Volume 7, Chapter 10 – The Marvelous Use of the Exclamation Mark Divine Artifact

After figuring out the key point, Yunchou’s expression gradually improved.

He pushed open the room’s window, then looked outside.

On the street that entered his sight, the figures coming and going were almost all players. As for the NPCs who were the original residents of Storm City, in Yunchou’s last great purge, they were almost all dead…

“What a real world, a real game.”

Yunchou’s face finally calmed down, and those eyes that had just been flickering with a dangerous light also returned to stillness.

Even so, beneath the boy’s seemingly harmless exterior, a storm was faintly brewing.

“A professional tournament… dying in the competition won’t truly be death. Interesting, looks like this time’s professional tournament, I have to go…”

In previous lives, after Yunchou obtained Throne-tier power, he and Andrew, who also possessed Throne-tier power, were locked in endless conflict.

And later, at the professional tournament held by Dawn… Yunchou had also fought Andrew fiercely for that title of strongest among the Thrones.

In the earliest few lives, the one who lost in the tournament was actually always Yunchou.

But as the number of times increased, Yunchou’s fighting style also formed its own school. Gradually, in every tournament, the final victor had already become Yunchou.

Recalling everything from the past in his mind, Yunchou closed his eyes with a blank expression.

“Strongest among the Thrones? In the end it’s nothing but an empty name… Even if I really am the strongest among the Thrones, what use is that? In the end, isn’t it still that I can’t do anything?”

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As if he’d remembered something unpleasant, Yunchou let out a faint long sigh and began muttering to himself.

Like a light breeze murmuring, the entire atmosphere in the room became oppressive because of Yunchou’s words.

Clang—

All of a sudden, cold sword light flashed. Right after that, Yunchou could be seen holding a long sword in his hand, its appearance extremely plain.

“The future… the future I long for, the future I pursue… is it the binding of the worldline, or is it the trend of the times? I’ve done it more perfectly than those before, but in the end it still came, this moment… The curtain is about to be pulled open, and all plots and schemes will surface. And this time… this time, I definitely can…”

Yet Yunchou couldn’t say the last sentence.

Because Yunchou knew best in his heart, for someone like him who had been reborn countless times and failed countless times… he had no right to say that.

“It’s also time to set out… no matter what, the title from this tournament is still necessary.”

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Dawn.

Tianyin was preparing the concrete prizes for this tournament.

Because Sister Xiaomu threw money at it hard, the venue was built outside Eden’s main city in just a single day. And as the venue was completed, Tianyin also changed what she was doing, turning to start preparing what she would give to the winners after the competition.

When thinking about rewards, Tianyin recalled the divine artifact Exclamation Mark she’d used before to issue quests.

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The Exclamation Mark could let Tianyin get powerful items for free. And when she planned to prepare prizes for the tournament, Tianyin naturally focused her gaze on the Exclamation Mark she had in her hands.

“The Exclamation Mark… this item is actually pretty useful… If possible, I can even use this divine artifact to get prizes for free~”

After thinking for a moment, Tianyin came up with using this Exclamation Mark to get prizes for free.

And how to do it was actually pretty easy.

Use the Exclamation Mark to issue quests to Xiaomengyao. Then use the mechanism where quest prizes from the Exclamation Mark don’t require Tianyin to provide them, and issue relatively easy quests to Xiaomengyao but with extremely high rewards.

“I actually thought of a method like this! I really am a genius!”

For the method she’d come up with on the spot, Tianyin couldn’t help admiring her own cleverness.

“But speaking of it, even though I have the divine artifact Exclamation Mark, I still don’t really understand its specific functions… and I’m also not clear on the exact information for issuing quests.”

Without realizing it, Tianyin took out the divine artifact she had never personally used, the Exclamation Mark, from her System Inventory.

And after taking out the Exclamation Mark, what came with it was a small booklet that looked like a user guide.

“Eh? The System Light Orb is actually that considerate?”

Tianyin was a little surprised, and questioned what she was holding.

But thinking again, even if the System wanted to trick her, it wouldn’t trick her on an item like the Exclamation Mark that was neither here nor there.

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So after imagining the System’s bad taste in creating the Exclamation Mark, Tianyin also opened the Exclamation Mark’s user guide.

════════♡════════ ❀ Divine artifact, Exclamation Mark user guide ❀ ────────♡──────── ✿ Issue quests, set quests, set quest difficulty, set the range of quest rewards. ✿ 1, Issue quests… ════════♡════════

After that was a long string of detailed blah blah explanations.

But after roughly browsing through the Exclamation Mark’s user guide once, Tianyin more or less understood how this “divine artifact” should be used.

It could be said… the positioning of this Exclamation Mark as a “divine artifact” wasn’t exaggerated.

Because after she got a general understanding, Tianyin truly realized that the method she’d just thought of, getting quest rewards for free, really could be done.

Tianyin could freely set the content of the quest, and set the difficulty rating of the quest. At the same time, for the corresponding rating, Tianyin could set corresponding items, or experience rewards.

For example, Tianyin sets a quest to buy herself cake and desserts.

Then Tianyin sets the quest difficulty to sss, and because the quest difficulty was set to sss rank by Tianyin, the system would judge the reward after completion as a reward only an sssi quest could have.

From this, it was obvious that calling this Exclamation Mark a divine artifact was no exaggeration!

“Damn it, only now am I realizing the Exclamation Mark can be used like this? Or… was it that the old me was just too dumb, too stupid?”

Even though she had “timely” discovered the correct way to use the Exclamation Mark, after learning how it should be used, an inexplicable resentment rose in Tianyin’s heart that didn’t really have a place to go.

「Xiaoyin, what’s wrong? What are you spacing out for?」

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As Tianyin spaced out at the Exclamation Mark in her hand, in her mind, Samael’s voice, which had been quiet for a long time, suddenly rang out.

『Samael!』

Ever since Tianyin had learned that Tianyin’s body was created by Lust, for the previous period of time, Samael had entered a brief stage of shutting down.

But now, from the sound of her voice, Samael had already returned to normal.

「Mm, it’s me, Xiaoyin. Speaking of it, I didn’t really pay attention to Xiaoyin during this time… I’m really sorry…」

『It’s fine. Samael is a very important family to me. Like an older sister kind of presence. And Samael not paying attention to me was because you couldn’t accept the fact I’m Lust, right? I understand your condition these past few days.』

Tianyin could be said to understand Samael extremely well.

After all, Samael was the one who had been with Tianyin the longest. With that much time, it was enough for Tianyin to understand Samael’s personality and who she was.

「I’m really moved that Xiaoyin can understand me~ But speaking of it, why is Xiaoyin staring at the ground and spacing out?」

『Hm? Staring at the ground?』

Tianyin looked at the Exclamation Mark in her hand, feeling extremely puzzled.