Chapter 30: Great Rewards
Chapter 30: Great Rewards
Skill Mutation Scroll: When a player learned a skill, using this scroll could turn that skill into a mutated skill!
He struck gold!
This was a rare item no one had ever mentioned!
But… for now, this thing was useless to him.
“Equipment, equipment…”
Thinking of this, Chen Mo no longer paid attention to the Skill Mutation Scroll. The most important thing right now was to see what amazing equipment the Mutant Slime King had dropped.
“Got it! Green Equipment, Tough Leather Armor!”
Tough Leather Armor
Description: Leather armor made from high-quality monster hides, very tough, capable of effectively blocking monster attacks.
Equipment Quality: Green
Requirement: Can be equipped at Level 10 or above
Attributes:
Physical Defense +40
Magic Defense +48
Constitution +15
Agility +5
Not bad, this was a good start. Equipping the Tough Leather Armor would increase his Health Points by 300 at once!
As a Mutant Boss, the Mutant Slime King could not just drop one piece of Green Equipment. Chen Mo immediately picked up another piece of Green Equipment, a staff!
Vinewood Staff
Description: A staff made from ancient vinewood, very light in weight, can increase the user’s casting speed.
Equipment Quality: Green
Requirement: Summoner, Mage, Priest, Level 10 or above
Attributes:
Base Physical Attack Power 35–45
Base Magic Attack Power 55–70
Intelligence +20
Spirit +15
Additional Attribute: Withered Vines
Withered Vines: When a player successfully hits an enemy, there is a 5% chance to summon Withered Vines. The Withered Vines will bind the enemy, preventing them from moving for 2 seconds.
What a powerful weapon!
Chen Mo glanced at the Vinewood Staff’s attributes and couldn’t help but drool. If he had a corresponding Level 10 Green weapon, he could kill the Mutant Slime King at least twice as fast!
“This weapon, if sold now, would fetch at least twenty to thirty thousand!” Chen Mo guessed.
The Vinewood Staff could sell for twenty to thirty thousand, and the Tough Leather Armor could also sell for several thousand to ten thousand. There were still some unequipped items around. So, killing one Mutant Slime King could earn him at least over a hundred thousand—way more than what he usually made.
Well, consider it extra income. If the Holographic Virtual Network really became unstoppable, earning this much in the game would at least cover his losses.
Worried that others might arrive, Chen Mo didn’t stop to check each item one by one. Instead, he picked up everything and put it all into his backpack first.
After gathering the items, Chen Mo didn’t forget to use his Gathering Skill on the Mutant Slime King’s corpse to see if he could collect anything.
System Notification: You obtained the item “Summon Slime”!
Damn!
Reaching out, Chen Mo actually collected something—a Summoner skill book!
Summon Slime: Summoner skill book. After learning, can summon multiple Slime summons at once.
What a great item! This skill book might not be available elsewhere. If it wasn’t, then it would definitely be worth many times more than the Vinewood Staff. After all, the Vinewood Staff had good attributes, but it would need to be replaced by Level 20, whereas a skill book could be used for a lifetime.
Then Chen Mo looked into his backpack. There were over ten pieces of equipment inside. The Mutant Slime King was a Mutant Boss, so the drops weren’t too shabby. However, almost all of these over ten pieces were Blue Equipment. As for White Equipment, there wasn’t a single piece. Drops from a Mutant-level Boss were at least quality guaranteed.
Besides Blue Equipment, Chen Mo finally found what he wanted in his backpack!
Purple Equipment, Slime King Bracelet!
Slime King Bracelet
Description: A bracelet collected by the Slime King, one piece of the Slime King jewelry set. Collect three different pieces of Slime King jewelry to unlock the set’s hidden attributes.
Equipment Quality: Purple, Set Component
Requirement: Can be equipped at Level 10 or above
Attributes:
Base Physical Attack Power +15
Base Magic Attack Power +15
Strength +20
Agility +15
Intelligence +20
Extra Additional Attribute: Slime Venom
Slime Venom: Each time the player attacks a target, there is a 20% chance to poison the target. After being poisoned, the target loses 20 HP per second for 5 seconds. The poison effect can stack up to 3 times.
Special Effect: Collect three pieces of Slime King jewelry to unlock the set effect.
Damn!
Purple Equipment, not only the rarest type of jewelry equipment, but also set jewelry!
Chen Mo couldn’t help but feel overjoyed. After spending so much time, it wasn’t in vain!
After spending some time on the forum, Chen Mo knew that in the game, armor equipment was the easiest to drop, while weapons and jewelry had much lower drop rates. Top-tier jewelry was extremely rare.
Now he not only obtained top-tier jewelry but also a Slime King set jewelry component!
Just one Slime King Bracelet had such powerful attributes. If he collected the bracelet, necklace, and ring—all three components—who knew how overpowered the attributes would be then!
Chen Mo decided: no matter what, he must collect the full Slime King jewelry three-piece set! Only then would he have a chance to defeat Enoch!
Not just Enoch—if he could defeat Enoch, Chen Mo had another thing he really wanted to do! That also required him to have incredibly powerful equipment!
Besides equipment, Chen Mo counted the coins dropped by the Mutant Slime King. They added up to over fifty silver coins, which was quite a sum of money in the game.
The Slime King wouldn’t respawn for a while. To continue hunting Mutant Slime Kings, Chen Mo had to go to another Starter Village, which meant suicide and rebirth.
But before that, Chen Mo first logged out and went to the forum to post a thread.
“Want to get rich? Wild treasure! Dig out your future!”
Chen Mo posted the screenshots he took while digging earlier, along with the attributes of the Shoes of Swift Wind.
From then on, he needed to hire people to dig pits in every Starter Village. Doing this once or twice was fine, but if it happened too often, someone would eventually notice and become suspicious.
Now, by posting this thread, not many players would believe it, but some certainly would, and they would go to the Slime Plains to dig for treasure.
Of course, they wouldn’t dig up anything. Then many players would go to the forum and complain that the thread was a scam, etc.
The thread was indeed a scam, but with it, Chen Mo could create a smokescreen. If other players saw Chen Mo hiring people to dig pits, they would think, “Here’s another fool who believed the forum post.”
Chen Mo would be very happy if players thought that way.
“Really?”
“Fake, right?”
“Poster, are you there? Post more pictures!”
As soon as Chen Mo’s thread was posted, many players expressed doubt and asked questions.
Chen Mo didn’t bother to reply. Many players thought it was fake, but just as Chen Mo predicted, some players bought shovels and went to the Slime Plains.
While those players started digging, Chen Mo had already committed suicide again and reappeared in Goblin Valley.