Huh? Isn't This A Galgame?

Now Wen Nan has two skills [No Dirty Thoughts] and [Endurance is Key]. Previously, when he and Yu Shujun tried it inside the Divine Staff Sheath, they unlocked a set of combination techniques that were quite powerful, even capable of breaking through the barrier crafted by the Creator God himself.

However, this set of combination techniques has a major problem - its casting conditions are too stringent.

Last time inside the Divine Staff Sheath, it was essentially a completely enclosed secret room. He and Yu Shujun did that thing, completely unnoticed, with no third person knowing about it—almost a perfect casting environment.

But what if he encounters a similar situation in the future and needs to use this set of combination techniques? It's very likely there won't be such a perfect secret room available; what then?

You can't possibly face a crisis and suddenly lie flat in front of everyone to start a wild session, right?

In this situation, a tool that can temporarily store the stolen skills and have them ready when crucial—becomes essential.

It seems this rather out-of-field named and shaped gag ball is exactly the tool Wen Nan needs.

Of course, he definitely won't use this sort of thing on himself.

According to the annotation, if the skills are replicated, both the original and the replica can be targets for wearing this.

In other words, he can put this tool on someone else, then steal their skills, lock them in, store them for future use.

But his skill [No Dirty Thoughts] will have the effects of the stolen skill discounted based on his own level and attribute value. So, according to the system explanation, even if he places the tool on the target, the ultimately locked-in skills are still the ones he has stolen, albeit with a discount.

But if combined with [Endurance is Key], by first enhancing the skill effect and then locking it into this tool, it'd be nearly perfect.

For Wen Nan, he just needs to ensure all "preparations" are perfectly done before the next task, and then everything is fine.

Speaking of which, last time that [Root Breaking Slash] was genuinely useful, truly deserving as the main skill of a player at the Gold rank. Even when limited to only one-tenth of its output, it's still extremely powerful.

Next time, he might try stealing it once again.

But having reached the Gold rank, surely there's more than one innate skill, probably quite a few formidable ones too? Perhaps he could try stealing others...

Wen Nan was lost in thought, his mind calculating, the corners of his lips unconsciously curling up.

Halfway through curling, his smile froze.

No, stop it!

What is he doing?

Why is he fantasizing about having a second, third, or even many times with Yu Shujun?!

Before they were trapped inside the Divine Staff Sheath, just the two of them, and Yu Shujun's state was locked by the staff, he was forced to resort to such means…

Since it was "forced", and such "force" no longer exists, what is he even thinking?

Even if after being modified by [Universal Eve], the other party's body became female, it's still not truly female.

That thing, they can't possibly do it a second time, not in a million years!

Bah!

Wen Nan erased all those "wrong" and "inexplicable" thoughts from his mind and promptly tucked the gadget ball into the reserve equipment slot.

The tool he got is indeed a good one, yet how to use it in the future, that requires further discussion.

For now, he has other tasks to complete first.

Wen Nan got out of bed, took a glance at the countdown floating before him—

[Time remaining until the next instance starts: 01:36:52——]

Probably because the next map is still intermediate, the rest time between these two instances is very short. After drawing, only about an hour and a half is left.

This time, going for a membership entrance interview would certainly be too late, and Wen Nan doesn't feel like attending to it himself right now.

Gu Jinxing and the others haven't come out from the last instance yet; it's estimated that Wen Nan won't run into them before entering the next one.

Clicking into the player community interface, in [Wenna] Association's page, Wen Nan found the contacts for Gu Jinxing and Huang Yan and sent a group email, assigning them a task as the president. He requested them to conduct a round of interviews for all players who submitted membership applications during the instance rest period, screening a batch of candidates for Wen Nan to conduct a second round of interviews.

While stepping out, he issued the task, and by the time he was finished, Wen Nan had already left the guild office.

After greeting Liang Yiming, Han Feng, and Doctor Lu sitting by the curb, Wen Nan walked straight towards a familiar black cubic building in the gaming hall—the Public Center.

The narrow entrance, just wide enough for one person, remained tightly shut. Wen Nan pushed the door open and quickly saw the slicked-back NPC in a suit standing behind the counter inside.

In a flat tone, the NPC asked, "Mr. Ye, what do you need?"

Wen Nan pointed with his chin to the row of display cases behind the NPC, "I need to buy a private domain."

The receptionist quickly turned around, and moments later, emerged with a row of samples, placing them before Wen Nan one by one.

Each was the size of a microwave, aligned side by side, and inside each box, the state of the domain for sale was displayed in detail via holographic projection.