Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 877 - 414: The ’Cage of the Stars’ Autonomous Base, First Encounter with the Sage

Chapter 877: Chapter 414: The ’Cage of the Stars’ Autonomous Base, First Encounter with the Sage

[You have browsed through the information and acquired a vast amount of Knowledge, increasing your Knowledge by 10,000, current Knowledge: 32,000/40,800]

[You have placed the materials from the desk into your bag and continue to look for useful items.]

[You open the drawer of the desk and find a travel map, as well as a fragment of a canvas, depicting the bright Milky Way in the night sky.]

[You have obtained ’Lamsey Abyss Cave Travel Map’ (Map)]

[You have obtained ’Fragment of a Star Chart’ (Special Item)]

Lin Xun’s eyes lit up with excitement, the secret chamber had indeed yielded a sizable loot.

Not only had he obtained the coordinates of a Hidden Map, but he also collected another ’Fragment of a Star Chart’.

The last Star Chart he had pieced together and exchanged for the ’Star Realm Shift’ skill from the Knowledge god servant had yet to be learned.

In the Shell tab, the ’Star Spirit Envoy’ had reached the Mythical Level thanks to a compatibility boost, fulfilling the preconditions to learn a skill a level higher.

Lin Xun pondered for a moment, but he decided against teaching the skill to the Star Spirit Envoy.

He felt that in the upcoming levels, he might be able to take down a ’Star Realm Envoy’ and acquire a superior Shell.

If he looked even further ahead, he wondered whether he could embody an ’Executor’ already at the Divine Realm.]

Awesome skills should definitely be learned by an awesome Shell; teaching them to a mediocre Star Spirit Envoy seemed like a waste.

"Sigh, if only skills could be transferred between Shells. Otherwise, when the Shells are upgraded, the skills are lost along with the old Shell, which always seems like too great of a loss," he lamented.

Lin Xun let out a sigh and searched the secret chamber carefully once more.

After confirming that there were no more valuable items, he left the secret chamber and made his way back to the third floor of the branch building’s Transplant Room.

[...]

[The Transplant Room was in complete disarray, the numerous Star Mages obliterated by the ’Supernova Burst’, leaving behind only scattered, dry bloodstains where even their corpses had evaporated.]

[Many Refined Copper operating tables were also melted and evaporated by the terrifying power of the magic.]

[You look toward the deepest part of the Transplant Room, and since you had cast magic with your back against the wall at the time, the decorations on the wall and the ’Cage of the Stars’ painting were unaffected.]

[You stride forward and stand before the life-sized painting of the starry sky...]

[The background of the canvas is the vast Milky Way; cages made of starlight connect with one another. The material of the canvas seems to be a type of special paper, it feels strange to touch, and the frame is made of Refined Copper, seemingly quite heavy.]

[You possess the ’Teleportation Badge’ for this painting; do you wish to teleport into the ’Cage of the Stars’?]

Lin Xun presses ’No’ and stands before the painting for a long time, with the game only prompting him about teleportation.

He knows that to perform a crafty maneuver, he must use the ’Flesh Authority’ to carry out operations on the Shell that the game would not normally permit.]

[Under the drive of ’Flesh Authority’, you reach out and grasp the Refined Copper frame on both sides of the painting...]

[With a powerful yank, you tear down the life-sized starry sky painting, along with the frame and numerous nails attached to the wall.]

Lin Xun realizes that the game has not given the prompt ’you have gained the Cage of the Stars’ after such an exploit, which means that even if the painting is forcibly torn down, it cannot truly be acquired or placed into his inventory.

His experimentation was not over yet.

Previously, he had obtained a storage item, the ’Star Dust Silver Money Bag’, from the ’Star Spirit Envoy’. If he could fit the painting into the storage item, then his goal would be achieved.

Because according to the description of the ’Teleportation Trap Device’, the trap must be within one kilometer of the painting to function.

The secondary teleportation circle within the device could then utilize the main teleportation circle in the painting, allowing the trap to be triggered and force teleportation.

Lin Xun’s intent was to carry the painting with him, and if he encountered an enemy he couldn’t defeat, he’d simply pull out the ’Teleportation Trap Device’.

It would be a ’dare you to respond when I call you’ situation. Whether the enemy responds or not, as long as the conditions to trigger the trap are met, the enemy can be forcibly teleported away.

This trap had been personally tested by Lin Xun, and it worked on monsters up to Demigod level; he estimated that as long as it didn’t reach the Divine Realm, it couldn’t escape the forced teleportation.

And the destination of forced teleportation is the ’Cage of the Stars’ where one can only be beaten without the ability to fight back. This trap, in conjunction with the painting, would be the perfect combo for a ’slamming shut the door to beat the dog’ scenario.]

Lin Xun smiled, took out the ’Star Dust Silver Money Bag’, and continued to attempt the crafty maneuver.

Since the game did not prompt him to put the painting into the money bag, he used Flesh Authority to forcefully stuff it into the money bag.

At that point, it seemed as though the Underworld Game could no longer bear to watch and issued a warning.

[Please note, your item ’Star Dust Silver Money Bag’ can only hold items of extremely light weight; forcing heavier items inside will damage the bag!]

"Tsk, wasn’t it just a bug exploit? Why are you getting antsy now?"

Seeing that this approach was a dead end, Lin Xun’s eyes flickered as he thought of another way to cunningly work around the problem.

He was determined to succeed in exploiting this bug today.

[You lower your hand, letting the ’Cage of the Stars’ lean against the wall...]

[You embody the Shell of ’Master of the Yi Evil Palace’!]

[You shake the ’Exorcism String’, summoning the loyal Shikigami, ’The Snow Woman in the Mountains that Traces the Source’.]

[The ’Snow Woman’ blinks her large eyes, waiting for the command of ’Dragonkin, sir’.]

[You point at the ’Cage of the Stars’ painting, and demand that it be carried on her back as she follows you...]