[Task requirements: Magic network influence: 10000000/10000000]

Congratulations on completing your career development task.

【Start settlement now】

[Task Exploration Degree: 80%]

[Task completion: Amazing]

[You have attracted a group of followers, they are full of motivation and move forward courageously, but this is far from enough. Collect more foreign lands, attract more believers, create a more powerful magic network, stand firm in the tide of pollution, and become a beacon.]

[Achieve Silence Points: 50,000 points]

【Settlement completed】

[Please complete the task and get rewards]

Lu Ban read it twice.

He hadn't received such a low evaluation in a long time, and he was a little uncomfortable for a while.

After thinking about it carefully, Lu Ban felt that it might be because the knowledge he instilled into the magic network was relatively low-level.

Although the incident in Miskatoke this time involved a lot of people, the players' participation was not that high. Most of them were killed by the gods' followers in the early stages and failed to get in touch with deeper secrets. The knowledge about the Gods Above Gods and the Outer Gods was put in the magic network, and the players had no way to check it.

Therefore, the influence of the magic network took a long time to reach the standard.

To get a higher rating, both efficiency and quality are essential.

It is necessary to add more knowledge to the magic network and expand its influence as quickly as possible.

But Lu Ban also noticed that the players he selected were already highly contaminated.

Faced with the followers of the God above Gods, a normal person would immediately go crazy and either become a slave to the followers, never to be able to stand up again, or start fighting each other on the spot, or have their heads explode.

However, not only were those players not affected too seriously, but they were able to tear down the church and smash the statues, which really surprised Lu Ban.

In particular, these players did not actually experience any serious alienation. At most, the extraordinary abilities they controlled became a little stronger.

Due to this situation, players began to gradually believe that Lu Ban's [Silent Place] might possess some special power that could inspire human potential and give them superpowers. So now they believe in Lu Ban very much and worship him as a god.

If faith had power, Lu Ban might have been a small land god by now.

This is also the reason why Lu Ban’s followers increase in the mission evaluation.

However, seeing them calling themselves "God's Chosen Ones", Lu Ban always felt that something was wrong.

Gathering his thoughts, Lu Ban focused on the next task.

He also needs to go to the Ruined City and He Island to obtain materials, so if he can choose, these two foreign missions are naturally the best.

On TV, the Miskatonic Film Festival's Best Film award was given to a thriller about self-awareness.

The protagonist in the movie often fantasizes that he is in another world and thinks that his true identity is an extraordinary magician. He believes that reality is his own delusion. He ignores the suppression of his leader and even saves a woman on the road.

I originally thought that the protagonist's life would be troubled by this mental illness, but unexpectedly, he would get better and better and become a model citizen. It is really ironic and a little sad.

The movie screen was distorted, and many eyes suddenly opened on the faces of the award presenters. Countless tentacles emerged from their sleeves, and their entire forms collapsed, turning into twisted and ugly monsters.

The monsters gradually gathered together, forming awkward and illegible words.

If Lu Ban didn't know that A Quiet Place had this kind of painting style, he might have thought that something strange had happened in Miskatoke again.

Lu Ban looked at the words.

[Disturbance detected, repositioning mission]

An unexpected explanation emerged. Lu Ban had never experienced a situation where the Quiet Land was disturbed before.

Those twisted monsters trembled wildly, forming new words.

【bud】

[Every journey has an end. In the ocean, it may be a continent, an island, or a reef.]

[Humanity’s fear of the sea comes from ancient times. In the deep, cold, dark seabed, evil grows and it is awe-inspiring]

[But there are always people who yearn for the sea. In the sea, they gain wealth, fame, power, success and create extraordinary things.]

[You have started a new journey. Will you find the most precious treasure in the sea, understand the secret of eternal life, steal the power of God, or be hanged on the beach and no one knows?]

[Just as all towering trees start from a small sprout, all greatness comes from the first step of the journey. Take it bravely.]

[“Why explore the ocean? Because it’s there, of course!”]

[Mission Difficulty: Brilliant]

【Cooperative Mission】

[Send an invitation to a Chosen One you know, or accept an invitation from a Chosen One to become your companion. When one Chosen One arrives, the mission begins.]

[Number of companions: 1/1]

Those monsters swayed like seaweed, which made people feel terrified.

"There's already a companion, and we can't recruit one?"

Lu Ban smelled something not so good.

Moreover, he had no other tasks to choose from and it seemed that he had no choice but to take on this one.

Speaking of the sea, the first thing that came to his mind was the discussion he had had with the young man Howard.

It's not just the ocean. Humans' fear of things will decrease as their cognition deepens, but will increase again after exceeding a certain threshold, just like people living next to mountains will feel awe for the mountains and forests, and residents living in the desert will be afraid of the yellow sand.

There are indeed many unsolved mysteries in the ocean of this world. Among these unsolved mysteries, it is estimated that some are related to the evil god and are the seal of the evil god.

However, the difficulty of this mission is [Glorious], which means that it will definitely involve content related to the Old Ones or the origin of the world. Lu Ban feels a little uneasy with only one companion.

But now that it has come to this, Lu Ban has no reason to refuse.

He pressed the remote control, and the monsters on TV suddenly decomposed and reassembled to form a specific task description.

Lu Ban looked towards the target of the mission.

[Mission Objective: Witness the Bud]

[Mission objective: survive]

“What is the goal?”

It is easy to understand why he wants to survive, as Lu Ban has survived many times.

And witnessing the budding, he didn't understand.

Considering the name of the task and the description in it, Lu Ban suspected that maybe this task required him to grow something by himself.

For example, farming?

Lu Ban wasn't quite sure. He thought about it and then turned his attention to the discounted [Knowledge of a Madman].

I haven't spent money on this for a long time, and I miss it a little.

Lu Ban directly spent points to buy a ten-pull combo, hoping to be able to ship it.