Page contents of Book

Flipping to the third page, Nie Yan saw the illustrations of an eight
 piece equipment set which consisted of leather chest armour, cloak,
gloves, pants, boots, shoulderguards, and two different daggers. Their
design was quite unusual—a deep shade of violet, with a different rune
marking each set piece. Just the picture seemed to radiate an aura of
ancientness. He was instantly enamoured by this set, especially the pair
 of daggers whose edges curved in an unusual way. They radiated a
stifling murderous aura that would shake the minds of anyone who set
eyes on them.

Ancient Order: Tyrant Abak Set

Abak was a
human tyrant from the Era of Shared Governance. He had brutally slain
Monarch Agnes to seize the throne, dispelling the parliament. Under his
bloody rule, the kingdom fell into a period of darkness. After he was l
defeated by General Brook later on, his set disappeared into the sands
of time.

The Glimpse of Darkness has several clues about this set.
 Brave adventurer, set forth on your journey to reclaim the long-lost
Tyrant Abak Set!

It was a Legendary set left left behind by a legendary tyrant!

The Tyrant Abak Set!

This was what you called a godly equipment set!

Nie Yan looked at the clues below the illustrations.

The
 Tyrant Abak Set has been lost for many years. one of the set items,
Abak’s Bloody Dagger, was last seen near Kunlan Town over ten years ago.
 The old Mage Ligen probably knows some clues about its whereabouts.

The
 leather chest piece of the Tyrant Abak Set has long since been broken
beyond repair. According to rumours, a random wanderer put the chest
piece up for auction in the main auction house at the heart of Calore
for 2 silver, and it was purchased by Earl Kleinfeld.

Nie Yan flipped to the fourth page of the book, while wondering what
sort of materials were used to create such durable pages. The page
densely packed with ancient characters from the Era of Shared Governance
 was detailed to a rarely seen degree. It contained techniques which
allowed a player to advance to a Great Thief and Shadow Dancer, practice
 exercises to hone those techniques, methods to sharpen the player’s
awareness as a Thief, and so on. A person in possession of this
information could increase their combat strength by at least several
fold. Many things on this page couldn’t found in the videos of his past
life. There were even some techniques that he had never seen Sun or
Shadow Killer employ.

This was the most comprehensive guide on how to become a Great Thief and Shadow Dancer!

With
 this guide, there was no longer a need for a person to go about blindly
 figuring out things for themselves. There were over a hundred
techniques altogether, including those Nie Yan was familiar with like
the beginner, middle, and advanced footwork of Shadow Dance and Dance of
 Death. Just mastering two or three of them would allow you to roam
around unimpeded, while mastering five or six would allow you to look
down on the world from high atop the peak.

Nie Yan had no
intention of learning all of these techniques. Just having five or six
of them handy was enough. Besides, some of the things described in this
guide were simply too difficult to pull off.

The fifth page
contained long forgotten secrets such as the whereabouts of Sage Grant’s
 equipment set or the origins of the Somodo Greatsword. There were also
mentions of the Water of Life and Sacred Potions.

There was information on every mythical item that ever appeared in the history of the Atlanta continent.

After skimming through, Nie Yan flipped to the next page.

On
 the sixth page was a mystical star design with an enchanting glow. As
soon as Nie Yan set his eyes on the page, the start flashed with a
dazzling radiance, and a projection of the star appeared in his mind. A
flood of information related to past eras surged into his head, catching
 him off-guard.

He could only passively accept all of this knowledge. Only after a while did he finally finish absorbing all of it.

You have received All Knowing.

You have received the ‘Grand Scholar’ title.

A
 skill and a title…? Nie Yan quickly looked at his skill window, and
noticed that a new passive skill was added—All Knowing. As he read
through the description, he discovered that this passive came with a
host of benefits. The first was a 200% boost to his Intelligence; it was
 unfortunate that he was a Thief and not a Mage, so this was not as
useful to him. The second benefit was that he directly learned the
languages of the elves, beastmen, and any other race that belonged to
the Righteous Faction of Order. Finally, it granted him the
supplementary ability to divine the future of the game world once every
ten days, such as major changes in an empire or or historical events yet
 to occur. As for the Grand Scholar title, it raised his Influence in
all nations by 50, allowed him the use of any transfer point free of
charge, and enjoy the protection of any guard within a 50-meter radius
while in a town or city. He was also given the privilege of riding a
mount inside a city, and he even held the authority to order the guards
to punish any NPC below the rank of viscount!

Any NPC or player
with the rank of baron or lower would have to maintain a deferential
attitude in front of Nie Yan. If such a person insulted his honour,
depending on the severity of the offense and how much Influence the
offender held, they could be jailed for anywhere between one to five
days! This punishment was especially severe for a player. During this
time, they wouldn’t be able to level at all! All they could do was
helplessly pass the time in a jail cell!

This was the power of the Grand Scholar title, possessing supreme authority!

From
 now on, Nie Yan was privileged nobility. The benefits of most titles
only had effect in a specific city or nation. However, Grand Scholar was
 different; its benefits would alway apply whether he was in the
Viridian Empire or Satreen Empire.

Even the chief administrators,
who held immense authority in their respective cities, didn’t easily
dare to offend a person with the title of Scholar. It was because such a
 figure had the ability to divine the future!

Flipping to the seventh page, Nie Yan saw an illustration of a
gallant stallion clad in thick, metal barding framed by a magic runic
circle. It was a spell which allowed the player to summon this warhorse
as a mount.

Nie Yan couldn’t help but be shocked. It was a
Faulkner Warhorse, named after the Faulkner Prairies from which they
originated. These horses were known as the royal steed, and were as fast
 as the wind with a movement speed bonus of 300%. In the previous
timeline, even the cheapest horse sold for the sky-high price of 50
gold, to say nothing of a luxurious mount like the Faulkner Warhorse,
which was exclusively available only to those of extremely high status.
Faulkners raised in the royal stables sold for more than 50,000 gold.
However, gold alone was not enough to purchase one of these mounts.
There was an additional requirement, which was that the buyer needed to
either possess at minimum the rank of a marquis or have at least 50
influence in Calore!

Meeting any of these two requirements was as
difficult as scaling the tallest peaks. Even the leaders of the major
guilds in the previous timeline could only look on with envy at such an
expensive mount.

Nie Yan wanted to see what this Faulkner Warhorse was like after summoning it, but this wasn’t the appropriate place.

After looking through the seventh page, Nie Yan realized there was still one more page left.

When he flipped to the eight page, it blossomed out with a brilliant radiance.

Within
 the light, Nie Yan saw a massive army in an ancient battlefield,
countless majestic towers, and demons and angels battling in the sky
above… Scene after scene flashed past his eyes, as though he was warped
back in time to experience these distant eras firsthand. The very
history of the world was recounted to him in great detail. A desolate
bleakness…

Everything he witnessed had long since disappeared due to the merciless passage of time.