Chapter 10

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

As the sound of the system’s notification echoed throughout the room, Lu Jin was stunned for a moment. He looked at the notification bar in disbelief.

“The Book of Magical Skills?”

Lu Jin looked at the thick and heavy ancient book that had appeared. Even though it was wholly in his hands, Lu Jin still could not believe that it was real.

In Fantasy World’s settings, skills were divided into types.

The types were Normal, Rare, Magical, Supernatural, and Fantasy. Accordingly, they had different effects.

Back then, almost all the internal beta testers had mastered a few Normal skills. The effect of a Normal skill was equivalent to that of a single player’s move.

It was rare that an internal beta tester had mastered a Rare skill or two. The effect of a Rare skill was equivalent to a combined attack from multiple players. Usually, a single Rare skill move could end the battle.

A Magical skill was a skill that Lu Jin had never mastered during the internal beta test. The effect was like magic and it had the power to wipe out a small team in an instant.

As for the higher-level Supernatural skills and the theoretical Fantasy skills, even Lu Jin, who was an internal beta tester, did not know the exact effect.

“Absolute Nihility?” Lu Jin was secretly amazed by the detailed introduction of the book.

The name of the book was “Absolute Nihility”. Players could instantly master the skills after tapping on “Learn”. And the technique Absolute Nihility was just like its name—reducing all life to absolute nihility.

After using the skill, the player would enter a charging state. Strength would be continuously accumulated in the hands. The longer the time, the greater the accumulation of strength. However, it could only be released in one attack. The maximum duration of accumulation was one minute and the strength achieved could be up to 10 times the original strength. The cooldown time was three minutes.

Ten times the strength!

Even during the internal beta test, he would not have been able to achieve 10 times his original strength.

It had to be said that a Magical skill was indeed a Magical skill. Rare skills could not be compared to it at all. Even when he had mastered three Rare skills during the internal beta test, he would definitely not dare to face that move head-on.

It could be said that that move was an extremely suitable trump card.

“The Magical type is already so terrifying. How powerful are the Supernatural and Fantasy types?”

Lu Jin thought that if he mastered that skill at his peak, at least in terms of destroying the virtual world, it would really be destructive and no one would be able to stop him. It was hard to imagine that there was such a skill.

As for the six bottles of Growth Potion that he had spent 9,000 units of memory fragments on, Lu Jin had long forgotten about it.

That was because even if someone had wanted to trade the book of Absolute Nihility for 100,000 units or even 1,000,000 units of memory fragments, he would never trade it.

Although it was only one strike, it could reach the peak!

After that brief moment of awe, Lu Jin reached out to tap on the cover of the ancient book in his hand, and a notification popped up.

Do you want to learn the Magical skill: Absolute Nihility?

“I’ll learn it.” Lu Jin tapped ‘Learn’ with certainty.

Instantly, the thick and heavy ancient book in Lu Jin’s hands transformed into countless lines of code that fused into Lu Jin’s electronic body.

After a full minute had passed, he received a new message in his character’s system.

In the Skills section, which was originally empty, there were now two words.

Absolute Nihility!

As long as Lu Jin wanted to, he only needed to recite it and he would be able to activate Absolute Nihility.

“With this skill, it’s no longer impossible for me to reach Level 30 in the future.” Lu Jin’s eyes burned with excitement as he looked at the Skills section.

Lu Jin originally thought that it was unlikely for him to reach Level 30 in the future. It would be good enough if he could recover to his peak.

After all, the advancement of the AR level would get progressively difficult. Even breaking through bottlenecks required the completion of a series of extremely difficult challenges. Weapons, simulation equipment, accessories and skills were essential.

Now that he had a Magical skill, the difficulty of breaking through was undoubtedly much lower.

…

The next morning:

The pleasant chirping of birds outside the window made Lu Jin, who had been excited all night, stretch reluctantly.

Then, he changed his posture and continued sleeping.

However, just as he changed his posture, the bedroom door opened with a loud bang.

A beautiful figure rushed in.

“Brother, you’re not awake yet?” Lu Shixue looked at Lu Jin, who was lying on his bed, with a dissatisfied face. “We’re going to the Arena downtown today. Your two bodyguards came really early!”

“Give me five minutes.” Lu Jin rubbed his eyes.

“Five minutes… Is that enough?” A low voice suddenly replied.

Just as Lu Jin was about to respond:

“Yeah?”

He suddenly realized that the voice was different from Lu Shixue’s.

He slowly opened his eyes.

“Is this a… head?”

A head had appeared at the head of the bed. That head was as big as a table. Apart from a large mouth, there were also more than 10 eyes.

At that moment, that head was less than 30 centimeters away from him. More than 10 eyes were silently staring at him, and there was a strange smile in the corner of their eyes…

As though it thought that Lu Jin had not heard it, it repeated softly, “Is five minutes enough?”

That voice and that smile made Lu Jin spring up like a spring…

“I thought you needed five minutes?” Lu Shixue saw Lu Jin spring up and asked in surprise.

“Did you think that I’m that kind of lazy person?” Lu Jin asked righteously.

“Then pack up.” Lu Shixue couldn’t help but cast a disdainful look at him. “Let’s leave soon.”

As he saw Lu Shixue leave the bedroom, Lu Jin took his pants and jacket from the small closet wordlessly and followed her. He did not dare to stay any longer in that small bedroom.

Lu Jin heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that the head did not follow him, but at the same time, a chill ran down his spine.

That was because Lu Jin realized something when he compared it to the Shadowraze he first saw.

The Shadowraze he had just seen seemed to be more… intelligent…

Its speech was no longer broken, and there was no longer that cold mechanical feeling. It was as if he was talking to a real person.

Even its form began to change!

If he had not instinctively sensed that something was amiss, he would have been exposed.

“No way, these monsters are getting more and more cunning. I must find a safe place or a way to deal with them. Otherwise, something will eventually happen.”

Lu Jin couldn’t help but feel numb at the thought of that scene just now.

Although he did not know why those monsters kept testing him, he dared not imagine what would happen if he was exposed, especially when he thought of the shocking changes that happened to the younger Lu Jin in those three days.

According to his conversation with Lu Shixue the day before, he understood something.

It was that during those three days, the younger Lu Jin was still alive. The fast food in the garbage bags in the bedroom was the food that Lu Shixue had sent over.

Young Lu Jin was clearly still alive during those three days, but he did not have any memory of those days. It was as if those three days had never existed.

What exactly did the younger Lu Jin go through in those three days to become like that?

Furthermore, according to Lu Shixue’s information, the younger Lu Jin must have discovered something. He even seemed to have known about his impending death and had informed Lu Shixue not to disturb him the day before.

“Three missing days?” Lu Jin smiled wryly. “It seems like we need to know what I did during those three days before I deal with those monsters.”

According to Lu Shixue, during those three days…

Young Lu Jin had only been to one place!