Borrowing Books

Every game has its own unique features.

In the Magic Martial Era, cards are the biggest feature, the core of this game world.

Cards, also known as Mystic Cards, come in many varieties and have different functions. The most common ones are Weapon Cards, Summoning Cards, Sealing Cards, Skill Cards, Trap Cards, Storage Cards, Currency Cards, and so on.

After using a Weapon Card, you can summon a weapon.

Summoning Cards can summon Demon Pets.

Sealing Cards can seal the souls of the dead.

Skill Cards can release skills.

Trap Cards are used to create traps.

Storage Cards contain their own space.

Currency Cards are used to pay for transactions and empty shopping carts.

To put it bluntly, a card is a portable storage device. Whatever is stored inside determines the type of card it is.

Cards are divided into levels of strength, using a star rating system, with one star being the lowest, increasing level by level.

Conquering Luo Hongyan will get you a six-star random card. This star level of card is already quite good, and any type of it is worth a fortune.

"Even for this six-star card, I will get Luo Hongyan!"

Fan Lang was full of fighting spirit.

No matter which world you are in, picking up girls requires strength. Without strength, everything is empty talk.

At this stage, the main focus is still on improving strength.

Once Fan Lang has enough strength, it won't be him trying to curry favor with Luo Hongyan, but Luo Hongyan currying favor with him!

Fan Lang took a deep breath and temporarily put Luo Hongyan out of his mind. According to his memory, he strode towards the Library of the City Lord's Mansion, where there were many Secret Manuals, Cultivation Methods, Combat Skills, Secret Arts, and so on.

The Library gate is a five-story building, with carved beams and painted rafters from top to bottom, obviously built at great expense.

The higher the floor, the higher the star rating of the Secret Manuals. With Fan Lang's status, he can only read books on the first floor at most, and he can only borrow them, and he has to return them after reading them.

The first floor is full of one-star books, which are naturally difficult to catch Fan Lang's eyes, but fortunately, he knows that there is a high-level three-star Secret Manual hidden here!

"I hope that Secret Manual is still there, and hasn't been taken away by someone else."

Fan Lang prayed secretly, showed his identity card to the guard, and entered the Library.

There are guards outside the building, and there are also people guarding it day and night, after all, this is an important place in the City Lord's Mansion, and no loss is allowed.

There are many bookshelves on the first floor, and each bookshelf is filled with various books.

An Old White bearded man was sitting in the center, holding an ancient book without a cover in his hand, his old eyes narrowed, watching very intently.

Fan Lang recognized this old man. In his eyes, this was an NPC, nicknamed Old White, and outsiders often respectfully called him Old Bai.

Old White is one of the mainstays of the City Lord's Mansion, second only to the City Lord in strength.

This NPC has no missions and no profit to be made, so Fan Lang didn't pay much attention to him and went straight to the bookshelf in the corner.

Heart Shattering Palm, Seven Kill Fist, Tiger's Roar Wave...

Don't let the names of these Secret Manuals fool you, they are all worthless trash, not much better than the Thug Fist that Fan Lang created himself.

Fan Lang ignored the dross, searching for his target, his eyes skimming over the books, suddenly lighting up.

Found it!

Fan Lang pulled out a book, its name was "Body Strengthening Fist Technique". On the surface, it was a book for strengthening the body, but in reality, it contained hidden secrets, concealing another three-star Combat Skill with great power.

Fan Lang's fingers brushed over the pages, and he could clearly feel that some of them were very thick.

Another Secret Manual was hidden inside these pages!

"Hehe."

Fan Lang smiled contentedly.

Taking only this one would be too little.

Fan Lang walked towards Old White, neither humble nor arrogant, and said, "Old White, I want to go to the second floor to pick out a few more books. I know the rules of the City Lord's Mansion, if my identity and permissions aren't enough, I have to spend extra money to borrow books from the higher levels. Here are three hundred taels of silver, enough to pick three books from the second floor."

As he spoke, Fan Lang flipped his hand and took out three silver notes, each worth one hundred taels, all earned from doing tasks.

Old White turned his head slightly, glanced at Fan Lang out of the corner of his eye, stretched out his withered hand, took the silver notes, and said indifferently, "Go up. Remember, you can only take three books, and they must be returned on time after you take them. No matter how many books are borrowed from the City Lord's Mansion, they must all return here unscathed."

"Understood, easy come, easy go." Fan Lang said easily.

Going up to the second floor, Fan Lang selected three books, namely Light Splitting Sword Technique, Life Reaping Steps, and Spring Return Art.

These three books were all two-star Secret Manuals, one star lower than the hidden Secret Manual, but they were just right for use during the Mystic Soldier stage.

Naturally, there were better Secret Manuals upstairs, but with Fan Lang's current status, he couldn't get them at all, not even with money. The rules were restrictive.

"Let's go!"

Fan Lang went downstairs, placed the Secret Manuals on the table, and opened them for Old White to view.

Old White glanced at them, feeling suspicious, and asked, "You're new to the City Lord's Mansion, just a nominal servant. Can you learn so many books? Be careful not to bite off more than you can chew. If you can master even one of these books within a month, that would be quite good."

"I'm a greedy person, one isn't enough. I'm only happy when I learn more." Fan Lang laughed.

"Then do as you please." Old White shook his head, too lazy to waste words with an unfamiliar kid.

Learning various Secret Manuals in a normal way is indeed time-consuming and laborious. Learning one takes at least a month or two, or even longer.

But the learning method used by Fan Lang was not "normal". He didn't need to learn slowly, it didn't matter if he learned a few more at once.

Leaving the Library, Fan Lang found a secluded place, opened the Body Strengthening Fist Technique, found the thicker pages, cut open the corners with his iron sword, and carefully took out the interlayer hidden inside.

These few pieces of paper were covered with small characters, and the title was five words—Blazing Triple Wave!

[Player has discovered hidden Secret Manual "Blazing Triple Wave" x1.]

A system notification popped up, displaying a string of data.

Blazing Triple Wave.

Star Level: ★★★

Attribute: Fire.

Power: 360.

Description: Converts one's own Mystic Power into raging flames, releasing it three times in succession towards the feet, forming a spreading sea of fire. It is a typical area-of-effect attack.

Learning time required: 8 hours.

"Haha, this is the Skill! Killing people and grinding monsters, a must-have for home and travel!"

Fan Lang was secretly pleased.

As far as Mystic Soldiers were concerned, the Blazing Triple Wave was already a top-tier Skill; he simply couldn't learn anything more advanced.

Using five times the Mystic Power to release the Blazing Triple Wave would be powerful enough to blast away a large group of Mystic Soldiers. Fan Lang could completely dominate within his level!

What's even better is that, as a player, learning this Skill only takes a mere 8 hours!

Skills that others would take many days to learn, Fan Lang could learn in 8 hours. That's why he had picked out several Secret Manuals in one go; any less, and it simply wouldn't be enough to learn.

"The Skill learning progress bar can definitely be modified. When the time comes, with a little tinkering, the learning speed will be even faster. It won't be long before I can learn all of these Skills!"

Fan Lang was eager to try, wanting to operate on the system again.

To him, the system was just a tool, to be played with at will!