Volume 3 Obsidian Chapter 195 To be continued
"I have been promoted to a mid-sequence transcendent?!"
Chen Lun found it unbelievable.
He flipped through the previous records and found the prompt that the promotion task was completed!
[Promotion mission completed: first appearance! ]
[You have met all the prerequisites and obtained the main profession [Magician]! ]
"So I completed the promotion mission by accident?!"
Chen Lun found this matter somewhat unbelievable.
He thought about what had happened in the past 24 hours and found that everything seemed very coincidental, yet very reasonable.
And it perfectly meets the requirements of the promotion task.
He was affected by the side effects of three strange objects at the same time, and his luck value became negative, which caused him to accidentally shift to another city when returning to Jack Manor from the spirit world, and he appeared in front of the jewelry exhibition.
At the same time, he was deeply trapped in the identity of "Silver Pot Knight Fren". He not only deceived a group of nobles and wealthy businessmen, Earl Lawson, and the killers of the Black Knife Brotherhood, but also deceived the players of the Chuxi Guild headed by Qingtian Xiaoyu.
Even deceived myself.
However, his intrusion caused everyone's emotions to fluctuate and changed the trajectory of their fate...
Chen Lun was promoted as a result.
Whose destiny was changed?
"Is it that earl...? I changed his fate, which was originally destined to die."
Chen Lun guessed.
He took a deep breath and vaguely felt that his promotion was a little too smooth, but he couldn't find anything wrong.
As a transcendent of the Fate faction, he felt more and more that this kind of power was mysterious and powerful. Just in case, he did some divination on the spot to explore whether there was some strange mysterious power in him.
Three playing cards were drawn and turned over. The predicted result was negative, and everything was normal with him.
"So am I overthinking it...?"
Chen Lun's eyes were deep.
But even so, he still felt a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart.
Think for a moment.
Chen Lun plans to try again, but this time he wants to go to the fairyland for divination.
"Divination in the fairyland can block the mysterious interference of the outside world, and my own divination weight can also be improved... Such predictions are more accurate."
Chen Lun thought.
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He did not stay on the main road in the suburbs of Phosphate City for long. He left the original place directly and chose to head towards the city.
During this process, he did not take off the silver pot, but used it to change his appearance, turning himself into an ordinary-looking young man.
It took a while for Chen Lun to arrive at the gate of Phosphorus City. Along the way, he found that the situation here was even worse than that of Amber City. Many refugees gathered together and almost blocked the city gate.
Many guards were armed with rifles and pushed and drove away the refugees. Several conflicts broke out in the process, but they all ended with the refugees being beaten up.
There were even some refugees who, because they were so emotional, tried to snatch the guards' weapons and were stabbed on the spot, dying on the roadside.
Chen Lun watched coldly and sighed secretly.
Like an ordinary person, he paid the entrance fee of 10 copper kro and then entered.
'Back then, the entrance fee to Amber City was only 5 copper kro, but here it's doubled... The plague is already so severe.'
Chen Lun looked back silently and saw that the people who wanted to enter the city were bargaining with the guards over the "expensive" entrance fee.
He withdrew his gaze and strode into the city.
This place is somewhat similar to Amber City, but there is no Amber River that runs across the inner and outer cities. Instead, a high wall is artificially built as a "mountain range" to separate the rich and the poor, the disorderly and the clean and the dirty.
Chen Lun randomly stayed in a hotel that looked a little cleaner, paid for one night and rented a room.
After he entered the room, he did a quick inspection and then summoned some mice, which were scattered around to serve as "sentinels" for warning.
He sat on the only chair, took out "Philip's Adventures in Wonderland" and started flipping through it.
With a bang.
He appeared at the top of the spire in the town of Kazt and started divination without wasting any time.
But this time, the result of divination was no longer a negative prediction, but a positive one!
"As expected, there is something wrong...!"
Chen Lun's eyes narrowed.
My promotion went so smoothly, and the many coincidences that occurred did have some unknown mysterious influence.
But when he continued to explore the source of this influence, he found nothing.
"What kind of power is influencing me... Even though I have been promoted to a mid-sequence extraordinary person, with the bonus of the fairyland and the witch's blessing, I still can't divine any clues..."
Chen Lun frowned slightly and became wary of this unknown power.
"Is it a being far superior to me? Or some other power...? But at the moment, it seems that there is no ill intention. "
Chen Lun thought.
"But we can't jump to conclusions so easily..."
He put the matter deep in his heart and then returned to the real world.
After thinking for a moment, he summoned the panel to check and observe the changes after his promotion to [Magician].
First, he found that his attributes had been improved, and then the level cap was raised from level 50 to level 80, which was far beyond the limit that players could reach in version 1.0.
The level cap of version 1.0 is 30. Even the top players, such as Polaris Dongyang, are only at level 15 or 16.
He looked at the skills he had acquired after being promoted to [Magician].
"Only one skill?!"
There was surprise in his eyes.
【Magic Trick LV1】
Skill Description: As a magician, your signature trick is entertaining, deceptive, and of course, deadly.
At present, your proficiency in magic tricks is not very high, and you have only mastered the most basic magic trick - card throwing knife!
You can imbue cards with extraordinary power and throw them out, causing damage comparable to or even greater than that of a throwing knife. Your throwing skills and accuracy are improved, just like a thrower who has mastered this art for many years.
Chen Lun thought for a moment.
"It's a very good skill, but it's still a bit weak for a [Sequence 7]... After all, it has undergone a supernatural transformation, so it shouldn't have just this one skill."
He once again examined the skill [Magic Trick] and noticed that its description hinted at the issue of proficiency.
"So it's because its level is too low...?"
Chen Lun seemed to understand something and tried to add some skill points to this [Magic Trick].
【Magic Tricks LV2】!
[After a long period of exploration and training, you have mastered a new trick - levitation! ]
[You can levitate yourself or other objects like a balloon and stay in the air without any support, but you cannot move quickly! ]
"It is so!"
Chen Lun chuckled.
If he was a local NPC extraordinary person, then it would definitely be just like the skill description. He would need to go through a long period of exploration and research, and accumulate enough mysterious accumulation before he could comprehend new magic...
But he is not at all!
Glancing at the 16 skill points he still had, he raised his lips slightly and said silently in his heart:
'Add some!'
【Magic Tricks LV3】!
bite!
Chen Lun then learned a new trick - damage transfer!
It can transfer fatal injuries to other parts of the body that are not fatal. For example, if you are shot in the heart, the wound can be transferred to the arms, thighs and other parts to minimize the damage.
Chen Lun did not stop to take a closer look, but chose to continue adding more!
【Magic Tricks LV4】!
【Magic Tricks LV5】!
Chen Lun raised his eyebrows because he found that the skill was not shown at the maximum level.
"This skill... can be further improved!"
His eyes lit up and he didn't stop adding more points.
Although the skill point consumption became 2 after the skill exceeded level 5, he didn't care.
【Magic Tricks LV6】!
【Magic Tricks LV7】!
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【Magic tricks LVMAX (10)】!
The ding-ding sound continued to ring. Chen Lun spent a total of 14 skill points before he upgraded [Magic Tricks] to the maximum level.
In addition to the card throwing knives, levitation and damage transfer, there are five more tricks that I have mastered!
They are body separation, five senses, resurrection, disappearance in a cage and object restoration.
Body Separation - Ability to split one's body briefly without bleeding or pain, allowing for actions that ordinary humans cannot do, used for surprise attacks, avoiding enemy damage, and various other scenarios.
It is worth noting that if the separated body parts are not restored to their original position for a long time, real harm can still be caused.
Five senses: connecting vision, smell, taste, hearing and touch, and having perception channels that ordinary people cannot understand, such as reading newspapers with fingers, listening to flowers blooming with ears, and even smelling the content of other people's conversations.
Transfiguration - advanced magic that can transform oneself or others into any place within fifty meters around oneself.
The performance of this magic is somewhat similar to flash, and can affect a third party.
The essence is more like a kind of "displacement".
Because this magic has several prerequisites. First, you need to prepare a "replacement object" in advance to leave a "magic mark" on both parties. Second, you must use a piece of cloth as a sleight of hand, which is actually a ritual prop. Third, both parties must be within a range of 50 meters.
Cage escape - advanced magic. When you are trapped, or even when you are in a state of imprisonment, control, and suppression, you can use your eyes to exchange with any object within a range of fifty meters.
This skill only affects yourself.
Object Restoration - Advanced magic that can restore damaged and broken objects, but it is limited to ordinary inanimate objects and has a time limit.
'The Destiny faction's [Sequence 7 - Magician], although its destructive power is not as good as some other sequences, its ability to survive is first-rate, and it is mysterious and changeable, with a very wide range of adaptability and a high upper limit.'
Chen Lun made a brief comment and smiled happily.
'Although it only has one skill on the surface, it actually contains eight magic tricks... and they are all very practical.
Especially the two skills of Great Transfiguration and Cage Escape, which greatly improved his survivability! He is completely at the level of a mid-sequence extraordinary person!'
Chen Lun took another look at his experience points——
[Experience: 216600/1900]
'The level cap for [Magician] is 30. After the total level of the panel reaches 50, each level up requires 5,000 experience points, and each level up increases by 500 points... The 210,000 experience points I have accumulated for so long, although I can no longer upgrade to the maximum level as before, are enough for me to upgrade to a dozen or twenty levels!'
Chen Lun directly added all the experience points to [Sequence 7 - Magician]!
“Add some more!”
Ding! Ding ding ding…!
The golden light that others could not see flashed wildly.
[You feel that your body has been strengthened! Health limit +690, physical limit +210, sanity limit +10, strength +7, endurance +7, dexterity +14, intelligence +14, insight +6]
[You get 21 skill points and 21 attribute points! ]
After spending all his experience points, Chen Lun felt that he had become much stronger.
There was a crackling sound all over his body.
"Not enough... not enough! Add more!"
Chen Lun grinned.
He used up all the 21 attribute points gained from the upgrade, added points evenly, and continued to develop in the direction of "Bucket Hexagon Warrior"!
After another wave of improvement, Chen Lun exhaled a long breath and summoned the panel——
Name: Chen Lun
Race: Human (Eastern Continent)
Template:NPC
Level: 71
Experience: 6600/15500
Life: 2000/2000
Stamina: 730/730
Sanity: 40/40
Main Occupation: [Sequence 9 - Tamer LV10 (MAX)] [Sequence 8 - Fortune Teller LV20 (MAX)] [Sequence 7 - Magician LV21] (Fate Faction)
Secondary occupation: [Recorder LV10 (MAX)] [Winemaker LV10 (MAX)]
Attributes: Strength 66 (+4), Agility 66 (+2), Endurance 58 (+4), Intelligence 58 (+2), Faith 7 (+2)
Special attributes: Charisma 23 (+11), Willpower 22 (+7), Insight 39 (+2), Luck 5 (+2)
Regional popularity: 17
Remaining points: 24 skill points, 0 attribute points, 0 special attribute points, 0 blessing points
Remaining assets: 757 gold pounds, [Low-sequence mysterious substance] *10, [Low-sequence pure substance] *4
Skills: Animal Language LVMAX, Animal Imitation LVMAX, Animal Friends LVMAX (passive ), Scribe LVMAX, The Law of the Jungle LVMAX (passive), Divination LVMAX, Life-Seeing Eye LVMAX, Spiritual Intuition LVMAX (passive), Bloody Brew LVMAX, Knight Swordsmanship LVMAX (passive), Byers Moonlight Swift Sword LVMAX, Byers Moonlight Greatsword LVMAX, Magic Trick LVMAX
Blessings: Nature's Favor LV2, Shining Star LV1, Knowledge Collector LV1
Power: 356
[Evaluation: You have completed the extraordinary qualitative change and have been promoted to the ranks of mid-sequence extraordinary people. You have reached another level in the mysterious field... But your extraordinary journey has just officially begun! No matter what difficulties you encounter in the future, you must face them with a smile. Oli Gei! ]
Chen Lun looked at his panel and was quite satisfied.
After being promoted to a mid-sequence transcendent, he underwent a qualitative transformation. Not only was he improved in all aspects, he also gained a mysterious resistance that low-sequence transcendents did not possess.
This is a kind of "resistance" to the high-level mysteries, so that one will not be contaminated by the mystery and killed instantly like "trash fish".
After being promoted to [Magician], the skills of the first two sequences, [Beast Tamer] and [Fortune Teller], are also enhanced to a certain extent.
Chen Lun discovered that among the ten memory slots of [Animal Imitation], there were five more that could accommodate the characteristics of extraordinary creatures. Together with the two originally provided by [Natural Favor LV2 (Blessing)], there were seven in total!
'Find an opportunity to find suitable extraordinary creatures and replace the characteristics of ordinary animals with their characteristics...'
Chen Lun thought.
Ding-ling-ling… Ding-ling…
At this moment, he felt a sound coming from the Blood Poetry Ring. He took out the strange animal and saw that it was the token [Bronze Bell of Bottle] that Mr. Bottle had given him before.
It was trembling slightly, as if conveying some message.
'Mr. Bottle is calling me...?'
Chen Lun raised his eyebrows.
He thought about it and realized that he had now officially been promoted to the middle sequence, so he could ask Mr. Ping about the anchor point of Amber City and use the "Spirit World Shuttle" to return to Jack Manor.
So Chen Lun concentrated his attention, saw through the gaps in the spiritual world around him, and took a step towards it.
boom!
The azure blue spiritual world "opened its mouth" and swallowed, and Chen Lun disappeared into the world.
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The main city of the Gem State, Fossil City.
At the top of a tall building in the center of the city, there is a huge round metal sign that is invisible to mortals. The bottom is triangular, and the surface is a pattern of a flintlock and a crossed palm, with three huge letters "CMP" engraved on it, which is the full abbreviation of the shelter.
In the spacious office, the floor-to-ceiling windows are transparent, and you can clearly see the purple moon hanging high outside.
Huge incandescent lamps are connected in a triangular pattern and installed on the ceiling, making the entire office look like daytime.
A middle-aged man was sitting alone behind a desk, holding a black pen and writing something on paper.
The man is handsome, with three-dimensional features and deep eyes.
He had dazzling blond hair and a cigarette between his lips. On the chest of his white shirt hung a name tag with a black background and gold edges - Rudolf Teka, the chief judge of the Fossil City Asylum.
"Time always makes people forgetful. Haha... I have been sitting in this position for seven years without realizing it. How long are you going to make me wait? Philip... and that good boy, um, Jack Speight?"
The man puffed on his cigarette, and the mist obscured his expression.
"I have to say, this name is terrible. It doesn't fit the style of a protagonist at all..."
He chuckled.
The black fountain pen in his hand moved quickly, and the pure silver blue-tempered pen tip touched the paper, leaving line after line of dark blue ink text and making a slight rustling sound.
The content left above is:
"——Jack's promotion went very smoothly. After helping his partner get rid of the curse, he accidentally fell into another city. Due to the side effects of the weird thing, he accidentally completed his debut. The ritual helped him become a young magician...
But what he didn't know was that Jerome, the 'Bone Sculptor' of the Red Apple Church, was planning an action more cruel than the plague, which would cause serious psychological trauma to the people he cared about...
After his brother's death, he has to face the death of his only relative. Will his originally redeemed soul be eroded by darkness again...? Can the power of tragedy turn into the fireworks of revenge...?
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Under the sun, roses also grow poisonous thorns. The red undercurrent spreads throughout the God-given place. This is just a microcosm of the tragedy of the century...
The magician's tricks can deceive the world, but not fate. He will become the protagonist of the whole tragedy and personally open the curtain for the advent of a new world."
The black pen stopped.
The man pondered for a moment, seemingly dissatisfied with the script.
So he picked up his pen, crossed out the last sentence, and wrote again:
"——The magician will continue to move forward following the footsteps of the previous magician, and will lead his circus around the world, experiencing one story after another, witnessing one tragedy after another, showing the joyful side of his tricks to the world, and accumulating enough experience for his final performance on stage..."
This time, the man nodded.
He stopped writing temporarily, added "To be continued" at the end, and then put the pen cap back on.
The pen cap is decorated with a coiled black snake, and its two ruby eyes sparkle.
It seemed to come alive, moving in a winding manner, and finally wandered onto the script on its own, spitting out its snake tongue at the footer, leaving a signature:
The words "Written by Howard, a tragic writer."
"Grow up quickly. No one is more eager for your growth than me... In order for you to reach the final stage as quickly as possible, I will also arrange a bumpy but wonderful shortcut for you."
The man put out his cigarette and gently closed the script.
The title of the play, "King of Clowns," was already written on the cover of this unfinished script.
He picked up the script, stood up, walked to the bookcase beside him, and casually inserted it into his portfolio.
In the bookcase, there are many works such as "Mona, the Daughter of the Out-of-Control Man", "Philip's Travels" and "The Tragic Prince".
"Your story is the most exciting and important..."