Chapter 1877: Harmonious Atmosphere and Umbrella
Xu Huo entered the adjacent room to check his instance clearance and upgrade rewards.
First were the two main trait upgrades from the clearance rewards.
"Strength of Writing" upgraded to "Super Focus." The former's effect was originally to forcibly make people within a hundred-meter radius look at the user for five seconds. The upgraded "Super Focus" expanded the main subject of "focus" from the user themselves to either the user or an item of their choosing.
In other words, if Xu Huo chose a tree as the subject of "focus," when the trait was activated, that tree would become the center of everyone's attention. The range of "forced focus" was about three hundred meters, and while using this trait, Xu Huo himself could not leave this range.
This was much more applicable than "Strength of Writing," since forcing everyone to focus on oneself was a high-risk move. Being able to change the focus target was far better.
The second upgraded main trait was "Forgetting Switch," with the upgraded name being "Memory Flashback."
"Forgetting Switch" forcibly made others forget the user within a hundred-meter range. Its effectiveness depended on whether the people covered by the trait were easily influenced. Xu Huo rarely used this trait, because players who were easily affected were usually not particularly strong, making it unnecessary, while those with strong mental fortitude who couldn't be influenced by the trait saw little effect anyway.
"Memory Flashback" went in a completely different direction. It forced the target to forcibly receive memories related to the user. All memories concerning the user would flood into the target's mind in an instant, causing a certain degree of mental pause. It was a form of interference in another direction. The longer the acquaintance, the more memory fragments flashed back, and the better the effect.
Next were the items. The A-grade item "Harmonious Atmosphere" could cover a circular area with a radius of one kilometer. Within the three minutes the item was active, players in this area could not hold or touch items. Traits and some items that could activate without touch were not affected by this.
Based on Xu Huo's experience with items, most items required activation, while items that automatically activated upon being attacked were rare. He wasn't sure exactly how this "inability" to use items worked.
After thinking it over, he took out "Harmonious Atmosphere." It was a small metal brooch shaped like a burst of fireworks, seemingly able to be pinned anywhere.
When he touched the center of the fireworks, the item officially activated. Xu Huo first tested it with his own items. He tried to activate the "Inviolable Domain" ring on his finger, but before his hand could even touch the ring's surface, it was blocked by a force. Looking closely, he saw that the ring seemed to be wrapped in a layer of something, completely isolating it.
He could clearly sense that this was a force similar to a space barrier. He tried but couldn't break through this space barrier. Then he took out the Black Blade from his item slot, but unexpectedly, the sword slipped out of his hand as soon as it was drawn, though he quickly caught it again.
Although the Black Blade's handle was also wrapped, it didn't completely prevent him from picking it up. However, the auxiliary items tied to the handle couldn't attach to the sword and take effect when his hand couldn't touch them. Of course, the blade was also sealed. Xu Huo tried slashing at a metal object to break the wrapping on the blade, but it didn't work. That stuff seemed to have grown onto the item.
Other items, like the Tangent, which could be used without direct hand contact, and teleportation items, were also wrapped the moment they were taken out.
The effective range of this A-grade item far exceeded Xu Huo's expectations. The effect was excellent, but it didn't distinguish between friend and foe.
Of course, when everyone's items were disabled, those with more passively activated traits and powerful traits, as well as Super Evolvers, had a relative advantage.
Overall, he was very satisfied with this item.
Putting the item away, Xu Huo opened the door and said to the chaotic Zone 010 players and Xiao Hui and the others outside, "I was just testing an item."
Liao Xiaoyi and the others, who thought they were under enemy attack, were all stunned. But before they could say anything, the door closed again, and the items could be picked up again. So they waved their hands and told everyone to go back to what they were doing.
After closing the door again, Xu Huo looked at the other items. The two B-grade items were also of decent quality, but nothing particularly outstanding. However, more than half of the potions given this time were specially made gene potions. These gene potions were used to activate the body's potential. In other words, if one wanted to gain Super Evolution abilities, they could try these potions, but there was no guarantee of effect, nor was there a guarantee of no side effects. According to the potion's instructions, the list of known side effects already far exceeded the recorded evolutionary results.
In other words, the risk of these gene potions was very high. They were meant for specific people to take a gamble.
When he saw that the side effects list even included terms like "suspected accelerated degeneration," Xu Huo put all these potions away.
Next was the gift pack reward for upgrading from C-grade to B-grade, which included one A-grade item, one space device, one single-use item, one Paused Player identity activation document, access to the Stellar Pharmaceuticals Group mall, expanded luggage compartment permissions, a Dimension Crack Library borrowing card, an account level upgrade for Under Dimension, and an invitation to "Fish Feast."
The luggage compartment, borrowing card, and Under Dimension account were the usual three items. The luggage compartment was expanded by one hundred cubic meters, the borrowing card's usage range increased to include B-grade wormhole points, and the Under Dimension account was upgraded from three stars to three and a half stars, allowing access to content covering B-grade wormhole points and below for B-grade players, as well as all player level content for C, D, and E-grade wormhole points.
The A-grade item was a black umbrella.
[Opening Umbrella Guarantees Rain: This is a space item crafted by an Artificer suffering from depression. She believed that rainy days were suitable for crying, but couldn't find a place where it rained every day. So she crafted this space item. As long as the umbrella is opened, the item will connect at the fastest speed to the nearest rainy space, achieving the ideal effect of rain on demand. The only downside is that the amount of rain is random.]
[After experiencing three floods caused by heavy rain and two toxic rains, this Artificer's depression miraculously healed without medicine. So she sold this item, hoping to help more depression patients. But after five consecutive owners who committed suicide, verifying the fact that unless one is a fake depression patient, it's absolutely impossible to be cured, it was collected into the game system.]
Very nice.
Xu Huo opened the umbrella and placed it on the windowsill.
In less than half a minute, the sky above the Radiant Safe Zone began to rain without any clouds. Although the rain wasn't heavy, standing outside would still get one's clothes wet.
"Hey," Xu Huo stood at the window and waved to the players who were running out to see the strange sight of the rain. (Chapter End)