Allen looked at Sun Wukong and with a smile, he bowed his head sincerely.

"Thank you, Monkey King. Although I still can’t fully trust you completely, however for this time, thank you…" Allen thanked her sincerely.

Allen wasn’t stupid. If he really met one of the Monster Kings at his current state, he wonders if he could even at least bark.

Monster Kings are not simple monsters… they are monsters among monsters and although he is confident with his strength, he is not foolish enough to think he could already defeat them!

He even doubted he could give them a good fight. He will just lose more friends and family.

Allen’s gaze turned to Madam White and Lightning Qilin who was sitting not far away from him. Surely, they would be the one to fall first if that really happens…

The two monsters noticed Allen’s gaze.

““Master?”” The two simultaneously called out.

“It’s nothing,” Allen answered with a faint smile.

He didn’t need any proof, Lightning Qilin’s honor that restricts him from abandoning his master and Madam White’s loyalty and love, these are enough for Allen to know that they would surely sacrifice themselves just to let him live!

Just thinking about it brings pain in his heart.

He is really grateful for Sun Wukong’s help.

“It’s my privilege. However as I’ve said before, It's important to not be fettered by trivial matters of address.” The infamous Monkey King pouted while saying this. “Just call me Old Sun.”

"…Old Sun…?" Allen smiled wryly.

Monkey King finally showed a smile of satisfaction. “Anyway, I finally thought of something to give you as a gift.”

“!?”

“Although I don’t have any good things that I can bestow without any problem but from what I remember, you should have that huge monkey with you, don’t you? Bring him out.”

“Hm?” huge monkey? Is she talking about the [ Titan Ape ]?

Allen shrugs his shoulder and obeyed. He called out his summoning Grimoire and the huge [ Titan Ape ] appeared.

Sun Wukong looked at the [ Titan Ape ] and extended her slender arm. A white light came out, shooting towards the [ Titan Ape ].

The [ Titan Ape ] was enveloped by a white light and suddenly returned into the summoning grimoire.

Looking at Allen’s confused gaze, Sun Wukong smiled lightly. “I’m just giving it a powerful boost, as for how far it reached, it depends on its potential.”

“Boost?”

“Human King, I am still the Monkey King as well as the Monkey God! Improving monkeys is as easy as flipping a page of a book, though it did consume some of my power. But it will recover after a few days, so no need to fret.”

“So you mean, Ape is leveling up?” Allen flips the book’s page and looks at Ape’s description. Indeed, it was shining up in white color.

[ [ Titan Ape ] Status: Inactive, Dormant. Undergoing Evolution. ]

“If you still have any monkeys then I can also help them improve but too bad, you only have one~” Sun Wukong took a deep look at him: “Though, that child’s potential seems not bad. It will be extremely powerful when it grows~”

“… …”

“Is this gift satisfies you?”

“More than enough,” Allen closed the book and it vanished. He stared at Sun Wukong, excited. “I give my thanks, Old Sun.”

“Hohoho, be thankful for this old sun have slight affection to my kind~”

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As Allen was wasting his time caressing Li Meihua’s fur, he suddenly felt a comfortable feeling rushing through every part of his body. It was comfortable and relaxing…

It heals fatigue, causing his body to feel extremely light and comfortable as well his mind becoming ever clearer.

So this is what she meant by the hot spring’s wonder effects.

In front of him was the infamous Monkey King, quietly enjoying the bath while drinking.

Truly, it was best to just sit back and relax for a change.

“Say old sun,”

“Hm?”

“You said Alkrasha ask you to give me something… what is it?”

Sun Wukong poured another cup of wine and drunk it.

“Here,”

She waved her hand and out of nowhere, a small pouch flew towards Allen.

Allen caught it. “A storage bag?”

Storage bags aren’t new for Allen.

It was an item that can store things beyond its capacity but it still had limits.

In fact, it was extremely popular several years later.

At first, it can only be acquired through Silver crystals so its value was as huge as hundred or more Low-rank monster cores. But as time passed by, ruins were discovered.

Ancient ruins, Magical spaces, and others.

Inside of these places, one can find magical things and items such as storage bags. So its value dramatically decreased but that would only happen later on, so at this stage, storage bags are extremely valuable.

“Look inside.”

Allen poured the things inside and several things came out.

Looking at them, Allen’s eyes open widely in surprised.

“Things from Bremen, the town of musicians. In your present state, all of them would be extremely helpful.”

“Grimm’s fairy tales?”

Bremen. Not the real one but the fictional one which was described in the story of Grimm brothers. A story where the five animals that were considered useless traveled to and managed to reach the city - Though, in fact, it wasn't five animals, instead, it was five weak monsters who seek for asylum and found the Monster Kings' city where everywhere, music resided. Many musicians gathered at that time to play a banquet for the Monster Kings and so the five monsters entered the competition and unexpectedly won... since that time, the city was called the City of Musicians...

“Indeed, these things will be extremely helpful.” Allen looked at the things sprawled in the ground with a gentle gaze.

A huge Egg.

A tattered stone tablet filled with cracks and looked ancient.

Four small vials with crimson liquid inside.

Three similar vials with yellow liquid and others were four green vials.

There were also five black colored small crystal balls and an ash colored gloves.

Lastly, six oranges like fruits.

Of course, Allen knows what these things are. The huge Egg was, from the look of it, a monster egg.

Although he doesn’t know as to what kind of monster it was but judging from its appearance, it should be quite a good monster.

As for the 11 vials, these were potions created by alchemists. Not from Silver crystals but those created by someone.

Unlike those acquired from silver crystals, created personally by alchemist tend to have stronger effects.

Crimson vials are HP potions.

Yellow vials are Strength potions and green vials are Agility potions; Potions that could increase agility and strength by 30% at most.

As for the six oranges-like fruits, if Allen wasn’t mistaken these should be fruits that was dubbed as fruit of life. It was the main ingredient to make HP potions and could heal physical wounds up to some extent if eaten directly.

- Though it should be better to use it to make HP potions instead of eating it raw. After all, the effects are slightly inferior compared to HP potions.

The ash colored gloves, Allen wasn’t sure as to what it was. After all, he doesn’t possess any kind of appraisal type ability.

But the most important things among these were the stone tablet as well as the five black crystal balls.

In fact, no matter how many years passed by, these were among the things most searched for by Superhumans.

Allen took the ancient stone tablet and saw an image engrave on it.

On the top corner of the tablet was letters, no if Allen wasn’t mistaken, this should be what they call hieroglyphics!

The ancient Egyptian writing system!

The image was depicting a man wearing an Atef crown and on his both hands were a crook and a flail.

Besides the man was a stone table with someone on top of it. What’s more peculiar about the image was that, from the body, pictures of wheat are growing from it.

Osiris!

A name of a God appeared inside his mind.

Allen was certain.

In Egyptian Mythology, Osiris was one of the most prominent gods.

He is identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead, but more appropriately as the god of transition, resurrection, and regeneration.

And if Allen was not mistaken, this tablet holds one of his powers!

A holy relic, a relic of God, A God’s Grimoire, many names it was called.

But Superhumans like to call it ‘The Tome of Forbidden Knowledge’

In short, [ Forbidden Tomes ].

It was called as such because it possesses knowledge from the Gods themselves; their power, abilities, and information way beyond a normal human can do.

These types of tomes can be acquired from Silver Crystals, Ancient Ruins, Magical spaces and many more – though Godly tomes like this one is much, much rarer than the other kind of tomes.

But how did Alkrasha acquired this kind of thing?

Bremen? Did an explorer discovered it from some ruins and sold it?

This kind of things has no value for ordinary monsters; after all, they are not illegible enough to acquire the knowledge from it. Though, it’s completely different for Monster Kings.

But Alkrasha actually gave it to him?

A smile crept on Allen’s lips as he gently caressed the rough surface of the stone tablet.

Experts said that it was created by gods to preserve their wisdom and power – though the ability wasn’t actually as powerful as you imagined.

It could be said to only possess a fraction of God’s ability – if not, many Superhumans would have call themselves Gods already.

However, even though it’s just mere fraction, it was still overpowered compared to normal supernatural abilities.

“A wonderful thing. Don’t you agree?”

Allen heard Sun Wukong’s voice behind him.

“Indeed,”

“Even though it’s a God’s Knowledge, I don’t like it. I can feel dark aura from it.” Sun Wukong sounded displeased.

Allen’s smiled from her words.

Ding! A familiar chime rang out.

[ Congratulations Allen Bando! You have acquired Osiris’ Tome! ]

[ Do you wish to learn it? ]

“Yes.”

The stone tablet lit up and was suddenly by a blinding light.

But at this moment, Allen suddenly let out a horrific scream.

“Graaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!”

The excruciating pain he was suffering at this moment was out of anyone’s imagination.

He felt as if his head was going to explode and his mind was already on the brink of collapse.

“““Master!!””” Lightning Qilin and the others were startled as they immediately rushed towards their master who was groaning in the ground, wailing like a dying pig.

“Master what happened?!”

“Master!”

“Fear not children and calm down, this is inevitable as consuming a God’s knowledge is certainly too much for a human.”

“But Master is!”

"—Your majesty, could it be that you know what is happening to our master?" The Lightning QIlin asked with great respect.

"To be precise, I am not quite sure. But what I know is that, he was currently usurping a God’s knowledge.”

“A God’s knowledge?!”

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( Osiris Forbidden Tome looked like this, if you're interested~ )