Bizarre Realm-Chapter 145 - 7: Divination Skill! Aemon’s Mad Plan—Bottomless Abyss! (Part 2)

Obviously, conventional firearms are definitely useless against this monster, it doesn’t look like an enemy he can deal with right now.

Eye Demon Nest.

Shawn was sorting through the morning’s harvest, there were quite a few miscellaneous items, including several curios, but not many that he could use.

"The lizardmen’s curio equipment, and the dropped items are too repetitive."

"It’s rare to see new gadgets."

Today’s haul from the lizardmen for Shawn was still survival talismans. He now had half a dozen survival talismans in hand, which he didn’t need at all, and he could only sell them at a low price after returning to Abyss City. Most of the other equipment was the same. The lizardmen’s dropped relics were heavily homogeneous, mainly being extraordinary relics of the ranger path.

"Is it because the survival environment of the Poison Gas Swamp is too harsh?"

"There are very few warriors; ranger hunters are the majority, and the equipment is similar." Shawn speculated to himself.

The harvest from the lizardmen was basically not worth mentioning, as they didn’t drop any new gadgets unless Shawn encountered some kind of rare elite monster, like an uncommon caster or something like that.

Today’s main harvest was from the crow people in the Black Forest.

——Communication Skill.

A 0-ring trick, a magical version of secret communication. Lorice had used it on Shawn before, but it was just during their first exchange. Later, both of them were hit by mind suggestion and didn’t realize anything, directly carrying on a normal conversation.

This was not dropped by the crow people but by the crows they controlled. The extraordinary relic was a dark feather.

"It can probably maintain secret communication over a 50-meter distance."

"Able to converse simultaneously with five or six targets."

This trick had very low consumption, was convenient to use, and was quite effective. The secret communication from martial arts novels was a 0-level trick here. If he’d had this ability earlier, it would have made combat much easier. In the real world, extraordinary relics are really scarce. Logically, there should be quite a number of relics flowing into reality, but for some reason, they have not become widespread. Shawn’s understanding of the Bizarre Realm is still insufficient, and even in the real world, he is only somewhat familiar with Dorne City.

——Illusionary Sound Technique, Secret Technique Seal.

Still two 0-level tricks, both found among minor relics, Shawn casually refined them.

"It seems the crow people’s talents are inclined toward casters!" Shawn was a bit surprised.

His blast flame technique had blown up three crow people, a chaotic burst of gunfire took down two, and the last one was headshot by a strong acid arrow. They had quite a few good things on them.

The crow people’s casters were more numerous, though not very powerful, but they mastered quite a few spells, offering more enhancement to Shawn.

The secret technique seal is a conventional 0-level trick, with many uses, such as serving as a kind of mark.

——Magic Alarm (1-ring spell)!

Shawn’s spirits were lifted when he found this item among the crow people’s spoils.

"Finally found something useful."

This is a spell alarm that can set up a magic alarm within a range of hundreds of meters. When an enemy approaches, it will alert Shawn, waking him from sleep.

With this item, he no longer had to worry about being stealthily attacked while resting.

The three crow people dropped quite a few good things. On them, there were also a few extraordinary relics that they collected but had not yet processed; Shawn refined all he could. Crow people and lizardmen likely also hunt each other, because a lizardman’s bone talisman was found on the body of a crow person.

——Feather Fall Technique, Electric Claw, Seven-Colored Spray.

These are all very practical 1-ring spells, and it seems the spells they can drop are related to their own abilities. After extracting them all at once, Shawn supplemented his low-tier spells considerably.

"Knowledge has started to become active."

Shawn felt the knowledge in his brain becoming more and more lively, as if it was about to reach a certain critical point, indicating the doors to the knowledge domain were slowly opening a crack. To access the knowledge domain, one must endure more pollution and madness, and other wizards might not learn so many spells at once.

After nearly finishing his tasks, Shawn took out the last piece of extraordinary relic.

A crow person’s brain!

He discovered that there were no spellbooks in the Bizarre Realm; if a spellbook dropped from a defeated enemy, it was highly likely to be the extraordinary relic condensed from the enemy’s brain. This was the brain of a crow illusionist, also the most troublesome opponent.

——Fox’s Cunning, Owl’s Wisdom (2-ring spells).

Shawn hesitated for a moment but finally decided to extract the crow person’s brain because he felt his rationality could still bear it. Through these two days of deadly combat, he felt he was slowly getting used to death, and his rationality became more stable.

"This spell can temporarily increase the intelligence of the recipient and enhance all intelligence-related ability checks." Knowledge was cheering.

One spell increased intelligence, and the other, perception.

Both of these spells were augments, no wonder Shawn found himself being watched by the enemy; perhaps this guy’s temporary perception was higher than his.

Shawn tried it out.

The effect of the spell augmentation was strong, especially the ability of Fox’s Cunning, which instantly boosted his intelligence to a very astonishing level. That feeling was hard to describe, somewhat resembling the sage time from his past life, with an impressive increase in learning efficiency. (Temporary intelligence of 24 points.)

As for strengthening perception, his intuition was already high, and after the augmentation, it became even stronger. However, due to spiritual vision, it was not as obvious.