Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 368 True Name Stripped, Boundary Breakthrough Arrival

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职业：真名法师Lv16（51，800/506，337，000）

Professional Features (New)

Name Removal: After learning the true name of something, one can attempt to forcibly seize that name, plunging the thing into an extreme state of curse, gradually causing it to be forgotten by the universe. The success rate is low.
Everything in the world has a true name, because things are existence, and existence is the true name itself.

Without a true name is utter nothingness, such as death, darkness, oblivion, and the empty set in mathematics. These are blank concepts constructed by retrospection, and apart from the meaning that consciousness can give them, they have no substance in the universe.

On this ordinary morning, after finishing his morning exercise on the rocky beach, the Lighthouse Master bathed in the westward-blowing wind and quietly looked around. In his vision, all things whose true names he already knew, such as the wind, the sea, the rocks, the sand, and the clouds, shone with a faint, striking, invisible radiance.

These are all entities that can be controlled and manipulated by the power of words.

Of all his professional skills, the True Word Illusion Technique is the most efficient to improve in terms of proficiency because its judgment conditions are relatively lenient.

Lv4 True Word Illusion is based on True Name Concealment, which covers another True Name to achieve an effect similar to complete transformation. This effect allows other individuals to completely forget the subject who is shrouded in illusion.

Because the effects are so extraordinary, usually no one doubts the illusion, which greatly interferes with the efficiency of gaining proficiency in the illusion.

Lin Bo often casts illusions on the steel baboons stationed in the [Conquest Chessboard] plane. The natives who always deal with the steel baboons will notice a subtle sense of memory confusion. They will try to discern the truth behind Lin Bo's illusion, but they will ultimately be unable to see through the illusion, thus triggering the skill judgment.

These otherworldly friends are now the largest supplier of True Word Illusion Proficiency, and Lin Bo is very grateful to them.

With his job level reaching Lv16 and a new trait unlocked, Lin Bo could already foresee that this trait would be closely related to Mantra Illusion, and would most likely be a necessary upgrade condition for high-level Illusion.

Lin Bo flicked his fingers lightly, silently recited his true name, and beckoned a smooth pebble from the beach into his hand.

The process of stripping someone of their real name and hiding their real name is similar, but the effect is far more terrifying.

The mage held up the stone, whose true name was an ancient Dorrean rune, pronounced similarly to "Tuo." Now, a wisp of the magnificent incantation power in Lin Bo's mind was projected and attached to the pebble.

The bright and beautiful magical light first obscured the true name runes on the stone, and then the light began to burn.

The surface of the pebble in the mage's palm burned with a Dao fire invisible to the naked eye, yet the light radiating from this colorless and formless flame was chilling.

Each time Lin Bo's true name undergoes a sublimation, the power of the curse ignites the Dao fire, shattering and disintegrating the runes of his original name.

Now, he has mastered this dangerous power and can ignite the Dao Fire at will.

The invisible flames were slowly disintegrating the true nature of the pebble, much like the darkening stage of the alchemical process, representing death and destruction.

Even if it is just a stone that is peaceful and quietly listens to the tide, it is not easy to destroy it or strip it of its true name. The Dao fire burns, and the simple ancient Dorei runes are like a piece of cold iron, standing firm against the scorching heat.

Time passes slowly.

The Dao Fire had no temperature, so the pebbles were slowly moistened by the body heat of Lin Bo's palm.

He had no doubt about the effectiveness of this new feature, after all, the notes on the career panel already indicated that the success rate was low.

Another characteristic of the "Command to Name" spell also has a chance of failure. This is because if the mage's spell power cannot effectively suppress the target, it is difficult to forcibly silence the detected individual. When Lin Bo uses "Command to Name," he always confirms first that the target object has no ability to resist the spell's effect.

However, the difficulty of stripping someone of their real name seems to lie on another level.

Lin Bo vaguely sensed that the Dao Fire was destroying not only the present moment, but also the things being burned from the very beginning, along the infinite threads of time.

If he hadn't already had the experience of discerning the voice of time, it would have been quite difficult for him to notice this subtle change.

One minute, two minutes.

At the 197th second, the pebble, smaller than a chicken egg, could no longer withstand the Dao Fire. No period in its long history had been able to resist the overwhelming power of the Ancient Saint Mage. Its ancient Dorei true name runes shattered the instant they exceeded their limit, the strokes scattering, disappearing, and ultimately vanishing. Lin Bo's eyes remained fixed, but the stone in his palm was indeed gone.

This stone disappears from every moment of the present, past, and future, meaning it was never born; it is a death more complete than death itself.

This is the ultimate curse of having one's true name stripped away.

Lin Bo could no longer remember what the stone he had erased looked like, could not feel its mass, or recall the temperature it had been heated. Only the sea breeze swirled in his palm. But he knew that he had erased the true name of something.

Looking around, the world hasn't changed much just because a stone is missing. Time has a self-healing ability; it can draw upon infinite possibilities to make up for what's lost.

Lin Bo pondered for a moment. He thought of a way to increase the success rate of stripping away the true name. If he mastered the true name of the years, the spread of the Dao Fire would probably be faster, and its coverage and lethality would also increase dramatically.

The dragon of Kening whispered in his ear, “My dear, what have you done? You have erased an insignificant existence? I glimpsed a void in the Sea of ​​Possibilities, a scar, proof that it once existed but was never born, and that scar will gradually heal, after which the Absolute Spirit will no longer know of this terrible annihilation.”

"(In magical language) Is this a bad thing for you?"

"It's like you cut a piece of your nail."

“(In magical language) I will be careful,” Lin Bo promised.

"It's alright, I'll be happy for whatever you want to do," Kening Dragon chuckled affectionately.

Along with the upgrade comes a level penalty; Lin Bo can no longer obtain Disaster Coins and experience points from the [Conquest Chessboard] plane. He can only make money by selling the drops from the Leader series of quests, which is actually quite a considerable income.

He currently possesses two remnant artifacts with immense potential. One is the prototype of the brain-computer interface, whose historical significance and condensed emotions are growing stronger as the number of users expands, resulting in a very rapid upgrade in its remnant potential. The other is the old version of the Mage's Appearance, which is revered as a miraculous appearance in the Kening State Religion and is a totem-like religious symbol.

However, the development of high-level reverberation still requires time.

Dungeons above level 15 are already quite dangerous, because as battlefields of the multiverse, they will have various naturally hostile forces, such as opposing factions in the network, the Chaos Sea demons that harvest the souls of all realms, the twisted Outer Gods who enjoy toying with life, and the ancient behemoths born to destroy planets, and so on.

These types of instances are basically permanent planes, and the wars often last for centuries. Exemplary adventurers fill the low- to mid-level battlefields as the backbone, while legendary players serve as high-end forces, guarding dangerous areas.

The same permanent plane will produce different levels of dungeon invitations, which are divided according to the intensity level of different war zones.

Sometimes the scope of the war zone changes, and it's not uncommon for exemplary adventurers to be forced into legendary battlefields.

High-level players will still be subject to level penalties in low-level war zones, while low-level players who accidentally enter high-intensity war zones will receive bonus rewards.

Lin Bo frequently examines the reverberation levels of the two relics he possesses.

He estimates that the potential of the Miracle Face is greater, while the growth momentum of the brain-computer interface prototype is stronger.

If brain-computer interfaces can be promoted more quickly, it is hoped that we can enter a higher-level battlefield this winter.

This necessitates importing supplies from outside. The fungal carpet in the [Conquest Chessboard] plane is extensive, resources are abundant, and brain-computer interface production is extremely high, hundreds of thousands of times that of the mushroom garden in the Eastern Cliff Grottoes. And this is only a small portion of the redundant production capacity being utilized.

Lin Bo silently recited the true name of the Steel Baboon and sent his illusory form to another dimension.

The Heavenly Embryo encompasses the visions of both worlds.

The monk silently recited the true name of the space.

With a flick of the wrist, a stroke is made.

A black, lightless portal suddenly appeared in the air.

He strolled in, and his figure appeared in the deep blue Fungus Forest.

While the instance invitation was still on cooldown, the Ancient Mage broke through the boundary barrier and easily descended.

(End of this chapter)