Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

Bell, always ready to cause trouble, ran to the window and looked at the market that was about to close up shop, his mouth practically watering.

He recalled a saying from his past life: "My neighbor stores grain, I store guns; my neighbor is my granary."

The same thing is happening now. When neighbors hoard goods, Bell takes them directly, instantly turning into a zero-yuan purchase.

"But that's not urgent. And if I really go to do something, I can't let Edu know. I need to have a secret base that belongs to me in Cangxing City."

Bale put aside his thoughts and temporarily suppressed his intention to wreak havoc on the market; such things require multiple prior investigations.

Now, while Edu is still cooking, Bell is going to spend some time crafting a magic scroll.

Today at the market, he saw a mage selling magic scrolls. He and Edu went over to take a look and discovered...

The magic scroll that the mage was selling was a low-level magic scroll inscribed with the Fireball spell. Using the scroll would launch a fireball the size of a basketball.

The fireball is instantaneous and has about the same power as the explosive fireball spat out by a fire-chewing hyena.

For ordinary adventurers, attack magic scrolls of this level are actually quite useless.

After all, even such a low-level magic scroll costs far more to make and sell than a fireball.

The magic scroll Bell saw sold for a whopping eight gold coins; a proper adventurer would never buy something like that.

However, for life skill practitioners and some advanced adventurers, buying such a magic scroll is a good choice.

"Based on my observation, the material carrier of magic scrolls is a scroll made of monster hide, which is then inscribed with magic by mages."

Based on his observations and memories, Bell attempted to inscribe the [Shadow Assassination] magic formula in his mind onto a piece of leather from some unknown magical beast.

Using magic was not difficult for Bell.

With a thought, he can gather a large amount of magic power at the tip of his claws and control the amount of magic power output in his hands according to his will.

This is also why Bell doesn't understand the bards' notes, because in their descriptions, in order to mobilize and resonate with magical power, all sorts of strange operations must be performed to shape the magic power into the desired form.

"The final stroke—perfect!"

Bell began carving on the cut-out monster hide. His perfect control over his body allowed him to quickly, efficiently, and flawlessly inscribe the magic formula from his memory, much like a CNC machine.

As the final stroke was made, the magic in the entire room fluctuated violently and was instantly drained by the magic formula.

The once ordinary beast hide now glowed with a shimmering light, making it look like the magic scroll we saw today.

"Mr. Bell, what happened?!"

The intense fluctuations in magical power also attracted Edu's attention.

He ran out of the kitchen and, as soon as he reached his room, saw Bell fiddling with a shiny piece of monster leather.

"Hey, let me show you my new gadget."

Upon seeing Edu's arrival, Bell decided to show him the results of his hard work.

But before Bell could even turn the magic leather over, the [Shadow Assassin] magic formula he had inscribed on it suddenly came to life.

Chapter 65 [Bell's Magic Book Shadow Assassin]

Under Edu's gaze, the monster leather in Bell's hand moved without wind, twitched a few times in mid-air, and then suddenly spat out a large black shadow.

The dark shadow was as sticky as a large puddle of oil, gushing out from the monster's hide and landing on the floor, where it quickly shrank into a ball.

【Shadow Assassin】Activates abruptly without external stimulation.

"sieve--"

As if the wind was blowing, the shrunken black shadow suddenly stretched out and transformed into a shadow spike more than four meters long, instantly piercing a hole the size of a bowl through the ceiling of Edu's house.

Edu was completely bewildered upon entering the room. He had no idea what was happening. He simply entered the room and a black light flashed before his eyes, and a hole appeared in his roof.

The Shadow Assassin's attack was incredibly fast, like an arrow shot out.

Faced with such an attack, even if one's consciousness can perceive it, a normal adventurer's physical body would find it difficult to react in time.

"Mr. Bell, what is this?!"

Looking at the light leaking through the ceiling, Edu swallowed hard.

Edu was stunned by the attack that appeared in the room. If that black beam had been aimed at him when he entered, he would probably be dead too.

"Um, the design of this thing is slightly off from what was originally intended..."

Bell shook the beast hide in his hand, which had softened and lost all its extraordinary properties due to the loss of magic. At this moment, he felt a little scared.

The magic formula he inscribed was correct, and the monster leather, as a carrier, could also roughly hold this magic.

However, the monster leather cannot perfectly seal this magic. As soon as Bell removes his mental energy from the magic formula, the magic formula will be triggered immediately.

"If only I had a magic scroll made by a mage as a reference. Now I need to solve two problems: first, change the material that stores the magic formula, and second, add new magic symbols to the magic formula as trigger conditions."

Write new magic symbols, break down this complete magic formula, add a constraint, or add an equal sign before the final output and add it back when used.

Starting with the magic formula is the most effective and permanent solution Bell can think of.

Unfortunately, Bell, who hadn't yet properly used his fire-loving intelligence, was still an illiterate mouse at this point.

His mental reserve of magical symbols was pitifully small, insufficient to support his alteration of the magical formula.

"Unfortunately, I lack education, and my ideas are difficult to realize."

At this stage, all Bell can do is replace the materials that carry the magic formula.

Bell immediately thought of the magic scrolls he had seen in the market before; the mages used a kind of refined magic paper.

The Mage Guild has studied magic for so many years that it is almost intertwined with the history of human development in this world. They have developed all kinds of magical materials and selected the materials that best balance performance and effectiveness.

If Bell could obtain the magical paper used by mages, his experiment to create magic scrolls would be much simpler.

Unfortunately, Bell didn't see any raw materials processed by the mages in the market today; it seems their profession only involves...

Purchase raw materials in the market and sell finished products.

It is rare to see semi-finished products processed by monks in the market.

(ˇˇ) I want to~

"I suddenly thought of something great that can be used as raw material for inscribing magic formulas."

Edu returned to the kitchen, and Bell ran to the pile of ingredients they had bought that day, rummaging through them.

"Fortunately, I decided to buy sugarcane at the time, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to make this attempt."

Bell dragged a bundle of sugarcane to the workbench and rubbed his hands together.

Through generations of magical selection and cultivation, the green sugarcane in this world has become an extremely sweet crop with an astonishingly high sugar yield.

Undoubtedly, this is a high-quality sugar crop developed by the Agricultural Guild. However, due to the climate in Cangxing City, sugarcane is rarely grown here and is considered a cash crop used for fruit production.

In Cangxing City, not many people value sugarcane.

But in Bell's workbench, sugarcane was a valuable commodity; it was an important raw material for synthetic paper.

With paper, Bell was able to synthesize books, maps, cartographic tables, fireworks, rockets...

These items each have their uses, and Bell believes that they will retain a significant portion of their extraordinary characteristics even when translated into the real world.

While thinking, Bell synthesized paper.

Soon, this large bundle of sugarcane was transformed into two complete sets of paper.

Bell took out a piece of paper and placed it in front of him. He discovered that the materialized paper was just a square piece of paper.

However, as paper produced by the workbench, these pieces of paper are almost 100% compatible with magic.

They perfectly utilize the properties of paper; a blank sheet of paper can be stained with any color and displayed perfectly.

“It is very easy to inscribe the magic formula on these papers.”

By piecing the three pieces of paper together, Bell quickly completed a shadow stab.

Just like when the Shadow Assassin was drawn before, once the magic symbol was drawn, the magic in the entire room was quickly drained away.

Once the magic formula has absorbed enough magic, it begins to change rapidly, and the next instant will trigger the Shadow Assassin's magical effect to launch an attack.

"Now's the time. Hold it in."

Seizing the opportunity, Bell grabbed three sheets of paper with magic formulas engraved on them and stuffed them into the workbench. The surging magical fluctuations instantly vanished.

Bell successfully used the workbench to combine three sheets of paper and a piece of leather into a book.

"Once you enter the workbench, no magic can stir up any trouble."

Bell took out the book from the workbench and played with the small, square-shaped book in his hand. He could feel that the magic formula in the paper had not dissipated after it was combined into a book.

The book was like an enchanted book, shimmering with light, and the activated magic formula froze in a state of stagnation the next second.

"Open this book, and the magic within will continue to flow, and the Shadow Assassin will be activated."

After synthesizing three spellbooks engraved with Shadow Assassins, Bell kept tearing open the spellbooks in the room and releasing Shadow Assassins to experiment.

In conclusion, the usage of [Bell's Spellbook - Shadow Assassin] can be summarized in four words:

This side faces the enemy!

Open the spellbook; the direction the book faces is the direction from which Shadow Assassin will be cast.