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: Game 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.
Game 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 some 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;
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And sometimes 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 comes 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 time 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 meteorite 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 Meixi, who served as her physical host, to release the skill.
And Jiang Meixi 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 kilometers 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 extremely thick blue leather-bound book, with the first page bearing elaborate and ornate gold-embossed Otherworld characters.
[Item Name: Mechanic Master’s Certificate]
[Special Effect: Path of Advancement. After use, automatically become a Level 1 Mechanical Master, instantaneously mastering necessary knowledge of arcane energy, mechanical engineering, magic injection transformation, and so on. As knowledge and experience accumulate and mastery of skills improve, one can continuously advance]
[Use Conditions: Intellect Attribute greater than or equal to 10 points, possession of a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering]
[Note: After use, a randomly styled Mechanic’s Mark will appear on the owner’s body. The mark can be hidden, erased, or modified at will]
[Note: Mechanic 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: Mechanical Masters are pioneers who meld the arts of magic and mechanical engineering. They may become 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 Mechanic Institute]
[Note: Damn these newbie students, I’ve told them so many times not to concoct space rocket fuel formulas with black magic in the dormitories. This is the third time 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, Supreme 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 come with side effects) because of its nature, it still sold for nearly 20,000 game 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 refinement, library, databank, and a wise old ring mentor.
Skills acquired through Power Seeds do not occupy slots in a player’s skill bar.
Their restrictions and use conditions are somewhat more relaxed than those of player skills.
Furthermore, Power Seeds enable players to master a cultivation method, 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 advertisement 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 time, 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 game coins, and the price was still climbing.
Several guilds fiercely bid for it, and just as it seemed likely to be won by the Thousand Throats Beast Guild, someone in desperation hacked the website, forcibly interrupting the auction process.
It eventually even sparked a guild war, some Transcendents died, and it took the involvement of the Global Supernatural Alliance, with a United Nations background, to settle the entire disturbance.