Bloodrune Longsword
Quality: Green
Origin: Radiant Continent
Category: Longsword
Durability: 50/50
Attack power: 26
Equipment requirement: Sword Techniques Basics LV. 5
Equipment effect: [Bloodrune] Attack inflicts Bleeding, dealing 2 points of bleeding damage per second. The effect lasts 5 seconds and cannot be stacked.
Score: 28
Introduction: If you move fast enough, you might be able to bleed your enemy to death.
Price: 600 Mystsu Currency
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“OK, now I have melee and ranged weapons, I just need to find the right skills.”
Benjamin obtained a lot of raw meat in the last initial space, which he had Cooked into recovery items and stored in the storage chest in his dedicated space.
Therefore, the white-quality Recovery Items on display at the surrounding stalls did not attract Benjamin in the slightest.
Benjamin intended to go further in, but he was stopped by a prompt about insufficient permissions.
After wandering around the nearby stalls for most of the day, Benjamin finally found a skill that he was more satisfied with.
Energy Shield (Active Skill)
Quality: Green
Category: Skill Scroll
Skill Effect: Creates an Energy Shield with a diameter of 2 meters that can withstand 20 points of damage. Costs 10 mana and has a 5-minute cooldown.
Score: 20
Description: A basic defensive skill that may save your life in a critical moment.
Price: 500 Mystsu Currencies
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“It feels a bit expensive, but it's acceptable,”
Benjamin quickly estimated the price in his mind. A moment later, he made a decisive decision and bought the Skill Scroll without hesitation.
In fact, there were quite a few skills with even better effects in the Trading Market, but Benjamin could only admire them. This was not because of the high price, but because mastering these skills required all prerequisites to be met. For example, Sorin's [Chisel Strike] requires [Dagger Basics] LV.1 to be learned. Most skills of Green Quality or above have prerequisites, which may be a certain attribute reaching a certain standard, or mastering a certain basic passive.
Benjamin, if paired with a magic skill, can only choose those skills without prerequisites, and [Energy Shield] is a good fit for the current situation.
While browsing the market, Benjamin discovered that basic passive skills are quite rare and outrageously expensive.
“According to the available information, the difficulty of obtaining basic passive skills should be quite high.”
Benjamin looked at the Basic Passive Skill Scroll in front of him, which was priced at 2,000 Mystsu Currency. Compared to the few scrolls he had seen before, this was already considered a relatively low price.
“Fortunately, I have accumulated a lot of basic passives in Initial Space.”
Benjamin found that he had saved a lot of money and couldn't help but secretly feel happy. A smug smile appeared on his face as if he were a child who had found a treasure.
“Unfortunately, I could only find a skill that I'm just OK with.”
Benjamin returned to his dedicated space with a sense of regret, ready to upgrade his abilities. He planned to browse the Trading Market occasionally in the future, and maybe he would be able to acquire a skill that he was satisfied with within the next few days.
Benjamin had asked about the space, and under normal circumstances, the interval between two task worlds was 15 days. If he paid more attention to the Trading Market during the rest of his time, he should still be able to get something.
Back in his dedicated space, Benjamin first uses the Skill Scroll to master Energy Shield. Then he checks his current skills and makes a mental note. In order to be able to use the newly purchased equipment in the next task world, Benjamin decides to first upgrade Firearms Basics to LV.10 and see how many basic passive skills need to be upgraded. If the cost is acceptable, he'd better upgrade Sword Techniques Basics to LV.10 as well, to make things look more uniform.
[Yes/No, Upgrade levels of [Firearms Basics]. 100 Mystsu Currency required to upgrade by 1 level.]
“Wow! Outside, scrolls sell for so much, but upgrading them is quite cheap.”
Benjamin raised his eyebrows slightly, and a flash of surprise appeared in his eyes. Without hesitation, he chose to upgrade directly to LV.10. As he confirmed again and again, the Mystsu Currency kept decreasing, and a total of 1000 Mystsu Currency was consumed.
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[Upgrade complete.]
Firearms Basics LV.10
Effect: Increases damage dealt with firearms by 1%.
“Seriously, this effect feels no different from LV.1.”
Benjamin habitually shrugged and made a snarky comment, not satisfied with this upgrade effect.
[[Firearms Basics] has reached LV.10, Yes/No advanced to [Firearms Proficiency], 500 Mystsu Currency required]
Benjamin's face instantly turned black when he saw the prompt pop up in front of him. “I take back what I said before. This upgrade is not cheap at all,” he said, but his hand unconsciously chose to advance.
[Advanced Completed.]
Firearms Proficiency LV.1
Effect: Increases damage dealt by firearms by 2%.
“This upgrade effect sounds more like it,” Benjamin's mouth curled up slightly.
[Yes/No Upgrade levels of [Firearms Proficiency]. 500 Mystsu Currency required to upgrade by 1 level.]
Benjamin, who had originally wanted to continue upgrading, decisively gave up when he saw the cost required and instead began to upgrade [Sword Techniques Basics]. His fingers clicked rapidly in midair, and as Mystsu Currency continued to decrease, he also directly upgraded to LV.10 and completed the upgrade.
Sword Techniques Proficiency LV.1
Effect: Increases damage dealt with swords by 2%.
Benjamin glanced at the 4355 Mystsu Currency remaining in his space imprint and a sense of loss welled up in his heart. At this point, his wallet had become flat and his wealth had shrunk by more than half in an instant.
“What a drain on my finances,” Benjamin sighed, shaking his head helplessly.
For the time being, there was no need to upgrade other skills, so Benjamin began to clear out his storage space. His movements were swift and proficient as he placed the previous materials in the safe. The safe, which had 50 cubic meters of space and a mysterious glow, had the property of 'time freezing'. Nearly a third of the 2,000 Mystsu Currencies Benjamin had spent on furniture had been used to purchase the safe.
Benjamin had originally wanted to sell all the materials, but after seeing the low prices in the Trading Market, he decided that now was not a good time to sell.
As for taking out the recovered items, that was for a rainy day. Benjamin always felt that that S-class talent was a big pitfall.
“Oh, yeah, there's also this stuff,” Benjamin suddenly remembered something and rummaged through the storage space, pulling out a bunch of miscellaneous items. They were the saplings of the Explosive Fruit Tree and the seeds of the Red Crystal Fruit Tree.
Just as Benjamin was wondering what to do with the seeds, the system gave a friendly prompt:
[Contractors can open Plantations in their dedicated spaces to grow extraordinary plants. 1,000 Mystsu Currency is required to open a Plantation.]
“You're such a Scrooge, always wanting money!”Benjamin couldn't help but complain, but it was useless. He had no choice but to obediently pay 1000 Mystsu Currency. Then a door appeared on the wall of his personal space.
Benjamin opened the door with a little expectation, and in front of him was a piece of land measuring about 100 square meters. Surrounded by a space-simulated blue sky and white clouds, the gentle breeze felt a little idyllic. He bent down and grabbed a handful of dirt, rubbing it in his hands. “Luckily, it's not sandy soil at least,”
His tone was full of distrust for Reincarnation Space...
After placing the sapling and seeds on the ground, Benjamin took something else out of the storage space. These were the insect eggs he received from Sorin.
Agricultural Insect Egg
Quality: Green
Category: Resource Item
Effect: Can hatch agricultural insects that take care of plants.
Description: Having this means having a little helper in the garden.
Price: 300 Mystsu Currency
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“Sorin is a really generous friend, but he really can't use this.”
There were seven days in the Ancient Forest world, and Sorin, the unlucky guy, spent almost five days on the run, so he didn't have the heart to collect resource crops.
Benjamin got a total of three [Agricultural Insect Eggs], which hatched three plump larvae after use.
Looking at the cute, crystal-clear appearance of the larvae, Benjamin imagined them going into the deep fryer with breadcrumbs on their heads... Ahem!
The newly hatched agricultural insect larvae were quick. As soon as they hit the ground, they started digging holes together, and in no time at all, they had planted the saplings and seeds neatly in the Plantation.
“They really are full of the will to survive,” Benjamin thought to himself, feeling a little disappointed.