"Is something wrong?" Lin Yi asked at once.
"The wick burned out," Boss said. "After spending so long transformed into an Hourglass, its original wick should have been gone long ago."
"Is it a big problem?" Lin Yi pressed.
"What kind of problem is that? Just catch a Grinning Angel later, take out a Feather Pupil, and put it in," Boss said calmly.
Lin Yi stiffened. He had almost forgotten-this was Boss he was dealing with!
With that, Boss walked over to the wall, took down an Old Kerosene Lamp, and brought it back to Lin Yi.
"Use this one for now. It doesn't matter if it gets damaged."
Lin Yi accepted the Old Kerosene Lamp. The moment his hand closed around it, a strange sensation flooded into his will.
Even at his current Contamination Depth, obtaining the Old Kerosene Lamp felt as though a surge of power had been bestowed upon him.
With that power bolstering him, he felt terrifyingly strong even in his normal state.
"So this is the boost from the Old Kerosene Lamp?" Lin Yi's mouth fell open in astonishment.
He could sense two complementary powers within the Old Kerosene Lamp, like some mysterious game item.
One power provided relatively fixed "stats."
This part of the boost was of little use to him, but he could imagine that the Dorm Supervisor might have gained the strength to fight the anomalous entities in the Dormitory Building through precisely this boost.
The other power provided a "percentage bonus" based on his own strength-the feeling was subtle, yet he genuinely felt himself growing noticeably stronger.
Still, power like this... really could make people lose themselves, especially those who had no power whatsoever, or those whose strength had reached a bottleneck they could not break through.
Watching Lin Yi hold