of epic proportions: reversing skies and seas, flipping the world upside down—a super duper ultra multiplied reward!!]

The ridiculously long name of this crit is, as always, beyond critique.

He Ao had already lost faith in the system’s ability to name crits and shifted his gaze downward.

Then, his eyes lit up.

[As you’ve reached an SSS rating for the first time and saved millions of lives during the task, changing the course of world history, congratulations on earning the achievement ’Legendary Hero’]

An unexpected surprise... an achievement.

In line with the system’s usual behavior, achievements weren’t typically triggered on the first instance of a level upgrade; he hadn’t earned an achievement when he first received an S, nor an SS, but the rewards did come with a substantial upgrade in level.

It seems that his performance in completing the task this time might be considered especially outstanding, even within the system’s standards for an SSS rating.

[Congratulations on triggering the achievement effect of ’Legendary Hero’: Valid for only one time, during the task in which the achievement was earned, the recipient may choose up to two rewards, and may obtain detailed information about one of the potential rewards before making a selection.]

Buy one, get one free!?

[Refreshing your rewards now.]

[Please choose one or two out of the following three rewards:]

[1. The Forged Pages of Knowledge (C-level)]

[2. Innate Qi Infusion (C-level)]

[3. Two Hell Apostle Mechs (C-level) (Comes with three Ultra High-Performance Batteries)]

Choose two out of three.

All are genuine C-level options.

He Ao’s eyes swept over the three choices.

This was the most generous the system had ever been.

Two C-level Hell Apostle Mechs came directly into play.

The advantage of Mechas is that they can ignore the operator’s own level and quickly grant an ordinary person C-level power for a short period. If He Ao operated these two Hell Apostles well, he could receive far greater rewards than expected.

However, the system’s rewards were always fair.

The combined combat power of the two Hell Apostles was quite strong among C-levels, so the other two rewards from the system should be of similar value.

But the standard of the system’s evaluation actually differed from He Ao’s own standards.

An orange born in Huainan is an orange, while one born in Huai’an is a trifoliate orange (zhǐ).

When evaluating rewards, the system would take comprehensive factors into consideration.

For example, Talent Sequences of the same level could be used directly upon gaining them, while Martial Arts required the pairing with cultivation techniques.

The system would not provide cultivation techniques, so as compensation, it would allocate a bit more to the Martial Arts rewards.

For instance, during the third Copy World settlement, He Ao chose the Martial Arts reward "Qi of Heaven and Earth (E-level) (bonus: a strand of ’Innate Qi’)".

The reward’s level was close to D-level but not quite there.

In the evaluation system of the system, E-level ’Qi of Heaven and Earth’ plus a strand of D-level worthy Innate Qi was necessary to meet the reward level criteria.

However, after He Ao absorbed those Qi of Heaven and Earth, he was almost immediately pushed to the brink of breakthrough to D-level.

Therefore, He Ao had no doubt that this ’Innate Qi Infusion’ would push him directly to C-level and even yield some excess Innate Qi for refining his Divine Sense.

After this Copy World experience, He Ao realized that Divine Sense truly was a fine thing, not only comfortable to use but also able to accompany the Soul everywhere, usable in both the Copy World and the main world.

Without the help of Divine Sense, he simply couldn’t have broken Elijah’s Sacrifice ritual, and killing Elijah wouldn’t have been so smooth either.

And after this Copy World experience, only one of his original Three Paths of Divine Sense remained.

The only issue was the cultivation technique; having this Innate Qi, he needed to be able to assimilate it.

The small Martial Arts book He Ao found in Yezola did not contain pages that would allow a breakthrough from D-level to C-level.

However, he had found a book on Martial Arts in Elijah’s underground library, the author being a biology professor from five hundred years ago named Norsen, whose appendix included some Martial Arts residual pages he had collected.

Among those were pages from the same book that He Ao possessed.

He Ao closed his eyes, recalling those residual pages he had memorized in his mind.

Pages of a book coalesced together.

He Ao quickly compared these residual pages with the small book in his memory, determining their place in the book by matching similar patterns.

A few residual pages seemed to be towards the back; He Ao couldn’t ascertain their exact locations but could only place them between approximate page numbers.

Among these residual pages, one matched the fifth page of the small book he was currently practicing.

This page taught how to condense ’Qi’ into a vortex-like form and was probably the original sixth page of the book, but the lower section of text was missing.

However, it wasn’t a big problem. Within the residual pages collected by Norsen, there was content similar to this page, and most of these residual pages contained text, with the direction of the Qi flow mostly consistent with the small book.

Norsen had already translated most of these texts, and although the wording varied slightly in each, the meaning was more or less the same.

It seemed that the method from D-level to C-level, although different schools existed, was largely similar in core ideas and processes.

He Ao let out a sigh of relief.

He shifted his focus back to the rewards page.

With cultivation methods and the marvelous use of Divine Sense, He Ao felt an urgent need to advance to C-level in Martial Arts, which made the second option, "Innate Qi Infusion," a definite choice.

Of the remaining two rewards, "The Forged Pages of Knowledge" and "Hell Apostle Mechs," he could choose one.

He was already quite familiar with the Hell Apostle Mechs, and he had never encountered "The Forged Pages of Knowledge," which he surmised might be an extraordinary item and seemed to be related to an extraordinary item involving his close friend.

He Ao didn’t hesitate and used his one opportunity from the "Legendary Hero" achievement to view detailed information on "The Forged Pages of Knowledge."

Among the three options, he was very familiar with Hell Apostle, he could guess roughly about the Innate Qi Infusion, but the only thing he was unaware of was actually this extraordinary item option.

To be honest, the "Legendary Hero" achievement was indeed a good one, although it was a pity it could only be used once.

At the moment the thought of consulting information came to He Ao’s mind, the view in front of him began to change gradually.

A golden page appeared in his sight, looking as if it had been ripped from a book, emitting a faint grey glow.

And below this image of the page were lines of complex introductory text.

[The Forged Pages of Knowledge]

[Legend has it that at the endless depths of the Abyss, there lies a record of all the truths in this world; an unknown explorer devoted his life’s energy to witnessing these truths by seeking the end of the Abyss.]

[At last, one day, he reached the end of the Abyss, where he encountered Knowledge itself.]

[The explorer died, but legend says he engraved all the truths he witnessed, compiling them into a book.]

[This book became a thief of knowledge, it could steal any knowledge the holder desired from the endless depths of the Abyss, but those who stole knowledge were also watched by Knowledge itself, and all its masters eventually became monsters immersed in knowledge.]

[People called this book, the Book of Knowledge.]

[Of course, this page has little to do with the Book of Knowledge, it’s just a poor imitation and forgery of it.]

[However, it can also steal knowledge for you.]

[But please note, due to its crude forging technique, it cannot steal knowledge that is too powerful.]

[Please be aware, if you use it more than three times, it may be damaged, and a damaged page cannot guarantee the authenticity of the knowledge.]

[Please be aware, those who steal too much knowledge will be pursued by it, so use it with caution.]

[From the remarks of an anonymous forger: Stealing knowledge up to three times is safe; if you have already stolen thrice, find a way to distance yourself from it, or you might as well prepare a grave with a beautiful view for yourself.]

After reading all this information, He Ao’s first reaction was that this was a man-made extraordinary item; his second reaction was how detailed the information truly was.

If it were information obtained from an extraordinary item, it would likely only include simple instructions, not risks and techniques to avoid such risks.

Book of Knowledge.

The description mentioned that the explorer encountered Knowledge itself, which might be a metaphorical term; it’s very likely he met the embodiment of the God of Knowledge.

So, the so-called Book of Knowledge is an extraordinary item that can bypass rituals to steal knowledge from a close friend?

And this forged page from the Book of Knowledge seems like a weakened version of the Book of Knowledge’s power, while at the same time reducing the risk.

Ah, so this Forged Page of the Book of Knowledge is actually about getting something for nothing from a close friend?

He Ao always felt he would be embarrassed to do so.

Then he returned to the rewards page and made his choice.

"The Forged Pages of Knowledge" and "Innate Qi Infusion."