Hero? Are You Worthy?
Chapter 58 - 51 City Beauty Love, A Bit Sweet (Seeking Recommendations for 4000-word - and Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 58: Chapter 51 City Beauty Love, A Bit Sweet (Seeking Recommendations for 4000-word Chapter and Monthly Tickets)

Oville Empire, Imperial City!

Under the two crescent moons hanging above, Qin Chu left the palace through a side gate.

His destination was a pub called Fire Rose in the Civilian District.

There were pubs in the Noble District too, but Catherine had little interest in those. The cost of drinks there was on average ten or even a hundred times more expensive than those in the Civilian District. However, that wasn’t why Catherine wasn’t interested. With her income, even if she were to squander her wealth daily in the Noble District, she would never run out of money.

What the Noble District pursued was elegance and prestige. The pubs served drinks in exquisitely crafted small cups, not much larger than a thumb, which to a woman with Catherine’s character was practically torture. Drinking cup by cup, she could hardly feel the buzz of the alcohol.

Catherine preferred the pubs in the Civilian District, where drinks weren’t served in small cups but in booze bowls... or even barrels.

The rye brew was spicy and irritated the throat; to the Nobles, it was sheer blasphemy to wine tasting, where elegance and prestige were utterly absent. But for Catherine, it was as delightful as a holy spring.

Hanging his head low, Qin Chu accessed his panel to inspect his Attributes.

Level: 39

Class: Hero

Strength: 179

Physical Strength: 122

Agility: 153

Spirit: 432

Defense: 144

Charm: 6 (average value 5, maximum value 10)

All attributes had significantly increased; indeed, plundering the strength of others was the quickest way to boost one’s own power. Though only level 39, his attributes were at least on par with those of level 60.

And this was after a significant reduction when devouring Demons with lower levels than Qin Chu’s own; otherwise, his attributes would be even more exaggerated.

Though not as powerful as those strong beings, he was now well-equipped to handle ordinary dangers.

Especially his spiritual power was so outlandish that not even a level 70 Magician would have such an amount.

It had mysteriously increased by several dozens of points after he had touched that scroll.

No Martial Arts at the moment.

As for Magic, aside from the thirty-six Low-level Magic and seven Intermediate Magic spells provided by Candice, there were also fourteen Magic spells he obtained after devouring various Demons, making a total of fifty-seven... or at least, that’s what it should be, but the actual number displayed was fifty-eight.

Apart from the magics Qin Chu knew about, there was an additional special one, a Magic without a rank... the Holy Light Technique.

This Magic was also obtained after he touched the scroll and glimpsed the cage inside.

Walking slowly, his thoughts involuntarily drifted back to the seven scrolls.

Those seven scrolls were sinister and weird, and the visions he saw through them made Qin Chu’s skin crawl, but he was sure that they recorded very mysterious and powerful forces.

If he could comprehend those scrolls, his power would soar, possibly even surpassing his strength in the first week.

But, the fear of potentially going mad from it left Qin Chu in a state of hesitation.

This was out of character for Qin Chu.

Having died once, although somewhat mad, Qin Chu would stay well clear from fatal dangers, no matter how enticing the rewards behind them.

Logically, Qin Chu would never touch those scrolls again, and at the beginning, that’s precisely what he did; he sealed the seven scrolls in a storage ring and never looked at them again.

However, the urge to study those scrolls and gain greater power would always sprout unconsciously in his mind.

Qin Chu was aware that this was because he had been corrupted after the first touch.

This corruption would persist, constantly tempting him.

But, this corruption was not utterly unstoppable.

A faint milky-white light began to emerge around Qin Chu.

As if enveloped by the Holy Light.

The unease in his heart and the longing to touch the scrolls were suppressed in an instant.

Holy Light Technique!

This was a Magic gained after touching the scroll, but it was certainly not a power bestowed by the scroll, as the Holy Light Technique felt completely opposite to what the scrolls made Qin Chu feel.

It was as if a voice in his head reminded him the Holy Light Technique could suppress the corruption brought by the scrolls.

When he first laid eyes on the scroll, he instinctively felt danger and didn’t want to touch it, but then he heard a soft voice in his ears. It was following that voice’s guidance that Qin Chu had touched the scroll, and seen the massive cage within the boundless Void.

Whose voice was that?

Qin Chu had asked Shaye, but Shaye said she had not heard anything.

The doubts in his mind multiplied, and he felt that after being reborn, he was encountering too much content that he had not noticed in the first week.

This world was far more complex than he had understood.

Shaking his head, Qin Chu decided not to dwell on these things for now.

...

Making his way along Antia Street, he strolled toward the towering wall that separated the Civilians and the Nobles.

Antia Street was named after a Noble Lady.

This Noble Lady named Antia was said to be a legend of the Oville Empire. She was elegant, beautiful, and bravely competent in battle.

A millennium ago, the Oville Empire had faced a grave crisis. Several neighboring countries had banded together to attack, advancing all the way to the Oville Empire Imperial City. At that time, the Emperor was a completely incompetent fool, indulging in beauties, trusting his close ministers. Even as the enemy forces were about to breach the Imperial Palace, he still believed it was just a trivial matter with the Barbarians, easily crushed with a mere dispatch of some troops.

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