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However, it wasn't the twenty swords that attracted Feng's attention, but a beautiful woman with two pairs of pitch-black wings standing in front of the throne; looking up at him with a complex expression.
An awkward silence ensued between them, Feng feeling a bit weird getting caught by Serena here after having previously avoided her, while the Fallen Angel's mind was in turmoil with various thoughts racing through her head.
Everything that has happened surrounding Feng in recent times had thrown Serena completely off her tact, leaving her bewildered and unsure of what to think as the human now stood before her despite having previously considered what she wanted to say.
"Yo," Feeling the silence drag on, Feng gave a simple greeting to Serena with a raised hand, snapping the winged woman back to reality.
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At the moment, the Divine Hall was much more populated with players than before, the Burning Wing Legion members busying themselves on or chatting.
With their current strength, clearing practically any Epic Shrine was a trivial task, but Inferior Legendary Shrines were an entirely different matter.
Apart from the exponentially increased difficulty, the mental suppression they had to face made it too difficult for mere Tier 1 players to exercise their full combat power, or even attempt difficult challenges for that matter.
Hence, the restored members settled for whatever they could obtain before trying to climb as high up the Divine Staircase as they could.
The Divine Hall had many items and opportunities for improving one's strength, making it the perfect place for the Burning Wing Legion members to quickly grow more powerful and prepare for higher-ranking Shrines.
Thanks to the multiple Fragmented Legendary and Epic items they were equipped with, which Feng had sourced for the restored members through opening Treasure Chests and killing powerful monsters while possessing immense Luck, climbing high on the Divine Staircase was easy.
Hence, all the Burning Wing Legion members could obtain a large amount of Shrine Points with each attempt. Having twenty opportunities to challenge the Divine Staircase thanks to possessing Legendary Keys, those points gradually added up into an impressive stock.
Though, there were still limits to their strength, as the most Burning Wing Legion members could solo were Grand Lords, limiting their gains since Mythic monsters were simply too powerful.
Even with a significant level advantage, killing the Level 60 Mythic monster that served as the 40th Divine Shrine's Guardian Boss on their own was not something those restored members could accomplish. Even most of the Main Force members couldn't do it due to its high attributes, vast HP, and powerful skills.
When the Bouncing Knight went Berserk, none of them could properly fight against it.
Nonetheless, they had made significant progress, as even without killing the Mythic Guardian Bosses, all of the Burning Wing Legion members could manage to climb up to the 60th Divine Shrine before reaching their limit and being forced to restart the climb.
Its Superior Mythic Guardian Boss prevented any of those weaker members from going farther, with only a portion of the Main Force members managing to get past the Level 70 Jungle Lord.
But most of them soon after couldn't continue as well, the following Guardian Bosses growing much stronger with each consecutive Shrine while their level advantage greatly decreased too.
Hence, they either bought what they could from the Divine Hall to improve their strength and increase their chances of getting higher, or repeatedly climbed up as far as possible to save up Shrine Points for whatever they wished to exchange for.
At the moment, when Black Flame came down from the Divine Staircase and approached the counter, where an absentminded demon girl sat, things had already calmed down.
All of the valuable items had already been exchanged for by now, so there was no longer a need to be in a hurry and compete like their lives depended on it.
There were either only items that required more than two Exploits, or Epic items and below.
Hence, the Burning Wing Legion members took their time to rest, chat, exchange information, and purchase Shrine Points from their comrades.
Arriving at the exchange counter, apart from the lovestruck Mariabelle whose mind was seemingly preoccupied with something, or someone, else, there was also a red haired woman chilling there.
Hopping off the counter upon seeing Black Flame, the woman spoke.
"Guild Leader, you done with ransacking the Divine Staircase?" Fire greeted the Perfect Clone as he arrived, referring to him as she would to her Guild Leader.
To Black Flame who also possessed Feng's memories, the contrast in her treatment and attitude towards him in comparison to the main body's was obvious.
Although it didn't sit right with the clone, he could only ignore the difference and act professional.
"Yes, I've used up all my opportunities to climb up. How about you? Did you exchange for the thing as planned?" Having spent an entire day going up and down the Divine Staircase twenty times, Black Flame had exhausted the chances to go on it provided to him by his Legendary Key.
Without the fear of incurring the feature of being forced out of the World Summit after using up his entries since Legendary Key holders had the privilege of continuing to remain on the mountain even after exhausting their chances, Black Flame and the rest of the Zero Wing members could freely take advantage of the Divine Staircase for all that it was worth.
Each time, Black Flame had gone as far as he could without the Ghost Tree while waiting for the skill's cooldown to end, resulting in the Perfect Clone amassing nearly 260,000,000 Shrine Points in total, along with an enormous amount of items from the Guardian Bosses he had killed.
Once the Ghost Tree Profound Inheritance[1] was available once again, Black Flame revisited the 100th Divine Shrine.
This time around, the Hellish Broodmother didn't stand a chance against the Ghost Tree, not being able to offer a great resistance against the Level 109 Legendary ghostly creature.
Without having many magical attacks that could do serious damage to the Tier 5 Ghost Tree, the Legendary Guardian Boss wasn't much of a threat to the tree specter, its regular attacks, despite being capable of harming the Ghost Tree, not being enough to even push it back anymore.
Black Flame's summon made short work of the Hellish Broodmother, and the Perfect Clone proceeded higher, going to the 101st Divine Shrine.
The Guardian Boss there was a Level 102 Legendary monster, which put up a bit of a fight before succumbing to the Ghost Tree as well. Black Flame's ghostly summon grew stronger once again after having consumed another Hellish Broodmother, whose benefits decreased due to the Ghost Tree having already absorbed it once before, and a second Legendary monster.
Though, the fights became tougher with each consecutive Shrine, the Guardian Bosses being stronger whereas the Ghost Tree's level advantage decreased, resulting in it needing more time to finish them off.
After taking down the 104th Divine Shrine's Level 108 Guardian Boss, Black Flame called it a day.
Apart from the Ghost Tree Profound Inheritance's duration running low and not being enough for another fight with a Tier 5 creature, the 105th Shrine's Guardian Boss is a Level 110 Legendary monster that used mostly magical attacks.
It would be a difficult fight that would take far too long while placing Black Flame's and the Ghost Tree's lives at risk, so challenging the 105th Divine Shrine would not be worth the effort since he'd only receive some more Shrine Points.
Nevertheless, the Legendary Ghost Tree earned Black Flame five more Tier 5 souls, along with a large number of valuable items once the Guardian Bosses were finished off with his fully powered Divine Providence activated.
"Mhm," Giving him a slight nod, Fire retrieved a Magic Bottle filled with a red liquid that resembled magma.
Despite merely being held by the Assassin, Mana in the surroundings started to boil as soon as the bottle appeared, while the temperature greatly increased to the point that Fire was starting to sweat just from holding it.
Being a fire-type Peak Bloodline, the Ferocious Salamander Bloodline's effects on the environment were to be expected.
It was a fairly decent Peak Bloodline for melee classes, and the last remaining Bloodline on the Divine Hall's regular Menu.
All the other eight Advanced and twenty-three Basic Bloodlines had long since left the shelves, having been the first items everyone wanted to purchase and the fastest to run out of stock.
Of the eight Advanced Bloodlines, they were mostly acquired by the strongest Domain Realm experts among Zero Wing's Main Force.
Naturally not all the Bloodlines were the same, and each was suitable for players of a certain type of class.
Two focused mainly on Endurance and Strength while providing a huge boost to one's Defense, followed by Vitality and other bonuses that were meant for MTs.
Those Advanced Bloodlines were purchased by Ye Wumian and Turtledove, two of Zero Wing's three main tanks.
Three more among the remaining six Advanced Bloodlines were suitable for melee classes, with their characteristics varying; two focusing mainly on Strength and Agility along with increasing Attack Power, best suited for Berserkers and Swordsmen, whereas the last's main feature was Agility and Strength with explosive power receiving the greatest boon, so it was better for Assassins.
They were exchanged for by Shadow Sword, Rampant Blade, and Flying Shadow respectively.
Another Advanced Bloodline was one with a main focus on Agility, but also Intelligence, its other characteristics making it a Bloodline clearly inclined by nature for ranged players and meant for Rangers.
That one was obtained by Minor Wind, the current strongest Ranger in Zero Wing.
As for the last two Advanced Bloodlines, they focused on Intelligence and Strength, fully leaning towards increasing one's magical power and other strengths of mage classes.
Unlike the rest they didn't have specific features that made them better for a specific type of class and could be used mostly the same by any of the six magical classes, their other aspects based on elements instead, one being an ice-type Bloodline and the other a darkness-type Advanced Bloodline.
Unsurprisingly, the ice Bloodline was claimed by Su Qianliu, the strongest Elementalist among the restored members at the moment and also one of the Four Demon Generals; each of who had pulled ahead of the other Domain Realm experts to nab an Advanced Bloodline.
But it was who got the darkness-type Advanced Bloodline that completely exceeded everyone's expectations, Blackie having unexpectedly gotten the better of the other Main Force experts to grab the Bloodline before anyone else could.
No one could help being shocked by the development, and even Black Flame and Feng were greatly surprised upon hearing the news.
After all, although Blackie was fairly strong, he was only a Void Realm expert that was fairly close to reaching the Domain Realm.
Hence, even with the advantage of being the first person to get his memories restored by Feng, using the opportunity to get some of the better resources and one of the top Advanced Legacies for Cursemancers, along with clearing a four-colored Trial of God with the first group of restored members and getting high marks on it, resulting in Blackie getting many other benefits down the line and quickly gaining more advantages than the later members could catch up with at the moment, it was still far from enough to make up for the difference in combat standards between him and the Domain Realm experts of the guild.
There were currently several magical class Domain Realm experts, some having even reached the Second Stage of the Domain Realm, across each of the six classes, so it seemed impossible for Blackie to have snatched the Advanced Bloodline under their noses.
No one knew how he had managed to kill all the Guardian Bosses up to the 39th Divine Shrine and continue climbing until he passed the necessary Shrines to accumulate enough Shrine Points for the Advanced Bloodline before any of the other magical Domain Realm experts while being a Void Realm Cursemancer, or what kind of method he could have used.
This was especially so when all of them had been rushing and trying to do the same at their fastest speed, knowing that they were competing against their peers who were trying just as hard to get their hands on the Advanced Bloodlines.
Since such was the case, though, they could only give up and settle for the Basic Bloodlines, quickly clearing out nearly all the best magical Bloodlines from the portion they made up in the 23 Basic Bloodlines; leaving most of the other Void Realm magical class players to shed tears after losing their chance at gaining a Bloodline right now while the few who managed to exchange for one before they ran out felt relief.
Not that the rest of them would have had a chance either way, as the fastest and strongest would have claimed the Bloodlines anyway.
In fact, the ones who could get them were quite lucky that the strongest magical class players like Aqua, Violet, and Ruoxi weren't interested in those Advanced and Basic Bloodlines, otherwise Taciturn Goose[2] and Blackie wouldn't have gotten the chance to purchase the Advanced Bloodlines, and even fewer players would have obtained the Basic ones.
Still, all the Bloodlines except for the Peak ranked Ferocious Salamander Bloodline disappearing from the exchange shop so quickly made those who weren't able to get them quite depressed, no longer having such a priceless opportunity to increase their combat power.
However, the Ferocious Salamander Bloodline wasn't still on the Menu because no one wanted it, since although it couldn't compare to the ones on the Advanced Menu, it was still a decently strong Peak Bloodline, but because none of the Burning Wing Legion members could afford it.
Setting aside its high Shrine Points requirement of 340,000 which would require more than one trip up the Divine Staircase for most of the Zero Wing members, almost no one could afford the three Exploits necessary to exchange for the Peak Bloodline.
Since the current Burning Wing Legion members couldn't solo a Mythic Guardian Boss, they only obtained a total of two Exploits; one for killing a Great Lord and one for killing a Grand Lord.
Although there were other methods to obtain Exploits on the Divine Staircase, they were beyond Tier 1 players, so two was their current limit.
This left them with plenty of Shrine Points to spare from the twenty ascends they did before either going up the mountain to challenge Shrines of various ranks and obtain rewards or leaving the World Summit.
With nothing to exchange for after expending their Exploits and using up their chance to purchase limited items like Epic and Fragmented equipment and weapons, along with anything else that could benefit them, the Burning Wing Legion members settled for spending the rest of their Shrine Points on valuable items that they could enrich Zero Wing's Warehouse with, earning a considerable amount of Contribution Points from all the things combined together with a God Crystal and the Mana Barrier Crystal Fragments they had gathered.
But a large percentage of them were still in debt after Feng gave them all their Fragmented Legendary and powerful Epic items to use, leaving them to pay it off over time using opportunities like these and the regular items they obtained from expeditions and Dungeons.
Though, among them, two players had managed to accumulate four Exploits.
Fire was one of them, being the second strongest damage dealer in Zero Wing, or technically the third if counting both Feng and his Perfect Clone, and possessing frightening strength thanks to her Apex Peak Legacy, Atrocity Bloodline, and powerful equipment, she was currently capable of soloing some of the Mythic monsters on the Divine Staircase, gaining two Exploits after slaying the Bouncing Knight in the 40th Divine Shrine and earning a total of four.
Thus, she had no trouble exchanging for the Ferocious Salamander Bloodline and even had one extra Exploit to purchase a strong piece of Fragmented Legendary equipment with.
Apart from Fire, Aqua was the only other person who managed to accumulate four Exploits. However, unlike the redhead Assassin who possessed damage-dealing capabilities great enough to solo a Mythic monster, her Vice Guild Leader accomplished the feat differently.
She, similarly to the rest of Zero Wing's other members, did not have the power to drain a Mythic Guardian Boss's HP on her own even if she could stand against one.
Regardless of being Unthinking Realm experts, neither Aqua nor Violet had that kind of firepower as they were only a Cursemancer and a Cleric.
Even with her having a powerful Peak Bloodline and high-ranking equipment, Aqua's strength was still short of such a thing, mainly due to her class and the current limitations low-tiered players had; especially a Tier 0 player like Aqua.
Though, it was exactly due to being Tier 0 that Aqua could get four Exploits, as anyone who could kill a Guardian Boss three tiers higher than them would automatically receive two Exploits.
Killing the Great Lord in the 20th Divine Shrine and the Grand Lord Lizardman Chief in the 30th, the blue haired woman gained two Exploits from each of them.
Hence, Aqua could afford to purchase the Ferocious Salamander Bloodline as well, but had no need to after already absorbing the stronger Deafening Siren Peak Bloodline; using her Exploits to exchange for the most powerful Staff on the Basic Menu along with another Fragmented Legendary item.
Of course, since Fire possessed the Atrocity Bloodline that had been purified into a Royal Atrocity Bloodline, which was a unique Bloodline that was already superior to the Ferocious Salamander Peak Bloodline and could grow even more powerful as Fire's tier increased, the Main Force Commander naturally didn't need to purchase the Bloodline either.
However, Fire didn't intend to use it herself, having a different purpose for the Ferocious Salamander Bloodline.
Taking the Peak Bloodline from Fire, Black Flame nodded in confirmation and stored it in his bag, before snapping his fingers in front of the demon girl sitting behind the counter.
Awaking Mariabelle from her daze, the clone had her bring up the Advanced Menu for him. After searching through the available items for a bit, Black Flame found the thing he was looking for and asked to exchange for it.
"As you are the heaven's blessed that has progressed the furthest up the Divine Staircase, you get to enjoy a 10% discount on all exchanges. Hence, you only have to pay a total of 900,000 Shrine Points and four Exploits." The demon receptionist explained monotonously, causing a payment window to appear, which Black Flame confirmed.
Moments later, she brought out a tattered and broken item that looked like a damaged dagger with a slightly curved blade that resembled a spearhead, and its hilt wrapped in dark torn-up leather.
The dagger's blade was completely charred black as if it had been burned, while the pattern of a blood-red chain was painted wrapping around its entire length.
Taking the broken dagger into his hands after paying for it, the clone felt it was cold to the touch. The tattered thing gave off no aura or Mana fluctuations, making it seem like a piece of junk.
Using the Eyes of Truth, Black Flame inspected the dagger.
[Broken Dagger]
Once a fierce weapon of legends, this dagger has been heavily damaged and reduced into only a scrap of its former glory. A seal was placed on the destroyed dagger to seal the rest of its power. If one removes the seal, more secrets could be revealed under a Grandmaster Forger's examination.
Although perhaps once a powerful weapon, this thing has been reduced to only scrap metal and couldn't even be used for parts right now, but it had still been placed on the Advanced Menu, with a price that would make one curse.
Despite its ruined state and uselessness unless lots of resources were dedicated towards it, the broken dagger had cost an exorbitant amount, the destroyed weapon's price standing at 1,000,000 Shrine Points and 4 Exploits.
This was a huge amount for a broken item, with even a powerful and unique Legendary ranked item like the Equalizing Libra merely costing 775,000 Shrine Points and four Exploits. It practically cost as much as some of the weaker Legendary Weapons on the Advanced Menu.
Considering that one first had to unseal it and then have at least a Grandmaster Forger recast it, which by itself is very expensive, then procure plenty of valuable and pricey resources for its recasting just to attempt the process which had a high chance of failing with everything including the broken dagger becoming completely wasted, while even if the recasting succeeded there was no guarantee of it even turning into a Fragmented Legendary item, let alone a Legendary Weapon, spending one's hard earned Exploits and Shrine Points to exchange for the Broken Dagger was not worth it in the least.
You'd be better off simply purchasing a Legendary Weapon directly from the Divine Hall.
Yet, Fire and Feng had decided to do so anyway without hesitation.
This was because they knew the true identity of this broken dagger, and that it was one of the Ten Great Legendary Weapons.
Albeit it's fairly ruined and sealed now, so long as the seal was removed through a special method, it will become possible to have it recast and repaired.
Feng could have Seliora fix it up a bit with his assistance, and even if it doesn't return to its peak state from that immediately, it would still be possible to have it fully repaired later on.
Fire had wanted to obtain the broken dagger herself and ask Feng to do the rest of the work, but since it was on the Advanced Menu, she could only ask Black Flame to get it for her.
In return to the guild for having Black Flame purchase the broken dagger and spend four Exploits, she'd instead buy the Peak Bloodline on the Basic Menu, which the Perfect Clone would have bought anyway; limiting his losses.
Looking at the scrap of metal, Fire felt excited at the prospect of wielding it in its peak form, knowing that the power and abilities of this Legendary Dagger were comparable to Fragmented Divine Artifacts.
Though, she naturally couldn't use it now, since the seal first needed to be removed before they could have it recast.
Leaving the broken dagger with Black Flame, Fire left the World Summit, having finished all of her business on it, whereas the Perfect Clone continued scrolling through the Advanced Menu.
He still had nineteen Exploits and a whole bunch of Shrine Points to spend, so Black Flame looked for items to purchase.
Naturally the first thing Black Flame went for was Peak Bloodlines, finding one suitable for Violet and exchanging for it.
Since he could still purchase another Peak Bloodline as an Advanced Member of the Divine Staircase, the clone didn't think much about it and found a Bloodline suitable for Gentle Snow; deciding that getting one for the Unthinking Realm Vice Guild Leader was the most logical choice.
Still possessing thirteen Exploits, Black Flame looked through the Legendary items available, but didn't find any of them particularly appealing as the weapons and equipment all had Tier Requirements, while the accessories weren't that good, or at least not worth the scarce Exploits.
Tools and Consumables seemed like even less worth the exchange since each Legendary item cost four Exploits, with only some weaker Consumables costing three.
Switching his attention to other items on the Advanced Menu, Black Flame inspected the higher-ranking Magic Arrays with no interest, before finding himself looking through Tier 6 Magic Scrolls, when he suddenly came across something that caught his attention.
[Superior Magic Amplification Scroll] (Tier 6 Magic Scroll)
Forcibly upgrades the Tier of a Skill by 1 Tier up to a maximum of Tier 6 Peak.
Cooldown: 24 hour
Uses remaining: 4
The scroll's presence slightly surprised Black Flame, not having expected to encounter such a treasure. Magic Amplification Scrolls were not a foreign concept to him as he had seen several of them throughout his career in God's Domain, but they were usually either low-tiered or of a low quality.
Superior Magic Amplification Scrolls were even rarer as although they seem to be the same as regular ones on the surface, their potential to increase the power of any skill in many ways was much greater, whereas basic Magic Amplification Scrolls had certain limitations.
The highest ranking that Feng had seen in the past of both variations was a Tier 6 Magic Amplification Scroll and a Tier 4 Superior Magic Amplification Scroll; though their value was nearly the same.
Hence, a Tier 6 Superior Magic Amplification Scroll appearing in the Divine Hall was a quite unexpected treat, which Black Flame didn't hesitate to take as he spent four Exploits and 882,000 Shrine Points for the scroll.
One would normally not be so happy with its price since it cost more than a large number of Legendary items, being comparable to Legendary Weapons as it required four Exploits and 980,000 Shrine Points while just being a Tier 6 Magic Scroll, but the Perfect Clone didn't mind it at all.
A Superior Magic Amplification Scroll of such a high tier had much more value in Black Flame's eyes than even most Legendary Weapons, or even a Fragmented Divine Artifact, since he could use it to boost the power of Kismet Cascade once it comes off cooldown similar to how Aurora Blessing had previously come into play; which would not be possible with a regular Magic Amplification Scroll.
Storing the Tier 6 Magic Scroll, Black Flame looked for what else he could spend his nine remaining Exploits on.
After looking through all his options, Black Flame eventually gave up on Legendary items and settled on other things, spending three Exploits on a Sacred Source Crystal, four Exploits on two of the Advanced Bloodlines offered on the Advanced Menu, and his last two Exploits on the two pages of the Bible of Darkness available for purchase.
He had chosen the items after carefully considering the situation and their future plans.
None of the Legendary items that aren't equipment would be that useful for him since they either had special requirements for using or needed some resources to activate, things that he as a Tier 1 player could not do.
Using them casually would not be possible, and they'd only get a role for the Tier 2 Promotion Quest. But he already had Selles Fall and Revres Volu, which were not only stronger than most of them but could also be used much easily; albeit still being demanding to utilize their power for someone like Feng when he isn't getting buffed by Berserk Skills and Inferior Legendary and Legendary Consumables.
To begin with, attack-type and defense-type abilities of that caliber wouldn't be of much help against a Tier 6 natural-born God, much less if they had a long cooldown that would only end long after the fight was over.
Only items with restriction abilities or the capability to summon Tier 6 combatants would be of practical use. Though the quality of these restriction tools would not be sufficient for a natural-born God, whereas regular Tier 6 fighters would merely end up as meat shields.
An identical case applied to Tier 6 Magic Scrolls, except even more so since they had a limited number of uses, whereas the rest were simply not worth the high price.
He was better off buying other things to further his plans in ways to increase his combat power, methods to boost his chances of success, or just things for the guild.
Black Flame's following purchase of the Sacred Source Crystal fell within the first category as it will be used later to improve an aspect of Feng's strength that he was sorely lacking and make up for his low tier and attack capability to their maximum.
Even with the considerable price of three Exploits and 300,000 Shrine Points, the Sacred Source Crystal was well worth it since its value easily surpassed the combined value of two Fragmented Legendary items.
The Sacred Source Crystal was so valuable because it was guaranteed to upgrade one item to Fragmented Legendary rank, even if it was a Bronze item.
Due to its capability to make such drastic improvements, the Sacred Source Crystal was something every expert player dreamed of obtaining.
After all, every weapon and equipment had different compatibility with players. If players were not compatible with a particular weapon or equipment, even if said weapon or equipment was at the Fragmented Legendary rank, they would not be able to exhibit the Fragmented Legendary item's full potential.
However, with how rare Fragmented Legendary items were, experts would be fortunate to even obtain one, let alone be picky about one's compatibility with it
Hence, the scarcity of Fragmented Legendary items allowed the Sacred Source Crystal to shine.
There were millions and billions of weapons and equipment available in God's Domain. While Fragmented Legendary items might be extremely rare, items between the Bronze and Dark-Gold rank were everywhere. With the Sacred Source Crystal, players could simply find an item that was compatible with them and upgrade it to the Fragmented Legendary rank. The aid the Sacred Source Crystal provided to players was simply massive.
Feng, too, could greatly benefit from a Sacred Source Crystal, so Black Flame didn't think much about exchanging for it, and even planned to acquire a second one. Unfortunately, there was only the singular Sacred Source Crystal in the Divine Hall.
Aside from it, Black Flame chose to purchase two Advanced Bloodlines for the expert guild members who have yet to have their memories restored. After all, all the Bloodlines on the Basic Menu had already been cleaned out, so it's not really fair to future members who are even stronger than the current Main Force members and would have been the ones to get them if they had been present.
Black Flame could not get Bloodlines for them all due to how rare they are, but he could at least get two strong Advanced ones for the most powerful members that Feng later restores.
The Pages of Darkness, though, were items to repair the Bible of Darkness and increase its power, hopefully giving them an edge over the Tier 6 natural-born Demon God that they will face off against for the God Mode Promotion Quest.
Closing the Advanced Menu and pulling up the regular Menu, Black Flame, using his privilege as an Advanced Member of the Divine Staircase, purchased some of the items remaining that needed an Exploit which the Zero Wing members either didn't need or couldn't afford; taking as many of the limited items as he could.
He'd later place them in the Warehouse for members to exchange for using Contribution Points.
Done with that, the Perfect Clone looked through the Divine Hall and the Burning Wing Legion members resting about, quickly locating a pink haired girl meditating in the corner.
Walking up to Violet who was waiting for her Concentration to recover, Black Flame passed her one of the Peak Bloodlines that he had purchased. He also gave her all of his remaining Shrine Points, since they'd be set to zero once he left the Divine Hall, in order to transfer the points to Feng once he arrived down here.
After thanking the Guild Leader, Violet immediately chose to absorb the Collapsing Heavens Bloodline which the clone had picked out for her, not worried about being disturbed by any of the Zero Wing members present in the Divine Hall.
Leaving the Cleric to it, Black Flame also went over to Cola and gave him the Ferocious Salamander Bloodline. As Zero Wing's Chief MT, it was very beneficial to the Guild that Cola is as strong as possible, thus Feng had told him to not bother with the Advanced Bloodlines, having decided to give him the Peak ranked Bloodline instead.
Although the Ferocious Salamander Bloodline wasn't exactly optimal for tanks, being a balanced Bloodline for melee classes as a whole but more well-received by Berserkers and Swordsmen, it was still a good Bloodline for MTs, and a much better option for Cola than an Advanced Bloodline that was suitable for his class.
Letting the Tyrant Bear absorb it after receiving Cola's appreciation, Black Flame left the Divine Hall.
As he was about to lift off and head to the top of the mountain, the clone received a message from the main consciousness, instructing him to meet up at a certain Inferior Legendary Shrine.
Without giving it much thought, Black Flame unequipped his Chesplate, spreading out his wings, and began to fly up the World Summit.
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Serena's mind had been in a mess ever since that wondrous experience in bed with Feng. While waiting for him to return, the Fallen Angel felt herself going insane.
Despite paying attention to the humans that appeared at the entrance whenever she sensed the Manager Token's power be activated, Serena never noticed him arrive nor did she know Feng was on the World Summit.
Until the World Summit Trial was activated.
Setting aside the whole mountain shaking upon the God Mode difficulty of the trial getting challenged, as the World Summit's Administrator, Serena could naturally sense whenever someone took on the World Summit Trial.
Hence, the moment Feng activated it, the Fallen Angel was instantly made aware of what was happening, who had challenged the World Summit Trial, and which difficulty they had chosen.
Her first reaction was to be pissed at Feng for not coming to see her despite having gone up the World Summit and flying right past the Epic Shrine she was waiting for him in.
Marching up to the Main Legendary Shrine on the very top of the mountain, Serena waited for Feng to leave the trial space, but soon grew concerned.
She knew very well how impossibly hard the World Summit Trial was. Even she would not be able to pass it at any of the three difficulties, much less the God Mode World Summit Trial.
Although Serena knew that Feng was incredibly strong for his tier, and would even have a good shot at Hell Mode, God Mode was not meant to be passed by beings of their level.
Thus, the winged girl could not help but worry about Feng, momentarily even forgetting how mad she had been at him.
Thoroughly shocking the Tier 5 Fallen Angel, however, Feng cleared the God Mode World Summit Trial, Serena immediately being notified that he has been promoted to a Vice Administrator of the World Summit, which put him just below herself in authority.
He soon emerged from the trial space, appearing on the throne and standing face-to-face with the bewildered Serena who wasn't sure how to react anymore despite all her previous notions, the Fallen Angel's mind churning with thoughts.
"Yo," Feng's greeting snapped the winged woman back to reality, and she finally spoke.
"I never would have expected that you'd challenge the God Mode World Summit Trial, and even succeed in clearing it. Congratulations are in order." Serena put on a pleasant smile to hide her inner feelings and praised Feng for his accomplishment.
"Thanks, Serena. I'm really glad you came here to greet me." Responding in kind, Feng slowly approached the Fallen Angel with a smile.
"Oh, you are? Though it's only natural for the Administrator to make an appearance when someone completes the World Summit Trial. Especially since you're a Vice Administrator now." Hearing Feng say so, Serena felt her heart momentarily flutter for some reason, but she quickly composed herself and acted professionally, since it was her job as the managed of the World Summit.
However, the winged lady attempted to avoid eye contact, feeling herself become unsteady whenever she looked into Feng's eyes.
"True, but while you're here, there's something I want from you." Standing before the Fallen Angel, Feng wrapped an arm around her willowy waist and pulled Serena in close while speaking with an intimate tone.
"W-what can I d-do for you?" Her cheeks turning flushed at Feng's sudden actions, Serena stuttered as she asked with both nervousness and anticipation.
She had desperately waited for this moment ever since Feng left her Shrine, yet now that it was finally coming, the Fallen Angel couldn't help growing embarrassed by the implication of Feng's words.
"Can you remove the restrictions on the Manager Token now that I'm a Vice Administrator?" Dousing Serena with cold water, Feng pulled out his Manager Token and handed it to her as he casually asked for her to unseal its abilities, completely subverting the girl's eager and horny expectations.
A bit baffled by his change of topic, the Fallen Angel stared at the dark-red coin, feeling like she was being toyed with. Before she could raise her inner complaints, however, Feng leaned in next to her ear and continued speaking.
"I'll make sure to pay the favor back to you later in full when you're done, along with fulfilling our previous agreement."
Whispering the promise with a seductive voice that made Serena's head overheat, Feng bit her earlobe, sending shivers down the Tier 5 powerhouse's spine and turning her mind hazy.
The sensation of being pressed against Feng with his Seducer scent turning her body sensitive as he nibbled on her ear and squeezed one of her bottom cheeks quickly eroded any of Serena's grievances, transforming the Fallen Angel into an obedient girl that was already too far gone.
"...O-okay..." Barely managing to whimper out after Serena's mushy mind was assaulted with the intimate feelings for a few moments, World Summit's Administrator finally agreed to Feng's request.
Since he had cleared the God Mode World Summit Trial and was promoted to a Vice Administrator anyway, there shouldn't be any problem with Serena removing the restrictions she had placed on the Manager Token.
Hence, the Fallen Angel only hesitated for a little bit before complying under Feng's sensual persuasion.
"Good," With her agreement, Feng released Serena from his clutches and gave her the Manager Token, walking past her to the exit of the Legendary Shrine since it would take a bit for the Administrator to unseal the token, without forgetting to leave one last remark as he slapped the Fallen Angel's fat ass "After you finish dealing with it, wait for me in that Epic Shrine."
Even after Feng left the Shrine and flew off, Serena still stood in a daze for a minute, wondering just how the fuck things have come to this. Snapping out of her daze, the Fallen Angel switched her gaze to the Manager Token, sighing as she began unsealing it.
Meanwhile, Feng was flying down the World Summit at a fast speed, quite content with how the situation had developed.
He had originally planned to fully seduce Serena before slowly persuading her into removing the token's restrictions, but him becoming a Vice Administrator solved all the complications.
Now Feng's authority on the World Summit is much higher than when he had the Manager Token, and he only needs its abilities, so Feng could leave the coin with Serena while going to clear Inferior Legendary Shrines.
As a Vice Administrator, Feng not only received discounts on the amount of minutes that he needed to spend in order to enter Shrines of any rank, but the limit on the number of Shrines of each rank that he could visit had also increased, while the cooldown on his chances had drastically decreased.
Vice Administrators could enter double the number of Shrines that regular people on the World Summit can, so Feng could now challenge two Legendary Shrines every two months, four Inferior Legendary Shrines every ten days, and six Epic Shrines every three days; under the conditions that he sends that time on the World Summit, of course.
Feng would receive a few more privileges at the Divine Hall when exchanging for items as well.
Hence, Feng had no worries about leaving the Manager Token as he went on with his business.
After flying out of the Legendary Shrine area, Feng continued a bit down and moved in a certain direction until he came across a tall Inferior Legendary Shrine within the higher upper region.
Landing in front of it, Feng placed his hand on the gate.
System: Legendary Shrine Key detected. You are qualified to open the doors of the Inferior Legendary Shrine. Do you wish to spend 20,000 minutes to open them?
System: Vice Administrator Authority detected. You are qualified to receive a 25% discount on opening the Inferior Legendary Shrine's doors. Do you wish to spend 15,000 minutes to open them?
Agreeing, the large gate of the Inferior Legendary Shrine opened, and Feng walked inside.
Around half an hour later, he left the Shrine and flew down some more, reaching the Inferior Legendary Shrine region's middle area and spending 12,000 minutes to enter another Inferior Legendary Shrine.
Shortly after Feng went inside the Shrine, a humanoid figure with a pair of giant pure-white wings arrived, landing in front of the large doors.
Seeing that Feng hadn't come out yet, Black Flame contacted the main consciousness through their connection, asking where he was at.
However, upon hearing that it would still be a few minutes before Feng could finish, the Perfect Clone immediately turned around and left.
Flying down to the edge of the middle region, Black Flame entered an Inferior Legendary Shrine himself, not intending to waste his time standing around and waiting for the main body to come out.
Feng soon emerged out of the Shrine after a few minutes, and grew confused when he didn't see Black Flame anywhere.
Ringing up the clone's consciousness, an annoyed expression appeared on Feng's face after learning Black Flame just up and flew away, the replica even having the audacity to tell him that he should come down and wait for him to come out instead.
But since he didn't have another choice, Feng could only descend to the Shrine Black Flame had entered, standing in front of it annoyed while tapping his foot on the ground.
Black Flame nonchalantly walked out of the Inferior Legendary Shrine a few minutes later and greeted him after completing the Shrine's challenge.
Despite having the urge to put the clone in its place, Feng stopped caring and simply moved on with their business.
"Give me the stuff." Sending Black Flame a trade window, the two of them exchanged some items, the Perfect Clone giving Feng back all the items he had lent to Black Flame before letting him go off to the World Summit, along with a few other things.
Requipping the Wraithwood Sigil, Seven Luminaries Ring, and Blazing Meteor, Feng switched his attention to one of the items he had just obtained, a small ash-gray accessory in the shape of a hollow heart with a short chain connected to its top.
[Heart of Ashes] (Ornament, Fragmented Legendary Rank)
Equipment Requirements: Strength 1,000, Endurance 2,000
Attributes will be adjusted according to user's level. (Level 99)
All Basic Attributes +306
When Equipped:
Strength increased by 30%
Agility increased by 20%
Endurance increased by 35%
Vitality increased by 35%
Reaction Speed increased by 15%
All Resistances +30
Ignore Levels +15
Additional Active Skill 1: Decomposition Flowoff
Increase Damage by 200% and carry the Ash Decomposition effect with each attack.
Duration: 1 minute
Cooldown: 15 minutes
Additional Active Skill 2: Ash Body
Gain the Ash Composition and become invulnerable to damage for 25 seconds.
Cooldown: 30 minutes
Additional Active Skill 3: Return From Ashes
If the user's HP falls to 0 within 5 minutes of activation, the user's body will be reformed from the ashes with 50% of their maximum HP and 100% Stamina.
Cooldown: 3 days
The Heart of Ashes was created by the Ash Saint with her full power, but had received heavy damage during the war between Ancient Gods. It can be repaired with five God Crystals. Current number of absorbed God Crystals (0/5).
This was the item Feng had acquired from the first Inferior Legendary Shrine he went in.
Although the Heart of Ashes' attributes and boost to one's power weren't all that significant, the Ornament's last two skills were very good.
Return From Ashes, in particular, was an extraordinary skill that any combat player would pay anything to obtain since it practically gave them a second life in a fight that they could continue without feeling any of the accumulated physical exhaustion.
The incredible skill, rarity of high-ranking Ornaments, and the Fragmented Legendary Accessory's potential were why the Heart of Ashes was placed as the main reward of one of the highest Inferior Legendary Shrines on the World Summit, where one could find Legendary ranked items and things with power comparable to them, despite having quite average attributes.
Along with the fact that it had a very low repair requirement and could easily be turned into a powerful Legendary item.
Which Feng did not hesitate to fulfill as he took out five God Crystals from the bunch he had brought with him, holding the Fragmented Legendary Ornament in his other hand.
System: Sufficient God Crystals detected. Do you wish to let the Heart of Ashes absorb them?
Immediately agreeing to the prompt, the five God Crystals in Feng's hands gradually disintegrated into five streams of light that lingered around the Heart of Ashes, then merged with the heart-shaped accessory.
The Mana around the Heart of Ashes grew far stronger as its aura skyrocketed, a considerable amount of Divine Might pouring out from the small Ornament.
Its information had also received a significant makeover.
[Heart of Ashes] (Ornament, Legendary Rank)
Equipment Requirements: Strength 5,000, Endurance 7,000
Attributes will be adjusted according to user's level. (Level 99)
All Basic Attributes +1,009
When Equipped:
All damage received reduced by 15%
Strength increased by 100%
Agility increased by 80%
Endurance increased by 110%
Vitality increased by 100%
Movement Speed increased by 70%
Reaction Speed increased by 50%
All Resistances +100
Ignore Levels +40
Additional Passive Skill: Undying Will
Whenever user's HP falls below 50%, all Basic Attributes increase by 30%. All improvements gained from Heart of Ashes increase by 20% when user's HP falls below 5%.
Additional Active Skill 1: Decomposition Flowoff
Increase Damage by 1,000% and carry the Ash Decomposition effect with each attack. All attacks that the user blocks will decrease the enemy's Strength by 5% for 2 seconds and add a stack of Ashful Weakness to them, each stack decreasing Damage by 0.2% until the skill ends.
Duration: 4 minutes
Cooldown: 10 minutes
Additional Active Skill 2: Ash Body
Gain the Ash Composition and become invulnerable to all forms of damage for 1 minute.
Cooldown: 15 minutes
Additional Active Skill 3: Return From Ashes
If the user dies within 20 minutes of activation, the user's body will be completely reformed from the ashes with all of their HP restored, 100% Stamina, 100% Concentration, and all of the user's skills available.
Cooldown: 1 day
The Heart of Ashes was created by the Ash Saint with her full power. As long as one wears the Heart of Ashes with an unyielding heart, one will always be reborn from the ashes.
Replacing his Lightning Descendant Ornament with the newly upgraded Legendary Heart of Ashes, Feng received another large boost to his strength.
And coupled with the heart chain's extraordinary skills, his combat power had reached an even higher level.
Since he was upgrading things with God Crystals, Feng retrieved another ten God Crystals from his bag as well as the Destroyed Yog-Sothoth that was strapped to his back, choosing to infuse the broken sword with them.
When Feng had previously obtained God Crystals from Zero Wing's grand Mythic Hunt and cloned them with the Philosopher's Stone, he only used up seven to upgrade the Nightwalker's Cape to Legendary rank, leaving the rest in the Guild Warehouse.
Although it had been possible to let Yog-Sothoth absorb ten of them and boost its power, Feng decided to leave the thirteen God Crystals in stock just in case something popped up in the meantime that he might want to use the God Crystals for.
Now, though, there was no need to hold back, so it was fine to repair the broken sword some more.
The ten God Crystals transformed into golden dust that radiated intense Divine Might, slowly merging with the tattered weapon.
Yog-Sothoth's aura grew much more powerful with each God Crystal it absorbed, and by the time all ten were fully gone, it felt like a prehistoric beast had awoken.
However, even with the spike in power, the broken sword's appearance didn't change much nor did it seem to have recovered from whatever damage it had sustained, still being a pale white broken sword with a tinge of green within its blade.
[Destroyed Yog-Sothoth]
A weapon once wielded by the God of Time, but ended up being destroyed and disappearing during the war between Primordial Gods after falling into a Space-Time Storm. Despite being damaged completely beyond repair with all of its parts unusable, Yog-Sothoth still possesses remnants of the power of time and can harness it to recover. Any player holding Yog-Sothoth will have their Reaction Speed decreased by 35%.
Yog-Sothoth can restore itself to Fragmented Divine Artifact rank by absorbing 10 Source of Time crystals. (Current restoration: 20/30)
Passive Effect 1: Temporal Siphon
All creatures within a 75-yard radius of Yog-Sothoth's holder will have their Agility decreased by 1.5%, Movements Speed decreased by 2.5%, Attack Speed decreased by 2.5% and Reaction Speed decreased by 2.5%, all transferred to the holder. (Up to a maximum of 85 creatures can be affected)
Passive Effect 2: Chrono Ensnare
Any creatures or attacks that enter within a 6-yard radius of Yog-Sothoth's holder will have their speed reduced by 5%, the reduction increasing by 5% for every yard within the holder's proximity.
Active Effect 1: Thought Acceleration
Increases Reaction Speed of the holder by 240% and Attack Sped by 35% while increasing consumption of Concentration by 350% for 35 seconds.
Cooldown: 20 minutes
Active Effect 2: Timekeeper's Weave
Reduces the cooldown of all of the holder's learnt skills or all of an item's skills by 10%.
Cooldown: 5 days
Drops upon death.
Although its effects didn't change that much or seemed to have improved by a significant amount, the overall power Yog-Sothoth possessed had increased significantly.
Even in its totally broken state, Yog-Sothoth could still fully affect Tier 5 beings with its abilities, which was very rare for destroyed weapons since usually only the effects of some very powerful or special Fragmented Legendary items and Legendary items are able to influence Tier 5 creatures to their full extent.
Tier 6 beings, though, would still be quite resistant to the broken sword's effects.
After empowering Yog-Sothoth with God's Power from the God Crystals, that has changed, and even Gods would experience the time sword's full power. Of course, it still depended on each individual and their strength, but regular Tier 6 creatures would be under its abilities' complete effects.
This was the benefit God's Crystals provided to an item like Yog-Sothoth, in opposed to how the Source of Time Crystals improved its abilities and the power of time it possessed. Both provided similar and much of the same upgrades to the item, but differed in which aspect they improved more intensely.
Such an increase in power hadn't really been necessary for Feng previously when he obtained the God Crystals since the most he'd come across were Tier 5 beings at the time, and was why he hadn't been so hasty to use up his limited God Crystals on it after repairing Nightwalker's Cape.
Since then, the guild had acquired some more God Crystals for itself, a few obtained by Feng from the powerful Superior Mythic Guardian Bosses he had killed on the Divine Staircase, and a few scavenged by his guild members during the time he had been away.
Having gained and cloned those God Crystals with Elemental Cloning, Feng no longer hesitated to repair both the Heart of Ashes and Destroyed Yog-Sothoth with them.
Moreover, he knew that an enormous influx of God Crystals was about to come into the guild, so Feng was not worried about lacking them in the least anymore.
After all, each of the restored members could exchange for a God Crystal at the Divine Hall. Although they were limited items that could become out of stock when all of them were purchased, there was still a large number of God Crystals up for exchange there.
Once the Burning Wing Legion members ran out of things to buy for themselves, they would spend the rest of their Shrine Points buying items for the guild; God Crystals being first since they could earn them the most Contribution Points out of all the items within their ability to obtain.
Exactly as he had predicted, Feng confirmed through Black Flame's mind that all the God Crystals on the Basic Menu had already been purchased by the time the Perfect Clone arrived at the Divine Hall.
Moreover, there were plenty of God Crystals in the Shrines on the World Summit, too.
As a land of Gods, the World Summit had no lack of God Crystals, and one could even obtain them from many Epic Shrines; a few even possessing Advanced God Crystals.
The rewards from Epic Shrines are of limited help to the current restored players, and the best ones would be quickly cleaned up by the Zero Wing members who get there first.
With there being around a thousand of them who had gone on the World Summit and each player being able to visit three Epic Shrines, while they certainly didn't lack the minutes for it, useful items would disappear in the blink of an eye, leaving them in the same situation as at the Divine Hall as they looked for items that could be exchanged for Contribution Points.
Although there were many Epic Shrines spread across the golden mountain, nearly a thousand according to Feng's information, with some having singular rewards and some having several of them, a thousand restored members would easily clean up all of the most valuable items; including God Crystals.
The Inferior Legendary Shrines in the lower regions were even worse off since there were much fewer of them, so even though a small portion of the Burning Wing Legion members could not pass them at the moment and each player could only enter two, there were not enough to satiate the Zero Wing members.
By the time all the restored members exhaust their chances at the Epic and Inferior Legendary Shrines, those parts will be practically devoid of items. Zero Wing will also be swimming in God Crystals when Feng gathers them up and creates duplicates.
Additionally, the Divine Staircase is another good place to farm God Crystals since there were plenty of powerful Superior Mythic monsters, as well as Legendary monsters later on, of which there was an infinite number that every player could repeatedly kill.
In fact, among the gains that Black Flame had transferred to him, there were 63 God Crystals that the clone obtained from killing over six hundred Superior Mythic monsters of various strength and six Legendary creatures.
A very impressive haul for a day's work, not to mention when factoring in all the thousands of other valuable items Black Flame had obtained.
While looking through all the items in his bag that the Perfect Clone had obtained, a few attracted Feng's attention; the two pages of the Bible of Darkness that Black Flame had purchased and the Sacred Stone he acquired from the Inferior Legendary Shrine they were currently standing in front of.
Upon taking out the two pages and the black tome from his bag, a system notification reached Feng's ears.
System: You have discovered a page of the Bible of Darkness. Do you wish to spend 500 Magic Crystals to assimilate this page with the Bible of Darkness and repair it?
System: You have discovered a page of the Bible of Darkness. Do you wish to spend 500 Magic Crystals to assimilate this page with the Bible of Darkness and repair it?
Expending some of the Magic Crystals in his bag, Feng agreed, hoping to improve the Bible of Darkness as much as possible for future fights against powerful demonic creatures and hopefully gain something to increase his chances of killing the natural-born God.
When Feng confirmed the prompt to repair the Bible of Darkness, the book flew out of his hands and hovered before him. The book then opened to a certain place within it that had pages on both sides ripped out. At the same time, the missing pages transformed into a black mist that melded with the Bible of Darkness at the same time. Ten seconds later, the pages had joined the book as seamlessly as if they had never left in the first place, the two being connected beside each other in the same location of the book.
After the Bible of Darkness had recovered two of its missing pages, the Power of Darkness that gathered around the book became even denser.
[Bible of Darkness] (Fragmented Legendary Item)
The Bible of Darkness had been destroyed during the Great Destruction. However, the Power of Darkness contained within the Bible is extreme. If one can gather the other fragments, they can restore the Bible's power, gaining dominance over all Demonic Creatures and become the Lord of Demons.
Additional Passive Skill 1: Demonic Respect
Makes all demonic creatures of the same Tier as the user and below unconditionally obey the user. (Up to a maximum of Tier 5)
Additional Passive Skill 2: Darkness Influx
The Bible of Darkness slowly absorbs the Power of Darkness in the environment and from within all demonic creatures in the vicinity. The Power of Darkness is stored and can be used to enhance certain skills or gradually repair the Bible of Darkness to a certain extent.
Additional Active Skill 1: Demon Summoning
Summons the Demon Gate with the Power of Darkness, calling forth a random Demon that is no higher than 1 Tier and 10 Levels than the summoner (Maximum Tier cannot exceed Tier 5). The holder of the Bible of Darkness can command the summoned Demon for up to five hours.
Cooldown: 3 hours
Additional Active Skill 2: Gate of Darkness
Allows teleportation to the Dark Den. Can also be used in the Dark Den to teleport to the outside world. Can teleport a maximum of 25 people at a single time.
Cooldown: 1 day
Additional Active Skill 3: Light of Darkness
Strengthen a player with the Power of Darkness, allowing said player to wield the Power of Darkness. Can strengthen up to a maximum of 2,000 people. Every player strengthened provides one Source of Darkness to the wielder of the Bible of Darkness.
Additional Active Skill 4: Power of Darkness
Fill your body with the Power of Darkness, increasing all Attributes by 100%, decreasing Cooldown of all Skills by 30%, and increase damage by 50%. Duration will be equal to the number of Source of Darkness*1 seconds. (Power of Darkness cannot stack. Can only strengthen players up to a maximum of Tier 5 classes)
Cooldown: 5 hours
Additional Active Skill 5: Tainted Conversion
When activated, there is a 55% chance of turning any targeted creature into a demonic being (Up to a maximum of Tier 5). Success depends on the target's Concentration standard.
Cooldown: 3 days
Additional Active Skill 6: Coming of Demons
Open a permanent gateway to the Demon Realm that any creature below Tier 6 can cross.
Cooldown: 1 year
Additional Active Skill 7: Darkness Release
Gather all the Power of Darkness within the Bible of Darkness for a single devastating attack. Power of attack depends on the amount and quality of Power of Darkness absorbed by the bible (Up to Tier 6 Basic). After activation, the Bible of Darkness will enter a Weakened period with none of its skills available for ten days.
Cooldown: 30 days
Storing the Bible of Darkness after inspecting its new abilities, Feng retrieved the Sacred Stone Black Flame had given him, along with the Spatial Bag he obtained from Arcus Maddox.
Preparing to upgrade the bag, Feng switched his gaze to Black Flame, in whose eyes a green glow appeared.
A moment later, the clone nodded, saying "You're good."
With his confirmation, Feng chose to use the Sacred Stone on his Spatial Bag.
Suddenly, the Sacred Stone radiated an incomparably intense power. Golden energy streamed from the stone, flowing into the Spatial Bag on Feng[3].
A moment later, the Sacred Stone turned to dust while the Spatial Bag became covered in ancient runes.
Looking at the upgraded pouch with colorful runes across it, Feng felt great joy. He had obtained an Inferior Legendary Spatial Bag!
In the Greater God's Domain, Epic Spatial Bags were more or less regarded as the highest-ranked Spatial Bag players could get their hands on. Meanwhile, the value of Epic Spatial Bags could rival Fragmented Legendary items.
Epic Spatial Bags were highly valuable because they could store non-bag space items like Seven Luminaries Crystals. So long as players had an Epic Spatial Bag, they could carry these non-bag space items through teleportation arrays, drastically improving the efficiency of transporting these items.
Even so, Epic Spatial Bags had limited storage space. Generally, an Epic Spatial Bag could only hold up to 300 non-bag space items. If all this space was used to store Seven Luminaries Crystals, an Epic Spatial Bag could carry three million units.
Because of this, players couldn't transport a large amount of non-bag space items like merchant caravans simply by relying on one, or even several, Epic Spatial Bags.
However, it was a different story for Inferior Legendary Spatial Bags. The capacity of one was on par with a medium-sized Guild Warehouse. In other words, it could store up to 3,000[4] non-bag space items or 30,000,000 units of Seven Luminaries Crystal. One Inferior Legendary Spatial Bag could already rival the cargo load of a small merchant caravan in the Greater God's Domain.
Because of this, Inferior Legendary Spatial Bags were astronomical in value. They were even more valuable than Legendary Weapons. At the same time, Inferior Legendary Spatial Bags were incredibly rare.
Even Feng had only ever owned one, and that had still made many powers envy him.
Curious to see its quality, Feng called up the Inferior Legendary Bag's System Panel.
[Spatial Bag] (Inferior Legendary Rank)
Storage capacity: 150,000 bag space slots.
Built-in Warehouse: 3,000 non-bag space slots
Passive Skill: Roomba
Automatically collect all items without ownership within three yards of the user.
Active Skill: Loot Vacuum
Collect all items within a 50*7 area in front of the user. Can only collect items up to Legendary rank.
Cooldown: 5 minutes
Feng was quite pleasantly surprised by the Spatial Bag's information.
High-ranking Spatial Bags possessing other abilities[5] was not uncommon, however all the Inferior Legendary Spatial Bags that Feng had seen in his previous life only had the Active Skill Loot Vacuum, and their range was considerably smaller than of this newly upgraded one.
Though Feng had heard of a few Inferior Legendary Spatial Bags having unique abilities depending on their origin and quality.
He had already known that the Epic Spatial Bag dropped by the gnome was of a high quality after successfully upgrading it to Inferior Legendary rank with one Sacred Stone.
Normally, only already strong items that were of a sufficiently high enough quality and had very good base materials could be upgraded using a singular Sacred Stone.
One would usually need to invest a lot more for a successful increase in rank, which could be quite expensive.
When it came to Spatial Bags, it was extremely rare for them to be upgradable using Sacred Stones due to their complicated production and limited materials to work with; which meant Feng would find it difficult to improve its base materials even with the Aethersplicer.
Hence, it was a great relief that Arcus Maddox's Spatial Bag was of high enough quality that the Sacred Stone could upgrade it, otherwise Feng's only other option would be to use the Sacred Source Stone he just received for clearing his second Inferior Legendary Shrine, or the one Black Flame had purchased.
But surpassing his expectations once more, upon being upgraded to Inferior Legendary rank, the Spatial Bag had both a much stronger version of the usual skill and an extra skill.
Although unsure if it was due to the Spatial Bag that Arcus Maddox carried being particularly special or for some other reason, Feng naturally welcomed the development.
Putting the upgraded Spatial Bag back with the rest, Feng's capability to carry large quantities of items had greatly increased.
It had been quite high even before as Feng had long since replaced his previous five Large Bags with Epic Spatial Bags that he had gathered up.
A few dozen of them were obtained during the Mythic Hunt, with Feng taking two for himself and leaving the rest for the guild, whereas he had acquired two more on his climb up the Divine Staircase, and thefifth had been exchanged for at the Divine Hall.
Having six Epic ranked Spatial Bags had allowed Feng to carry tens of thousands of stacks and individual items at once, along with having over two thousand slots for non-bag space items.
Now with the Inferior Legendary Spatial Bag's addition upon replacing one of them, it was unlikely that Feng would face any problems concerning his inventory space.
Settling everything else with Black Flame after going over their changed plans and Feng transferring some of the souls collected by the duplicate to his own Pandemonium Lashblade, including five of the six Tier 5 souls, the two separated.
Feng flew back up to the Legendary Shrine area whereas Black Flame descended down to the Epic Shrines.
Now that he was a Vice Administrator and could visit two Legendary Shrines, Feng naturally planned to completely exhaust all his opportunities; having met up with Black Flame and retrieved his items for the purpose of gaining the most out of his second Legendary Shrine.
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1. Decided to make a few changes to the original skill. Nothing major just turning it into a Profound Inheritance and rewording a bit.
2. Su Qianliu's in-game name. Not sure which way I should refer to her since the name Taciturn Goose was only mentioned twice in the entire novel before LOC, or I guess Hellscythe not sure, completely switched to calling her Su Qianliu.
Chinese names are difficult to remember, especially ones like this, so I usually prefer to use game names for the characters, but considering how long she was called by her real name and that Taciturn isn't a much better word (had to look up what it even means) under the circumstances, I'm not sure. Thoughts?
3. Where do bags a player carries actually go? It can't be on their waist or back since some have weapons there, and they definitely aren't carrying them in their hands. Do they just count as inventory space and don't have a proper physical appearance while being carried? I guess we're expected to just not think about it and chalk the bags up to being a part of the game's mechanics.
4. In the SS it was stated to have 1,000 slots, but since LOC forgot that Epic Spatial Bags have 300 slots and said that they had 100 non-bag space, I see that his intention was for the Inferior Legendary Spatial Bag to have ten times the Epic ranked ones, so I increased it to 3,000.
5. Thought that Inferior Legendary Spatial Bags should have more going for them than just more bag space.