Chapter 1 I Think You Should Give Your New Skill a Name

"I think you should give your new skill a name." After discussing the speculation about redhead Vivian, Hao Ren looked at the real Vivian and said.

"A name?" The vampire girl looked down at her hand, feeling that Hao Ren's words made sense. "Well... it does seem like I should give this move a name, after all, it looks pretty powerful. What do you think about 'Withering Finger'?"

Withering Finger, dealing 99999 points of true damage to the target and the target's ancestors for eighteen generations, and wiping them out along with their graves—Hao Ren immediately felt that this name was simply perfect and quite impressive. He looked at Vivian in surprise: "I didn't expect you to be so low-key usually, but you give your moves such a grand name."

"Did you think everyone's naming ability is like yours?" Vivian rolled her eyes. "And I don't think there's anything impressive about it, it's just stating the facts. Big guy even has 'Finger of Death,' I asked him, and he came up with that name just to show that this move kills anyone it touches, he never thought about the momentum of the name..."

So Hao Ren deeply realized what the thinking of a strong person should be like.

The two returned to the living room, and Hao Ren still confirmed worriedly: "Speaking of which, after you 'absorbed' that evil spirit, you didn't have any psychological problems, right? Like suddenly becoming irritable or inexplicably belligerent. I remember novels and movies like to develop like this, don't get caught."

"I don't feel anything," Vivian looked down at herself. "Maybe my amulets are working?"

At this time, Lily had just strolled back from outside and was changing channels on the sofa watching TV. Seeing Hao Ren and Vivian entering from the back door, she looked up and asked, "What were you two doing?"

Hao Ren explained Vivian's development of a "new function," which immediately attracted great attention from everyone.

"You absorbed that thing...?" Lily looked at Vivian like she was a monster. "How can you eat anything?"

Vivian immediately glared at the husky spirit: "You still have the nerve to talk to me about recipes?"

Izhaks was knowledgeable, and he wasn't joking at this time: "It sounds like she absorbed a fragment of power... the landlord's guess is correct. And similar things have happened in my world. The power of the strong can sometimes be materialized and separated. If someone steals and seals it, such a phenomenon as Vivian's will occur when it is retrieved one day. But I haven't heard of a detached fragment of power being able to evolve into a human form."

Hao Ren turned to look at the bat spirit beside him: "Anything is possible with Vivian. Didn't the bats that fell from her body cultivate into spirits? And this book was sent by the little bat spirit."

Lily blinked her eyes and listened for a long time, then suddenly clapped her hands: "Since this book has clues, let's just try all the other rituals in the book. Maybe we can summon more..."

Before Lily could finish her brain-opening idea, Vivian smashed a small bat on her face and sent her back: "You still have the nerve to say that! I haven't even lectured you yet! If it wasn't for your death wish to do some summoning ritual last night, such a big mess wouldn't have happened. Do you know this time..."

Lily covered her ears and shouted before Vivian could finish speaking: "Why are you talking about me again? It was clearly the landlord who first said he wanted to do the summoning yesterday! And wasn't I already lectured once last night..."

"One or two lectures like this are not enough for you. Do you think I haven't studied how to deal with huskies in the past year? And you still say landlord... right, landlord, you sit here too! I have to talk about you too. In the future, you must not try this kind of unidentified thing randomly. I said that this kind of supernatural thing is not easy to deal with. Don't underestimate them just because they are old antiques made by Earth wizards. These things sometimes..."

At first, Hao Ren thought that having Lily in front to block the gun was enough, but he didn't expect Vivian to really change the subject and drag him over as well. The elders' preaching smashed down on the spot, and Hao Ren and the husky spirit sat side by side on the sofa and quickly fell into a daze. While these two troublemakers were being educated, Nangong Wuyue happened to pass by in the distance. The siren girl looked at the center of the living room with some fear and patted her chest: "Fortunately, I don't provoke this kind of old person."

"That snake over there, you come here too! You were too cowardly last night, at least you should..."

When Izhaks saw this situation, he raised his leg and left, ran to a corner of the living room, found a book on motorcycle repair, and called his daughter to study it together. Elizabeth lowered her voice: "Dad, we didn't provoke her yesterday, did we?" "Shhh, don't make a sound, look down at the book."

It was noon after the unlucky guys were educated. If Vivian didn't remember to cook, it was estimated that she could continue to talk until the afternoon. After lunch, Hao Ren called the data terminal and prepared to report what happened last night to Raven 12345: he felt that this matter was strange. No matter how big or small it was, it was best to let the female psychopath know. But just before he had time to dial the Heavenly Hotline, an unexpected message suddenly popped up:

"Landlord! We found the Reversionist Cult's lair, come and help—Becky."

Hao Ren was stunned, and then suddenly remembered this: he had been busy with other official duties before, and there had been no movement from Holleta for more than half a month, and he had almost forgotten about the other brain monster!

Elsa was helping Vivian clean up the dishes, and when she felt the movement here, she asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"Found the lair of the Reversionist Cult, another brain monster may be hiding there," Hao Ren stood up and rubbed his hands, thinking that this time he must not make any more mistakes. He saw Elsa and Nangong Wudi looking confused and realized that these two had not been to Holleta yet, "It's another planet, also in the Dream Plane. I have to go there."

He told the others the news of finding the Reversionist Cult's lair, and the whole family suddenly stood up, gearing up and full of fighting spirit, even "Gun" was raising its paws beside him and meowing hard—although she didn't know what was going on, she felt that if she attracted people's attention, she might be able to get a small dried fish to eat. Izhaks still remembered the escape of the last brain monster and reminded him: "Don't relax your vigilance after you catch it this time."

"We have to catch it first." Hao Ren smiled and decided to postpone writing the report to Raven 12345 a little bit. It would be easier to report together after catching the brain monster. He sent a reply to Becky: "Message received, let Ofra take people to stabilize the situation, don't rashly contact the brain monster, and prevent being mind-controlled."

Then he rectified his "army" and went to Holleta in a hurry.

Holleta Kingdom, Becky's big house.

A group of people teleported out of Becky's basement. As soon as Hao Ren arrived here, he found that the basement had changed compared to before: the entire wine cellar had been emptied, and the piles of wine barrels, wine bottles, and exquisite high-end wine utensils that had been piled up here before were all cleaned up. The teleporter was placed in the middle of the wine cellar, and it looked very spacious after the surrounding things were moved away.

Lily sniffed: "There's still the smell of wine, but where's the wine?"

Becky's voice came from the direction of the cellar door: "Of course they've all been moved away, I don't want to be ruined again. It didn't hurt me last time, a full two months' worth, just used to wash the floor."

As soon as Hao Ren heard this familiar and energetic voice, he smiled. He happily looked up and saw Becky standing not far away, smiling at everyone, wearing a very energetic women's knight costume, with no one else beside her. It had been a long time since they had seen each other, Hao Ren enthusiastically stepped forward to say hello: "Yo, this outfit of yours... looks quite expensive? Why don't you wear a noble dress?"

"Don't mention that," Becky waved her hand, sure enough, she still had the boldness of when she was a mercenary, "It takes two hours to put on, two hours to take off, walking is like being tied with ropes all over, and it can be hot enough to kill people with a little activity. I suspect that those noble dresses are designed to make the people who wear them remember the bitterness and think about the sweetness—anyway, after wearing those things to attend a few banquets, I never plan to wear them again."

At this time, Elsa and Nangong Wudi also came out from the back of the team, and Becky looked at these two new faces in surprise: "Eh? Don't know them, new friends?"

"Nangong siblings' parents," Vivian introduced with a smile, "Just found them not long ago."

Becky was as excited as if she had found her relatives, and stepped forward to grab the hands of the Nangong siblings: "Oh, congratulations..."

Hao Ren coughed lightly and pointed to Doudou, who was shaking her head at his collar: "Let's catch up when we go up, the smell of wine is still quite strong here, Doudou is already dizzy."