["Thank you, Big Boss Ethan. If it weren't for the skill book you lent me today, I wouldn't have been able to kill that jungle wolf at all. I've been here for so long and never managed to eat any meat, so to thank you, besides the thirty percent from the hunt, I'll also give you an extra heart to show my gratitude."]
[Skill book rental interest: One wolf hind leg, one piece of wolf chest meat (bonus: one wolf heart, as thanks)]
'Not bad! Not bad!'
The first batch of interest had finally been collected.
It wasn't just this person either. Ethan had received over fifty monster-hunting drops in total, all kinds of random stuff.
[Skill book rental interest: hard-shell turtle meat x10]
[Skill book rental interest: spotted tiger meat x25]
[Skill book rental interest: cave bear meat x30]
[Skill book rental interest: burrow rat-bear meat x5]
[Skill book rental interest: hyena meat x10]
[Skill book rental interest: brown man-eating scorpion tail x1 + brown man-eating scorpion claw x1]
[Skill book rental interest: giant cockroach meat x5]
[Skill book rental interest: giant centipede legs x10]
[Skill book rental interest: amphibious man-eating piranha meat x2]
A whole pile of interest rewards popped up with clinking sounds.
But when Ethan saw that someone had actually taken down a piranha, he couldn't help but exclaim, "What a talent! How the hell did he manage to land a successful slide tackle on a damn piranha?"
After tasting the sweetness of renting out skill books, he decided to copy even more Putian knockoff goods and put them up for rent.
Others kill monsters, and he takes thirty percent interest.
This was way more cost-effective than sending his own subjects out to hunt.
After all, if there really was danger, the ones in danger would be them, not his subjects. Compared to players, Ethan still cherished his own tool men more.
He glanced over all the skill books he had: [Grand Fireball Spellbook], [Ice Freeze Spellbook That's Basically Useless], [Soft and Squishy Spell], [Hard as a Rock Spellbook], [Skill Book · One-Blade Style], [Skill Book · Precision].
The Grand Fireball and Ice Freeze spellbooks required elemental affinity to learn.
Even among Ethan's own subjects, only a handful had managed to learn them.
Plus, these two spells didn't actually have very strong attack power.
If it weren't for Ethan's extremely high intelligence, combining various monster weaknesses to create super effects, then even if someone learned them, they'd still be pretty damn useless.
So those two were out.
As for the remaining Soft and Squishy and Hard as a Rock spells, Ethan didn't even need to think to know what this bunch of single old hands would use them for.
He absolutely did not want to receive billions of lives in return. Just thinking about it made him feel sick.
Then in the end… The only skill books he could sell were just two.
[Skill Book · Precision] and [Skill Book · One-Blade Style] were both practical skill books, but after some thought, Ethan still decided not to rent out Precision.
Because Precision meant never missing, every shot hitting the mark.
And for the players in Zone 7, as long as they weren't his subjects, he couldn't guarantee that every single one of them knew how to be grateful. If these people learned Precision and then used it against him or his subjects... Then the one who'd suffer would only be Ethan himself, so ranged skills couldn't be sold.
That meant… The only skill book he could sell was [Skill Book · One-Blade Style].
Ethan took out the duplicator and copied 140 copies first.
Zone 7 had 99 players, 1 lord, and 45 subjects. One per person. But he also had to consider that some people would be reluctant to give up meat to Ethan.
So he copied a few fewer to save spirit stones.
If all 140 copies were sold, he could just duplicate more then.
Swish~ Swish~ Swish~
Scroll after scroll of skill books increased in the warehouse.
Ethan took one out and learned it first to see the effect.
[Skill Book · One-Blade Style: After learning this attack skill, you can make enemies fall to the ground without even seeing your blade. Special effect: a certain chance to awaken Iaijutsu.]
[PS: You need a decent blade to use this skill! Be careful, ordinary blades might snap.]
After Ethan learned One-Blade Style, his mind instantly filled with a lot of knowledge about swords.
For example, how to grip the blade, how to use waist strength and inertia to generate power.
How to achieve unity between man and blade.
He immediately took out his Dragon-Slaying Blade, then pulled five pieces of wood from the warehouse and lined them up one by one. Gripping the blade, he swung it at the wood.
Whish!
With one slash, Ethan could even feel the airflow slicing past his body.
The wood in front of him, under the One-Blade Style, appeared completely intact, until several seconds later, when the row of five wooden boards slid straight down toward the ground.
Boom!
The five horizontally cut pieces of wood hit the ground with a dull thud.
Only then did Ethan examine the cut surfaces. The cuts were just like they'd been done with an electric saw, smooth and flawless, even saving the trouble of sanding.
Running his fingers over them… He really couldn't feel a single splinter.
Ethan suddenly recalled something a god-tier chef once said. If you want to test how sharp a blade is, or how good someone's knife skills are, the simplest way is… Cut ginger.
If the ginger has no fibers, the blade is sharp.
If the slices are uniform in thickness, the skill is strong.
Looking at the five pieces of wood in front of him, Ethan nodded in satisfaction.
What did this scene prove? It proved that his blade was sharp, his skill was strong, and he'd already reached the level of unity between man and blade. Indeed, not bad at all.
[Obtained additional skill: Iaijutsu!]
Immediately after, knowledge of how to draw the blade and how to sheath it appeared in his mind, just like some kind of file being transmitted in.
Turning him into an expert in a single second.
"Oh?"
He actually unlocked Iaijutsu, 'I really am worthy of being a genius among geniuses.'
Ethan immediately conducted another experiment on the remaining half of the wood. He sheathed the Dragon-Slaying Blade, then tightly gripped the hilt.
"A blade in the heart beats a blade in the hand!"
"I draw!"
Whoosh!
The next moment, the Dragon-Slaying Blade was instantly drawn from the scabbard, then returned at an extreme speed, so fast that even Ethan himself couldn't clearly see it.
But just that instant when the blade left the sheath.
Boom!
The wood in front of Ethan… Completely exploded.
This time, the wood wasn't cut. It was like something had blown it apart, shattering it into pieces.
"Record the video just now, send."
"And add the caption: How lonely it is to be invincible."
Ethan would never miss any chance to flex.
He wanted the players to see just how invincible he was, how lonely he was, and at the same time how powerful his weapons and skill books for sale were.
Of course… The first two points were the focus.
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