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Chapter 144: 119 Black Rain Villa (4300) (Thanks to DianSanDaoSi 111 for the reward of 5000 starting coins)_2

Chapter 144: 119 Black Rain Villa (4300) (Thanks to DianSanDaoSi 111 for the reward of 5000 starting coins)_2

Not long after, they crossed through a grey-white arched gate.

Casio stood in front of a building entrance and knocked lightly.

“Knock, knock, knock…”

“Who is it?”

“Dusk.”

“Come in.”

Then the main door was opened, and Casio entered.

In the hall, on the walls, there hung several antique brass light fixtures. The oil lamps were burning brightly with flames.

The man standing before him was tall and skinny, probably around 1.8 meters. He had freckles on his face and his features were quite pronounced. On the back of his right hand, there was a faint black shield emblem. Next to the emblem, there was another pattern, resembling a crossbow.

Casio, who inherited these two symbols from Dusk, was marked with both.

The first one, the shield emblem, is the mark given by the Eerie Night Guests of the Black Rain Mansion, symbolizing Shield Rank Status. The second is man-made, representing the Crossbow school within the Eerie Night Guests. The Black Rain Mansion is an automatic program, and those Eerie Night Guests are like different gears in the machinery.

Naturally, gears come in different sizes, types, and serve different purposes.

Depending on the powers and techniques the guests choose at the Baptism Church, they are divided into numerous power schools-

For example, Beast School: Their strength is enhanced through the injection of beast blood, giving them supernatural power. They transform into half-human, half-beast monsters when they fully exert their power, greatly enhancing their abilities.

Mercury School: The human skull is cut open and mysterious mercury of various colours is added in. It gives them extraordinary power, like telekinesis, similar to a watered-down version of a mage’s.

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Darkness School: They graft the organs of dark creatures on their bodies, gaining the supernatural powers of these dark creatures directly.

Crossbow school: They primarily use bows and crossbows for long-ranged combat. Majority of the ones in this school are slender and light-footed.

There are also the Poison School, Trap School, Drug School, and many others.

Dusk was previously with the Crossbow School. The senior Eerie Night Guests of the Crossbow School gave him some basic training.

It was considered a measure to increase the survival rate of their members.

The Crossbow School isn’t large, considered medium-to-small among the many schools. However, they are rather unified internally, and members are always willing to help out fellow crossbowmen. They have a small base within the Black Rain Villa for those of the Crossbow School to rest.

“Dusk, have you completed your task?”

The lanky man asked as he walked.

“Yes,” Casio replied.

“Hmm, it seems like you’ve done well this time. Congratulations.”

The man repeated the same words he would say to every returning member. The phrasing may vary, but the sentiment is always the same, always congratulatory.

If the other party returned severely injured, he would also wish them good fortune; surviving a great calamity would bring about good luck. This was a tradition among the Eerie Night Guests. Since every time the guests undertake a task, life and death are uncertain. The man would not need to congratulate them if there comes a day they never return.

To hear a congratulate meant they were still alive.

As long as one was alive, it deserved congratulations.

As they continued to walk along the corridor, occasionally, they would be greeted by other members of the Crossbow School coming towards them. Among them were many female members, as the Crossbow School required agile body forms. The other male members were also relatively slender. None of them were particularly tall or muscular.

Dusk’s build was considered muscular among them.

As Casio wandered around, he found that the scene inside the building wasn’t much different from the Grey Stamp Martial Arts Hall. Some spacious rooms had been transformed into indoor archery ranges where senior Eerie Night Guests were teaching the newcomers how to use the crossbows. Sounds of conversations and shooting could be heard occasionally.

The building had everything from a hall, cafeteria to a training room. Although it might be a bit old-fashioned and simple, it was quite well-equipped.

“Here’s your room, and the key.”

The leading man stopped in front of a door and handed Casio a brass key. Casio looked up at the door.

There was a metal nameplate stuck on it: 201.

“Thank you, Black Blade.”

Casio, holding the key, expressed his appreciation.

“By the way, I suppose you have to go to the Baptism Church to relegate your task later?” Black Blade turned his head and said, “Remember not to upgrade anything else, it’d be a waste. Instead, directly upgrade our Crossbow School’s ‘Dentinist Gale Arrow Technique’, which would give you the best value for your effort.”

Black Blade earnestly reiterated his point, ” Especially remember not to upgrade your physique, it has its limits. After reaching the limits, further upgrades would be useless, and still not enough to match the dark creatures. We can actually enhance our physique indirectly by upgrading the ‘Dentinist Gale Arrow Technique’, so don’t waste the task’s rewards.”

Don’t upgrade the physique? Casio frowned at this point.

Five minutes later, he roughly understood the related situation.

Limits, bottlenecks. These were all familiar terms to Casio. They signified the limits of the human body, the bottleneck of breaking free from humanity and evolving into inhuman. From Black Blade’s explanation, the Eerie Night Guest’s physical quality could only reach human limitations and could not evolve further?

The Black Rain Villa doesn’t have secret martial art techniques!?

Casio knew that for humans to enhance their vitality to the level of inhuman, Secret Martial Arts were indispensable. Among them, aspects like the breathing technique in the Elephant Soul Secret Technique and special actions along with potions could be the stepping stone to transcendence, while medicines like flame oils play an assisting role.

Without these, humans would indeed hit a limit.

Impossible to climb even a little higher.

He could understand all of this, but he wondered why in a group as large as the Eerie Night Guests, with so many different schools, nobody had come into contact with or learned the Secret Martial Art.

After a brief review of the “Dentinist Gale Arrow Technique”, Casio found out that it was actually a skill-based technique.