Chapter 739: 第737章 感谢“黑暗之主”兄弟打赏的噬光
Chapter 737: 736: Thanks to “Lord of Darkness” for the reward of Light Eater Bomb
The news of Orchid’s successful Silver Trial was not immediately publicized.
It was Vikrama’s suggestion.
Because Little Vikram had a similar experience when she had passed the Black Iron Trial that triggered the service-wide announcement, it was probably some kind of game mechanism that made the first player to break through the rank need to go offline for a few hours to reset their psychic projection posture, but subsequent players did not need to go through this stage to be promoted.
It’s like a server’s game level cap update, there always needs to be a progress bar to advance in order to have a game-like sense of ceremony.
However, there was no way for the other players to go back to the Valley of Shadows, because the random quest “Darkness’ Poison” issued by Lord Murphy had already entered the second stage.
The new quest required players to search for special elite monsters called “Dark Chosen” in the ruins of the Black Flame Pass position, and to catch all the dark rats in the currently cleansed position and crush them to death before the filthy spiritual energy spread further.
From the quest description, it was obvious that this thing was related to the Dark Lord Evil God, and the players had all seen the Dark Lord’s power in the position, so they didn’t dare to take it lightly.
Orchid was quickly sent back to the rear, waiting for awakening in the small village called “New Megawatt”.
It wasn’t a long process, only about four hours.
She ceremoniously made herself a nice meal after getting offline, took a bath and put on a mask before coming back on line, and the time was just right, exactly four hours had passed.
The moment she opened her eyes, a message that had previously been edited by a certain dog planner, Lord Murphy, who did not wish to disclose his name, was triggered in the form of a service-wide announcement.
“Congratulations to tester ‘Fatal Orchid Flower’ for winning [Server Number One! Blazing Silver Hands Clutching the Future] achievement! Due to this achievement being triggered, the Real Otherworld player level cap has been raised to level 30!
The high-level occupation transfer route is open, and high-level skills have been opened for learning.”
“Bull!”
Orchid Flower waved her fist on the bed, her heart filled with exhilaration.
She could already think of how excited the brothers outside would be at this moment, surely a group of people were shouting bullish, but she blocked the world channel and the private chat that had exploded instantly, only wanting to be a quiet silver beauty girl at this moment, quietly enjoying her promotion moment, and at the same time remembering this feeling of “not being able to stand the cold from above” in her heart, when she was old she could still take it out and slowly savor it. At the same time, I will remember this feeling of “not being able to stand the cold” in my heart, and I will be able to take it out and slowly savor it when I grow old.
Well, most of the time, Orchid is a very artistic girl, or else she wouldn’t still be determined to embark on a career as a grand traveler.
But she neglected to mention that she wasn’t the only one in this room at the moment.
Just as she got up, a cup of hot tea that had been brewed was handed in front of her eyes, and Yuan, who was still clad in his military overcoat with frostbite remaining on his face, giggled and said to her:
“Congratulations, awesome grand traveler, this is finally an achievement that no one can surpass.”
“Do you think I’ll be happy just because you say these words of congratulations?”
Orchid asked rhetorically with a stern face, Yuan someone shrugged and said:
“Whatever you want, my congratulations come from the bottom of my heart anyway.
Hurry up and have a meal, I’ve done it all, then go back to the Black Flame Mountain Pass together, they are all still waiting there, a new mission has been triggered, it’s a limited time mission, I heard that the difficulty is quite high.”
“Wait, let me check the attribute changes first.”
Orchid sipped the hot tea and activated her Expert Adventure Assistant to check her attribute changes:
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Player ID: Deadly Orchid Flower
Character Profession: level 15 Nord Shield Guard – transferable / level 15 Phantom Gladiator – transferable / Traveler – Explorer Specialization
Character Status: Black Iron Body → Silver Body
Character Attributes:
Strength: 10 → 12
Dexterity: 8→10
Endurance: 12→16
Thinking: 5→6
Perception: 6→8
Charisma: 5→6
Remaining Free Attribute Points: 6, can be assigned manually.
Ancestor’s power fusion is complete!
Ancestral power ‘Finger of Ice’, ‘Wilderness Bloodline’, ‘Winter Essence Incarnation’, and ‘Cold of Broken Ice’ fused! Promoted to ‘Silver Power – Winter Guard’.
All Ancestral Power effects retained and enhanced.
Added Talent – Blood of Cold: Each of your attacks has a chance to add Winter Spirit Energy damage, and each of your defenses has a chance to apply a Freeze Shield to yourself.
New Talent – Shield Guard Inheritance: The essence of the ancient Nord ancestors’ use of shields is engraved in your bloodline, giving you +3 to all skills that require a shield to activate.
New Talent – Winter Arms: The blood of the great wilderness has been blessed by the god of the north winds so that it does not need to be equipped with a true weapon to fight, and those with this talent can summon a Shattered Ice Shield of Defense specialization and a Shattered Ice Blade of Weaponry specialization every 24 hours for eight hours.
The weapon is treated as a Seiko – Masterwork class psychic weapon.
The psionic weapon can have a weak divinity attached to it when the faith is the Church of the Winter Wolves.
While equipped with a physical weapon, this talent temporarily enchants the weapon and retains the above effects.
Dev Team Tip!
A brief description of the Silver Body power stage:
Congratulations, exceptional warrior woman!
You have relied on yourself to cross a difficult barrier of power, and since then your efforts to dig inward into your potential have been perfectly wrapped up, your body has been molded in a thousand battles into a vessel of power best suited for your self, and the mighty power from your ancestors is now within your grasp, use it proudly to create more wonders.
But the achievement of silver does not mean that your path of power is over, the molding of the silver body only means that you have the qualification to pursue greater power.
After the phase of digging inward is over, you then try to look outward for power.
Pour more greatness into the vessel you have personally molded, and from now on, you will witness more glorious landscapes as you interact with the world and gradually understand the mysteries of the Transcendent Law.
That is the power of the transcendent!
Naturally one needs to do great deeds that transcend mortals in order to access that supreme power that shines like gold!
Of course, it was all just a suggestion before.
You can spend your second life as happily as you wish in a world of complete freedom, where you are free from constraints and where the pursuit of power is by no means the only way to spend your life.
Happiness
May you find much joy and fulfillment in the rest of your journey].
“Well, that’s the flavor! I’ve noticed that this development team hangs on to ‘freedom of choice’ and ‘joyful fulfillment’ whenever it’s geared towards the player, no matter what kind of text they have at any given time.”
Orchid twisted her head and spat at Yuan, who had brought a toasted bun and fruit salad beside her:
“It’s all about wanting what’s lacking, but the problem is that this game isn’t lacking in freedom and fulfillment either ah, don’t they still think it’s not enough?”
“If this is really a game, then it’s definitely enough, it’s even generous to the point where it doesn’t seem like an entertainment tool to provide pleasure, you see, the development team never teaches the players to play the game, right?”
Yuan sat cross-legged on the cushion across from Orchid as he picked up a toasted bun and blew on it, handing it to the Grand Traveler and looking at her with his chin propped up again, he said:
“But if it’s not a game, then the development team might always feel indebted to us, which is why they’ve been trying to add more joy and fulfillment to our ‘new life’ . Okay, enough about that.
I know everyone has their own answer to this question, but what to say?
I think life is just fine the way it is right now.”
“There’s something in the words.”
Orchid took a bite of the bun, moved to the point of popping her teeth by the freshness of the meat with the fried filling, she said:
“Star Soul Eagle’s craftsmanship is getting better and better, the meat of the Los Beasts is made so great, that martial monk profession of his is kind of deserted, but it seems like he has found a new way in the way of cooking do you really think that life is pretty good right now?”
“If I say something melodramatic now I’m sure I’ll get punched by you, so don’t trick me into falling for it, woman.”
Yuan said with a skittish look:
“If this is the kind of life you want a traveler should have, then I’ll try to adapt and like it too.”
“You’re nuts! Don’t you have to work every day? It’s not like you’re someone who can just take pictures and trick people into spending money.”
The Grand Traveler chided somewhat angrily:
“How about a little pursuit? How can a big man play games all day long? Where is your sense of enterprise?”
“My career is too strong, so now I have to come to the other world to get back the good girl that I was angry at. Don’t mention careerism, look at what I’ve been victimized by that thing.”
Brother Yuan spat viciously, then picked up a baked bun and took a bite, glanced at Orchid and whispered:
“Remember before you left, I took my wife’s book to buy stocks?”
“Oh, you know that’s a ‘wife’s book’ too, so?” “Nothing, just so you know, I cashed out at the high end and made some pretty good moves, so now I don’t need a career, even if you traveled the world twice a year, I could support you until you’re eighty years old.
Okay, okay, don’t hit me with a bag, I won’t say anymore, okay?
Eat up and hurry up.
Without you, the Silver Shield Warrior, to press on, I’m afraid that your sisters can be eaten alive by monsters at the Black Flame Mountain Pass.”
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“Wow, our ‘Silver Star’ is back! Quickly, we’ve blocked a Dark Chosen Jackal in front of us, so hurry up and go kill it in seconds to open our eyes!”
As Orchid returned to the Dark Mountain Pass, she came face to face with Little Reed Name waving her gun and shouting gleefully, attracting a group of people’s attention.
Many of her siblings went up to congratulate her, and Orchid responded one by one in a rather atmospheric manner.
“That ‘Hunting Crown’ of yours can be worn now, right?”
Mrs. Water came over and reminded her, and Orchid Flower slapped her head, which led to her removing the big treasure that she had kept in her suitcase, which was the set of the King of Biting Bones’ combat exoskeleton.
This thing required an exaggerated 20 points of endurance to wear, Orchid added 4 of her 6 free attributes to endurance, and threw the remaining two points to dexterity, which satisfied the wearing conditions.
She reached out and tapped on the mechanical box-like exoskeleton frame, with a clicking sound, the ancient mechanical box popped outward into a black shelf, Orchid stepped on the two pedals and snapped on the wear clasps on both sides, and pulled hard to the inside, and a whole set of exoskeletons began to cover the wear.
This thing was an active exoskeleton with a built-in power unit.
With a rhythmic humming sound, a whole set of plate armor-like gauntlets were put on Orchid, and those black protective armor leaves were also fine-tuned to her size, eventually achieving torso coverage that made her look just like a black and gray heavily armored female knight.
Cool, that’s certainly very cool, but it’s not cumbersome, but rather has a clean and airy sense of rustic power. And because the internal suspension of the thing was so excellent, it allowed Orchid to move incredibly nimbly while wearing it, with none of the clunkiness that should come with heavy armor.
However, this combat exoskeleton didn’t have a helmet, so Orchid still had to find a way to get another helmet over.
“Where are the properties? Post the attributes for me to see!”
Little Vikrama was looking dumbfounded next to her, she also really wanted this kind of tech-sensitive equipment, so she screamed for Orchid to post a picture of the equipment’s attributes, Orchid always spoiled Little Vikrama so she quickly posted a link out:
Name: Hunting Crown of the Bone Biting King / Security Captain’s Combat Exoskeleton
Quality: Miracle Creation-[Standardized Equipment]-Specific Model-Unique
Equipment Traits: Advanced Physical Immunity (Physical Damage Reduced by 60%) – Energy Defense Coating (30% of Energy Damage converted to Matrix Charge) – Charged Matrix Generator – Hidden Rocket Thrusters – Overload Mode
Equipment special effects:
I. Portable Power Armor:
Despite the name combat exoskeleton, the various parameters of this Security Captain level gauntlet are actually designed in accordance with the idea of miniaturizing defensive weapons in the Eden Zone, so this gauntlet can be regarded as a simplified version of power armor.
While wearing it and with plenty of energy, the user’s strength attribute will be constant at 25 points.
When worn and structurally intact, the user will not gain any negative statuses from physical attacks.
While wearing it and while sane, the user’s movement speed will not be reduced to less than 70% of normal speed due to external forces.
Tips!
All of the above effects require the energy system of the gauntlet to be functioning properly, and the current standard energy battery surplus: low.
Please seek out spare batteries before running out of energy.
Tips from the development team!
Lord Murphy is said to have found something similar on some unexpected quest, which he called the ‘Legacy of the Golden Age’.
II. Upgrade Module:
The combat exoskeleton was finalized with room for subsequent upgrades, but unfortunately its upgrades had to be done in the Eden Sector’s power shop.
You’ll need to find that location before you can activate the upgrade program for this gauntlet.
Produced by: Eden Sector Peacekeeper Weapons Design Directorate’s “Farseer” Security Service Provider Production Line.
Item Description:
It is known in the continent for the legend of the Bone Biter, but please keep in mind that the Bone Biter did not become a legend because of this armor, in fact, Lord Frederick was the most powerful jackal in history even without this armor.
In the eyes of the Bone Biter, this armor represents a beautiful past and his plans for the future of the world.
Yes, it is merely a ceremonial suit of armor that belongs to a king.]
“Shit! This attribute is really exciting, a constant 25 points of strength? Didn’t the data brother on the forums speculate that the various attributes of a Gold One would only be around 30-40? So, Orchid Girl’s power is now close to that of a Gold One?”
Next to her, Brother Woo Meow’s person was dumbfounded.
This Miracle Creation could only view its attributes when activated, had I known that this thing was so awesome, I shouldn’t have just let it go to the Silver Moon Corps’ girls in the first place.
“It shouldn’t be that exaggerated, right?”
Orchid commented with a crooked head, then reached out and took the chain saw sword handed to her by Sister Pomegranate, picking up the heavy thing with one hand, and lifting a heavy shield with the other that even Brother Firechild had to hold with both hands.
She moved her body a bit, twisted her head to look at the little reed name, and said:
“So where’s the Dark Chosen? I’m going to try and spike it.”
“That way! I’ll take you there!”
Little Reed Name smiled and flew in front, Orchid followed with light footsteps, and not long after, the terrified screams of the jackals as well as the sound of shattering bones as the chainsaw swords slashed resounded from the pit in front of them, causing the crowd of high-end players to look at each other in disbelief.
The battle was over after a few minutes.
Orchid, who had broken through to Silver and gotten the divine armor, was at the front, and a super shooter like Little Reed Name was at the back outputting, so a Dark Chosen who had been beaten to a pulp and was confused really wasn’t enough to look at.
However, after that guy was finished off, Little Reed Name posted a unique item description in the team frame, she said:
“This guy dropped a strange thing called ‘Dark Core’, item identification shows that this thing can be absorbed, but it will be affected by the Dark Lord’s power, are there any brothers willing to give it a try?
We don’t guarantee what will happen oh.”
“Huh? There’s such a good thing? I’ll give it a try!”
The honest man in the crowd, Dog Egg, immediately became interested.
This Necromancer, who aspired to become the “Ghost King Dog Egg”, immediately brought his necromancer minions that he could not easily “lick” up to him, and took the power core dropped by the Dark Chosen from Little Reed’s name, and as he was surrounded by a group of players, he was still rambling:
He was surrounded by a group of players and said: “If I absorb this and blacken, you guys remember to kill me right away, don’t let the blackened monsters take my equipment away, it’s not easy to paint this one.”
He first “explained the aftermath”, and then boldly crushed the core of darkness in his hand.
In the next instant, Dog Egg was enveloped by a whole piece of dark smoke, and it was obvious that that thing wanted to invade his body and mind, but after Dog Egg completely absorbed this thing, he didn’t see any change in him.
“An extra skill called ‘Dark Form’.”
Dog Egg scratched his head and blinked:
“The skill description is vague, it says something about releasing the power of the Dark Lord to engulf all light, it feels like an explosive skill, why don’t we find a monster to try?”
“There are many monsters in the pit, you go down and try it, don’t worry, we’ll collect your body if you die! There won’t be any big deaths, so be bold.”
“Ow, I’ll go down then.”
A few minutes later, Dog Egg’s mournful scream echoed in the team channel:
“Crap! Why is this skill still dropping blood once it’s on? Blanch, a lot of people are pussyfooting around in my ears, I can’t control the spiritual energy in my body, it’s going to explode, all of you duck!”
“Boom!”
The terrifying popping sound echoed in the broken pit, startling the surrounding players who were watching, they ran to the pit and swept around, realizing that Brother Dog Egg’s corpse was already gone.
The equipment on his body spilled everywhere, and even his psychic pack was blown apart.
The only thing left in place was a large dark pit littered with enemy corpses, as if it had been blown apart by a huge amount of TNT, and at the bottom of the pit, the Dark Core from earlier was still quietly lying there, its appearance unchanged.
“Brothers, I feel like we’ve discovered something extraordinary .”
Brother Woo Meow plucked the Core of Darkness back with a fishing rod as he rubbed the thing and turned back to the others:
“I think we’ve found the ‘Power Enhancement’ version of the Last Fight Deed spell yay.”
(End of chapter)