I'm an Engraver, So It's Perfectly Reasonable for Me to Carry a Knife with Me, Right?

[Ruthless male lead + Single female lead + Mythological elements + Not a lighthearted leveling-up story + Not an invincible system. New author, proceed with caution.]

Hundreds of years ago, Earth was stirred by forces from the depths of the universe, and its spiritual energy was revived.

Things were not as wonderful as people imagined.

The spiritual energy contained a strange power that caused the corpses of all things that had died to be resurrected and transformed into ghouls.

Above the corpse demons, there exists something even more terrifying...

There are no ancient methods of cultivating immortality, nor any legendary awakening of supernatural abilities.

But within the spiritual energy, there was also a ghostly aura...

And so... the magic runes appeared.

Some people carry mountain patterns on their backs, which enable them to move mountains and overturn seas, and suppress turmoil.

Some people possess the patterns of rivers and lakes, and can make the long river flow backward with a wave of their hand...

This process also requires a special profession to help these practitioners of magical runes to continuously modify and inscribe the runes.

This makes their runes more perfect, even more complete...

This profession is also known as engraving.

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After Xu Shen found a small black knife in the sewer, his life trajectory quietly veered off course...

[Engraving points +100...]

"I've never seen any other engravers use this engraving tool."

"You'll get tetanus from that cut, won't you?"

"Aren't you an engraver? How come you killed a ghoul with a single punch?"

My name is Xu Shen.

My principle in life is to eliminate threats first, right?

Besides, the world is so chaotic, what's wrong with me, an engraver, carrying a knife with me?

"I'd much rather kill these ghouls here than inscribe magical runes on them!"