Chapter 11 : Chapter 11
Chapter 11: A Bountiful Harvest! The Fourth Trait! How Did This Turn into a Press Conference?
Ye Ze impatiently opened the treasure chest.
Crimson streams of light flared up around it, and the lock sprang open like a lion spreading its jaws.
【You have opened the Dungeon First-Clear Exclusive Gift Pack!】
【Congratulations, you obtained: 100 Crystal Stones!】
【Congratulations, you obtained: Accessory — Hell Rookie Badge!】
【Congratulations, you obtained: Exclusive Equipment — Spirit Pact Ring!】
100 Crystal Stones! A million!
Ye Ze could not help but grin. The value of a Hell-grade first clear had risen yet again!
He then looked at the first accessory:
【Hell Rookie Badge: Strength +10, Agility +10, Constitution +10, Spirit +10.
—Let this display your courage and will when facing Hell difficulty!】
"That's actually something straight out of the textbooks!"
Commemorative badges could only be obtained under a very small number of specific conditions, and in the eyes of the military, they were items of special value.
But to Ye Ze, the stat bonuses alone were already excellent.
Moreover, badge-type equipment granted its attributes even without being worn.
Ye Ze put it into his backpack first, then looked at his exclusive equipment:
【Spirit Pact Ring (Summoner Exclusive)】
Quality: Outstanding☆
Attributes: Agility +10, Spirit +20, Mana +200.
Special Effect: When a summoned beast is nearby, Movement Speed +100%!
Granted Skill — "Spirit Pact": Copy one temporary skill from a contracted summoned beast. It disappears after being used once, but can be stored. Mana Cost: 100. Cooldown: 1 hour.
Spirit Pact Set (1/2)
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"Holy shit!"
Ye Ze was deeply shocked. He had thought the stats and the 100% speed bonus were already incredible.
He had not expected another surprise.
It could copy one of a summoned beast's skills!
The value of that equipment-granted skill was simply enormous for Ye Ze.
For anyone else, it would probably only be moderately useful, because Summoners won through numbers, so copying a single skill would not matter much.
But Ye Ze's summoned beasts almost all possessed top-tier skills at the epic or legendary level.
Especially the highly versatile "Shadow Meld" and "Shadow Clone"!
Who would not want to try using Shadow Clone personally?
For the Summoner himself, the most important thing was the ability to stay alive, and that had just taken a qualitative leap forward.
And this was even a set item.
If he could find the other piece, he would activate a massive set effect.
Ye Ze put the Spirit Pact Ring on his finger, and his Spirit attribute broke through to 88 points!
That was already twice that of a mage of the same level!
After that, he chose to copy "Shadow Meld" first and store it away.
If he got attacked after leaving the dungeon, he could turn into a shadow and either escape with ease or turn the tables and kill his attacker!
【Spirit Pact — You have copied the Shadow Squirrel's talent skill "Shadow Meld".】
It had worked!
Ye Ze immediately felt a powerful urge to turn himself into a shadow.
But he still held back.
Lastly, he checked his experience points:
【Level: 4 (805/1300)】
Killing the Crimson Demon Lion had given him 500 EXP, and the first-clear dungeon reward had given him another 1000, for a total of 1500.
Meanwhile, it only took 700 EXP to go from level 3 to level 4.
That enormous wave of experience had been enough to take him from level 3 to level 4, and he was even about to level up again right away.
Which meant he had another chance to draw a Trait.
Ye Ze immediately started the draw.
WHOOSH—golden light flowed across the screen, and countless Trait frames spun past in a dazzling blur.
This time, Ye Ze did not actively pick one. Instead, after waiting for two or three breaths, one Trait frame drifted to a stop in front of him:
【You have drawn the golden legendary-grade Trait: Treasure Sniffer!】
【Treasure Sniffer: You can accurately smell the aura of treasures nearby, and identify both their value and location.】
It could smell nearby treasures!
A Trait like that existed too?
There was no doubt about it. This was a top-tier treasure-hunting ability!
And it might be of tremendous use at the next place he was planning to go!
As Ye Ze was thinking that, his face suddenly changed. He realized something:
【Time until the dungeon closes automatically: 5 minutes 14 seconds...】
After the boss was killed, the dungeon could only remain open for another ten minutes.
But inside this Hell-Difficulty Dungeon, there might still be quite a few herbs and treasures!
Earlier, because he had not had any treasure-hunting ability, Ye Ze had not wasted time searching around.
But now... there was still a chance to salvage something!
Ye Ze moved at once and assigned the Trait to the nimble, keen-nosed squirrel:
【"Treasure Sniffer" Trait assigned successfully!】
【Summoned Beast: Shadow Squirrel (orange epic) evolved → Shadow Treasure-Sniffing Squirrel (orange epic☆)】
The squirrel's appearance did not change much. It had only gained one extra star in quality.
That was a dual judgment of both combat power and potential.
What he did not expect was that, after evolving, the squirrel started sniffing all over Ye Ze without stopping...
"All right, stop sniffing me. Go sniff out those unclaimed treasures instead!"
Ye Ze said helplessly.
After receiving the order, the squirrel rapidly twitched its nose, adjusted its target, and then WHOOSH—it shot off in a certain direction!
Ye Ze called after it again, "Use Shadow Clone!"
"There isn't much time left! Bring back as much as you can!"
As soon as he said that, the squirrel split into four figures and ran in four different directions.
"Using Shadow Clone to hunt for treasure is an absolutely top-tier combination!"
Ye Ze was quite satisfied, but sadly, there was not much time left in the dungeon.
5:01...
4:39...
3:16...
After about two minutes, the squirrel's real body brought back a red fruit.
One had to know that "Treasure Sniffer" could distinguish the value of treasures by scent.
So if the squirrel's real body had personally fetched it, then it was undoubtedly something of higher value.
Ye Ze could not help but look forward to it:
【Demonic Flame Fruit (blue rare): A spirit fruit that grows under demonic contamination. It contains abundant fire-element energy and can be juiced, made into medicine, used to make bombs, and more.】
A rare-grade spirit fruit!
For rare flowers and spirit fruits imbued with extraordinary elemental power, Rare-grade was already the highest tier he could currently come into contact with.
As for Outstanding-grade and above, those were things one could mostly only see in higher academies, the military, and similar places.
As for the uses listed afterward, Ye Ze skipped right past them. Too troublesome!
Better to just feed it to Panda. Simple and convenient!
【You Are What You Eat! — After consuming "Demonic Flame Fruit", obtained: Strength +6, Fire Element Control +15%!】
After Panda swallowed the Demonic Flame Fruit, a faint popping sound came from its mouth.
Then Panda opened its jaws and exhaled a puff of black smoke...
With the stat increase from reaching level 4 and the bonus from "You Are What You Eat!", Panda's Strength had already reached 83 points.
It was downright terrifying!
Not long after that, when only the last few dozen seconds remained before the dungeon ended, the squirrel's other three Shadow Clones also returned one after another, bringing back three more Windchime Flowers he had seen before.
Perhaps because it had learned from the previous experience, as soon as the squirrel brought them back this time, it tossed them straight into Panda's mouth...
The scene was absurdly comical for a moment.
The three Windchime Flowers provided 27 Speed and 18% Wind Element Control.
That made Ye Ze realize a problem:
"The more you eat of the same thing, the smaller the bonus becomes."
Just like with the Windchime Flowers, by the time Panda ate the second and third blossoms, part of the attribute bonus from "You Are What You Eat!" had already weakened.
That left Ye Ze rather disappointed.
"I was originally planning to buy a hundred weapons and feed them to Panda..."
Now it seemed that would not work.
BEEP—the dungeon countdown reached zero.
Ye Ze put away his two summoned beasts and was then teleported out of the dungeon...
"The two million from the bet should be mine now, right?"
He was still thinking about that huge sum of money, but he had not expected this...
The moment he stepped out of the dungeon entrance, cameras with long lenses, microphones, and all kinds of equipment had already been set up there, just waiting for Ye Ze to emerge!
SNAP!
SNAP!
Flashes burst over Ye Ze like they cost nothing.
When he saw the burning gazes of the surrounding students, along with the reporters from several local Linyuan City media outlets, Ye Ze instantly understood what was going on.
"Damn!"
"I just cleared a dungeon—how did this turn into a press conference?"