''Craftsman' has been upgraded.'
Time unknowingly slipped away.
Basking in the sun, enjoying the quiet life, and indulging in his desire to slack off, Tang looked at the System and opened the 'Craftsman' module.
Centered on him, the surrounding light and various buildings twisted and writhed, radiating ripples like water patterns.
Streams of light, seemingly composed of countless basic particles, interspersed with various mystical symbols, constantly bounced out, twisting and spiraling in mid-air. Light and shadow intersected, and the brilliant sunlight lost its original color, becoming somewhat gray, hazy, and illusory.
Intuition instantly allowed Tang to perceive the change in the 'Craftsman.'
Compared to the previously monotonous mystical symbols that adorned it, acting as a backdrop, after consuming the Extraordinary characteristics of an Alchemist, the backdrop behind it had silently changed.
It was deeper, more mysterious, with intricate ancient patterns and various mystical symbols connected in a vast expanse. From Tang's known mystical knowledge, only a few of these symbols pointed towards the mystical symbols commonly used by Extraordinary individuals of the Seer and Knowledge pathways, such as 'knowledge,' 'civilization,' and 'mystery.'
More of them were of unclear meaning, either abstract symbols exhibited by mythical creature forms above Sequence Four of these two pathways, at the demigod and half-human level, or collectively pointed towards Extraordinary realms that current mysticism couldn't touch.
Copying them down would probably lead to quite terrifying consequences.
But overall, it didn't have much impact on him. Tang glanced at them and then ignored them.
After briefly browsing the manual provided by the System, Tang submitted the 'Never-Ending Theater' to the System for optimization.
'Starting optimization, consuming one forging次数, remaining forging次数: 22 times.'
'Remaining time: 47:59:54.'
That was two days.
Optimizing a Sealed Artifact took much less time than creating a brand new mystical item.
After the 'Craftsman' module was upgraded, it could finally stably process Extraordinary items of Sequence Three and below.
It compressed the processing time, reduced the negative effects of the corresponding created Extraordinary items, could stabilize more powerful Extraordinary abilities, and could also create mystical items from Angel-level Extraordinary characteristics, but as before, if forced, unknown mutations would occur during the creation process.
There was a watershed between Sequence Five and Sequence Four, and similarly, a watershed between Sequence Three and Sequence Two.
One gave birth to divinity, and the other was the appearance of a complete mythical creature form.
"But it's just optimization, appropriately reducing the negative effects of already completed mystical items or Sealed Artifacts. After eating an Alchemist, the System can indeed optimize."
Because Sequence Four was a qualitative change, after meeting a certain condition, even if the selected target was the Extraordinary characteristics of a Sequence Two Miracle Invoker, the 'Craftsman' could operate.
"Moreover, the 'Craftsman' can now process three different mystical items at once."
Tang pondered for a moment, threw the upside-down cross his father had given him in to the System to purify the spiritual imprints within, and then took out the Law Enforcer's Extraordinary characteristics of the Seer pathway Sequence Four, which he had prepared in advance from the Meatball, and threw it in along with his chains to enhance them.
Enhancing Sequence Six to Sequence Four.
Still only selecting one Extraordinary ability and maximizing its effectiveness.
The reality-enhancing decrees at the Sequence Four level would undergo a qualitative change.
As for the rest...
Tang thought about it and decided to talk about it later.
"In this way, the most important thing is actually the digestion of the potion. Driving demigod-level mystical items with Sequence Five spirituality consumes a lot."
With his Sequence Five spirituality, even if the negative effects weren't strong, he couldn't sustain it for too long.
Too many demigod-level Extraordinary items weren't necessarily bad, but they were somewhat wasteful.
Spreading the last batch of decolorized syrup evenly on the ground to dry, Tang put away his marionette and returned to the castle.
"Olson."
Tang found Olson in his own garden. Olson was squatting on the ground, doing something unknown, looking at the flowers planted in the ground with a somewhat dazed expression.
"Ah?"
Olson raised his head. Tang returned the magic book he had lent him earlier.
This mystical item called 'Travel Notes' had been lent to him by Olson before entering the theater. It recorded a demigod-level 'banishment,' which had helped him banish the Black Knight and had been quite useful.
"Speaking of which, what are you doing in Tingen this time?"
After returning the mystical item to Olson, Tang brought up this topic casually.
He and Olson had known each other for a long time, but Olson's arrival in Tingen this time was somewhat sudden.
"Wanted to find a quieter place." Olson didn't hide anything and said directly, "Don't know why, but recently I start hearing strange noises every night."
As a Traveler, distance wasn't an issue he needed to pay attention to.
"Noises?"
Olson had mentioned it briefly yesterday, but his condition at the time was too bad, and Tang hadn't asked in detail.
Now he could learn more specifically about what Mr. Door's murmurs were all about.
"Yeah." Olson sat on the ground without any regard for his image. He didn't know if it was because the effects of losing control hadn't disappeared or because he was truly too tired, leaving him with no strength. "It should be some kind of murmuring. That still somewhat vague sound made me vaguely sense the feeling of losing control."
"But currently, it's not serious yet. I can still bear it, and it's not enough to affect my own stability."
"But..."
"But what?"
Olson fell silent. He pursed his lips tightly, looking somewhat hesitant.
"Tang, do you know what happens when high-sequence Extraordinary individuals lose control?"
Without waiting for Tang to answer, he said to himself, "They will turn into incomplete mythical creatures, indiscriminately attacking any life they can see around them."
The few remaining demigods of the Abraham family since the Fourth Epoch War had also lost control one after another in recent years.
Some had sensed something before nearing loss of control and self-exiled themselves to other places, while others showed no abnormalities but suddenly turned into monsters at some point, indiscriminately killing many Abraham children.
They had used many methods to investigate these problems, but all the answers pointed to the Abraham family itself, pointing to their bloodline.
"The elders sensed the problem and told us to leave the Abraham family's ancestral land on our own and go find places that could block the moon."
"Block the moon?"
Tang pressed, "Is there a problem with the moon?"
"I don't know." Olson shook his head honestly. "The elders... they should know something, but they haven't told us. They just vaguely mentioned something on the moon..."
"What is it?"
(End of this chapter)