MTL NOVEL Chapter 68
Chapter 68: The First Clash Between Dak and Wit
“Hey! Can you still catch me?”
The disparity in strength between them had already been evident during their lap race.
Dak ran ahead without any panic, occasionally glancing back, watching Wit panting heavily as he struggled to keep up.
But Wit wasn’t truly foolish.
Seeing the gap in speed, he finally remembered his buck deer!
A moment later…
Wit climbed onto the buck deer’s back, enduring the strain on his legs as he rode. His sharp eyes, like compound eyes of a fly, seemed to pierce through the figure ahead!
Ahead, Dak dodged around another corner, disappearing from sight.
From the moment Wit mounted the buck deer, Dak knew the race was over.
The prolonged existence of a magitech golem required continuous mana consumption.
However, the hero’s child’s mana talent could sustain him for an entire night.
Using only turns to create distance might work temporarily, but it was hard to shake him off.
In that case, counterattack.
At the eighth second, the trash slime appeared in his hand.
Another turn to obscure the view, and Ibut began running ahead.
At the next fork, the symbol of arrogance appeared on Ibut’s forehead.
Its speed suddenly increased, vanishing like lightning.
Finally, Wit Gold saw Dak’s back again. He poured mana into the buck deer, holding a flower card in his hand.
-“Forbidden Love!”
The distance between them rapidly narrowed.
Just as Wit’s lips curled in a smile, thinking he was about to catch up…
The person ahead suddenly removed his tall hat and threw it back!
The black hat spun through the air, colliding with high speed due to the buck deer.
Wit didn’t have time to react, but the buck deer abruptly stopped and turned right, narrowly avoiding the hat.
Immediately after, a green, viscous substance appeared behind the hat, splattering on his face.
Vision obscured, a sudden great fear rose within Wit.
Everything happened so quickly.
He vaguely saw a small shadow in the air before his proud buck deer let out a cry and was instantly destroyed.
The green goo on his face then vanished.
He fell from the air.
Fortunately, the buck deer had already stopped in time, otherwise the inertia would have caused severe injury.
…
At the corner…
Dak waved, and two shadows returned to the magitech card pinched between his fingers.
A simple skirmish.
“Shouldn’t be exposed, right?”
Glancing at the hero’s child whose bottom nearly split, Dak circled out from another intersection, picked up the black top hat, blew away the dust, and elegantly put it on.
…
Then he no longer paid attention to Wit, quickly circling back to the small temple.
Since those “Sect” seafood had left and the unstable factor of Wit had been eliminated…
If he didn’t use this opportunity to study the temple, wouldn’t he be wasting “Professor Kazel’s gift”?
Dak wasn’t interested in the sect’s founding purpose or anything else.
He was solely here for the source of the “flower card.”
Now the situation was clear.
The statue of the goddess inside the temple was the source of the “flower card”!
As Dak entered, the extinguished torches rekindled, illuminating every corner of the hall.
Dak summoned the imp beast, having it circle the temple once to ensure no one was hiding.
He himself approached the statue, observing the goddess statue that first gave the impression of “holiness.”
She held her hands to her chest, closed her eyes, and nodded slightly, like a pure maiden praying in a chapel.
The gentle aura emanating from her body brought a sense of comfort.
Unlike Wit, Dak wasn’t simply attracted by the statue. After careful observation, he preliminarily judged it to be some sort of chamber goddess.
“The power of the flower card originates from here. Could the reduction of Bliss be due to purification by sacred power?”
To verify his guess, Dak took out “Bliss I.”
But the moment he injected a trace of mana, “Bliss I” and the statue simultaneously burst into intense light!
Dak swiftly shut his eyes, and amidst the darkness, a “Bliss +1” flashed by.
This instantly alerted him, and he immediately cut off the mana input to “Bliss I”!
“Darn! It’s the same root power!”
Realization dawned on Dak’s face, alarmed.
Underneath the statue’s holy exterior lay a more concentrated “Bliss” sin than what he currently possessed!
The reason “Bliss” could be reduced by the flower card was not because of purification, but absorption!
At this moment…
Through “Bliss I,” the “Bliss” stored within the statue was pouring into his body!
It was like water flowing downhill, seeking balance to stop!
Fortunately, “Bliss I” was merely “Bliss I.” As an energy conduit, it was too small and fragile, thus only causing a “Bliss +1.”
Though the connection was established, cutting off the mana input couldn’t close it.
In a critical moment,
Dak took out “Pride I.”
Six seconds later, the imp beast’s expression changed.
Without hesitation, Dak tossed “Bliss I” into the sky.
The imp beast, already annoyed by the magitech card for a long time, immediately spread its wings and fired three shark-headed syringes in a triangular formation, shattering the pink card!
“Hahaha!”
The imp beast’s laughter echoed through the temple.
“I am the imp beast, a noble being. How dare you, mere magitech cards, provoke me?”
“If you provoke my lowly cards again, you’ll meet the same fate as now!”
“Oho ho ho!”
…
“Huh.”
With the destruction of “Bliss I,” the connection between Dak and the statue finally severed.
He breathed a sigh of relief, but his gaze towards the statue grew increasingly serious.
“How could such a thing be in Saint Maryan’s secret room?”
“Professor Kazel must know something. What is he thinking?”
“Could it be that he wants me to destroy this thing?”
“Who exactly is the goddess symbolized by this statue?”
Question after question arose.
Dak turned the “Pride I” in his hand, lost in brief contemplation.
Then…
A very natural thought surfaced.
“Could the goddess statue be used to create a higher level of the ‘Bliss’ series?”