Chapter 66 Restriction Lifted

[The daily contributions from employees Nina and Renée have been distributed.]

[Congratulations, you have received the following rewards: Gold Coins + 171, Skill Proficiency + 17100!]

[Auto-Cultivate function remains active, Double Bonus Card is still in effect, and the ten Shadow Clones have currently accumulated 72,000 Skill Proficiency (600/hour).]

Mu An glanced at his total accumulated Skill Proficiency, which had reached an exaggerated 101,340.

Conservatively estimated, he could max out four or five skills from scratch.

And so...

[Lv5. Fire Control → Lv10 (Max). Fire Control]

[Lv5. Fire Resistance → Lv10 (Max). Fire Resistance]

[Lv7. Psychokinesis → Lv10 (Max). Psychokinesis]

[Lv8. Dream Creation Space → Lv10 (Max). Dream Creation Space]

[Lv9. Demon Contract → Lv10 (Max). Demon Contract]

[That feels good!]

Mu An nodded with satisfaction.

Having boosted multiple skills to the maximum level in one go, his powerful strength filled him with a sense of complete security!

Immediately after, he turned his gaze toward the lottery machine.

It was a pity that he only had 753 Gold Coins now. Even counting the 13 lottery attempts from achievement rewards, it totaled less than ninety draws.

Mu An felt troubled as well.

Since he couldn't Transmigrate to the Magic World now, it meant he couldn't earn Gold Coins by killing monsters.

His daily income relied entirely on the contributions of his two 'diligent' employees.

Upgrading the lottery pool was a good thing, as it allowed for higher-quality rewards.

However, the increase in the 'unit price' per draw was quite a headache.

"Forget it, I'll just draw first and worry later."

"Besides, miracles can happen even with single draws!"

Following his usual practice, Mu An once again 'sacrificed' his former boss and ex-girlfriend.

Under his hopeful gaze, a golden light cut through the sky.

"Congratulations, you have received a lottery item — [Gold · No Looking]!"

[Gold · No Looking]: No one can look at my secrets! Who agrees? Who objects?

Your Rank and strength aura will be hidden; unless the level exceeds yours by three hundred, you cannot be successfully peeked at.

This skill can be shared with the player's employees!

[Unless they exceed me by three hundred levels, they cannot peek at me?]

[And it can even be shared with employees?]

Mu An widened his eyes slightly.

This skill seemed a bit overpowered!

Although it didn't provide any actual combat improvement, it was superb for disguise and concealment.

Afterward, Mu An activated his 'sacrifice technique' again and did a few single draws, but no other golden-quality rewards appeared.

This successfully verified his previous hypothesis: the sacrifice method could indeed only be used once a day.

As the saying goes, contentment brings happiness.

Being able to reliably get one golden item every day, Mu An was already very satisfied with this.

[Warm reminder from the Myriad Worlds Gate App:]

[The world's Spiritual Qi is continuously recovering, and the current Rank limit (Level 99) is gradually being lifted!]

[The strength of the invading creatures is also gradually increasing!]

This reminder actually surprised Mu An.

There was a Rank limit before?

However, it seemed to only apply to others; he himself was not affected.

The Level 104 on his panel remained as firm as ever!

As reassuring as always!

As for the accelerated recovery of Spiritual Qi and so on, one could only say it was like a double-edged sword, having both advantages and disadvantages.

The strong could lift restrictions and continue to grow stronger.

Perhaps in the future, the words of the ancients could truly be realized: "Vast and boundless, as if riding the wind, knowing not where it ends; floating and ethereal, as if independent of the world, shedding the mortal coil to ascend as an immortal!"

Of course, the accompanying risks had also grown larger.

The continuous strengthening of invading creatures would increasingly squeeze the living space of the weak.

In the future, the world would likely eliminate those who didn't grow stronger!

In other words, to avoid being eliminated, the pace of becoming stronger must not stop!

...

Since they were going out later, Renée and Nina were carefully choosing the clothes they wanted to wear today.

Mu An didn't think that much; a 'universal' casual outfit could handle all scenarios.

"Hmmph!"

"This will do for now!"

"If it weren't for the fact that I have no money, I would definitely buy ten thousand pretty little dresses!"

Renée, who had dressed herself up beautifully, put her hands on her hips triumphantly.

On her head was an exquisite light-colored beret (directly transformed from the Hat of Deception).

A multi-petaled white flower hair accessory adorned one side of the dark hair falling onto her pretty Face.

The blue and white dress displayed flower-like layers and soft purity everywhere.

Beside her delicate collarbones were two thin straps tied on her fragrant shoulders, and there was a wreath-like decoration around her neck.

Paired with her dazzling long golden hair and fair, slender long legs, she looked just like a character who had walked out of an anime, so beautiful that it didn't seem like she could exist in the mortal world.

With a purely lewd (crossed out) appreciative gaze, Mu An glanced at her a few more times before slowly withdrawing his gaze and speaking.

"Now that you have an ID card, you can find time later to go to the bank and open an account, and then you can find a job and earn money."

"It's a pity you didn't catch a good time.

If it were before Transcendent appeared on a large scale, you could have completely relied on your magic to become popular online."

"It doesn't matter if you get seen through; you can just brush it off by saying it's 'magic tricks', or at worst, call it 'special effects'."

"Anyway, across the screen, no one would know the truth."

Renée, however, didn't care.

She gently lifted her long golden hair with her jade hand, full of confidence.

"Hmph! Even without using magic, I, this princess, could become popular just based on my looks!"

Mu An glanced at her again and thought about it; it seemed that was indeed the case.

This era was inherently a huge 'lookism game'.

Loving beauty is an innate nature.

Many people find it hard to resist this impulse.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many beauty enhancement technologies.

Renée was different from those 'Qiao Biluo' who hid behind beauty enhancement technology.

She was a purely natural beauty; she didn't need makeup, nor did she need any beauty technology to be beautiful from all angles without any blind spots.

[So, does that mean the other world is the place that truly produces beauties?]

"Don't forget, you still owe me a lot of money right now!"

Mu An added.

Ever since Renée unlocked the 'online shopping skill' on her phone, she wanted to buy everything she saw, but she had no money.

Thus, Mu An, as her boss, became the big sucker.

But Mu An was certainly unwilling to unconditionally become an ATM.

The two of them made an agreement that the young girl must pay him back once she earned money in the future.

Renée naturally agreed, patting her small chest.

She didn't think earning money was difficult; she just lacked the 'basic conditions' to earn money before.

"Bo... Boss, how is this outfit of mine?"

At this moment, Nina also walked out of the room.

The young girl timidly pinched the hem of her skirt, looking a bit nervous.

Her flaxen hair was tied into twin tails with light blue and black-edged butterfly hair ties.

Since her hair wasn't long, it could only barely hang down on both sides of her chest.

The top was off-the-shoulder, with two white lace-ruffled shoulder straps that could be hung on her fragrant shoulders or slipped down to the sides of her arms to form two different styles of dress.

The collar extended upward to a band around her neck, with an ink-colored bow resting on it; the intersection of black and white created a strong visual impact.

Looking down, there was a light cyan knee-length short skirt, with a perfectly placed white lace pattern around the hem.

It was elegant, fresh, and not overly flashy, cute yet pure.

She looked just like a fragrant, soft matcha cupcake.

Mu An's eyes lit up, and he didn't spare any praise.

"Super cute!"

One could only say that these clothes were truly the top of the top brands.

Just looking at the texture, they were more than a grade higher than ordinary clothes.

Nina's clothes were all paid for by Bai Ningfu with her card, and the price of every piece of clothing was very expensive.

Renée didn't have this good fortune.

Her clothes were all bought when Mu An took her out.

Although Mu An was much richer than before, he certainly couldn't compare to Bai Ningfu, the rich woman who didn't care at all about spending hundreds of thousands and didn't even blink when swiping her card.

Of course, except for not being very comfortable to wear and being a bit tight in some places, Renée could also wear those clothes of Nina's.

But Renée was also an elf with a lot of backbone.

She declared that she would definitely buy these clothes by her own efforts when the time came.

"Tha... thank you, Boss!"

Receiving such praise, Nina couldn't help but blush, secretly happy in her heart.

[Favorability from Nina + 1!]

"Because the favorability of employee Nina has increased, you have received a randomly dropped reward — [Skill Proficiency + 1000], [Gold Coins + 5]!"

Mu An's eyes lit up again.

Look at what a good employee is?

This is what a good employee is!

A good employee should know how to automatically 'burst rewards'!

On the side, Renée was a bit jealous.

This stinky man only knew how to praise Nina; why didn't he praise her?

She had also spent a lot of effort on this outfit and makeup today!

"Then... what about me?"

Renée tugged at the corner of Mu An's clothes.

Then she crossed her arms over her chest, pretending to be very nonchalant.

She clearly wanted his praise, but that tsundere little mouth couldn't help but say the opposite of what she felt.

"I'm stating in advance, I don't want your praise, I just want you to see how the quality of these clothes is?"

"The clothes you carefully selected are definitely of good quality! They look equally good!"

Mu An's emotional intelligence was online, and he didn't hesitate to give a thumbs up and praise her.

"Hmph! You can't expect ivory from a dog's mouth!"

Regarding someone's evaluation, Renée looked full of disdain.

But the slightly upturned corners of her mouth betrayed her heart.

If there was no one watching nearby, the young girl might have already happily danced an elegant little dance.

And as expected...

[Favorability from Renée + 1!]

"Because the favorability of employee Renée has increased, you have received a randomly dropped reward — [Skill Proficiency + 1000], [Gold Coins + 5]!"

Mu An shrugged.

For the sake of the rewards, he didn't expose her.

Otherwise, he would definitely have pressed this tsundere elf-chan onto his lap for a good round of corporal punishment!

...

At a certain Line 6 subway station.

Looking at the modern high-tech surroundings, Renée and Nina were amazed again and again.

Whether it was the automatic opening of the turnstiles after inserting a coin, or the trains built underground that went in all directions.

Things like these greatly opened their eyes.

One had to admit that the humans of this world had completely embarked on a development path that did not require magic.

"How many Gold Coins does a train like this cost?"

Renée was a bit curious.

As the train pulled away from the platform and the speed gradually increased, outside the train doors was the pitch-black tunnel retreating rapidly.

Except for the initial acceleration which might make people a bit unstable, there was almost no uncomfortable feeling afterward.

The carriage was filled with cold air, which also indirectly 'exorcised' the sultriness of early summer.

Mu An thought for a moment and replied.

"A train has about six carriages, and one carriage costs between 5 million and 8 million, so at least about 30 million."

"Converted to Gold Coins on your side, that's about 3000 Gold Coins?"

"Of course, in reality, the cost of maintaining the subway will only be higher; building tunnels for multiple lines, multiple trains, air conditioning costs, etc., all cost money.

Adding up all the scattered costs, it would be at least over a hundred thousand Gold Coins!"

Such high costs made Renée click her tongue slightly.

One had to know that an Elven Race warrior like Elena had only accumulated a little over a thousand Gold Coins after hundreds of years of hard work.

And a hundred thousand Gold Coins might only be found in the treasuries of those human Empire!

"Do you think if the human Empire got this technology, they would also build the same subway?"

"After all, they definitely aren't short of money!"

On the side, Nina, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

"Those vampires would never do such thankless work!"

"Why?"

Renée asked, puzzled.

"The philosophy is different."

"The commoners at the bottom can't even afford the most basic food, black bread."

"The nobles at the top eat big meals and meat, completely ignoring these people, and don't worry about their life or death at all."

"Even if the Empire had more money, as rulers, they would definitely spend it on pleasure, not on building such infrastructure that benefits the country and the people."

"Even taking a step back, if they really built such transportation facilities, it would be impossible to let commoners use them."

Because she had lived in the human Empire on the surface for a while when she was young, Nina knew exactly what those guys thought and did.

They were just a bunch of vampires in human skin, taking pleasure in bullying commoners.

Sucking bones and marrow, oppression and exploitation were even the norm.

Renée was thoughtful after hearing this.

And Mu An patted Nina's head to comfort her.

The latter returned him a sweet smile that said 'I'm fine'.

"So... are you guys playing some kind of role-playing game?"

On the side, a short-haired girl who was chewing bubblegum couldn't help but ask.

"Ah, yes, yes, yes!"

Mu An glanced at the other person and replied perfunctorily.

Her hair was dyed purple with highlighted tips, she wore ripped jeans, a slightly revealing top, and a baseball cap worn backward.

It was definitely a delinquent girl style?

"Hey, do you have to be so perfunctory? Be careful, or I'll beat you up!"

"You should know that standing in front of you right now is a Transcendent who is about to go to the Superpower Administration Bureau to register!"

"Do you know what a Transcendent is?"

"It's that kind of person who has awakened special abilities and is destined to become a person above others in the future."

"And those people who shoulder the responsibility of protecting humanity and maintaining world peace!"

Lu Xiaoqiao deliberately raised her small fist to threaten him.

There was also a lot of pride in her words.