Chapter 721: Prologue: Cutting In
Muscle Strength, Endurance, Agility, Magic Power, Luck...
Innate Skills, Class Skills, Owned Treasures...
And so on, the entire Heroic Spirit template was all-encompassing. Gu Mo tried dragging the progress bars on the ability panel and found that there were absolutely no restrictions. They could be dragged all the way to the right, and the corresponding ability values would immediately become EX level.
At the same time, a bracket appeared right after, containing several notes. Upon closer inspection, they read—
"EX level is an exception and has no comparative strength."
"The current settings will use a panel of 70% of the player’s real values as a configuration, please consider accordingly."
Huh?
Gu Mo now had some interest. Having a panel at seventy percent of his real level was exactly the threshold for the standard he insisted on using for his physical clone. Isn’t that great... But seeing how it is, does it mean that this newly unlocked dungeon gameplay...
Is actually using the system’s plane projection for farming?
—emmmmm... What kind of idle gaming is that?
—Although the main body indeed doesn’t need to act, you still have to send your clone there...
Even from a logical standpoint, this should indeed be the explanation since the player’s character itself doesn’t move, and the dungeon is idling on its own. There should be a medium that goes to farm the dungeon; it is impossible for the dungeon to farm itself.
But this was exactly what Gu Mo thought earlier. He wanted a gameplay function where, after setting up auto-farming, he could regularly "harvest"...
What kind of idle gameplay is this, unlocking a disappointment, a deception!
Unable to hold back, he clicked his tongue twice. Gu Mo didn’t reset the core values of the Heroic Spirit panel—when he initially opened it, the progress bars were presumably at their default positions, slightly to the right of the middle, with corresponding attributes of either B or A grade.
But if you can max it out, naturally, you should max it out!
After browsing through the configurations of Innate Skills, Class Skills, and Owned Treasures, he squinted his eyes slightly.
There seemed to be many selectable items, but the vast majority were greyed-out, locked options. Compared to those that could be selected and unlocked, the greyed items appeared somewhat peculiar, comprising things he had never heard of. The only familiar item was the "True Spirit Positioning Map"...
That was another clone of his, currently implementing a major plan in the Nioh World—
To gather guardian spirits from all over the world, using Daoism’s "True Spirit Positioning Map" as a prototype, weaving a world-class Technique that encompasses many true spirits. This map would systematize the chaotic guardian spirits into a true spirit genealogy, combining their abilities.
It would be an unimaginably grand power; those endowed with this Technique will have divine protection in all aspects, acquiring various incredible divine powers such as immortality, resurrection, time travel, foresight... and so on.
But there hasn’t been much progress; currently, he has mostly gathered the guardian spirits of the Japanese Archipelago...
It was originally a chaotic Warring States period, so victory after victory, capturing the defeated’s true spirits with the Ouroboros, repeating the process is sufficient.
Next, acceleration should be feasible; with the current strength of the clone, sweeping through everything is no problem. More powerful deities exist in that world, but they seem inactive... Yet the real difficulty is not in collecting guardian spirits but in weaving the Technique.
Even with the massive computing power of Human Intelligence Integration, with considerable resources concentrated on this project, the progress is still very slow.
Seeing his yet-uncompleted project suddenly appearing as a candidate in the newly unlocked dungeon gameplay, Gu Mo was understandably a bit taken aback... Luckily, it was greyed out, or he would have questioned the meaning of his actions.
But leaving aside the "True Spirit Positioning Map," what are all those other projects he’s completely unfamiliar with?!
His lack of memories suggests they aren’t projects he consciously undertook, yet they appear as options, so they’re probably of similar nature... Could they be possibilities stirred up by parallel world lines that haven’t been integrated into his "self"?
He sharply recalled something, noting that the unlocking of this new dungeon gameplay was triggered by the Legendary Level Achievement entering the third stage.
And thinking about the golden Achievement Badge in the third stage, its description goes—
"Unsubstantiated, unreliable rumors are starting to circulate beyond official history"...
—Is this hinting at something?
Reflecting deeply, he configured these aspects and, after completing everything, returned to the main interface to click the "Start Idle" option. As the option darkened, the displayed words changed to "Stop Idle."
Then, it seemed there were no further movements.
Gu Mo patiently waited, and sure enough, within seconds, prompt messages began to emerge continuously.
"Team request detected, from a stranger’s request, do you wish to join the team?"
"Team request detected, from a stranger’s request, do you wish to join the team?"
