The Duke licked the snack crumbs off his fingers,
then pried apart the layers of his enormous belly, revealing its distinctive navel passage... Moonscar, covered in mucus, quickly slid out.
As the Duke readjusted the order of the folds of belly fat, he asked, "How do you feel?"
Moonscar lightly snapped his fingers, washing the mucus off his body with moonlight. The nurse also changed him into a brand-new hospital gown,
"Although Weak Limitation is very uncomfortable, it deepens my understanding of certain basic abilities, and even lets me reconstruct some fundamentals and alter the essence of abilities.
"It also gives me more inspiration regarding 'creation.'
"Most importantly, I gained 'interest' from it. The novels from William's living world helped me discover one of the meanings of existing as a living being."
The Duke was quite generous. He immediately separated several lumps of fat from his body, each containing the Librarian's memories. He rolled them in his hands until they were about the size of little rice balls, then tossed them into the depths of the private Ancient Castle.
Before long, two mysterious arms that existed within the castle emerged carrying bound novels.
"Consider this a gift for actively participating in the wager."
"Thank you, Duke."
Moonscar gave a rather gentlemanly bow, then lowered his head, accepted the books, and stored them away. Excitement glimmered like moonlight in his eyes.
"As expected~ The level gap between you and William is far too great. Even if I extracted your consciousnesses and compressed them into young bodies of the same level, the gap in rank was merely reduced, not eliminated.
"The difficulty of this wager fell short of your expectations.
"However..."
At this point,
the Duke seemed to lose interest in the wager. After all, he had already seen Yi Chen's deeply