Mysticism has always been the foundation of the academic tree.
Although its presence is quite low, far less helpful to Baiyu than Ancient Martial Arts, Spiritual Arts, Magic Elixir, and so on, this thing is indeed a rigid need.
If it doesn’t level up, the other disciplines can’t level up either.
Moreover, the role of Mysticism might just not be apparent now.
Seeing the maxed-out experience, Baiyu did not hesitate to upgrade Mysticism to LV2.
This is his first Level Two discipline.
At the moment of the upgrade, a mysterious and indescribable flood of information surged into his mind, and Baiyu suddenly felt his thoughts more developed, and his spirit crystal clear.
Even his understanding of things had reached a new level.
[The host’s Mysticism has been upgraded to LV2, reward received: Mystic Aptitude LV2, Scholar Secret Technique for Mysticism!]
Mystic Aptitude LV2: Your understanding of Mysticism is deeper, you can absorb more obscure Mysticism knowledge, memorize more complex Mysticism knowledge, and your resistance to pollution from Mysticism is greatly increased.
Scholar Secret Technique for Mysticism: In the field of Mysticism, only one Scholar Secret Technique can be acquired.
Explanatory information appeared in his mind.
Baiyu keenly noticed the difference in the field of Mysticism.
Other disciplines can have two Scholar Secret Techniques, but this one only has one.
Instead of [True Vision Sprite], there was a can of beer.
Effect: After drinking, you can acquire a Scholar Secret Technique in Mysticism
Note: Drink immediately upon opening, remember not to overindulge
Damn, what is this thing.
Baiyu grasped the beer can, pulled the pull-tab, pop, white foam surged out of the opening, he waited a while until the foam completely disappeared before gulping down the beer.
The bitterness of the beer made his heart ache.
After thoroughly consuming the entire can of beer, a massive wave of information swept in.
Type: Scholar Secret Technique
Effect: Unleash the Scholar Realm, increase pollution level by five points per second, within ten meters, the host can use Domain Power on any one or multiple targets, reducing their intelligence by two points per second. The greater the difference in power, the higher the pollution level cost!
Note: Within the Scholar Realm, you are the fanciest kid.
Upon accurately understanding the function of the Scholar Realm in his mind, Baiyu couldn’t help but curse.
This wave...this wave is an IQ-reduction aura.
It’s the most powerful and otherworldly of all skills, the IQ-reduction aura!
Reducing two points per second, twenty points in ten seconds, who can still think normally after an ordinary person’s intelligence drops by twenty points?
Who can withstand such a thing?
However, the five-point increase in pollution level per second can also easily backfire if not careful; last time, at a pollution level of 40 points, Baiyu already felt something was wrong.
This is a double-edged sword.
After understanding the new Scholar Secret Technique, more information popped up on the panel.
[The host’s Spiritual Arts has been upgraded to LV2, reward received: Spiritual Arts Aptitude LV2, Scholar Secret Technique for Spiritual Arts!]
The Spiritual Arts, long gathered to its max experience, was unshackled upon Mysticism breaking through to LV2, moving up to LV2 itself.
Spiritual Arts Aptitude LV2: Your speed in learning Spiritual Arts, understanding Spiritual Arts will greatly increase, while the effectiveness of releasing Spiritual Arts will receive a certain boost, greatly improving the efficiency of learning Spiritual Arts.
There are no special notes on the Scholar Secret Technique for Spiritual Arts.
And inside the drawer, the familiar old brand, True Vision Sprite, remained.
He gulped it down in one go.
Massive information again surged into his mind.
Type: Scholar Secret Technique
Effect: You can attempt to fuse two Spiritual Arts, creating one that combines their strengths and weaknesses, with higher quality and better effects. Each attempt costs fifty points.
Note: Even a waste has its value, even the most useless Spiritual Art can shine brightest.
The level of Scholar Secret Techniques is closely related to the level of the academic discipline.
And these two Scholar Secret Techniques are practical and significantly boost combat capabilities.
Compared to previous Purification, Energy Perception, Mechanical Realm, these two Scholar Secret Techniques can elevate Baiyu’s current combat power to a higher level.
This time Mysticism upgraded, all his gradual accumulations in the Scholar Space have finally manifestly paid off within himself.
Besides the improvements in two disciplines’ aptitudes and obtaining powerful Scholar Secret Techniques.
There is also a Nightmare Task reward awaiting Baiyu to develop.
One Rare Level lottery chance, one Spiritual Art of a designated category, and 400 points.
This is the reward for Nightmare Difficulty.
"Designated category, Mechanical-type Spiritual Art."
Baiyu uttered the answer he had already considered.
Speaking of various Spiritual Arts, the Ancient Martial Arts combat arts are the most numerous and complex, brought the mastery by humanity’s greats.
This type Baiyu naturally couldn’t choose.
Other aspects of Spiritual Arts are not as minimal or difficult to research and develop as the Mechanical-type Spiritual Arts.
[Acquired Mechanical-type Spiritual Art: Thousand-Change Hand]
[Thousand-Change Hand]
Effect: By stimulating acupoints with special Blood Qi, your fingers and palms will become more nimble, achieving hand speed more terrifying than a magician’s, allowing you to assemble any mechanical part with extreme rapidity.
Note: Hand speed is every Mechanic’s reason for being single; as soon as they find a better half, their capabilities plummet.
"Why do mechanics have to be single, is it because they must maintain hand speed?"
Baiyu internally complained.
That note must be mocking me, it must be!
He withdrew his emotions and looked towards the lottery panel.
Basically all the accumulations over this period have been sufficiently developed.
And the 400 points have cheerfully been credited, now only the last rare-level lottery chance remains.
Actually, the Nightmare Difficulty reward is not very ample.
He had expected the designated Spiritual Art would be something of a Limited Level, but it turned out to be just Rare Level.
This rare-level lottery chance will at most yield a rare-level item, far less rewarding than previous Nightmare Difficulty endeavors.
A sparrow is small, but it is still meat, right?
Baiyu approached the lottery panel, which had transformed into a brand-new slot machine due to the Scholar Space’s upgrade to the 1.0 official version.
The colored screen showed he still had one lottery chance.
Standing before the slot machine.
Baiyu’s expression solemn, his eyes full of gravity, he clasped his hands together and murmured under his breath: "Mystic difficulty cannot be saved, praying to gods ends in ashes. Underflow cannot change fate, a lifetime’s fortune disperses to nothing."
Damn it Granny Li, give me something good!"
Once the spell was chanted.
He smacked a fist onto the slot machine’s red button, the whole screen began to spin rapidly, various strange items drifted by, shining like a bright rainbow.
At this moment, Baiyu’s heart was in his throat.
The rolling screen slowed down, and the slot machine cheered with a "boom... thud, clunk" sound, the whole screen flashed with a red critical hit glow.
[Congratulations host for triggering a critical hit in this draw, acquiring Restricted Level Magic Energy Weapon: Eighteen Swords of Abi Hell (Set)!