Chapter 186: Titan Fall!

"Ah, what was I expecting."

About three hours later, Yun Mu looked at the green-quality Spiritual Painting before her, thinking with a slight sense of regret.

Although she had, just like when she painted the Mechanical Heart last time, used bilingual text in Chinese and English in the bottom right corner of the painting to provide a detailed introduction to the information about the Vanguard-class Titan, BT-7274, from the game.

Yet, this information failed to bring about a qualitative leap in the painting's completion.

Even though Yun Mu integrated the damaged Steam Mecha she had on hand into the painting, it still failed to make this painting a permanent Supernatural Item.

As soon as the spirituality within the painting was exhausted, or its number of uses ran out, it would lose its effect.

However, the good news was that the item fused into the painting could be retrieved.

So there was no need to worry about wasting materials or anything like that.

"Supernatural Paintings really aren't that easy to create," she shook her head with a self-deprecating smile and checked the attribute panel of this Spiritual Painting.

【Painting · BT-7274 (Green)】

【Oil Painting / Mecha / Steel / Nuclear Fusion】

【Skill · Titan Fall】

【Ranged / 3 Units Damage / Attack Power】

【Range 8】

【Base Accuracy 125 / Damage Modifier +80% / Stun 110%】

【Stun: Unable to act for one turn.】

【Uses 5/5】

【Validity: 29 days 23 hours 59 minutes】

【A Spiritual Painting created by 【Civilization Spreader · Painter · Yun Mu】, capable of summoning a Vanguard-class Titan named BT-7274 to fall from the sky at a designated location, dealing large-scale physical damage to enemies!】

Damn it, a Vanguard-class Titan isn't meant to be used to smash people!

Although designating a location and summoning a mecha to drop from outer space is indeed very cool.

But compared to smashing enemies to death, she really would rather sit in the mecha's cockpit, maneuvering it to grapple with enemies or something.

Oh, actually, there's no need to grapple with enemies; it would be more satisfying to blast them into a sieve with heavy firepower. By the way, in order to bring out the effects of her Nuclear Fusion Path, Yun Mu had quietly modified BT-7274's energy source to be nuclear fusion-powered.

Uh... although she actually didn't know what the specific energy source of the mecha in the game was.

After all, when she played that game, she never paid attention to such information.

You could pick up Titan batteries and such in the game, but she, not really paying attention to that kind of knowledge, truly didn't know the type of battery.

This was also the source of the 【Nuclear Fusion】 tag in the painting.

It's just a pity that this superfluous operation of hers didn't seem to have much significance.

The function of summoning the mecha as envisioned was realized, but unfortunately, it was only for that one moment of arrival.

Emmmmm, I can only say it's alright.

Anyway, the materials fused into the painting could be retrieved and reused, so she didn't have much to feel bad about.

The points for the Oil Painting Path also increased by one as expected.

Continuing at this rate of one point per day, as long as... as long as 24 days, she would be able to raise the level of the Oil Painting Path to lv3! Tsk, so slow, Yun Mu thought with inexplicable disdain.

She knew, of course, that this speed was already considered very fast for a normal Transcendental.

But who told her that her other Path levels increased so quickly? She had already... already gotten used to that kind of speed; this level of feeling really made it hard for her to feel satisfied.

*Cough cough. *

Putting away the painting, Yun Mu sat listlessly on the sofa in the train carriage.

At this time, there were still eleven hours until arrival at Frostfall City.

After the lesson from last time when arriving at Winter City, where she was held by Brenna all night and couldn't sleep at all, she no longer intended to rest in the middle of the train journey.

But if she didn't rest, what else was there to pass the time? Yun Mu looked at Brenna.

The latter was no longer communicating with Bishop Muse, but was continuing to study her blueprints for the Mechanical Heart.

And that Bishop Muse... he was currently holding a thick Bible, whispering praises to the greatness of the Lady of the Dark Night.

Moving her gaze away from Bishop Muse, Yun Mu looked at that blue-haired Mr. Kamal; he was still sitting on the sofa in the carriage like a wooden statue, motionless.

It made one wonder if he had fallen asleep long ago.

Yun Mu looked again at the Faceless One Dunn, and the Conqueror Knight Daniel.

The former was still reading that Codex with great interest, while the latter... was that, meditation?

Yun Mu looked with some confusion at Daniel, who was sitting cross-legged on the sofa with his eyes tightly closed and hands pressed together.

"That is meditation." Just then, the Preacher Lienie, sitting opposite her, noticed her gaze and explained to her.

"Meditation?"

Hearing Lienie's words, Yun Mu was slightly stunned.

Wasn't that a skill for mages? What did it have to do with Daniel, a Knight?

Could it be for increasing willpower or something while meditating?

"Daniel was previously a Third-tier Expert Monk; later, he didn't choose to advance to Ascetic Monk, but switched to the Knight profession." Seeing the confusion on her face, Lienie explained to her.

So it was a Monk's skill.

Yun Mu thought with a sudden realization.

She still remembered what Brenna had told her about what one needed to do after taking on a Transcendental profession if they wanted to change to a different series of Transcendental professions. (Chapter 124) To completely rely on one's own cultivation to reach the third tier of the Swordsman series without relying on 【Fixed Impressions】, and then transfer to a fourth-tier Punishment Knight to overwrite the original Monk profession—this was simply too troublesome.

What kind of reason could have led this Knight to not choose Ascetic Monk as his Master-level profession?

Although very curious, Yun Mu knew that no matter how quietly she spoke, it would be heard by Daniel, who was meditating nearby.

So she suppressed her curiosity and did not open her mouth to ask Lienie.

However, the next second, Lienie seemed to see through her thoughts and chuckled: "Don't worry, Daniel cannot hear what others are saying when he is meditating."

"Besides, this matter isn't actually any secret, and he doesn't mind others knowing about it."

After hearing Lienie's words, Yun Mu's attention was instead focused elsewhere.

"You can't hear outside sounds while meditating?" She frowned slightly and said, "Wouldn't it be very troublesome if you encountered any danger while meditating?" "Haha." Lienie seemed to have been bored for a long time, and after Yun Mu asked her, she immediately explained: "Although Monks block all perception of the outside world when meditating."

"But in return, they enter a very special state."

"Hmm." Lienie frowned in some distress as she said this, appearing to be thinking about how to explain this state of ability clearly to Yun Mu.

"How should I put it? Daniel is currently in a kind of superposition state between perceiving and not perceiving. In short, you just need to know that when he needs to wake up, he will automatically wake up."

"Th-that so?" Yun Mu twitched the corner of her mouth, saying something that sounded profound even if she didn't quite understand it.

He will automatically wake up when he needs to? What kind of metaphysical skill is this? "So, you still haven't told me the reason why he changed his profession to a Conqueror Knight." After thinking about it, Yun Mu decided not to dwell on this matter and instead asked Lienie.

"The reason is actually very simple."

"Ah?"

Clang! Clang!

The Steam Train traveling on the tracks suddenly emitted a trembling sound, interrupting the idle chat between Yun Mu and Lienie.

"Hmm?"

Daniel, who was meditating with his eyes closed, immediately opened his eyes. He grabbed the long sword placed beside him and surveyed his surroundings with a serious expression.

"What happened?" Brenna put down the paper and pen in her hand and looked at Daniel.

"I'm not sure, but my intuition tells me that danger is coming." Daniel replied after hearing Brenna's words.

"Is it a Monster?" Kamal, who had already opened his eyes when the train made the sound, stood up and guessed.

A Monster is attacking the train? Yun Mu remembered what Brenna had explained to her about trains being attacked by wild Monsters when she first came to the station.

At the time, she was still wondering what she should do if the train encountered a Monster attack on the road.

As it turned out, on the way to Winter City, she hadn't even seen a few wild animals, let alone Monsters. (After all, she had been sleeping almost the entire time.) She didn't expect to encounter one on the return trip! "It's underground." Dunn, wearing a Grey Iron Mask, said while closing the Codex in his hand with one hand.

While he was speaking, Yun Mu noticed that his ears seemed to twitch twice.

"The tracks and soil beneath the Steam Train have been reinforced with spells. That Monster must have hit the reinforced soil, which is why the train just trembled."

Brenna thought for a moment and continued: "If that Monster is unwilling to give up and wants to continue attacking, it will most likely emerge from the soil that hasn't been reinforced."

As if to verify her words.

Just after Brenna finished speaking, a long, worm-like creature with a huge body covered in smooth black scales emerged from the distant soil.

Bang, bang, bang!!

Rat-tat-tat! The Steam Train's built-in fire control system immediately locked onto the target, and a large amount of gunfire poured out, shooting toward the Monster that had just emerged from the ground.

"Hiss—!"

The worm-like Monster roared hoarsely, and an earthy-yellow light flashed across its body.

All the bullets pouring out from the train could only spark against the opponent's smooth scales, failing to even leave a white mark.

"It's an adult Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm." Brenna recognized the identity of the worm-like Monster outside the carriage at a glance.

Boom!!

A huge burst of fire exploded from the body of the Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm!

The artillery system on the Steam Train began to work, and a large number of solid shells and Steel-Core Armor-Piercing Bullets flew toward the Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm regardless of the cost!

Facing this kind of artillery attack that even a Fifth Rank Champion Transcendent would have to avoid, the Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm roared and then burrowed its body into the ground to dodge the Steam Train's attack.

And when that Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm burrowed into the ground, Yun Mu quietly used the trait 【Eye of Appraisal】.

【Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm (Adult)】

【A giant worm-like creature living in the Reddis Mountain Range on the North Continent. It is a variant of the Sandworm in the Riswar Desert. Its body is covered with tough, pitch-black scales. It can move quickly through soil and deserts with little rock. The teeth densely distributed in its mouth can crush soil and minerals to obtain a small amount of nutrition.】

【The Magic Stone attribute is Rock. It can cast the spell skill: Rock Armor, which significantly strengthens its own defense and melee damage for a short time.】

【In addition, there is the spell skill: Giant Rock Throw. By using local materials, it throws mud blocks or rocks reinforced by Rock Element, causing area-of-effect physical damage to enemies and exploding to cause spell damage.】

【It reproduces by laying eggs, producing about three to five eggs at a time. The incubation period is one month, and the growth time from juvenile to young adult is three months, with strength gradually evolving from Second-tier Elite to Third-rank Expert.】

【When it is one year old, it successfully transforms into an adult and possesses the strength of a Fourth Order Master.】

【As it ages, the Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm's body will become longer and longer until it dies of old age at 350 years old.】

【Some Sandworms can advance to the Fifth Rank Champion level, breaking through their lifespan to 800 years, and master the spell skill: Rock Element Control, which can change the surrounding terrain at will. Extremely dangerous!!】

Good grief, a Monster that is a Fourth Order Master when it reaches adulthood?

Yun Mu had finally finished reading the information provided by the Eye of Appraisal in her mind. Before she could complain much, she saw the Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm in the distance emerge from the ground again, and then suddenly whip its tail, smashing a huge rock toward the train.

"Bang!!"

A deafening artillery sound rang out. Before the rock could hit the train, it was intercepted in mid-air by the artillery.

"Phew."

Brenna breathed a sigh of relief at this moment and said: "It's fortunate that it's only an adult Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm; the train can handle it on its own."

"Nothing to worry about."

Although that was what she said, Brenna was still paying attention to the situation outside the train.

Compared to most human professionals, Monsters, which are born with larger bodies, far exceed humans of the same rank in terms of strength.

The Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm outside is a good example.

If a normal Master-level Transcendent were hit by the train's artillery, even if it wasn't certain death, they would definitely be missing an arm or a leg.

But that Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm just shook its head, bled a little from the part of its body that was hit, and lost a few scales.

It had no impact on its movement at all.

This is enough to show the strength of the Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm's physique.

However, the train side is clearly not a pushover. When facing a Monster like the Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm, they clearly have rich experience.

Not only did they not stop the train to fight, but they maintained their original speed throughout the journey, looking as if they were not affected by the Tungsten-Scaled Sandworm at all.

Seeing that the wounds on the body of the Black-Scaled Sand Worm attacking the train were increasing, the creature seemed to realize it could do nothing against the train, turned its head, burrowed into the ground, and fled into the distance! PS: Monks and Ascetic Monks cannot break their vows to marry.

At least, not the proper ones.

(End of this chapter)