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One: One Hit Kill
Two: Ten Thousandfold Critical Hit
Three: Random Item Box
Caelum chose One Hit Kill without hesitation.
Ten Thousandfold Critical Hit could greatly increase his attack power and destructive force, but in the end, the goal was still to destroy or kill a target.
In that case, One Hit Kill was clearly more efficient.
More importantly, this was a causal law special ability. As long as Caelum’s attack landed, all living beings would die instantly.
And the target was not limited to life.
Anything that possessed the concept of existence or survival could be destroyed by One Hit Kill.
In other words, even the hostile system would be no exception.
This was exactly the super powerful special ability Caelum wanted.
Support type special abilities alone could not break through the ceiling of the infinite story worlds. Only a causal law instant kill special ability that ignored all authority and essence could deliver a fatal blow to the hostile system.
However, even if this special ability possessed the power of One Hit Kill, it still had to rely on Caelum’s own attacks and methods to take effect.
If he could not hit the target, then everything was meaningless.
In other words, Caelum’s own strength still had to rise.
Otherwise, if he did not even have the ability to climb along the connection, what plan could he possibly make against the hostile system?
As for Random Item Box, that thing was essentially a treasure chest.
There was everything inside it, but each time, he could only randomly take out one item.
It might be very powerful.
It might also be very weak.
Too uncertain.
Not worth considering.
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Caelum looked at his fist, then at the ground beneath his feet.
He felt that if he punched the ground and triggered One Hit Kill, he could probably blow up the entire planet.
Among all the special abilities he had received, this one counted as extremely powerful.
Being able to destroy a planet from the start was something that had never happened before.
Suppressing the urge to try it, he took out the items in the briefcase and began looking through them.
Aside from an old notebook and a letter, the most eye catching item was a gorgeous flintlock pistol carved with golden patterns.
Rather than a weapon, it looked more like a work of art.
Caelum first opened the old notebook.
It should have been the diary of an archaeologist. Inside, it recorded in detail a series of major secrets he had discovered during his archaeological work.
March 15, 1739. Seck County within the United Kingdom of Stars is still freezing cold. I discovered an ancient ruin here with enormous research value. This journey is certain to yield great results.
July 21, 1740. More than a hundred years have passed since the improved steam engine was born, yet our society seems frozen in the industrial age. I do not know when it began, but human knowledge and technology appear to have fallen into stagnation. This question has been lingering in my mind, troubling me all this time.
May 8, 1751. Something is very wrong with this world. Very wrong. I heard Their whispers. I am getting closer and closer to the truth of this world.
October 19, 1763. The translation of the ruin documents is complete. In them, we discovered an unbelievable history.
August 17, 1765. We collectively refer to these indescribable existences as ancient gods. The eternal beings wandering through the stars of the universe were once called Outer Gods by ancient people. Those sleeping beneath the land and ocean under our feet were called Old Gods. Compared with the Outer Gods, the Old Gods seem far weaker. Only one thing is the same. Humans must never look directly at ancient gods, and must never speak Their true names. They are the source of all distortion, chaos, and madness.
June 13, 1773. Major discovery. We found a method for preparing a secret potion within the ruins. This is very likely the key that opens the door to the extraordinary.
October 3, 1777. The whispers beside my ears are becoming clearer and clearer. Hahahaha. I seem to understand everything now. I am embracing every truth in this world.
The further Caelum read, the more obvious it became that something had gone wrong with the archaeologist’s mental state.
At first, he had been steady and rational.
Gradually, he became mad.
By the end, Caelum could no longer understand what was written.
The entire section was either nonsense or strings of garbled symbols with no clear meaning.
Most likely, he had gone completely insane.
Among the earlier parts that could still be understood, the existence and differences between ancient gods, Outer Gods, and Old Gods were undoubtedly extremely important information.
They helped Caelum sort out quite a few things.
Their existence was probably the greatest secret and truth of this world.
"The game’s opening introduction was describing Outer Gods, was it not? Eternal beings wandering through the stars of the universe, ancient and indescribable."
Knowledge is poison.
Looking again at that line in the game introduction, Caelum felt that the archaeologist’s madness was most likely because he had drawn too close to the truth of the world.
The more he investigated the truth, the closer he came to the ancient gods.
From the moment whispers appeared beside his ears, his sanity must have been falling without end.
Until he lost all reason and went completely mad.
As a scholar, this archaeologist had likely been more rational than ordinary people.
Caelum did not believe he had failed to notice the changes in himself.
Yet even after noticing his own condition, the archaeologist still could not escape the fate of falling into madness.
Only now did Caelum understand the meaning of Sanity on the attribute panel.
Once his Sanity began to drop, it would mean he was getting closer to the ancient gods.
At the same time, he would also be getting closer to complete madness.
He turned to the last page of the notebook.
The paper was old and yellowed.
There, the archaeologist had clearly written down the secret potion he had discovered in the ruins.
From the raw materials to the preparation method, nothing was missing.
For ordinary people, the value of this secret potion was unimaginable.
As long as it could be successfully prepared and consumed, anyone could push open the door to the extraordinary path.
This was also the most important content in the entire notebook.
Beside the potion formula was an additional note.
When the archaeologist wrote the formula and the note, he should still have been clear headed and rational. The writing was neat and precise.
From the note, Caelum learned that secret potions were the necessary path to the extraordinary.
They were inextricably connected to ancient gods.
It could even be said that reaching the end of a secret potion path meant transforming into an ancient god.
Different secret potions opened different paths, allowing those who consumed them to obtain different extraordinary powers.
These different paths were also called Sequences.
Different Sequences had their own advancement routes.
Starting from Stage One, the higher the Stage, the stronger the extraordinary power one could grasp and unleash.
Once someone stepped into one Sequence, there was no turning back.
It was a mad act of voluntarily embracing the ancient gods.
Once one sank into it, there would be no escape.
The secret potion discovered by the archaeologist was called Investigator.
It belonged to the Investigator Sequence.
It happened to be the Stage One secret potion of that Sequence.
If Caelum prepared and consumed it, he would truly step onto the extraordinary path.