Secret Arts

Take a deep breath...

Take a deep breath...

Luke had no idea what kind of situation he was in. Not only had he transmigrated into the game "Era," but his game character could enter as well.

Still, it was only normal that his game character could enter.

Forget it. No point overthinking it.

The Clear Sky he had raised was a max-level Level 120 powerhouse!

With a max-level boss leading the way, wouldn't his main body's level rise like crazy? And if anyone annoyed him in the future, he could just switch to his main account and teach them a lesson.

In this world, there probably weren't many who could go toe-to-toe with a fully leveled, fully developed Clear Sky.

Haha...

Luke stood on the clock tower with his hands on his hips, wanting to burst into laughter and mock the entire city as trash.

But then he remembered something and couldn't laugh.

Clear Sky's existence had a time limit. At Level 120, she could only be maintained for ten seconds. Even at Level 100, he could only enjoy it for ten minutes.

Then she would need to recharge for an entire day.

Keep a low profile. Keep a low profile. Better keep a low profile.

Standing inside the clock tower in Clear Sky's body, Luke began planning how to improve his main body's strength.

If he wanted to survive in this world, he had to keep growing stronger.

After searching for a long time without finding any instructions or prompts for leveling up his main body, Luke could only look for solutions within Era's own power system.

Era had a wide variety of power systems, and they were exceedingly complex.

Broadly speaking, they could be divided into:

Magic, body modification, extraordinary cultivation, machinery, and Secret Arts.

Each of the five main categories was further divided into several or even more than a dozen subcategories.

At the same time, there were no clear barriers between the various power systems. Mixing them together could create an uncountable number of power combinations.

Shelley belonged to extraordinary cultivation. She was a laboratory product created through crossbreeding humans with the extraordinary creature Medusa.

Pisco belonged to body modification, while his two mechanical arms were products of the machinery category.

As for Clear Sky, Luke's game character, she incorporated all five major power systems.

Which power system should his main body start with?

In truth, Luke did not have many choices.

Mages needed to begin cultivating magical power from childhood. At Luke's current age, he was indeed a little too old to start learning Magic.

Body modification produced immediate gains in strength. Replace whatever you wanted to strengthen, and it would become stronger. Luke had even replaced Clear Sky's heart with an Elemental Fusion Reactor.

But in the game, he could replace things however he liked. If it failed, he could just revive and try again, losing at most a batch of materials. Now, however, Luke did not dare gamble with his own body, so he would not consider it for the time being.

Extraordinary cultivation was even more dangerous than body modification if rejection occurred. Who knew how many infants had died before a Shelley was cultivated, and she was still a defective product.

Machinery. Whether it was Steam Technology or alchemy, Luke knew none of it, so he could only set it aside for now.

That left only Secret Arts before Luke.

Secret Arts were a means of gaining power by exchanging specific rituals and sacrifices for abilities.

Low-level Secret Arts could grant techniques.

High-level Secret Arts could grant certain ancient bloodlines.

Clear Sky's enhanced bloodline, Wings of Time and Space, had been obtained by using a ritual and sacrifices to make an offering to the Elven Overgod.

Luke was extremely interested in Secret Arts, which allowed him to gain power while lying down.

As it happened, the Era guides he had saved contained many Secret Art Incantations.

Some of them were guides for acquiring top-tier bloodlines.

It was just that top-tier bloodlines also required top-tier sacrifices.

Luke opened Clear Sky's personal backpack.

Inside were all kinds of medicines: red potions, blue potions, and dozens of status-effect potions.

There were also commonly used items and weapons.

But there were no materials for performing Secret Arts.

All her materials, equipment, potions... were stored in the warehouse.

And the warehouse in the Cape District was located at...

Luke opened the Cape District map and found where the warehouse should be.

Windbreak Alley No. 35 was a harbor warehouse district. Once inside, he needed to find the warehouse manager Ron.

By speaking with Ron, he could store and retrieve game items.

Then he would go to the Windbreak Alley warehouse and find Ron.

If he could find the items he had stored in the game, his main body would definitely soar to new heights.

He found the nearest Virtual Teleport Anchor to Windbreak Alley... and teleported.

Luke appeared on the roof of a building.

Virtual Teleport Anchors really were convenient, saving him a great deal of travel time. Unfortunately, only Clear Sky could use them. His main body could not even see them.

After determining the direction from his elevated position, he located Windbreak Alley.

Let's go...

Smack!

Luke pitched forward and crashed face-first into the ground.

Damn it. There was a height difference between his main body and Clear Sky, so their stride length and foot placement were different.

If he moved Clear Sky according to his main body's habits, it would be strange if he did not trip.

Sigh...

When Players created game characters, some raised them as extensions of themselves for immersion, while others raised them as wives to satisfy their XP desires.

It was all personal preference.

Luke belonged to the latter group.

He had just never expected that his beautiful wife would one day become himself... a clone.

Even their body structures were different now. He really needed to spend time adapting.

Luke climbed to his feet, performed a set of radio calisthenics, then jogged and jumped in place.

Little by little, he adapted to his new body, as well as the sense of power contained within it—power he had never truly experienced before.

He could feel energy stored within Clear Sky's body like a nuclear bomb. Once fully released, it would surely unleash destructive might.

There was also that intense desire for battle, an effect brought by the Fierce Bloodline War Song.

He slowly exhaled. After finishing his warm-up, Luke stood at the edge of the rooftop. With a light leap forward, his figure turned into a faint shadow and shot out.

Windbreak Alley was close to the Cape Port docks. From there, one could enter the harbor's storage district.

It was already late at night.

The storage district was closed. Guards were on duty in the gatehouse, and security personnel patrolled the warehouse area at regular intervals.

When Luke reached the entrance to the storage district, he happened to see a guard standing outside the sentry booth, smoking.

"Excuse me, where is Ron?"

The smoking guard jumped in fright. Someone had walked up behind him without being noticed. If it had been an assassin, his head would probably already have been twisted off.

Remembering the colleague who had been assassinated a few days ago, the guard immediately drew a knife from his waist.

When he turned around, he saw that the person standing before him was... an Elf.

And an incredibly, incredibly beautiful Elf.

The guard held his knife before him and warily asked the Elf, "Who are you?"

Seeing how nervous the guard was, Luke raised his hands to show that he meant no harm and gave him a friendly smile.

"My name is Clear Sky. I'm looking for Ron to retrieve the items I stored with him."