8mi Chapter 52, Level 5 - High Rewards, Special Space - Spirit Devouring!
Chapter 52, Level 5 - High Rewards, Special Space - Spirit Devouring!
"Pfft~"
The longsword was pulled from the head of the last lesser demon, dark red blood sliding down the blade, condensing into a drop at the tip, and falling to the ground.
Su Chen shook the blood off his knife, let out a long sigh, and scanned the entire battlefield with his gaze.
The ground was littered with monster corpses.
The torsos of the abyssal worms lay piled haphazardly together, their dark red fluids seeping into the black soil, turning the entire area an ominous deep brown.
The little devil's wings were torn apart, and scales scattered all over the ground.
Several teams were rapidly moving across the battlefield, rushing to finish off the monsters that weren't quite dead yet and harvesting magic crystals.
Everyone's frantically trying to score points!
Su Chen withdrew his gaze and glanced at the panel.
[Task 2: Hundred-Enemy Slayer, Progress: 47/100]
In half an hour, thirty-four soldiers!
On average, it takes less than one minute to kill one.
"Tsk~" He clicked his tongue, the corners of his mouth turned up, and then he couldn't help but shake his head.
"If I'd known there were such easy targets, why did I bother with the first four levels?"
"This is the right way to do quests!" Su Chen thought to himself.
Su Chen was just thinking about whether he could find a few stragglers to finish them off when a semi-transparent interface popped up in front of him.
[Instance settlement in progress....]
[Battle Rating: Perfect]
[Comment: You demonstrated highly efficient harvesting ability in this chaotic battle.]
Without lingering in battle or seeking personal glory, they quickly eliminated a large number of abyssal worms, gaining tactical initiative for the team.
The riders are becoming increasingly skilled in coordinated combat, and a tacit understanding is forming between them and their masters.
It can be said that riding Lu Bu on horseback, he was invincible!
In such chaotic battle situations, your ability to quickly identify high-value, low-risk targets is a rare and valuable judgment trait in real combat.
Score: 40
[Prize pool drawing in progress... Drawing complete...]
Fifth Level Reward:
Pet Energy x120
Enlightenment Fruit x3
Water Spirit Fruit×2
20㎡ Pet Space
Su Chen's gaze suddenly stopped.
Enlightenment has arrived!
It can greatly enhance comprehension and significantly improve martial arts proficiency in a short period of time.
Any one of these on the market is worth at least 100,000!
The key point is that even if you have money, it's hard to buy! Especially the Enlightenment Fruit, the quality varies greatly, and it's easy to fall into a trap.
And anything produced by the system... is guaranteed to be of the highest quality!
Su Chen licked his lips.
I reckon even 300,000 wouldn't be enough to stop it.
Three of them would be a million!
This system is really generous with its resources! So extravagant!
"As for the Water Elemental Fruit..." His gaze shifted to the next line, and his heart skipped a few beats.
This is a treasure for those at the Meridian Opening and Acupoint Opening stages.
It can not only cleanse the meridians, but also greatly expand the acupoints and uncover hidden acupoints.
This thing is extremely rare; you can't buy it even if you have the money!
Only high school seniors who have made significant outstanding achievements can receive this award.
They are usually given to promising students from the top nine universities, in the hope that they can get in more easily!
Su Chen took a deep breath and suppressed his excitement.
But my gaze couldn't help but linger on those two lines of rewards for a couple more seconds.
"If the intermediate rewards are this appealing, what about the advanced ones..."
He glanced at the grayed-out [Special Building - Abyss Converter] in the prize pool, then looked at the cumulative dungeon score.
Level 1: 5 points; Level 2: 5 points; Level 3: 4 points; Level 4: 25 points; Level 5: 40 points.
Total score: 79 points.
I don't know how to get the higher rewards!
"I feel like I can't ask for anything more."
Su Chen sighed inwardly; "But the Hundred Poisons Body, the Limitless Power Technique, and the Vajra Body sound incredibly powerful. You can't just release them all to tempt me, can you? You have to give me at least one!"
He cursed under his breath.
At the same time, there was a sense of urgency.
Given the current situation, it's hard to say whether we can even deal with the demon's lair in the remaining time.
In other words, there's only one chance left!
You can only look at the baby, not touch it.
Just like how you can only touch a beautiful woman...
"Ahem~" Su Chen coughed inwardly, forcibly pulling his thoughts back, "I'm a decent person, I almost went astray."
He took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and began to do some ideological work.
I've already earned quite a few pet energy points from this dungeon run.
Adding the remaining fifty points from Task 1, now there are...
Su Chen quickly added it in his mind.
Level 1: 30; Level 2: 30; Level 3: 20; Level 4: 80; Level 5: 120.
280.
Adding the remaining 50 from Wang Yichuan's first task.
330!
"More than 300 energy points are enough for me to squander for more than ten days."
He nodded in satisfaction: "It can even unlock some high-value pet technologies!"
His gaze swept over the Master Technology section on Xiao Zi's panel.
Swift Boots!
It requires 800 pet energy points.
"It's still a long way off." Su Chen withdrew his gaze. "But if we take a break from the learning machine and accumulate experience, it's not impossible."
He could easily understand "pet armor"—it was equipment for Little Purple.
But Master Tech...
I don't know the specific operating principle.
Is it equivalent to a magical artifact?
However, spiritual artifacts require sufficient spiritual power to be activated only at the mid-to-late stage of the Acupoint Opening Realm.
"Could Master Technology be even more unique than this?" Su Chen wondered to himself. "I'll have to wait until I have more energy points before considering it!"
Just as his thoughts were drifting away, an excited shout came from the side.
"Brother Chen~!"
Su Chen turned his head.
Yang Fan was jogging towards him with a few people, a bright smile on his face.
Su Chen smiled and waved.
Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the dark red special area in the pet space.
After this battle, more than three hundred spiritual entities gathered in this area.
Perhaps due to overcrowding, these spirits are devouring each other.
The spirits of the dozen or so little demons looked unusually fierce, not because of their large size, but because of an inexplicable sense of oppression.
They rampaged through the spirit horde, even daring to tear apart the ferocious phantom of a peak-level soldier-rank demon wolf!
"Interesting..." Su Chen muttered to himself, "Could it be that raising a Gu worm could produce something beyond imagination?"
He tried to touch them with his consciousness, but the spirits did not react at all.
"What will be the ultimate use of the spirits gathered here? Will they become nourishment for the pet space? Or will they be used for something else?"
There was no answer at the moment, so I could only suppress my doubts.
........
"Brother Chen!"
Yang Fan ran up to him, his face still beaming with excitement, his eyes shining brightly!
"You looked so cool riding that fierce hound!"
"You had no idea what we were like. The demonic insects swarmed in from all directions, and little devils were perched in the trees, watching us intently, waiting for their chance. My flamethrower was almost out of fuel. To be honest, I was genuinely panicked!"
He paused, swallowed hard, as if savoring the shock of that moment.
"Then... I saw a silver-white figure rush out of the mist, a person riding on the back of a pet beast, wielding a long sword..."
Yang Fan gestured with his hands, "I thought the elite city guards had arrived! Something terrible had happened!"
Several teammates nearby nodded in agreement, chiming in with their own opinions.
"That was incredible, Brother Chen! We were all terrified when you charged into the swarm of demonic insects, but you were like Zhao Yun reincarnated, charging in and out seven times!"
"Yeah! I think you should try contracting the spirit pearl of the Martial God Zhao Zilong, Brother Chen. The compatibility would be absolutely top-notch!"
Su Chen didn't feel embarrassed at all while listening to these words.
To be honest, when Yang Fan praised his emperor-like demeanor in the car that morning, he really wanted to disappear into the ground.
At that time, although he had already achieved some success, he was still somewhat unsure of himself when facing real-world assessments.
But things are different now.
After six or seven hours of fierce fighting, and personally slaying dozens of monsters, acupoints were broken through in the battle, and the bloodlust and confidence were forged in real combat!
When you lack ability, praise from others is misplaced flattery, and you can't accept it.
But at this moment...
Absolutely useful!
Su Chen smiled and patted Yang Fan on the shoulder: "It's good that you're all alright. When we saw the two signal flares, the captain said he wanted to come and check it out. I didn't expect the situation on your side to be more complicated than we anticipated! It's fortunate that several other teams arrived later. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been easy either."
"That was indeed tricky!" Yang Fan scratched his head, then resumed his憨厚 (honest and simple) look. "Luckily, Brother Chen and the others arrived quickly."
Su Chen glanced at the people behind Yang Fan out of the corner of his eye.
Liu Yongchao
Affection level: lv5
Status: Available for contract (Time limit: 5 days)
.......】
Su Chen raised an eyebrow slightly.
He glanced to the side again.
A semi-transparent panel floated above the head of another person. It was a slightly shorter boy from the same community. His car didn't have a panel before, but now it did.
Next to her... was a girl.
Her long hair was tied up, and although her features weren't particularly striking, she was clean-cut.
There were still some black stains on his face, probably from the fighting, which he hadn't had time to wipe off.
The panel above was also there.
【***
Affection level: lv6
Status: Available for contract (Time limit: 6 days)
Good guy!
Nine people, four of whom are eligible for contracts.
When he set off in the morning, he made a point of glancing at Yang Fan's group from the car. At that time, only Yang Fan had a control panel.
Now there are three more.
Liu Yongchao, a short boy, and this girl.
The key point is... this girl jumped straight to level 6!!!
Su Chen didn't recognize this girl at all, at least he didn't know her name.
He felt that he was at most level 1 or 2 before, just a passerby.
How many levels did he skip in one go?
The favorability rating increased way too fast!
What did I do?
They were so moved after someone rode in on a pet beast, charged in, and wreaked havoc?
"It must be because I'm too good-looking and charming." Su Chen found a reason for himself in his mind, but then he felt it was a bit shameless and quickly pulled his thoughts back.
But that feeling of elation was still impossible to suppress!
At this moment, several people gathered around and tried to touch Xiao Zi.
"Wow, so cool! The coat color of this Thunder Hound is just too beautiful!"
"Can I touch it? Does it bite?"
Su Chen smiled and said, "Its taming level is seven stars, so it definitely won't bite!"
Little Purple immediately raised its head high and wagged its tail like a propeller, thoroughly enjoying the feeling of being praised.
Then it precisely moved towards the two girls in the group, nudging its big head into their hands.
Su Chen's face darkened.
"You pervert! You've ruined my image!"
Xiao Zi accurately located the girl with a favorability level of 6 and nuzzled against her legs.
.......
After exchanging a few pleasantries, some noise came from afar.
Liu Yongchao was the first to notice; he pushed up his glasses and looked in the direction the sound came from.
"Another group is coming!"
Before the words were even finished, footsteps came from another direction.
"No! There are two teams!!"
Su Chen also looked over.
During the half-hour battle, they and Guo Hao's team were not the only teams that arrived in this area.
In total, four teams came to provide support: three from No. 1 Middle School and one from No. 4 Middle School.
Now two more have arrived!
That means there are at least seven teams.
Su Chen's gaze swept over the approaching figures, then returned to the crowd, his tone casual yet earnest.
"Oh, right, there's something I need to tell you."
He took out the intelligence report he had found in the wooden box from his backpack, unfolded it, and briefly recounted the information about the demon's lair.
"Twenty elite-level Flame Demons, over a hundred lesser demons, and more than a thousand abyssal worms." Su Chen's tone was unhurried, as if stating a fact. "They are about seven kilometers away from here."
"What? A demon's lair?" Liu Yongchao frowned. "Thousands of abyssal monsters?"
Su Chen nodded, his tone confident: "Yes, it's intelligence from the school. While the numbers are indeed staggering, there are already seven teams, nearly fifty people. If you really think about it, each person can take on about twenty. The advantage is on our side!"
Yang Fan's eyes lit up, and he immediately replied, "If we can really take down this demon's lair, even if we lose, as long as the loss isn't too crushing, our scores on this month's exam won't be low!"
He got more and more excited as he spoke: "I feel like after this wave, I'm already a solid 100 points. If I go on to raid the demon's lair... Holy crap! 130? 140? I've never gotten such a high score in my life!"
Upon hearing this, the expressions of those around them changed.
Su Chen smiled, glanced at the crowd that had gathered in twos and threes in the distance, and said, "Looks like they're getting together to discuss the details. Let's go over there."
"Okay!"