[Flame Mastery Scripture

Grade: Mortal (Growth)

Freely control flames to your wishes.]

Alex read the panel that had popped up in front of him. The physical book itself only mentioned the technique being in Mortal grade. However, when he viewed it through the system, it actually mentioned a growth element along with the grade as well.

His technique hadn’t grown past level 1 so he still didn’t know what growth exactly did to the techniques, but if he were to go by how good [Alchemy God’s Knowledge] was, [Flame Mastery Scripture] would also be a great technique.

An hour had passed since he had entered here. So, he took the [Flame Mastery Scripture] and left the fourth floor. He soon reached the entrance to the library.

He went to the elder and said, “Elder, I wish to take this with me.” He brought the scripture forward and handed it to the elder.

The elder took the book and looked at it for a few seconds. He was surprised. He turned to look at Alex and asked, “Are you sure you want this? If you have run out of time, you can come back tomorrow to check for more.”

He didn’t think Alex would actually bring out a Mortal grade technique when he was free to choose any earth grade technique.

“It’s an okay elder. I didn’t run out of time. I chose to take it.” Alex insisted on taking the book.

“Very well then. I guess this is not a bad book. It’s at least one of the better ones in the Mortal grade. Especially since you can use it in both Alchemy and Battle.” The Elder said.

‘I knew it. So I in fact can use it for both.’ He thought.

“Alright, give me your token, and nameplate.” The elder said as he brought forth his hands.

Alex opened his inventory and took out both the token and nameplate. He then handed it to the elder.

The elder took the nameplate to his head and closed his eyes. Then he took out a talisman from somewhere and brought it to his forehead as well.

“Alright. You can go now. I have recorded your information for today. You can have the book for a week. A week from now you will have to return the book in perfect condition.”

“If you fail to return the book in time, you will have to pay 50 contribution points for each additional day you don’t return it. And if you somehow end up destroying the book, you will have to pay the book’s worth in contribution points.” The elder gave him a warning as he returned his nameplate.

“Thank you, Elder” Alex walked out of the library into the crowded streets of the sect valley.

“Hmm… Oh! It’s nearly 7. Wow, have I already been in the game for 3 hours?” Alex didn’t want to return to his cottage as it was quite far, and it was an uphill journey.

“What happens if I logout out of the streets?” he wanted to try it, but quickly dismissed the idea.

“No, I won’t be able to explain to people how I disappear and appear so randomly. Let’s just find an empty spot and log out.” Alex walked to the side of a building, to a dark alley that wasn’t populated.

He looked around to see if anyone was there, and once he saw no one was visible, he logged out.

Alex got out of his bed and waited for the others to log out as well. Once they all logged out, they went to have their dinner and returned.

As soon as they got back, they jumped onto their beds and logged into the game. Alex didn’t hesitate to do so either.

Once he logged in he found himself in the same dark alley he had logged out of. He walked out of the alley in the main streets.

He opened his map and looked for something. He needed contribution points for everything in the sect, to begin with, so he had decided to earn some right now.

According to the elder in the library, you could earn contribution points by doing missions given out by the sect. So, he was now looking for the ‘Contribution Hall’ on the map.

He soon found it on the map. It was about 5 minutes walk away from where he was, so he started walking towards it.

The sky was dark now, and the star had come out. The moon was a bit above the horizon too. The sect valley had started glowing up in a yellowish tinge with all the different lanterns they had put out to light the streets, and buildings.

The night was just as beautiful as the day, perhaps even more so.

Alex slowed down and just walked while taking in the beauty of everything around him. This reminded him of the festivals that took place near his home once a year in the winter.

Although night had come, somehow, the disciples had grown in number in the streets compared to the day. Finally, Alex reached the Contribution Hall.

In front of him was a massive building with huge corridors, jam-packed with disciples. The contribution hall had 3 floors as well, separated for the outer sect, the inner sect, and the core disciples.

He walked into the massive corridors of the contribution hall and found multiple boards hung up on each side of the wall. Each with texts written on it.

Although the board looked like a normal wooden board, for some reason, this board also had the same magical property as the rankings rock in that it too had magically appearing and vanishing texts.

He started looking through the texts and started reading them.

[Help Sweep the sect valley – 5 points]

[Buy foods from the city – 3 points]

[Run errands for inner sect disciple Gu Zan – 7 points]

[Help make …]

So on and so forth. There were thousands of menial tasks that one could do here to get some contribution points. Alex started to look through them all.