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

Chapter 12: Return and the Daily Roulette!

Shen Lu grants players 3 hours of access time each day. Once players have spent the full 3 hours, they’ll receive one spin on the Daily Roulette. The Daily Roulette is a daily activity in Shen Lu. The roulette’s tier is determined by the level of the map you’re in—beginner maps have a beginner roulette, intermediate maps have an intermediate roulette… The higher the roulette tier, the better the quality of the items it offers. Ling Yi possessed the [Probability Reversal] ability, and he was really looking forward to seeing what great items he might spin up later. “Now let’s take a look at the two rewards I got after taking down the Wolf King.” Opening his inventory, he checked the dropped skill first. [Attribute Cloning (6-Star · Specific)]: Can be activated after 5 seconds of contact with the target. Randomly clones one of the target’s attributes and applies it to yourself, lasting 1 minute. Only one attribute can be copied at a time. (This skill can only be used on targets whose level is no higher than your own. ) “This skill… Ugh…” Ling Yi frowned as he looked at the skill. On one hand, it’s hard to trigger and highly random. On the other hand, the effect of copying the opponent’s attribute and stacking it onto himself isn’t weak. You could say the range between its best and worst outcomes is just too wide! Based on its current effects alone, Ling Yi wasn’t sure whether he should learn this skill. Fortunately, he still had the Mutation System. “Attribute Cloning (6-Star) — Mutation Potential: High” “System, mutate it!” “Are you sure you want to mutate the ‘Attribute Cloning’ skill? (Requires 40 mutation points. )” “Yes.” As he confirmed, he subconsciously glanced at his current mutation points. “Current Emotion Points: 20, Mutation Points: 1,628” 100 Emotion Points can be converted into 1 Mutation Point; he’d just taken the time to convert over 160,000 Emotion Points. A few breaths later, the blurry skill description finally became clear again. Ling Yi couldn’t wait to open it. [Attribute Copy (6-Star · Specific)]: Copies one attribute from the target and applies it to yourself; only one attribute can be copied at a time. (This skill can only be used on targets whose level is no higher than your own. ) “Oh? All the time limits and conditions are gone!?” “Doesn’t that mean I can keep it permanently once I copy it?” “If worst comes to worst, I’ll just switch it out whenever I see someone with a higher attribute, right?” Seeing this effect, Ling Yi’s eyes lit up. Without a moment’s hesitation, he learned it. Having just reached Level 8, he still had six skill slots left, and this skill filled them all perfectly. After learning it, he sat on the grass and looked around, hoping to find someone to test the skill on. However, the others weren’t as leisurely as he was; still only at Level 1 or 2, they were busy slaying monsters in the nearby forest. There were very few players left in the entire camp. After scanning the area and seeing that the nearest person was still several hundred meters away, Ling Yi gave up on the idea. “No rush. I’ll just copy an enemy when the battle starts.” With that, he opened his player inventory again to examine the last item. [Wolf King’s Soul (Specific)]: The soul of the Grassland Wolf King. “Huh!?” “That’s the only description?” Ling Yi furrowed his brow; such a simple description made it impossible to gauge the item’s value or purpose. He thought for a moment and decided to check the Shen Lu forum. Shen Lu had been around for 20 years; there should be information about this item on the forum. Sure enough. When he searched the forum using the four characters “Wolf King’s Soul,” numerous posts with “Wolf King’s Soul” in their titles immediately popped up. [Can the Five Souls Combined Really Make You Invincible!? ] (Posted by: Aifosen) [The Demon Lord in the Ultimate Map is the only one left to be defeated—will it really drop the final Soul? ] (Posted by: Lin Meng) [Speculation Thread: Let’s all guess the effects of uniting the Five Souls] (Posted by: Zhang Yuan) Ling Yi clicked through these posts and browsed them for a while, finally gathering the relevant information. It turned out that, aside from the Demon Lord in the Ultimate Map—which no one in the world had yet defeated, so it was uncertain whether it would actually drop a Soul—Demon Lords in other maps had a very small chance of dropping a Soul upon being defeated. Including the Wolf King’s, there were four known Heart Souls in total. And according to the pattern, the Demon Lord of the Ultimate Map should theoretically have its own Heart Soul as well. Thus, a rumor had spread throughout the world that collecting all five Heart Souls would allow one to forge a Great Secret Treasure and become invincible under heaven. However, whether this was true or not was not something Ling Yi needed to worry about right now. All he knew was that, for him right now, this item might as well not exist. A few minutes later. As the timer on the Shen Lu hit zero, every player still on the Shen Lu received two identical messages. [Your time on the Shen Lu has expired. ] [You have spent three hours on the Shen Lu today and have earned one daily roulette spin! ] As these two messages appeared, everyone was forcibly returned to the real world. June 1. Just past 3:00 a. m. Across from the Player Alliance branch in Firefly Town, in a room within an ordinary apartment building, Ling Yi’s figure reappeared. “You’re back.” He looked at his hands, then turned to scan the room, running his fingers over the realistic texture of the nearby sofa, and let out a soft sigh of relief. “It’s truly amazing—it’s just like traveling between two worlds.” After resting for a moment, Ling Yi summoned the roulette interface, ready to start the draw. The interface displayed a colorful wheel, with the words “Beginner’s Wheel” written in colorful font above it. The entire wheel was divided into eighteen sections, each of varying sizes. The largest sections accounted for nearly one-fifth of the wheel, while the smallest were barely visible unless examined closely. In the center of the wheel was a red “Draw” button, which Ling Yi clicked with great anticipation. The pointer in the center of the wheel began spinning at high speed. “The smaller the probability, the better it is for me—there’s a very high chance it’ll land on that smallest segment...” Ling Yi muttered to himself. A moment later. Just as Ling Yi had expected, the pointer came to a stop, pointing to the segment with the smallest proportion on the entire wheel. [Congratulations! You’ve won a reward from the Daily Wheel: Experience Orb] As this message appeared, the wheel before him quietly vanished. Ling Yi immediately opened his backpack to check. [Experience Orb (D)]: Single-use item. Players gain 10 experience points upon use. A common yet very practical consumable. It’s just that the experience it grants is too little. He glanced at the mutation potential indicated by the Mutation System. “Experience Orb—Mutation Potential: High” High mutation potential—that’s something to look forward to. No sooner said than done, Ling Yi immediately mutated it. [Experience Orb (D)]: Upon use, the player gains 10% of the experience required to reach their current level. Can be used once per day. “Whoa!!?” “If I need 100 experience points to level up, that’s 10 points a day. If I need 10,000, that’s 1,000 experience points a day!” Ling Yi’s eyes widened, and he exclaimed happily, “A guaranteed level-up every ten days? What a great item!” As everyone knows leveling up as a player is extremely difficult. Even the first batch of players who entered Shen Lu 20 years ago are still only at an average of Level 90. But with this item, Ling Yi only needs to use it once a day. In 1,000 days, he’s guaranteed to reach Level 100!