: Pipe of Oxygen
Translator: Lonelytree
“The scenario has been completed, calculating the reward.
“Obtained EXP: 1500000. Game Coins: 100000.
“Obtained Equipment/ item: Chuck Norris’ Shaver
“Completed/ Accepted Quests: 9/9
“Completed Special/ Hidden Quests: 1. Unlocked Worldview: None
“Time of Terror Points Increase: 0. High Terror Points: 0 %. Average Terror Points: 0 %
“Your Terror Rating is: Embodiment of Valour. Extra reward obtained, can be selected later.
“Obtained Skill Points: 1414
“Additional Reward from Skill Point Modifier, EXP: 14140; Game Coins: 100000
“Scenario Cleared Reward: Puzzle Cards x3
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“Side quest cleared reward: Puzzle Card x1
“Calculation completed. Please continue.”
After returning to the log in lobby, Feng Bujue clicked on the touch screen to check the rating review. This was the first time he had cleared a team scenario on nightmare mode and from the result… the reward was quite lucrative. There was so much EXP reward was due to two reasons, one was because the scenario was relatively long and two was they had completed a rather large amount of main quests. The 9 main quests were respectively…”Explore the Island of Devil’s Maw and enter the Shrine of Faith within 3 hours, players who fail to do so within the time limit will be eliminated’, “Arrive at the altar at the bottom of the Shrine of Faith within 3 hours, players who fail to do so within the time limit will be eliminated”, “Use the altar within the shrine to summon and defeat, Walker the God of Travel within 15 minutes”, “Use the tunnel behind the altar and arrive at the crystalline maze within 1 hour”, “Reach the Cage of Despair”, “Figure out the way to open the cage”, “Unlock the seal on the Cage of Despair”, “Survive” and “Escape from the Island of Devil’s Maw”.
Even though due to Billy’s intervention, there was some extenuating factors… but overall, the death rate and the difficulty of the scenario had a continuous rise. Of the two side quests, ‘Describe 7 sins to satisfy the ‘hungry’ Leideson’ and ‘arrive at the lair of the Silkworm Mother to save Uncle Worthless before he dies (or leaves the scenario due to certain reason), they had completed only one and that caused them to miss one extra reward during the rating review, that was quite a regret.
“Ah… I got so many puzzle cards in just one scenario…” Feng Bujue commented as he stared at the screen. “All the rewards give puzzle cards, this is probably the system trying to make the players familiarize themselves with the newly open puzzle card trading centre…” At this point, he took out the shaver from his inventory and studied it before his eyes, “Other than the puzzle cards, this is the only valuable item that I have taken out of the scenario.” Brother Jue once again read the item description again but the purpose of this item still eluded him. “Hmm… what kind of special effect is this ‘Give you a trendy appearance’? Is it yet another trash item with a ‘legendary’ label?”
Di di—
The communication request from the touch screen interrupted Brother Jue’s thought. Feng Bujue glanced at it, it was a group chat. Ambitionist, Uncle Worthless and Pegasus were all in the channel. Perhaps they had all seen the rating review, so they wanted to communicate. After hesitating for 2 seconds, Brother Jue pressed accept and entered the chat channel. Once he entered it, he could hear Uncle Worthless’ voice, “Ah, I have just finished a round of Killing Game, once I saw the additional EXP, I knew you guys have successfully cleared the scenario.”
“I have such an unheroic end! That cunning bastard, he is so powerful but he still resorts of sneaky tactics like ambush. By the way, you guys have taken revenge for me right?” Pegasus continued.
Ambitionist’s voice replied, “I’m sorry… but we later retreated. After you died, other than the boss that ambushed you, Sam Montier also soon revealed himself, the one who had a history with Brother Feng. In that circumstance… having just 2 players fighting 2 bosses was too unrealistic so we chose to escape from the small path at the bottom of the hole.” He paused for a second. “But to my surprise, after a small journey, the mission ‘survive’ was completed and then the new main quest was to ‘escape from the Island of Devil’s Maw’.”
“Hmm? Then how did you escape from that island?” Uncle Worthless asked.
“Well, there are two ways…” Feng Bujue chose this time to chime in, “To leave the island of devil’s maw.” He laughed. “Of course, ‘dying’ does not count…”
“Then what two ways are there?” Pegasus enquired.
“The first way is frankly to use pure force… either through powerful magic, ability or physical strength.” Feng Bujue replied, “This way… us players naturally will not be able to accomplish it. But of the inmates on the island… there are quite a number of them will be able to do it. But all the inmates on the island are held by a ‘chain of keys’. Without that chain of keys, even if they can move freely on the island, they won’t be able to leave the island itself.” At this point, Brother Jue paused slightly for a few seconds before continuing, “And the second method… is to ‘trade’. Just like I mentioned earlier, of the inmates on the island, there are plenty of them who have the capability of leaving the island but they were just held back by the ‘key’. However even though they could not leave the island themselves, it did not mean that they could not help the others leave the island.”
“Oh… I get it now.” At this point, Uncle Worthless got the message that Feng Bujue was laying down. “At the Haunted Swamp, you have already got the methods to leave the island from the Lotus Soul and formed a trade with her.”
“Hmph… you have already figured out the way to leave but mentioned not even a word to us…” Ambitionist suddenly chided coldly. Actually before leaving the scenario, he was already quite annoyed by this behaviour of Brother Jue but at the time, it was not the place to bring it up.
“it was meaningless to share the information anyway.” Feng Bujue countered. “After it was me who formed the trade with the Lotus Soul and not the whole team.”
“Ah… never mind… in the end, the scenario has been cleared.” Ambitionist sighed.
“Speaking of which… Atobe should be fine, right?” Something occurred to Pegasus and he added, “After I left the scenario, I noticed he has been offline ever since.”
“I’m sure he’ll be fine.” Feng Bujue added, “he’s still so young, do you really he think he’ll be harmed by some scary scenarios…” He shrugged. “He is probably limited from logging in… inside the gaming guide, it is written clearly that this is a protective measure after a person was forced offline due to one over shooting the Terror Points threshold… he probably won’t be coming online for the rest of the night.”
“Oh, so that’s why…” Pegasus was obviously the kind of the people who would not study the gaming guide. Then the four discussed some of the other details inside the scenario and the problems with the plot. After 10 minutes of chatting, they dispersed. Before the chat ended, Feng Bujue sent friend requests to all of them. But after Ambitionist said ‘we better keep our interaction to the bare minimum’, Brother Jue undid the friend status…
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Brother Jue was indeed rather tired after completing this long nightmare scenario but he still had some other miscellaneous things to do before he could go offline. He was not in a hurry to get his reward but went to the market to conduct some simple trades. After he arrived at the Market Server 101, Feng Bujue made a beeline to the supply shops. He took out the elf meat (of a deity), mutton (that might contain the DNa of a wolf) and lizard meat (from the Heart of Terror) from his inventory and sold them all to the shops.
These miscellaneous items were all labelled as ‘normal’ so they were not listed out one by one in the rating review. But when Brother Jue sold them at the shop, they fetched a surprisingly high price… especially the meat of Walker, it sold for several thousands Game Coins. Brother Jue felt like this was perfect to use to replenish his potions and ammo. With the other players scrutinizing him, Brother Jue completed this bloody and ghastly transaction… and flew as fast as he could back to his log in lobby.
Then, it was time for the happy draw time for the equipment…
Brother Jue first obtained his four puzzle cards and took a look at them. Then he placed Puzzle Cards- Ping Pong, Father, Spider and Countdown, these four cards into the box in his storage room. Then… he moved to the other glass tube.
“Please select your additional reward. One, a randomized equipment that is matching your level (After the version update, this option could also give the player a randomized ‘tools’ or items that belonged to the ‘others’ category; Two, 50000 Game Coins; Three, 17200000 EXP”
Brother Jue very naturally overlooked the Exp reward that was at least 10 times the Exp reward from the scenario…
Before the system announcement even finished, he had already chosen the first open. The white light appeared again and slowly materialized… this time the equipment looked small, something that could be clasped in one’s hand. When the light faded away, Feng Bujue focused his eyes to look and the thing that appeared before his eyes was—a smoking pipe.
Name: Pipe of Oxygen
Item Type: Others
Quality: Excellent
Special Effect: When you smoke from the pipe, you can gain a small amount of oxygen
Equip Requirement: None, bound after one use
Remark: No need for tobacco, no need for light, just place it in your mouth. When you ‘smoke’ it, it will create smoke but only pure oxygen will enter your lungs.
Feng Bujue studied this wooden smoking pipe closely before his eyes. The whole thing was brown in color and the surface was well smoothened out, it had no cracks or flaws. The tip of the pipe had a dark color and there was a small line craved there—Smoking is bad for your health.
“Hah… this is not bad.” Feng Bujue commented as he immediately placed the pipe into his mouth to give it a try. He did not light it up and did not place any tobacco but trails of white smoke floated up from inside the pipe and the smoke had the unique fragrance of burning tobacco in it.
“This is a great find…” Feng Bujue plucked the pipe out of his mouth and continued. “With this… I can survive a longer time in an environment with lack of oxygen.” He just got this item but he was already making up plans. “In future Killing Game, if the situation allows it, I can consider pulling the opponent into the sea or high altitude to play a long game… ha ha… I am sure it will be interesting.”
Since it was something with actual value, Brother Jue naturally would not feed it into the disintegrator. He slipped it into his inventory. Finally, he inspected his overall status for one time before he opened the game menu and clicked on the option to go offline.