Outer Gods invade, stuff them all into your equipment inventory.

Before leaving home, Sean had already cleared his first equipment slot.

As Sean walked toward the exit of the building where Pan Yunqi's apartment was located, he equipped himself with the laptop he had just acquired.

The familiar feeling returned, and Sean quickly mastered the art of water creation.

Above the notebook in the equipment menu, a countdown timer for six hours is displayed.

"It only takes six hours to fully absorb the memory fragments, so the time consumed isn't too long."

However, Sean's brows furrowed slightly.

"The water-making techniques I possess are far inferior to what Pan Yunqi just demonstrated."

It seems that the memory fragments locked by the books in the equipment slot correspond to the author's depth of understanding and mastery of the relevant knowledge when writing those contents.

"He should have rewritten his notes on the spot..."

Sean felt a little regretful.

Even a single note containing only a few words is acceptable as long as it relates to water-making techniques.

The equipment slot can be used to lock the water-making spells that Pan Yunqi currently possesses.

"However, doing this seems a bit abrupt and illogical..."

This could easily expose some of Sean's secrets.

"Oh well, so what if my spell mastery is a little lacking?"

As long as it can produce water, that's fine. At worst, the production speed will be slower, and the purity will be lower...

As long as you can drink it, that's fine.

As long as it can quench thirst and meet the basic needs of wilderness survival, that's enough.

Anyway, he only learned the art of water creation as a backup plan, a trump card to keep.

"What's more, I have an unexpected surprise in store for me."

About two-thirds of this notebook is about water-making magic, and the remaining third records two other spells—

Ice Shard and Ice Armor.

As mentioned before, Ice Armor is a spell that condenses the power of ice to form a protective layer outside the body, enhancing physical defense.

Ice Shards is a spell that launches sharp ice shards for ranged attacks.

"One for offense and one for defense, that fills my spell library."

Although Pan Yunqi's mastery of these two spells was very low and their power was weak due to his limited strength when he wrote this notebook, he was still somewhat limited in his ability to do so.

However, since it was a freebie, Sean didn't complain.

"Since this method is feasible, let's continue the acquisitions."

As Sean walked, he took out the regional information board and posted two purchase requests on the forum.

One post was for the purchase of "Bread Art," also offering 10 Dimensional Coins.

The other post is for the unrestricted acquisition of all notes related to skill or spell training.

This time, he offered a purchase price of 8 Dimensional Gold Coins.

The requirement is that the original owner must master the spell and be able to demonstrate it in person.

This time, he directly stated in his post that he supported the condition of having the transaction notarized by the Hero Association.

However, the seller shall bear the relevant fees required for notarization.

After doing all this, he took back the area information board.

"We've done everything we could; now we can only wait."

Waiting for the "fish" to take the bait, then delivering the notes he needs to his door.

He currently has about 600 dimensional coins left.

I should be able to buy quite a few notebooks.

By this time, Sean had already left the building where Pan Yunqi's apartment was located.

"Pan Yunqi's living conditions don't seem to be very good!"

Sean glanced at the tall building that housed more than 10,000 residents.

Those were the most common "honeycomb" style residential buildings in Gathering No. 13.

With its high-strength concrete structure, the entire building resembles a giant honeycomb piercing the sky.

Such buildings offer crowded, noisy living environments with extremely poor privacy.

It is usually the first choice for ordinary people's housing.

"Pan Yunqi, an E-rank hero, lives in a place like this. It seems his financial situation is not good."

That makes sense when you think about it.

The heroes earn dimensional coins and spend dimensional coins.

To improve one's strength, a lot of resources are required.

Whether it's purchasing better equipment, learning stronger skills and spells, or developing one's own hero abilities, each of these requires a huge expenditure.

The path to becoming a hero is a long and arduous one paved with resources.

Otherwise, the Hero Association wouldn't be distributing such large amounts of resources to the heroes every month.

"To be honest, most heroes don't live in very good conditions."

Many people don't even buy property; they simply stay in hotels.

The brave spend most of their time in the wild, staying in the settlement for no more than two or three months each year.

In this situation, spending money to buy property is not cost-effective; it would be better to use the money to improve oneself.

"If it weren't for the enormous amount of money spent buying that villa..."

Perhaps neither of them will stop at being a C-rank hero?

Sean's mood suddenly plummeted to an extreme low.

If it weren't for the fact that providing him with a superior life consumed too many resources and slowed down his rate of strength improvement.

"Then... when Mom and Dad experienced the outbreak at Monster Nest K3698, was it possible that they had enough power to solve the problem?"

"So they won't disappear then?"

A sense of guilt rose from the bottom of his heart, making him unable to feel happy anymore.

..............................

For the next three days, Sean was busy acquiring various notebooks.

The day after he posted the message, Sean received notes on bread-making techniques and successfully learned them.

but……

"As long as I, Sean, am breathing, I will never eat this damn magic bread."

I originally thought that hunger-resistant pills tasted the worst in the world.

Until Sean made a magic bread himself.

That extremely disgusting taste instantly filled his entire mouth the moment it entered his mouth.

Compared to this, even hunger-resistant pills could be considered delicious.

"The level of the Bread Spell is still too low. If the spell proficiency were higher, it would be much better."

The hero who made the deal with him had not been a master of bread-making for very long, and had only just barely mastered the spell when he wrote down his notes.

What frustrated Sean was that he discovered this fact through his experience over this period of time—

Any skill or spell he acquires through his equipment slots will be locked at the level recorded by the original author.

Unless you continue to absorb new notes about this skill or spell, by acquiring more memory fragments.

Only by using more and better "experience" to cover and integrate can one improve their own capabilities.

When absorbing the Bread spell, the notebook also recorded the Ice Armor spell.

Sean immediately found that his understanding of the Ice Armor spell had become much deeper, it was easier to use, and the spell's defensive effect was much better.

"So for me, the more notebooks I acquire, the better."

"Each notebook provides me with relevant experience and enhances my abilities."

In addition to the bread-making technique, Sean also acquired seventy-six other notebooks.

However, Sean only studied three of the books during this period, and most of the notebooks were kept in his storage pocket for future use.