Warning or not, with a Resurrection Stone in hand, Mu You deemed it alright to venture out for a look at the world.
[You’ve lit the Soul-Inducing Lamp.]
[Climbing past an invisible film of light covering the entrance, you emerged into an expanse that suddenly opened up before you.]
[Dense water vapor rushed towards you. Looking around, within a twenty-meter radius, all you could see were tall plants, ranging from four or five meters to over ten meters high, lush and dense, blocking out the sky above.]
[Beyond the twenty-meter area, a thick white fog enveloped everything, obscuring any further view.]
[You cautiously moved around nearby, observing carefully, and realized that you couldn’t feel any magic power here. Furthermore, everything in this place was extremely large; a world of giants where an ordinary stone was as big as a small hill, several massive boulders strewn by the roadside, blocking your way.]
[You climbed onto one of the boulders, hoping to gain a better vantage point, but unfortunately, visibility here was only about twenty meters. Your sight couldn’t penetrate the mist to see beyond this ’forest’.]
Mu You was astounded.
It indeed seemed to be a world where the Divine Race once dwelled, where a stone was as big as a mound, an ordinary meadow like a forest; the hole he had emerged from in this world was probably smaller than a random ant hill on the roadside.
Mu You didn’t rush to explore but first checked his status.
[Identity: Faithless.]
[Star Level: 0 stars (With each advancement in star level, you gain one layer of Rank Supression)]
[Faith: Not activated.]
[Divinity: 13 points]
[God’s Defense: 8 points]
[Divinity Owned: 50 points]
[Equipped Items: Empty, Empty, Empty.]
[Items in Possession: Resurrection Stone, Lucky Dice, Omniscient Crystal... Moon Scepter (Unavailable), Blessing of the Moon Goddess (Unavailable)...]
[Familiars: Shadow Fur Ball.]
This status panel was almost the same as when he first entered the Tower of the Brave, but numerous subtle changes had occurred.
Firstly, his identity had changed to ’Faithless,’ probably because the Faith System had not yet been activated. Secondly, there was now a new category for star level, and there was suppression between different star levels.
Mu You glanced over at ’Rank Suppression’ and found that, just like Rank Suppression, it also reduced damage taken by half and doubled damage dealt.
After all, the Tower of the Brave was merely a simulator somewhat like a tutorial for beginners, simplifying many things. If the Tower had included something like ’Rank Suppression,’ it would have been impossible for anyone to complete the mere three hundred steps.
Moving on to the changes in items, they were the same as in the tower, consisting of various Relics and Divine Artifacts; the difference was that all the moon-related items he had purchased, including the Moon Scepter, were now in an unavailable state.
Clearly, in this world, such specialized Relics could only be used after acquiring the corresponding faith.
Snapping back to reality, Mu You first equipped his item inventory.
[You have equipped the Omniscient Crystal, Demon Breaker Hand Cannon, and Lucky Dice.]
[The number on your Lucky Dice today is: 6, your luck has increased!]
In the current situation, he didn’t have many useful relics on hand, and the most practical was undoubtedly the Omniscient Crystal. In this completely unfamiliar world, information was extremely important!
[You continue to explore ahead.]
[After crossing a muddy wetland, you finally emerged from the dense jungle.]
[A cliff appears before you!]
[Looking down, the cliff’s wall is bare; beyond twenty meters below, everything is obscured by the hazy mist, leaving the bottom invisible, as well as the depth incalculable.]
[You see a tree not far from the cliff’s edge with a rope tied to it; the other end of the rope dangles down the cliff, extending into the fog.]
[Clearly, this is a climbing aid once set up by the Fool’s Ancestors!]
[Due to years of weathering, the surface of this rope is full of erosion marks, appearing fragile and perhaps unable to support your weight.]
[Will you slide down the rope?]
With the Pocket Watch on hand, there was no need to hesitate over such slightly risky options. If anything went wrong, he could simply start over.
[You chose to trust the quality of the rope and took the risk to slide down.]
[Your judgment was correct! Though the rope tightened to its limit under your weight, it held fast and did not show any signs of breaking.]
[You swiftly cut through the dense fog and slid down to the cliff’s base...]
[You landed safely but found yourself standing on an enormous leaf coated with a sticky substance, holding you firmly in place, unable to move an inch.]
[The sides of the leaf suddenly enveloped you, and only then did you realize that a man-eating plant was growing at the bottom of the rope! Swallowed by the ’leaf,’ countless spikes pierced through your body, and you were dissolved by acid.]
[You are dead, all items beyond your equipped gear are lost.]
Mu You quickly retraced his steps. He hadn’t expected to be greeted with such a ’surprise’ right after arriving – had he fallen into some kind of pitcher plant? And here, dying resulted in the loss of all items except for equipped ones?