Chapter 693 – Dreamweaver World 31

Mo Lan’s cat eyes went perfectly round — she never expected to attract this much attention from adventurers so quickly.

After all, in the year-plus she’d spent in the dream realm, she had never deeply interacted with any adventurers, always circling among dream citizens instead.

On the rare occasions she bought materials from adventurers, she only visited each one once, switching to a different animal form each time, making it impossible for anyone to notice her.

It seemed the connections between dream citizens and adventurers ran deeper than she had imagined.

Listening to Downs’s description, Mo Lan could already picture just how wildly those absurd rumors on the dream realm forums had fermented.

She shook her head helplessly. “I think you’ve misunderstood. I haven’t received any hidden quest, and I don’t have a method for dual-classing two main professions…”

Mo Lan deliberately let a hesitant expression cross her face. “I simply changed jobs from Beast Speaker to Forest Warden, that’s all. Shadow Cat Transformation is one of my racial special transformation skills — it isn’t affected by profession…”

At this point, she silently congratulated herself on having prepared for this long ago.

Ever since discovering she could convert Mana into the power of animal transformation, she had deliberately maintained a low profile.

When she was a Beast Speaker, she only publicly displayed her Trailing Orchid Transformation ability and only attended the single orchid transformation class for plant transformation.

After switching to Forest Warden, she only used Shadow Cat Transformation when going out for classes and errands. Although she used other animal forms when purchasing materials, she always teleported to various spots around the village using Spatial Magic before heading to the market, and the animal forms she used there were ones she had never displayed in front of anyone — making it impossible for people to link those animal forms back to her.

From start to finish, she had never publicly demonstrated transformation abilities that exceeded professional limitations. All that caution was finally paying off.

But Downs looked thoroughly unconvinced. “If you can’t dual-class two main professions, then why did you spend a fortune learning all those Beast Speaker animal transformation skills, only to turn around and abandon that profession to become a Forest Warden?”

“That relates to the ‘method of obtaining large quantities of skill points’ I mentioned.”

Mo Lan had no desire to say more. She glanced at the sky, which was gradually turning red — the dream realm was about to close — and deliberately left him hanging:

“It’s getting late today. Tomorrow at midnight in the dream realm, let’s meet here again. I’ll give you a list then, and if you can provide everything on it, I’ll lay out the entire method.

I guarantee this method has absolute universal applicability. Everyone — regardless of race, profession, or level — can use it, as long as they’re diligent enough, patient enough, and persistent enough. Moreover, with this method, there is no upper limit on how many skill points you can obtain.”

Downs’s pupils dilated slightly. He was both an intelligence investigator for hidden quests and an adventurer who understood the dream realm’s rules extremely well.

He knew the value of skill points perfectly well.

Limited in quantity and difficult to obtain, skill points had always been a stumbling block on every adventurer’s path of growth, often forcing them to give up skills they had their hearts set on.

If what this adventurer before him claimed was true, that situation would be completely transformed.

But professional habit kept him skeptical. “You’d better not be playing tricks. The Federation’s intelligence acquisition prices are indeed generous, but the cost of deceiving us is even steeper.”

Mo Lan flashed a confident smile. “All will be revealed in due time.”

With that, she walked past him toward the Heartwood Inn, returning to her room at the inn just before the dream realm closed.

After returning to the real world, Mo Lan didn’t immediately dive into studying skill books as she usually did. Instead, she did something rare — she opened her communication watch and logged into the dream realm forums she hadn’t checked in ages.

The forum’s main page was fine, but the moment she clicked into the Forest Isle subforum, a string of trending posts related to her instantly flooded the screen.

Beyond those rumor posts containing words like “hidden quest” and “rare profession,” there were all sorts of doxxing threads.

Titles like “Observation Report on the Shadow Cat of Greenwood Village” and “The Mysterious Dual-Class Adventurer’s Movement Routes and Animal Forms — A Full Exposé”… each title was more alarming than the last.

Mo Lan frowned and clicked open several posts.

It turned out her Shadow Cat form had long been thoroughly dissected by the adventurers.

Someone had compiled a “Complete Timetable of All Shadow Cat Sightings in Greenwood Village,” using process of elimination to pin down her activity patterns. Someone else had captured clear footage of her transforming and was analyzing her Shadow Cat’s physical characteristics frame by frame. There were even people surveilling the window of her usual room at the inn, and they had discovered her titmouse form.

“This is way too much…”

Mo Lan muttered to herself, her fingers rapidly swiping across the screen.

She wasn’t the only dream citizen or adventurer in Greenwood Village who could use Shadow Cat Transformation and Titmouse Transfiguration, but each person’s Shadow Cat form had differences in build, height, activity area, and so on.

The Shadow Cat and titmouse that frequently came and went from the Heartwood Inn were all her transformations — no wonder she’d been found out.

With people photographing and filming her like this, analyzing footage frame by frame, and studying her movement routes, no amount of transformation skill could help.

No wonder she’d been feeling lately that there were more small animals with mediocre transformation skills lurking around the Heartwood Inn. She had originally thought they were adventurers in animal forms gathering nearby for fun — turns out they had all been there to surveil her!

Fortunately, the only forms exposed were her Shadow Cat and titmouse, which she hadn’t particularly tried to conceal. She hadn’t used her other animal forms on her regular routes, so those remained undiscovered for now.

“Better to cash in the skill point information sooner rather than later, and redirect these people’s attention!”

Mo Lan stopped paying attention to these posts and instead went to her bookmarks, pulling up a guide thread called “Beginner Zone Comprehensive Summary of Races, Professions, and Skills.” She began copying down every single item mentioned in it, one by one.

She planned to trade the skill point information for settlement guarantee letters for all common races in the Beginner Zone, race transfer ceremony materials, all common profession invitation letters, and their corresponding skill books.

These things were not hard for the Dreamweaver Federation to obtain, given their contact points across every floating island in the Beginner Zone. They probably even had plenty in stock.

Even if the quantities were large and the total value considerable, the Dreamweaver Federation would surely be willing to trade these relatively easy-to-obtain items for a method of acquiring skill points.

After all, what she was describing was a universally applicable, reliable method for obtaining skill points — its significance for adventurers was enormous.

As the largest human faction in the real world and simultaneously the largest adventurer faction in the dream realm, the Dreamweaver Federation would certainly not let this opportunity pass.

Besides the Dreamweaver Federation, there was no one else Mo Lan could sell this information to and receive this many settlement guarantee letters, profession invitation letters, and skill books in return.

Whether she was interested in them or not, she wrote everything onto the list.

Her plan was this: for the ones she wasn’t interested in or already knew, she would simply read through the skill books to broaden her knowledge. For the fresh Magic that did interest her, she would take the settlement guarantee letters and profession invitation letters, go directly to transfer her race and profession, and pay dream citizens for lessons.

This would be far faster than seeking out each opportunity on her own.