279. Dekan’s Stress Disorder
After being forcibly transmitted out of the Shadow World, the academy trio and Teacher Cat temporarily returned to the familiar small interdimensional space.
It was a temporary stopover between the Shadow World and the real world used for reward settlements.
Soon, the mission interface began to update just as it had in the previous few instances.
[Shadow World Infinite Pursuit Inferno Completed]
[Calculations in Progress]
[Generating Evaluation]
[Due to highly coordinated team actions, the settlement will be processed as a team]
[Challengers: Dekan & Cornelia & Dami & Chloix]
“Hold on, who’s Dami?”
Dekan asked, somewhat confused.
“Enough already, Dekan!!! Do you want to go through this again, meow meow meow!!!”
Teacher Cat, enraged, jumped onto his head and started tearing at his hair.
Dekan had already asked this during the last Shadow World settlement!
And now he was pretending to be oblivious again, messing with his mind!
While the one cat and one person were frolicking about, the Shadow World continued to refresh its settlement information.
[The tasks were accomplished relatively normally within this scenario-based Shadow World.]
[The team achieved the following accomplishments]
[Virtuous Deeds E – All the merits sacrificed in the Demon Realm were picked back up in the Holy Country, with a surplus of one Holy Coin]
[Repentance A – This time, you started trying to solve puzzles according to the Shadow World’s mechanism. Despite intelligence being sabotaged by teammates, you’ve begun to change]
[Disaster of the Demon King’s Tomb SSS – Hard to evaluate]
[Demon Killing Machine SSS – Defeated one 7th Rank Demon (Warden from the 2nd level), killed three 8th Rank Demons (Wardens from the 5th, 6th, and 8th levels), turned one 8th Rank Demon (Warden from the 4th level), defeated one 9th Rank Demon (Warden Leader), and released two 8th Rank Demons (Wardens from the 1st and 3rd levels)]
[Etiquette Progression D – This time, you did not destroy any pianos]
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[Geographer A – Confirmed the connection between the Holy Country and the Demon Realm]
After reading it, Dekan frowned.
This Shadow World seemed to have grown even more aggressive.
Though, he had already been quite restrained.
[Accomplishment Sorting Completed, Evaluation Generated]
[The crimson haze covered the entire land, skimming over the shadowy night, crossing the Demon Realm’s borders, you enacting a saga of heroism, rescuing the Dark Saintess, becoming the key factor in ending the Holy War. However, the crisis of the Holy Country is far from over…]
[Team Overall Evaluation: SSS]
[Due to high coordination and significant task contribution from Dekan, Chloix, and two other non-team Challengers, the team will be granted a Cooperative Trait]
[Morion & Chloix & Dekan & Krey Obtain Cooperative Trait: Sly Justice]
[Sly Justice: When the four appear in the same Shadow World, the interests related to their identities will overlap at least once.]
[Reward Settlement: Rank Augmentation (Dekan from Rank 4 to 5, Cornelia from Rank 4 to 5, Dami from Rank 5 to 5, Chloix from Rank 6 to 7), Body Destruction (Rank 4 Epic Spell Card), Illusory Stone Pendant (Rank 7 Epic Equipment Card), Blood Mimicry (Rank 5 Epic Spell Card)]
“Wow! Has someone managed to drop Fahim’s master skills?”
Dekan had been eyeing the two ultimate skills of the Corrosive Destruction Bishop Fahim, [Body Destruction] and [Corrosive Destruction], for a long time.
These spells didn’t boast sky-high damage, but they were excruciatingly painful.
Thus, Dekan specifically targeted Warden Taboo Fahlir.
He wanted to see if he could obtain a spell akin to Fahim’s.
“Although this card has the same name as Fahim’s [Body Destruction], each Epic card has its uniqueness, so the effect may differ a little.”
Dekan, looking at the familiar card name, was filled with happiness internally.
He grasped the floating spell card in midair, where orange lightning arcs flickered on its surface from time to time.
“Not bad for a Forbidden Magic Epic Card.”
The moment Dekan touched it, he felt the terrifying magical vibration contained within this card.
[Body Destruction]
[Type: Spell Card]
[Rank: Orange Epic]
[Grade: 4]
[Effect: Inflicts targeted damage to the enemy’s body. The higher the user’s magical attribute or the lower the opponent’s physical attribute, the stronger the destruction will be. Grants the enemy the “Healing Reduction” state, reducing received healing by 40%.]
[Note: One of the greatest achievements in forbidden magic by Taboo Fahlir.]
“Can I have this card?”
Dekan asked.
“No problem.”
His companions answered in unison.
Dekan was satisfied as he tucked the card away.
Although this [Body Destruction] was much less powerful compared to the one Fahim possessed initially, akin to a prototype card, the overall taboo Fahlir was still slightly weaker than the Corrosive Destruction Bishop Fahim.
Not having the complete version of [Body Destruction] was something Dekan had foreseen.
However, what Dekan sought wasn’t [Body Destruction].
He wanted to deconstruct and analyze it!
Dekan aimed to use [Body Destruction] as the foundation to craft a more positive, personally styled forbidden magic spell card!
As for the second epic card, there was no debate about it. It was directly handed to Chloix.
Only he could use it.
[Illusory Stone Pendant]
[Type: Equipment Card]
[Rank: Orange Epic]
[Grade: 7]
[Effect: After equipping, 70% of all damage taken will be transformed into illusory effects. All illusory damages will gradually revert to real damages over the next 10 seconds, which the user must endure.]
[Note: The ultimate creation by Illusory Karlst.]
The Illusory Bishop possessed a similar ability, except that the Illusory Bishop could consume mana to erase the illusory damage.
Of course, this card was still useful when placed in Chloix’s hands, who could directly heal himself in the most straightforward manner.
As for the last card, it was already very familiar to Dekan.
[Blood Mimicry]
[Type: Spell Card]
[Rank: Orange Epic]
[Grade: 5]
[Effect: After use, the user can mimic any known species and can choose to mimic a specific gender of the chosen species. Mimicry does not change the user’s true species, attributes, or physical features. Cannot mimic species with a volume deviation exceeding 30% from the user, cannot be self-canceled, cooldown period of 14 days.]
[Note: A lost power of the bloodline.]
This was another bloodline magic card with ambiguous significance.
Dekan couldn’t help but start mocking them.
The power of you all, vampires, is truly outrageous.
Originally, these abilities only came with the birth of high-tier vampires.
But later, they could be extracted as magic cards to be used by other races.
This was originally a god-like card that could rival Morion’s [Contact Mimicry].
However, after some experiences in this Shadow World.
Dekan developed a bit of a psychological shadow towards the state of [Blood Mimicry].
Looking at this card alone was fine.
But just thinking about [Three Corpse Frenzy], Dekan wished to discard this card in his hand as soon as possible.
“Who wants this?”
Dekan glanced at his teammates and asked.
“Non pariel, (meow).”x3
Dekan: “…”
