Infinite Evolution: My Idle Evolution System - Chapter 194

Chapter 194: The Alien’s Amulet Device

This amulet device came from the remains of the Alien, collected by Cassius not long after he brought about the END of the Oblivion’s Threshold Gate. During the time before everything ended, he also just barely managed to teleport everyone out and absorb part of the Gremlin Extraterrestrial Fiend’s memories. He couldn’t get all of its memories, and there was likely no way he could have. If not for his quick thinking and acting, the Alien would’ve certainly escaped, and everything would’ve been for nothing. Instead of getting partial memories, he would have gotten no memories.

From the very first moment Cassius heard the name of the Gate Viola would be bringing him to, he had been devising and revising a way to eliminate the thing that had been stalking him. He had his suspicions of the stalker’s intergalactic origins, but it wasn’t until his senses were heightened with the use of his Trump Card that he confirmed them. In that moment, he knew the plan he concocted was all worth it in the end.

The loot he gained from slaying the Oblivion Acolyte was just a bonus in his mind. There were also the rewards given to him for completing the Side Quest, which were, again, just more bonuses.

What he was after—what he had been gunning for since the very start—were the memories of the Alien. Memories that he successfully extracted with the assistance of a Mid-Ruby Rank Skill called ‘Mind Dig’. Though, that wasn’t the only Skill that had a part to play in this operation, as the Peak-Ruby Rank Skill ‘Mass Indoctrination’ also did wonders in truly making everything come together as it had.

However, although the latter Skill was used on all of the S-Rank Russian Hunters immediately after teleporting them out, it was not used on…

“So, are you going to tell me what really happened in there, ‘Weak’ hooded man? Is Cassius even your real name?”

‘Viola…’ Cassius thought to himself as he sighed and left the folds of reality. The coast was clear, so there was no point in further concealing himself.

After sitting down on the large chunk of rubble leaning against Viola’s rubble chunk, he corrected his shadowy hood and spoke without looking in her direction. “I have no clue what you’re talking about, Ms. Viola. Do you think I’m some CIA agent or something? The name you know me by is my real name. And why are you asking about what happened in there when you were there as well? You tell me: What happened in there?”

Viola’s lips moved, but no words came out.

Ultimately, she just harrumphed and crossed her slender arms under her not-so-slender bosom. “You really are such an infuriating man. Don’t you know that secretive men aren’t popular with the ladies? One might think you’re a serial killer!”

Cassius’s brows raised. “A serial killer, huh? I… I have much, much to learn if I am to play the killing game professionally. Much to learn, indeed…”

After imbibing the memories of the Alien he slaughtered, he understood what it truly meant to be a killer.

That race—the Dissonants—they were killers on a level that he was many years away from hoping to match. Entire planets and solar systems had fallen to the tyranny of the Dissonants. Billions upon billions of lives had been tallied up by them.

However, those same Dissonants now found themselves invading Earth—invading the Ascension Tower.

The acquired memories from there onward were incomplete, but what Cassius was able to make out were two strings of distorted dialogue. The first string spoke of how ‘Earth’ and the ‘Ascension Tower’ were not what they seemed and something about an ‘Illusion’ or ‘Delusion’—it was something like that.

And then there was the second string of distorted dialogue. This one spoke not of the setting but of a search… The Dissonants were searching for something.

And he… he was the key to their search.

As for how precisely he was connected with the search, Cassius had no idea. He only knew that this Gremlin Extraterrestrial Fiend was not the only one tasked with keeping an eye on him. This surely meant that there would be more popping up in the future… and they might even be stronger than he was.

If Cassius wished to retain his peaceful life on Earth without some foreign big-headed martians getting in the way, then he had to do what he did best.

Train. Train and grind.

Coincidentally, the Idle Evolution System had something to guide him to this end.

*Ding!*

[You have slain the Oblivion Acolyte Boss Monster (S+++ Rank)]

[Your Experience Bar moved by leaps and bounds!]

[You leveled up!]

[All of your Main Attributes have increased by 2000 Stat Points!]

[Acquired 6000 AP!]

Then came the Quest completion rewards…

{[Side Quest Number… Something or another!]} – [Oblivion’s Threshold Clearer] – [S+++ Rank]

GOAL 1: [Eradicate all of the Oblivion Titans in the Gate] – [✓]

GOAL 2: [Kill all Five Oblivion Titan Lord Minibosses] – [5/5] – [✓]

GOAL 3: [Slay the Oblivion Acolyte] – [1/1] – [✓]

[Warning!] [Warning!] [Warning!]

[Attempting to clear this Quest will require the Host to abuse the authority of the System and temporarily unchain the Mini Bosses and Boss, which will summon Heaven’s Wrath!] – [After note: You really made me, the poor damsel, do it… You Fiend…!]

[Of course, your beloved System will take on the full brunt of Heaven! Ahhn~! But, nonetheless, it would be most advisable for the Host to forfeit the Side Quest and most graciously accept the punishment! (It’s a good one!)] – [Scratch all this! I never said a single lick of any of this nonsense! For the sake of my mental health recovery from all this defamatory material, how would you feel about adding 40 hours to today’s required amount in the Nightmarescape!?]

[Shake head for yes, and nod head for no.]

[Anyway, here are the Rewards… Tsk… Tsk again. And another Tsk! Important things must be said thrice!]

REWARD 1: [20 Large-sized Heaps of EXP] – [Y/N]

REWARD 2: [The immense respect and awe of the powerful S-Rank Hunter ‘Viola Voidweaver,’ I.e., Hottie Mick Hotterson, awooga, awooga~!] – [Y/N]

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