Chapter 185: Lucky Rewards

Unexpectedly, the number of people speaking in his defense seemed to have increased instead.

Or perhaps they had not actually increased at all.

It was simply that after some players finished leaving angry comments, they had then turned around and upvoted the comments written by those defending him, pushing those replies toward the top instead.

The reason was not difficult to guess.

They needed guides.

At the moment, the forces that were capable of exploring the game’s rules did not want to reveal their discoveries to other players so early.

They wanted to build up their own advantage first.

Meanwhile, those who genuinely wanted to help other players often did not possess enough information to publish anything worthwhile.

Joo Joowon happened to be at a high enough level to explore many aspects of the game and he also did not mind sharing guides to help other players.

Under the current circumstances, he was one of a kind.

Naturally, many players hoped he would continue publishing guides without fearing rumors or slander, believing that someone with a clear conscience had nothing to fear.

After all, what had already happened could not be changed.

There was no point continuing to resent Joo Joowon for causing them to miss the opportunity to become ability users.

At most, they could complain about him online.

The guides he published, however, might save their lives right now.

Surely they could not lose that free benefit as well after already losing the first opportunity.

Since they were all strangers who would never have any contact outside the internet, Joo Joowon did not pay much attention to the comments.

Instead, he opened his private messages to see whether BlessedByRNG was still alive.

Although he believed that someone with extraordinary luck would probably not die so easily, if their strength was insufficient, then even the greatest luck might not be enough to seize the opportunity to survive.

Fortunately, BlessedByRNG had truly lived up to the name.

The moment Joo Joowon opened his messages, he saw a large number of unread notifications from him.

[ @BlessedByRNG: Boss, I survived! ]

[ @BlessedByRNG: Five cards dropped in total. Boss, please take a look! ]

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[ Dried Dodder Seeds ]

[ Grade ]: Rare

[ Description ]: Seeds that contain most of the energy the plant possessed while alive. They can be used as medicine or boiled directly. They compensate for an insufficient foundation and randomly increase Strength, Physique, or Agility. The total increase is 5 attribute points.

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[ Skill Book • Life Drain ]

[ Grade ]: Common

[ Base Healing ]: 1 to 20

[ Description ]: A healing type skill. After use, you will learn the skill Life Drain. Restricted to intelligent plant type units. Each use consumes the Life Force of either an enemy or an ally, reducing your own mana consumption by 10 percent. If learned by a non plant intelligent unit, the skill may instead be attached to a weapon or body part. After activation, every attack that damages an enemy will drain at least 1 point of the target’s Life Force to restore the user’s Strength, Physique, Agility, or Mental Power, with Mental Power consumption varying according to both the user’s and the target’s levels.

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[ Dodder Garland ]

[ Grade ]: Rare

[ Equipment Slot ]: Head

[ Equipment Bonuses ]: Restores 1 point of Mental Power every 30 minutes while under sunlight. Physique -1

[ Equipment Requirements ]: Mental Power no lower than 10. Physique no lower than 8.

Description: After being equipped, the dodder vine will instinctively parasitize its host. Wearing it over a long period will gradually alter the wearer’s physique toward Plant Element Affinity.

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[ Zombie Core ]

[ Grade ]: Rare

[ Description ]: An energy crystal left behind by a host that had been parasitized by a Mutated Dodder Vine. It had not yet been absorbed and was fortunately preserved.

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[ Dodder Seeds ]

[ Grade ]: Rare

[ Description ]: Slightly carbonized seeds that are still capable of sprouting. They have lost their original traits of being easy to cultivate and highly resilient. They are now weak and prone to disease, and their characteristics seem to have changed somewhat. Perhaps planting them will bring unexpected surprises.

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[ @BlessedByRNG: Boss, where are you? ]

[ @BlessedByRNG: There really were only these five cards. The Dodder Vine was only Level 6. After it died, even its body shrank. It was only so powerful because it managed to parasitize other creatures before they had time to react. ]

[ @BlessedByRNG: But because it had to maintain such a large body, it didn’t use all the energy it obtained to level up. Its level wasn’t as high as I expected, so the drops are a bit disappointing. Boss, which ones do you want? ]

[ @BlessedByRNG: Boss??? ]

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It was the first time Joo Joowon had discovered that messages could actually overwhelm a person’s eyes.

He quickly glanced over the loot and did not think the drops were poor in the slightest.

There was a skill book and everything else was rare grade equipment.

This was already an extremely luxurious set of drops.

He had to remember that the psychic zombie he killed previously had at least been a candidate to become a Lord rank boss. Yet out of the five cards it dropped, three had been common grade.

The only truly special item had been the Lord Qualification Token.

Because of that, Joo Joowon genuinely did not think these drops were bad at all.

Perhaps this was simply the difference between one person’s standards and another’s.

From Joo Joowon’s point of view, everything except the garland, whose effects were somewhat unusual, was an excellent item.

Even the garland itself, despite carrying the negative effect of reducing Physique by 1 point, was still equipment whose advantages clearly outweighed its disadvantages.

Not only did it speed up Mental Power recovery, but it could even gradually grant the wearer an Element Affinity.

If someone wished to follow the path of a mage but lacked the necessary natural talent, then this piece of equipment would undoubtedly be a timely blessing.

Losing a single point of Physique was a drawback that most people could probably accept.

The only real uncertainty was how long the transformation process would take before it succeeded.