Fate Reignites: My Rampage in a World Where Time Stops-Chapter 82 Luo! Why is it you again!
Hugging the ice cream that pounced into his arms, Qin Chuan opened its panel and began to upgrade.
Previously, he upgraded Water Flower to Growth Rank Lv20 in one go, which consumed the vast majority of Qin Chuan's experience items. Even with the daily settlement supplements and achievements gained over the past two days, there were only enough Experience Gems to raise Snow Shadow by 5 levels.
However, in the upcoming resource exploration, Qin Chuan would no longer neglect the Ice Attribute experience fruits. Coupled with the daily settlement earnings, it wouldn't take long for Snow Shadow to reach Lv20.
[Spiritual Beast Species: Frost Baby]
[Spiritual Beast Attribute: Ice Attribute]
[Spiritual Beast Level: Growth Rank Lv15] (0/500)
[Spiritual Beast Traits: Fearless Heart]
[Spiritual Beast Species Value: 1400]
[Spiritual Beast Affinity: 81%]
[Spiritual Beast Skills: Frost Cold (Passive), Frost Breaking Slash (Active), Seek Frost Trace (Active), Snow Shadow (Active)]
[Spiritual Beast Introduction: An Ice Attribute Spirit Beast, Frost Baby is an assassin hidden within frost and snow. Its innate long blade bestows it with a fearless conviction.]
Advancing to a higher rank had pushed Snow Shadow's Affinity past the 80% threshold, and the subsequent upgrades increased it by another 1%.
Glancing at the high Species Value of 1400, Qin Chuan did a quick calculation and realized his Extraordinary Value had already reached 2814.
Getting stronger every day, truly troublesome.
Better check out the new skill first.
[Snow Shadow: Active Skill, constructs a doppelgänger made of frost and snow identical to itself; the doppelgänger cannot attack and will shatter automatically after 20 seconds.]
A doppelgänger?
A look of surprise surfaced on Qin Chuan's face.
It seemed that Frost Breaking Slash was currently Snow Shadow's only offensive skill.
Both Seek Frost Trace and Snow Shadow were meant to conceal that decisive strike.
It indeed had the feel of an assassin who hits his mark with one blow.
Interesting.
In just an instant, Qin Chuan had already thought of how to apply this new skill.
Using the doppelgänger directly would probably be easy for an opponent to see through.
But if he were to use Seek Frost Trace first and then Snow Shadow, it would be a completely different story.
One figure shatters, condensing into two.
Who would be able to discern the real one!
"Keep it cool," Yue Li, who was beside him, said with a laugh as she looked at Qin Chuan, "Seeing you like this, Snow Shadow's third skill must be pretty good."
"Indeed," Qin Chuan looked at Snow Shadow, "Snow Shadow, use Snow Shadow."
"Ying~"
Snow Shadow nodded, floated forward a distance, and split into two figures effortlessly and without a trace during the drifting process.
"Hm?" Qin Chuan stroked his chin.
He retracted his previous statement.
It seemed that even if the skill was used on its own, it would still be difficult to see through.
"Doppelgänger!" Yue Li, beside him, wore an equally astonished expression, "This ability, if brought into reality, would be quite interesting."
"Yeah," Qin Chuan nodded with a smile, "Not much lucky time left; I'll go scout out the nearby resources first."
"Okay!" Yue Li nodded repeatedly.
Sun Needle's second Talent, activate!
Qin Chuan looked at the map that appeared before his eyes and after sifting through it, his expression suddenly turned to one of surprise.
"Is there something good today?" Yue Li's eyes sparkled.
"Well…" Qin Chuan smiled mysteriously.
"Revealing it ahead of time would spoil the surprise of treasure hunting."
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As Qin Chuan and his companion started a new round of their treasure hunt, over on the other side in area 3675, the player KA, ranked second on the Juvenile Stage Spiritual Beast List, trekked over ten kilometers. After arriving at a certain location, he began pacing back and forth nervously, as if waiting for something.
After about fifteen minutes, he was met by a player named "Zhong Xi."
"KA?" Zhong Xi sized up KA and began to inquire in fluent Korean.
"Yes, it's me!" KA nodded quickly, responding in Korean.
In reality, KA was Korean.
At the moment, he was quite excited because the player named "Zhong Xi" had something he desperately needed.
The last piece of low-level resources needed for his Spiritual Beast to advance.
The resource exchange between the two was not taking place in reality but in the Dream World.
Such a primitive method of resource exchange was unthinkable in Yanhuang Country but was the mainstream in Korea.
And the reason was straightforward.
Korea, to this date, had not established a truly credible online trading platform.
After the Blue Star 2.1 version update, several online trading platforms popped up overnight in Korea, but soon players attempting to trade with resources discovered their resources vanished without a trace and were informed that "the resources were lost in transit and could not be retrieved."
Compensation? No problem! Here you go!
Every player who lost resources was given a substantial sum of money as compensation.
But the issue was that they didn't need money at this stage; they needed the resources themselves.
Clearly, this was almost a tactic of coercion.
These trustless online platforms, each with the dark involvement of Korean conglomerates behind them, left ordinary players helpless in pursuing their claims.
After such incidents happened frequently for a few days, Korean players were thoroughly disillusioned with the so-called online trading platforms; they began to arrange trades offline with others.
But these trades could easily lead to ambushes and theft of resources when one went alone.
Report the robbery?
The resources of the Dream World were not yet recognized as citizens' property by Korean law. Merely taking resources couldn't constitute robbery, at most, if injuries occurred in the scuffle, the robber might have to pay for medical expenses.
And this too was deliberately orchestrated by the conglomerates.
Among these offline traders, there were also their planted agents.
Neither online nor offline options were viable, and eventually, ordinary Koreans in reality resorted to the most primitive method.
Seek out local players and agree to exchange resources at a fixed location.
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Since players appear in a game zone at random, and although the conglomerates could still plant agents, there might only be one or two such agents among the local Korean players.
This was relatively safer.
After confirming each other's identities, the two Korean players completed the resource exchange.
Zhong Xi didn't linger and left immediately.
KA swiftly used the acquired resources to advance.
As the light of advancement shone, his expression gradually became excited.
Finally, he had completed the advancement!
He was going to leave that damned, unlucky Juvenile Stage Spiritual Beast List!
Even if his ranking would undoubtedly be lower at the Growth Rank Spiritual Beast List, he didn't want to remain the eternal second place in the Juvenile Stage!
Although he hadn't caught up to those freaks, Luo and Yue Li, he had at least surpassed Luo's second Contracted Spiritual Beast, hadn't he?
With that thought, KA excitedly opened the Growth Rank Spiritual Beast List.
The next instant, his smile suddenly faded.
His ranking on the Growth Rank Spiritual Beast List was at number 32.
And right above him at number 31 was a familiar name.
[Spiritual Beast List (Growth Rank) No. 31]
[Location: 3675]
[Player Name: Luo]
[Ranked Spiritual Beast: Snow Baby]
[Current Rank of Listed Spiritual Beast: Growth Rank Lv15]
[Reference Achievements: None]
KA's expression suddenly twisted, his complexion gradually reddening.
"Luo! How is it you again!!!"
