Chapter 38:

After a brief rest and recovery stabilizing their health values in a relatively safe range the group began to sort out the gains from this terrifying battle against Dr. Terror and his minions. Several bio-humans dropped white-quality shirts and pairs of white-quality shoes while an elite black-clothed lackey dropped a white-quality machete.

Unfortunately two pieces of equipment were destroyed and torn apart by the bio-beasts during the battle rendering them worthless.

The bio-humans and elite lackeys were all killed by the bio-beasts.

Fortunately, one of the bio-humans had the first hit allocation right snatched away by Chen Mo so the pair of white-quality shoes it dropped belonged to Chen Mo and were not included in the allocation.

As for Dr. Terror, he dropped a skill scroll, a green-quality armour, two energy stones and a mysterious stone used to identify potions.

All the starving ghosts participated in the battle that killed Dr. Terror, so they all had the right to allocate rewards. Since Lei Wu had already stated that he would not participate in this allocation, losing the temporary team leader with absolute authority in the decision-making the group could only discuss how to distribute the rewards.

First, there are five white-quality pieces of equipment dropped by the bio-humans and elite lackeys.

Since Chen Mo has the first hit allocation right to one bio-warrior, he obtained two white-quality pieces of equipment, namely a shirt and a pair of shoes.

Tao Zi, Han Xue and Ku Wu split the remaining three white-quality pieces of equipment.

Next is the reward dropped by Dr. Terror. A skill scroll, a green-quality shirt, two energy stones and a mysterious stone.

The most valuable among these are undoubtedly the skill scroll and the green-quality shirt.

As for the mysterious stone, since everyone had already obtained a bottle of basic improvement potion earlier, using the mysterious stone to identify it and being able to use it would immediately enhance their strength. Therefore although its market value in the disaster world is only 10 points it is currently more valuable than the two energy stones.

Chen Mo was the first to speak "I still have a Mind Stone here, which can be used to immediately identify this scroll and gain a strength boost. So I would like to have this skill scroll. This way it can also reduce the difficulty of our next trial. Moreover, this skill scroll has not been identified yet, so its specific value cannot be assessed. However, it was dropped by a mini boss after all so its quality should not be too low. As compensation I can use up the first selection right that Lei Wu promised earlier."

Tao Zi, Han Xue and Ku Wu exchanged glances and silently exchanged their thoughts.

Then Tao Zi said "Being able to defeat Dr. Terror is thanks to your driving the vehicle. If you become stronger, it will also help us complete the trial tasks ahead easily. so I’ll agree with you."

"Yeah, I agree too." Ku Wu's voice was very dull, after a pensive moment Han Xue sighed and said "Since you have the Mind Stone and can immediately identify this skill scroll to convert it into combat power, I can't argue with you about that, so I agree as well."

Upon hearing this, Chen Mo nodded to the three of them and immediately took the skill scroll.

Ku Wu continued, "I want this mysterious stone. Although its value is not high, it can immediately enhance my strength now. Do any of you want to bid against me?"

After exchanging a glance, Tao Zi and Han Xue both shook their heads, tacitly agreeing to Ku Wu's proposal.

Without saying much, Ku Wu took out the basic improvement potion he had obtained earlier identified it and swallowed it in one gulp, soon showing a satisfied expression. He obviously also received the prompt for basic attribute improvement.

Han Xue and Tao Zi then competed for the green-quality shirt.

Han Xue subsequently won the allocation right for the green-quality shirt with 33 points plus a white-quality piece of equipment and the allocation rights for two energy stones.

After everyone had finished allocating, they all looked towards Chen Mo.

Chen Mo then took out the last gem given to him by the Qing Hong Mentor, the Mind Stone, which can directly identify skill scrolls in the other world. At this moment, Chen Mo finally understood the good intentions of the Qing Hong Mentor!

Although the value of these three gems are not high, they allowed Chen Mo to fully display his characteristics. If he has outstanding potential, then he can definitely use the power of these three gems to enhance himself. However, if he doesn't have much potential, these three gems will not bring any help to Chen Mo and the disaster world will not change much with one less starving ghost.

As the Mind Stone emitted a soft light, the translucent scroll, which seemed to have no weight, finally gained some weight under the influence of the light stone, no longer as light and floaty as before.

The light brain's data chip took this opportunity to analyze the attributes and quality of this skill scroll.

Prompt: Despicable Mind Shield

Level: C

Learning Requirements: 20 Spirit Points, 10 Defense Points.

Item Properties: Without any energy fluctuations, release an invisible psychic cover with a base shield value of 50. This psychic cover's base shield value will increase to 100 points after 20 seconds. Once triggered by external force during the enhancement process, it will no longer increase. The despicable mind shield cannot be stacked with any other shield skills.

Cooldown: 20 seconds, Energy Cost: 5 points, maintaining the telepathic cover requires 1 point of energy consumption per minute.

Item Description: Villainy is the pass for villains and nobility is the epitaph for the noble. The creatures who created this skill often face various enemy sneak ambushes and dangerous enemies often come from their surroundings. Only despicable can survive in these parts.

"Huh?"

When everyone saw that this was actually a C-grade skill scroll, they couldn't help but be surprised.

After all the market price of a C-grade skill scroll even if it is of poor quality can often reach around 150 points and as for some scrolls with excellent attributes, they can sell for around 200 points, not to mention those with perfect attributes.

Chen Mo's good luck truly made them envious. And this is a protective shield skill scroll and in the upcoming tasks, it might save their lives at a critical moment.

With this thought, the hearts of the three also gained a bit of balance.

This also explains why Dr. Terror was able to activate the shield silently without any signs during the process and why the shield value was so amazing the first time but then became less.

All of this is due to the special attributes of the Despicable mind shield.

The basic attributes of a typical C-grade skill range from 50 to 100.

However, the attributes of the Despicable mind shield are quite strange. When the skill is released, the base shield value is only 50 points but as time passes its shield strength will silently increase reaching the C-grade skill limit of 100 points after 20 seconds.

As a result, it is really difficult to judge the quality of this Despicable mind shield skill scroll.

As for its other attributes, they also have their own strengths and weaknesses.

Firstly, its advantages lie in its only 20-second cooldown, which is quite rare for a C-grade skill and its energy consumption is also quite low only 5 points. Furthermore, its invisibility attribute is also quite good.

Of course, its disadvantages are also very obvious.

The fact that it cannot be stacked with other shield skills greatly limits its potential. After all although there are not many pure psychic assistants, there are some and some speed and strength specialists also choose to learn a shield skill which would render the Despicable mind shield ineffective when he wanted to use it.

It's worth mentioning here.

Compared to telekinetic shields, which can be applied to others to create a buff state, shields for speed and strength specialists generally can only be applied to themselves which is the fundamental difference between the two.

"It seems that only villains can make the most of this skill."

After observing the skill attributes for a long time, Chen Mo finally squeezed out this sentence. Even the learning conditions for this skill are unique, requiring a Spirit of more than 20 and Defence of more than 10.

Chen Mo can almost imagine himself, after applying the shield, him trying to delay the time to maximize the skill's effectiveness by talking tough. This completely fits the characteristics of a villain. Just thinking about this scenario Chen Mo felt somewhat speechless. Sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ N0vᴇlFire(.)nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of nøvels early and in the highest quality.

Although he is not incapable of acting like this, it simply does not fit his character of a bright, upright, and lofty image for the future he had, which makes him quite helpless.

If Chen Mo can think of these things, others naturally can too. It has to be said that the attributes of this Despicable mind shield skill are really strange, with both its advantages and disadvantages being quite prominent.

In the hands of someone suitable for it, it may even be able to produce a higher intensity of unexpected effects. However, in the hands of someone unsuitable for it, it is simply the lowest quality C-grade skill.

How to make use of it depends on Chen Mo himself. After hesitating for a moment, the skill scroll in Chen Mo's hand suddenly disappeared.

In the end, he chose to learn this skill scroll.

In the upcoming tasks it is unknown how many dangers there will be. Now, with every increase in strength his chances of survival will increase and only by surviving will there be a future. He simply does not have the qualification to choose.

Prompt: You have mastered the Despicable mind shield skill, current proficiency level Lv 0.

Chen Mo activated his attribute panel and indeed found the new skill of the Despicable mind shield at the bottom of his skills list, just below the Psychic bullet.

Different from E-grade skills, as a C-grade skill, the enhancement of the Despicable mind shield is: base damage + 0.7 * Spirit + base psychic power level + 0.6 * weapon + 2 * skill proficiency.

The base damage of an E-grade skill is 10 to 20, while the base damage of a C-grade skill is 50 to 100, the difference in base attributes alone is like night and day.

For low-level natural disasters, before their basic attributes have grown, getting killed by being hit with a C-grade skill by someone without good equipment is not impossible.

Next is the coefficient bonus related to base attributes.

The coefficient bonus for an E-grade skill's base attributes is 0.5, while the coefficient bonus for a C-grade skill's base attributes is 0.7 and as attributes continue to increase the gap between the two will become larger and larger.

Furthermore, there is the weapon damage bonus. The weapon damage bonus for an E-grade skill is only 0.2 but the weapon damage bonus for a C-grade skill is as high as 0.6 which undoubtedly will allow the weapon's attributes to be more fully utilized.

Lastly, there is the enhancement from proficiency. The proficiency enhancement for E-grade and D-grade skills is 1 point per level, while the proficiency enhancement for C-grade skills is 2 points per level. The gap seems to double, but in reality the maximum proficiency level for a skill is only 10 so the maximum difference in damage between two skills at the same proficiency level is only 10 points, which is the smallest gap there is.

Of course, the enhancement of proficiency level is secondary the key lies in the special attribute enhancement of the skill at levels 4, 7 and 10 which is the most important.

At this moment, after learning the Despicable mind shield, when Chen Mo released the skill, it’s effect is: 50 + 17 + 7 + 15 + 2 = 91 shield value, and after 20 seconds, it will be 91 + 50 = 141 shield value.

Indeed, as a C-grade skill, its intensity is not comparable to that of an E-grade skill.

Unfortunately, its energy consumption is also quite high.

Although it is considered low consumption compared to other C-grade skills, using the skill once requires 5 points of energy which is enough to make Chen Mo feel stretched with only 12 points of energy his, only able to use the skill twice.

It should also be noted that increasing the shield value does not mean increasing the health of natural disaster.

This is because the shield value does not take defense attributes into account while health value does take defense attributes into account.

But this does not mean that the quality of the shield value is inferior to that of the health value. The reason is that, for things like Dr. Terror's snake toungue ambush if it falls on the shield it will naturally have no effect so shield skills will be the nemesis of all poison skills in the early stages.

"Let's go."

After learning the Despicable mind shield Chen Mo said to Ku Wu, Taozi, and Han Xue "Xiao Ya has been downstairs for a while now she should be almost done organizing."

At this moment because they were discussing the distribution of the spoils, the four of them were not in the biochemical laboratory but were discussing on the the garage.

Throughout this whole process, Lei Wu remained silent.

"Brother Lei Wu, let's go in and take a look!"

After being called over by the four Lei Wu nodded and the five of them entered Dr. Terror's biochemical laboratory together.

(End of chapter 38)