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"Come out, Leonard."
Hearing the voice from outside the cave, Leonard, who had been pacing by the campfire, immediately stopped and eagerly ran out of the cave.
Seeing him, the others were still somewhat confused, but Mobet, as the person in the main character group of the book who knew the most about the Marauder pathway and old Pallez, had already reacted and said joyfully, "Old man, old man, can you solve our problem?"
Upon hearing this, Leonard's movements suddenly paused, and then his expression became strange. He then walked up to Mobet and raised his right hand under the latter's bewildered gaze.
"Slap—"
A hand chop landed on Mobet's head, immediately making Mobet groan in feigned pain.
It wasn't that he didn't want to dodge; it was mainly that when he tried to dodge just now, he suddenly forgot what he wanted to do.
"The old man said… you've become increasingly disrespectful after all these years, and that's not good," Leonard said with a strange expression.
Mobet: …
How am I disrespectful?
Mobet felt a bit wronged.
The others saw this scene; some were secretly laughing, while others didn't react, but no one "stood up" for Mobet.
After all, an old man disciplining his great-grandson, and such a light, painless discipline at that, was entirely a family matter. Why should they interfere?
While Mobet was feeling wronged and even wondered if Pallez had a grandson and no longer wanted his great-grandson, Leonard looked at Lin Ruo and said, "Your Excellency Blessed, the old man said he can have that Sealed Artifact."
Lin Ruo nodded upon hearing this and directly handed the metal box he had been carrying to Leonard.
The latter took the box, opened it, and saw the life scepter in a sealed state inside. He curiously examined this Sealed Artifact, and then seemed to hear something, his expression stiffening as he said incredulously:
"A Grade 0 Sealed Artifact?"
As a wondrous item at the Sequence 2 level, the life scepter was naturally also a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact.
As for Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts, Leonard had never actually come into contact with one before, so it was natural for him to be very curious upon seeing one for the first time.
However, no matter how curious he was, it couldn't delay the main business. Leonard quickly, under Pallez's guidance, "unsealed" that Sealed Artifact and then gathered the main character group from the book together.
Then, Leonard held the life scepter in one hand and made a single-arm embrace gesture with the other, once again relaxing his Spirit Body.
A familiar scene reappeared. Lin Ruo watched as Leonard's green eyes once again reflected "Worms of Time" and a giant, ancient, mottled clock phantom appeared behind him, and he couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.
Under his and Klein's witness, an indescribable invisible torrent enveloped Mobet and the others, and the life scepter also burst forth with dazzling light at the same moment. Those lights carried infinite vitality, falling upon Mobet and the others.
A few seconds later, all the anomalies disappeared. Mobet and the others looked at each other. They could clearly feel that something was different about themselves, yet they couldn't clearly articulate what it was, and…
"Old man, will we not be able to advance anymore in the future?" Mobet was the first to notice something and asked Leonard.
Leonard, who was nimbly "sealing" the life scepter again under Pallez's guidance, was startled by the question. Then his expression became a bit more complex, and he said:
"The old man said this is a necessary price."
"Oh, I see… That's right, after all, we've lived for so many years for nothing." Mobet scratched his head, then chuckled and said, "But it's great to be alive. It's already very difficult to advance to a Demigod anyway…"
"Indeed, it's great to be alive, hahaha…" Giant Groselle laughed foolishly, also without much sense of loss. Most of the others were similar.
Leonard, still listening intently, then continued:
"He also said that if any of you advanced using the Beyonder ingredients of this world, you will lose the corresponding abilities after leaving this world, because everything in this world is fake and cannot be maintained after leaving this world."
Upon hearing this, everyone's gaze immediately turned to "Disciplinary Knight" Frunziar.
Among the main character group in the book, he was the only one who had completed his advancement using the Beyonder ingredients of the world within the book, from Sequence 9 to Sequence 5.
"Besides losing power? Will there be any other side effects? Frunziar has been advancing with the Materials from this world since Sequence 9." Elf Singer Siatas, always impatient, couldn't help but ask first. Including her, the others had not consumed any potions in the world within the book, so they naturally weren't afraid of anything, but "Disciplinary Knight" Frunziar was different.
As a companion who had fought together until now, Elf Singer Siatas didn't want to see a companion die when they were so close to safely leaving the world within the book.
Mobet and the others also looked at Leonard with some tension, awaiting the answer.
As the center of attention, Leonard, who temporarily occupied the main spot, quickly communicated with Pallez and, a few seconds later, said with a sigh of relief:
"There will be no side effects; he will just revert to being an ordinary person, and he can consume potions again, but like you, he can only advance to Sequence 5 at most, returning to his current level…"
"The old man said that in this regard, you should thank Your Excellency Lin Ruo very much. This is all thanks to the Sealed Artifact He provided."
Mobet and the others all breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. Then Giant Groselle was the first to look at Lin Ruo and the others, saying with a serious and earnest expression:
"Thank you for saving us. You will be Groselle's friends forever."
Hearing this, Lin Ruo smiled, not being modest, but his mood improved a little.
He didn't save people for these thanks, but being thanked itself was a pleasant thing.
The others also came forward to express their gratitude at this time, and even Elf Singer Siatas walked up to Lin Ruo and said:
"I still can't fully trust you… but thank you very much for your help this time."
Elf Singer Siatas knew very well that if Lin Ruo hadn't acted, even if they had waited for others who were sucked into the book, they would probably still mostly not escape death.
The hunt for Ulyssan alone could cause them heavy losses, not to mention the lifespan issue after leaving the book—although Mobet's elder acted, Siatas wasn't blind; she could see the effect of the Sealed Artifact that Lin Ruo took out.
As an Elf, Siatas could not easily trust Angel of Judgment, but as Siatas, she would not ignore these Blesseds.
She was a person who clearly separated gratitude and resentment.
So Elf Singer Siatas then asked, "Do you have paper and pen?"
"No, but my student should have…." Lin Ruo could actually guess what Siatas wanted to do. He turned to Klein and said, "Klein, lend me some paper and a pen…."
As a Seer, carrying paper and a pen was a basic quality.
"Okay." Klein immediately took out paper and a pen from his pocket and handed them to Siatas, only to see the other party quickly write a few lines on it and hand it to Lin Ruo.
"The formula you wanted."
Siatas said, paused, and after Lin Ruo took the paper and pen, she added:
"Consider it an advance payment."
"Then I'll accept it." Lin Ruo glanced at the formula written on the paper, memorized it, and then put the formula into his pocket. Then he swept his gaze over everyone and said:
"Let's go, it's time to leave."
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