CHAPTER 373: CHAPTER 301: CHOICE (ADDITIONAL CHAPTER 1/6 FOR ALLIANCE LEADER "PANDA321222")

In Wen Nan’s current player-specific skill pool, there are a total of 8 skills—

Diamond|Hard (Defense Type), X-Ray Vision (Magic Type), Invisibility Cloak (Magic Type), Mind Reading Technique (Perception Type), Two-Timing (Enhancement Type), Time Management Master (Magic Type), No Dirty Thoughts (Magic Type), Endurance is King (Enhancement Type).

Due to his sudden rise to the silver rank, Wen Nan received 4 new skills from the system—

[Cheating Master], [Peeping Maniac], [Blond Specialist], [I’m the Prime Minister].

Wen Nan: ...

Game planners and skill matching system, can you come out so we can have a chat?

He accepted those previous skills like Time Management, Endurance, and No Dirty Thoughts, since he indeed had some unique insights when it came to trading currency, horse riding, and fish farming.

But these newly matched four skills, what’s the deal with them?

It’s not just about flirting with the boundaries anymore, it’s outright venturing on the edge of morality and legality crazily.

If I activate these skills, I’d practically degrade from a human-shaped cannon into a Zhang San, right?

This doesn’t just not align with his image as a gentleman and moral model; it’s completely unrelated!

In a state of indignant condemnation, Wen Nan eagerly opened the skill description detail page—

[9. Cheating Master (Clone Type): Select a specific number of targets from roles within an instance, gather the target’s "pleasure value" and store it in this skill’s storage. Within the stipulated time limit, release a clone for personal use, with "pleasure value" in the storage convertible 1:1 to "clone duration (minutes)".

e.g.: A player pre-selects a target, obtains 5 "pleasure value" from the target, then stores it in the storage. This "pleasure value" can let the player release a clone lasting 5 minutes.

Note: The clone created by this skill looks exactly like the player, has no autonomous action ability, is entirely controlled by the player, shares the player’s equipment reserve bar, and its level and attribute values do not exceed the main account, with specific values increasing as the skill level rises.

Level 1 allows a maximum of 1 target, storage usage time limit 3 hours, clone level and attribute value at 5% of the main account;

Level 2 allows a maximum of 1 target, storage usage time limit 6 hours, clone level and attribute value at 10% of the main account;

Level 3 allows a maximum of 2 targets, storage usage time limit 6 hours, clone level and attribute value at 10% of the main account;

...]

[10. Peeping Maniac (Magic Type): Passive skill, if there are indescribable behaviors within the effective detection range, the player will be able to see through all obstructions (walls, buildings, vehicles, clothing, etc.) on the map to clearly see all the scenes within a certain range.

Note: Indescribable behaviors include but are not limited to: s*x, oral, leg, foot, head.

Level 1 effective detection range 10 meters, effective peeping range 1 meter; Level 2 effective detection range 20 meters, effective peeping range 2 meters; ...]

[11. Blond Specialist (Enhancement Type): Passive skill, if the player engages in blond behavior, upon system determination, this skill automatically activates. During the effective period, all current attribute values of the player’s account are enhanced to a certain proportion. Effective time depends on the duration of blond behavior.

Level 1 enhancement proportion 150%, effective time equals twice the duration of blond behavior; Level 2 enhancement proportion 200%, effective time equals twice the duration of blond behavior; Level 3 enhancement proportion 200%, effective time equals three times the duration of blond behavior; ...]

[12. I’m the Prime Minister (Control Type): If the player engages in behavior similar to that of Prime Minister Cao, upon system determination, once the player activates this skill, they will be able to control the spouse of the object engaged in such behavior for personal use within a specific time frame.

Note: Within this skill’s effective range, the player can overlook the target’s level and attributes, exert control beyond their level on the target, with control degree equal to silver ride markings.

Level 1 effective time equals twice the effective behavior time determined by the system; Level 2 effective time equals triple the effective behavior time determined by the system; Level 3 effective time equals quadruple the effective behavior time determined by the system; ...]

Wen Nan’s gaze wandered over these included lines, especially focusing on skills 9, 11, and 12.

Putting aside moral issues, Wen Nan now has 3 skill points to use. If he spends them all on these three skills, then it means...

If he targets a married woman and conducts a pleasure exploration with the female character in front of her husband, thereby allowing the woman to gain "pleasure value," Wen Nan could smoothly obtain a clone of himself. Moreover, his attribute values might skyrocket to 200% during the subsequent period, and he could even make the woman’s husband a puppet under his control, wholly dominated?

This is just...

Too perverted!

Wen Nan shook his head vigorously.

Though he isn’t a strict gentleman, he’s not someone to do such unethical things.

Besides, he absolutely lacks interest in that sort of kink—in the previous incident involving Yang Mingzhong, Wen Nan was unaware beforehand, and in a certain sense, Yang Mingzhong’s wife, Li Shuyi, was not the same person as the Li Shuyi whom Wen Nan strategized with.

But if it’s the 11th and 12th skills currently shown on the system screen, for them to activate, Wen Nan would have to deliberately engage in blond and Prime Minister behaviors knowingly.

This is something Wen Nan could never accept; he dislikes it, doesn’t want to, and wouldn’t do such things.

So now, for Wen Nan, the skills left to choose from are actually quite limited.

That 9th skill, Peeping Maniac, sounds fantastic, but actually overlaps a bit with his previous X-Ray Vision skill.

Although he doesn’t understand why the system always gives him such bizarre skills, he isn’t too interested in either of them—he isn’t particularly keen on peeping; he’d much prefer to view what he wants after a strategy is completed, in a situation where the other party willingly shows him.

Thinking of this, Wen Nan’s gaze involuntarily drifted upward, and his fingers slid across before finally stopping at the first skill—Diamond|Hard (Defense Type).

Wen Nan was actually a bit interested in this skill the first time he saw it.

The biggest issue then was that the skill’s duration was extremely short, only 3 minutes, and even with the extended effect of the Flower of Tears, it only extended to 9 minutes, which was barely adequate.

But now, Wen Nan has enough skill points to potentially increase the skill directly to Level 3, thus extending its duration to 27 minutes. Combined with Flower of Tears’ tripling effect, it might just be sufficient.

If this skill was available before the two instances, Wen Nan might have chosen it outright.

But now, he has the Golden Boxer Shorts.

Even though his Golden Boxer Shorts are cracked and heavily worn, they are still usable, and the enhancement in agility they provide is far superior to a mere Diamond|Hard.

Therefore, Wen Nan currently doesn’t need a skill like Diamond|Hard too much anymore.

After eliminating various options that didn’t meet his requirements, Wen Nan was left with only one skill point to assign—Cheating Master.

This skill is actually extremely useful and alluring—

The clones it creates are fully controlled by Wen Nan, meaning after the skill activates, he can perform in different places simultaneously, exploring sizes and depths with various strategy characters at once.

Conversely, this skill relies on the "pleasure value" of strategy characters to prolong the existence of clones created by Wen Nan.

In other words, if used correctly, this skill could be a chicken-and-egg, egg-and-chicken process—after finishing discussions with one character, he could use that character’s "pleasure value" to create a clone, then deploy the clone to simultaneously strategize two characters, generating two sets of "pleasure value," allowing for two clones next time, and by the third round, three simultaneous threads...

This cycle is practically perfect.

The biggest issue is that this skill allows too few targets at low levels.

Level 1 and Level 2 only allow for 1 target, meaning Wen Nan would need to jump to at least Level 3 to trigger a "fission" effect.

Even at Level 3, with a limit of just two targets, it’s still a bit limited.

Fortunately, he holds a powerful item—Matthew Fragment.

Considering the boost from the Matthew Fragment, a Level 3 [Cheating Master] could immediately become Level 9.

At Level 9, the skill allows up to 5 targets simultaneously, and the clone’s levels and attributes would amount to 25% of the main account’s attributes.

That level of clone effect would be sufficient.

However, Wen Nan only holds temporary ownership of the Matthew Fragment. Once the ownership period ends, the president would likely come to collect it.

This Fragment, acquired through the Divine Staff Sheath operation, would be a challenge for President Carl if he tries reclaiming it within the Sword Holder’s testing space, where he must face Wen Nan, the bug-exploiting man.

With that thought, Wen Nan tensed his abdominal muscles, used all his might, pounding [Cheating Master] three times.

With so much force, the "refresh point" instantly soared to the peak.

Under the pressure, Wen Nan quickly let out a satisfied sigh, entering a moment of existential reflection.

Soon, a large, bright fruit appeared on the skill talent tree floating before Wen Nan, outshining the other three skills.

At the instant the skill was activated, the surrounding environment began collapsing, falling into darkness, and his body plummeting rapidly.

In the meantime, system prompts echoed in his ears—

[Congratulations to the player for successfully leaving the instance "School of Stars"!]

[Detection reveals malicious manipulations of factions and identities in this instance. To maintain fairness and justice within the game, the system has temporarily locked this map. Upon identifying the malicious rule-breaking player’s information, the system will repair injured or killed characters and complete the instance’s restoration process.]

[During the investigation, the instance system might solicit assistance regarding specific run-throughs. Please cooperate as needed, thank you for your understanding.]

[Maliciously manipulating players, once identified, will face stern actions from the game world, with zero tolerance!]

As expected...

Another instance got locked.

After experiencing the collapse of the previous three instances, Wen Nan wasn’t surprised at all receiving this system notice.

It appears that Wen Nan’s "curse of instance destruction" continues.

Nonetheless, the announcement regarding malicious manipulation of factions and identities...

Were they referring to Wei Zhe and his team? Or was it about Yu Shujun?

If they were truly referring to Yu Shujun’s acquired character account, what would happen if Wen Nan refused to cooperate in the investigation?

Just as Wen Nan pondered this, he fell to the ground with a thud.

His vision cleared up, and looking around, Wen Nan was bewildered.

This is not the [Wenna] Guild Office.

Where on earth did they send him?!