The sun gradually rose but it didn’t make Marvin feel unwell.
But the feeling of being like a fish in water he had during the night gradually disappeared.
Night Walkers were more powerful at night after all. Skills like Summon Night Crow would be in a sealed state.
But Eternal Night could still be used three times per day at most.
‘I shouldn’t be too far, time to take a break.’
Marvin stopped and sat under a tree. He took out some rations and water from the void conch, replenish some energy.
He also took the chance to take out that magic weapon.
Blazing Fury.
This weapon was a curved dagger that Sean personally crafted. It was made of a mix of many uncommon metals and precious materials. It also deserved its name of magic weapon due to its attributes.
This curved dagger actually had two great spells attached!
Arcane Missiles was a commonly seen instant magic that would summon a number of arcane missiles to attack the enemy, depending on the user’s intelligence level.
With Marvin’s intelligence, he could only summon 3 - 5 arcane missiles, but it was still very threatening.
This spell could be used three times a day.
The other spell [Blazing Fury] was very fierce in comparison. It was a 2nd circle spell!
And an AoE spell at that!
Its firepower was several times stronger than the Hand of the Fire God. Even though it could only be used once per day, Marvin was already very satisfied.
What made him the most grateful was that this curved dagger was tailor made!
However, this magic weapon normally couldn’t be wielded by Marvin due to his attributes. His strength was lacking!
The weapon’s usual strength requirement was 15!
But Sean had added a great amount of [Cloud Rock], a very uncommon and expensive ore. It forcibly reduced the weapon’s strength requirement to 12, a level where Marvin could use it.
The old blacksmith attentive side could clearly be seen.
It was at this time that Marvin truly understood that a weapon fitting himself should be forged by himself.
The person who knew you the best was still yourself.
He had previously thought of never touching his blacksmith class again after leaving the Eternal Night Paradise.
However, he realized that Sean had put a lot of thought into it so he slowly began to change his mind.
Maybe this blacksmith class wasn’t as uninteresting and useless as he thought.
…
The only thing that made Marvin somewhat distressed was that to use Two-Weapon Fighting, his left and right hand daggers had to be identical in weight and size.
Even if they had Two-Weapon Fighting, an ordinary person’s right hand was a bit stronger than the left, so if the two weapons differed too much, it would make the attack uncoordinated.
Of course, having an occasional change of rhythm could definitely catch someone off guard. The main point was still how to use it.
He thought and finally decided to hang Blazing Fury on his waist, like the Kingfisher Jade.
He would use Fang for the time being. And switching daggers in battle wasn’t too difficult for him.
After familiarizing himself with the weapon, Marvin continued his journey once again. He soon found that familiar elven village.
…
This village was in the western part of Thousand Leaves Forest.
There were roughly 200 inhabitants who were all pure wood elves.
The village had a guard squad, but these people weren’t strong.The strongest had already been forcefully enlisted into the Elven Iron Guard.
This method of forceful enlistment, even if it was to defend Thousand Leaves Forest, lead to some resentment among the elves.
If not for that Great Elven King’s strength and charisma, the situation would have already reached the point of no return, throwing Thousand Leaves Forest into chaos.
When Marvin entered the village he only noticed a dozen young adults. Most of the inhabitants were elderly or children.
This was a very common elven village.
They were secluded, living peaceful and harmonious days. Outside the village was a large corn and banana field, enough for the wood elves to use as food for a long time.
Perhaps because they rarely met humans, a lot of elven children surrounded him, fearless. They used a clumsy common language to ask Marvin a few things.
Marvin was very fond of those children. He took out some snacks and divided it between them. These snacks were Marvin’s rations from the human world, so they couldn’t be bought in Thousand Leaves Forest.
The children took the things they were interested in, and actually surrounded Marvin even closer, making him unable to get away.
Elves during their childhood were very lively and curious about the world. This interest would gradually vanish as they grew to adulthood. Most wood elves would end up becoming aloof.
And those young adults initially seemed very cautious, but once Marvin showed his pass, they relaxed.
There weren’t many people who could get a pass and they were all close allies of the wood elves that wouldn’t harm them.
Soon, Marvin received a warm reception, especially after he took out some small trinkets from River Shore City out of his Void Conch. They were originally not worth many coins, but for the secluded elves, and especially the children, it was an exceptional novelty.
Marvin stayed in the village for a while, asking the village chief something about the northern waterfall.
As expected, the elder pointed out the exact location of the waterfall.
He still warned Marvin, “Young man, even though that waterfall is very beautiful, the water at the bottom is as cold as ice. Don’t enter the plunge pool by any means.”
Marvin nodded. After thanking the older elf, he struggled his way out of the group of elven children and headed north, alone.
About half an hour later, he found the waterfall. Soon, the plunge pool emitting cold air appeared in front of him.
There wasn’t a single blade of grass growing around that plunge pool, probably because it was too cold.
Marvin approached the water, and sure enough, a gust of cold air was coming out.
‘It’s fortunate that I’m prepared.’
He checked his surroundings and saw no one. He then quietly took out a bottle of blue colored medicine and drank it!
[Short Cold Resistance Potion]!
It could temporarily give +8 to the cold resistance stat. The effect was quite amazing but the effect duration was very short, only 3 minutes!
This was something Marvin had asked for from Hathaway. The latter estimated as a seer that it was worth it and directly paid the potion in advance to Marvin.
In fact, this potion was very valuable. Even though it wasn’t as valuable as Dragon Strength, it could still sell for an extremely good price on the market.
After Marvin finished drinking, he didn’t dare to delay and hurried to jump in the pool!
His swimming skills were good, and although the plunge pool was deep, he more or less knew the exact location. Soon, after two failed attempts, he managed to grab the chest stuck in the mud.
“Crash!”
Marvin, drenched and shivering, climbed out of the water while clutching a small chest.
The increase in his cold resistance stat didn’t mean he wouldn’t feel any coldness. He simply wouldn’t freeze.
Thankfully there was a small cavern in the surroundings. Marvin went in, took off his clothes, and lit a fire.
After warming up, he opened the chest. The lock on the chest had been worn down by the years and a simple pull was enough to break it.
A parchment was lying inside, along with a human skin mask!
Chapter 96: Shadow Doppelganger
Chapter 96: Shadow Doppelganger
Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
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t was the book of Nalu as expected!
Even though it wasn’t a surprise, Marvin was pretty pleased to get this item without any problems.
This parchment was the 6th page of the Book of Nalu.
Anyone could arouse their hidden potential by reading this page.
It seemed nice, but the Book of Nalu didn’t only bring benefits.
This was a book of prophecies that the God of Deception wrote using all his divine power before falling.
Because the positions of God of Fate and God of Fortune couldn’t be controlled, the ability to see the future was limited for many gods. And the God of Deception was said to be the god most deeply involved with the river of Fate.
It was said that reading the book of Nalu completely would make even gods go crazy!
This wasn’t an unfounded story. Among the gods born in the third era was [Berserk Lord] Angola, a very powerful fighter. He once secretly read the complete Book of Nalu!
Afterwards, his divinity collapsed and his Divine Kingdom was also ruined!
The scene was very frightening. The nearby gods witnessed that scene of heavenly destruction. The Berserk Lord’s divine power turned into meteors, crazily smashing toward all parts of the multiverse!
Every meteor was equivalent to a 6th circle spell!
Those few gods near the Berserk Lord’s Divine Kingdom also ate losses. They had no choice but to defend against those bits of divine power!
It was simply an unexpected disaster!
Just reading a book lead his painstakingly won eternal life and power to be completely destroyed.
From that point on, the Book of Nalu had become a taboo between gods.
Regardless if it was the 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation of naturally born ancient gods, or those new gods born in the third era, they all remained at a respectful distance from the Book of Nalu.
The Book of Nalu also suffered from the impact of the Berserk Lord’s divine power and split into pieces, turning into parchment pages and dispersing across Feinan.
Some even fell into the Underworld.
Time slowly passed and people seemed to have already forgotten about it.
But Marvin knew that there were still a lot of mysterious organizations working in the dark to collect the pages of the Book of Nalu.
The [Dark Cavalry Monastery] established by dark knight Cangore for example. This group of undying guys had always worked to try to gather the Book of Nalu.
It was said that only a sage could see through the real contents of the book. The great secret relating to Feinan’s prosperity and decline lay inside.
Those who could read and understand the Book of Nalu could obtain true power.
…
That book had a lot of tricky things that Marvin wasn’t aware of.
But he knew about the 6th page, a very useful item.
Everyone could read it and possibly stir their potential. However, if their will wasn’t resolute enough, they would be liable to arouse their evil side.
Marvin was proud of his resolute will. Coupled with that headless girl’s gift, he shouldn’t have any problem with a will test.
Thus, he decided to read the book first before handing it to Hathaway.
The fire had gradually warmed his body. He put on clothes and with a deep breath, spread open the parchment.
The image of a few words appeared in Marvin’s eyes.
He didn’t recognize these characters.
The God of Deception was a third generation god, like the Plague God, and they used the Ancient God language.
But the book of Nalu was written for people to read it. Even if the readers were unable to understand the characters, they could still receive all kinds of mysterious meaning.
But each person received the information differently.
In an instant, Marvin felt the image in front of him twisting like an earthworm.
An ice-cold feeling came from the scroll in his hand!
Low whispers echoed in his ears like an old devil’s murmur, luring him.
A large shadow appeared in front of him.
The shadow kept changing form, before finally turning into a picture. The people in the picture wore equipment of superior quality and they were orderly following someone.
There was cliff in front.
The strange scene stopped there!
Because Marvin, using his own will, had struggled his way out of this imaginary realm created by the 6th page of the Book of Nalu!
…
[You are reading the Book of Nalu (Page 6)]
[You entered the Deception Space…]
[Willpower check…]
[Willpower check successful]
[Your potential has been aroused. There seems to be a strange energy lying dormant in your bloodline.]
[You received an innate spell – Shadow Doppelganger]
Marvin blankly looked at the new spell in his spell list and was soon overjoyed!
‘This body actually had this kind of potential?’
He had originally mocked this body as being no good, though the latter half of his race had a “?”. He had thought it would be difficult to awaken that potential.
Ever since the Ancient Elven God pointed out he was a Numan descendant, he was aware that this “?” might be something worthwhile.
But not everyone with Numan blood could awaken their potential. Marvin actually knew a few methods to activate it, but all of them were extremely dangerous. He didn’t wish to try his luck like that.
But he hadn’t thought that the 6th page of the Book of Nalu would arouse his potential and unlock something related to his bloodline!
He received a very fierce innate spell – Shadow Doppelganger!
[Shadow Doppelganger]: Where the sun shines, there will inevitably be shadows hiding. Every day you can make use of a shadow to create a shadow doppelganger. Duration: 3 minutes.
The Shadow Doppelganger’s strength was about half of Marvin’s, but it had all of his skills aside from his bloodline abilities.
The emergence of this new ability made Marvin’s fighting strength soar!
A dual wielding ranger’s burst power was very fierce, and now add a shadow doppelganger to that!
Even if it was during the day, Marvin’s skill wouldn’t be too different from another advanced class!
And at night… even if not invincible, he still had a huge advantage!
Of course, this were just the obvious good news.
The most important part was that Marvin was now able to guess his own bloodline!
‘Shadow Doppelganger… Shadow Doppelganger…’
‘It’s actually this skill. In that case, if I’m not wrong, the bloodline by this body might be that special branch of the Numans…’
Sitting on the ground, Marvin carefully put away the Book of Nalu’s page while remembering some related information.
That special branch, even among the Numans, was considerably unusual. It would be very difficult to completely activate this rare bloodline.
Even Marvin with his rich experience didn’t know how he could do it. Numans were really too mysterious after all.
‘… Better to worry about it later. In any case, my current strength is already enough to deal with the Battle of the Holy Grail and the surrounding circumstances.’
‘There are at least 4 months before the Great Calamity. I still have time.’
His sight fell onto the other thing in the chest.
That was a human skin mask.
The Mask of the Deceiver.
This was a magic item in itself, but after soaking in the water for years, it appeared to have suffered some damage. It probably could only be used two or three times.
This human skin mask could change one’s appearance. After putting it on, you could turn into anyone you wanted.
Because it was infused with the God of Deception’s ancient divine power.
Also carefully putting the skin mask away, Marvin extinguished the fire and prepared t
o leave the cave.
But at that time, his perception was triggered and he heard quiet footsteps!
Someone nearby?
Marvin quivered and instantly grabbed two daggers. He silently approached the entrance of the cave!
Someone breathing heavily could be heard in a bush to the side of the cave.
‘Unskilled…’ Marvin sneered.
He suddenly jumped toward it, slashing out with his dagger, but a man came out of the tall bush.
“Ah!”
A deathly pale elven youth fell on the ground!
“It’s you?” Marvin was somewhat surprised.
This youth was actually one of the villagers he’d met earlier. He had asked about adventurers’ achievements. Marvin casually told him a few stories, thinking he would be satisfied.
But the youth became even more interested after listening to his stories.
“What are you doing here?” Marvin solemnly asked.
The elven youth looked at Marvin and suddenly asked, “Can I follow you?”
“I don’t want to be stuck in a village for a lifetime. I heard this world is very huge.”
“I want to go out and see it for myself.”
Chapter 97: Outlaw of the Crimson Road
Chapter 97: Outlaw of the Crimson Road
Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
Hearing the youth’s words, Marvin remained silent.
After a moment, he put away his curved dagger and said with a gentle tone, “You want to follow me?”
“Not everyone is qualified to do so.”
“Take a look behind you…”
The elven youth didn’t understand so he turned around. He couldn’t have imagined that Marvin would suddenly hit the back of his head.
“Plop!”
‘I knew that human youths were the most troublesome.’
‘I just didn’t expect elven youths to be the same.’
‘The world is big indeed, but also very chaotic. Do you have money to go out to explore? Travel expenses, weapons for self-defense. What, you don’t have any and want to go out? Going out alone, aren’t your parents worried?’
He carried the elven youth and walked back to the elven village.
That youth had definitely sneaked away.
In fact, the wood elves were very territorial, and they strictly looked after their children. If someone secretly took away an elf that hadn’t become an adult, they would basically be considered child slave traders!
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