Chapter 387: Why is My Career Panel Anime-Styled? Chapter 175

The situation was very wrong. He could clearly feel that an unknown force had interfered with 【Traveler】 just now.

Even the last message proved that his feeling hadn't been wrong.

'But what is this ****?'

Looking at the four blacked-out characters on the career panel, Li Ang was puzzled for a moment.

After a brief thought, he didn't reach any conclusion; after all, there was too little valid information.

'Tsk.'

With a bit of annoyance, Li Ang crossed his arms, his slender fingers tapping lightly against his shoulders.

Both 【Traveler】 and 【Console Player】 were talents that absolutely could not be exposed.

Yet now, there existed something that could interfere with these two talents, which was something he couldn't accept.

'A professional of the Upper Three Energy Levels?'

Li Ang couldn't help but make a guess in his heart.

Since he hadn't seen how strong Upper Three Energy Level professionals were, he didn't know if his guess was correct.

However, soon, he felt that the truth probably wasn't like that.

If an Upper Three Energy Level professional had interfered, his previous few journeys should have changed, unless the other party had only just noticed him now.

Li Ang felt that such a coincidence shouldn't exist.

'So what exactly interfered with the 【Traveler】 talent?'

If he really had to say, Li Ang actually had some guesses, such as why he had appeared in this world for no reason.

He hadn't transmigrated by hitting the jackpot or getting electrocuted like other protagonists.

But what if he came to this world because of the 【Traveler】 talent?

Or rather, coming to this world was his true first journey.

Of course, if he thought according to this guess, he would have to face a problem.

That was, even if Li Ang returned to the main world after activating the 【Traveler】 talent, it should have been the world he was in before transmigrating.

Yet after experiencing so many journeys, he always returned to this starry sky.

Facing this situation, there were only two explanations.

One was that the 【Traveler】 talent had indeed awakened after he transmigrated, and his transmigration was just a coincidence; everything was just him overthinking.

The other was...

Before he came to this world—no, it should be said that before he transmigrated, the 【Traveler】 talent had already been affected. As for who affected it...

'That shouldn't be, right?'

Thinking of a certain extremely absurd possibility, Li Ang's eyes flickered slightly, and he couldn't help but click his tongue in his heart.

Although the probability of this possibility was minimal, after personally experiencing the pruning phenomena of the Type-Moon world, he felt that his guess didn't seem entirely impossible.

'Sure enough, there's no such thing as a free lunch in the world.'

Thinking this, Li Ang couldn't help but let out a long sigh, then entered Amenominakanaka.

Yes, he indeed didn't know this world very well yet, but someone did.

Octavio.

This former Imperial Baron definitely knew a lot of information that ordinary people didn't, and might even know what **** was.

Looking at it this way, Pseudo-Servants were simply too useful; they could increase his side's combat power and also obtain a large amount of intelligence.

Moreover, with the accumulation of time, the combat power accumulated by this technology would only become more and more exaggerated.

Even as Li Ang's 【Living Puppet Master】 series of careers improved, the Pseudo-Servants he could create would become closer and closer to their strength during their lifetime.

Until one day, he could create a true Heroic Spirit, exactly the same as they were in life.

With the experience of creating 【Christine】, Li Ang could be said to be much more proficient this time.

Sensing the incomparably weak soul in the specially made doll, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

'Good thing I saved it in time, otherwise this guy would have really died.'

True spirit extinguished, falling into the abyss forever...

Call it whatever, this world didn't have the concept of reincarnation; dead was dead.

Li Ang had some wild ideas about this, but limited by his abilities, he couldn't tinker with it for the time being.

As the Third Magic was successfully cast, Octavio's incomparably weak soul gradually stabilized.

After a while, when the soul had recovered more than half, Li Ang stuffed it into 【Star-Plundering Knight · Octavio】.

Strange to say, after he repaired Octavio's corpse to its original state and made it into a Pseudo-Servant, the tattered pitch-black armor on the other party's body had vanished.

'What a weird talent.'

Regarding Octavio's talent, Li Ang inexplicably thought of a certain bizarre hot-blooded manga he had seen before transmigrating, where the characters also used clothing—or rather, fibers—to fight.

Every time they started fighting, their clothes would explode.

Just as Li Ang's thoughts were wandering, Octavio, who was floating in mid-air, instantly opened his eyes.

He first scanned his surroundings in a daze, then looked at Li Ang in front of him: ". ou died too?"

"Think carefully. I should have implanted the key information into your mind."

Facing the knight's offense, Li Ang didn't mind, just responding casually.

After experiencing the incident with Christine last time, he had optimized the Pseudo-Servants.

Just as Heroic Spirits in the Holy Grail War would obtain corresponding life knowledge, the Pseudo-Servants Li Ang created would also know necessary information.

For example, what state they were in.

"..."

Hearing Li Ang's words, Octavio immediately frowned and began to search his own mind.

Then, not long after, this 【Star-Plundering Knight】 figured out his own situation.

At this moment, Octavio looked at the young man in front of him and fell into silence for a moment.

After a long time, he let out a long sigh: "I didn't expect you to have such an ability. If the intelligence hadn't said you were an alchemist of 【Taiyi Miracle】, I would have thought you were one of those lunatics from 【Immortal Evolution】."

"If you were willing to join 【Immortal Evolution】, you should be able to become a Grand Designer directly."

Octavio naturally had grounds for saying so.

As a top-tier professional, his grasp of his own state had reached the extreme.

Indeed, after being resurrected, his strength had dropped significantly compared to before, but in exchange, he had an exaggeratedly high energy recovery speed.

It was only then that Octavio finally knew why the energy of the dragon in front of him had seemed inexhaustible during the previous battle.

Thinking of this, Octavio couldn't help but laugh at himself: "Looking at it this way, it makes me seem overconfident."

One had to know that the tactics he used were all based on the other party's state declining, but according to the current intelligence, it seemed a bit ridiculous.

However, it wasn't that there were no other ways, which was to use a sufficiently powerful attack to kill the other party in one hit.

But thinking of the dragon's absurd defensive power in front of him, Octavio couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

'Stats and mechanics? What an apt description.'

After simply calming his mood, the gray-haired man looked at Li Ang: "So, what do you need me to do?"

"Fight? Or something else?"

"Don't even think about certain intelligence; after all, just knowing that information will attract... gazes."

"Hmm, for example, His Majesty."

Regarding his current appearance, Octavio didn't seem to resist.

Although he wasn't as afraid of death as Christine, since he could live, he wouldn't voluntarily give up his life.

However, this also had to do with Li Ang's final choice in the previous battle.

This 【Star-Plundering Knight】 had lost, but was convinced; he felt that working for a powerhouse like the dragon in front of him wasn't a shameful thing.

As a knight, pledging loyalty to certain existences wasn't a shameful thing.

Of course, if Li Ang were replaced by Christine, it might be another story, although the slutty vampire would likely be kicked to death by Octavio like a wild dog on the side of the road.

Hearing Octavio's words, Li Ang wasn't surprised.

As the absolute controller of the other party, he knew the gray-haired man was telling the truth: "I do have things to ask you. If it's something you can't say, you don't have to answer."

This was also why he hadn't rashly read his memories. With the lesson of the 【Storm】 star bandits, Li Ang felt it was better to be cautious; after all, in this world, 【Soul Materialization】 didn't have the characteristic of immortality.

Then, without waiting for Octavio to react, he asked directly: "Do creatures from other worlds often appear in the universe?"

Facing Li Ang's inquiry, Octavio was stunned for a moment, then a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes: "So you didn't know?"

"?"

Seeing that the young man seemed truly unaware, a somewhat strange expression appeared on Octavio's face: "I thought that since you were so close to those dragons from 【Aeon Logistics】, you should have known about this long ago."

"After all, they came from outside the universe."

"Or rather, the top management of the five major giants of the Universal Enterprise Alliance are basically extra-universal creatures, it's just that 【Aeon Logistics】 has the largest proportion."

Li Ang fell into silence.

To be honest, hearing such explosive news, he wasn't actually surprised; he had already had some guesses when he first came into contact with 【Aeon Logistics】.

After all, this world didn't look like the D&D universe in any way; the only similarity might be the professional system, but that was just a similarity.

Thinking this, Li Ang continued to ask: "Did they all come to this world voluntarily?"

Octavio shook his head slightly, then an indescribable expression appeared on his face: "Actually, the Federation and the Empire wanted to develop the worlds they were in, but it didn't succeed."

"Our universe is quite peculiar; it intersects with other worlds from time to time."

"Generally, at such times, the Federation and the Empire would compete for development rights in these worlds, but when facing certain relatively powerful worlds, the Federation and the Empire would also cooperate."

"And the world where 【Aeon Logistics】 is... I can only say that both sides suffered losses, and the Federation and the Empire had to hold their noses and acknowledge their activities in the main universe."

Speaking of this, the gray-haired man seemed to have remembered something and added casually: "By the way, there has always been news in the upper echelons of the Empire that successfully developing a world also has benefits for the main universe."

Sure enough.

A trace of realization flashed in Li Ang's eyes instantly; the reality was about the same as he had guessed.

As for the intersections...

In Li Ang's view, it was more like this universe was actively approaching other worlds, and even the so-called successful development was likely swallowed by the main universe.

'So **** is world devouring?'

However, just as he was thinking this, Octavio's next words made him pause: "But with your strength, the Federation should be looking for you soon."

"By then, you should be able to enter some worlds controlled by the Federation for training."

?

Not devouring? Instead, it could be continuously developed?

Li Ang frowned slightly; things were slightly beyond his expectations.

'So is it the difference between one full meal and meals every time?'

Li Ang thought so, and he could only think of this one reason. Moreover, looking at it this way, the mutation produced by the 【Traveler】 talent was highly likely related to world development.

'But are they letting me go alone...'

With a somewhat strange thought, Li Ang couldn't help but twitch his lips. He now understood why the main universe had only started messing with the 【Traveler】 talent after he reached the Fourth Energy Level.

After all, under normal circumstances, it was still a bit difficult for the first three energy levels to completely control a world, not to mention that many worlds had extremely powerful extraordinary abilities.

But in that case, the restrictions of the 【Traveler】 talent, such as returning to the main world and the duration of stay, were likely not inherent; it was very likely that the main universe had imposed these restrictions for fear of him running away.

Of course, the above information was just an inference; what the specific situation was would have to wait until he started a new journey to know.

'But if I could develop a world on my own, wouldn't I also be able to master these worlds like the Federation and the Empire?'

'Since that's the case...'