Chapter 370: Secrets and Martial Arts, My Strongman Aura
Chapter 370: Secrets and Martial Arts, My Strongman Aura
【You have used a Random Instance Scroll. This instance world is the 8935th Secret Martial World.】
【Your identity is being randomly assigned. The probability is: Main Character (99%), Supporting Character (0.7%), Extra (0.3%).】
【You have obtained the identity of the main character.】
【Main Quest Issued】
【Increase your fame to the point where 20% of the people in the instance recognize you. Reward: Lord Skill - Attack Enhancement】
【Attack Enhancement: Increases the attack power of all troops and heroes under your command (level × 10%).】
【This time, your fame index will be the criterion for judgment. After reaching 20% fame, you can continue to increase it without exiting the instance, and the fame index will affect the final reward.】
【You have obtained a temporary skill: Strongman Aura】
【Strongman Aura: All extraordinary beings in the instance will feel disrespected by you and will challenge you. When you win, this skill will upgrade, causing more extraordinary beings in the instance to challenge you.】
"Strongman Aura sounds nice, but what are the benefits???"
"After winning, the mockery will be even more severe. Is this a serious skill?"
"But it's probably better than being mocked. At least random passersby won't just dislike me."
After receiving the memories, he found out his name is Wang Chen, a small convenience store owner. Both of his parents are deceased, he has no siblings, and he owns a house. Apart from occasionally being extorted for protection money by the mafia, his life is quite comfortable.
The setting of this world is not a modern city but rather akin to the 1990s, with not very advanced technology and a somewhat backward appearance. It hasn't even entered the electrical age, still in the steam age, and he uses oil lamps.
So, his small convenience store isn't doing great business, but at least he can feed himself without worrying about others.
"Fame paired with a mocking face, indeed quite fitting. Am I preparing to embark on a protagonist's life of showing off and slapping faces?"
Qin MuYe felt a bit excited, but thinking about how "Lord Era" didn't equip him with the skills a protagonist should have, he felt it was a bit of a pitfall.
"There is an energy environment, but it seems to be negative, dark, and bloodthirsty. Tsk, but the concentration is really thin, I wonder what's going on."
He knew about the energy environment, which is the foundation of the extraordinary, like the spiritual energy needed for cultivation or the elements required for magic.
This world naturally has its own energy environment, but within hundreds of miles of him, the energy concentration is incredibly low. He didn't sense much further, but he assumed it would be about the same.
However, the low concentration has its benefits; these negative energies don't pose any harm to ordinary people.
"Can't be too relaxed. Who knows what this world might hide, and making me, a convenience store owner, increase my fame is a bit unfair. I can't exactly turn my convenience store into a chain, can I?"
Fortunately, this time the quest didn't limit his identity, so it was relatively flexible.
He casually picked up a newspaper from the convenience store. In this era, entertainment and information sources were scarce, so most information was obtained from newspapers.
His predecessor had the habit of reading the newspaper every day, so there was a large stack.
Qin MuYe only received a brief memory, so he only knew the general interests and hobbies but not the content of the newspapers.
After flipping through a year's worth of newspapers, he found no information related to the extraordinary. He had expected this, assuming it was a world where the extraordinary was not prominent.
"Secret Martial, it must be some form of martial arts." Qin MuYe knew that the name of the world is closely related to its extraordinary system.
For example, the Shadow World's shadows, the Tidal World's ebb and flow of spiritual energy, and so on.
So, the presence of the word "martial" naturally indicated martial arts.
"Xiao Wang, it's time to pay the sanitation fee for this month, right?" A casual voice came from a young man who looked rather disreputable, with numerous tattoos and strange accessories, clearly not a good person.
"I just paid not long ago," Qin MuYe said calmly.
The Federal States of Dukes is a peculiar nation. The highest authority, the Federal Senate, holds military and political power, and below it, various dukes are enfeoffed to form the federation. However, it is not as ignorant as the feudal era, as the dukes cannot inherit their positions and have term limits. Despite this, dukes have considerable power in their fiefs.
More importantly, the Federal States of Dukes seems to intentionally allow friction between the dukes, as long as there is no overt conflict, which has led to the proliferation of gangs.
These large gangs are the white gloves of the dukes, while the smaller gangs are made up of various ruffians and scoundrels, specializing in petty theft, extortion, and even human trafficking. The larger gangs also engage in these activities, but not as openly.
The gangster in front of Qin MuYe was from the Black Dragon Gang, a small gang that only operated in this neighborhood. The gang had only about twenty members, which wasn't many.
"You ate yesterday, so you're not eating today?" The young man looked at Qin MuYe with disdain, thinking that he was trying to avoid paying the extortion. If Qin MuYe didn't pay up, he would simply destroy the convenience store.
"I'm not eating, so I won't pay. Otherwise, I'll notify the police. I don't think you want to be caught by them, do you?" Qin MuYe said calmly.
The young man looked at Qin MuYe as if he were a fool. He wanted to say that the police in this area were in cahoots with his gang, and they took half of their earnings. Feeling his anger rising, he was about to lash out, but then he felt a strange dizziness and didn't even remember how he left the store. He left on his own, muttering to himself.
Qin MuYe quickly summoned a spirit to follow the young man: "Go, follow this guy and see what he's up to."
He didn't believe that his Strongman Aura had taken effect, as it was explicitly stated that it only affected the extraordinary, and the young man was just a common thug, not an extraordinary being. So, he suspected it might be some kind of instance prompt and decided to have the spirit follow him.
"I need to find a place to summon the Endless Abyss, so I can develop here over time."
This wasn't a big problem; he could just summon it in an uninhabited sea. He would call on Tian Qi to handle it, as he didn't need to do everything himself. As long as he had the interdimensional teleportation channel, the task could be completed.
Tian Qi took the interdimensional teleportation channel and transformed into a bird or beast before flying away.
"Next, I need to dig deeper into this identity and see if I can find anything useful."
He also wanted to get in touch with the extraordinary, but the timing wasn't right yet. He needed to understand this world better first.
After all, he would be staying in this world for several years, maybe even decades.
This mission was relatively good; there was no great calamity or tribulation, just the need to become famous.
So, it should be similar to fairy tales or the Horror Universe, where as long as he didn't delve into the dark undercurrents of the world or cause trouble, there shouldn't be any major issues.
The ordinary world was peaceful, with no bizarre occurrences.
There might be some, but with the limited information channels in this world—only newspapers and word of mouth—Qin MuYe hadn't encountered them yet.
He casually looked around the convenience store. Besides rice, flour, oil, and salt, there were also some snacks and tools.
Small but complete.
"These days, no one has it easy." Qin MuYe sighed.
The federal government's top-down exploitation, the conflicts between dukes for profit, and the gangs' extortion all pointed to the common people at the bottom.
Everyone around him was poor. With Qin MuYe's resource-gathering skills, he could barely squeeze out a few drops of oil from them.
What he saw most often was a numb, aimless existence, driven solely by the need to survive.
"Alright, I'll focus on myself first." Qin MuYe had no intention of saving the world. He came here to do three things: destroy the world, destroy the world, and destroy the world again.
He needed to recruit one million ordinary-level spirits and avoid training them into elite-level ones, specifically to complete his advancement tasks. He also needed to complete the world-destroying task for his territory's advancement, which was the main focus of this instance.
"The main quest can wait. It's just about fame, I can always achieve it later in one go."
This task could actually be exploited. For example, if only one person was left in the world and they knew him, his fame would be 100%, and he might even get an SSS+ rating.
The standard was a percentage, not an absolute number, so the manipulation was simple.
Someone else might diligently work to improve, but Qin MuYe was never one to play by the rules. If he were, he wouldn't have survived this long.
(End of Chapter)
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