Their Commission Reward Is Not Right Chapter 28

[Ding! You have a new commission!]

Ah, Doctor Mobius, you're truly my lucky star.

However, Chen Luo now understood what a "special guest" meant.

A special guest likely referred to someone who was more receptive to commissions, and it also signified that the person was indeed special.

After all, Mobius was a being from the previous civilization.

Theresa and the Herrscher of Knowledge were from the current timeline, while Mobius was from tens of thousands of years ago.

What was this? A meeting across millennia?

If he interfered with this Mobius, would it affect the timeline Theresa and the others were currently in?

Chen Luo shook his head, dismissing the thought.

Altering the past sounded incredibly dangerous.

It might not affect the Herrscher of Knowledge, as she had already left this world, but Theresa and the others might be impacted.

Well, for now, he should focus on acquiring raw stones.

"Doctor? Would you like another drink?" Chen Luo coaxed Mobius again.

"Another drink!" Mobius shouted loudly, tilting their head back.

Mobius's alcohol tolerance was genuinely low, but for Chen Luo, it was truly wonderful.

Chen Luo wasn't so heartless as to force them to drink just because they had a low tolerance.

The drinks Chen Luo mixed were actually hangover cures.

It's just that the effects might be delayed by more than half an hour.

Otherwise, how could Mobius continue drinking after sobering up?

After continuously acquiring over 200 raw stones from Mobius, and seeing that the hangover cure was gradually taking effect, Chen Luo escorted them to the door. He then slipped a piece of paper into their hand before sending them out.

For such a foolish... no, a major client, it was natural to leave a contact method.

That piece of paper was the method to enter the bar.

"Shopkeeper, I'm leaving too." Mona, who had been reading for a long time, waved goodbye to Chen Luo and also departed.

"Today has been a day of exceptionally good luck. It's just a bit troublesome to go down the mountain, but thankfully I have my Wind Glider," Mona sighed as she stood on the edge of the cliff after leaving the bar.

What Mona didn't notice was that a pair of eyes had witnessed her actions.

When guests leave, the Zero Bar would reappear. Otherwise, if only a door appeared, it would be even stranger.

"Zero Bar?"

Clearly, the person was very curious about the bar that had suddenly appeared on the mountain.

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Chapter 49: The Abyss Appears for the First Time

"Alo, what abilities did you gain after absorbing the Inner Demon Lure yesterday?" Chen Luo was asked this question during the first class on the second day of school.

Today was July 12th, Tuesday, with only three days left until the summer vacation countdown.

There were also only three days left until Chen Luo would display his might or suffer humiliation in another world.

"Well..." Chen Luo hadn't actually absorbed the Inner Demon Lure at all, so where would he get any abilities?

However, he couldn't say that, at least not to Yun Xia.

Yesterday, Yun Xia and Liu Wenxuan had repeatedly warned Chen Luo not to give the item to anyone else and to absorb it immediately.

Now, if Chen Luo said he hadn't absorbed it, he wouldn't be able to explain himself.

"I gained the ability to construct a consciousness space where the flow of time is different from the outside world. One hour outside is twenty-four hours inside. I can practice swordplay in there or even simulate enemies. It's just that I can't let anyone else use it."

Chen Luo shamelessly attributed the Herrscher of Knowledge's abilities to himself, and he had also greatly simplified them.

According to the Herrscher of Knowledge herself, the flow of time in her consciousness space could reach a maximum of 1000:1, and that was under long-term maintenance.

If it were just to maintain the outside world for two to three minutes, it could reach a maximum of 10,000:1.

In comparison, what Chen Luo said about 1:24 was as simplified as it could get.

"Hmm, that's a good ability, especially for a skill-based fighter like you, Alo. It's really quite suitable," Yun Xia nodded appreciatively.

Originally, the special abilities gained by humans using the Inner Demon Lure varied, but most were related to the mind. The appearance of such a consciousness space wasn't too difficult to understand.

"It's just that using that thing too much makes me very tired," Chen Luo began to complain about the drawbacks.

Entering the Herrscher of Knowledge's consciousness space did make Chen Luo very tired. After all, with such a significant difference in time flow, the consumption of mental energy was indeed considerable.

However, the good news was that the Herrscher of Knowledge could help replenish his mental energy, and that bit of replenished mental energy was not a big problem for her.

Moreover, using this ability as an excuse would prevent others from seeing through it, especially since Chen Luo had already said he couldn't bring anyone else in.

"Did you read the book I gave you yesterday?" Yun Xia asked casually.

However, Yun Xia didn't need Chen Luo to answer; she already knew the answer. After all, who could resist the temptation of mysterious knowledge?

"No. I didn't see much," Chen Luo shook his head.

"Huh?"

"It's mainly because of training. This consciousness space really consumes a lot of spiritual energy, so I went to sleep early. But the progress is indeed quite fast," Chen Luo poked his head.

Chen Luo wasn't entirely lying, as he had indeed been dragged into the consciousness space by the Herrscher of Knowledge for a long time last night.

Chen Luo's evenings were spent eating dinner, opening the shop, eating supper, training, and sleeping. Every night was busier and more tiring than the day.

And the result of the training was… no result.

All the skills Chen Luo could level up had been leveled up. To make further breakthroughs wasn't that easy.

It would be better to spend the time earning raw stones.

"By the way, young lady, are you interested in playing yesterday's game again?" Chen Luo's heart stirred.

One hundred raw stones a day without delaying anything was practically free money. At most, he wouldn't talk to Yun Xia, but he could pass notes.

"What game… Get lost!" Yun Xia hadn't reacted at first, but when she realized what Chen Luo was talking about, she got angry and turned her head away, ignoring him.

[Ding! You have a new commission!]

"..."

Chen Luo looked at the commission worth ten raw stones, then glanced at the teacher on the stage, and then scanned the surrounding classmates.

I'm sorry, raw stones, goodbye forever. I really can't do it this time.

Chen Luo really couldn't bring himself to face social death for ten raw stones.

If it were a two-star mission giving him 100 raw stones, Chen Luo would have hesitated.

After giving up on earning those ten raw stones, Chen Luo took out the basic manual given by Yun Xia and started flipping through it in class.

The person in the back seat was sleeping soundly, and Chen Luo's intuition was very sharp, so he didn't have to worry about being spied on.

This world was not simple. The world during the day was peaceful and tranquil. Although there were occasional wars in localized areas, the overall trend for the entire Earth was peace.

But every night, the dark world became more active.

The so-called dark world was just a general term, but it was also a special concept. Living in the same world as ordinary people, but due to different ways of survival, they were like two extremes.

Those who became entangled with the dark world would be drawn deeper and deeper into it. It was like a curse, entwining every person who knew about the dark world.

This was also why, despite how much Yun Xia and Liu Wenxuan cared about Chen Luo, they hadn't given him any good protective items.

Only when Yun Xia discovered that Chen Luo was deeply favored by the wind element and might awaken his talent did she give Chen Luo a bunch of talismans.

The dark world had always existed; many people just hadn't noticed it.

Within the dark world, whether good or evil, they followed this rule: they would not easily involve ordinary people.

Of course, rules were meant to be broken.

Those demons that needed to devour life naturally wouldn't refrain from attacking ordinary people.

Understanding the dark world was important, but this book did not focus on the dark world, but on the new "millennium."

Throughout history, each millennium was a spiritual energy tide.

For the first 50 years of a 1000-year period, spiritual energy would become increasingly active. This phase was called the Spiritual Energy Revival.

By 250 years, the activity of spiritual energy would reach its peak and continue until the 500th year.

And when it reached 500 years, spiritual energy would begin to slowly decline. By 550 years, the decline would be more drastic, and spiritual energy would become more depleted.

By 750 years, spiritual energy would be almost nonexistent. Various divine abilities and mystical arts would be greatly weakened, barely enough to fool children.

And 2000 years marked the arrival of a new millennium.

Originally, this millennium should have been brilliant, magnificent, and yet unremarkable like the previous ones, but an accident occurred.

At the beginning of this millennium, the children born possessed terrifying talents, one after another. S-class talents, which used to appear once every fifty years, were now appearing in droves. The speed of the Spiritual Energy Revival was also faster than any recorded speed, and the abilities of these talents were even more bizarre.

Most importantly, something appeared that was vastly different from all recorded millennia: the Abyss Plane.

It was only then that people from the dark world realized that besides their own world, there were other parallel planes.

And the Abyss Plane was considered a high-level existence among many planes.

The name alone indicated the characteristics of that plane. Therefore, when the Abyss Plane first discovered this plane that had just experienced a Spiritual Energy Revival, they became interested.

Chapter 50: Do EX-Level Talents Have No Rights?

When Chen Luo read up to this point, he thought that according to the usual protagonist's fate, the current world was facing immense hardship and needed him, the protagonist, to step forward and save it.

Although it was cliché, what young boy hadn't fantasized about this?

But as he continued reading, Chen Luo knew he was wrong.

This world was indeed experiencing a Spiritual Energy Revival in this millennium, appearing like a young world with immense potential, like a prime lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

But don't forget, although this world was indeed just experiencing a Spiritual Energy Revival, countless powerful individuals existed in the previous countless millennia.

True powerhouses would enter their own small worlds to take refuge when spiritual energy declined and entered the era of declining magic.

With the era of declining magic, only those cultivators whose strength was not high or those who were nostalgic for the old era perished.

After the Spiritual Energy Revival, these powerhouses should have appeared one by one.

According to the rules, these powerhouses were supposed to emerge 100 years later, when the Spiritual Energy Revival was more widespread. This was both a tradition and a rule of the world.

"Every era needs its fresh blood. You old fossils should just stay home and chill for 100 years. Don't come out here causing trouble. Give these young people some room to grow."

New talents emerge in every generation, each dominating for centuries!

This was probably the reason for this special regulation.

Mere restrictions wouldn't perfectly enforce this rule, but adding Heavenly Punishment would.

Heavenly Punishment strikes unerringly. One strike could leave you half-dead. If you didn't go back, another strike would truly kill you.

But as fate would have it, the Abyss Plane set its sights on this plane within the first 10 years. Then, in the first two years, they finally dispatched an elite army and launched a full-scale invasion!

Initially, these big shots watched anxiously from the sidelines. However, they soon discovered that when the enemy invaded, they could go out and fight with all their might without incurring Heavenly Punishment, and even receive a small reward.

Although they were sent back to their secluded places after the invasion ended, who wouldn't want a reward?

And then... those elite armies were utterly thrashed.

It was only then that the Abyss Plane realized: "Holy crap, we kicked a steel plate. We've encountered a high-level plane of the same caliber."

Finally, the two planes established diplomatic relations.

Due to the high overlap rate between the two planes, some fixed special passages were formed.

However, diplomatic relations notwithstanding, both planes harbored their own ulterior motives.

When they discovered that some special minor planes forming at the intersection of the two planes would produce special outputs, they almost went mad fighting.

It became even more ferocious when they found out that killing people from the opposing plane would grant some special experience points.