42 Chapter 42: Darkness Comes (1/2)

”No way...” Dylan was at a lost for words when he saw the table of contents! Because he now discovered that the Cosmic God Manual was a path! A path for him to become a supreme being like his master who was also the creator of this manual.

”A Legendary Core and the Ancestral Veins? What is that? A level higher than the Spirit Core and the Spirit Veins?!” Dylan's blood boiled at the thought of this. He was granted access to a manual that hethinks would be able to strengthen himself even more! He knew his strength was already invincible in the Soaring Cloud City but it was only above average within the capital so he needed this type of boost to be able to compete head to head with the geniuses of the younger generation.

Although he was uncertain to what extent are those geniuses stronger compared to the practitioners of the Soaring Cloud City, but he was sure that there would be a great disparate between the two. Theoretically speaking, he would already be as strong as the three giants but he felt that it wasn't​ the case.

Dylan felt like that each of the three giants would be able to crush him if they were to take Dylan on seriously. Dylan felt that he should not base his strength in theory because if a mismatch happened and he fought someone on the level of Pavilion Head Galagher, Guild Master Blood Wolf and Garden Owner Elmer, he would be slaughtered. So, he started regulating his standards of strength. He felt that he had enough power to at least fight a 13th level Awakened Spirit Realm who would already be using his Avatar. So for now, the number of levels in which he could jump levels would be three.

But if he were to be able to unlock the other sections of the manual, he had this hunch that he would be able to fight 5 levels higher than him without the support of anyone else! Dylan was smiling because of his domineering thoughts.

”HAHAHAHahahaha...” Dylan was laughing loudly at first then it gradually died down and turned to disappointment which slowly became apparent in his face.

Because the reason for this was a thought that struck his mind. On careful thought, the pages were not so easily acquired as the Primal stones, because he needed to be able to create an update or improvement on the establishment, Gardenford Restaurant. So to be able to unlock it, he must be able to open up branches of his company.

Dylan was uncertain how many branches he had to be able to set up but he thinks that it should at least be 5 branches for him to be able to unlock the first chapter of the Cosmic God Manual.

”Oh, man. Getting a chapter is this hard already?But it is still manageable though a bit hard even for me.” Dylan dejectedly utter.

Dylan was holding the second page and he called forth the cover to place it inside. When the Cosmic God Manual appeared on his hand, he opened it but he was forced to close his eyes because there was a blinding light that was emitted. When the light dimmed, the second page that he was holding disappeared and was now attached on the book but there was more. There were 10 more additional pages!

”Additional pages? What else did I do to~ Ohhh, the contract with the three giants. A business contract is considered as an improvement of a business because it enables the business to have benefits with the transaction and to have more business allies to rely on. Thus, I should have expected this already. But 10 pages is quite a big sum. Well, according to my experience, every time I discover another function of the mansion for the first time, it handsomely awards me so 10 pages is really worth it! Hahahaha.” Dylan self-contemplated and felt greatly relieved knowing that he was able to gain 10 pages of the cultivation technique of Cosmic God.

”Huh? What is that?” Dylan's​ eyes caught something floating in front of the mansion. When Dylan noticed it, it slowly floated towards the gates and passes through it as though the gates did not even exist. The floating object slowly descended onto Dylan's hands. It was a cubic box like thing and on closer look, it was wrapped and decorated like a gift? A gift? Dylan opened the ”gift” and he saw a small black and white bead.

Dylan wondered why the mansion gave him this ”gift”. But in careful consideration, the thought of a gift was something which he received from his employees so he speculated that this gift was from the kind intentions of his employees who wished to repay their debt of gratitude to Dylan. But he wondered why was it in the form of a bead?

”A bead? What is this for?” Dylan reached for the bead with his right hand as he spoke.

When his finger came into contact with that bead, the bead dissolved as it entered the surface of Dylan's finger and flowed until it reached the center of the back of his right palm. It formed a tiny black circle on the back of his palm. Dylan found this peculiar because when he checked his palm there was a tiny white circle on the center of the palm. The two were in complete in opposite of each other and this caused Dylan to have a headache about these two dots because he was clueless as to what the functions of these two opposite are?

But at least he knew that this was a gift that he received because of his employees' kind-heartedness and goodwill. That was why he thought that at least it should not been something that would cause him great affliction and harm. He was unable to think of what kind of functions did these black and white circles have to offer to him. Being unable to think of what abilities he received from these circles, he dismissed it because he thought that he would be able to find its function sooner or later.

After dismissing that thought, Dylan prepared to train and switched to his cultivation mode. After several cycles of circulating the Cosmic God Manual. He picked the book once more and read the first chapter.

”Let's see what this chapter about the Legendary Core is all about.” Dylan smiled.