"Dōng Dōng…"
The sound of a heartbeat echoed with striking clarity.
"Hiss…"
A faint, tearing sound of space spread through the air.
Fang Li was darting down the corridor at astonishing speed, sweeping past one grand hall after another. Within his body, the power belonging solely to the True Ancestor Princess was pulsing, making both his mental and physical state reach an absolutely optimal level.
His palm was gripping tightly onto a crescent-moon-like lethal weapon.
In his eyes, ice-blue light glittered. At this moment, Fang Li was dressed entirely in black, tight-fitting clothes.
It was the very same outfit he had once worn in a previous world, when he made a name for himself as the Black Knight.
The only difference was that this time, Fang Li's face was not covered by a full mask. Instead, he wore a half-mask that concealed the upper portion of his face, leaving his nose and everything below it exposed.
But this was no ordinary mask. A mysterious, magical seal had been engraved on the forehead section of the mask.
It was a magic item.
Back in the world of The Asterisk War, Fang Li had once confronted Laminamors.
At that time, Laminamors had borrowed Valda's ability, interfering with Fang Li's perception so he could not see Laminamors' true form.
The effect of this magic item was identical.
Its effect was cognitive interference.
With this item, no matter what methods the enemy used, they would be unable to investigate or perceive Fang Li's true identity.
Although its effect only lasted for a single hour, and required a full day before it could be used again, during that one hour of activation, no matter what Fang Li did, no one could uncover who he really was.
Because of this, Fang Li was able to storm recklessly into the exhibition hall that had been transformed into a fortress.
Of course, that wasn't all.
In the world of KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!, Fang Li had also gained the privileges of an Adventurer, which allowed him to acquire all sorts of Skills.
Beyond the Skills of handling different weapons, Fang Li had also learned a series of Skills most suited to himself.
For example, Enemy Detection, Hide, and Escape, all of them were Thief-class Skills.
The Thief class seemed to have the highest compatibility with Fang Li.
Therefore, among all the Skills he could acquire, Thief-class Skills made up the majority, far surpassing the Skills of other classes.
In this situation, to prepare for the raid on the Magic Book of Origin, Fang Li had, for the first time in a long while, taken out his Adventurer Card. Using the few remaining Skill Points he had, he learned three Thief-class Skills he had originally thought useless to himself.
Search Treasure (Lv.1)
Perception Skill.
Detects treasure that appears within a certain range.
The perception intensity depends on the rarity of the treasure.
Range and scale of detection are determined by Rank.
Skill Rank can be upgraded.
Trap Detection (Lv.1)
Perception Skill.
Unconditionally reveals the existence of traps.
Range and scale of detection are determined by Rank.
Skill Rank can be upgraded.
Disarm Trap (Lv.1)
Countermeasure Skill.
Unconditionally dismantles the existence of traps.
Range and scale of disarmament are determined by Rank.
Skill Rank can be upgraded.
These three Skills were of immense use for the task of storming and infiltrating the enemy's base to seize the target item.
Therefore, even though Fang Li did not raise the Rank of these three Skills, he still learned them in preparation for today and future operations.
With that, Fang Li slipped into the fortress-like building as effortlessly as a fish swimming through water.
Enemy Detection let Fang Li clearly know if there were enemies nearby.
Trap Detection let Fang Li clearly know if there were traps nearby.
Search Treasure let Fang Li clearly know exactly where the treasures were located.
Combined with the magic item that interfered with perception, ensuring that no method could expose his true identity, Fang Li truly had nothing to worry about. In such a state, how could he not move like a fish in water?
"Although I still haven't picked up any enemy reactions, I've already encountered who knows how many traps along the way."
All of them were exquisitely crafted magical traps. Even if they couldn't actually harm Fang Li, they could still delay his advance.
Thus, Fang Li weaved through corridor after corridor with extraordinary speed and agility.
Whenever Trap Detection reacted, Fang Li simply went around the trap.
When he encountered a trap that couldn't be avoided, he used Disarm Trap to dismantle it on the spot.
When he ran into an unknown barrier, Fang Li raised his Moon Blade. Without even activating his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, he used the blade's rarely useful Magic Breaker effect to pierce through and erase the barrier.
Of course, Trap Detection was only at Lv.1, there were still abnormally powerful magical traps it couldn't sense. And Moon Blade was only a Rank 4 weapon; its Magic Breaker effect was far from strong enough to shatter every barrier.
For example, right now.
"Bzzzzzzz---!"
As the air buzzed, Fang Li had just stepped into a grand hall filled with all manner of priceless exhibits when strange radiance suddenly flared all around.
Light wove into invisible walls, forming a barrier, turning the hall into a cage.
Fang Li came to a halt.
At the same time, magic circles began unfolding across the surrounding walls. Within their dazzling glow, the walls rippled and writhed like mud.
At that moment, Enemy Detection finally triggered.
And Fang Li saw it, From the writhing walls, stone-bodied dolls tore free as though climbing out of a mire, breaking through the surface and crashing to the ground.
"BOOM!"
A heavy impact rang out.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
One after another, colossal stone giants, each more than two meters tall, emerged in succession, shaking the floor with their landings.
In just a split second, Fang Li was surrounded by over a hundred Stone Giants.
Watching the horde of voicelessly roaring giants around him, Fang Li muttered under his breath: "So that's how it is… without this much, you really couldn't call it fortress-level defenses."
The barrier's defensive strength rivaled city walls. The summoning techniques could produce countless guardians.
And with a network of magical traps, infiltrating such a place could it really be easier than directly assaulting a small country?
What's more, the magic circles that had created the Stone Giants still hadn't stopped. Somehow, they began transforming into new formations.
Trap Detection warned Fang Li that these magic circles would soon unleash powerful attacks.
"Just a simple foreign exhibition, and they've guarded it this tightly? Then how terrifying must the places be that actually house the true Magic Path Original Books?"
As he spoke, Fang Li's lips curled upward once more. In his eyes, the icy-blue glow of the Mystic Eyes began to surface.
"ROOOOOAAAAARRRRRR---!"
At last, the Stone Giants let out a fearsome roar. With earth-shaking footsteps, they charged toward Fang Li.
(End Of This Chapter)
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