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Chapter 536 I've really become a clown! (Please subscribe)

end of August.

Temperatures in Backlund gradually drop, and the perennial fog and dampness make the climate even colder.

As soon as Mu Sheng opened the window in his house on Elton Street in the morning, the damp, cold air rushed in all at once.

"There's a strong smell of smoke; the smog has returned."

Mu Sheng pinched his nose, his expression showing some disgust.

Half the time since he arrived in Backlund, it has been foggy, and filled with factory fumes and smoke.

"Backlund should just be renamed 'Foggy City'. It's so damp and smoky, how did the Loen royal family and nobles put up with it?"

The common people endure these hardships for the sake of work and life, but what about the powerful and wealthy?
"Okay, it's for power and wealth."

Mu Sheng curled his lip. That's just how humans are; they always prioritize immediate gains over long-term harm.

"Snapped!"

He pinched his thumb and middle finger together and snapped his fingers.

Suddenly, many red dots the size of soybeans appeared in the room.

A blast of scorching air instantly swept through the entire house, expelling the damp, chilly mist.

"That's much better." Mu Sheng nodded in satisfaction.

After the pungent fog dissipated, the red lights in the room did not disappear, but floated in the air like fireflies.

Thanks to Mr. A's selfless dedication, Musheng's Sequence 6 'Forger' is finally no longer just an empty shell.

At the same time, the advancement in the sequence also greatly enhanced the abilities of the 'Transmigrator', 'Knight-errant', and 'Giant Bishop'.

These red dots represent the 'knight's' ability to manipulate the elements of wind and fire.

Compared to his previous technique of 'condensing qi into soldiers', Mu Sheng now has a much more precise control over elemental energy.

In addition, the distance that the 'travel' ability can traverse in a single trip has increased to over one thousand meters.

The number of seeds that the 'Giant Bishop' can differentiate has also reached 27.

These seeds have so far been given only to Malena in Constance, Klein in Tingen, and a hungry child whose name is unknown.

"Huh? I only distributed 3?"

Mu Sheng scratched his head.

If he remembered correctly, he came to Backlund to fill the 'Giant Bishop' position so that more seeds could be spread.

So what's distracting me?

After thinking about it carefully for a long time, Mu Sheng finally found the root of the problem.

"Oh, so they're those aristocratic young women from the spiritual retreat!"

"Damn it! Capitalism is still determined to destroy us, resorting to such a despicable tactic as a honey trap."

Mu Sheng harbored resentment in his heart, clenched his right fist and pounded it hard: "Beauty has made me so depraved. From this day forward, I will abstain from lust!"

He wasn't just talking about abstaining from pornography; he genuinely intended to cut off all spiritual activities.

what?
You said he quit pornography because he was already tired of it?

Slander! This is blatant slander!
Mu Sheng will absolutely not admit to these baseless slanders!

"Strive and persevere!"

Mu Sheng pumped his fist to cheer himself up.

Then she went back inside, took out the rose with the human face and placed it on the balcony, released Little Black out, and then turned and went to the yard behind the house.

As soon as I stepped into the backyard, the air, thick with the smell of sulfur dioxide, hit me.

"Ahem, I almost forgot, this area also needs cleaning."

Mu Sheng choked a little, then raised his hand and waved it, and the scorching air flowed out again, clearing away the murky air in the courtyard.

An invisible barrier appeared above the courtyard, preventing the industrial smog in Backlund from seeping in.

"Time to practice!"

Mu Sheng walked to the middle of the courtyard and stood still. He bent his knees, raised his hands, gathered his breath, and slowly began to perform a set of boxing techniques.

At first, his boxing technique was quite normal, consisting of squatting, raising his arms, and other stretching movements.

Gradually, Mu Sheng's movements became more and more complicated, and his body twisted into strange postures.

As these strange actions were completed, the immense spiritual energy within Mu Sheng's body rapidly refined his physical form.

[Spirit Fusion Body Tempering Technique!]

In recent days, Mu Sheng has been using his 'forging master' abilities to forge his spirituality into his physical body.

This Spirit Fusion Body Tempering Technique was created by Mu Sheng specifically based on the power system of the mysterious world.

Mu Sheng has always been very serious about enhancing his own strength!
Don't be fooled by his daily dedication to helping wealthy ladies relax and rejuvenate; it's all just a facade to protect himself.

In essence, Mu Sheng was not a lecherous man!
Um! That's it!

In the center of the garden, Mu Sheng's movements became increasingly bizarre and distorted, emanating a mesmerizing aura.

If a person with a high level of spirituality is here, they can hear delirious murmurs and shouts that bewilder the mind amidst this hallucination.

"Hee hee~ Hee hee~"

"Holy Light. Holy and Supreme &$+_@"

"The Great Arrival"

"."

An hour later, Mu Sheng slowly finished his morning exercise.

"In another week, the progress of the spiritual body will catch up with the completion of the 'Blacksmith'."

"It's time to prepare the next set of feature materials for Sequence 6."

After assessing his current physical strength, Mu Sheng began planning his next prey.

"It's a pity, I remembered it wrong before, 'the creeping hunger' is not in Mr. A's hands."

"That's true. Mr. A is a Sequence 5 Shepherd, and 'Crawling is Hunger' is just a lower-tier version of the Shepherd."

"Whose hands were they again?"

Mu Sheng frowned and thought about it seriously for a while, but finally gave up.

He had only read a portion of the book Lord of Mysteries and hadn't seen the protagonist become a demigod, so he couldn't remember the details.

"Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. Since I have some recollection of this, it must be related to the main characters."

"Let's just go up into the gray fog and ask around!"

Mu Sheng secretly decided that he should attend the Tarot Club meetings more often in the future and not always skip them.

"Ga~ga~"

A multicolored black shadow passed through the invisible barrier above the courtyard and landed on Mu Sheng's shoulder.

"Quack~"

Xiao Hei affectionately rubbed its head against Mu Sheng's cheek.

"Greetings from our great master, our beautiful and noble Princess Audrey."

As it spoke, Xiao Hei raised its neck and showed Mu Sheng the small bamboo tube hanging on its chest.

The bamboo tube is only about the size of an adult's little finger, just big enough to fit a rolled-up piece of paper.

Mu Sheng first patted Xiao Hei's little bird head before taking the contents out of the bamboo tube.

It was a note Audrey had written to him.

Although both were in Backlund, Mu Sheng and Audrey hadn't seen each other since the day they hunted Mr. A. However, by chance, they re-established contact through notes passed between Xiao Hei.

As for why Little Black ran to the Hall family's back garden, and why Audrey saw it arguing with Susie.

Thus, it was deduced that it was Mr. 'Power's' bird, and Mu Sheng could only say that it was all a coincidence.

"Go ahead and play by yourself, but don't you dare fight with Rose."

Mu Sheng took Xiao Hei off his shoulder, gave it some instructions, and then threw it away.

There was nothing he could do. He didn't know if the two little ones had some kind of grudge from a past life, but if he wasn't careful, the two 'fortune tellers' would start fighting.

"Quack~"

Little Black circled twice in the air, then chuckled and darted into the house. A moment later, the sound of flapping wings could be heard from inside.

"Well, all that advice was for nothing!"

Mu Sheng shook his head helplessly, ignoring the two little ones, and opened Audrey's note.

Good morning, Mr. Power. The weather is terrible today. Maybe, like you said, Backlund should really be renamed 'Fog City'.

The note contained nothing of value, only some trivial musings and a simple desire to share.

Mu Sheng read the information on the note word by word. The note was signed at the end: Audrey Hall.

The first thing to do after receiving the message is, of course, to reply.

Mu Sheng put away the note, turned around, and left the courtyard. The instant he stepped out of the courtyard, the invisible barrier above the courtyard shattered with a crash.

A thick haze mixed with smoke immediately filled the entire courtyard.

"Giggle~ In this family, I am the owner's favorite pet!"

"Eek, you pesky bird!"

When Mu Sheng entered the house, he saw crows and roses entangled together in the living room on the first floor.

Upon hearing his footsteps as he entered, Xiao Hei and Rou Si immediately fell silent.

The bird's head gently rubbed against the flower plate, and the petals caressed its feathers, as if they were siblings.

Mu Sheng simply rolled his eyes silently and went upstairs to his study on the second floor.

At the solid wood desk, Mu Sheng pulled out a thin strip of paper, laid it flat on the table, and began to reply to Audrey.

Good morning, Miss Justice. I'm so glad to receive your letter, as you said.

Mu Sheng quickly filled a note with his writing, and signed it – Victor Herder.

Like Audrey, he also used the code name from the Tarot meeting to refer to Audrey, but signed it with his own name.

This seems to have become a little tacit understanding and agreement between the two.

After writing his reply, Mu Sheng went downstairs and rescued Xiao Hei from the strangulation of the human-faced roses.

After stuffing the note into the bamboo tube, he threw Xiao Hei out.

“Puff~Puff~”

The little black cat, which had been thrown into the sky, quickly adjusted its flight attitude and flew straight towards Queens.

"Am I being too shameless by doing this?"

Watching the shadow recede into the sky, Mu Sheng suddenly wondered if his trickery of the little girl was inappropriate.

The more Mu Sheng thought about it, the more upset he became, and he slapped himself in the face.

"Snapped!"

"Mu Sheng, Mu Sheng, have you forgotten who you are? What kind of moral saint are you pretending to be?"

Yeah, I wasn't a good person to begin with!
Mu Sheng was immediately relieved.

"Instead of blaming yourself, you should think carefully about how to design Sequence 5!"

I climbed the stairs to the attic, moved a recliner under the skylight, and placed it in the dim sunlight.

Leaning back, Mu Sheng's body landed steadily in the recliner, and he closed his eyes to ponder the extraordinary abilities of Sequence 5.

Tingen City, Blackthorn Security Company.

Inside the alchemy room, Klein recalled Old Neil's process of preparing potions and prepared to begin crafting the 'Clown' potion.

Through role-playing, he had already digested the 'Diviner' potion and passed the 'Sanctuary's' test.

Klein then obtained the recipe and ingredients for the 'Clown' potion.

"let's start!"

Klein reviewed the process once more, and then, under the watchful eye of Kreste Cecima, the high deacon of the Sanctuary, began to prepare the potion.

Distilled pure water, cleaned the black iron pot, and heated the pot.
Then, according to the recipe for the 'Clown' potion, add the auxiliary and main ingredients in sequence.

Then, under Klein's watchful gaze, the potion ingredients, catalyzed by spirituality, transformed into a pool of liquid in gold, yellow, and red.

These liquids intermingled yet remained remarkably clear.

"Gulu, Guru"

Bubbles churned within the liquid, somewhat resembling the carbonated drinks he had consumed in his previous life.

"it should be no problem?"

Klein muttered to himself, took out a yellow crystal necklace, and began to divine whether the 'clown' potion in front of him was harmful.

"You're certainly cautious. Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with your preparation process; this potion is up to standard."

The temple deacon Krestai, standing to the side, chuckled upon seeing Klein's actions.

Klein completed seven divinations before picking up the glass, tilting his head slightly, and drinking the potion inside in one gulp.

"It's so bitter!"

This was Klein's first reaction. Then his body turned red, and his spirit and the magic potion gradually seeped into every cell.

After an unknown amount of time, Klein felt the power brought about by the 'Clown' characteristic within him.

At the same time, a series of murmurs and shouts echoed in his ears:

“Honakis…Fregra…Honakis…Fregra…”

"not good!"

Klein quickly closed his eyes and began to meditate to gather the overflowing spirituality, gradually bringing the situation under control.

After the whispers in his ear completely disappeared, Klein opened his eyes with a look of joy:
"Success!"

From this day forward, he will be the 'Joker' of Sequence 8.

Although Sequence 8 is still considered a low sequence, at least in the Tarot community, Mr. Fool is no longer at the bottom.

Just then, Klein suddenly felt the potion in his body being rapidly digested.

"Huh? What's going on?"

Klein was stunned. Could there be something wrong with the potion's formulation?

It shouldn’t be!

The deacon of the sanctuary said there was no problem, and he even performed seven divinations, confirming that the potion was absolutely qualified.

So, according to the core rules of role-playing, what actions of his before met the requirements for digesting the 'Joker' potion?
'Wait! The Joker?'

Klein's expression suddenly froze.

It is known that the key to potion digestion is related to its name, and that the 'Clown' potion in his body is being digested rapidly.

'Oh, it's stopped now!'

'However, ninety percent of the clown potion has already been digested; the remaining amount should be digested in about one or two weeks.'

Klein fell silent. So, he really is the Joker?
(End of this chapter)