BXBX NOVEL Chapter 217:156 Inventory Harvest
The journey from Blackwater City to the South Barbarian’s Hundred Thousand Mountains is very far, almost ten thousand kilometers!
Dean McKenzie definitely can’t walk that far.
Dean McKenzie walked for a day. It was too slow!
The most suitable transport he had at hand was Old Seven’s horse.
Dean McKenzie bargained with Old Seven to borrow his horse.
When Old Seven heard Dean McKenzie’s request, his whole skeleton was shocked.
His bones quivered, his pupil fire flickered, and he looked at Dean McKenzie incredulously.
It seemed like what Dean McKenzie wanted to borrow was not his horse, but his newlywed young wife.
He eventually lent it to him, but the way Dean McKenzie looked at the unicorn skeleton horse made Old Seven feel heartbroken, as if Dean McKenzie was committing a ‘sin before him’.
In the end, Dean McKenzie could only take a compromise.
He asked Old Six to build a horse cart for him, and let Old Seven pull it along.
This time, it was Old Six’s turn to be dumbfounded.
As his pupil fire swayed, he grumbled to Dean McKenzie, showing that this was not a task for him, he was an architect, not a carpenter.
Dean McKenzie didn’t understand though.
In desperation, Old Six called out Old Eight, the full-time translator.
He would say a sentence, and Old Eight would translate it.
After Old Eight’s translation, Dean McKenzie said he understood and patted Old Six’s shoulder with appreciation.
“Very well, I was ready to drop the idea, but since you are so enthusiastic, I’ll assign this task to you. Do it well; I am counting on you!”
After that, Dean McKenzie went into the Tomb of Bones, leaving Old Six stunned.
Didn’t he make it clear that he couldn’t do this task?
Didn’t he say that he was busy researching the new prison and could not divert his attention?
How did it end up being his task again?
It was Old Eight!
Old Six immediately blamed Old Eight.
It’s definitely the fault of this incompetent translator.
At this moment, Old Six even figured out how to handle the anti-assassination building scheme that Doggy Two had suggested to him.
What Old Six didn’t know was that Old Eight was also doubting his life’s existence.
For the first time, he doubted his translation abilities. Could it be that he really translated it wrongly?
The innocent Old Eight had no idea.
It’s not his translation that was wrong!
Even if his translation was perfect, it couldn’t be understood by those who weren’t willing to understand.
After tricking Old Eight, Dean McKenzie entered the Tomb of Bone, and immediately took out his storage ring, spilling out the stuff inside.
“Perfect! I haven’t sorted out all the items from the instance raid up to now. This is a good opportunity to do it!” Dean McKenzie said.
As Dean McKenzie spoke, a hill-like pile of items already laid in front of him.
In fact, the items taken out by Dean McKenzie were fewer but more valuable.
He was too busy to sort them out, but he knew that they were good.
Among them were items dropped by the Stitched Monster.
He also had things from the fallen profession at the Blackwater Mine, as well as the President of the Blackwater City branch.
A mountain-like pile of several hundred items was in front of him.
The most common ones were skill books.
Dean McKenzie had gotten hundreds of them at Blackwater City alone. He also obtained some from a fifth-turn creature.
However, while they were numerous, most were skills for Thir-turn or below.
There were not many skills for Thir-turn and above.
Skills for Fourth-turn and above were even less, with only five such!
These were the mage’s fourth-turn skill “Flying Skill”, the archer’s fourth-turn skill “Death Arrow”,
the warrior’s “Steel Bones” skill at fourth-turn, the assassin’s fourth-turn skill “Forced Decapitation”
and a Fifth-turn knight skill “Knight’s Heart”.
Dean McKenzie had decided how to allocate the other four skills.
Death Arrow would go to Old Nine, Forced Decapitation to Old Eight, Knight’s Heart to Old Seven, while the common mage skill Flying Skill would be reserved for himself. After all, Old Six didn’t fly.
Only the warrior skill Steel Bones was difficult for him to decide, whether to give it to Old Two or Old Four.
He had a look at the skill’s attributes.
Skill Book: Steel Bones
Learn Requirements: Fourth-turn warrior, 3000 physique
Effects: 1 physique point increases 20 fixed defense passively. After activation, the defense can be increased 20 times in a short period of time!
Considering the skill effects, it would pair well with Old Four. But this skill could also compensate for Old Two’s defense inadequacies to a certain extent.
After some hesitation, Dean McKenzie finally made up his mind.
“Give it to Old Two. With the Guardian Shield, Old Four’s defense is already tens of millions, it doesn’t need this extra bit!”
Yeah, a man always cares about his first time.
Doggy Two was the first guard Dean McKenzie had trained. He had a soft spot for it.
After assigning the skills, Dean McKenzie sorted out the hillside-like pile of items again.
He quickly found a few items that he deemed important.
Two of those items were obtained by Dean McKenzie himself.
23 pieces of the Secret Realm Modification Scroll and Secret Realm Crystals each!
“These two items are quite useful, 23 Secret Realm Crystals, enough to modify the laws of the Secret Realm’s space to a certain extent.
I can try and see if I can transform the Land of Bone into the Time Cottage!”
Dean McKenzie carefully stowed these items away, pondering how to use them, his gaze falling on the remaining objects.
Name: Fifth-turn Task Scroll.
Usage Condition: Level 100
Description: If the level condition is met, upon opening, it automatically generates a fifth-turn promotion quest. Completing the quest yields promotion.
Name: Deputy Promotion Order (no task version)
Description: After using it, the target instantly gets a deputy position.
Times Remaining: 5/5
There are also 3 instance scrolls, ranging from levels 81 to 100.
Out of hundreds of items, Dean McKenzie picked these items that caught his eye.
After tallying these items, Dean McKenzie promptly stored them and then skillfully laid back into the coffin deep inside the Bone Tomb!
This building, one may say, is Dean McKenzie’s favorite building crafted by Old Six.
After it was erected, Dean McKenzie urged Old Six to enhance it from time to time.
And over time, this building has indeed risen by one star.
Name: Bone Tomb
Building Level: Intermediate (2-Star)
Effects: Once inside the tomb, you’ll feel the embrace of darkness, giving you a sense of tranquility. Your affinity with darkness increases, thus increasing your efficiency in learning dark system skills by 350%.
Death Epiphany (There’s a coffin deep within the tomb; it can be opened once a month. Lying inside may grant a chance to comprehend the Death Epiphany, definitely improving your skill proficiency in the dark attribute, with a 1% probability of enlightenment, causing mutation or enhancement in skills)
These are the attributes at 2-Star.
The difference compared to before is not very significant.
Efficiency has increased from 300% to 350%.
The effects of Death Epiphany now have a defined chance, from being stated as having a probability to now being 1%.
Although the chance is not high, each time Dean McKenzie lies in it, he feels that he might encounter it.
This time was no different, as he laid in the coffin full of hope…
Half an hour later, Dean McKenzie, with a disappointed face, pushed open the coffin.
“Bad luck, didn’t encounter it again!”
Indeed, this time Dean McKenzie did not just fail to encounter that 1% chance for skill mutation or enhancement, none of the skills he had improved at all.
However, there’s nothing he could do about this. After receiving Crohn’s inheritance, the levels of the skills he possessed greatly increased.
Just relying on one ‘Death Epiphany’ is insufficient for Dean McKenzie’s skills to level up.
However, there were some results from this attempt.
“The Bone Fang skill has improved to 97% of Level 9, not too far from Level 10.
Generally speaking, skills are maxed out at Level 10.1 wonder if it is the same for my enhanced skill.
Anyway, the carriage from Old Six probably isn’t ready yet, so why don’t I try and level up this skill first?”
When Dean says it, he does it!
He began brushing up the Bone Fang skill right within the Bone Tomb.
With a 350% enhancement from the Bone Tomb, more importantly, Dean McKenzie felt at home here, which greatly improved his skill brushing efficiency.
With Dean’s nearly 170 thousand mana available without limit, his Bone Fang skill proficiency rose rapidly.
Within one hour, Dean managed to brush up the remaining 3% of the skill proficiency.
Your skill “Bone Fang” has been upgraded to Level 10!
Skill: Bone Fang (Strengthened 3 times) (Remaining enhancement times: 2 times)
Level: 10+1 (122/50 million)
Skill consumption: 50000 Mana points.
Skill damage: Spiritual Power plus Magic Strength multiplied by 25 plus (68698 times 2)
This is the Level 10 Bone Fang skill.
The trait effect had no changes, but the basic effect has increased significantly.
The increase reached the range of a fourth-turn skill.
Of course, while the skill damage has greatly increased, so has the consumption. With each cast of Bone Fang requiring 50,000 Mana, it’s nothing short of shocking!
However, there’s a reason for the high Mana consumption.
This skill might not be very powerful in Dean McKenzie’s hands right now, but once he reaches the fourth-turn, this skill could be a formidable weapon that can mow down everything in its path.
“Hmm, I’m already Level 80, and I can promote. I must hurry up and complete the promotion!”
With Dean’s current accumulation, once the promotion is complete, he can run rampant in the realm of the fifth-turn.
However, even though Dean is now of sufficient level and a Promotion Temple has been moved into the Land of Bone, there is still a problem: he lacks the materials for promotion.
Although there are some materials in Blackwater City, those materials can only initiate the process for a nightmare difficulty promotion.
Even with the so-called blessing of the Wraith God improving the nightmare difficulty to hell mode, if possible, Dean still wants to try promoting under Hell Mode, testing what level the blessing of the Wraith God can elevate the difficulty of the promotion to.
If he completes the promotion at that level, what sort of enhancement will he get?