Chapter 200

200 Commotion

During the entire process of reading through the explanation given, Randy’s expression had changed a few times, from shocked to stupefied, from stupefied to dumbfounded, and then finally from dumbfounded to relief when the system finished its explanation.

That was because he thought that using the divine points was a detriment to his life when he read through the first few lines of texts, but after reading through the latter part of the explanation, he soon relaxed his expression and calmed down shortly after.

After pondering for a while, Randy suddenly realized the crux of the matter: “But wait, if that is the case, then wouldn’t I be able to use any skill or technique from any profession as long as I comprehended it?”

Most of the time, the essence of various techniques usually relied heavily on their energy sources, so it was complicated to practice them without the necessary energy requirement, especially when it comes to profound movement techniques from the spiritual energy cultivation profession.

However, with this ‘divine points’, Randy discovered that he would not necessarily need to have the energy source to execute special techniques that belonged to other energy sources.

Although Randy had compatibility with all the energy sources in his world has come in contact with, he did not focus on practicing all of them and only chose the path of magical energy. Therefore, even though he had spiritual energy and life energy in his body, it might not necessarily be enough to execute their corresponding techniques that needed more energy than what he currently had in his body.

With that thought, Randy felt like this ‘divine points’ was not bad at all and wanted to explore them more in the future.

For now, he needed to spend some of these accumulated divine points to unseal the first seal placed on this black tome.

“System, how many divine points do I need to unseal the first seal?”

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[[Approximately 10,000 divine points, would you like to spend this amount to undo the first seal?]] The system answered and then prompted.

“1-10,000 divine points?!” Randy exclaimed in shock, and then he quickly looked to the side of his status screen while muttering: “How many divine points do I have right now... Oh, I have 103,200 divine points... But even still, isn’t this too much for just the first seal? Doesn’t that mean that it would cost even more divine points to unseal the subsequent seals? After all, based on what I read, that sorcerer guy was quite a devious person who put seals on something that he wouldn’t be using since he was now dead.”

[[It would cost approximately 20,000 divine points to unseal the second seal]]

Randy: “...”

He was speechless when he saw the amount listed by the system.

A moment later, Randy sighed helplessly when his assumption just now was confirmed with that reply from the system.

Afterward, Randy did not bother to worry about his expenditure anymore, as it seemed like it was pointless for him to hope for something that was intentionally sealed by the owner to cost less to undo the seal.

Randy felt dejected that even though he luckily managed to acquire so many divine points without even knowing what they were at the time, he was now going to spend them in large quantities for something, which was unknown whether it was good or bad, especially when he recalled the description of that devious arch sorcerer from the system.

Despite that, Randy was not willing to give up on this ancient black tome. After all, the term ‘sorcerer’ did not exist back in his world. But Randy realized that if they also wielded supernatural powers then they were most likely highly advanced magicians based on the description from the system and what he could infer from those words.

Because of that, Randy was now willing to bet that anything from a person with such an advanced profession would not be something that would end up being useless to the current him at the very least.

“Whatever, I will unseal the first seal for now and then see what it contains before deciding on how to proceed after that.” Randy firmly stated.

With that decided, Randy looked at his total divine points on the corner of his status screen one more time on his system.

[[Divine Points: 103,200]]

After that, he turned to face the interface of his screen, where the previous prompt from the system was situated and then decisively spoke: “System, I would like to spend the divine points to unseal the first seals of the black tome.”

[[Response Acknowledged]]

[[The host should now put his hands on the cover of the tome]]

Randy did as instructed while still sitting on his bed.

[[The host should not move his hands no matter how uncomfortable he feels during the process]]

“Understood.”

[[Now undoing the first seal]]

[[The first seal would be undone within the next five seconds.]]

When the system stated this, Randy could feel warm and soothing energy traveling from the veins in his body and then transferring into the black tome through his palm.

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[[The first seal of the ancient black tome have been undone successfully]]

“Phew...”

Randy suddenly let out a long breath.

All this time, he thought something unexpected might have happened, considering the description of that arch sorcerer, but it turned out nothing happened throughout the entire unsealing process of the first seal.

‘Now, let’s see what’s inside?’ Randy thought in excitement as he tried to open the black tome.

Unsurprising, the first couple pages opened but Randy found out that the remaining pages were not opening no matter how many times he tried.

‘Whatever, let’s just look at the first page... Hmm... What is this?’

Right now, Randy was observing complicated signs and symbols that were engraved on the light-brown colored paper and when he touched it, a notification flashed across his eyes with lines of texts displayed on the projected screen in his vision.

[[Detected that the first seal contents were stored within that knowledge compiling magic circle]]

[[To learn about the contents within the magic circle, the host would have to spend more divine points]]

“What? Why? Why can’t I use knowledge points to comprehend it if it is a stored knowledge?”

[[Because the complex runes on this magic circle would need to be bypassed before the host could learn the content within. And for that to happen, a compatible energy source would be needed. The host could use his magical energy, but it might not be enough, and knowledge points are only pure mental energy and thus has nothing to do with magic]]

“I see. Then, how many divine points does it require this time?”

[[It is unknown for now]]

[[The host should place his hands on the magic circle first]]

“...Okay.” Randy belatedly responded as he placed his palm on the center of the intricate magic circle.

The system started transferring the divine points into the magic circle.

And then all of sudden...

[[Detected a deadly hidden trap embedded within the magic circle...]]

‘Bastard!’

Randy inwardly cursed, and his reaction was very quick as he ignored the remaining texts was about to retreat from the book, but a few flashes in his vision stopped him in his movement when he read through lines of texts.

[[Attention! Please do not move!]]

[[Attention! Please do not move!]]

[[Attention! Please do not move!]]

After Randy halted his movement, the system emphasized yet again.

[[The host should not move his hands from the magic circle]]

“Why? Didn’t you say that there was a trap in the magic circle?” Randy was puzzled.

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[[There is indeed a trap. However, if the host were to move right now, the hidden trap would be activated and the contents within the magic circle along with the entire tome would be lost forever]]

Gulp!

Randy swallowed loudly and carefully asked: “Then what would’ve happened if I had moved just now?”

[[The host would be bound by countless restraining spells and then cut into pieces by the endless low-level spell attacks imbued into the traps. Although those low-spells individually could not damage the host, when it is used in succession, the host would not be able to survive the onslaught of those attacks]]

At this moment, Randy instantly broke into a cold sweat.

‘That bastard sorcerer was trying to kill people even when he’s already dead. If I meet him someday, I’ll let him... Wait, he’s already dead.’

Randy wanted to curse out loud but held back his impulse when he considered where he was currently, and thus continued to keep his hands on the magic circle despite feeling like his life was hanging by a thread as he did so.

As he did so, Randy gradually felt a warm current transferring through his hands and then into the magic circle on the page, and at the same time, he could see his total divine points reducing by huge chunks per second.

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[-200]

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[[The traps have been disabled. The knowledge held within the magic circle would now be transferred directly into the host’s mind]]

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The following day.

Randy barely slept yesterday from the surge of knowledge that had to be comprehended, which took him a few hours.

Randy dragged his tired body out of his room and then went to take a quick bath before going to the front of the building to finalize his registration.

However, when he went out to the front of the building, he discovered right away that there was a lot of commotion with so many people gathered and discussing something among themselves as they held some papers within their grasps.

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