190: Chapter 174: The Seed 190: Chapter 174: The Seed Li Cheng once again saved Jiang Shaoxi without injury, completed task objectives one and two, killed Jiang Zhihui, and conveniently arranged a good future for the entire Jiang family, thus rightfully securing an S for the final task evaluation.
[Task Reward 1: Experience Points 1000]
[Task Reward 2: Ga Coin 1000]
After multiplying by a factor of 1.6, Li Cheng gained 1600 experience points, advancing from the original Lv11, experience bar at 60/1100, to Lv12, experience bar at 560/1200.
Ga coins also increased from the original 3249 to 4849.
Having saved up almost half of his minor goal, it was indeed a matter for celebration.
[Task Reward 3: Randomly plunder the highest quality item and one skill from Jiang Zhihui’s backpack]
Killing fields, to so extent, encourage players to pit against or even kill each other.
There are many proofs of this, such as the player’s qualifications which can be transferred by killing;
Items dropped outside of a deceased player’s backpack are marked as unclaid and can be picked up freely;
And sotis killing fields would issue deathmatch tasks, forcing players to fight to the bitter end until a winner is decided.
Randomly plundering items and skills is a standard reward configuration for deathmatch tasks.
“Jiang Zhihui dropped this skill [Demon Exchange], if it cos in the form of a scroll, it should at least be of perfect quality.”
Li Cheng pondered, “Its special effect [King’s Carriage Swap] allows one to exchange spatial coordinates with a servant demon under his command.
It is a relatively rare and precious spatial ability, and its cooling ti is short, only thirty seconds.
The consumption is low as well; it only requires 70 spiritual energy points and physical value to activate.”
When Li Cheng and Gray Rain used their combined skill, they played out a scene like a teorite colliding with Earth, which was about the limit of destructive power that players of this level could achieve.
The result was surprisingly good.
The interesting part is that Jiang Zhihui, the original owner of the skill, couldn’t unleash its full potential—
Her life essence was as a spiritual body; she had no such thing as a physical value and had to rely on Jiang ixi, who served as her physical host, to release the skill.
And Jiang ixi was just an untrained ordinary high school girl, where the consumption of 70 life points could nearly take half her life.
Hence, Jiang Zhihui could only use the [Demon Exchange] skill once in a short period.
Otherwise, she could have been more imaginative, such as releasing a large Bull Demon Shikigami in advance, letting it swallow an explosive pack, and then hiding two or three thousand kiloters away.
When the fight started, Jiang Zhihui could approach Li Cheng and suddenly unleash [Demon Exchange], teleporting the Shikigami and the explosives right in front of Li Cheng for a thunderous explosion.
Li Cheng was pleased to acquire the skill and turned to look at the item that Jiang Zhihui had dropped along with gold coins.
It was an extrely thick blue leather-bound book, with the first page bearing elaborate and ornate gold-embossed Otherworld characters.
[Item Na: chanic Master’s Certificate]
[Type: Power Seed]
[Quality: Perfect]
[Special Effect: Path of Advancent.
After use, automatically beco a Level 1 chanical Master, instantaneously mastering necessary knowledge of arcane energy, chanical engineering, magic injection transformation, and so on.
As knowledge and experience accumulate and mastery of skills improve, one can continuously advance]
[Consumption: None]
[Cooling Ti: None]
[Use Conditions: Intellect Attribute greater than or equal to 10 points, possession of a Bachelor’s degree in chanical Engineering]
[Note: After use, a randomly styled chanic’s Mark will appear on the owner’s body.
The mark can be hidden, erased, or modified at will]
[Note: chanic Master’s Certificate is repelled by certain other Power Seeds, depending on their compatibility]
[Note: Power Seeds cannot be directly transferred and can be extracted from the owner through special rituals or by killing and stripping]
[Note: chanical Masters are pioneers who ld the arts of magic and chanical engineering.
They may beco great inventors who create peace and prosperity, or warmongers who traffick in death and destruction.
This depends on how they use their boundless ingenuity—Olande Baihu, the 30th Dean of Talin chanic Institute]
[Note: Damn these newbie students, I’ve told them so many tis not to concoct space rocket fuel formulas with black magic in the dormitories.
This is the third ti this month that they’ve blown up the dorms!
Fail and repeat the course, all of them—Olande Baihu]
Ignoring the remark full of talking points, Li Cheng’s eyes sparkled as he took a deep breath.
A Power Seed!
A perfect quality Power Seed!
On the player forums, there were two definitions of Power Seeds, broad and narrow.
Broadly speaking, it includes but is not limited to things like Super Soldier Serum, T-Virus, Bloodline Embrace Ceremony, One Piece Devil Fruit, Soul Cutting Sword, Supre Bone, Martial Arts Secret Manual, Magic Potion Path, and so on.
Upon obtaining these, ordinary people could tap into, learn, and even master extraordinary powers and transcend the mundane.
The auction house Treasure Pavilion that Li Cheng had visited auctioned off a One Piece Devil Fruit not long ago.
Even though its effect was unpredictable (and might co with side effects) because of its nature, it still sold for nearly 20,000 ga coins, highlighting its value.
The narrow definition of Power Seeds must refer to items authenticated by the killing field, which are exceedingly rare.
After being used, not only could one master an extraordinary power, but also they could attain pertinent knowledge about how to use the power, and even a clear path of power progression and strengthening.
It is essentially a super package that combines the functions of an awakening ceremony, bone refinent, library, databank, and a wise old ring ntor.
Skills acquired through Power Seeds do not occupy slots in a player’s skill bar.
Their restrictions and use conditions are sowhat more relaxed than those of player skills.
Furthermore, Power Seeds enable players to master a cultivation thod, constantly raising their upper limit and recovery speed of Spiritual Power.
Li Cheng opened his laptop, logged into the player forum, and searched for information on narrowly-defined Power Seeds.
After overlooking the advertisent posts, there were only a few substantial threads—the rarity of these items made sense, as once they appeared, they would be bought at high prices by large guilds and digested internally, never seen on the open market.
The most reliable information found dated back to a case from a year ago.
At that ti, a Dragon Clan Mage’s Power Seed accidentally appeared on an auction house website, and in less than half an hour, it soared to an auction price of 100,000 ga coins, and the price was still climbing.
Several guilds fiercely bid for it, and just as it seed likely to be won by the Thousand Throats Beast Guild, soone in desperation hacked the website, forcibly interrupting the auction process.
It eventually even sparked a guild war, so Transcendents died, and it took the involvent of the Global Supernatural Alliance, with a United Nations background, to settle the entire disturbance.
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