Chapter 1 A Fleeting Glimpse of Darkness

A flash of brilliant and dazzling light passed, and the six Chapters of Order merged together, transforming into a black, ancient book. The cover was exquisitely crafted, with rows of ancient common-tongue characters inscribed upon it, resembling sunken stone carvings. The tadpole-like script gave off an elegant and lively feeling.

The book was quite thick, with several pages, radiating a mysterious power.

Touching the book, one could feel a wondrous power, bringing peace to the mind.

The book was inscribed with "Chapter of Order, Volume One: Shadow of Darkness."

System: Do you wish to bind this item?

"Yes!" Nie Yan confirmed without hesitation. He would bind it first to prevent it from being dropped. Once the Chapter of Order was bound, he wouldn't have to worry about losing it.

System: This item is now bound.

The instant the Chapter of Order was bound, Nie Yan felt a significant boost to all his stats, increasing them by more than fifty percent compared to before. Several characters appeared on the cover of the book, reflected in the lower right corner. 'Owner: Nie Yan.'

This legendary item was now completely marked with Nie Yan's name; no one else could possess it.

Still being chased, he didn't have time to carefully study the properties of this treasure. He needed to find an exit first.

Nie Yan activated Shadow Dance and darted forward. However, the vast and endless wilderness seemed to have no end. No matter how frantically he ran, he couldn't escape this expanse. He sensed the five mages behind him getting closer and closer.

The five figures chased after Nie Yan, their speed rapidly closing the distance.

One figure soared into the sky, and time seemed to stand still.

Nie Yan looked towards the distant sky and saw the demonified leader, Sonia, with a pair of fleshy wings sprouting from her back, flapping in the sky. She hovered above, silhouetted against the bright moon.

Her gaze pierced through the darkness, locking onto Nie Yan as he fled.

Nie Yan's heart felt pierced. His movements slowly stagnated. This demonified leader could actually fly. At the current level, flying creatures were very difficult to deal with, only mages could exchange blows with them, and even then the effect wasn't always good. Melee combat was out of the question.

This guy had demonic vision. It seemed there was no escape. Nie Yan thought for a moment, put all his unbound equipment into his bag, and continued to run wildly.

Sonia waved her staff, uttering a series of obscure demonic words. Her magic incantation was completed.

Suddenly, Nie Yan felt the endless darkness around him surging towards him, and countless dark tentacles firmly bound him in place.

No matter how Nie Yan struggled, he couldn't break free from the restraints of these dark tentacles.

Sonia flapped her wings and slowly flew towards him, her flight speed slow as she hadn't fully mastered her wings.

"It's that thief! He's there! It's the Empress's Shadow Bind!"

The five white elves quickly surrounded him, looking at Nie Yan, clusters of magical light glowing in their hands.

"It's over," Nie Yan thought to himself.

The magic orbs in the hands of the five white elves streaked through the sky, shooting straight at Nie Yan. *Bang, bang, bang,* the magic orbs exploded on Nie Yan, and damage numbers of over three hundred points floated above Nie Yan's head. He was bombarded by magic and fell to the ground.

Sonia flapped her wings and landed beside Nie Yan, a blank expression on her face. She couldn't understand why the Chapter of Good also disappeared after killing Nie Yan.

After a long time, Nie Yan opened his eyes and found that his soul was already in the graveyard.

"After struggling for so long, I still died."

System: Do you wish to resurrect?

Resurrection was divided into three types. One was to find the corpse and resurrect at the place where he died, with a slightly smaller penalty, dropping 50% experience and becoming weakened for five minutes. During the weakened period, all attributes were reduced by 80%. Red names would have their penalties doubled based on the extent of their red name status. Choosing this resurrection method during a player kill made it easy to be corpse-camped.

The second was to accept resurrection from a priest, with the smallest penalty, dropping between 0% and 50% experience, and becoming weakened for one minute. Red names would have their penalties doubled.

The third was to resurrect directly in the graveyard, with the greatest penalty, dropping one level of experience and becoming weakened for half an hour. Red names would have their penalties doubled. However, this method was obviously safer.

Nie Yan chose to resurrect directly. He checked his level, which made him a little depressed. He had dropped to level twenty-three. After working so hard for so long, he had to start climbing from the bottom again. Fortunately, leveling up in the Eternal City wouldn't take long.

His attributes were in a weakened state, so this time wasn't suitable for leveling. Nie Yan teleported back to Calore City. He couldn't wait to see the properties of the Chapter of Order. He had risked a dozen levels and almost lost all his equipment to get it back!

He needed to find a quiet place. Nie Yan went to the Starry Night Pharmacy and slipped into an empty laboratory.

Nie Yan took out the Chapter of Order, Shadow of Darkness, and placed it on the table, checking its properties.

Chapter of Order, Volume One: Shadow of Darkness: Legendary Item. Item Level: 1. Item level is promoted by killing evil creatures.

Item Description: The holder of the Chapter of Order will receive the inheritance of the gods. Your mission is to spread the glory of the gods.

Item Properties: The holder of this item gains an additional five attribute points and three skill points every five levels. Strength +100, Agility +200, All Attributes +30, Additional +50%. Gain 500 virtual attribute points. Gain Shadow of Darkness Skill Tree.

Usage Restriction: Only usable by player Nie Yan.

Note: This item takes effect when placed in the backpack.

This item gave a lot of bonus to basic attributes. As for the Shadow of Darkness skill tree, he didn't know what it would be. Seeing that the Chapter of Order had 500 virtual attribute points, Nie Yan's brow twitched.

"A full 500 virtual attribute points, good stuff!"

Virtual attribute points were different from real attribute points. Adding them wouldn't affect his own attributes; otherwise, adding five hundred points of strength would be too abnormal. But it was effective for equipment. That is to say, by adding virtual attribute points, he could wear all kinds of equipment even if his true strength and agility didn't meet the requirements.

Nie Yan immediately thought of the Headless Horseman Doro's Mounted Crossbow. If he added some of the virtual attribute points to strength, he could equip the Headless Horseman Doro's Mounted Crossbow before reaching the required level. This super-powerful giant crossbow would definitely bring Nie Yan considerable benefits.

Turning to the second page of the Chapter of Order, there was a tree-shaped skill column with a total of twenty or more skills, all of which were very powerful. At the bottom, several skills were lit up, including Vanish and Desperate Strike attached to the Chapter of Freedom, and Super Perception and Divine Sanction on the Chapter of Courage. These skills were actually placed at the bottom. As when he held the Chapter of Freedom and the Chapter of Courage, he could still use them.

Above were many grayed-out skill icons, including Storm Assault, Shadow Slaughter, etc., and the conditions for lighting them up were written. Some required killing one hundred thousand evil creatures to light up, and some required killing one thousand same-level elite evil creatures to light up.

The skill icons dazzled Nie Yan. Each of these skills was no less powerful than Divine Sanction, Desperate Strike, and the like, but at the same time, the requirements to light them up were very high, ridiculously high.

If he wanted to obtain such powerful skills, he naturally had to pay a sufficient price.

Nie Yan understood the meaning of the Chapter of Order's preface: "The holder of the Chapter of Order will receive the inheritance of the gods. Your mission is to spread the glory of the gods." It seemed that he would spend the future constantly killing evil creatures. If he had good equipment, he could go to the dungeons.

The power of Shadow of Darkness was beyond doubt, as could be seen from this skill tree with countless powerful skills.

Turning to the third page, there were patterns of eight pieces of equipment, including leather armor, cloak, gauntlets, leggings, boots, shoulder pads, and two daggers. The style of these equipment was very peculiar. The dark purple set had a different rune mark on each piece of equipment, looking ancient and old. Nie Yan's gaze was instantly attracted by these equipment, especially the two daggers. The strangely curved lines of the dagger blades exuded a suffocating murderous aura, giving a strong visual shock.

The Ancient Order: Set of the Dictator Abak.

In the distant era of co-rule, the human leader Abak was a dictatorial ruler. He cruelly slaughtered the human monarch Agnes and expelled the parliament. Under his bloody rule, the kingdom fell into darkness. Later, he was killed by Warlord Brook, and this set was lost. Shadow of Darkness will provide you with some clues, brave adventurer, embark on your journey to find the lost Abak set.

A legendary set left by a legendary leader!

The Dictator Abak Set!

This was the real divine equipment!

Nie Yan looked at the task clues below.

"The Dictator Set has been lost for many years. The last time Abak's Bloody Dagger was seen was more than ten years ago in the town of Kunlan. The old mage Krigan may know some information."

"The leather armor of the Dictator Set has long been dilapidated. It is said that the wanderer who picked up this leather armor sold it for two silver coins at the auction house in the center of Calore City, and it was bought by Count Kelfield."

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The task clues could guide Nie Yan to find the traces of this set, of course, there would definitely be some difficulty.

Since it was a legendary set, although the current task clues seemed very simple, Nie Yan was sure that he did not yet have enough strength to collect this set. However, this Dictator set was definitely unimaginably good equipment. In the past, when players were at level 180, having a sub-legendary set was called divine equipment. Legendary items, in their view, were only found in myths, and only one or two people possessed one or two legendary items. As for legendary sets, all players did not dare to think about them even in their dreams!