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Chapter 129 - 127 Shadow War Eagle_1

Chapter 129: Chapter 127 Shadow War Eagle_1

After taking inventory, Mu You organized everything accordingly, storing game-related items with game-related items, and items for the backpack in the bag.

Lastly, he only kept Chain Claws and Dispersal Powder, things he might need at any moment, close at hand.

Having stored all his belongings, Mu You switched to his Vampire skin and checked its attributes: Strength 20, Agility 40, Intelligence 60, Constitution 20.

It was now three in the morning, past the deepest part of the night. The Night King’s bonus had fallen to 80%, but it was not much different.

Looking at his high intelligence value of 60 points, Mu You tried to summon the Battle Eagle again.

"Chirp!"

With the natural magic power within the crystal drained in an instant, a two-meter tall Battle Eagle appeared in the pet shop. After flapping its wings a few times, it landed smoothly on a table.

Mu You walked over to observe it. The Battle Eagle looked almost identical to the previous one, but it was actually slightly smaller. However, the electric light on its feet flashed more noticeably.

Meanwhile, around the Battle Eagle, it seemed to be shrouded in a transparent airflow, making its body appear somewhat elusive.

The Omniscient Crystal displayed the information about the Battle Eagle: Shadow War Eagle, level 10 (max level), combat familiar, flying familiar, attack power 65-70, HP 4500, magic power 2000, capable of vision sharing, true sight, thunderbolt strike, permanent invisibility (revealed when attacking) ..."

"Max level?"

Mu You first noticed the level description.

He had originally thought that his intelligence was more than twice as much as when he summoned the level eight Battle Eagle, and he should have been able to summon at least a level eleven or twelve. But it turns out, there’s a maximum level restriction, and level ten is the highest level.

Mu You shook his head regardless, at least he managed to unlock the Battle Eagle’s final ability. As long as it doesn’t attack, it remains permanently invisible. Furthermore, when it’s flying in the sky, it’s unlikely to be affected by common revealing techniques, making it unmatched for surveillance and tracking.

Satisfied, Mu You stroked the Battle Eagle for a while, opened the window and let it fly out.

Then he returned to the bag and started today’s lessons.

Today was his fifth day of study. In the previous days, Vivian had suggested him to skip some notebooks and start with the study of Magic Potion mechanisms. Finally, today it was his turn to learn about something he had been very much looking forward to – Energy Control.

The fourteenth to the twentieth notebook, seven in total, all discussed Energy Control. This course was a lot smoother for Mu You than the others.

That’s because Energy Control is not only used in the study of Magic Potions but also in his usual magic card creation and wandless casting of regular magic, all of which require a masterful control of energy.

To Mu You, this was undoubtedly the most useful part of all the Magic Potion courses.

Therefore, he was completely engrossed in the seven notebooks, almost forgetting to eat or sleep.

To his surprise, he managed to finish all seven notebooks in just six years!

Of course, Mu You didn’t end it in a hurry, he had Vivian help him control about three more months of time in the backpack space, practicing Small Fireball, Shockwave, Unlocking Spell and other commonly used spells to become proficient in wandless casting.

Once finished, Mu You tried it immediately.

His current grasp of Energy Control is not delicate enough, the speed of wandless casting is much slower than that with the aid of a magic wand.

But being able to cast without the aid of a magic wand was a vast improvement.

After leaving the backpack space and taking a short rest in his room, it was dawn.

Mu You freshened up, dressed neatly, got some food at the door, then hurried to the police station in K city.

By the time he arrived, it was just seven in the morning, the police station was not open yet.

As Mu You approached the guard at the entrance, before he could explain his situation, Zhang Yang, with a bread stick in his mouth, walked out of the police station from a distance and waved at him from afar, "Ha ha, Boss Mu, you’re quite early. We’re just having breakfast, have you eaten?"

"I did." Mu You replied.

"Alright then, wait for a bit. I’ll go contact the higher-ups. You’ll have to take part in a video interview then..." Without wasting words, Zhang Yang quickly briefed Mu You on the processes as he led him into the station.

In the lobby, several plain-clothes officers from the paranormal division were eating breakfast, both men and women, all fresh graduates for the look of it. Zhang Yang introduced them to Mu You.

Mu You glanced at them with the Omniscient Crystal. Most of them were players at levels one to four, only two were above level five, one at level seven and another at level nine.

They had heard of Mu You’s existance from Zhang Yang. Although they didn’t know the specifics, they did know he was a level ten expert!

Therefore, they all acted very respectfully. Given that Mu You was one of the older ones as well, they greeted him as ’brother Mu’ after a short while of conversation.

After a brief greeting with these future colleagues, Mu You was then pulled into a conference room by Zhang Yang.

At this point in the conference room, a computer was already set up.

On the other end of the screen sat two middle-aged people in military uniforms, one man and one woman. Mu You sat in front of the computer, watching as they flipped through information and asked him questions from time to time.

What surprised Mu You, however, was that all their questions were about his family background, the cause of his parents’ death, and the details of his ancestors for the past three generations. They asked everything they could think of.

Oddly, they didn’t ask any questions about the player’s abilities at all.

Finally, after confirming that Mu You’s identity was clean enough, the interview came to an end.

The rest of the process was simple, basically just a formality.

Zhang Yang brought him a pile of forms to fill out, which finally included a collection form for player abilities, requiring details about attributes, level, relics, etc.

Mu You filled out the attributes tested by Zhang Yang the night before. For the crucial part about listing the relics, he wrote ’Lucky Dice’, which he had prepared earlier.

At this point, the so-called initiation process was complete.

Then, Mu You received a windbreaker, a special agency badge, a set of official identity documents with his photo, as well as a satellite phone from Zhang Yang.

However, when Mu You looked at the badge, it was carved with the words ’Director of the Special Services Group of the K City Paranormal Bureau’.

"Director of the Special Services Group?"

Mu You looked at Zhang Yang with a puzzled expression. Wasn’t it supposed to be a special agent? How had he become the director?

"Haha, don’t doubt it. Right now, the special services group is just you. You can choose to work alone without team members, or you can recruit suitable people from outside on your own. It’s all up to you. Anyway, there’s only one requirement: the people you find must have clean identities! Don’t bring in spies or anything like that. That would cause trouble for both of us."

Zhang Yang laughed and continued: "Also, let’s clarify your rights and obligations. Your position is strictly a partnership with the Paranormal Bureau. Therefore, you have the right to refuse to participate in tasks assigned from above, even internal tasks from our bureau, if you feel they are inappropriate or beyond your abilities."

"But I’d still suggest that if you are capable, try to accept as many tasks as you can. Because the merits of each completed task would be converted into points, and you can exchange for more things with these points than you can imagine! You can check it out on this phone."

Under Zhang Yang’s guidance, Mu You turned on the satellite phone.

The phone had only one app named ’Dragon Soars’, which was represented by an icon of a soaring dragon.

After opening it, the app looked like a forum, divided into ’Tasks’, ’Exchange’, and ’Guides’ sections.

In the ’Tasks’ section, there were numerous tasks posted by the paranormal bureaus from various locations. Some of them were meant for all bureau members, while others were meant for members in specific areas. The tasks varied widely, from capturing criminals and managing abnormal nodes to regular patrols and intelligence gathering, etc. Each task was marked with the number of points one could earn upon completion.

Then Mu You clicked onto the ’Exchange’ section, which instantly displayed a plethora of products.

There were as many as 90,000+ items for exchange! They included equipment, items, potions, scrolls, materials... of all ranks and qualities. He could find anything he could think of.

Each item, when clicked on, showed multiple images, detailed descriptions, and the required points to exchange.

Mu You browsed for a while and quickly found many items he was very interested in.

For instance, sorted by value from high to low, the first item on the list was a stunning legendary weapon!

Grim Reaper’s Embroidery Needle: After inserting magical power, it can move freely according to your will and pierce through anything.

Pierce through anything!

This item’s description was pretty straightforward, but Mu You didn’t doubt its authenticity. Being a legendary item, it should have this power, which was even higher than Vivian’s Phantom Wand!

The price for this most expensive item on the exchange list was as high as 800,000 points.

Mu You wasn’t sure how valuable points were yet, so he scrolled down.

Beneath the legendary items, there were many more epic level items, priced around 50,000 to 80,000 points. Below those were the rare level items, generally hovering around 10,000 points. Middle-rank spell scrolls cost about 5,000 points.

Mu You recalled that in the game store, one mid-level scroll sold for 500 years of lifespan, so the exchange rate between points and lifespan should be designed at 10:1, where 10 points were about equivalent to one year of lifespan.

After some simple operations, Mu You found that, besides earning points from completing tasks, he could also list his own items for sale—there would be a professional team to appraise each item.

This system was reminiscent of guild warehouses in online games, where guild members could earn contributions by completing tasks and exchange various items in a simplified manner.

This was the main advantage of joining a guild—to share resources efficiently, to meet everyone’s needs, since the collective power was always more efficient than individual efforts.

At this point, Zhang Yang suddenly leaned in and said mysteriously, "Oh, by the way, I secretly reported the werewolf you caught yesterday. After review from above, you were credited with 1,000 points, equivalent to completing a B-level task. It’s already been deposited into your account. You can scan your badge to log in and check your account."