Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 730: Erase your name, write my name, and this diary will be mine!
The Monster Hunter world, fused with soul sacrifice, fell into a state of time freeze for the second time. Everyone except Cheng Tian was unable to move, including the human skin book on top of the Netherworld dragon's head.

In fact, from the very first glimpse, Cheng Tian had a rather rough idea: the connection between this human skin book and the Netherworld Lamp Dragon might not be that close.

Perhaps it was only the human-skin book Liblom that first corrupted the ley lines, and then the normally born Xeno'jiiva established a certain connection with it, thus becoming the core belief of the sacrificial ritual.

However, judging from the current situation, Cheng Tian has clearly made a further judgment on his rather crude idea. The core point is that if this book is really closely related to the Netherworld Dragon, then there is no need to take such actions as avoiding harm and preventing it from being burned by the Netherworld Fire.

But even if it guessed wrong, it doesn't matter. Now that this thing has come out on its own, it can no longer decide what it will face next.

Cheng Tian, ​​who can easily restore his mana to full using potions and barriers, has upgraded the regular time stop to a 30-second specification, and 30 seconds is enough to do a lot of things.

Under Cheng Tian's control, the creature immediately reached out to grab the world that the human skin book was flying towards, and as expected, it was bounced away. Cheng Tian himself even felt a "prickly" feedback.

However, a space notification also popped up at the same time.

[Lieblom: Story-limited, special item, human skin diary, the embodiment of the fundamental rules of Soul Sacrifice, currently held by "Xeno'jiiva". It embodies the core rules of Soul Sacrifice, and can be said to permeate both the beginning and end of Soul Sacrifice, symbolizing an endless cycle. Understanding Lieblom essentially means understanding Soul Sacrifice.]

As a manifestation of the rules of the Soul Sacrifice worldview, its existence influenced the dragon veins of the New World, causing the laws of redemption and sacrifice to descend upon the New World, granting all intelligent life forms the ability to sacrifice indiscriminately, and making the Netherworld Dragons born from the core of the ley lines unique beings.

However, Liebrom also possesses its own will; its current choice of Xeno'jiiva does not mean it will follow Xeno'jiiva forever.

This item already has an owner, and its existence is a rule-based concept; you cannot use it, nor can you view its more detailed effects.

As expected, this ugly and frightening book made of human skin was indeed Lieblom.

However, what Cheng Tian understood even more clearly was that this Lieblom was actually a human being, a human being who was willing to sacrifice himself to save his best friend, and that he himself represented an endless cycle of reincarnation.

The close friend that Lieblom saved was Merlin, or rather, Merlin in the original story who constantly used his sacrificial abilities to save the world, and was inevitably corrupted by his soul and deformed by his body, ultimately losing his original intention.

That's the original story, but here, it's Cheng Tian's home turf!

Cheng Tian first chuckled at Liblom, whose eyes were closed and who showed no reaction due to the time stop. Then, World, who was clenching his fists beside him, slammed a punch into him without any mercy.

However, despite not suffering any physical damage, Lieblom suddenly had a lot of shattered data code bursting out of his body as the punch landed—

Data tampering, activate!
In each natural month's main story dungeon, Cheng Tian can use the world to modify data four times at different levels. This time, he used the modification that can affect "Golden Legend/A-level Skill/BOSS Template" on Liblom.

However, this alteration was clearly more blatant.

As the code shattered, the words "Xeno'jiiva" written after the item description for the holder of the Liblom item visibly and rapidly blurred, eventually disappearing without a trace.

The connection between Liblom and Xeno'jiiva was abruptly severed by the data manipulation technique!

This leather diary has become ownerless!
It remained silently suspended beside the dragon head of the Netherworld Lamp, unaware that the name on its diary had been erased. Meanwhile, Cheng Tian's hand reached out and touched it. Based on his high affinity for the concepts of saint and demon, redemption and sacrifice, Cheng Tian instinctively knew that this book wasn't actually dangerous. Or rather, it seemed dangerous only because of the user; like weapons, their function differed depending on who held them.

What Cheng Tian was most curious about was which generation of Lieblom's book it was.

Regardless of the generation, this seemingly ugly and dangerous human skin diary, which gives a very bad first impression, is essentially a kind-hearted fool.

Hesitation was clearly not Cheng Tian's style. Since this human skin diary was already unclaimed, then Cheng Tian, ​​the virtuous one, should not be blamed for taking it over.

But just before he touched it, as if by some strange twist of fate, Cheng Tian pulled out an even more exquisite and sturdier book from his pocket—a thick-covered book that could be used as a meteor hammer even without its ramming corners.

The Book of Ys, the exclusive secondary weapon of the Heart Priest.

As Cheng Tian approached with the thick book in his hand, Liblom, whose original owner's name had been erased, seemed to be drawn to the Book of Ys, directly overlapping, merging, and finally fixing itself with it.

It has a silky feel, like the book covers you used to wrap your textbooks when you were a kid, except the cover of the Book of Ys features Lieblom's ugly face.

"Ah~~~~~"

With a loud yawn, Liblom, who should have been still, opened his mouth and made a mixed sound that was neither male nor female, blinked his big and small eyes twice, and looked at Cheng Tian.

The blank space next to Lieblom's holder was filled with the name "Cheng Tian/Chengzi".

"...Wow, new holder, where did you get such an excellent host?"

The human-skin book glanced around at its new body with a very human-like sideways gaze. A "book"-shaped prop that could perfectly accommodate the rules of soul sacrifice was extremely rare.

"This is a treasure from the world of Ys, let me use it with gratitude~"

Cheng Tian looked smug.

"You don't seem surprised at all by my existence? I'm a book, you know? A talking book, you know?"

"So what? I know a cat that can cook three dishes and a soup."

"...My name is Lieblom, which means diary, and now it is a diary that belongs only to you."

"what can you do?"

"I can let you and your companions revisit all the dungeons you've ever been to."

(End of this chapter)