After sending the White Wolf King to the Temple of Truth, Mike was about to take a break when he received a new message.
Pecker: “Thor, is that you?”
Mike raised an eyebrow, Pecker was online!
Level 994, born with the Shadow Source, destined to become the Shadow God!
Theft and Shadow Quasi-God!
Mike quickly replied,
“Yeah, how have you been? I just leveled up a few dozen levels, how about you?”
Pecker: “…”
From birth until now, he had only leveled up 4 levels.
The joy of leveling up dozens of levels was beyond his imagination.
Through the long-distance communication with Pecker, Mike gained a new understanding of the Temple of Truth.
Normally, the Temple of Truth was closed to the outside world.
If the gods inside wanted to go out, they had to follow the rules of truth, otherwise, they would be considered defectors.
If they stayed away from the Temple of Truth for too long and were judged as defectors by the Tower of Truth, they would quickly fall and become corrupted, turning into abyssal demon gods.
Outsiders, if they wanted to enter the Temple, had to have a high enough Tower of Truth authority and strength!
Mike pondered, nodding slightly.
He had just conquered the 30th floor, and his authority had invisibly increased.
At the same time, the White Wolf King, by going to the Temple of Truth through Mike’s private space, had left a passage between the two realms.
It was for this reason that Mike was able to get in touch with Pecker.
Mike didn’t forget the important matter, “The skills you promised to teach me before, is it convenient now? Also, I might need your help to participate in a tournament soon.”
Pecker quickly replied,
“I’ll send the skill books over right away, as for the tournament… that might be a bit troublesome, I’m not very good at fighting…”
The Shadow Source was in Mike’s hands. According to their previous agreement, when Mike reached level 900, he would return the Shadow Source to Pecker.
In exchange, Pecker would cooperate with Mike on some matters.
Mike said confidently, “It’s okay, I have a surefire plan!”
Since Thor had said so, Pecker didn’t refuse.
Soon, he used a method similar to blessing to send three skill books to his follower.
Mike couldn’t wait to open the three books:
“Beginner’s Guide to Shadow Food Making,” “Shadow Digestive Tablets,” and “Shadow Sleeping Pills.”
According to Pecker’s introduction, the food made through “Beginner’s Guide to Shadow Food Making” could be eaten by Guardian Shadows like normal food, allowing them to enjoy the deliciousness.
However… they couldn’t digest it.
Therefore, “Shadow Digestive Tablets” were needed to aid digestion.
Otherwise, the food would accumulate in their stomachs and they would easily throw up.
As for the last one, “Shadow Sleeping Pills,” as the name suggested, after taking it, Guardian Shadows could sleep like normal people.
“Good stuff!”
Mike thanked Pecker again, put away the three skill books, and rushed to the Wolf’s Den.
…
In the Wolf’s Den,
Gregory, who was about to leave, was stopped by Mike.
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Mike took out the three skill books and explained their uses. Professor Gregory immediately understood.
“You want me to learn them and then make skill books?”
Mike nodded, “Yes!”
Among Professor Gregory’s talents, there was an effect called [Script of the Sages], unlocked
at level 150, which allowed him to make skill books.
These three skills were created by Pecker.
Besides Pecker, only Professor Gregory could mass-produce skill books.
And there were so many people in the Guardian Shadows, if they wanted to supply food, shadow digestive tablets, and shadow sleeping pills in large quantities, one person would be exhausted!
Only by first producing a batch of skill books would it be possible.
But Pecker was in the Temple of Truth and couldn’t send over too many skill books.
Knowing the whole story, Professor Gregory didn’t refuse and agreed to help Mike make 3000
skill books first.
However, Professor Gregory also had his own conditions, reminding,
“Don’t sell the food you make at too high a price!”
“Don’t worry, I’ll take care of it!”
Mike immediately called Shadow Four over and assured Professor Gregory that all food within
the Guardian Shadows would be sold at cost!
Professor Gregory looked at Mike helplessly, shook his head, and left.
Shadow Four was a little curious, “Fourth Bro, really selling at cost?”
Although this food was cheap, it couldn’t stand to be sold in large quantities!
If they added a 10% markup, the profit would be very considerable.
The current operation of the Guardian Shadows was completely in debt.
They only had 3 million Lord merits in their account and could go bankrupt at any time.
“I’m a man of my word!”
Mike glanced outside, making sure Professor Gregory had gone far away, then pulled Shadow Four to a corner and whispered,
“Shadow Digestive Tablets, each Guardian Shadow gets three free tablets a day. For more,
they have to pay!”
Three meals a day was already very humane for the Guardian Shadows.
Want to eat more delicious food?
Sure!
Pay up!
Shadow Four gasped, he had underestimated Fourth Bro.
Fourth Bro really had a good business mind!
Of course, this deal was one where both sides were willing.
Most of the members in the Guardian Shadows hadn’t eaten in hundreds of years.
When they could eat like normal people, it was easy for them to engage in retaliatory eating.
At that time… the Shadow Digestive Tablets would be sold out for sure.
The most crucial point was that this was a long-term business!
Shadow Four made a rough calculation, once the food production line was set up and
promoted to all Guardian Shadows…
In the best-case scenario, it could cover at least 50% of the Guardian Shadows’ expenses.
He suddenly realized that the financial crisis that had plagued the Guardian Shadows for decades was about to be solved?!
Previously, the dilemma of the Guardian Shadows was that as the number of members increased, the expenses increased, but the income did not increase significantly.
After Thor’s series of operations,
The money earned by most Shadow members from the Guardian Shadows was eventually
spent back in the Guardian Shadows.
Just as Mike and Shadow Four were discussing the follow-up details,
A reward announcement spread throughout the Tower of Truth. “Congratulations to participant Thor for conquering the 30th floor with an SSSSS rating, rewarding all humans in the Tower of Truth with the buff [Heart of the Moon]!”
“Permanent buff [Dancing with Wolves]: Humans in the Tower of Truth automatically gain
the friendship of werewolf NPCs.”
“Permanent buff [Blood Clan Leader]: Humans in the Tower of Truth automatically gain the
friendship of blood clan NPCs.”
“Permanent buff [Elf Confidant]: Humans in the Tower of Truth automatically gain the
friendship of elf NPCs.”
“[Heart of the Moon]: In the Tower of Truth, when humans bathe in sunlight, damage dealt
+50%, damage received -20%. When bathing in moonlight, healing/shielding received
+20%, damage received -50%.”
The four permanent buff rewards seemed pretty good.
The friendship of werewolves, blood clans, and elves…
This value was hard to estimate.
For Mike, these three buffs were as good as nothing, he wouldn’t be affected by such low-
level rules.
However, for ordinary participants, these three buffs were still very valuable!
Take the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th floors that Mike had conquered before, for example, the mines
often spawned vampires and werewolves.
Sometimes they would attack participants, sometimes they would give wrong directions, and sometimes they themselves were the bosses.
With this buff, human participants could turn enemies into friends.
On the lower floors, these three buffs played a big role!
However, these three races were also known as the Lower Three Races, their own strength was
not considered strong.
And the truly top experts among these three races all had various flaws.
Just look at Dracula and Vladimir in Mike’s private space.
Putting the reward buffs aside, Mike knew that his personal reward would have to wait.
As long as he could get his personal reward before going to the Ninth Abyss, Mike would be
content.
While Mike and Shadow Four were talking, Maxen walked over reluctantly.
As soon as Maxen opened his mouth, a puff of black smoke came out.
“Apollo told me to tell you, don’t climb the tower today or tomorrow.”
Hearing Maxen’s words, Mike nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.
So far, all of Mike’s actions were still within a controllable range. Apollo had only mentioned the matter of conquering with an SSSSS rating once to Mike.
He told Mike to wait at least 10 days between each SSSSS rating conquest.
As for other matters, Apollo didn’t say.
Now that Maxen was here, Mike asked Shadow Four to go and implement the matter of the
Guardian Shadow food factory, leaving only Mike and Maxen in the office.
Mike asked, “I heard something today about the Lower Three Races. So what are the Middle
Three Races and the Upper Three Races?”
According to the legends circulating in the Tower of Truth, the Nine Races created the Tower
of Truth.
Among them, blood clans, elves, and werewolves, because of their weakest strength, were
also known as the Lower Three Races.
“I know the Middle Three Races.”
Maxen introduced,
“Ghosts, Angels, Chaos.”
Mike frowned,
“Chaos?”
“Yes, the Chaos Race, the existence of this race… is very strange.”
Maxen didn’t know how to describe it for a moment,
“You’ll know when you meet the Chaos Race.”
Maxen thought of something and quickly reminded,
“By the way, unlike other races, there were level 1000 beings in the history of the Chaos Race.
My godfather and the others speculated that the Chaos ancestor might still be alive!”
The Chaos Race, there were actually level 1000 beings?