Chapter 83
Chapter 83: Delusional Obsession
The snow mountain was still that same snow mountain.
Everything seemed completely unchanged.
After dealing with that skull and the three-headed person,
a new line of text appeared on that book.
[ The reincarnation has been broken ]
Picking up the skull on the ground that no longer emitted black qi, he brought up the Light Screen to appraise it.
[ Head of Obsession (Level 6) ]
[ An aggregate of grievances that still retained hatred after going through forty-seven reincarnations. The grievances inside have been removed, but it still retains some abilities, reducing the Mental Power of all targets within a certain range. ]
“I’ve finally gotten some gains.”
Ye Qiyan smiled. He had spent a full five-plus hours struggling in the snow for this stop, and his gains so far, aside from that book, were just this skull.
“Done, time to pack up. Hm?”
Creak, creak——
Just as he was preparing to head back, the familiar sound of tracks appeared not far away.
Looking in that direction,
he saw Wall-E running towards him while holding a section of a thigh bone.
“What a coincidence, Wall-E. You’re actually here too. But speaking of which, this is the final stage. No matter how abstract the position of the Treasure Chest in the Platform is, it should be somewhere around here.”
Patting Wall-E’s iron skull a few times, he took the thigh bone it held high up.
“This thing… can also be a Treasure Chest?”
[ Level 6 Treasure Chest (Openable) ]
Well, it really was a Treasure Chest.
“Good job, Wall-E. Where did you find it? Come to think of it, didn’t you run up the mountain earlier?”
Wall-E waved its machine claw. Although it was impossible to tell what it was actually saying, it wasn’t hard to tell from its gaze that its journey along the way had seemed exceptionally arduous.
“Thanks to you, you’ve worked hard. Let’s go back together.”
He put Wall-E back onto the Train.
Casually recalling both the Raven Demon and Demon Raven that were still standing not far away.
“card sequence… truly is a powerful item. If it weren’t for them, this stop wouldn’t have been so easy to get through.”
Bewitchment and Harbinger.
These were just two cards within the Devil Card card sequence.
If he really collected the entire Devil Card card sequence, he couldn’t imagine how strong he would be at that time.
Being even bolder, he also had the blasphemy card.
Even though they said the blasphemy card couldn’t all be collected, what if?
Ye Qiyan’s heart blazed with fervor.
“Let’s go back.”
Roadhog’s roar resounded through the skies.
Without any obstructions, mere wind and snow could not stop the charge of land machines.
Twisting the accelerator to the max, he started street-racing.
“I’m freezing to death!”
Returning to the Train, Ye Qiyan felt like he was about to freeze into an icicle.
He ran into the Temperature-controlled carriage and curled his entire body into the quilt.
After taking quite a while to ease up, he barely recovered.
“I was so foolish, really…”
Wall-E stayed by his side worriedly, tilting its head as it looked at its master.
“Wall-E, if there are ever any more Platforms with this kind of snowy weather in the future, remind me not to ride a motorcycle anymore.”
Wall-E nodded and skillfully handed over a cup of White Forest Fruit smoothie.
“…Forget it, I’ll take it as you being kind-hearted.”
Taking the smoothie and setting it aside, Ye Qiyan pulled out the thigh bone that he had been hugging in his arms the entire time from the bed.
“The appearance of this Treasure Chest is getting more and more abstract.”
He muttered softly and took a deep breath.
“Sublimation.”
[ Stamina: 79 → 39 ] [ Mental Power: 95 → 45 ]
[ Level 7 Treasure Chest (Openable) ]
He rubbed his brow wearily.
The Stamina consumption to sublimate to a Level 7 Treasure Chest increased by another 20 points.
Moreover, he once again felt the initial resistance.
Although it wasn’t very obvious, it had indeed appeared.
“Do I have to continue sublimating self…”
He shook his head, temporarily throwing other thoughts to the back of his mind, and impatiently opened the Treasure Chest.
The thigh-bone Treasure Chest broke into two sections.
The reward information simultaneously appeared on the Light Screen.
[ Open Treasure Chest ]
[ Obtained Train Coins: 14 ]
[ Obtained: Blueprint – Delusional Obsession ]
[ Obtained: (Tradeable) 1-Hour Early Departure Module × 5 ]
[ Obtained: Frost Enchanted – Six-Barrel Rotary Grenade Launcher (Level 7) ]
There were three rewards, let’s look from the beginning.
[ Blueprint – Delusional Obsession ] (Level 7)
[ Required: Reality and Illusion + Head of Obsession ]
[ Sublimated from: Illusory Reality ]
The crafting materials explicitly named were the drops from the two BOSSes in this Platform. If Sublimation hadn’t been performed, what these two items would create should have been Illusory Reality.
He had all the items. Although that head was pretty good, it wasn’t to the point where he couldn’t bear to use it.
Summoning the processing bench in front of him, he placed the blueprint and the required materials on it. The two blended together and merged into one.
[ Crafting successful ]
[ Delusional Obsession (Level 7) ]
[ Illusion: Consumes a large amount of Mental Power to pull any target into a false, bewildered snow mountain. By writing text, the reality within the bewildered snow mountain can be distorted. Duration: 1 minute. ]
[ Obsession: Consumes Mental Power to reduce the Mental Power of all targets within range except the holder by an equivalent amount. ]
“Pull into the snow mountain? Could it be, it’s the same thing that the painter in the other world at the top of the mountain did?”
Flipping open the first page and pondering for a moment, he wrote on it.
“Ten thousand Train Coins appear ahead of the Train.”
No movement.
“One hundred?”
“One?”
“…”
After trying for quite a while, he roughly mastered the extent to which he could distort this snow mountain.
For example, causing an avalanche or having a snow monster appear out of thin air in the snow wasn’t difficult to achieve.
But as long as it had nothing to do with the things that happened in this Platform, it was basically very hard to accomplish.
But the true power of this ability didn’t stop there.
What was truly formidable was pulling any unit into this bewildered snow mountain.
In a sense, isn’t this just the ultimate low-spec version of the blasphemy card’s Banish?
“With this, plus Banish, that can be considered two trump cards, right?”
Ye Qiyan rubbed his chin, relatively satisfied with this book.
His gaze turned to the second reward in the Treasure Chest.
[ (Tradeable) 1-Hour Early Departure Module × 5 ]
[ After use, the departure time can be advanced by one hour (Tradeable) × 5 ]
This item wasn’t hard to understand; it was a separate version of the departure VIP privileges, totaling a full five hours early.
But what was truly intriguing were the words “tradeable” in the parentheses afterwards.
“This kind of thing can actually be bought?”
He had no intention of selling it. After all, his current stopping time required a full seven hours before he could leave the station.
Even if he used these five, he would still have two hours left.
Without hesitation, he used them all and looked at the final reward.
[ Frost Enchanted – Six-Barrel Rotary Grenade Launcher (Level 7) ]
[ Fires frost grenades, applying a speed-slowing effect to enemies caught in the blast. ]
There wasn’t much description, but this was a Level 7 weapon after all, and its strength was unquestionable.
