Chapter 858 - 42: Possibility of Stat Reset?
Like a slumbering giant, and yet like an unresponsive corpse.
The starship, like a small mountain, quietly lies in the underground world, nestled within the comet crater, as if it will slumber here for eternity...
But it’s only seemingly so.
Under the faint fluorescence emitted by the nearby glowing plant, in the dark, low-visibilty underground space, the outline of this enormous object can be faintly discerned. Also faintly visible are the few cracks that have appeared on its deep silver exterior shell.
The metal seems to have melted into a liquid state...
Permeating beneath the soil, rapidly diffusing in all directions...
......
Just not far from the seaside, especially near the giant pit carved out by the impact of the comet—
Beneath the cliff, there is a dark, damp cave.
Named for things that easily drift with the waves and float into the cavern—dead branches, water plants, driftwood... even corpses, all these things emitting an unpleasant odor, characterized by their dampness, piled within the shadowy cave.
There is a body that perhaps has just drifted on the tide to the cave shore...
Not quite a corpse, actually there is still a faint breath, a slight rise and fall of the chest, very weak, a case of more outflow than intake. Shortly, it will completely cease to breathe and exist, thus—destined to perish.
Yet in reality...
Such an occurrence did not happen.
Out of nowhere came a gray tide, like a swarm of ants, attaching to the surface of this "corpse," then diffusing and disappearing beneath the skin like mercury seeping into the ground, leaving no trace in an instant.
A few seconds later, the "corpse" dressed in wet clothes adhered to its body suddenly opened its eyes, then pressed its hands to the earth, lifting its body to kneel down, clutching its chest and coughing heavily, as if it had choked on seawater, feeling extremely uncomfortable.
Soon recovering, he looked around the dark, damp cave with some confusion, seeming still somewhat bewildered.
Am I not dead?...
Washed by the tide to this place then...
Only—
He looked down at his hands in wonder, finding that the scratches on his arms had disappeared without a trace, as if he had never been injured. Moreover, he noticed that his condition seemed extraordinarily good, without any feeling of weakness.
Instead, his body felt filled with strength, as if he could exert unimaginable muscle strength and agility...
This was no illusion.
The Divine Steel Body was completing its reconstruction within him, the nanoscopic physical application systems were taking effect, granting him unimaginable power. Constantly reorganizing and self-replicating, if it weren’t restricted, they could instantly transform the organism completely into a mechanical body.
......
"What is this..."
On the edge of the giant pit on the plain, riding a majestic tall horse and dressed in a traveler’s light skirt, Miss Witch couldn’t help but furrow her brows and study the abyss below.
Bottomless, with the sight of rocks and debris occasionally tumbling down the reachable rock wall, and no echo for a long time... This secretly shocked her, the strange comet had almost landed right in front of her from the sky.
With such mass and size, even a slight deviation could have crushed her.
Miss Witch halted her steps, led her steed’s rein, and measured the giant pit appearing on the plain. The more she examined, the tighter her frown became.
For the pit was enormous, indicating the comet’s mass was also beyond imagination. Yet it just pierced the earth’s layers all the way, concentrating impact and destructive force at a point, barely spreading, which was very unusual.
Could it be some extraterrestrial entity again?
Seeming to have realized something, Miss Witch frowned tightly.
Moments later, she finally reached out to lightly pat the horse’s head. The next second, the majestic tall horse snorted, exhaling, and neighed softly, then demonstrated power that would astonish Mr. Vergil in the Devil May Cry World—
It gently leaped, rising in mid-air, and as it descended, it tapped into the void with its hooves, through a double jump, directly leaping to the center of the giant pit...
Then, rushing straight downwards, galloping into the void!
In the howling wind, this spirited steed, carrying Miss Witch, charged straight below the pit, ready to investigate.
......
These are not all brought by the crater.
Its influence on this world is unimaginably profound, and all of this is spreading silently.
The shattered starship’s shell, bringing the Divine Legacy not only rapidly spreads around the crater but also permeates deeper layers below, continuously splitting, reorganizing, and self-replicating at a nanoscopic scale, the Steel of the Gods spreading relentlessly—
Ultimately spreading to the deepest segments of the underground dark river, reaching the edge of the ancient civilization ruins, named the Eternal City, situated beneath the deep root layers of the Golden Tree.
The storm is quietly rising...
And now is merely the prelude, the eve before history unfurls a new Chapter.
As for the person responsible for crashing a starship, he is already happily on his way to the Magic Academy, following his own plan. He is indeed more interested in collecting knowledge in this regard, and for now, there is nothing else he needs to do; everything that should be done has been done.
The pieces have been set, now it’s just a matter of waiting for the right moment to arrive.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that by that time, he will use "losing a starship" as an excuse to demand a search of the Boundary Land...
Soon, he found himself for the second time at the front gate of Rea Lucaria Academy. The last time was purely to gather information, where he simply walked outside, using the large-range, high-precision spiritual power scan to automatically record nearly all the details on the map.
And now, he was entering openly for a proper visit.
But Gu Mo probably didn’t feel the necessity to engage with them, much like the era of broken order and the fractured Boundary Land, even if its people had the "Moon Faith"... Yet in this world, the moon should be an Outer God.
And it has nothing to do with him.
He didn’t plan to impersonate anyone either.
The academy’s magic barrier naturally couldn’t stop Gu Mo; he wasn’t detected by anyone, wandering through the magnificent Magic City like a ghost, as if it were a land without people. He traversed every space and location with ease, soon reaching his destination—
Rea Lucaria Grand Library.
A massive space filled with towering bookshelves that resembled giants, stacked with an endless number of tomes and manuscripts, exuding a unique, heavy aura of paper and words. A dense accumulation of history and mystery seemed to saturate this space, transforming into a concept of immense weight.
Many books lay scattered across the floor, giving the grand library a sense of chaotic order.
Among them, many books emitted varying degrees of mysterious energy reactions.
In the library’s center, beneath the ceiling’s light, sat a female mage dressed in luxurious attire. She wore a high crown, her expression captivated and indulgent, gently caressing an object in her embrace.
It was a huge Amber Egg, glowing with a crystalline jade-like brilliance.
On the ground around her was a group of children crawling and sprawling on the floor. Though their eyes appeared innocent, there was no true spirituality within. Wearing the same uniform of the Magic Academy, they crawled around the floor in groups... The scene was haunting.
"..."
"..."
Gu Mo, who had entered boldly through the front door, observed this scene with a keen interest.
The central female mage was once the leader of the academy, the Full Moon Queen, Renala. But now she was mentally unstable, likely due to being played with and heartlessly discarded by a scoundrel. This blow was too overwhelming... maybe.
As for the Amber Egg in her arms, it was a gift from that scoundrel, supposedly containing a Great Rune possessed by an unborn demigod.
Apparently, she believed, or wanted to prove, that the reason the scoundrel left her was because the children she bore were incomplete, defective. Thus, the Full Moon Queen had a deep obsession with having this egg perfectly hatch a healthy child.
The children crawling around were mostly lives she created with this egg...
Yet—
They were still incomplete, defective children.
Thus, the queen sank deeper into her obsessions, becoming increasingly erratic... And having come deliberately to the academy, Gu Mo was not only there to access the vast knowledge of the Magic Academy but also intrigued by the Amber Egg.
For the Great Rune it contained represented the law and secret of "rebirth," a crucial function in the game.
—Reset allocation.
Gu Mo naturally found it worth caring about, as it was his first encounter with such a possibility. None of the previous Dungeon Worlds had it, and not investigating it thoroughly would be unreasonable.
With point allocation available, there should surely be a reset function too!
Though the dog system was silent, given that it managed dungeon aspects by selecting functional NPCs to handle them, Gu Mo decided to take a chance... If he truly could reset points, reassigning them sensibly could potentially allow him to raise his spirit to 60+ all at once!
Carrying such a hopeful wish, the young man in white with black hair carefully sized up the scene, then stepped forward, one step at a time.
As soon as the Full Moon Queen saw him, the mesmerized and indulgent look vanished, replaced by suspicion and hostility. In response, the defective children crawling around turned their heads to look over.
Countless pairs of dull, dark eyes stared at the approaching intruder.
The sight was intensely eerie.
But Gu Mo lightly clapped his hands a couple of times, and the children, who were about to take action, promptly halted. Their expressions quickly became dazed and weary, slowly closing their eyes as they sank into a deep slumber, seemingly immersed in pleasant dreams.
The Full Moon Queen was also momentarily dazed, her expression struggling, unable to resist the powerful Calming Technique. The caster’s level far surpassed hers.
Gu Mo approached quickly, raising an eyebrow, noticing an automatic defensive Counterattack Technique activate—
"In the name of Witch Lani, I declare—"
A faint, cold voice rang out.
"...Do not disturb mother’s serene slumber."