But although these skills are useful, they don’t offer much improvent in the current situation.
According to Zhang Xiaoman’s plan, if he could release the Ship-Slicing Blade in advance and store it in the Ti Imprint, it would beco a powerful trump card in future battles.
Unfortunately, things don’t always go as planned, and he hasn’t found a way to effectively increase his spiritual power limit yet.
"Huh? What’s that?"
While wandering around, a shop’s sign caught his eye and successfully drew his attention.
It was a shop that didn’t look very large, and its overall exterior design blended well with the surrounding environnt, with a strong heavy tal style. Graffiti covered the less than 10 square ter facade, making it look hardly like a reliable place.
However, this seemingly unreliable shop managed to catch Zhang Xiaoman’s eye at that mont.
"Pique Star Pattern Hall?"
He slowly read the na on the sign, feeling a sudden shock in his heart.
"Star Pattern!?"
Zhang Xiaoman’s eyes widened.
If this were in the past, upon seeing a shop with this kind of décor, he would definitely classify it as similar to a tattoo parlor on Water Blue Star.
After witnessing on Erin Star the mysterious patterns used by Ziwei and the Joy Reaper Team during battles, he understood that these Star Patterns weren’t just simple tattoos.
They were Runes capable of greatly enhancing the combat power of Dark Spirits, Runes that nearly all Dark Spirits within the Dark Star Alliance would imprint.
Having previously arrived here and attended auctions as well as cultivated the Ship-Slicing Blade, he had forgotten about this matter.
According to Ziwei, after imprinting Star Patterns, even when not in an activated state, they could bring substantial enhancents.
These enhancents were comprehensive, affecting attributes such as constitution, spiritual power, and reaction speed.
Upon thinking of this, Zhang Xiaoman couldn’t help but show excitent on his face.
Regardless of his urgent need to increase his ability limits, he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to imprint Star Patterns on himself.
In this Star Domain, there are three major professions he was keen to explore.
One was the Star Pattern Master before him, and the other two were the Spell Painter and Dream Master.
The Star Pattern Master, needless to say, could directly enhance the combat power of Imprinters, an effect evident from the battle scenes Zhang Xiaoman witnessed on Erin Star.
The Spell Painter is a profession capable of creating various Dark Spirit Circuits, which can be embedded in equipnt slots to enhance the equipnt or one’s abilities.
Zhang Xiaoman himself had started researching this profession and successfully created "Stability" and "Acceleration" circuits.
The Dream Master was a profession he yearned for but hadn’t yet encountered.
Dream Masters could not only create exquisite movies and gas through dream generators but also use Lemon Dream Powder, also known as Star Dust, to extract objects from dreams and manifest them in reality.
Zhang Xiaoman felt that he had plenty of ways to acquire Star Dust, and there might be opportunities for him to develop in that direction.
Now, before him was this Star Pattern Hall, prompting him to imdiately decide to enhance his power and increase his spiritual power limit by imprinting Star Patterns, achieving two goals at once.
"There should be more than one Star Pattern Hall on this planet..."
He didn’t enter imdiately but instead opened his personal terminal.
After all, imprinting Star Patterns didn’t seem like a trivial matter, and this shop in front of him looked too shabby. Given the choice, Zhang Xiaoman naturally preferred a better option.
"Star Pattern Hall... There are... three in total on Skull Star? Including the official hall of the Dark Spirit Association, that’s four... so few!?"
Surprised by the search results, Zhang Xiaoman was taken aback.
He even saw images of the other two Star Pattern Halls on his personal terminal, which didn’t look much different than before.
All appeared as shabby little shops on the outside, leading him to wonder if this was a peculiar hobby of new Star Pattern Masters or just unique to this planet.
Imdiately, Zhang Xiaoman focused his attention on the official Star Pattern Master of the Dark Spirit Association. Having the chance to take the official route for imprinting, he would naturally choose it over sothing akin to a roadside stall.
To his utter surprise, the official hall’s Star Pattern Master’s status indicated being busy, and upon checking the reservations, Zhang Xiaoman found out that the wait was seven years ahead.
Moreover, considering the current busy state of that Star Pattern Master, the estimated remaining ti needed was at least a month or so, which made him click his tongue in awe.
"Does it really take that long to craft a Star Pattern?"
After pondering for a mont, Zhang Xiaoman felt relieved.
Indeed, if Star Patterns, as a ans to greatly enhance combat power, could be done with ease, it would be strange.
Since the official Star Pattern Master was busy, Zhang Xiaoman didn’t hesitate and stepped directly into the Star Pattern Hall before him.
"As expected, this place doesn’t look reliable at all..."
He glanced around, examining the surroundings and finding them as anticipated—very rudintary.
The entire room was only about 50 square ters in size, dimly lit, with a few worn-out tables and chairs crowded in a corner, on which sat a bunch of test tubes filled with unknown liquids making "bubbling" sounds.
A blond man wearing brown pants and shirtless was sitting among those test tubes.
He leaned on a chair with his feet higher than his head, his whole body covered in tattoos, making it hard to determine how many Star Patterns he had.
The blond man squinted his eyes, holding a straw from the container of unknown liquid, enjoying the gas inside.
"Yo, a custor, here for a tattoo?"
Without lifting his butt, the man greeted Zhang Xiaoman with a wave of his hand, pulling a semi-transparent screen in front of him.
"Is this... ordinary tattoos?"
Upon seeing the price list on the screen, Zhang Xiaoman was stunned for a mont.
"Oh? Here to imprint Star Patterns."
The man swiftly stood up from the chair, first extinguishing the fla under the test tubes, then paced over to Zhang Xiaoman, sizing him up.
"Bro, first ti here for Star Pattern imprinting? The first Star Pattern can be done quickly, within two hours, and it’ll cost you a million. How about it, interested?"
Zhang Xiaoman was slightly startled, curious about how the man imdiately knew he had never imprinted a Star Pattern before.
Through the information revealed in the other’s words, he also learned that imprinting the first Star Pattern didn’t take that long.
"Oh, don’t be surprised, bro. I’ve been in this line for hundreds of years, and your expression might as well have ’first imprint’ written on it."
"Don’t worry, we’re an officially registered formal Star Pattern Hall, so the craftsmanship is sothing you absolutely needn’t worry about. The Star Pattern Master from the official association was trained by , and I can surely imprint better than him!"
"Besides, I need to tell you the rule first. Our prices are 20,000 Star Coins higher than the official rate, but Pique’s craftsmanship is undoubtedly the best across this whole Star System!"
"..."
"Oh well, I don’t want to deceive you. To be honest, the first Star Pattern will be the sa wherever you do it. The difference is, at the Dark Spirit Association, you’ll have to slowly wait in line, but here, you get direct hands-on scheduling. Interested?"
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