Chapter 96 Intermission 21
"The scenario has been completed. Calculating the reward.
"Obtained EXP: 5,500. Ga Coins: 55,000.
"Obtained Equipnt: Dagger
"Completed/Accepted Quests: 2/2
"Completed Special/ Hidden Quests: 0. Unlocked World-building: The Replaced Zaroff
"Ti of Terror Points Increase: 0. High Terror Points: 0%. Average Terror Points: 0%.
"Your Terror Rating is: Embodint of Valor. Extra reward obtained, can be selected later.
"Obtained Skill Points: 420
"Additional Reward from Skill Points Gained: EXP: 4,200, Ga Coins: 42,000
"Scenario Cleared Reward: 80% of EXP gained, 4,400
"Calculation complete. Please continue."
After that, two system announcents followed.
"Your title has been updated to 'Plot Explorer'.
"Your level has increased to fifteen. Maximum Stamina Points increased to 1,500/1,500.
"New Ga Mode unlocked, observable via queueable options."
The rewards this ti were enormous, but Feng Bujue thought that he deserved. After all, he had defeated the impossibly strong Rainsford. Therefore, it was only fair that the rewards matched that impossible feat.
From the system announcent, he realized that unlocking the world-building only nabbed him two hundred Skill Points, so this ant that his actions rewarded him with 220 Skill Points. Perhaps that one kick on the boss earned him more than one hundred Skill Points. After going over the rating review, Feng Bujue went to the storage to put on Casey Jones' Mask. When he did, the system said, "You can choose to show or hide the equipped mask."
Feng Bujue chose to hide it. With the fighting mastery that was improved by the mask, he looked at his status.
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Title: Plot Explorer; EXP: 1,000/15,000; Skill Points: 1,080; Ga Coins: 339,000
Mastery Level: General Ability D, Workmanship E, Sleuthing E, Fighting D, Marksmanship D, dic F, Sorcery F, ?
Inventory 5/10: Mario's Wrench, Eye of Hostility, M191A1 Pistol, Echo Armor, Dagger
Equipnt: Jazz Shoes, Casey Jones' Mask
Storage: 0; Puzzle Cards: Monkey
Skills: Hasty Repair, Below-the-belt Shin Kick, Body Enhancent Spell, Strategic Victory
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Strategic Victory was the skill provided by his new title. Unlike Brain Concussion, this was an active skill.
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Skill Na: Strategic Victory
Skill Type: Active
Effect: Discover the status of the current scenario's final boss, if one exists, directly. Observable data includes height, weight, race, skills, weaknesses, and so on. This skill can be used repeatably, and the cooldown ti is one seconds. If the status of the boss changes for so reason, the skill must be refreshed to see the updated status.
Remark: Knowing your enemy is winning half the battle.
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This skill was imnsely useful for players who preferred strategizing over brute force. Furthermore, it did not cost anything. Passive skills aside, most title skills that did not exhaust any resources ca with a lot of limitations. For example, One Blade's Decapitating Slash could be activated without exhausting anything, but the cooldown ti was more than two hours. Therefore, it was normally reserved for the final boss, but the issue was that the player might not even survive until that far into the scenario.
While skills with exhaustion like Brother Long's Lighting Bash and Xiao Tan's Fleeing Strike, they were skills that needed to exhaust thirty percent of the user's maximum Stamina Points to activate. Therefore, their cooldown ti was comparatively shorter. The forr was one hour, and the latter had no cooldown. In terms of effects, the latter naturally was weaker. It was mostly used for fleeing and would cause little to no damage.
Feng Bujue's new skill, Strategic Victory, not only did not cost anything, it had practically zero cooldown ti. Thus, it was fair that it was not a combat skill. Normally, this skill would only be used once in a scenario where they encountered the boss. For soone with a good mory, seeing the sa set of data again made no sense.
It was worth noting that even among non-title given skills, there were so that did not exhaust anything either. Actually, the closest example was Body Enhancent Spell. Even though the skill would continuously deplete one's Life Points during activation, it did not require anything to activate, not even one Life Point or Mana Point. This kind of skill did not have sothing called activation success rate. Even if the player's mastery level of that skill's school was F, the success rate would be one hundred percent.
For example, if a player's skill that did not cost anything was to blow up light bulbs with a snap of his fingers, even if the system limited him to have twenty percent success rate, all he needed to do was to snap his fingers a few more tis. After all, it was no skin off his back. Such a theory was replicated on the Body Enhancent Spell. If the skill had the chance to fail, then Feng Bujue only needed to reactivate it until he succeeded. The cooldown tir only ca into action after a skill was activated, so for failed activation, there was no cooldown. Hence, for these kinds of skills that had no cost, setting a skill activation success rate made no sense.
"Hmm… I've already reached level fifteen." Feng Bujue stretched lazily. "Since I'm already at this level, it appears like there is no need for to rush to gather EXP anymore. Hmm, since the economy is still lucrative, how about I roll for so equipnt to sell at the auction house."
The economy was rather chaotic since it was the first day of the open beta; no one would know what the situation might be when they logged in next.
Feng Bujue walked to the glass tube and heard the familiar system announcing, "Please select your additional reward: one, an equipnt matching your current level; two, 50,000 Ga Coins; three, six thousand EXP."
He chose the first reward and looked at the gathering light with anticipation. Currently, Feng Bujue was level fifteen, so since it was going to be equipnt that matched his level, he believed that it would not be sothing like 'Rock' again. Those kinds of items were only winnable by extrely unlucky players under level five. However, this ti, history repeated itself, and his anticipation was once again demolished by his karma.
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Item Na: Kid's Baseball Bat
Item Type: Weapon
Quality: Normal
Offense Points: None
Elent: None
Special Effect: None
Remark: To ensure the safety of little baseball players, we have co up with this safety bat. The outside shell is a thick layer of plastic while the inside is filled with air. Even if it makes contact with soone's head, it will not cause any injuries.
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"How in the world is it a 'weapon' if the Offense Points are zero?" Feng Bujue gripped the white bat and waved it twice. "A weapon for a level fifteen player is sothing like this?"
The item was so bad that he felt like if he kept it around, it was only going to take valuable inventory space, so he decided to sell this back to the system shop. Inside the elevator, after the door closed, Feng Bujue set Zone 10 as his fixed Market Zone. He took this downti to check his mailbox and was surprised to find two unread ssages.
The first ca from Passing Rain, and the content was short. "Apologies for disconnecting earlier. Will reconnect later tonight."
She had actually logged in after dinner because she was worried, but at the ti, Feng Bujue had still been in-ga, and it was then that she had left him this ssage.
"She's quite a serious person," Feng Bujue comnted to himself.
The second ssage ca from the system. The title read, "Your auctioned item has been sold."
The content was as such. "Your auctioned item 'Kenny's Hoodie' was directly purchased by player 'Anonymous' for 140,000 Ga Coins. Please clic.k the ssage's attachnt to collect the Ga Coins."
Feng Bujue clicked on the attachnt, and his current Ga Coins rose to 479,000. He could be considered rich. After taking out 100,000 to open a guild, he still had about 380,000 left. That should be enough to buy so apparel to increase his status. Other than that, Feng Bujue noticed that he had been running out of bullets for the M191A1 pistol, so he needed to purchase so ammo. If possible, he also wanted to buy so potions to counteract the exhaustion from whenever he activated the Body Enhancent Spell.
"Hmm? Wait a minute…" Feng Bujue squinted and made a strange expression. "What was I planning to do before starting the scenario?"
After a pause, he nodded. "Oh right… It's ti for dinner…"
…
Sitting up from the gaming hub, he glanced at the clock. It was 6:40 pm. Even though it would not take too long to cook noodles, when he finished, it would be around 7 pm.
Feng Bujue straightened himself up and stretched to unleash the pressure in his spine. Sitting inside the gaming hub for too long was not good for his health. The posture was quite tiring. He glanced at the corner of his living room. Arthas' bowl of cat food was empty, and there was so black substance inside the litter box.
"Huh? So fast?" he exclaid in shock. He turned to look around and saw Arthas sleeping on the sofa. Feng Bujue laughed. "My God… he's a genius! He learned where to poop in one day, and I thought I would have to repeat the lesson a few more tis."
The man was in a good mood. Holding the edges of the gaming hub with his arms, he jumped out from it, and then one of his feet stepped right into a pile of cat sh*t.
"What the… a distraction and a trap?" Feng Bujue groaned. "You are one hell of a strategist!"
"ow…" Arthas on the sofa yawned. The cat wiggled its tail and turned its head away from Feng Bujue, like the man did not deserve its attention. After Feng Bujue cleaned his room and finally sat before the computer with his bowl of noodles, it was already 7:15 pm.
He found a bottle of sauce that he had no idea when he purchased inside the fridge. The expiry date on the cover was too blurry to read, but… as long as the surface was not conspicuously moldy, the man had the courage to put it down his throat. After consecutive days of soup noodles without any sides, when the ti ca, even if all he had was a bottle of vinegar, he would toss that into the noodles without hesitation.
He turned on the computer and logged into the social dia out of habit. To his surprise, his editor had ssaged him. This was a rarity. When Feng Bujue opened the email, his chopsticks fell to the ground.
The email only had one sentence. "Bujue, are you interested in appearing on a television show?"
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