When You Become an NPC That Might Die Any Moment in the Novice Village
Chapter 459 - 459: 168 Top 1 Funder makes an effort, completing the S-level advancement task! [Thanks to the Alliance Hierarch Fox Fox Not Eating Pears]_3

He planned that, once the network was restored, he would immediately apply to headquarters to send him some knowledge—in order to retrieve the main sample of the dissociative potion, headquarters wouldn't refuse at such a time.

Knowledge held in hand was, after all, to be exchanged for something more valuable.

Once headquarters sent over the advanced knowledge, and once the Void Battle Maiden and the others were drawn away by the Insect Tide, he could have his subordinate find Digging Girl and tell her he had two pieces of S-grade Spiritual Ability System advanced knowledge in his possession. He would show one to the Digging Girl to prove its authenticity, and then he would say the other piece of advanced knowledge was on the spaceship, uncertain of its usefulness to Bai Fu, and suggest that Digging Girl accompany him to check it out.

With the first piece of knowledge as a guarantee, Digging Girl would definitely take the bait.

Once Digging Girl left, that would be his chance to strike.

As long as there were no Undying People watching, even if that woman named Julia was in the workshop, he was absolutely confident he could subdue both Bai Fu and Julia in a matter of seconds and finish the interrogation before Digging Girl returned.

"A perfect plan!"

Holt couldn't help but applaud himself.

That's the prowess of the Secret Tower's king of ideas!

Had the higher-ups sent someone else, they would be in a state of frantic scratching at this moment or, in their hasty actions, end up caught red-handed by the Undying People and already dead at the hands of the Void Battle Maiden.

Only he was calmly drinking tea.

Holt didn't actually want to pop the champagne at halftime, but he really couldn't think of an obvious flaw in the scheme he had just devised—after all, he had really taken out two pieces of advanced knowledge.

Afterwards, even if the Void Battle Maiden suspected that his subordinate was problematic, there was no need to fear, he would just claim that the advanced knowledge was accidentally obtained while fulfilling a commissioned task, since the Void Battle Maiden wouldn't have time to verify its authenticity.

If the Void Battle Maiden asked why he wanted to bring out the advanced knowledge, that was also easy to explain.

Of course, it was for survival. With the terrible Insect Tide outside, handing over the advanced knowledge to Bai Fu in the hopes that she could create more useful Prayer Cards was such a reasonable idea.

After dealing with the investigation by the Void Battle Maiden, he only needed to lie low for a while, wait for the Dark Domain Insect Clan to launch a full-scale attack, and then take the opportunity to slip away from this place of trouble.

Holt waited like this until evening.

At the first opportunity after the destroyed network was repaired, he sent a request for S-grade Spiritual Ability System advanced knowledge through a secret code on the Interstellar Network to headquarters. The Secret Tower headquarters didn't delay; upon reading the request, they immediately transmitted the specially encrypted advanced knowledge to his communicator.

All was ready; all that was needed was an eastern wind!

The east wind came much faster than Holt had anticipated.

At one-thirty in the morning, perhaps enraged by those traps in front of the second line of defense, the Dark Domain Insect Clan launched another large-scale attack.

Manu, unable to wait for the resolution from the Joint Conference, immediately arranged for everyone to take their stand. If the second line of defense were breached in this round of confrontation, then relying solely on the last line of defense would be impossible to hold for six and a half days no matter what.

Holt received the summons; he pretended to fight a skirmish with the insects, then purposefully dove deep into the insect swarm, shaking off the Players who had been leeching experience by tailing him. After that, he made a big detour, crossed the second line of defense in a less crowded place, and quickly dashed towards Bai Fu's workshop.

Creating visual illusions was one of the Dream Weaver's special abilities. With the aid of illusion, no one captured his trace along the way.

He hid in the shadows, waiting quietly.

Before long, his subordinate appeared; he had specifically chosen one who had been injured in the previous fights, so no one found the arrival of this subordinate suspicious.

"Are you called Digging Girl?"

"Yes, what is it?"

Digging Girl looked inquisitively at the NPC who had approached her.

"It's like this..."

The conversation began.

When Digging Girl heard that the NPC had an S-grade Spiritual Ability System advanced knowledge, her first thought was that it was a bluff, but to her surprise, the NPC handed her a communicator.

[Spiritual Ability Essence of Second Angel Envoy (S-grade Advanced Knowledge)]

Seeing the information reflected back by her Reconnaissance Skill, she was astonished.

Damn, it's actually true!

Digging Girl was ecstatic.

An S-grade advanced knowledge was no trifling matter.

She could make use of it herself in the future, and sending it to Fufu now could boost a great deal of Affinity, and she might even receive hidden rewards.

With that in mind, Digging Girl hurriedly forwarded the data to Bai Fu. When she looked up again, she heard the NPC opposite her say, "Actually, I have another piece of advanced knowledge in my hands. I didn't carry that knowledge with me; it's kept on the spaceship. How about you come with me to take a look and see if it might be useful to the Saintess?"

Go? Of course, she must go!

Digging Girl quickly followed.

Watching his receding figure, Holt's eyes narrowed.

The Undying People had already left; it was when those escorting the Prayer Cards departed that it was time for him to make his move.

...

At the same time, from inside the spaceship borrowed from Fei Ye, Bai Fu heard her communicator ring.

Ever since she noticed something off about Holt's Affinity, she covertly swapped identities with Black Fu, having Black Fu change her hair to white and then pretend to be her, directing the little black Fufus at work.

Better safe than sorry.

Holt was an S-class Superpower User. If he really did lose it and decided to kill her, unless Fei Ye managed to return in time, her chances would be slim.

Bai Fu switched on her communicator and, upon clearly seeing what Digging Girl had sent, she was dumbfounded.

"S-class Advanced Knowledge, and it's of the Prayer category?"

She suspected she was dreaming and thus quickly clicked to study.

[You have begun reading "The Second Angel Envoy's Spiritual Ability Essence"...]

A game notification sounded.

This wasn't a dream, she truly had obtained a piece of S-class Advanced Knowledge!

Bai Fu shook her head vigorously.

"Could it be Manu sent it to Digging Girl? But that doesn't make sense, why didn't he just give it to me directly?"

"Are you okay?" Julia asked curiously from nearby.

Bai Fu shook her head, "I'm fine."

Whoever had given it to Digging Girl didn't matter right now; what was important was to quickly learn this Advanced Knowledge.

She had already increased her Inspiration points to 700, and just by mastering this piece of Advanced Knowledge, branch 3 [Spirit Scroll] of her Transferring Professions Task would be considered complete. Currently, she had nearly two hundred million Experience points on hand; as soon as the Transferring Professions Task was completed, she could unlock the next phase of her Profession and become a true S-class Superpower User.

Come on, come on, from an obscure B-class newbie to a true core combatant of the Edge World, it all hinged on this moment!

Bai Fu felt as if she had ignited with enthusiasm.

She had opened her attribute panel early, just waiting for the prompt of the Transferring Professions Task completion to start the upgrading process.

Just then, there was a disturbance from Black Fu's side.

Clang!

A light sound shattered the silence of the workspace. Black Fu looked up and saw Holt walk in from outside.

"How did you..."

Before she could finish, Holt suddenly transformed into a white blur and charged at Black Fu. Fortunately, having just unlocked the new Profession, the Dancing Girl, her Agility significantly increased, so even though Holt's attack came extremely abruptly, Black Fu managed to react in time.

With a flash of Flowing Light, she created a significant distance between herself and Holt.

Holt was taken aback, not expecting Black Fu to dodge his attack.

"How are you so fast?"

Could Spiritual Ability Painters have such formidable physical attributes?

No matter.

Holt shook his head with a smile, "I've already sent someone to divert that Undying Person called Digging Girl. You can't escape my Spirit Secret Realm! Just confess, where did you hide the mother component of the Dissociative Potion? If you tell me now, I can make it less painful for you."

As he spoke, the walls of the workspace were already enveloped in a pale silver glow, with countless threads of silver stretching from his body toward Black Fu, blocking all possible escape routes.

Even though she wasn't yet entangled by the silver threads, Black Fu still felt her body trembling uncontrollably. Was this the power of an S-class Spiritual Ability User?

Under normal circumstances, Black Fu would be facing certain death.

But today was different; out of the blue, someone had kindly sent her some Advanced Knowledge.

S-class?

[You have completed the Advanced Task [Spirit Scroll].]

The moment the prompt sounded, Bai Fu clenched her right fist.

She, too, was an S-class Superpower User—and not just an ordinary one, at that!

Bai Fu's willpower pressed down heavily on the level-up button.

"Ready to meet your doom?"

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