Chapter 54: Malice from Lilin
[Revival Wood]
Origin: Abyss World
Quality: White ~ Epic Rank
Type: One-time Consumable
Effect: After using this item, restore HP to all friendly units within 50 meters, and gain continuous HP recovery for a certain duration.
Tip: Charm attribute determines the recovery amount and range of this item. Maximum effect restores 2500 HP to all friendly units within 50 meters, with an additional 43 HP per second for 30 seconds.
Warning: If a Hunter uses this item, it only restores 2 HP to all friendly units within 1 meter, with no subsequent continuous recovery effect.
Rating: 1 ~ 670 points
Description: This is Duke Lilin's cherished possession.
Selling Price: 310,000 Paradise Coins.
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Seeing the attributes of [Revival Wood], Bubu Wang's dog face twisted in a 'grimace'. He absolutely could not laugh, could not laugh~
Su Xiao tossed [Revival Wood] to Bubu Wang. He certainly wouldn't use this thing to recover a measly 2 HP on the spot—that would be a waste of resources. For some reason, he felt this item was filled with malice toward him.
Starting off on the wrong foot, Su Xiao picked up the Holy Spirit Chest rewarded by the mission. This was his first time opening a Holy Spirit Chest. If he got equipment, it would be a huge profit.
[You have opened the Holy Spirit Chest.]
[You have obtained: Protection Gem (Holy Spirit Rank · Special Equipment)]
[Protection Gem]
Origin: Reincarnation Paradise
Quality: Holy Spirit Rank
Category: Special Equipment
Durability: 2/2
Equipment Requirement: After equipping this item, if you enter combat, all active skills will immediately go on cooldown.
Equipment Effect 1: Protection (Passive) — This equipment can bind one friendly unit. The bound friendly unit becomes the person under the wearer's protection.
Equipment Effect 2: Protection · Rescue (Active) — Activating this ability allows the wearer to open a spatial rift, teleporting the protected person to their side.
Tip: Before teleporting the protected person, they will receive a notification and can refuse this rescue.
Tip: After successful teleportation, the protected person cannot leave the 2-kilometer range of the 'spatial rift', and after 1 hour, they will be teleported back to their original location.
Tip: The equipment wearer and the protected person must be in the same world to activate Protection · Rescue (Active).
Tip: This ability has no cooldown. Each use of Protection · Rescue (Active) consumes 1 point of this equipment's durability. Durability can only be repaired after returning to Reincarnation Paradise.
Rating: 813 points (Holy Spirit Rank equipment has a rating of 700 ~ 1000 points)
Description: Please, don't try to harm me. You'll die. I'm not joking. My protected person... has a bad temper.
Selling Price: 489,000 Paradise Coins.
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The attributes of [Protection Gem] were quite interesting. The equipment prerequisite was actually a debuff state.
Su Xiao felt this item was very suitable for Beini. She often traveled the world searching for treasures and was frequently in dangerous places. The number of times she encountered danger would certainly not be few.
If Beini equipped [Protection Gem], she could designate Su Xiao as her protected person.
This way, if Beini encountered an enemy she couldn't defeat or escape from, she could simply open a spatial rift and temporarily teleport Su Xiao over.
If Beini couldn't win, that didn't mean Su Xiao couldn't handle the enemy either. As for the debuff effect of [Protection Gem], Beini wouldn't be too affected—most of her abilities were passive, with only her treasure-hunting ability being an active skill.
Moreover, [Protection Gem] had another advantage: its 'spatial rift' teleportation was round-trip. Even if he went to reinforce Beini, Su Xiao would at most spend 1 hour before being teleported back to his original location.
Su Xiao set [Protection Gem] aside and picked up the chest dropped by the Abyssal Serpent. As soon as he opened the chest, a blinding light flashed—it was a flash!
[You have opened the Holy Spirit Chest (Abyss)]
[You have obtained: Source.]
[Source]
Origin: ???
Quality: ???
Category: ???
Rating: ???
Description: The beginning of everything, and... the end.
Selling Price: ???
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Su Xiao rubbed his brow. He had obtained another item full of question marks. The last time he got something similar was from the old lion's chest. He had studied that item for a long time before figuring out its use.
As for this 'Source' he just obtained, aside from its ambiguous description, everything was question marks.
[Source] was most likely related to 'Source Energy'. Su Xiao had almost completely uncovered the secrets of the Abyss World: the fall of the gods, the mutation of the Divine Kingdom, the rise and fall of Sera, the invasion of the north, and so on.
There was only one thing Su Xiao had never been able to figure out from start to finish: where did 'Source Energy' come from? Why did the Abyssal Serpent accumulate 'Source Energy'? And why did 'Source Energy' erode the Tianba Clan into monsters?
The abilities of Drowning and Infiltration that the Tianba Clan gained through Source Energy left a deep impression on Su Xiao. Those two abilities didn't seem like something that should appear in a Sixth Rank world.
Moreover, the ability to 'summon' the deceased involved too many domains. When Iron Feather King fought Su Xiao, he retained all his memories before death and clear self-awareness. None of this was something a Sixth Rank boss like the Abyssal Serpent could achieve.
"Source."
Su Xiao looked at the azure stone in his hand. The stone was semi-transparent, about the size of a walnut, with a tiny black dot at its core.
If he couldn't figure it out, he wouldn't dwell on it for now. He could study it later when he had time. Even if he couldn't find any use for it, he could keep it as a collectible.
All three chests had been opened. Only Xi's Scarlet Chest remained. As soon as Su Xiao opened the Scarlet Chest, a notification appeared.
[Hunters may choose from the following three options.]