Lin Xun quickly opened his Inventory to check.
[Type-II Relic Fragnt (Corrupted Mire): Equipping this Relic will enhance your soul. Soul Enhancent Effect:
10%]
“Huh? Soul enhancent? What does that an?”
After clicking the Relic Fragnt, an equip option appeared.
Lin Xun attempted to equip the Relic.
[You have equipped Type-II Relic Fragnt (Corrupted Mire)!]
[Your soul has grown stronger!]
[Your Soul Enhancent effect will synchronize with the Shell you possess.]
[Once your total Soul Enhancent exceeds 50%, your maximum Soul Strength will increase by 1.]
Relics could actually increase the maximum limit of Soul Strength?!
Lin Xun hurriedly opened his Apostle Panel.
[Relic: Type-II Relic Fragnt (Corrupted Mire)]
[Total Soul Enhancent: 10%]
A thought struck him. He randomly clicked one of the Shells in the Shell Slots.
[You have possessed the Shell of the Blood Sun Paladin!]
[This Shell is now enhanced by your Soul. Shell Strength:
10%!]
His eyes widened, equipping a Relic could directly boost a Shell’s strength by percentage!
There was still one Source of the Apocalypse in his Inventory, unlike the fragnt he had just solidified. The Corrupting Blood Sun’s Source of the Apocalypse was in its ultimate form, a reward from achieving an SSS rating.
Brimming with anticipation, he clicked the Book of Salvation once more.
[Would you like to solidify Type-III Ultimate Source of the Apocalypse — Corrupting Blood Sun into a Relic?]
[Warning: This solidification process is irreversible. Please choose carefully!]
[Solidifying…]
[Solidification complete!]
[You have obtained Type-III Ultimate Relic (Corrupting Blood Sun)]
[Type-III Ultimate Relic (Corrupting Blood Sun): Equipping this Relic will enhance your soul. Soul Enhancent Effect:
50%]
The difference between S-tier and SSS-tier was enormous, 10% vs. 50%, a fivefold gap!
No hesitation, he clicked Equip.
A 50% boost was clearly far more impactful than just 10%.
[You have equipped Type-III Ultimate Relic (Corrupting Blood Sun)!]
[Your soul has grown stronger!]
[Your Soul Strength has increased. Current Soul Strength: 3/3!]
Lin Xun was overjoyed. Having just two Soul Strength points had felt incredibly limiting. With this upgrade to 3 points, he no longer had to worry about getting locked out of play due to a soul burnout.
Now he just wondered if the soul recovery speed had improved as well.
Suddenly, he frowned, sothing wasn’t right.
When equipping the Ultimate Relic, the ga hadn’t shown any ssage about the previous Relic being unequipped.
He reopened the Apostle Panel and looked at the Relics section. Sure enough, there were two Relics present!
[Relic: Type-II Relic Fragnt (Corrupted Mire)]
[Relic: Type-III Ultimate Relic (Corrupting Blood Sun)]
[Total Soul Enhancent: 60%]
“Wait… Relics can be equipped simultaneously?”
After pondering for a while, Lin Xun ca to a hypothesis.
The labels, Type-II and Type-III, weren’t just indicating the drop source or quality. They might also represent compatibility tiers, aning Apostles could equip Relics from different difficulty levels.
Which ant, ignoring 0-difficulty chapters (which had no rating), Apostles could potentially obtain and equip one Relic per chapter from difficulty levels 1 through 9!
And if every chapter yielded an SSS rating, and each Ultimate Relic provided a 50% Soul Enhancent, that would be a 450% total enhancent to both soul and Shell strength!
Suddenly, he slapped his thigh.
“Crap! That ans I totally screwed up just now!”
Lin Xun had entered the ga starting from difficulty level 3. From this point forward, any chapter he entered could only randomly be level 3 or higher.
According to the ga’s chanics, that ant he could no longer obtain ultimate Relics from level 1 or 2 chapters.
“Is this… the downside of having too strong a talent?”
Lin Xun gave a helpless laugh, unsure whether to be proud or frustrated.
Sure, starting at a higher difficulty accelerated his growth significantly, but at the cost of giving up access to Relics?
Wasn’t that price just a little too high?
He had a vague suspicion that this cursed ga wouldn’t implent such a harsh rule lightly, but the facts were right there, undeniable.
“Why not just ask Team Leader Li?”
After all, the first Source of the Apocalypse he’d received had co from the sultry, black-stocking superior. She definitely knew the hidden chanics.
He switched to the Book of Communication in the Library.
This function worked similarly to an email system, players could check ssages via the Book of Communication or the Resting Page. It didn’t support live chats or sticker spam like a regular ssaging app.
Opening the Book of Communication, four friend requests popped up.
Three of them were from a while ago.
‘Star Glaze’ was the black-stocking office lady – Li Xingyue.
‘Pretty Warrior Girl’ was the short-haired beauty – Ye Xiaoqi.
‘Little White Deer’ was none other than Lu Caiyi.
Lin Xun accepted all three requests without hesitation.
The last one…
‘Chug the Holy Water’
???
[Apostle “Chug the Holy Water” has sent a friend request to your disguised soul imprint “Lord of Cinders.”]
[If you accept this Apostle, he will gain access to your true soul imprint.]
[Do you want to add this Apostle as a friend?]
What kind of joke was this?
Lin Xun instantly hit Reject.
What, did this guy develop so kind of twisted Stockholm Syndro?
Was he trying to add a “worthy opponent” for mutual admiration?
Or was he looking to spew garbage talk?
Lin Xun guessed it was most likely the last one.
He began composing ssages.
To Star Glaze: ‘Team Leader, the Divine Relic worked great. I’ve decided to repay your kindness properly.’
To Pretty Warrior Girl: ‘You keep hounding
to update, yet don’t vote with your Recomndation or Moon Tickets? What’s that about?’
To Little White Deer: ‘Xiao Bai, let’s go for drinks.’
In that mont, Lin Xun felt the sa thrill he used to get back when QQ and WeChat first launched, he almost wanted to shake his phone to find nearby users.
Just as he was about to close the Book of Communication, a reply from Li Xingyue ca through.
‘Star Glaze’: ‘You cleared the starting chapter already???’
What a coincidence, Team Leader Li was online and playing this cursed ga too.
‘Swordsmith’: ‘Just cleared it. About to co report in, boss.’
‘Star Glaze’: ‘That was fast! Co to the office.’
‘Swordsmith’: ‘…’
Did… Did he just chat himself into working overti? You couldn’t make this up.
Still, this was a good opportunity to ask his superior about the secrets of Relics.
After getting dressed, Lin Xun hailed a cab and headed to the office.
Just as he entered the Cultural Bureau’s front gate, he saw a figure quickly slipping out.
He thought the guy looked familiar, one of the few male colleagues he had. If he rembered right, the guy’s na was sothing like Fang… Fang Yifei?
Lin Xun was about to say hi, but the guy bolted so fast he vanished from sight.
He didn’t give it much thought and headed straight for the third floor: Team Leader’s office.
As always, Li Xingyue was dressed in her smoking hot office lady attire, clearly she’d been waiting for him.
Without standing on ceremony, the handso guy plopped down on the sofa beside his superior.
Once you got familiar with the sultry black-stocking woman, you’d realize that her cold and glamorous persona was just a facade. In truth, she was an excellent boss.
She never pulled rank, was considerate toward subordinates, and always tried to secure extra perks for them.
Li Xingyue poured him a cup of hot tea:
“I thought you’d need more ti to clear Chapter 323. I didn’t expect you to break through so soon.”
“How’d your chapter rating turn out?”
Lin Xun lied with a straight face:
“I failed to live up to your training, Boss, just an A rank.”
She gave him a sultry side-eye, utterly bewitching.
“The Blood Sun world is notoriously difficult. In the ga, worlds like that are categorized as Nightmare Difficulty.”
“Clearing the Blood Sun world already puts you ahead of 99% of Apostles, let alone earning an A rating.”
“I knew I wasn’t wrong about you… It’s just a sha. Divine Relics haven’t been approved for distribution lately. Otherwise, with a few more in your hands, you might’ve earned an S rating.”
See? Not only was the boss gorgeous, she had a silver tongue, too.
Seizing the mont, Lin Xun asked about the deeper chanics of Relics.
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