After stuffing the written notes into unexpected places on the outer campus, Tang watched the task progress bar fill up and then completed it.
'Task information updated.'
'Side Quest: Establish a Secret Organization (Second Stage).'
'Please establish comprehensive rules and regulations for the secret organization!'
'Task Reward: Surprise Package * 1'
'Task Status: Completed.'
'Reward issued.'
'This side quest has entered the third stage.'
'Side Quest: Establish a Secret Organization (Third Stage)'
'Having good rules and regulations is a quality that a secret organization should possess! After all, an organization that is not open, not transparent, and has no opportunities for promotion, oh, to put it bluntly, who would want to join such a lousy organization... Of course, this is not to say you, but you should also know that the development of a secret organization takes a very, very long time...'
'Well then, after establishing comprehensive rules and regulations, you face a new problem.'
'Miskatonic University, an organization with a pivotal position in the Cthulhu Mythos, choosing it as the alias for your secret organization also proves that you have extraordinary ambition!'
'A library with unparalleled collections, talents gathered in various fields, unique occult knowledge, seeking the unknown! Exploring the unknown! Unraveling the unknown! Every student of Miskatonic should adhere to this philosophy!'
'But you now, seem to have no proper students?'
'Please recruit outstanding students who possess the above qualities! And conduct preliminary occult training!'
'Whispering, such people are not uncommon, there are daredevils everywhere...'
'Task Progress: 0/100'
'Task Reward: Surprise Package * 1, a copy of the black magic book Necronomicon.'
'That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.'
"Pfft—"
The water Tang had just drunk sprayed out directly.
He coughed several times, almost choking to death.
"What what what?"
Tang pulled up the System panel, staring intently at the line of task rewards, his voice becoming somewhat sharp, "System!"
He had been in a fairly good mood just now, and had received another Surprise Package. Although he didn't know what it was, opening it would likely yield good things. After all, the System had just confidently said it would give him a surprise.
Surprise? What surprise? More like a fright!
The Knowledge Wilderness wasn't even pretending anymore, it was going to directly cram his head full of mad knowledge, wasn't it?
'Host, the main system really has a lot of good things~' The System said smugly, 'This reward is absolutely amazing!'
Although it didn't get any remains of ancient gods or anything, this was something it had pestered the main system for a long time, frantically testing the limits of the main system's patience to the point of almost being de-registered, and finally got this good thing for the host!
'Even if it's just a copy, it has everything it should have~ Host, you know what I mean, right?'
Host, hurry up and praise it, praise it, praise it!
Amazing?! Understand you?
Yes, yes, yes, the things brought over from the Knowledge Wilderness, just from their essence, were close to sefirot.
But this book title, even if it looked like something from the old era, might contain mad knowledge describing some old ones or pillars.
This thing was fine in an era where the extraordinary was hidden, but put it in the present, everyone who saw it would say it was good, and then they would all go crazy, chanting something like 'The Old Ones have returned, the stars have aligned' while performing some strange ritual?!
System, are you okay? Are you really okay?
If this thing was given to him, the next second after he received it, a god might come knocking on his door to check the Chavas meter.
After all, unlike those books from the era where the extraordinary was hidden, the things brought over from the Knowledge Wilderness were likely, very likely, the real deal...
'I'm fine, oh, right, the main system has a lot of similar things, I'll snag some more next time~'
Tang collapsed into his chair, then looked at the System panel in front of him with a peaceful expression.
To think that this thing was something the System had fought for him...
"It's okay, it's okay, a good night's sleep will fix everything. System, you're really something~"
Tang gave it a thumbs up.
With such a responsible System, the future was truly promising~
Maybe there would even be a 'Nameless Cults', which recorded something about summoning fallen... things.
It's okay, debts don't weigh one down—he would just burn them all in one go if more came.
What, put it in the library? Cultivate a few Old Ones' believers who chanted about soaring ninety thousand miles into the sky every day?
Peacefully dying jpg.
System: ??
The second Surprise Package contained, in addition to general knowledge fragments, forging attempts, appraisal attempts, and uses of 'Bionic Marionette', another Star Seer equipment.
'Astrolabe for Observing Stars.'
'Quality: System Exclusive.'
'An astrolabe is an astronomical instrument that specifically displays celestial bodies to the public, allowing people to observe the stars without looking up directly at the starry sky.'
'As everyone knows, the best time to observe stars is always at night, and during the day, observing the movement of stars through the astrolabe is your best choice!'
'By depicting the observed movement of stars at night and replicating it on the astrolabe, you can occasionally observe the traces of stars in this way?'
'System reminder, depicting the corresponding stars requires the use of the 'Telescope for Observing Stars'~'
Tang held the 'Astrolabe for Observing Stars'—which was actually just a blank disc—sitting on a high ground, looking at the stars overhead.
"This item is quite interesting."
Unlike the Mosaic Glasses and the Telescope, this item, in addition to its auxiliary function, also had an offensive extraordinary power.
'Even extinguished stars want to leave their traces in the astrolabe! This is its last trace!'
'You can summon an extinguished star by injecting a certain amount of spirituality!'
'Note, this extraordinary ability can only be used once in a short period of time. Using it too many times will inevitably leave the fate trajectory of extinguished stars on the astrolabe~ And where does an extinguished star get its fate?'
"So, I can summon meteorites to silence people?"
This was much more reasonable than the illogical plots written by some third-rate novelists.
And were extinguished stars really extinguished stars?
Would there be any strange things left on them, seeping into the earth through the seals of the Seven Gods?
Bringing his scattered thoughts back, Tang took out the telescope.
The 'stars' placed on the 'Astrolabe for Observing Stars' did not refer to the stars in the celestial realm overhead.
Instead, it was about peering into fate through the stars.
"A very powerful item for peering into the trajectory of fate." Tang pondered.
All the items in the Star Seer set should be applicable to Euclid's space. Could this item be related to time?
Just like how he used the Yesterday Once More charm to borrow the power of the future, and fate, in mysticism, could be understood as the warning of future spirituality to past spirituality.
(End of this chapter)