And the correct way to approach this instance...
Zhao Cheng looked at the mark on the back of his hand. It had just appeared along with his descent.
The moment Zhao Cheng focused his attention on the mark, a black book immediately materialized.
Its cover was pitch-black, adorned with dark golden patterns, giving it an ancient yet magnificent air. At the same time, as the book appeared, a stream of black information flowed into Zhao Cheng's mind.
The ancient book opened. On the title page were four characters resembling decorative patterns. It was a language Zhao Cheng had never seen before, yet he understood their meaning: Book of Witches.
It did not mean that possessing this book would allow one to become a witch.
This was a book of contracts. According to the information stream, Zhao Cheng needed to raise the witches' favorability toward him. Once their favorability reached a certain threshold, he could forge a contract with them and share a portion of their abilities. The higher the favorability, the more abilities he could share—and the more powerful they would be.
At the same time, increasing favorability could in turn enhance the witches' power through the Book of Witches. It was a win-win arrangement.
In short, this time, the instance description had not engaged in false advertising. Or rather, the gameplay described in it was real.
The greatest problem was time.
According to Zhao Cheng's calculations, although time flowed at vastly different rates in the two spaces, by this timeline's measure, his Hyper-Dimensional Body in the gray space would be destroyed in at most a month.
In other words, measured by time in the gray space, his Hyper-Dimensional Body would perish in less than an instant.
Clearly, this was the manifestation of the apocalypse's power.
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