gtg 499-500

After a while,

"... not entirely. The novel is not good, the content is wrong."

Edward took out the Book of Scourge.

When he got it before, although he knew that it recorded some extraordinary abilities that the Queen of Scourge had used, he had the Scepter of Poseidon at the time, and if he wanted to record the abilities he had to learn the Elvish language first, so he put it aside for the time being.

Then he got the Tyrant Card soon after. Naturally, the abilities in this book had no meaning to him. Unexpectedly, it has now become his "life-saving straw".

In this case, at the very least, he would possess the demigod strength of both the Storm Path and the Gate Path, so self-protection would generally not be a big problem.

He couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

The next thing to consider is which ability to choose to [solidify].

Speaking of which, the ability Edward uses most often must be [Magnification], because he often uses it as an ability to add status. Whether using magic or other abilities, he will amplify it first.

The second is [Distortion]. This ability can be used for attack, defense, and assistance, and it is really easy to use.

The second is the previous [Steal]. This core ability of the thief's path is really a matter of opinion as to whoever uses it. However, as the enemies became too powerful, there was only a Sequence 5 level [Steal], and there was little room for it to be used.

In addition to these three abilities, other extraordinary abilities will also be used, but their relative frequency and usefulness are much different.

So, which one should you choose?

Amplification is very versatile and very suitable for one's own magic;

Distortion is very practical and can be used frequently both in combat and non-combat situations.

so...

After a few minutes of consideration -

[steal]!

As the housekeeping skill of the thief, the Sequence 4 level [Steal] has really undergone a fundamental change. It can not only steal specific items, extraordinary abilities and thoughts, but also steal some conceptual things: such as distance, location, and even some rules. ^0*0!晓-税¨徃, ￠无·错\內.内容￠

As the sequence is promoted, when it reaches Sequence 2, [Stealing] will undergo another qualitative change. It can even expand its scope to include destiny, identity, self-awareness, and extraordinary characteristics. When it reaches Sequence 1, it can even steal time, anchors, and even authority!

Therefore, if the number of [Solidified] extraordinary abilities is limited, [Steal] is definitely one of the most suitable abilities - after all, sooner or later, you will be able to come into contact with Black Emperor Cards, Red Priest Cards, etc., but the hope of "Wrong Cards" is slim.

Once he made the decision, Edward didn't think about it any more.

He continued to calm down and accept the next message from the potion:

[Sequence 3 Deconstructionist]

Materials: Wanderer Potion + Dreamweaver Characteristics.

Ritual: Deconstructing a story and bringing it into reality

It was still the expected Apprentice Path Sequence 3 potion, with a Sequence 3 Beyonder characteristic - Dream Weaver, a Sequence 3 from the Audience Path.

But this ceremony made Edward feel a little... mysterious.

What does it mean to make a story come true?

The literal meaning is not difficult to understand. Simply put, it means turning "false stories" into "real reality."

Well, not necessarily. Who says stories are necessarily false?

Many historical legends are true and exist in reality - but if this is the case, is there any need to "enter reality"?

So, the only option is "false stories"?

Hmm...I don't quite understand.

Fortunately, there is still some time before the next promotion, so I have enough time to think about it slowly.

Finally, use [Delusion] to overdraw a Sequence 3 ability:

[Degradation]: Deconstruct the target and make it degrade in all aspects, including but not limited to actions, behaviors, sequences, strength, etc. When using "Degradation", the more you know about the target, the higher the success rate, the stronger the effect, and the longer the duration. (This ability will be weakened to a certain extent.)

Edward's eyes widened when he saw this ability.

This description...is it really exaggerated, or am I overthinking it?

Dimensionality reduction attack, right?

Although it is a low-end version, it is also outrageous.

Think about it, you finally experienced countless setbacks and hardships to be promoted to a Sequence 4 Demigod, but after a fight, you find yourself back to Sequence 5. Who can stand this?

I just don't know how much effect this "degeneration" caused by "overdraft" can have.

After making sure that no more information was lost, Edward looked at the brilliant galaxy again, pulled his mind away and woke up to reality.

"call--"

He let out a long breath, looking at the empty surroundings, the feeling of loss and heartache reappeared. After the promotion a few days ago, as soon as he opened his eyes, he could see two pairs of eyes staring at him with concern.

They are the two most important people in my life.

But now, one has gone to the past and the other is still in the future.

If Audrey were here, she would probably ask me how the potion was being digested.

I shook my head and forgot all these things again——

Mystic's potion, no digestion.

The magic potion made by the spiritual wizard is also difficult to digest.

"Oh."

Edward laughed at himself.

This is the first time since I took the potion and became a Beyonder that I haven't had any pre-acting or pre-digestion.

In other words, this time I really have to digest the two potions completely through role playing.

By the way, my Wandering Mentor potion...actually, I haven't completely digested it yet.

Edward could clearly feel that the small part that the Wandering Mentor was missing was not automatically replenished just because he was promoted to Sequence 4, so if he didn't want to leave hidden dangers for the future, he had to remember to digest that part of the potion.

So how do you play as a mystic or a necromancer?

The role of a secret mage naturally revolves around "secrets". Combined with its [secret-keeping] ability, the initial understanding is to master the secret and keep it.

But here comes the problem.

I am pretty sure that I hold many secrets at this moment, and have never revealed them to anyone in this era. Why is there no sign of my potion being digested?

So it must not be as simple as keeping a secret, there must be some other prerequisites, which need to be summarized slowly.

As for the spiritual master, I am even more confused.

In the information stream instilled when advancing to Sequence 4, the description of the spiritual mage is: memory is immortal, the mind is indestructible.

So what does "immortal memory" mean?

How can one achieve immortality?

These are questions that have no answers yet.

However, what is certain is that maintaining or switching between the physical and spiritual states should help in the role-playing - this can be seen to a certain extent in the reference of the Wrath.

In addition, the ability of [False Reality] should also be able to help with digestion.

After a while, Edward stood up and muttered to himself:

"We...will definitely meet again!"

He stepped out of the suitcase and said, "Let me first confirm what era I have arrived in."

Chapter 450 1160, two hundred years ago

Backlund East District.

Edward walked on the stone-paved road, looking at the unfamiliar buildings around him, and once again felt certain that he had really come to another era.

Whether it was the clothes worn by the people on the street or the surrounding architectural styles, they were all very different from the future Backlund. Simply put, it was like going back to the Middle Ages from the Victorian era.

It feels like a lot of changes have taken place in the world.

This city, one of the largest in the future, does not look very prosperous nowadays - probably because it has not yet experienced the industrial revolution. There are no chimneys emitting black smoke, no trains or subways, and the level of development of the entire society is obviously far behind that of the future.

So, have I come to the time before the arrival of Emperor Roselle?

Just as I was thinking about this, a newsboy wearing a tattered hat came running over with a bag of newspapers.

Huh? The newspaper has appeared?

Edward hurriedly stopped the newsboy, "Give me a newspaper."

"Ten pence."

This price surprised Edward a little, it was much more expensive than the future.

He took out a sola and handed it over, then was about to take the newspaper from the newsboy.

But the newsboy suddenly took the newspaper back, glared at Edward and said disdainfully: "You look so well dressed, but you are still using fake money to cheat children."

"Fake money?"

Edward was stunned, "How could it be fake money?"

"Don't think I'm easy to fool just because I'm young. This year is clearly 1160, but your banknote says 1345. If this isn't fake money, what is it? What's more, even the portrait of the king on it is wrong! Your money is too fake."

"…"

Neglected.

However, it happened to be the era we are living in now.

"Do you want more?"

The newsboy obviously didn't want to give up this business.

"No, thank you."

"Good-bye, sir."

The newsboy left quickly, somewhat disappointed.

"1160.! Salted fish/墈\book? ￠First·Post+"

Edward repeated the year and looked around again. "Does that mean I have come to nearly two hundred years ago?"

What was the situation in Loen two hundred years ago?

It is not mentioned in the original book.

He doesn't even know who the current emperor is.

He had not specifically studied the chronology of the mysterious world, so he was a little confused for a moment.

But since the newspaper appeared, it means that Emperor Roselle has definitely landed, and Backlund doesn't seem to have experienced much of the baptism of "technology". This shows that Roselle has not had time to bring too much impact to the world.

So, I came to the early days of Emperor Roselle's advent?

For a moment, Edward was filled with emotion.

He had imagined many times when and how he would meet this "witch" whom he had admired for so long, "what a delicious feeling it would be".

But he never thought that one day he would come to the era when he lived in person and have the opportunity to meet him in person, to see the young Russell, the "growing Russell" who had not been devastated and hit by reality, and had not become crazy because of ten thousand years of despair.

At this time, he should still be holding a Dragon Aotian mentality of playing with the world, whether it is inventing creations, being promoted to a higher sequence, launching a coup, becoming a consul, or establishing the Intis Empire and calling himself Caesar the Great...

They all take on the mentality of a time traveler, doing whatever they want to do as they please, trying to find a little sense of belonging to this world and the meaning of their existence in the process.

But in the end, the more he did and the higher he stood, the emptier he felt inside.

It was not until the birth of Bernadette that he found a sense of belonging. However, after decades of wandering, what he missed most was still the "hometown" that he could never return to.

Therefore, Russell's madness in his later years was not only because of his betrayal to the Black Emperor, not only because of the coming of the end of the world, but also because he discovered the truth of this world and knew that no matter what he did...

It's impossible to go back!

"…Can my arrival change anything?"

According to the rules of the time converter, this is of course not allowed.

However, judging from the previous two experiences of using the time converter, time seems to be very easy to "fool" because as long as you prepare and conceal it in advance and make the results appear the same as what you see or understand later, you can form a complete closed loop.

So, should I really go meet him?

The answer is self-evident. How does that sentence go?

You're here anyway.

...

Trier, the capital of the Kingdom of Intis.

Huang Tao has been in this world for seventeen years. At the beginning, he was a down-and-out nobleman who lived a life of drunkenness and dreams. Later, he came into contact with Feifan and became a generalist. He remembered the knowledge he learned in his previous life and became a great "inventor", "novelist", "poet", "scholar", "philosopher" and so on.

He knew that as time went on, his inventions in Intis would gradually spread throughout the world and have an increasingly greater impact.

But his heart was becoming more and more empty. He didn't know why he felt empty, so he could only force himself to be as busy as possible, whether it was attending drinking parties or in bed with a woman.

As long as he is busy enough, he has no time to think about anything else.

But recently, the effect of this "self-anesthetization" has become weaker and weaker, and Huang Tao urgently needs to find a new goal to fill his heart: one is to be promoted to a higher rank, and the other is to seize higher power.

For the former, just take it one step at a time, there is no need to rush.

But how to achieve the latter? He was a science student in his previous life, and his knowledge of politics was limited to chatting with friends and colleagues on the keyboard every day.

But there is a saying that although military power serves the regime, it can sometimes be greater than the regime.

So, find a way to join the army first!

He picked up a glass of red wine and was about to drink.

"dad."

At this time, a six or seven-year-old girl in a little skirt ran over with brisk steps. She had long chestnut hair, delicate like a porcelain doll. She held a book in her hand and buried her head in Russell's arms: "Dad, I want to listen to a story. ·x`i¨a?o*s¨h,uo￠y+e￠.~com."

"Okay~"

Roselle picked up her baby daughter and sat her on her lap. "What do you want to hear today?"

"this!"

She held up the watercolor-illustrated book: "The Adventures of Pinocchio!"

"Oh, the story of Pinocchio. But didn't we hear that a few days ago?"

"I want to listen more!"

Little Bernadette widened her eyes seriously, "Because... I want to remind Dad!"

Russell was stunned: "Ah? Remind me of what?"

"Remind daddy not to lie anymore!!!"

She suddenly leaned close to Russell's ear and shouted.

"Ouch, I'm deaf, I'm deaf."

Russell rubbed his ears, "But when did I ever lie to you?"

"Last year you said you would celebrate my birthday with me, but you forgot. Later you said you would take me on an outing, but you forgot again... Last month you said you would take me and mom to see a play, but you didn't come even after waiting for a long time... Last week..."

The little guy counted them on his fingers, listing them one by one.

Russell coughed guiltily, "Well... Dad really had something to do at that time! He didn't mean it."

"Yeah?"

Bernadette looked at him suspiciously, "The night before yesterday I saw you go to Lady Avril..."

"Shh!"

Russell covered his daughter's mouth with his hand, then raised a hand: "Dad swears that I will spend a lot of time with you on your birthday this year!"

"No! I want you to swear that you will never lie again, otherwise..." She pointed to the watercolor painting of Pinocchio in the book and said, "Your nose will get longer!"

"OK!"

Russell's face straightened, "Dad swears that he will never lie again..."

——Only for Bernadette.

He added in his mind.

"Okay, let the story begin."

Roselle held his baby daughter in his arms, holding the Roselle Fairy Tales Collection that he had created specifically to coax his daughter, and began to tell the story in a gentle tone: "Once upon a time, there was an old man who wanted a child very much. Later, he got a magical piece of wood, so he carved it into a puppet..."

Bernadette propped up her chin and looked straight at her father, her long eyelashes fluttering. Although she had heard this story a long time ago, when her father told the part where Pinocchio's nose grew longer because of his lies and he dropped the old man into the sea, she still nervously grabbed her father's clothes with her little hands.

The more she acted like this, the cuter she looked. Roselle deliberately raised the pitch of her voice suddenly at certain places, shaking her body at the same time, scaring little Bernadette.

"So... Pinocchio, who has become a human, will live happily with his grandfather!"

Bernadette breathed a sigh of relief, "Phew, that's great."

She suddenly pointed at Russell's nose and shouted, "Ah, Dad, your nose has grown longer!"

"Ah? No way, no way?"

Russell hurriedly touched his nose, looking panicked.

"I lied to you!"

Bernadette made a face and jumped off Roselle's lap.

"Well, you won't let me lie, but you are lying yourself."

She snorted, "I'm just teasing you!"

"Tease me! Then I'll tease you now!"

Roselle pretended to stand up and grab her, but Bernadette screamed and ran out with a laugh.

"I don't know whose personality this little guy inherited."

At this time, a man in his thirties wearing knight clothes and looking quite serious walked in. "Lord Roselle, I just received intelligence that someone found the Black Throne of Solomon's Legacy in the Oradek Islands."

"oh?"

Russell picked up the red wine that he hadn't drunk before and took a sip: "Edwards, are you interested in going out to sea with me?"

The man was a little confused: "Aren't you ready to join the army as an officer?"

"Hahaha, that's why we have to go sailing before that. Otherwise, we won't have the time for it in the future."

He drank the wine in one gulp. "Well, it's a happy decision. Please help me inform Green and the others. Oh, and remember to have Green promoted to Ocean Singer as soon as possible, so that we will have more protection when we go out to sea."

"yes!"

...

On the other side, after running for a while, little Bernadette found that her father did not catch up with her. She was very disappointed. She slowed down and walked into the garden of the villa, muttering bad things about her father all the way. It can be said that she was full of resentment.

At this moment, she saw a stone in the way in front of her and kicked it out decisively.

"Ouch!"

There was a sharp pain from the toes, and then my feet slipped and I sat down on the ground.

My toes hurt, my legs hurt, my butt hurts.

She was about to burst into tears, but when she realized there was no one around, she gritted her teeth and held back the tears - if she had to cry, she had to cry in front of her father or mother, otherwise her tears would be in vain!

Dad once said that the crying child gets the milk!

It's decided. From now on I will sit here and wait until my dad or mom comes, and then I will cry!

Bernadette folded her arms and made up her mind.

At this moment, another person hiding in this private garden sighed: I never thought that the mysterious queen who usually never smiles would be like this when she was a child.

Edward arrived in Trier twenty minutes ago. Compared to Backlund, the city where Roselle lived was obviously much more developed, and gradually he could see what a big city in the mysterious world would look like in the future.

It was also easy to find Roselle. After all, he was too famous in the Kingdom of Intis. In the past few years, he became the new favorite of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery and was awarded the title of "Son of Steam".

As a result, as soon as they arrived at Roselle's villa, they encountered little Bernadette acting coquettishly in the void.

It seems that Bernadette is only about five or six years old, which means that more than ten years have passed since the arrival of Emperor Roselle.

He quickly recalled that at this moment, Roselle still seemed to be very far away from becoming the future Caesar.