Makoto arrived at the exit of Novas Aethel and took out a ring from his inventory named [heart of double phantom].
Its effect is a heavily weakened version of the [Doppelganger] racial talent, allowing the user to change their appearance at the cost of reducing their attributes to eighty percent.
The advantage is that it cannot be dispelled by magic that sees through [Doppelganger] illusions.
As a type of pay-to-win item, it not only lacks attribute bonuses but actually lowers ability scores; furthermore, only one appearance can be set, and it cannot even be changed through further spending.
In other words, if you want to choose a new appearance, you have to buy another one, making it a very niche pay-to-win item.
The appearance Makoto chose was an optimized version of his past-past life: a handsome young man with black hair and black eyes.
This was the “alt account” Makoto prepared to use.
As a transmigrator, how could you show your face without a few aliases?
Moreover, because of his actions, the name [亚蒙.尼古拉] should be quite famous among the players who remained until the end.
While he wasn’t sure how many people knew that [Novas Aethel] was his guild base, some people definitely knew he possessed a significant number of World-Class Items.
To make enemies lower their guard, it was better to change his name.
Thus, Makoto used it to replace the missing [ring of the eternal serpent].
After leaving Novas Aethel, he cast [Greater Teleportation] toward a certain coordinate.
[Super-Tier Magic: Control Amnity] is a super-tier spell capable of changing the climate effects of a field, with an area of effect spanning an entire region.
Based on information from the anime, its effect in the New World should be enhanced to the point of being able to change the regional climate periodically or permanently.
After confirming that Novas Aethel was within the magic’s coverage area, he officially began the casting process.
As a super spell that in the game was almost exclusively available to players with a caster level of 70 or higher and shared a cooldown with the party, it required a very long casting time.
Of course, as a pay-to-win player, he could naturally use a cash item to reduce the casting time to zero, achieving an instant-cast effect.
The moment the magic was used, a massive magic circle appeared above Makoto’s head, with dozens of magic circles rotating, rising, and falling.
Although Makoto held it in his hand, he used it immediately without hesitation.
Forget about fishing for enemies like the Bone King; there’s always the possibility of being the one eaten.
Though people often say the Bone King fights outwitting thin air, one realizes later that caution is indeed a vital quality.
It was still unclear exactly what time period he had transmigrated to; if it was six hundred years before the start of the original story, the New World would still be under the reign of the [True Dragon Lord].
He might end up having to be a savior of humanity alongside the [Six Great Gods].
Actually, the era of the [Six Great Gods] was fine; the era of the [Eight Greed Kings] would be even more troublesome—not only would he have to fight the True Dragon Lords, but he’d also have to guard against being backstabbed by those treacherous players. New chapters come out on g.com first.
Once the magic [Change Environment] is used, it will definitely attract the attention of those with ulterior motives.
Should he take the initiative to attack?
He couldn’t be that unlucky, could he?
To just pick a spot and run right into a True Dragon Lord or something?
Fortunately, until [Change Environment] was successfully activated, not a single shadow appeared in the vicinity.
The information defense magic he had cast in advance didn’t trigger either, so it could be assumed there were no enemies nearby for the time being.
Whatever, he’d go home and lay low first.
Although he really wanted to go out and roam the New World now, after thinking it over, he decided it would be better to raise his level to 200 before going to stomp some newbies.
(The protagonist doesn’t know yet that he’s been screwed over by the game developers.)
As for the initial information gathering, didn’t he have a perfectly suitable World-Class Item in his hands?
[Huginn and Muninn] were undoubtedly inspired by the two ravens of the All-Father Odin, taking the form of earrings shaped like two black ravens.
In the game, their function was personal information defense combined with wide-area information acquisition.
He equipped them on his left ear; one raven-shaped accessory came to life and perched on Makoto’s shoulder, while the other transformed into a small raven tattoo on his earlobe.
And Makoto also learned their respective names.
Huginn, symbolizing ‘Thought,’ was the one that turned into the earlobe tattoo; it was roughly equivalent to a Level 100 information-type caster specialized in [Protection].
It was used to ensure his information could not be accurately detected and could even mislead enemies with false information.
“Hmm, not bad.
I can just swap out the equipment I originally used for hiding information for something that increases attack power.”
Muninn, symbolizing ‘Memory,’ was the one on his shoulder; it was roughly equivalent to a Level 100 information-type caster specialized in [Exploration], and it would start working once given an order.
It flew extremely fast, and Makoto could gain its vision and hearing, and even use its mouth to speak.
Although its HP was very low and it could be killed by high-level enemies, Muninn would not truly die.
After being ‘killed,’ it would respawn at his location at dawn the next day; besides being unusable for that day, there would be no other loss. Read this novel at novelping(.)com for the best experience.
To this, Makoto could only say it was overpowered.
“As expected, the trash game YGGDRASIL has no balance to speak of at all!”
What?
I’m the one using the overpowered item?
Then it’s fine.
He held out his left hand, and Muninn obediently hopped onto his arm.
Makoto stroked the raven’s feathers while giving his orders.
“Go gather information on the nearest human city.
If you encounter an undead of the Overlord race, or adventurers named Momon or Momonga, or high-level dragons, report to me immediately.”
“Go!”
As Makoto raised his hand, Muninn circled and flew into the sky.
Shortly after, a ripple of magical power appeared on its body, likely using a spell similar to [Astrology].
Before long, Muninn seemed to have found the answer and flew off in one direction without looking back.
Using Greater Teleportation to return to Novas Aethel, he deactivated the ring’s ability.
As the saying goes, life is all about eating and drinking.
If you can’t enjoy life, you might as well be dead.
This was one of the reasons Makoto insisted on choosing the Human race.
Since he could obtain longevity either way, the Human race, which could satisfy his appetite and desires, was naturally the best.
Or rather, it was quite perfect.
As a hedonist, Makoto naturally invested a considerable amount of effort into the cafeteria.
Makoto had summoned three pay-to-win monsters with the [Chef] class maxed out!
Unfortunately, because Novas Aethel had been built in such a short time, many things were not yet complete; most NPCs were assigned to perfect the defense and construction of their respective areas and were simply too busy.
Currently, most of the restaurants were empty, looking quite desolate.