Chapter 156: Getting a B-level Skill at Half Price!
Night, Old Jingmai District, abandoned train station.
While controlling a Deception Puppet in the Blue Owl Battle Suit battling the Qi'an Cultists, Ke Mingye himself had nothing to do but hide in that deserted abandoned train station, unable to go anywhere.
He sat on a wooden public bench, hands resting on his thighs, tilting his head back and staring into the sky.
Listening to the incessant chirping of the cicadas, by the end of the night, he could almost count the number of stars in the sky; it was truly pleasant.
After the battle outside the church had ended, he controlled the interaction between the Blue Owl and that superhero squad while running back and forth on the empty platform.
Once he achieved the system's required number of steps, he switched to doing push-ups.
So, as the events involving the Blue Owl wrapped up perfectly, he also managed to complete the daily tasks he had set aside earlier in the morning.
It's worth mentioning that today's daily task was slightly different from usual: the reward of attribute points was increased from one to two—a situation that hadn't occurred in the earlier half of the month.
"Is it then an occasional task that rewards two attribute points, or starting today, will all daily tasks always reward two attribute points?"
Ke Mingye stared at the text on the panel, pondering.
He had rationally calculated and felt that the former possibility was more likely.
Otherwise, if he really got two attribute points stable every day, he would accumulate about 700 attribute points from daily tasks alone in a year.
If all those attribute points were added to "physical fitness," it would amount to an SS-tier muscular physique. He could transform into a one-punch superhero, shattering everything with sheer force, requiring no skill, and even a nuclear bomb couldn't penetrate his defenses...
However, he was somewhat afraid of mind control skills, so he couldn't neglect the mental strength attribute. Otherwise, getting brainwashed would turn the tables against the players.
Even if he only received one attribute point each day, along with instances... missions... and various other hidden rewards, if one could survive and steadily improve over a year, even the most ordinary player could acquire about 600 attribute points.
No matter to which attribute these points were added, it would be considered a dimensional strike in this world.
Moreover, the biggest advantage of players isn't in their growth attributes, but in the diversity of their ability mechanisms.
Weird equipment and numerous skills are advantages that Superpower Users find unattainable.
Superpower Users are like players who only possess one skill; even the most fearsome of them can have at most five superpowers, still not half as many as a player has.
Moreover, every skill a player has is chosen by them, ensuring its usefulness, unlike the powers of Superpower Users which are bestowed by fate and sometimes completely useless.
If a player were to develop over a year, by the latter stages, each would have about ten A-tier skills in hand, coupled with the informational advantage from the panel, calling them a "natural disaster" wouldn't be an exaggeration.
And these would be dozens of "roaming disasters," rendering any place they visited barren.
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Of course, fantasies aside, if they died in the early stages, all these would be moot. One must stay practical, starting the eradication of Superhumans with running and push-ups.
[Reward for daily task 2 "one hundred push-ups" received, earned 2 freely distributable attribute points.]
Ke Mingye raised his hand and allocated the two acquired attribute points to "physical fitness" and "mental strength" respectively.
[Your "physical fitness" attribute changed: 64→65 points (↑1 point).]
[Your "mental strength" attribute changed: 22→23 points (↑1 point).
[Reward for daily task 1 "5 kilometers running" received, earned a chance for a lucky draw on the prize wheel.]
As the notification box disappeared, the prize wheel unfolded before him, texts in six sections catching his eye.
[One, 2500 Mall Coins;]
[Two. 1500 Experience Points;]
[Three, a fragment of the Divine Disc *1 (Collect 5 fragments to earn a Divine Disc, which can be used to regularly locate a Divine Ruin);]
[Four, a fragment of a low-tier Skill Enhancement Card (Collect three fragments to compose a low-tier Skill Enhancement Card) (The low-tier Skill Enhancement Card can be used to enhance an E-tier skill);]
[Five, C-tier equipment——Memory Stealing Gloves;]
[Six, a random D-tier Skill Card.]
Ke Mingye pressed the start button on the prize wheel, and the pointer began to spin rapidly.
It finally stopped on zone one.
[Congratulations, you've received the reward from zone one: 2500 Mall Coins.]
[Current total of Mall Coins: 22800.]
"That's enough," Ke Mingye thought. "If I scrap together just a bit more, with a B-tier Skill Card, I can buy a B-tier skill. I'll see how the skills I've scouted out these past few days are and grab any suitable B-tier skill I find."
Thinking so, he opened his inventory, sold two items he rarely used—"Upgraded Pirate Blunderbuss," "a Train Conductor Uniform," and the "Electromagnetic Pulse Gloves" that were almost wrecked in battle.
Honestly, he quite liked those Electromagnetic Pulse Gloves, but unfortunately, they didn't have an autofix feature or a way to repair them using Mall Coins, so he had to sell them for some Mall Coins.
[Sold D-tier equipment "Upgraded Pirate Blunderbuss" and E-tier equipment "a Train Conductor Uniform", and C-tier equipment "Electromagnetic Pulse Gloves" for a total of 4500 Mall Coins.]