Shen Lu: I've Mutated into Multiple Game-Breaking Abilities

Chapter 11: A Bountiful Harvest

That’s what they say. But Qin Mengya was just as shocked as Luo Yao. In fact, precisely because she had more experience than Luo Yao, she understood even more clearly just how absurd the scene before her was. She had originally been a Level 72 player who had followed a pure magic build. Factoring in various other attribute bonuses, her Mana had been just over five hundred. Even with a full-power attack, the core destruction radius was only a little over fifty meters. That attack just now was practically identical to one where she used 70 percent of her power! “Is the Wolf King dead?” Luo Yao asked via telepathy. Qin Mengya shook her head and smiled, countering, “It was equivalent to an attack at 70 percent of my power—do you think it could have survived?” “Oh, then it’s definitely dead.” The higher the Mana, the more powerful the skill, and the larger the area of destruction. There are, of course, exceptions, but those are extremely rare. In most cases. The most direct way to gauge the power of a person’s skill is to look at its radius of destruction. “It looks like it’s about 35 meters…” Although Qin Mengya resided within Luo Yao’s soul in the form of a soul entity, she still possessed basic vision and hearing. She could clearly see the scene outside. Seeing the spreading, blazing golden flames in the distance already engulfing the grassland, she said to Luo Yao with concern, “I don’t know if these golden flames have any special effects, so we’d better get out of here quickly.” “Okay.” Luo Yao nodded. Fearing that the mysterious figure might cast a spell on them as players, she didn’t want to linger here any longer. Upon hearing this, she turned and fled at top speed. “You have absorbed 97 points of Awe from Li Fufeng.” “You have absorbed 52 points of Fear from Li Fufeng.” “You have absorbed 74 points of Envy from Li Fufeng.” “You have absorbed 66 points of shock from He Feng·Assassin.” “You...” There are countless types of human emotions. Happiness, anger, sadness, disappointment, excitement, shock, envy, jealousy... and so on. No matter what the emotion, Ling Yi’s “Super Mutation System” would absorb it all without exception. From the moment he summoned Flame Star until now—a mere half-minute—he’s absorbed nearly 150,000 points of emotional energy! “Current Emotion Points Collected: 149,768; Mutation Points: 20” These numbers continue to rise rapidly as Ling Yi moves through the crowd. Although emotional energy is easy to absorb, the range is limited, so Ling Yi must actively approach the crowd. Once he’s absorbed all the emotions from one group, he has to move on to the next. After several tests, he’s estimated the system’s effective range for absorbing Emotional Points. It’s roughly a 30-meter radius with him at the center. That’s not exactly small. As he walks around absorbing these Emotional Points, Ling Yi glances at the “screen-flooding” stream of Shen Lu notifications that appeared moments ago. [You defeated a Prairie Wolf (Lv8), +2 EXP] [You defeated an Elite Prairie Wolf (Lv8), +20 EXP] [You defeated a Prairie Wolf King (Lv10), +400 EXP] The main path contains elite monsters and boss monsters. Killing an elite monster grants ten times the experience, while a boss monster grants a hundred times the experience. As a Level 7 player, Ling Yi gained only 2 experience points from killing a Level 8 Grassland Wolf, but 20 experience points from killing a Level 8 Grassland Wolf Elite. The same applies to the Wolf King. 【You have acquired the 1-star skill [Wolf Fang Bite]】 【You have acquired the 2-star skill [Fierce Aura]】 【You have acquired the 6-star skill [Attribute Cloning]】 【You have acquired the rare potion [Wolf King’s Soul]】 In addition to experience, Ling Yi also obtained all the items—such as skill materials—dropped by the monsters after they were defeated. After the past two hours of experience, he was certain that his [Probability Reversal] talent was indeed effective on monster drop rates. After killing monsters, they almost always dropped items. Originally, he would have had to pick them up one by one, but along the way, he was lucky enough to discover a wooden treasure chest, from which he obtained an item that automatically collects dropped loot. [Hardworking Little Bee (E)]: Takes effect automatically when stored in the backpack. After killing a monster, it sends out an invincible little bee to collect the items. Although this effect was good, it didn’t quite satisfy Ling Yi, so he spent 30 mutation points to mutate it. [Hardworking Little Bee (E)]: Activates automatically when stored in the backpack. After killing a monster, the loot automatically enters the backpack. Additionally, you can send out an invincible little bee to collect items. The former could only collect items he had killed himself. The latter, however, not only puts items from monsters he kills directly into his backpack but also allows him to snatch items dropped by others. The mere fact that it ensures his loot won’t be stolen by others is already far superior to the former. [Your backpack is full. Remaining items have been moved to your temporary mailbox. Please claim them as soon as possible! ] [Note: Temporary Mailbox items expire in 10 minutes] Upon seeing this message, Ling Yi didn’t even bother absorbing his Emotion Points. He hurriedly opened his inventory and recycled all the skills he didn’t need. [1-Star Skill [Wolf Fang Bite] has been recycled. You have received 10 gold coins] 【The 2-star skill [Fierce Aura] has been recycled. You have earned 30 gold coins. 】 After clearing out all the “junk” from his backpack, Ling Yi retrieved all the items from his temporary mailbox and then carried out another round of recycling. After all that, his backpack was finally tidy. Aside from the materials “Wolf Fur ×122” and “Red Juice ×632”—whose uses he didn’t know—all that remained were the E-rank item [Hardworking Little Bee], the 6-star skill [Attribute Cloning], and a [Wolf King’s Soul]. The latter two items had dropped from defeating the Wolf King. Ling Yi didn’t rush to inspect them; instead, he first allocated all five free attribute points—the reward for reaching Level 8—to Mana! Feeling his power grow, he glanced across the battlefield once more. Without the Wolf King, the prairie wolves were no match for the players and were now retreating steadily. He was confident it wouldn’t be long before these 9,000-plus players wiped them out completely. “I’ve already taken out all the high-level monsters in one go; killing these low-level ones won’t give me any experience.” “They’ve all calmed down now, so there’s no emotion points to be gained.” “Time to make a run for it.” Ling Yi muttered a few words to himself, then turned and walked away. [Time Remaining on the Shen Lu: 17 minutes] On a grassy slope in the camp, Ling Yi sat there leisurely, just like a tourist visiting the area. With only a dozen or so minutes left, he didn’t want to run around aimlessly anymore. Now that he was Level 8, to gain experience, he had to kill monsters of Level 8 or higher. But those monsters were all in areas quite far away. By the time he got there, the time limit would be up. There was no point in rushing over now. After all, no matter how far a player runs, they’re always reset to the camp whenever they enter Shen Lu. To continue from where they left off the previous day, they’d have to make the trip all over again. As for why not go back now and save the remaining 17 minutes for tomorrow? That’s because there’s a reward for staying in Shen Lu for the full 3 hours!