[You assassinate one student monster after another, making your way deeper into the corridor. You spot one remaining student.]
[This student stands out. She has a graceful figure and a pale, captivating face. Her four eyes are shut tightly as she stands silently by a faculty office door.]
[Your approach seems to alert her. She suddenly opens her eyes, four pitch-black pupils stare directly at you.]
[She sees through your stealth. With a shrill scream, she lunges at you…]
Damn! His trusty stealth skill had been seen through!
So four eyes really were that powerful…
[You stab her in the chest with your Hidden Blade…]
[You have defeated the Knowledge-Seeking Four-Eyed Student. Experience slightly increased.]
[You obtained: Naless Trace of Spirit x1]
[You obtained: Unknown Creature’s Eyeball x12 (Junk)]
[You obtained: Key to the Naless ntor’s Office (Key)]
[You examine the elegant corpse before you…]
[Shell of the Knowledge-Seeking Four-Eyed Student: A beautiful young woman who beca addicted to knowledge after receiving an extra pair of transplanted eyes. For unknown reasons, she stood guard before the office, not letting anyone approach. She died from a stab to the chest that ruptured her heart. Compatibility: 113% ( 45%)]
[Would you like to possess this Shell?]
Lin Xun guessed this was likely that Lir girl ntioned earlier, the student who had received an extra pair of eyes.
He discarded the Corrupted Elder Beastman from his Shell Slots and clicked ‘Possess.’
[You have possessed the Shell of the Knowledge-Seeking Four-Eyed Student.]
[The Shell retains fragnted mories of her life…]
[…I was young and foolish. After the ntor’s deep ‘education’ and receiving a bounty of knowledge, I finally saw the light.]
[I used to be so ignorant. Thankfully, I t such a good ntor who helped
return to the right path.]
[And he even gave
an extra pair of eyes. I know it cost him what little savings he had left.]
[The first eye transplant felt strange. I could see things I’d never seen before, gaining the knowledge I had always dread of!]
[Of course, even stranger was my first carriage ride with the ntor. Oh, that thick concentration of knowledge…]
[The carriage to Bennett’s Transplant Clinic is always parked outside the academy, ready to serve any student eager to receive eye transplants…]
[…]
[Unfortunately, the ntor lost himself in the sea of knowledge. I could only gouge out his extra eyes and spend every night cuddled beside them.]
[I remain here, guarding the office, a place filled with our cherished mories…]
[The fragnted mory ends here.]
Lin Xun twitched his mouth and pressed a hand to his forehead, veins nearly popping.
It took him a long mont before he could pick his phone back up and continue the ga.
[You have gained knowledge. Your Knowledge stat increased by 10! Current Knowledge: 40/100]
He opened the Shell Panel.
[Shell – Knowledge-Seeking Four-Eyed Student]
[True Na: Unknown]
[Compatibility: 113% ( 45%) – Compatibility threshold exceeded. Shell Quality improved!]
[Shell Quality: Common]
[Shell Level: 29 ( 9)]
[Shell Equipnt: Academy Student Robe (Ruined) – A black standard-issue robe stained with gri and blood, with three large eyes sewn into the chest in a triangular pattern.]
[Shell Skill: Knowledge Extraction (Common) – Every person harbors an insatiable desire for knowledge. To seek knowledge is life’s only aning. When activated, this skill slightly increases the amount of knowledge gained.]
Still junk-tier gear, but the Shell quality was one tier higher than the ntor’s. Maybe it was because of the four eyes?
More importantly, the Shell ca with a skill, one that could increase knowledge acquisition.
Lin Xun activated the skill to accelerate knowledge gain and uncover the stat’s effects as soon as possible.
[You have activated Knowledge Extraction. Until deactivated, your knowledge gain will be slightly increased.]
He wasn’t sure whether the buff would persist after switching Shells.
In his inventory, the Naless Chunk of Spirit was valued at 500, and the 12 eyeballs, per their descriptions had long lost their vitality.
Presumably, they were plucked from the ntor’s face.
[You now stand before the locked office door.]
[Would you like to use the Key to the Naless ntor’s Office to open it?]
[You use the key to unlock the office door.]
[Inside are several bookshelves and a wooden desk.]
[You step inside…]
[You discover a moldy old lesson plan and a black lace blindfold on the desk.]
[You have obtained: Naless ntor’s Lesson Plan (Docunt)]
[You have obtained: Blindfold of Knowledge Rejection (Special Equipnt)]
Lin Xun checked his inventory.
[Naless ntor’s Lesson Plan (Docunt)]
[Today’s lesson: I will teach students the origin of our Multivision School…]
[Humans are pitiful, insignificant beings. In the vastness of the stars, we are like a speck of dust, tiny and ignorant.]
[To change this, and to pursue truth and knowledge, we awakened our dormant thirst for knowledge, amplifying it infinitely…]
[To gain knowledge, one must have sharp eyes!]
[With eyes that can perceive everything, we can gaze upon the stars, face the abyss… and explore truths our ancestors could never reach!]
[Our Multivision School is different from the wealthier Direct Vision School—we admit only commoner students who can’t afford expensive, high-grade eyes.]
[But our school has developed an alternative thod. Since we can’t win with quality, we win with quantity!]
[More eyes an better observation of the world and greater acquisition of knowledge.]
[That is the origin of the Multivision School.]
[Lastly, rember this always: Knowledge is power!]
Lin Xun frowned, he finally had a clearer picture of this world.
To satisfy ever-expanding thirst for knowledge, they bought eye transplants to see everything and acquire knowledge… What a warped, grotesque worldview.
[You have gained knowledge. Your Knowledge stat increased by 50! Current Knowledge: 90/100]
Reading the docunt and combining it with earlier clues, Lin Xun, as a veteran player, had a theory.
Knowledge might be a double-edged sword.
From the ntor’s belief that “knowledge is power,” it seed raising Knowledge would grant strength.
But in Lir’s mories, the ntor had also lost himself in the sea of knowledge.
He had a suspicion. To test it, he’d need to push further.
He still had a full 3/3 Soul Strength, and except for the ntor (who just died), all his Shells were in good condition.
He had room for plenty of experintation.
Next, he checked the blindfold.
[Blindfold of Knowledge Rejection (Special Equipnt) – A thin, scented lace blindfold for won. Wearing it slightly reduces the amount of knowledge gained.]
Special Equipnt was rare in-ga, typically offering unique functionality.
This one’s effect was precisely to reduce knowledge gain.
Which confird his suspicion, there was sothing dangerous about the Knowledge stat.
But he didn’t equip it just yet.
At the very least, he needed to find out whether raising the stat brought benefit or harm.
[The bookshelves in the office appear to hold so unusual items.]
[Would you like to search them?]
Lin Xun raised an eyebrow.
Now this was getting interesting.
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