He saw a shrine in his mind. It was tall and imposing, with six pillars supporting a dome. An ancient voice was constantly mumbling to him.
He had to go.
The handwriting was very messy. It was clear that Wayne’s mind was already focused on the shrine when he wrote it.
…
After Marvin read the letter, he wasn’t too worried. In fact, he had a baffled expression.
He thanked the adventurer and gave him a small reward before pondering about it in his room.
Few people knew about Wayne being a Seer.
In the game, he had never heard the name Wayne, so he had probably been killed during the start of the disaster.
In this world, Wayne was alive. And as a Seer, he had something unique. Being able to see a bit into the future was quite amazing.
But what he saw might not necessarily be the real future.
If Wayne had left on his own to go somewhere else, Marvin would feel a bit worried.
The Gods would descend soon after all, so it might even be a God’s trick.
But perhaps even the Gods wouldn’t dare profane that southern area.
Feinan’s deep south was an endless wilderness, which had countless Monsters. The reason they didn’t come out and cause a disaster was a shrine.
Marvin naturally knew about that shrine, and it did fit Wayne’s description.
“That’s the only shrine of the Wizard God Lance in this world…” Marvin softly muttered.
As a Seer, Wayne saw the shrine and received its summons… What would happen?
Marvin’s heart had a hint of expectation.
Wayne was very gifted. Even without Marvin, if White River Valley was in his hands, there wouldn’t be much difference.
He would shine, but his brilliance had been eclipsed by Marvin’s.
Marvin had a faint feeling about this trip to the shrine.
Wayne also needed to adventure and gain some experience. As for those Monsters in the wilderness, they wouldn’t pose much of a threat to him.
Unless he met a powerful Beast King… but the probability of that was minimal.
After all, Wayne was a Seer and a Half-Legend Wizard.
…
Marvin was just putting Wayne’s matter aside for the time being, when Anna suddenly rushed in and worriedly told him about one of the biggest matters which followed that previous fight.
After the battle in Steel City, the Legends left.
The old Alliance of the Seven Orders had their own matters and left first. Inheim also followed them.
O’Brien and Constantine originally wanted to return to White River Valley with Endless Ocean, but at that time, people of the Migratory Bird Council came.
It turned out that the Demon Army in the Supreme Jungle was fake.
It was a distraction created by Dark Phoenix to fool the Migratory Bird Council. There were actually very few Demons.
When they found out, the Great Druids immediately turned their attention to the South.
After Marvin killed Dark Phoenix, they didn’t comment on that, and instead started blaming Endless Ocean!
Endless Ocean was a Great Druid nurtured by the Migratory Bird Council, yet she unexpectedly stole the four totemic pillars. This was the reason the Migratory Bird Council used to condemn her.
Facing the blame from her former friends, Endless Ocean remained silent and chose to return the four totemic pillars and return to the Supreme Jungle to accept the Council’s trial.
Naturally, Constantine didn’t agree, and he followed her.
O’Brien and Owl were afraid that the two would come to harm, so after making sure Marvin managed to kill Dark Phoenix and was safe, they followed them to the Supreme Jungle.
These past few days, the Migratory Bird Council had put Endless Ocean on trial.
Now, the outcome of the trial was out.
‘Lifelong imprisonment? Guarding the World Tree?’
Marvin looked at the letter sent by Owl and had a dissatisfied expression.
Anyone would be angry at this outcome.
What a great Migratory Bird Council. When their help was needed, they didn’t appear. Then they arrived after the event and actually blamed Endless Ocean, the only Great Druid who made a move.
Even without mentioning Constantine and Endless Ocean’s close relationship, Marvin wouldn’t allow this to happen.
But what made Marvin feel doubtful was that the Chairman of the Migratory Bird Council stated that if Marvin agreed to personally make a trip to the Supreme Jungle, the matter might take a turn for the better.
“That old fox wants to meet me?”
Marvin crumpled the paper and began thinking.
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If not for that request at the end of the letter, Marvin would almost be convinced that the Migratory Bird Council was really trying to judge and punish Endless Ocean.
Now it looked like there was a hidden meaning behind it.
From what Marvin knew, although the Migratory Bird Council was a group of inflexible people, it was still an organization made up of fair Great Druids.
Especially their leader, Chairman Old Ent, who was said to be the closest lifeform to the Nature God.
It seemed like this farce was more of an excuse for Old Ent to meet Marvin.
But what did the Supreme Jungle want Marvin for?
Marvin wasn’t sure, but he had to properly handle Endless Ocean’s matter.
If Endless Ocean hadn’t stolen the totemic pillars and parted with the Migratory Bird Council, Marvin simply wouldn’t have been able to kill Dark Phoenix so many times, and that final kill wouldn’t have been possible either.
This trip to the Supreme Jungle was inevitable.
But he still had some things to take care of before leaving.
…
The biggest danger for White River Valley at the moment was the lack of high-end military forces.
O’Brien and the others were in the Supreme Jungle. If Marvin left, the only Legend in the area would be Madeline. Marvin felt that she wouldn’t be sufficient on her own.
But there was some good news.
After the Great Calamity, Prince Aragon, who had always been staying in Sword Harbor, seemed to have entered a special state. It seemed like he could advance to Legend anytime.
And the Mechanical Titan was staying on the shore of the White River with the Gnome Brothers always ready. This Mechanical Titan was stronger than ordinary Legends and should be able to deal with any circumstances that came up.
Marvin looked for Anna to deal with some other matters, before leaving the Sanctuary on his own.
He left very quietly this time. The higher-ups of White River Valley were already used to it, but the people living in the Sanctuary considered Marvin their mental support.
If they found out that Marvin wasn’t in the territory, the people could become unstable.
He opened the entrance of the Sanctuary and followed the main road from River Shore City heading north.
He didn’t get far before he found out a group of rodent Monsters. They were tearing apart the corpse of a lion that died a while ago.
After these beasts became Monsters, they grew more powerful. Marvin was in a hurry, so of course he didn’t want to have to deal with them.
The farther he went, the weaker the influence of the Source of Fire’s Order became, and Marvin eventually started feeling the Chaos Magic Power’s attacks on his willpower.
No wonder so many people became Monsters. For people with weaker wills, the Order power in their body couldn’t keep resisting the corrosion of the Chaos Magic Power.
Willpower was a hidden attribute. Even with his system, Marvin couldn’t see how high his own was.
But the Witch Tear he took before did increase it by 3, and that undoubtedly made him more resistant to the Chaos Ma
gic Power.
He remembered that players would have a willpower check every 30 minutes if they weren’t in a Sanctuary.
If they failed the check, they would become confused for three minutes.
This was the most frightening part of the Great Calamity.
And the default willpower of a player was 1.
The willpower of most commoners was somewhere between one-tenth and four-tenths of a point.
If they reached half a point, they could probably remain sane despite the Chaos Magic Power, and not transform into Monsters.
Marvin didn’t know how many points he had at the moment, but he had never failed a check so far. With his current willpower, he simply couldn’t be harmed by the Chaos Magic Power.
But on his way, he still felt a slight pressure.
When he rested, he used Earth Perception and found out that the level of Chaos Magic Power was 30% higher than when the disaster started.
After getting this information, Marvin felt slightly dazed.
The shattering of the first layer of the Universe Magic Pool definitely wouldn’t cause so much Chaos Magic Power to pour into Feinan.
There was only one explanation for this: The Universe Magic Pool’s 2nd Layer might have already ruptured.
The Great Elven King… might have already fallen!
His situation wasn’t like that of Eric, who died in front of everyone. The sky had already returned to normal so those in Feinan couldn’t see what was happening up there anymore. The Sanctuaries could only struggle and rely on Teleportation magic to exchange information. He died in silence.
No one knew how many Gods he had dragged down with him.
Marvin sighed.
…
While he was pressing forward, Marvin took some time to check the interface.
Since he advanced, the experience didn’t seem as important.
It was because Legends didn’t rely on experience to level up, instead using another type of data: Comprehension Points.
Now there was another line below his Legend class:
[Ruler of the Night Lv1]
[Comprehension Points: 2/10]
To level up his Legend class, he needed to reach 10 Comprehension. The two points he had already came from the Essence Absorption System absorbing Dark Phoenix’s Divine Source.
In the game, Comprehension was gained by killing Gods!
Or like the natives, they could gain Comprehension through meditation and enlightenment, but these methods could only increase their strength very slowly.
Therefore, most Legend players liked to slaughter beings that had Divine Source, such as Divine Servants, Gods’ Avatars, as well as some Totemic Gods from the Dead Area’s instances.
True Gods weren’t that easy to kill after all.
Moreover, the Comprehension gained would be the same.
For example, Marvin killed Dark Phoenix and gained a huge amount of experience, but he only gained 2 Comprehension.
This wasn’t much more than he’d get from killing a 1-Comprehension ordinary Totemic God while being a hundred times more troublesome.
In short, if Marvin wanted to progress right now, he would have to take an alternate path.
But that didn’t mean he had no use for experience.
It could still be used for classes below Legend rank, such as his Subclasses.
Marvin spent all his experience gained from the war on Shapeshift Sorcerer and Battle Gunner.
Thus, his Shapeshift Sorcerer class reached level 10 and his Battle Gunner class reached level 5.
Apart from slightly raising his HP, Shapeshift Sorcerer didn’t give many bonuses. Battle Gunner actually added a lot of Skill Points, which Marvin threw into Market Scuffle. This melee technique of the Shas was quite useful.
He was only hesitating on whether he should use that potion given by his grandfather to break his bottleneck.
By taking it, his Shapeshift Sorcerer bloodline would most likely have a qualitative upgrade!
Shadow-shape, Beast-shape, and Diamond-shape… What would be the next one?
Marvin was a bit curious.
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He did have some misgivings about his grandfather in Hell, but this potion had been checked by the Great Duke of Lavis Dukedom.
There was no issue with the medicine in itself. Marvin believed in the Great Duke’s appraisal.
Marvin hesitated. The Archdevil Head’s Divine Source was very precious and could only be used once. Generally, it would only be used when a Shapeshift Sorcerer could advance to Legend with it.
Although Marvin hadn’t grasped any dual classing method and it was safe to say that getting a subclass to Legend rank was unlikely, it was still good to be prepared for an eventuality.
Thus, he decided to set aside the Divine Source Drop for when his Shapeshift Sorcerer class reached level 20.
But if he wanted to break through to the 3rd rank as a Shapeshift Sorcerer, he would need to use this potion.
Having made up his mind, he stopped to rest and found a safe place to take the potion.
The Sorcerer bloodline breakthrough would usually happen in a split second. What was really difficult was the accumulation before the breakthrough.
With the help of the potion, Marvin successfully awakened his bloodline once again and reached level 11 in his Shapeshift Sorcerer class.
Like the previous times, the awakening gave him another shape.
But this shape was outside Marvin’s expectations by a lot.
[Boundless Shapeshifting – Magic Addict Shape]
[Description: when using the Magic Addict Shape, your body will turn into a Hell Magic Egg and start absorbing Chaos Magic Power. The more Magic Power absorbed, the more the body will recover. The Magic Addict transformation lasts thirty seconds and will automatically be cancelled after thirty seconds, after which the user recovers their human shape.]
[Warning: While absorbing Chaos Magic Power, a kind of extraordinary pleasure will be produced, making it hard to forget and easy to trigger it again.]
[Negative Property: Each use of the Magic Addict Shape reduces Willpower by 0.5 points.]
[Users with insufficient willpower will suffer from Magic Addiction, and ultimately die.]
…
Marvin found the description quite alarming.
This Magic Addict Shape was a lot different from his previous shapes!
Although each shape had its own side effects, the previous three only had a short period of weakness.
Marvin had used the Beast Shape a lot. After all, the Asuran Bear was very overbearing at low levels.
In the later stages, Diamond Shape became more advantageous.
For a short period of time, it could allow him to attack without any worries about the consequences.
As for Shadow Shape, it was more of a shape for casting. Marvin very rarely used it except to avoid some attacks.
The side effect of this 4th shape was a bit frightening!
It actually removed half a point of Willpower!
Moreover, he could suffer from [Magic Addiction]!
Marvin knew about this condition. After the Great Calamity, many people with special constitutions gained the ability to voluntarily absorb Chaos Magic Power. If their Willpower wasn’t high enough, they wouldn’t become Monsters, but they would form Magic Addiction.
They would constantly absorb Magic Power, satisfying their own pleasure. However, this would only speed up their deaths.
In the end, they would explode due to excessive Magic Power!
These people frequently roamed the wilderness. They were the kinds of lifeforms adventurers hated the most because one could never know when they might explode.
They might just be walking nearby and then suddenly pounce over before exploding. It led to [Equipment 99% damaged] and [Level -1] for the players.
…
‘Something like this Magic Addict Shape actually exists? Isn’t this side effect way too big?’
Marvin looked doubtfully at the empty bottle.
His previous three shapes didn’t have such extreme circumstances as the 4th shape he gained from his grandfather’s medicine.
He knew what Magic Addiction was… This thing was like taking drugs. If he caught it, he wouldn’t be able to cure it.
Then what was the value of this shape?
Marvin carefully studied it concluded that this shape was a last resort for preserving his life.
When he was near death, he could use thirty seconds to recover. After all, Chaos Magic Power was covering everything right now, so there would be no worry about whether he could absorb enough Chaos Magic Power.
But the price of this recovery was quite huge.
Marvin wouldn’t use it unless he was desperate.
He just managed to gain +3 Willpower after taking the Witch’s Tear. Wouldn’t he lose them once he used that shape six times?
Marvin was very stingy about his attributes.
He didn’t believe he wouldn’t be able to take care of most enemies after eight seconds of Diamond Shape.
But if that failed, wouldn’t he have no energy to flee?
This shape might be his final card.
…
After thinking of all this, Marvin was somewhat disappointed.
But Shapeshift Sorcerer a very random class, so he hadn’t hoped for an especially powerful Shape.
After all, Beast Shape and Diamond Shape were already fierce enough.
His bloodline was only average at best. It was far inferior to Daniela and Turalyon’s Ancient Angels’ bloodlines, so he was fine with the shapes he had.
He cleared up his thoughts and went back on the road.
Soon, he reached the Moonlight Forest.
There was a group of Elven Guards protecting this place.
Through the Elven Teleportation Array, Marvin reached Thousand Leaves Forest.
But when he got there, instead of Ivan, he was met by someone else.
Sea Elven Queen.
She looked angrily at Marvin. “I helped in the fight at Steel City.”
Marvin nodded calmly.
“He still isn’t willing to meet me.”
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