766: Chapter 766: The Wind on the Storm Sea (Major Chapter, Requesting Monthly Passes) 766: Chapter 766: The Wind on the Storm Sea (Major Chapter, Requesting Monthly Passes) He Ao quietly observed the knight’s sword in the wooden case.
In his “Spiritual Vision,” the sword itself did not possess a particularly strong “transcendent power,” but scattered “twisted patterns” faintly lingered on those intricate runes.
The proportion of transcendent power contained within the sword was not especially high.
He Ao reached out, grasped the hilt of the knight’s sword, and lifted it.
The mont he did so, he felt his soul touched by so force, and countless pale-purple lights flowed from the guard of the hilt, spreading like water entering a river, quickly filling the intricate runes on the hilt.
At the sa ti, nurous chaotic and distorted thoughts flooded into He Ao’s mind: greed, jealousy, resentnt…
These twisted desires surged like a tide, filling He Ao’s brain, inundating his body, and assaulting his will.
He Ao’s expression remained unchanged, as he lowered his head, looking at the knight’s sword in his hand.
After the brief and vigorous tide of desire, the purple lights that had spread along the entire sword swiftly converged, once again disappearing into the sword.
At that mont, the sword did not appear as innocuously self-contained as before.
The cold and pale-white blade faintly shimred with a “seductive,” coveted “splendor.”
He Ao studied the intricate runes on the blade, enveloped his fingertips with Divine Sense, brushed over the edge of the blade, and then flicked the blade lightly with his finger.
Accompanied by the fine buzzing resonance of the blade, he sighed softly, “A very impressive design.”
The amount of transcendent power in the sword itself was not high.
Strictly speaking, it could not really be considered a transcendent object, but rather a ‘weapon’ crafted with transcendent power and transcendent materials.
It did not have a strong and terrifying transcendent effect, but its hardness and sharpness had likely reached a standard close to that of a B-grade weapon.
The crafter of this weapon did not have particularly strong forging skills, but he used another thod to strengthen the sword.
He might have obtained so special transcendent material and then infused this transcendent material into the weapon, designing an ‘Array’ to ‘utilize’ the power of these transcendent materials.
The most valuable aspect of this sword might not be the sword itself, but rather the Array engraved upon it.
He Ao gazed at the intricate runes on the blade, attempting to Listen to the whispers at his ear.
The twisted patterns gradually unfolded, revealing to him the deepest secrets of these runes.
Endless knowledge, as if transford into concrete symbols, danced in his vision.
They tangled together like tightly wound threads, and as He Ao understood parts of them, these threads began to unravel, loosening into straight and wide lines.
The ‘understood’ lines surrounded him, cheering and dancing as if praising his intelligence.
One by one, these threads of knowledge seed to form a long narrow path.
With every thread He Ao unraveled, he ‘walked’ a step further along this path.
As he gradually moved forward, more and more ‘lines’ surrounded him, and the ‘path’ ahead seed to stretch to an infinitely distant horizon, the ‘bundles of threads’ in front of him getting larger and stranger.
At so point, each ti He Ao unraveled a thread, he could feel a ‘pleasure’ rising from the depths of his soul, urging him to keep moving along the path and to continue unraveling new threads.
Endless whispers echoed in his ears, as if a jubilant orchestra was playing a rousing lody.
At the end of that path was Truth.
Within the cacophony of this ‘music,’ at a distance still very far away from ‘Truth,’
He Ao stopped his ‘steps.’
He glanced at the ‘lines’ scattered in his field of vision and slowly withdrew his thoughts.
“Yiluo!
Yiluo!”
At that mont, an urgent call reached He Ao’s ears.
He Ao looked up, his eyes sared with blood and tears, and saw Vili’s anxious face coming into view.
She gazed at He Ao, nervously asking, “What’s wrong with you?
Is there a problem with the sword?”
“No problem,”
He Ao shook his head, looked down at the knight’s sword in his hand, and touched the blood and tears that had flowed down, “Do you have a tissue?”
Carrie imdiately handed over a soft towel.
He Ao took the towel, wiped his cheeks, and looked again at the engravings on the sword blade.
At this mont, he no longer found these patterns unfamiliar.
He could clearly understand the purpose of the different structures within these engravings and the general principles of how they produce their effects.
In fact, in that special “Peering into the Truth” vision, he had “seen” much deeper “knowledge,” but in his current state, he could not comprehend it at all.
However, the part of the “knowledge” he still retained was enough to help him deconstruct and master the array engraved upon the Knight’s sword.
This array utilized a vast amount of knowledge from the Era of the Great Cataclysm that is now completely “lost.” If He Ao did not possess the ability to “peer into the truth,” he would probably only be able to look on helplessly.
Strictly speaking, this array is also a “strengthening” magic array, yet different from the “strengthening” of Divine Sense.
The strengthening of Divine Sense enhances the most essential characteristics of an object, with varying effects on different objects, while this kind of strengthening magic array gives the sa enhancent to all objects—naly, strengthening “tenacity,” “rigidity,” and “sharpness.”
In so ways, the effect of this array is more like an enchantnt specifically designed for weapons.
Any weapon inscribed with this array would receive such an enhancent, which ans He Ao now had a way to “upgrade” ordinary weapons.
But the bad news is, this “enchantnt strengthening” array requires special Transcendent materials for support, and these materials seem very peculiar; He Ao had not yet co across any Transcendent materials that seed capable of facilitating the array’s function.
That twisted power that could ignite a person’s “desire” seed to co from the Transcendent materials contained within the sword.
However···
As He Ao gazed at the patterns on the blade, the previously concealed purplish glow resurfaced with his attention.
The good news was, as long as he located the proper entry point within the array, bypassing the sections related to the Transcendent materials, and injected Divine Sense directly, Divine Sense could substitute for the Transcendent materials to “initiate” the enchantnt strengthening array.
Furthermore, once Divine Sense entered the enchantnt strengthening array, it would not interfere with the array’s original operation but would enhance the strengthening effect further.
In other words, like this sword, which contained Transcendent materials could receive an additional enhancent on top of the existing enhancent supported by those materials, thanks to the entry of Divine Sense.
Also, He Ao could use his own Divine Sense strengthening array to reinforce the sword, adding yet another level of strengthening effect.
With these cumulative layers of enhancent, this sword might surpass the threshold of a B-level weapon, perhaps even exerting a power far beyond that of a conventional B-level weapon.
Of course, only He Ao could perform this action because only he had Divine Sense and had truly “mastered” the enchantnt strengthening array, allowing him to channel Divine Sense through the correct entry point.
“So, what exactly just happened?”
At this ti, Vili’s sowhat anxious voice echoed again in He Ao’s ear.
“It has nothing to do with this sword,”
He Ao shook his head and said softly, “What just happened was conducting so special ‘experints’; the sword itself is quite good.”
As he spoke, he could distinctly feel a sense of weakness inside his body.
The aftermath of “peering into the truth” was not that easy to endure; even though he had stopped well before reaching the “truth” this ti, it still inflicted so damage on his fragile body.
“I knew you could master this sword.”
Vili nodded confidently, letting out a long sigh of relief.
“So, what’s the price of this sword?”
He Ao placed the Knight’s sword back into the wooden box and looked at Vili.
The sword was obviously not cheap; such “antiques” preserved from the Era of the Great Cataclysm fetched high prices on the black market, typically counting in the tens of millions of federal coins.
Indeed, he quite liked the sword, and Yiluo did not have the ability to pay the purchase amount; even including his parents’ company, it might not cover the sword’s price.
However, this was not a problem for He Ao, as he had many ways to resolve such situations.
“Do you see as the prop shop owner from a ga?”
Vili looked at He Ao, faintly beginning to realize sothing.
He Ao looked at her, pondered for a mont, “Not entirely?”
Vili’s breath hitched, but quickly, her expression steadied, and she said earnestly to He Ao,
“This sword has no price.
You saved and provided help.
This is the help I can offer you.”
“I see…”
He Ao looked at her earnest face, reached out to pick up the Knight sword and scabbard from the wooden box, inserted the Knight sword into the scabbard, and then nodded seriously, “Thank you.”
Feeling completely relaxed in his arms, Vili hurriedly handed the wooden box over to the nearby robot, and then she raised her bracelet swiftly operating it.
Ding—
With a light chi, He Ao looked at his bracelet, saw the refund notification, and glanced at Vili sowhat blankly.
“I’m not the prop shop owner!”
Vili placed her hands on her hips, her golden pigtails swishing, and said with puffed-up indignation.
He Ao let out a chuckle, didn’t raise his hand to pay again, but simply nodded, “Okay, Boss.”
“I’m not the Boss!”
The girl imdiately corrected.
“Got it, Boss.”
He Ao nodded again.
Vili’s face flushed bright red.
Carrie, in a maid outfit, who had co up earlier, covered her mouth with a hand and giggled softly to the side.
“Shall I leave then?”
He Ao raised his bracelet, checked the ti.
It was getting late; it was ti to do what he needed to do.
“Ah?”
Vili was taken aback.
She gazed at He Ao, and after a brief pause, she softly said, “Shall I see you off?
”
He Ao nodded, took the tal plate and harpoon from the side.
Vili had prepared a carrying strap for him, which could be strapped to his back, and He Ao promptly slipped the Knight sword into it as well.
The passageway door, which had been shut during their conversation, reopened, and the two proceeded down the stairs into the passageway.
“Is that guard post at the entrance to your villa there to watch you?”
In the brightly lit corridor, He Ao casually asked.
“Yes,”
Vili nodded, her gaze falling on the deep corridor as if she were subrged in so mory,
“Since my father’s death, they have stationed people here, watching day and night.
It’s not just the guard post at the entrance; there are sentries all around.
Although they can’t enter the villa, there’s a multitude of 24-hour sentries watching every part of it.”
“The mont I step out, countless people follow under the guise of protecting .”
“If I hadn’t discovered this passage, I might have been a Canary for life.”
“Is it United Industries’ people?”
He Ao inquired.
Given their connection to Vili and the blatant use of such a large number of people, United Industries was the only plausible entity.
“Mhm,”
Vili nodded again, “My ‘Uncle Vincent’ is very afraid of making contact with others.
He fears I would use my father’s influence to threaten him.”
“Back then, was it Vincent, the current chairman of United Industries, who pushed your father out of his chairman position?”
He Ao mused and asked.
According to the records retrieved by Eve, Skone’s ‘abdication’ seventeen years ago seed very abrupt; many of his policies were just being initiated when he stepped down from the highest executive position.
It sounded as if so kind of ‘mutation’ had occurred within United Industries, forcing him to step down, and even after that, he kept trying to use his influence to maintain his previous policies.
“I wasn’t born yet, so I don’t know,”
Vili shook her head, “But that’s what I’ve heard.
Vincent allied himself with many shareholders, convened a general shareholder eting, purged the board, and replaced my father as the helmsman of United Industries.”
After Vincent took charge, the developnt direction of United Industries nearly made a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
“Is your parents’ death related to the Eternal Secret Teachings?”
He Ao asked a sowhat related question.
The relationship between Vili and the Eternal Secret Teachings could be easily guessed; she wouldn’t hate the Eternal Secret Teachings for no reason.
“The results from my investigation indicate so; at the ti, the attackers of my parents were priests of the Eternal Secret Teachings,”
Vili pondered softly, “I’ve suspected Vincent, but I’ve yet to find evidence of his collusion with the Eternal Secret Teachings.”
“What’s the relationship between the Eternal Secret Teachings and United Industries?”
He Ao continued inquiry as they arrived at the steps.
“Currently, since my parents’ death,”
Vili turned around, looking at He Ao, “United Industries has listed the Eternal Secret Teachings on the sanctions list, prohibiting any employee or associated companies from believing in the Eternal Secret Teachings and has collaborated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct several ‘purifications’ of the Eternal Secret Teachings.”
“I understand now.”
He Ao nodded gently, climbed the staircase step by step, and exited the passageway.
Beneath this calm surface of Wint City, there seem layers of veils one atop another
Vili followed behind him, all the way out of the passageway, standing in the cramped alleyway.
The snowflakes continued falling from the sky, lightly covering the ground with a thin layer of snow,
She watched the young boy’s retreating figure, paused briefly, and softly asked, “So, what do you plan to do?”
He Ao didn’t turn around but raised his hand and gave a slight wave, waving goodbye,
“To do what I must.”
To see if this world is truly shrouded in impenetrable darkness.
Vili watched the figure of the boy blend into the drifting snow; she looked up, observing the swirling snowflakes above her head.
The winds from the Storm Sea at last reached the land, lifting the city’s veils, rustling with a whoosh.
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