A samurai lord sacrificed his everything for the demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, he abandoned his child for that's what the demon wants and the infant is born without organs but only have bones and still alive. Thanks to a man who help him with primitive prosthetics he goes on a journey to reclaim his organs one at a time by killing demons. On his journey he met a young child who claims to be the world's greatest thief.

im not really planning on making this a story i have pretty bad writing skills so ill probably just put some ideas in maybe a few short chapters. 

even im not 100% what this story will be about

Darth Vader is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He is a primary antagonist in the original trilogy, but, as Anakin Skywalker, is the main protagonist of the prequel trilogy. Star Wars creator George Lucas has collectively referred to the first six episodic films of the franchise as "the tragedy of Darth Vader".[1]

Originally a Jedi prophesied to bring balance to the Force, Anakin Skywalker is lured to the dark side of the Force by Palpatine and becomes a Sith Lord. After fighting a lightsaber battle with his former mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi in which he is dismembered, Vader is transformed into a cyborg. He then serves the Galactic Empire as Darth Vader until he redeems himself by saving his son, Luke Skywalker, and seemingly killing Palpatine, sacrificing his own life in the process.[2] He is also the father of Princess Leia, the secret husband of Padmé Amidala, and grandfather of Kylo Ren, the main villain of the sequel trilogy.

The character has been portrayed by numerous actors. His cinematic appearances span the first six Star Wars films, as well as Rogue One, and he is referenced in both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. He also appears in television series (most substantially The Clone Wars) and numerous iterations of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, including video games, novels, and comic books.

Darth Vader has become one of the most iconic villains in popular culture, and has been listed among the greatest villains and fictional characters ever.[3][4] The American Film Institute listed him as the third greatest movie villain in cinema history on 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains, behind Hannibal Lecter and Norman Bates.[5] His role as a tragic hero in the prequel trilogy was met with positive reviews.[6][7]

Name

Series creator George Lucas initially wrote the series' main villain as separate from Luke Starkiller's father Annikin [sic]. Various combinations of names for the character were built upon the phrase "Dark Water". Then Lucas "added lots of last names, Vaders and Wilsons and Smiths, and [he] just came up with the combination of Darth and Vader." After the release of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Lucas said the name Vader was based upon the German/Dutch-language homophone vater or vader, meaning 'father', making the name representative of a "Dark Father".[8] However, there is no evidence that Lucas conceived of Vader as Luke's father before 1978.[9] Other words which may have inspired the name are "death" and "invader",[10] as well as the name of a high school upperclassman of Lucas's, Gary Vader.[11][12]

As no other character with the title "Darth" was introduced until the release of The Phantom Menace (1999),[b] some viewers interpreted it as the character's first name, in part because Obi-Wan Kenobi addresses him as "Darth" in the original film.[13] The moniker is bestowed upon Anakin in Revenge of the Sith (2005) upon his turn to the dark side of the Force.

Director Ken Annakin's films Swiss Family Robinson and Battle of the Bulge influenced the original trilogy,[14] leading some to believe that Anakin was named after him. Lucas's publicist denied this following Annakin's death in 2009.[15] Anakin and Luke's original surname "Starkiller" remained in the script until a few months into filming Star Wars, when it was dropped due to what Lucas called "unpleasant connotations" with Charles Manson and replaced with "Skywalker".[16][c]

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Ever since his rebirth, Ron had been meditating and learning to control his magic and by the age of two, he was able to successfully cast a spell. Although the strength and level of spell was very low, it was a spell nonetheless. Besides learning to control magic on his own, he had also managed to learn different languages and some common spells from observing his family. Although the Weasley Family was poor, they were still one of the oldest Wizarding families of the world. They had ancient Tomes and Grimoires full of ancient spells, techniques and other knowledge. But they all either required one to be extremely rich or have specific wizarding talents that hadn't been seen for thousands of years. Except Ron didn't have one but many of these talents, his practice of meditating everyday had resulted in a unexpected surprise, he had become a natural Occlumens!

Although his level of Occlumency had only reached the first level of clearing one's mind — making it "blank and empty", it was still one of the  greatest achievement an adult wizard much less a Two year old child could hope for. Besides Occlumency, his magic control exercises which at the current time was basically just use magic until exhaustion had resulted in an increase in his magic power and his body adapting to the high usage of magic every day. From an outsider's perspective Ron was skimming through the books, looking at the different pictures like a normal Two year old. But he was currently imprinting those books deep into his mind! Ron was currently deeply engrossed in a book when he felt two people approaching him from different sides and he leapt back instantly.

`Bam!'

In the place Ron was currently stood were two identical boys laying on the floor holding their heads. ``What the hell were you guys doing?! you could have hurt yourself!'' looking at their younger brother that was showing both concern and anger in his eyes, the twins just showed their signature smile and Fred just said, ``it's not a big deal little brother, we are fine. Look not hurt at all''. George continued with, ``yeah, we were just trying to scare you but didn't know you were a Seer.'' Looking at their smiling faces Ron's annoyance went away and he hurriedly changed the topic, ``So, why are you guys here and where's everyone else?'' although the twins could see their little brother's trick, they went along with the ruse and George replied with, `` Mum's at the counter paying for the books.'' Fred continued where his twin left off, ``we were sent to collect the prince and bring him back to his people.''

Any leftover annoyance at the twin's attempt to scare him was gone and Ron put the book in his hand away and went back with his brothers. In the sort period of around thirty minutes, Ron had managed to memorise around twenty books with titles like Fundamentals of Potion Making, Runes 101, Common Magical Plants, A book of Thousand Spells, etc. the last book was particularly hard to memorise as it not only had descriptions of the spells but also the pronunciations, the hand motions, the warning and other things as well. There were some very interesting spells in there that Ron was very excited to try out. Although there were books of much higher grade back home and contained extremely profound knowledge, he lacked the basics in any and all topics to be able to use the books at home. 

``That would be 30 Galleons Madam Weasley.'' Ron was shocked at the price of his brother's books. Not because it was expensive but because it was cheap, extremely cheap He had read somewhere in his previous life that the average cost of each years materials for Hogwarts was around 100 Galleons and 50 Galleons of that was just for books! While Molly was paying the shopkeeper, Ron's mind was full of thoughts like, `I can't believe anyone would actually chose to buy books from anywhere else but here. What's wrong with the wizard kind's brains?!' although Ron's thinking process was correct, he had forgotten than it wasn't just the wizards and witches that did this, it was the muggles who behaved this way as well. They all want to have the latest and the brand new. Although the shop's sign was simple and rustic, the Second Hand Bookstore had a much wider variety of books as alongside Hogwarts Books, people also sold their own books as well. In the original timeline, Harry would find a Potions book in Hogwarts that had notes and marks in it that helped him become a `genius' in potion making. It was the same concept but people always want to keep their `image'.

The rest of the trip only took around twenty minutes, they only had to get a Wand as Bill was going to `inherit' most of his equipment from his parents. Once again the thought of his family's financial situation brought down Ron's mood but not for long. He had already had some ideas prior to his visit to Diagon Alley but to put those ideas into practice, he still needed some fundamental knowledge and he had gained some of that knowledge today. `Three Years! no, two years max! I will make the Weasley name resound in the Wizarding world.' While the thought was grand and majestic, the person who had it was currently holding his mother's hand so that he wouldn't be lost in the crowd. ``Alright everyone, take a sip of the potion. You two! I don't care if you enjoy the feeling of nausea, take the potion.'' 

Molly was currently standing in front of a fireplace getting ready to use the Floo but as there were children with her, they had to take a special potion so that they didn't end up emptying their stomachs mid-travel or worse. As soon as the family got home, the twins took the bags from their mother and took out their most prized possession that they had gotten by annoying their mother to the utmost limit, `Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans'. ``Mum, what have you done?!'' everyone gulped at the sight of the twins holding the sweets and smiling like crazy.

Having been bullied almost his whole life, Ray's only solace had been his Mother and books. but one day, the bullies took things too far and he died. On his deathbed he had two wishes, for his Mother to be happy and for him to have the strength to be happy in his next life. somehow, both his wishes came true.

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Seraphine kept staring at Desmond as she suddenly sighed "well it's not like I could stop you anyway with that kind of blind devotion to magic you'll fit right in with all those other magi if you ever make it that far that is. I'll get you that introduction into magic book set for you now. 

"Wait, I only wanted to know the prices of those books I don't have any Drachma on me to buy them at the moment". Desmond was saddened by how he was unable to buy those books right now but, he had to find his home first and get cleaned up so he could exchange those monster cores for money.

Seraphine looked straight at Desmond "judging from your armor you must have just come back from clover forest so you must have gotten some kind of magical plant or monster core out there you can just use that to change for the books".

Desmond's eyes grew wide in surprise "I can trade my monster cores her".

"A lot of stores don't except monster cores or herbs for trade because of price fluctuations but you can here. You also may wind up taking a loss if you trade your monster core directly to us or we will end up on the losing end of the deal and not make a prophet but me and my husband have been doing this for years so it's gonna be hard to try and scam us." she really does not want to let this sale go, she really is one hell of a salesperson.

I nod my head in agreement It's not like I could have used those monster cores to do anything with so trading them for Magic books is most definitely worth it to me.

"Alright just give me a second to get them" I get down on one knee open my bag and take out the 3 shining monster cores which I hand off to seraphine.

She takes the cores and inspects them "let's see two small blue cores there beginner apprentice grade and most likely drowner cores. Only worth about one mage stone for the both of them you need 40 for them to equal one magic crystal still it's more than enough to pay for that introduction into magic package. The second one Is advance apprentice grade it's in good condition I don't know from what creature, but about 50 magic crystals on the low end".

"Hubby, mind taking out that new appraisal device I just bought" she through my monster core at Ragnar who caught it with one hand.

"Alright just give me a second" from under the counter he pulled out a wide black slab that had white carvings on it the same kind that are on my gun and bullets. The carvings glowed when he placed the green sphere on it.

"It appears to be from a sleeping death plant its worth I would say around 100 magic crystals. How In the world did you manage to get a monster core like this? Sleeping deaths are quite hard to kill for creatures. below the level of rank 1 their one of the toughest even with a group.

They may have a weak defense but they always put everything around them to sleep and then trap their prey in an illusion that is hard to break out of without the right potions. Since potions are so expensive there is basically no profit when hunting these things which is why so few even bother to do it". Ragnar had a look of suspicion when he looked at me it made me feel uncomfortable.

Since it was not something I had to keep a secret any way I just told him so he would not think I stole the thing while leaving out the important details and changing some things around I even took out the gun and knife I used and showed It to him. 

"An enchanted flintlock with enchanted pullets the guns an old model worth about 300-400 magic crystals and the bullets about mage stones 10 each looks like even some of the runes are losing their power, but it does explain how someone as weak as you could defeat that thing so easily. The knife is about 100 to 150 magic crystals it only has one active not passive basic enchant making it sharper when you inject mana into it". To think you would get lucky enough to spot one of those things from a distance and shoot its stem before it could even spot you now aren't you lucky.

Ragnar handed me back my things as I asked him about the enchanted knife" This knife was gifted to me by an old friend but I have never used an enchanted blade before can you tell me how I inject my magic into it to activate the runes?". 

"You must really suck at using magic to not even know how to do that. Listen up since everyone has some amount of magic in them well most of the time that is there are still those rare chances someone's born without magic. Everyone unconsciously releases Magic in every action they do. People who train in magic can stop that flow of magic from leaking out.

That's why at times you can find traces of magic on some of the greatest artworks in history or even fined some on your food when you're eating at a restaurant even if the person is not a mage.

Injecting magic Into something is easier than people think since we're always doing it. It's just hard to switch it from passively releasing it to actively releasing magic.

So, what you need to do is simply focus by feeling the flow of magic inside your body and directing In a way that feels comfortable to you. It helps if you imagine your body as a vast lake and you have a channel going from that lake up to your arm to the weapon".

Ragnar took back the curved dagger he handed to me to demonstrate what he said. As he held the weapon in his hand it glowed a soft light. The light was very faint though only comparable to a wisp of smoke. He then took out a block of wood from under the counter placed it on the table and cut it in half as easy as cutting through a steak. So there was still some resistance but, he ended up cutting it fairly cleanly in half.

My eyes grew wide after seeing this "this enchant is amazing it's so powerful".

"No, it's not its one of the most basic ones there are a bunch of things out there you could never hope to harm with only something like this" Ragnar shook his head feeling as though that old man's chances of becoming a mage had just worsened.

Desmond thought that these people were very useful they kept telling him all kinds of things he needed to know for free. It was all general knowledge but it was still things he did not know so he thought about making the most out of their kindness.

"I remember you were reading a scroll when I first walked in. I happen to have a few scrolls given to me for my protection, but he forgot to tell me what any of them did so I can't use any of them until I know their effects can you please identify them for me".  Desmond then went into his bag and took out 5 rolled up scrolls and handed them to Ragnar.

He proceeded to unfurl the scroll place it on the table and turn it towards me while placing his finger on the top right corner. "You see these words up here it's modern Zedrick, not ancient Zedrick like how most spells are written or spoken in so you should be able to tell what the scrolls are yourself this one says, Earth Spike surge. 

It creates a wave of earth spikes in every direction from the ground in any location you want within 30 feet that shoots up and stabs your enemy.

You also have one that says magic needles a lower level spell compared to magic missiles, acid splash, low-grade invisibility, and firestorm, that one's not actually half bad. Except for firestorm which is an advanced apprentice spell the rest are at an intermediate apprentice grade.

Activation requires no magic there are three ways to activate the scroll even tear it up, speak to spell name, or read the incantation. just so you know no one does the last one it takes too much time". He told me what all the scroll's effects did and their effective range.

He then handed me back all my scrolls I put them away and right after that his wife seraphine walked up to me with a pile of books wrapped up in hand. " Your Introduction into magic book set is there anything else you need". She had a sweet smile on her face as she asked me that.

I looked at the books she brought me the were not that thick as I had expected that's when I noticed this book set did not come with some important ones that he needed to know about magic.

"Yes, this book set doesn't seem to come with a book on how to read ancient Frazik, or how to read runes. There is also no book on how to make a magic circle, cast spells or a book about magical plants or creatures".

"Those books are not included in the public book set. A book on how to read ancient Zedrick is only 10 magic crystals, the book on how to read runes is 30 magic crystals, the book on the basics of creating a magic circle is 40 magic crystals, the book of magical plants and creatures depending on the one you want around 20 magic crystals. spellbooks we are not allowed to sell anything beyond Beginner Apprentice Grade and depending on the kind of spellbook you want it'll be between 20 and 100 magic crystals each".  

I still did not know the value of magic crystals but if I treat every magic crystal I see like 100 dollar bills than I start to get a sense of how expensive everything is.

"I want the book on how to read ancient Zedrick, ancient runes, and one book with the most information about magical plants and creatures. I would also like a book about the history of Theotera, and a map of the world, a map of the clover forest and a map of the city". I've been lost and stupidly walking around for far too long I really need those maps.

"We don't have a map of Theotera but we do have a book with a map in it for 3 magic crystals. Those 2 other maps are only 200 drachma (or 2 Gold Mines). Will that be everything you wish to purchase". She said with a smile.

"Yes, that's all I would like to buy today. I may not know the true value magic crystals I can still feel the sting in my pocket. My piecing together everything I know about prices in this world currently it's no wonder that guard said Magi apprentices are broke.  She started to walk off to grab my books when I suddenly stopped her.

"Wait a moment, please I am a bit lost currently can you direct me toward the underground" I have been searching all around for where I lived yet no memories are surfacing so either I'm missing an obvious clue or this man used to live somewhere in that place they call the underground.

"Sure I can help you, see we're currently on the intersection between District D and C called morning road. If you want to reach the trains heading Underground you'll have to go towards the tall Bell Tower in the distance. You'll see it if you just look up the bell towers signifies the train depot in this area". She quickly answered my question before promptly leaving grabbing my books and handing them to me.

"That all comes out to 68 magic crystals and 200 drachma (or 2 Gold Mines) your change is 31 magic crystals and 19 and 3/4's of mage stones and since mortal money does not transfer well with the money magi use you have the option of 99 gold mine and 98 Drachma or you could buy more books". The lady was a splendid sale man as she told me this.

So, magi don't accept those bills I keep seeing as payment "can In open a tab here and put that money in it I plan on coming back there are still more books I need to buy. Just give me 800 Drachma (8 gold mine)." Carrying all those bills in my pocket would be annoying anyway. Magic Crystals are apparently a better form of payment anyways.

"Of course you can, may I have your name please"

"My name is Desmond Gillies" She had taken my name down and hands me my money in a leather pouch. The magic crystals were the length and width of my finger making them annoying to carry. They were light blue and looked like they had a rainbow inside of them. The drachma was in paper form like dollar bills just silver and had pictures of mages on them. They ranged from they came in the form of 1, 10, 20, 50, and 100 bills.

"They're even able to put pictures of themselves on their money magi really are full of themselves, I can't wait to become one".

After that, I leave the store with all my books in tow heading toward that train depot to find my home while looking towards a bright future.

What is the truth? What is reality? Could the end actually be the beginning? In a world were ancient beings walk beside you, guard people against the uniqueness of the world and powerful creatures around them. While trying to obtain the truth of everything and reach the pinnacle of magic. They face new contenders that make there already harrowing world that much difficult and strange. Resulted from a battle of immense proportions against beings incomprehensible, as they clash the void shatters cracks are left all over souls from all across different worlds and dimensions are free once more. This is were our story beings this is the journey of a man who leads to the spread of uncertainty.

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I was burning with high determination… this is the day… it's finally the day I will rid the world of it's greatest plague!

To give you a little context, I'm the son of Xavier Blues, one of the greatest heroes that ever lived, or even the greatest. He is the leader of A.I.M, a team made of people with "superpowers" that was founded some centuries ago, to establish peace and order.
The current society is different from what it was hundreds of years ago. A meteor collided with the earth, and almost killed all life on it, but strangely, the life that survived, gained different properties, different "powers". Humans were no exceptions, 90% of the remaining humans after the "Cataclysm" received "powers" as you could see into movies or comic books. The power to defy gravity, "Flight", the power to control things with the power of the mind, "Telekinesis", the power to generate and control fire, "Pyrokinesis", and the list continues… The offsprings of these "Super-Powered" humans also inherited the "Power-Gene", or P-Gene, from their parents, so they also developed powers. So a modern society that consisted of super-powered individuals was born…

My name is Cole Blues, a 20 years old male, the son of Xavier Blues, and also the strongest Villain mankind is facing today.



"Give it up father, you have lost!" I exclaimed while I looked down at my Father who stood at my feet level, on its knees….

"I….I beg you son… please..stop.." My father's words, full of guilt didn't even bulge me.

"You know… you could have avoided this situation if you stopped your charade of playing the "Hero" a long time ago when I saw through your true colors"

As I stood beside my Father, I increased the amount of pressure that is pinning him to the ground
Or better said, I increased the gravity around my "domain"

Xavier was pushed to the ground instantly, he couldn't even lift his face, but even if he could, he would only see his team members killed in cold blood.


"Hmph, it's funny, all of this time, you were my inspiration, you were my ideal in life, you gave me a goal to achieve, to become the greatest hero!" I shouted

"But, you destroyed all of this… when I found the real you ,I found the real reason you are even a''Hero`.''

"All of this…you...A.I.M, was just a charade, you were just a company that just used the term "Hero", so you can just earn money. In the open, you were a person whose smile brightened the lives of many, just your name could make a criminal piss his pants, but.."

I slightly chuckle

"In the back of everyone, you were just like the criminals you chased, you were sexual abusers, drug addicts, thieves and even worse… murderers."

"I dedicated all of my life, acquiring different powers, and becoming stronger… so I can finally get rid of you, "Heroes", or better said, the lowest thrash!"


"Son…. I'm sorry-" Just as Xavier wanted to utter another word, his face got smacked harder into the ground, the gravity was increased.

"SILENCE!, YOU FOOL!"

"Well, hmph, I think It's enough talking, I will destroy you right now, together with this whole building"

"Pyrokinesis!" With just a thought, I changed my aura into a shape that mimicked the flames of a fire, and my hand was engulfed in flames, but as I did that, the force of gravity diapered.

Xavier tried to get up now, as the force that pinned him to the ground was gone, but he couldn't, he was too broken, both mentally and physically…

"What...what a monster ...how could I have created a monster like that…" Xavier looked at Cole, whose evil smirk frightened him further.


" DIE FATHER!'" With a flick of my fingers, a powerful stream of fire flew from my hand straight at my father's head, but as I did that, something strange happened… a portal appeared right in front of my father.

The fire was absorbed into the portal

"Hmph...to think you will come here ...big brother…"

"Cole, it's too late for apologies, I'm sorry for what I'm about to do, but I have no choice, Humanity will end if I let you live in this world!"

'What, Humanity will end if I live in this world?'
"What the fuck you are saying Sco-" I couldn't finish my sentence, as a portal was created right under my feet…
The force of attraction was too strong… I tried to change my aura, but it was too late, I was absorbed in…


"I'm sorry brother... I hope you can live on.." Scott, the brother of Cole, was looking at his portal, which was slowly closing.


"No..no… not right now, I was so close, so close to ending the world's greatest plague…"

"THAT BASTARD!!!!" I roared into the blue space around me.

"How cold that stupid brother, create a portal so strong.."

"Anyway, I will teleport again to their location...but wait a second… where is this portal taking me, his range was limited to only 100 Kilometers, even so… why does it take so long?"


After a few more minutes, I lost consciousness…

His long life plan of killing the "Heroes" failed, he was transported to a different world before he could give the finishing blow 
but that doesn't mean his determination is lost.

Follow Cole Blues on his adventure on becoming the strongest villain once more.

Chapter 3: Encounter

"Oh yeah, I haven't distributed my stat points yet."  Ai almost forgot about his stats that were all in zero. From the knowledge that he had gained when the System was injected to him, in the beginning, the game itself gave the freedom to freely allocate their beginning stats and every player has the same number of points to show fairness for everyone somehow.

——————

Name: Ai Zhen
HP: 100 / 100
MP: 100 / 100
SP: 100 / 100
Level: 0
EXP: 0 / 900

CULTIVATION: 
Art: NONE
Realm: NA
Breakthrough: 0 / 0 EXP

Stat Points: 33
* Strength: 0+
(Boost your attack and defense power)
* Intelligence: 0+
(Boost your comprehension power)
* Dexterity: 0+
(Boost your attack, skill and movement speed)
* Vitality: 0+
(Boost your HP and MP)
* Stamina: 0+
(Boost your SP)

——————

"Oh by the way, Yun, what does SP stands for?" Ai Zhen noticed that there's another indicator for something. He had an idea about it but he's not that if what he was thinking was the same for this game.

<SP stands for Spiritual Points. It has the same importance with the HP and MP because this will be used in almost every actions that you will do. Special NPCs, Items and Quests requires a certain Spiritual Points in order to be engaged. This can also be used to enhance the effect of active skills depending on how much you input. Ways to restore SP can be done in any form of rest. One needs to cultivate in order to increase SP. Allocating points in Stamina can increase SP too.>

Half of Ai Zhen's thought about SP was right, and even though Yun's explanation about it was not that very specific, he was able to tell that this may be the most important stats in this game.

Moving on, based from the gaming experiences of the late Ai's, a player must always not neglect to allocate some points for the Strength and Agility even if the player is a mage class. The former Zhen's thinking also approved of this especially for the Agility stats. In the cultivation world, there's a saying that strength is not what makes a cultivator invincible but speed.

However, thinking back again, this game was almost completely different from the games that the late Ai have played, and also, there was a novel that he read where someone allocated all of his stat points in a single attribute which gave that character a special bonus.

"Here goes nothing." Ai Zhen smiled deviously as he was about to add all of his points to a certain stats.

——————

Name: Ai Zhen
HP: 100 / 100
MP: 100 / 100
SP: 330 / 330
Level: 0
EXP: 0 / 900

CULTIVATION: 
Art: NONE
Realm: NA
EXP: 0 / 0

Stat Points: 0
* Strength: 0+
(Boost your attack and defense power)
* Intelligence: 0+
(Boost your comprehension power)
* Dexterity: 0+
(Boost your attack, skill and movement speed)
* Vitality: 0+
(Boost your HP and MP)
* Stamina: 33+
(Boost your SP)

——————

Seconds and then minutes passed by, nothing happened. Ai Zhen was expecting for something grand to happen like being rewarded for being the first player to allocate all the starting stat point on a certain Attributes? I guess there is no reward for being a fool on believing too much on fantasy novels then.

Ai Zhen can only bitterly smile about it and moved on. And with that, he started to stroll around to find a NPC to have a conversation with.

++++++++++

The six sector of the Hidden Leaf Town was divided into three areas, the first two sector where the entry and exit point of the town is located was called the outer area, this is where the NPC shops and merchants are located.

The inner area is where the two middle sectors are located, this is where the town's residences resides. Some NPC nobles are also in here.

In the core area, where the remaining two sectors. There are only two places that are located in this area. One, is the town hall where the town lord resides. The other one is the, town's academy where the town's library is also located.

Ai Zhen thought that if he's going to do the quests, he will do it big. So in order to do it big, the only NPC that he can think of is the town's lord. With a goal set in his mind, he walked straight to the core area where the town hall is.

When he was about to enter the core area, his eyes were staring down on the bricked road minding his own business as he was contemplating on how to approach the town's lord. He passed by to an old man who was sitting down outside of a certain shop, having a tea. The old man called out to him, "Hey, young man!" A serene smile crept into his mouth as he was sipping his cup of tea.

Ai Zhen was still looking down on the road as he was still focused on how to approach the town lord. He was only able to stop when a voice sounded beside his ears, "It's rare to find someone who has great potential nowadays."

Ai Zhen looked at the old man surprised who was raising his cup of coffee, "Would you like to have a cup of tea?"

Ai Zhen thought that this old man is no ordinary that's why he accepted his offer. He opened the gate of the tea shop that was called Autumn Leaf Cafe and sat in front of the old man. The old man took an empty cup on his side and poured a tea for him.

"Would you like to be my disciple?" The old man got straight to the point.

The old man's straightforwardness surprised Ai Zhen as he doesn't know what to reply. 

"Why would you do that?" He looked at the old man with slightly raised eyebrow showing his skepticism. In his mind, no one can be his master in this lifetime. As the greatest cultivator in his past life, the arrogance and confidence in him surfaced. But even though he thought of this, he still patiently asked what the old man's motive.

"Well, just a simple fact that you are very talented. Who wouldn't want a disciple with such capabilities like you?" The old man simply stated with a playful smile.

"Heh..how would you know that I'm that talented?" Ai Zhen also playfully smiled back to the old man. "What if it turns out that I'm really just a trash?"

"Nonsense, young man! How on Earth would someone like you..a great figure..would be a trash?" The old man intentionally made his voice sounded like a whisper in Ai's ears just to display his capabilities, and was trying to make his bullshit mysterious. Ai also noticed this however, he didn't mind it and just played along.

"Well old man, if I'm that of a genius, then I'm now even more confident that I don't need a teacher or a master." Ai Zhen laughed wittily with a hint of arrogance on his antics.

The old man could only shake his head from this retort because he knows that the young man, Ai Zhen, was not buying it.

"Young man, if you are able to learn these books within this day. I'll admit that I'm not worthy to be your master." The old man took out six books that magically appeared in front of the table. Five of this six books have the same style of book cover with just different shades of color while the the other one has an orange red book cover and golden platings on its edges designed as blazing sun rays.

<Quest Prompt: Learn 5 skill books and a cultivation art that the old man Sun Fang have offered. Reward: (?)>

'I wonder what would that question mark means.' Ai Zhen was not fazed with what the old man did. He stared at him for a short while and inhaled. "Would you mind if I take a look at these first?" The Quest didn't offer any rewards because the reward itself was learning the books itself.

"Go ahead." The old man still playfully smiled even more as he gestured to the young man to not hold back.

Ai Zhen first looked at the one of the skill books that has a shade of grey on it.

<Skill Book: Basic Silver Claws. Skill Type: Attack. Skill Tier: Silver(I). Identification: A skill that can tear and rip common metals. When mastered, it can even destroy profound level weapons. Additional 3% pure damage towards night creatures.
Requirements: 30 SP>

Ai Zhen was astonished on how high tiered the skill that was shown to him. At this point of game, finding a skill like this is like gambling in a game that has one out of one hundred chances.

He also looked at the other four, anticipating if whether these are also in the same class and level or more.

<Skill Book: Flowing Leaf. Skill Type: Movement. Skill Tier: Gold(I). Identification: A skill that let you passively dodge three attacks like how a falling leaf can not be touched as it moves with the flow of the wind.
Requirements: 90 SP>

<Skill Book: Basic Plant Recognition. Skill Type: Miscellaneous. Skill Tier: Bronze(I). Identification: A skill that let you able to recognize plants that are up to Rare Level even without having a knowledge about it.
Note: Skill can be level up when used to identify 10 Rare Plants or obtained a higher level of the same skill book.
Requirements: 30 SP>

<Skill Book: Wave Current. Skill Type: Attack and Defense. Skill Tier: Gold(I). Identification: A skill that let you repel the opponent's attack up to three times the original power when mastered.
Requirements: 90 SP>

<Skill Book: Basic Fire Manipulation. Skill Type: Attribute. Skill Tier: Gold (I). Identification: A skill that will able to let you manipulate fire. It grants a Fire Body attribute which gives 15% fire resistance and 5% additional pure damage to any fire-based attacks.
Requirements: 90 SP>

These five books are really useful to Ai Zhen as of this moment. Having overpowered skills at this early point of the game makes his life really easy. He couldn't help but be fond on how generous this old man to him.

When the old man saw the face of the young man who was licking his lips in excitement, he thought that he have already caught him in his trap since these skills are very hard to learn from the get go and it takes weeks to learn the basics. With this mindset, he was pretty sure that the young man will be lured and there's nothing that he can't do from getting away with it, but what he doesn't know was the fact that the young man was licking his lips because he was already in the process of completely learning the five skills.

<You have learned the skill, Silver Claws. Intelligence: +1. -30 SP>

<You have learned the skill, Flowing Leaf. Intelligence: +2. -90 SP>

<You have learned the skill, Basic Plant Recognition. Intelligence: +1. -30 SP>

<You have learned the skill, Wave Current. Intelligence: +2. -90 SP>

<You have learned the skill, Basic Fire Manipulation. Intelligence: + 2. -90 SP>

<Congratulations! The Quest: Learning, has been accomplished. Total Rewards: +1300 EXP >

With the +100 EXP per rank, silver skill books is equivalent to 200 EXP while gold skill books is equivalent to 300 EXP. The old man would be crying if he was hearing what the monotone voice of a young boy was notifying.

Ai Zhen was feeling light-headed for a moment as his SP was depleted. However, as he leveled up multiple times, his SP was filled up again.

After learning the five skills, without further a do, he grabbed the last book and read it.

<Cultivation Book: Blazing Sun Art. Cultivation Rank: Epic (I). Identification: A cultivation art that can set ablaze one's HP or MP in order to gain additional pure damage (1:2 Conversion). Vitality points can also be set ablaze permanently to burn down the opponent's vitality points permanently as well (1:2 Conversion).
+6 Vitality & +3 Dexterity every minor breakthrough and +60 Vitality & +30 Dexterity every major breakthrough. Regeneration: +6 per second each minor breakthrough and +18 per second each major breakthrough.
Requirements: 110 Intelligence and 330 SP>

As Ai Zhen read through this cultivation, he couldn't help but faltered and his mouth twitching. 

The fact that this cultivation art is also overpowered makes him feel elated. Imagine burning an opponent's Vitality into zero, how many HP and MP will be left? But when setting ablaze the opponent's vitality you will be setting ablaze your vitality as well permanently. When he looked at the old man, he somehow felt a vague feeling that the aura of this cultivation art and the aura of the old man was exuding despite how hard he try to conceal are the same. He could not help but think if this old man, was really old.

<You have read an Epic Cultivation Art. +9 Intelligence. -150 SP>

'No wonder this cultivation art is just in an Epic Tier despite the overwhelming power that can be attained, because this art is Epic..Fail.' Ai Zhen couldn't help but shake his head in disappointment. And when the old man saw this, he could not also help but be intrigued of what's in the young man's mind. "What's wrong, young man?"

"Old man, do you have a pen and a stack of paper?" Ai Zhen asked. The old man have no idea why did the young man ask for these things but nonetheless, he still complied from the simple request.

When the old man took out the things that he asked, Ai Zhen began to write something on the papers. As he wrote on the stack of papers, sometimes, he would stop and looked at the old man as he tapped the pen on his chin from time to time. The look of the young man was giving to the old was like a doctor diagnosing at his patient, trying to probe and come up some prescription for him, this bewildered him.

Almost half an hour passed by, Ai Zhen was finally done with his writing. He almost used all of the stack of papers. "As thanks for the skill books, this is my gift to you. I apologize if I can't accept you as my master as I would really like it more to be your friend."

<Congratulations! You are the first player to create an Epic tier Cultivation Art without any Heavenly Immortal knowledge. Rewards: +7000 EXP, +12 Intelligence & Title: Grandmaster [Epic].> 

<Title Effects: Can create any Epic rank Cultivation Arts and below; 33% Success for Epic Arts, 66% success for Profound Arts and 99% success for Mortal Arts. EXP and SP will be deducted in each creation; -300 EXP and -300 SP for Epic Art, -200 EXP and -200 SP for Profound Art and -100 EXP and -100 SP for Mortal Art.
Note: Title rank can be level up: 99 created Epic rank Cultivation Art and 1 created Legendary Art.>

As Ai Zhen pushed the stack of written papers to the old man, he was very elated from the gains in encountering this old man that's why he had no regrets on gifting a powerful cultivation art that came from his previous world. Of course, he made some adjustments that was derived from the old man's cultivation art so that he won't have to completely re-cultivate from the start.

The old man only chuckled as Ai Zhen stood up and about to leave. He didn't mind the refusal as there really is a chance that certain individuals like him would not really accept his offer.

"Where are you off to now?" The old man tossed a golden round token to the young man as he asked this question with a fond smile on his face.

"I'm off to practice the skills you gave me." Ai Zhen replied with this simple sentence as he wave his arm good bye. However, this simple sentence greatly surprised the old man as he stared at the young man's back outside the cafe. But then again, as he thought about it, he simply chuckled and muttered to himself. "An Immortal Cultivator indeed." 

Players are known as Immortal Cultivators in this game.

<Congratulations! Tutorial Quest 1: Talking has accomplished. Reward: +55 EXP>

As the young man disappeared from the distance, the old man checked what did the young man wrote on the papers.

Curiosity got the best out of the modern Earth when a first ever online semi-reality online role playing game was mysteriously broadcast on a New Year's Eve countdown.

Through the game, people gained knowledge towards dao cultivation which gave massive benefits such as immortal or magical power, that slowly and ultimately change the modern Earth.

Blinded by the greed, people continued to play the so-called game even though as they later found out that they were playing with their lives the whole time for their souls are the ones that are crossing over to this so called game.

What was the purpose of the game?

Oddly yet cliched, a reincarnated legendary cultivator from an Immortal World will slowly unravel the secrets and the horrors of the game.

When Maria saw the notifications, she was immediately elated.

"Yay!"

She quickly pressed on the [YES] and her [Basic Language Mastery] was upgraded to [Advance Language Mastery]

[Advance Language Mastery (0/10,000)

Rank: E

Complete understanding of common demonic language and elementary understanding of all other languages, able to read 3-line incantations and write language functions and structures

Upgradeable: Linguistics E
Requirement met: Advanced Language Master S]

When Maria saw the [Linguistics] skill being the upgradeable skill after [Advanced Language Mastery], she immediately began to tear up.

She looked up at Zelundo who was next to her with tear-filled eyes. Zelundo only smirked playfully and patted her head lightly.

"YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO CONSOLE ME!" 

"Ahahahaha~ you're one interesting little missy! Go on, start reading those books!"

*DING* [Zelundo has tasked you with reading the library's books!]

[Quest Received: Study Time

Read every book inside of the library. While this quest is active, proficiency and EXP gained from reading is doubled.

Time Limit: 29 Days
Penalty: -100 FAV with Zelundo
Rewards: +1000 FAV with Zelundo, +100 REP, +50 INT, [Book Keeping], 100,000 EXP]

"Uhh..."

"Hey, you get some benefits if you're able to completely understand those books! Now hurry up and get started! Try and get the [Linguistics] skill before the month has ended, okay?"

"A MONTH?!"

"Hey, that's the shortest time you could take to learn [Linguistics]! No slacking off now, hurry up and begin reading!"

"Nooooo!!!"

As Maria's despaired ridden voice echoed throughout the library, Hella had just come out of the Magic Tower with a light gait in her steps. 

She had finally one upped the stupid Arch Mage geezer in the tower and they agreed to a bet that he would teach Maria about [Magic Comprehension] and [Magic Deduction] if she could learn both [Linguistics] and [Book Keeping] from Zelundo before a month had passed.

"Hehe, just you wait you stupid geezer. Our Lady Envoy will be able to learn those skills with time to spare! A million gold, a favor, plus that 5 century-old wine are in the bag, OHOHOHOHO~!" Hella roared in laughter. It was a good thing no one was there to witness her out of character moment, she quickly cleared her throat in embarrassment and skipped happily back to the Dark God's Temple.

******

3 in-game weeks had passed since Maria was given the [Study Time] quest and she was floating through the air while reading a book at her leisure. The players who had come to the library to receive a different quest had grown used to seeing the girl floating through the air while reading a book. 

It was a unique sight, but it was welcomed since she also sometimes helped players search for the specific book that they needed to complete the quest they got from the library's receptionist. Players even began calling her the Library's Angel.

"It's almost been a month...just a little bit more..." Maria said as she finished reading another book.

If Maria knew this was how long it would take to learn a skill, she wouldn't have bothered asking Hella and coming over to the library to learn anything.

What she didn't know however, that there was a simpler way to learn the skill. All she needed to do was complete the library receptionist's chain quest and acquire the [Linguistic] skill book from that.

However, the process of learning the skill which granted bonus stat points to a player's stats was left out. So in a way, Maria had stumbled upon the greatest method of learning skills, which was the manual, hardworking way. 

The process of learning skills in Unitale was divided into 3, creating the skill through repeated usage or understanding, acquiring it from a skill book, and learning it through mentorship.

Maria has already experienced 2 of these methods and now she was going through the hardships of the third method. 

It was time consuming, but the rewards brought by the process of learning the skill in this way were abundant. Just from finishing [Zelundo's Basic Language Materials], Maria had gained 10 INT. 

So if she finished reading more books, then the stat bonuses she would gain would be enormous, of course, it wasn't like every book she read gave her stat points, only a select few did.

From a gamer's perspective, all that hard work was worth it. It was just like grinding for experience points, but instead this was for grinding stat points. Every addition to one's stats was a big boon. 

This was especially so since Unitale heavily relied on stats and currently, the only known way to gain stat points was through leveling up, fulfilling special quests and objectives that rewarded Free Stat Points. 

So this mentorship was an unexpectedly great find. It had to be mentioned that in order to be eligible to learn from a mentor, one needed a High Ranking NPC's recommendation and personal referral. 

In order to get that, a player needed to have high favorability with a High Ranking NPC, something that Maria had already acquired so early in the game.

High Priestess Hella practically worshipped Maria for being the Dark God's Envoy. Her favorability with the NPC was already elevated to a high value and she was still earning more through interaction and by completing her quests.

For now, only Maria had learned about this mentorship function that the NPCs provided, but she didn't understand the significance of it yet.

******

"Hey Mary, let's go questing and hunting later~" Lizzy said while the girls were eating lunch in the school's cafeteria. 

When Maria heard her, she couldn't help but cast Lizzy a sad look and say, "Sorry Liz, I can't...I'm stuck learning the [Linguistics] and [Book Keeping] skills at the library..."

"Huh? It's already been over a week and you still haven't learned it?!"

"...please don't remind me..." Maria replied in complete dejection.

Maria still hadn't earned enough proficiency to upgrade her skill to [Linguistics]. She was also only a couple of books away from completing [Study Time] and getting [Book Keeper] as well.

Even until now, Maria didn't understand what the [Book Keeping] skill was for, but since the requirement to finish the quest was to actually read ALL of the books inside the library, she could only continuing trudging forward.

She enjoyed reading the books, but whenever her friends talked about hunting and grinding their levels while at school, Maria couldn't help but feel dejected and left out. Her friends had already broken past level 50 and had already gone through their class advancement quests and upgraded their classes.

"Mary...what quest are you doing? Y'know, on the forums in the guide section, the [Linguistics] quest was fairly easy and you could practically complete it in 1 day!"

"Huh?"

Lizzy pulled out her phone and opened up the Unitale Forums. She opened up the player made guides and quickly found the [Librarian's Request] quest and showed it to Maria.

"Hm? I didn't know about this..."

"Really?"

Amanda looked at Maria and asked, "What quest are you doing right now? It's obviously not this, right?"

"Y-yeah...it's called [Study Time]..."

"[Study Time]? That's new, so who's the quest giver?"

"The Library's Director, the old geezer Zelundo!" Maria said in anger. "At first it wasn't [Study Time], instead it was something called [Learn How to Read 1], but that stupid, lying, oppressive—"

Amanda exclaimed when she heard Maria's words. "Library Director? No way! You normally wouldn't be able to meet him unless you have a high reputation and a huge amount of favorability with the Library's Receptionist!"

Maria tilted her head in confusion and said, "Really? But I met him right when I entered the library! Of course, Miss Hella was the one who brought him down to meet me and I just followed after him to the library's upper floors and he issued out a quest to me..."

"R-really? And the quest reward is [Linguistics], right?"

"Yeah, and something called [Book Keeping], not sure what that is...he also gave me the [Basic Language Mastery] which could upgrade to [Linguistics]...I just need a little bit more proficiency, but it took 3 in-game weeks just to get over 98,000 proficiency points, dammit!" Maria burst out in anger. She had been reading numerous books for the past week and hasn't been able to go out and grind some monsters.

Zelundo had basically locked her inside the library at this point. She kept complaining that it was imprisonment and a violation of human rights, but Zelundo scoffed at her and told her she wasn't even human to begin with so it didn't even matter!

By now, Maria had nearly read all the books inside the library, only a couple tens of books left before she finished the [Study Time] quest and maybe raise her [Advanced Language Mastery] to S rank. She did gain a whole bunch of INT and experience from finishing a book. The experience she gained had even leveled her up twice and her INT value had grown to an absurd amount. 

However, Maria still hadn't opened her [Status] window so she didn't know of this just yet.

"I'll probably finish later today, so I'll contact you once I'm able to leave the library!"

"Okay, that's good. By the way, you should join our guild already! We finally pooled enough funds together and we successfully created our guild!"

Universe Tales. The new VRMMORPG that supported the Full Dive system with the game's settings boasting a 99% likeness to reality.

Enter Maria Heltania, a smart and bright high school girl who's unfortunately directionally and technologically challenged. Being forced by her best friend to play the new VRMMO Universe Tales, she decides to be an Angel. Only to be met with misfortune right from the start because of her unique habits, what more lucky or unlucky events could possibly fall upon this young girl?

"Uhh...Little Miss, I don't think this is the Quest Location."

"No! This is definitely the place!"

"...but we're in the middle of a battlefield..."

"The map clearly said-- Oh wait...it's upside down...or maybe right side up...?"

"..."

******

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What Luo Yunyang saw was a diagram. A very familiar diagram!
This was the Fallen Autumn Leaves Diagram!
Luo Yunyang had been able to survive during the Bloody Massacre Killing Arena all those years ago mainly because he had relied on the Fallen Autumn Leaves Diagram.
Although he didn't know how this diagram measured up to the one he had first seen at the Bloody Massacre Killing Arena, there was a considerable difference between the one in the Sky Book and the Great Chaotic Hole Path's stone monument.
However, there was a certain charm to this Fallen Autumn Leaves Diagram.
According to Luo Yunyang's intuition, this charm was artificial. It could be said that this Fallen Autumn Leaves Diagram gave off an artificial vibe. 
Luo Yunyang felt some biases rise along with this realization.
However, these biases clearly indicated a path for his cultivation.
Luo Yunyang immediately walked over to the Fallen Autumn Leaves Diagram. However, when he picked it up, he realized that there were actually 10 books behind the diagram.
Autumn Wind Sword Art 1… Autumn Wind Sword Art 2…
When Luo Yunyang casually picked a book and browsed through it, he felt a little shaken. A person who possessed the Autumn Wind Sword Art could have a deep understanding of the Fallen Autumn Leaves Diagram.
"How much does this set of sword techniques cost?" Luo Yunyang asked the lady, who had followed him over.
She hadn't seemed disappointed that the items in the shop hadn't caught Luo Yunyang or the others' eyes. However, when she heard Luo Yunyang ask about the price of the Fallen Autumn Leaves Diagram, she immediately appeared more lively. 
"Sir, this is a set of sword techniques left behind by a Fiery Sun Path genius called Feng Changtian 10,000 years ago, after he went on a comprehensive tour of the Bloody Massacre Path's Sky Book. According to the Fiery Sun Path's rating system, this is a set of B-Grade sword techniques that could allow a small family to rise to power on a planet!"
"If it wasn't comprehended by Sir Feng Changtian himself, this set of sword techniques wouldn't be put on the market by an internal sect."
Luo Yunyang suddenly had a thought as he heard the lady's words. "Based on what you said, are any other self-created techniques allowed to be put on the market?"
"That goes without saying. Our Spring Sun Building doesn't keep much in store. If you want to, you can check out Guanlan Press, sir! They have the biggest number of books and records there!" The lady gave Luo Yunyang a recommendation.
As soon as he heard her, Luo Yunyang made a decision. If the books at Guanlan Press were anything like this Autumn Wind Sword Art, then he would have a bountiful harvest this time.
"Name a price for the Autumn Wind Sword Art and the diagram!"
The lady didn't hesitate when she realized that Luo Yunyang wanted to purchase these items. She immediately replied, "If you wish to buy them, 100 star dollars will do!"
100 star dollars wasn't a small sum. After all, the allowance the Blood Space Ruler had given Luo Yunyang and the others was only 1,000 star dollars each.
However, Luo Yunyang believed that the Autumn Wind Sword Art would help him comprehend Wind Origin Source Law. Thus, he bought it without wasting any time.
"Yunyang, the Autumn Wind Sword Art might be quite good, but I think that given your understanding of the Fallen Autumn Leaves Diagram, even a self-created sword art wouldn't help you much," said Yang Shang. 
After leaving the store, he advised him, "Although other thought processes are rather useful, studying things left behind by others could easily divert you from your main path."
Yang Shang's words made sense. This was perfectly normal for most martialists. Learning from others was fine for mediocre people. However, talented geniuses like them wanted to walk down their own paths.
The best way to walk down one's own path was to decide which Origin Source Law to comprehend before matching it with one's cultivation path.
Only this way would one be truly unequaled.
However, in Luo Yunyang's opinion, his Great Chaotic Hole Path didn't have to take a path of its own. The direction that the comprehension of his various Origin Source Laws took wasn't important. His priority was definitely to comprehend a lot more of these four types of Origin Source Law.
The figures that represented the various Origin Source Laws on the attribute regulator needed to go up.
Then, the various types of Origin Source Law would form a Chaotic Hole and he would derive his own mystic arts.
Of course, Luo Yunyang was someone who thought deeply. How could he let Yang Shang know the truth? If Yang Shang assumed that he had a higher IQ than him, then Luo Yunyang would let him think so!
People were always like that. If you were weaker than someone else, that someone would look down on you; if you were stronger than someone else, although they wouldn't look down on you, they would at times find it hard to hide their jealousy. Thus, Luo Yunyang decided to keep acting like a fool.
"Thank you for your advice, Senior Brother Yang! On the off chance that these things are useful to me, I could just randomly browse through them. I want to go over to Guanlan Press now. Do you guys have any other plans?" Luo Yunyang asked sincerely.
Although Yang Shang wanted to advise him some more, Wen Jingxuan said with a chuckle, "The road Yunyang wishes to take is different from ours. It isn't that big of a deal. We'll maybe just spend a few extra star dollars, that's all."
He then smiled at Luo Yunyang and added, "I don't have anything to do anyway. Let's go, I will follow you to Guanlan Press to take a look."
Yang Shang shook his head. He suddenly felt like he had been a little too meddlesome.
If Luo Yunyang didn't take 100 star dollars seriously, how could Yang Shang fuss over such a minor thing?
"There's nothing I really need to buy either. Let's go, I want to check out Guanlan Press as well!"
Tie Wudi and Lu Bowen had already started to follow Luo Yunyang blindly. Upon hearing what Yang Shang and the others said, they followed them to Guanlan Press without further ado.
Guanlan Press didn't seem to be huge. However, it looked like a completely different world as soon as they walked in. All sorts of books and papers were visible as far as the eye could see.
"There is actually a copy of 'Lightning Fire True Records' here!" Yang Shang waved a maroon book around, looking pleasantly surprised. "It's the God clan's 'Lightning Fire True Records'. Woah, this is really valuable! How much is it?" he immediately asked a store assistant.
Even though he saw Yang Shang's face light up with delight, the store assistant was still honest. He didn't act like he was reeling in a big fish. "Sir, this book includes a total of 36 volumes, so it costs one million star dollars," he said calmly.
One million star dollars? Luo Yunyang felt a little dumbstruck upon hearing this. Back in the Blue Rain Empire, Lan Tianjue's total fortune had only been a few thousand star dollars. When the whole Tianluo Empire had tried to fawn over Luo Yunyang, they had only presented him with a gift of 10,000 star dollars.
This set of Lightning Fire True Records actually cost one million star dollars?
As Luo Yunyang realized that Yang Shang was destined to be disappointed, Yang Shang actually fished out a black card and said calmly, "Go take care of the bill."
What was going on? Yang Shang, Wen Jingxuan and the others had just been complaining about not having enough money for the auction! Why was Yang Shang being so extravagant? Why had he spent one million star dollars in the blink of an eye?
What exactly was going on?
Yang Shang, who seemed to have noticed Luo Yunyang's shock, smiled. "I've completed a number of missions over the past few years and earned a few star dollars!"
A few? He was talking about one million star dollars!
When Luo Yunyang thought about the slightly over 10,000 star dollars that he had, he immediately felt like a poor man.
Meanwhile, Wen Jingxuan had also made a purchase. However, he didn't buy any books. Instead, he purchased a long sword that was on display.
Although it cost 500,000 star dollars, Wen Jingxuan had also bought it without hesitation.
As he watched these two men's actions, Luo Yunyang really felt like he was truly the only poor fellow there.
However, he wasn't in the mood to think about this. He had already noticed that Guanlan Press sold many mystic techniques created by genius disciples from various paths after consulting other Sky Books.
Although these genius disciples hadn't researched that thoroughly their own cultivation paths, as there was a limit to their energy, they each had their own respective benefits.
Furthermore, many people had different interpretations and created varying mystic arts based on the same diagram. For example, as far as the Fallen Autumn Leaves Diagram was concerned, besides the Autumn Wind Sword Art, Luo Yunyang had also discovered 121 types of mystic arts.
This was really startling!
Luo Yunyang muttered to himself as he went through book after book. He then got a shop assistant to produce a catalog that classified everything according to Wind, Fire, Water and Earth Origin Source Laws.
There were more than 154,00 copies and a total of more than two million volumes!
When Luo Yunyang saw the tiny numbers displayed on the screen, his mind went a little blank.
He had imagined that there would be only a little over 1,000 copies. He had never expected that there would actually be so many.
However, when he read what the cost was in star dollars, he exhaled sharply.
563,000 star dollars? Although this was still a far cry from the 'Lightning Fire True Records' that Yang Shang had purchased, Luo Yunyang, who only had slightly over 10,000 star dollars, wasn't able to afford it.
His mind immediately went to work in an effort to pick out the most important books.
"Ha ha! I still have about 200,000 star dollars left, Brother Yunyang. I don't really intend to buy anything else, so I could loan it to you for the time being!" Wen Jingxuan approached Luo Yunyang and patted his shoulder.
Luo Yunyang, who felt like he had discovered a treasure mine, wasn't willing to part with the books and records left behind by those geniuses. After all, he didn't know when he would be able to visit the Nine-Fire City again!
Thus, he readily accepted Wen Jingxuan's kind offer.
Although 200,000 star dollars weren't enough, this sum still allowed him to pick out the books that he considered the most premium items.
"Yunyang, I still have 100,000 star dollars left. Consider it a loan!" Yang Shang said as he handed over a card.
Lu Bowen and Tie Wudi also pooled together slightly over 200,000 star dollars.
Luo Yunyang, who had his personal principles when it came to dealing with certain things, readily accepted this loan because of the unyielding logic that one shouldn't be afraid of being used by others, but only of being useless. When one encountered some difficulties, one had to readily accept a helping hand. Owing a favor brought people closer.
When he added this money to his own star dollars, Luo Yunyang had about 560,000 star dollars. Guanlan Press was also tasteful enough to give him 3,000 star dollars worth of items for free.
More than two million volumes were placed into an interspatial ring by Guanlan Press and handed over to Luo Yunyang.
Luo Yunyang was very pleased with the two million books and records, as they contained the comprehensive knowledge of past geniuses from nine paths. He believed that this was the greatest bounty he had received at the Fiery Sun Path.
However, as he was feeling pleased, he also realized that he was already deep in debt.


Violet skies, a world undergoing massive changes, a deficient moon, interlinking voids...
When the world experienced a cataclysmic event,the majority of living things died right away. Although humanity survived by hiding in the last safe zones, humans had to face mutated dire beasts and colossal source beasts that could break through the space barrier and enter the earth at any second.
Luo Yunyang, a young man who grew up in those calamitous times, obtained an attribute regulator and set out to walk the path of supremacy!

Holy Light Ancestral Temple was one of those popular War of Light Main Plot Dungeon amongst the Level 40 - 120 players, and one of the major contributing reasons was the 2 Gatekeeper Paladins. After killing them, there was a small chance of producing great quality skill books, which could be sold for up to hundreds of gold coins. Hence, once the players reached Level 60, slaying the Paladins would be a piece of cake, and hence farming the skill books would become a profitable business.
Statistics had shown that the two Paladins were able to produce over thousands of skill books. Unfortunately, the downside was that they had an extremely low drop-rate. Therefore, it was considered extremely profitable if they could receive a book per day.
"My luck is pretty good." Lin Jie announced the skill book's attributes and laughed.
[Wind Spirit Protection]: Increases your Movement Speed by 25%, and the effect lasts for 12 seconds.
Wind Spirit Protection was a great quality escape skill that could be learned by all jobs. Think about just how unfair it would be if a Mage was able to cast all types of strong spells while avoiding attacks by activating the Wind Spirit Protection?
This skill book was worth at least 200 gold coins.
"All jobs skill books, everyone, let's ROLL," said Lin Jie as this was the best solution for Savage Blade. Everyone was itching to have a go at the first victory loot.
"3!"
"65!"
"34!"
"100!"
"Yay!" Qiu Yuan made a victory sign as she kept the skill book in her bag with a winning roll of 100 points while laughing at Lin Jie's pathetic 3 points. However, she gave the book to Bu Yi as she understood how important escaping skills were for healers. Bu Yi's life might be saved by that 25% increase in Movement Speed.
They have officially entered the Holy Light Ancestral Temple Dungeon after clearing the Gatekeeper Paladins. As they headed into the hall, the sight of countless quivering commoners welcomed them. There were hundreds of men that were hoping to enter the temple in search of a comfortable life.
These devoted commoners were at Level 40 with a health bar of 250,000 points with average attributes and were unable to cast Holy Light magic. The only troublesome part was that there were simply too many of them. If they were unlucky, several critical hits might cause the death of MTs.
"The Holy Light will punish all evil and protect its devoted subjects." At the peak stood a Paladin clad in Gold heavy armor, holding a shield in one hand. That was the Boss 1 of the Holy Light Ancestral Temple, Guardian Eller. He waved his large hands and rays of Holy Light fell like rain, anyone that came into contact with it would have their attributes boosted, the same went for players.
"Stay away from the Holy Light. Camel and Red Dust, gather all the monsters towards our direction using the explosion arrow. Night and Baili, cut down their speed to give our MTs some buffer time to attack. Qiu Yuan, release the fog to reduce Critical Hit Damage, while Star Kill, you attack the boss and draw out its aggro. Bring it away from the smaller monsters while Ziliang uses the Mechanical Gargoyle to tank the damage." Lin Jie gave out the orders, and the whole team powered up as they worked together in tandem.
This group of commoners with average attributes served as a headache for many guilds as Guardian Eller would randomly sprinkle Holy Light and bless the masses, which increased their attributes, as they battled. Hence, it was a common sight to see players' battles get tougher as time passed, eventually getting consumed by the smaller monsters. Furthermore, no one dared to challenge Guardian Eller before clearing the obstacles before him. Thus, they could only use large attacks to attack the commoners.
Using a large attack on the first wave of monsters, what would they do afterward?
BOOM!
Red Dust drew her bow and shot at the commoners that swarmed up upon being attacked. The Heavenly Shield and Mixed Breathless supported with defense while Baili Changcheng and Dejected Night slowed down the commoners using frost magic.
Dejected Night was a low profile player but was a master at controlling his skills, even more so than Baili Changcheng. He cast a layer of ice that sealed off the commoners' path, splitting them into 3 different packs that minimized the damage suffered by MTs the greatest.
-28! -25!
….
-47! -59! 
…
Mixed Breathless had much higher defense points as compared to The Heavenly Shield, but with the help of Dejected Night, The Heavenly Shield was under much less pressure, and the damage he suffered was only 1/3 of that of Mixed Breathless. 
Baili Changcheng eyed the skillful Dejected Night and soon imitated and adjusted his attacking methods.
Star Kill activated Rush, swung a knife onto the Boss' head, and dragged him along.
With the absence of Guardian Eller's blessings, the commoners were only Level 40 Elites with average attributes. Hence, Domestic Fat Cattle activated Blazing Fire Rain as he planned to stir up his DPS, resulting in countless meteors striking the commoners as chains of 1,000+ damage were hurled up. Fat Cattle smiled in pride however, he was utterly stunned as he turned backward.
Lin Jie was surrounded by monsters, and his Broken Blade was covered by Flame Boost, and he was hacking with the Blade Aura. When he used the Army Obliteration Quadruple attack, over hundreds of damage values begun popping up. The DPS value was twice as much as that of Fat Cattle!
The 100+ commoners were troublesome opponents for many guilds, but they were being slain just like that by Savage Blade. Lin Jie turned his attention to the other commoner monsters as there still remained several batches of monsters in the corners ranging from Level 50-70. Savage Blade followed the same plan and slew them all.
After three hours, all the monsters had been cleared. Star Kill activated Forced Invisibility breathlessly as he revoked the aggro and escaped back to base.
"OMG, that was so tiring." Star Kill patted his chest as he wheezed heavily and said, "I felt like I was being chased by a gaylord that was about to confess."
Lin Jie glanced at him in surprise. "You have been chased by a gaylord?"
"Cough, cough—" Star Kill cleared his throat dryly and called out, "Did any good items explode out? Have you guys searched the corpses?"
"Right, right, right, we should corpse-search quickly, it will be such a waste if all these corpses get respawned."
Everyone swarmed up upon hearing that, but they still spent over 10 minutes searching through the corpses, due to the large number of bodies. With so many monsters, no matter how unlucky one may be, they would still be able to get a number of items. The potions, miscellaneous items, and coins formed a huge pile. Besides those, there were still over 20 sets of Bronze equipment. However, the most valuable item was the [Holy Light Mark].
[Holy Light Mark], just like the light-point-items exploded from many Bosses, were welfare for those unlucky players. If one's luck had reached a certain low, and could not get any good equipment, they could accumulate the Holy Light Mark and exchange for Gold equipment, and Gold Armor Sets with the Quartermaster.
Those small monsters produced a total of 100 Holy Light Mark, which was sufficient to redeem Gold equipment.
After clearing the small monsters, it was time to face the scary Boss with the title, Night Mare. He was the Holy Light Ancestral Temple's Boss 1, Guardian Eller!
[Guardian Eller]
Level: 50
Health Points: 900,000
Attack: 1,029-1,283
Defense: 1,600
Additional effect: Protection of the Fallen Holy Light, there is a chance that Guardian Eller will revive when he is killed.
The Protection Paladin that held the shield was the Boss that had been a pain in the ass for countless teams. As a Protection Paladin, or better known as a Defense Paladin, he possessed countless defensive tactics that were admired by other Defense Paladins. Such tactics included: Complete Block, Parry, Attack Deflection, Thorns Aura, Vitality Regeneration, and so on. Coupled with a Defense of 1,600 points, he was invincible.
However, one should not underestimate Guardian Eller's attacking power. A Level 50 Boss had 20% of attributes suppression over normal players, and they were considered terrifying entities with attack power up to 1,500+. Players that were not as well equipped would probably end up half-dead.
"Guardian Eller only has two stages. During stage 1, Guardian Eller's main abilities are Vitality Regeneration and Retribution Halo. But it is important to note that the Vitality Regeneration skill cannot be interrupted. Fortunately, silence attacks can still hurt the Boss," murmured Lin Jie. 
Guardian Eller was a classic 'Competency Check Boss'. In other words, if a team could not even defeat him, they should give up on entering the temple.
During Stage 1, Guardian Eller only had 2 moves.
Number 1, would be the Retribution Halo. Just like the Retribution Halos of all Paladins, it was able to inflict damage on all attacking units and deflect 250 points of attack. If everyone in the team were to attack at once, it would be a challenge for the healer.
Number 2, would be Vitality Regeneration. Paladins in The New Age were also known as 'New Age Tumour' for their perverse vitality regeneration and depletion ability. Guardian Eller had a total of 7 vitality regeneration skills, including the renowned [Lay on Hands], as well as two other Healing Spells that were able to regain half a health bar once cast.
The first stage relied fully on DPS! Blast out damage without any qualms! Once the Boss' health bar dropped below 500,000 points or its mana bar was fully depleted, the first stage would be considered passed.
"Charge!" Lin Jie waved his hands, and everyone bolted up steadily as their attacks poured down like torrents onto the Boss. Guardian Eller growled, and his a mellow yellow hue covered the tip of his shield.
"Perfect Defense!"
"Holy Protection!"
"Hand of Recovery!"
Everyone's attacks fell like raindrops onto Guardian Eller as they all got perfectly blocked. Other than the mages' hundred over damage points, everyone else, including Lin Jie, had only inflicted damages less than 3 digits! Furthermore, every perfect block by the Boss allowed it to regain 100 health points.
Ten minutes later, Guardian Eller's life points were only depleted by 5%, and everyone else's health bar was almost fully drained despite the efforts of the healer. Besides, Guardian Eller was very intelligent, so he would not activate his vitality regeneration skill if the depletion was within 10%. Thus, his mana bar was still full.
If this continued, they would lose eventually!
"Everyone, listen to my command, you have 10 seconds to channel your ultimate attack. Let's trash the Boss into the second stage in one go," said Lin Jie relentlessly.
Everyone was stunned as it had taken them 10 minutes to just deplete 5% of Guardian Eller's health. Now, Lin Jie wanted them to drain 50% in one shot to enter the second stage? That would be insanely difficult!


Battle Emperor Fu Sheng is the most popular player in the game, The New Age. Everyone believes that only he will become the champion in the final battle! His real name—Lin Jie. The reason for his participation in the battle is to win the Capsule of Revitalization for his injured mother and sister. With the Broken Blade, a Heritage weapon, in hand, he finally makes it to the final battle! Only then does he realize that his best friend had betrayed him! After his devastating defeat, Lin Jie is shocked to realize that he had time-travelled all the way back to a few years ago when the beta version of The New Age was just about to launch! 

With all my knowledge of the game...
Pros on the leaderboard? All of them my underlings!
First kill of a BOSS? Mine!
First clear of the exclusive dungeon? Still mine!

Whatever I lost in the past, I’ll get them all back!
Whoever brought me trouble, you’re as good as dead!
When I have the chance to do it all over again, I WILL BE EMPEROR!

I am Fu Sheng, the STRONGEST warrior in The New Age. No one, absolutely no one, can stand before me!

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