Chapter 66 : Chapter 66
Chapter 66: The Fifteenth Trait — Equipment Shredder!
As rolling thunder crashed down, the battlefield was scorched black.
Liu Anran swept her gaze over it once more, slowly and carefully...
That was right. Every one of her teammates had been defeated!
“Isn’t this way too fast?!”
Although Liu Anran had already exchanged many moves with the mantis, both of them were spatial ability users, and their attacks were unbelievably fast. Even now, only one or two minutes had passed.
Yet in that tiny span of time, the four teammates she had placed such high hopes in, all of whom ranked among the best in the entire Central China Region, had all gone down!
Leng Feng in particular.
She knew exactly how strong a Battle Armor Specialist was. He might not have been the most reliable person in everyday life, but when it came to combat power, he was absolutely among the very best!
And now...
He had been beaten so badly he looked like a whipped cur.
A terrifying thought rose in Liu Anran’s mind:
“Could it be that the mantis I’m fighting isn’t even Ye Ze’s strongest summoned beast?”
The thought alone was enough to make her shudder.
Originally, after awakening the ‘Space Warlock’ class and being specially recruited into headquarters, she had always felt that she had already surpassed Ye Ze.
Most of the confidence that Ye Ze had once crushed with his humanities grades had gradually returned.
All she had needed to do was finish the special training camp, go back to Linyuan City, and show her father what she could do...
And yet now—Even after awakening a Hidden Class, how was it that she still could not even match Ye Ze in combat power?!
When am I ever going to turn things around, Liu Anran?!
At that thought, Liu Anran’s fighting spirit surged, and her star-bright eyes lit up once more.
“I can’t keep fighting head-on. I need to win with my head!”
She realized the gap in raw power and made a decisive choice at once...
She had to run first!
She only had a final sliver of mental power left. If she did not run now, she was afraid she would lose even the chance to escape later!
She cast one last glance at the only two teammates still left on the field:
Leng Feng—his mech had practically been beaten into scrap, and he himself had fallen unconscious...
Trying to save him would probably drag her down too. It was not worth it.
The other one was the support girl on the team, Luo Yao... who was currently drifting high in the air.
That was her class-exclusive lifesaving skill:
【Transforms into an intangible spirit form that cannot attack, while remaining unaffected by any damage or effects.】
But it could not last long...
The moment Liu Anran saw that, she decisively used Spatial Teleportation and arrived at her side.
“Wuwu~ I’m finally saved...”
Luo Yao looked pitiful, wearing the expression of someone who had barely escaped with her life.
The reason she had flown into the sky was because she was afraid of being caught by that scoundrel Ye Ze, while also giving her teammates a chance to attempt a rescue.
Luo Yao immediately raised a hand and cast a spell to replenish Liu Anran’s mana.
But Liu Anran had no time to feel relieved.
Because once her mental power stopped sustaining it, Spatial Lock would last for at most another second or two before the mantis came hunting them down.
She immediately burned through a large amount of mana and activated 【Long-Distance Spatial Teleportation】!
The two women vanished from the spot in an instant.
“They ran?”
In truth, Ye Ze was not surprised. “Forget it. They can run for now, but they are not getting away for good.”
With a support who could restore mana paired with a Space Warlock, they really were not easy to chase.
But every layer of the Ancient Battlefield would gradually shrink over time. In the end, there would be nowhere left to run, and no one would be able to escape forever.
Then Ye Ze looked at the unconscious Leng Feng on the ground...
“But this one can’t be let off.”
While he was at it, he might as well help Teacher Liu teach a lesson to the pig sniffing around his daughter.
Using Treasure Seizure was a certainty, but before that...
The corners of Ye Ze’s mouth curled upward as he activated ‘Skill Enhancement - Super’!
“Enhance Treasure Seizure!”
“Let me see the limits of robbery!”
【‘Skill Enhancement - Super’ has taken effect!】
【Treasure Seizure: Has a chance to seize any one treasure from the target...】
Enhanced:
【Treasure Seizure - Super: Guarantees the seizure of any three to five treasures from the target!】
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“Damn... so this is what real robbery looks like!”
This was the effect of a Legendary-grade exclusive skill after enhancement!
Compared to this super-enhanced version, the previous Treasure Seizure had been practically gentle!
Ye Ze instructed the squirrel, “Take them. Take five pieces!”
“Once you’re done, eliminate him.”
Although a Battle Armor Specialist relied on battle armor for most of his strength, there was no way he would not be wearing equipment himself as well.
And since Leng Feng could spend nearly a hundred million to forge a suit of battle armor, the equipment on his person was certainly not bad either!
Sure enough.
Five Epic-grade items were seized, and among them were several high-quality four- and five-star Epic pieces.
“Not taking the battle armor really does make me kind.”
Ye Ze could not help sighing.
Of course, the main reason was that he was not a Battle Armor Specialist, so he could not use battle armor. Besides, that suit had already been badly damaged, and repairing it would cost another fortune.
【Trial participant killed. Experience gained +1000!】
Leng Feng, who had originally been strong enough to place in the top ten, was mercilessly eliminated just like that.
At the same time, Ye Ze casually began drawing a Trait.
After killing several members of Central China’s second team, he had already risen to level 15.
The fifteenth Trait...
【You have drawn a Golden Legend-grade Trait: Equipment Shredder.】
【Equipment Shredder: Equipment may be destroyed by any means. After the number of destroyed pieces of equipment reaches seven, there is a chance to obtain equipment of higher quality.】
（The higher the quality of the destroyed equipment, the greater the chance of obtaining equipment of even higher quality.）
The moment he saw this Trait, Ye Ze’s first reaction was: “Absurd!”
Destroy seven pieces of equipment just for a chance at something of higher quality...
The cost was simply too extravagant.
But on second thought—If it could produce Legendary-grade equipment, that would be a completely different story!
There were extremely few ways to obtain Legendary-grade equipment. Forget the market—even the great clans and major powers across the nation possessed very little of it.
Even Liu Anran, the Space Warlock specially recruited and trained by headquarters, wore nothing more than a full set of Epic equipment.
And besides, the Trait never said Legendary-grade was the upper limit...
If it could someday produce equipment beyond Legendary-grade...
Then the value of this Trait would become enormous!
The instant that thought struck him, Ye Ze decided to test it first.
At present, his backpack contained thirteen Epic items and one Outstanding-grade item...
All of them had been stolen.
He had originally planned to feed the unusable ones to Panda, but now he could test the new Trait first...
“The problem is that ‘Equipment Shredder’ and ‘You Are What You Eat!’ overlap a bit. Both of them consume a lot of equipment.”
Ye Ze only felt the pressure on his finances grow even heavier.
But in the next instant, his movement suddenly stopped. As though he had just thought of something, he looked again at the Trait description:
“Equipment may be destroyed by any means...”
“Then if I have Panda eat it, wouldn’t that count as a way of destroying equipment too?”
Ye Ze fell into thought, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became.
If that was the case, then while Panda gained attributes by eating equipment, he could also obtain brand-new equipment of even higher quality!
Wouldn’t that be getting something for nothing?!
He had to try it quickly!
Ye Ze immediately bestowed the new Trait on Panda. In any case, he had to give it to one summon or another, and even if the effects could not stack, he would not lose anything.
【Trait ‘Equipment Shredder’ bestowed successfully!】
This time, the Trait did not increase Panda’s star rank.
After all, once something reached the Legendary tier, the difficulty of raising its star rank increased sharply, and besides, this was not even a combat-oriented Trait.
Unable to wait any longer, Ye Ze took out an Outstanding-grade piece of equipment and gave it to Panda to test the effect...
The Outstanding-grade equipment was crushed apart in a single bite.
【You Are What You Eat! — Consumed ‘Rose Light Armor.’ Gained: Constitution +6, Agility +6!】
【Equipment Shredder — Equipment destroyed: 1/7!】
“Damn! That’s unbelievable!”