Chapter 15 Intermission 4

Chapter 15 Intermission 4

"The scenario has been completed. Calculating the reward.

"Obtained EXP: 450, Game Coins: 4,500.

"Obtained Equipment: Fainted Macaque

"Completed/Accepted Quests: 0/0

"Completed Special/Hidden Quests: 0. Unlocked World-building: None

"Time of Terror Points Increase: 0. High Terror Points: 0%. Average Terror Points: 0%

"Your Terror Rating is: Embodiment of Valor. Extra reward obtained, can be selected later.

"Obtained Skill Points: 100

"Additional Reward from Good Terror Rating, EXP: 100, Game Coins: 1,000.

"Scenario Cleared Reward: Skill Card x1

"Calculation complete. Please continue."

Feng Bujue looked at his rating result, and it was accompanied by the system audio that said, "You’ve reached leveled five, and your Life Points have increased to 500/500."

His EXP was now 150/500. In terms of EXP gain, Solo Mode and Team Mode did not differ much. When Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi grouped up for the Team Training Mode, they were respectively level one and two. If they did not kill the hard boss and complete the scenario in the most impossible way, the EXP that they acquired would have been around three hundred instead of five hundred. The scenario that he had just completed was modeled after the fact that he was level four. Based on the ratio of EXP gain, if he attempted the Solo Training Mode, he would have obtained around four hundred EXP as well.

Legendary: A God-tier item that is the stuff of legends. It will be able to increase the player’s ability by leaps and bounds.

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Based on this categorization, excellent equipment would become ubiquitous at later parts of the games, something that most players would have the power to aspire to.

The way to obtain equipment in Thriller Paradise had been explained already; it could be summed in one word, exploration. However, if some players really could not understand how to get excellent quality equipment and lagged behind, what should they do?

This card system was the answer provided by the game company; it was an alternative that was given to the players to obtain equipment in the later parts of the game. As long as the player managed to collect a whole set of cards, they would be able to exchange it for one piece of equipment. The item was guaranteed to be of the excellent quality, with a chance of obtaining a perfect quality item.

And what was the concept of a ’set’? The answer... it was totally random.

Just take this Puzzle Card: Monkey as an example. If you had puzzle cards monk, white horse, pig, and cannibals, then you would be able to complete a set. Similarly, if you had the cards rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, sheep, horse, rooster, dog, and pig, then you would have completed a different set. As long as the system could accept the collected cards as a ’set’, then it was a set.

In other words, one puzzle card could belong to multiple sets, and the formation of a card was completely random. Like the monkey that Feng Bujue had obtained, it might not have turned into Puzzle Card: Monkey. It could instead have become Puzzle Card: Chimpanzee, Puzzle Card: King Kong, Puzzle Card: Monkey’s Paw, and so on.

This kind of set up made every plot item into a possibly useful puzzle card. At the later stages of the game, if the players became so powerful that they could brute force their way through most of the plot, then the plot items could become the reason for them to change up their tactics.

Therefore, for players without equipment, they could enter the Solo Survival Mode, complete the main plot, skip all the triggered side quests, and keep all the plot items, and they would be able to use them to complete the puzzle card set when they left the scenario.

Of course, the players killing themselves after obtaining the plot items that they wanted was forbidden. To get the Puzzle Card, the lowest requirement was to clear the scenario. Upon dying under any kind of circumstances, all the equipped item would be taken away; only the plot items obtained within the scenario would be retained in the scenario. This was to prevent the scenario from locking up due to the death of one player in Team Mode.

That was almost the whole explanation. Feng Bujue ended the call with customer service after he finished his questions. Then he operated the menu and turned the Puzzle Card into data and saved it in his log-in space. He prepared to receive his scenario reward.

He did not have much hope for the reward from the good Terror Rating because the scenario itself was not that scary, but the reward of a Skill Card still piqued his interest.

He believed that the Skill Card had to be something that he could use, a skill in the schools of general ability of workmanship. That extra reward from Terror Rating... He had to choose another piece of equipment because after finishing the scenario, he was still defenseless.

Feng Bujue walked out from the elevator to enter the large metallic room. Similar to before, there were two hollow glass tubes.

First, he came to the scenario reward. Through the virtual menu, he obtained the randomized Skill Card. As the card materialized inside the tube, Feng Bujue was feeling quite hopeless, but once the explanation of the card became clear enough, his shattering roar could be heard echoing through the room again. "Well, f*ck me!"