Normally, all that awaits Beisen is ruthless abandonment.
Mark found that he still felt soft.
[Caribbean] stayed at the dock for two days and was ready to leave the port on the third day.
The city of art no longer has what Mark needs.
These days, it's nothing more than useless invitations from nobles, either to luncheons or extravagant dances. Every nobleman or wealthy businessman wants to use his name to gain political capital or economic benefits.
This is very boring.
Mark left after the music high priest Elini promised to help him transfer the money to Wright Imperial Bank every half month.
"My lord, what is our goal?" Captain Lane asked.
"What if we go to the endless ice ocean in the north?"
This is a very general goal. Renn did not object directly. He just said: "Then we need to carry out a large supply at the port of Austin in the Hokuriku."
Helena added: "It is approaching winter, and there will be many icebergs and even large areas of floating ice in the ice ocean near the north. It is true that the Caribbean is an ocean-going ship, but if we want to go further north, then we will need a large
Modifications to enhance its icebreaking capabilities. As well as modifications to the ship’s heating system.”
"How long will it take?"
"There is an important base of the Mechanicus in the Port of Austin. However, even if we get the other party's full cooperation, it will take at least two months. However, after the modification is completed, it will happen to hit the severe winter. If there is no rush, it will take at least two months.
Let’s have a good time in spring.”
Mark was stunned for a moment: "Okay then!"
Sharpening the knife will save you from chopping wood! Mark understands this.
The right arm of Valkyrie is too far away, which makes Mark a little worried.
After a moment of silence, Mini spoke in the soul circuit: "Don't worry about me yet. I don't think I will have the strength to fuse the Valkyrie's spiritual body so soon. Mark, you should do your own thing first."
What can Mark do?
He is now in the process of accumulation, such as reading a thousand books, which is something he cannot rush.
He smiled bitterly: "If you have to say what I'm missing, it's probably that my [Apocalypse Deck] is still missing a [War Knight]."
There have always been very few Knights of the Apocalypse walking in the world. This is a rare thing.
Mark simply didn’t want to think about it anymore.
"Then let's walk around."
On the surface, he looks like a rich man who has become famous, rich and willful, driving around on a cruise ship.
In fact, Mr. Galaxy listens to the prayers from different places and attacks everywhere.
In order to prevent the cult from directly targeting him for revenge, Mark completely acted as a "good-hearted citizen" and asked Bison to help him disguise himself and went to various orthodox churches to report the crime.
One report will be accurate.
For two consecutive weeks, cultists along the entire northeastern coast of the empire were hacked to pieces.
Mark himself, as a prodigal son, studied for 4 hours every day and spent the rest of his time eating, drinking and having fun.
Just as it happened, Miss Anweina seemed to have foreseen something, and she was very enthusiastic at the moment. As soon as she entered Mark's study, she crawled under the desk without being able to stop her.
Mark lived a happy and decadent three weeks.
Just looking at the surface, it is not an exaggeration to say that he will play a guest role as the Sin Priest.
Only Mark's closest comrades can clearly feel that his spiritual power is increasing day by day.
Yes, working hard secretly and then surprising everyone is what Mark is talking about now.
[Eye of Knowledge] After reading day and night, his reading of extraordinary books finally exceeded one thousand.
Just when he finished reading the last book, the "Encyclopedia of Low-Level Mysteries" given to him by the God of Knowledge suddenly bloomed with powerful aura.
From this moment on, it is no longer a simple extraordinary book, but truly integrated with his soul.
It hovered about 40 centimeters above Mark's right shoulder, hiding in the mysterious aura naturally released by Mark. Unless the other party had a strength far superior to Mark's, its existence would not be visible at all.
It is no longer a simple book. Mark can sense that there is a space inside it that is completely different from its appearance. Tens of thousands of secret techniques inside are like fully armed soldiers waiting to go to the battlefield, waiting for him as the master.
call.
Even the title of the book was changed to "The Book of Knowledge". There is an "Eye of Knowledge" open on the front cover and the back cover, scanning back and forth like a living creature, like a sentinel for Mark.
Wary of the enemy.
Mark had no doubt that once an enemy appeared, the "Knowledge Book" would help him attack the enemy first before he, the master, could react.
His surging spiritual power shocked all the strong men on the ship.
When Ren and others arrived, they saw Conrad, Hank, and Helena standing outside the study door. It was just that magical vision that had transformed the metal exterior wall of the study into a bookshelf.
.
Translucent books with mysterious characters written on the covers kept jumping on the bookshelf, as if they wanted to jump out.
"Master, have you been promoted?" Renn did not hide his joy.
Helena nodded: "Captain, please strictly abide by your post."
"Okay!" Without saying a word, Ren asked the Storm Team to disperse while he returned to the bridge.
Mark's promotion continues.
In his field of vision, everything was changing rapidly.
From the initial surprise, he has now become accustomed to the strange feeling of traveling through extraordinary translucent books.
But what appeared at the end of the sea of books was not simply 'knowledge', but also the [destinies] he had plundered. They were transformed into 'history books' in the form of experience, existing in the most special form.
In Mark's soul.
Mark realized that he had to deal with these 'Books of Destiny', otherwise not only would they be a waste, but when they broke out of the cage of fate he had set, the first thing to be swallowed up would be his soul.
Squinting his eyes, he tried to integrate these books, but they felt very heavy.
This feeling is like a slight touch, and an entire mountain is immediately hanging upside down above your head, pressing down firmly.
There was a faint neighing sound coming from inside the book, as well as wailing in extreme pain, as well as all kinds of violent roars, making people easily think of the various evil monsters and beasts participating in the eternal bloody battle in the bottomless abyss.
Mark finally understood that these powers from various cults and demons were not powers that he could comprehend and fully master.
This does not prevent Mark from 'using' them.
With a single thought, the sinful souls suppressed in the Hall of Valor simultaneously heard Mark’s majestic and majestic voice declare:
"What a failed sinner——"
"Your persistence is meaningless——"
"Surrender to [Fate]! This is the only value of your existence——"
The Sin Priests and the Twisted Creatures came out of the Blood Moon Cards one after another. Their faith in the Demon God had long been wiped out by endless torture.
The irresistible dominance crushed their last persistence.
They knelt on their knees and paid lofty worship to the being who controlled their destiny!
At this moment, diagonally below the right side of the "Book of Knowledge", a 'colorful' black hand appeared out of thin air.
This is the hand of sin, the hand of great sin.
All the great sinners whose fate has been robbed by Mark will be in the cage of the Hall of Valor, spitting out their vicious tongues day and night, providing the greatest curse power for Mark's use.
In the second step, Mark turned his attention to the largest number of members of the Reincarnation Cult in the Hall of Valor. With their power, an [Eye of Reincarnation] opened above Mark's left shoulder that was much dimmer than the "Book of Knowledge".
The third step is to condense the [Sword of Light] with the power of light as its core, and the [Blade of Night]. The ones who provide the power are the Bishop of Light and the Inquisitor who fell into Mark's hands by accident...
No one can see that behind the four strange objects, there is a thread of fate connecting them, all the way to Mark's left hand.
His hand is the [Hand of Destiny]!
Until this moment, Mark's condensation was temporarily completed.
In fact, there is also a [Gun of Apocalypse], but it lacks [War].
For some reason, Mark had a vague hunch that sooner or later he would create a "Seven Stars with the Moon"
"Huh..." Mark took a long breath and began to collect his released spiritual power.
The bright aura gradually disappeared.
After hearing Mark's "come in", everyone close to him had an uncontrollable smile on his face.
"Mark, have you been successfully promoted?" Helena's voice was extremely passionate.
"Well, I was promoted to [Erudition]." Mark smiled faintly. He did not mention the improvement in destiny. After all, if it was just a little bit worse, it would probably be a million points worse.
Even so, cheers still came loudly.
"Congratulations my lord!"
"Congratulations!"
One by one, everyone who could be named came to congratulate Mark.
As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, while insiders watch the door.
People who don't understand only know that the stronger their master is, the better. Only veteran strongmen like Ren know how difficult it is to be titled [Erutologist].
In other sequences, the promotion difficulty often rises relatively evenly.
Only the occult sequence is different. It is infinitely higher from the beginning and is typically difficult first and then easy.
It is like a ship. If the lower deck is just a sampan, the superstructure cannot be higher at all.
If it were based on the hull of a dreadnought, then the options for superstructure and weapons that could be loaded would be as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Promoting to Sequence 6 is actually the most difficult. Once the power of other sequences is integrated later, it will form a jump in strength similar to that of a thousand miles.
It is impossible for Ren to know that Mark, a freak, actually developed [Son-Mother Thinking] and [Parallel Thinking], two god-level talents when he was promoted.
If you knew it, your jaw would probably drop.
Amidst the congratulations, Mark looked out the window at the endless sea.
"Hey, Destiny, why don't you give me something to practice with?"
After hearing his call, Dice seemed to reply "Okay!"