I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 863 - 625 Should Spend Just Spend_2

Chapter 863: Chapter 625 Should Spend Just Spend_2

Originally, he only planned to create a temporary weapon for use, but looking at the materials Zheng Yichen provided, he thought it would not be bad to create a new combat weapon for future use. Out with the old, in with the new, although he still wanted to retrieve his lost weapon.

"These items I could purchase for forty merit points," Du Gang thought for a while and then said. He had encountered plenty of high-intensity materials similar to the Apocalypse Stone, and in terms of price, they were not that expensive—the high ones at five or six merit points, the low ones at two or three merit points could be secured.

That’s not to say that these items were cheap but that after obtaining them, perfect processing through Dusk would be required, and the cost of this perfect processing and fabrication was the bulk of the expense!

The God’s Corpse fragment was presumably a remnant of some evil entity, which could indeed be found, though not easily. However, the Great Evil God fragment was quite special—Du Gang estimated that the price of such a thing could start from ten merit points, after all, a reversal attribute was quite unique.

Used well, it’s like doubling the number of one’s "skills." Of course, the merit points he gave Zheng Yichen were far beyond the value of these items; the excess belonged to extra rewards.

He directly said it was not appropriate, and just as well that Zheng Yichen had brought these things out, he coincidentally provided them.

"..." Zheng Yichen felt that he had previously priced the Great Evil God fragments he released too cheaply.

He didn’t dwell on it too much, after all, at that time, his idea was to distribute benefits, thinking of enhancing the combat power of the local Dusk mercenaries. Even then, people did not recognize the value, and not many bought them.

When he encountered someone who knew the value, they quoted a high price.

"Here, this is for you." Zheng Yichen handed over a Great Evil God fragment, several God’s Corpse fragments, and an Apocalypse Stone to him. As for harmonizing stones, he did not have any of those; he had only managed to scrape a small piece from the Dragon Tribe’s share and had used all of it right away.

The God’s Corpse fragment also had Strengthening; Malicious Erosion was something both weapons and equipment had, with effects similar to what Du Gang described.

But to exploit these effects fully, it depended on the user; although Lilith was a special artificial intelligence, she could not utilize these effects as a human would normally. However, the cat spirit could; the cat spirit itself was a Spirit of Curse, and its compatibility with Malicious Erosion was very good.

Weapons and equipment with only the effect of Malicious Erosion create an environment in reality that erodes to favor oneself, the longer the time, the stronger the effect, akin to a domain. If the erosion lasted long, it could potentially be more exaggerated than the upgrade from a Divine Domain.

To Zheng Yichen, that kind of erosion looked like hacking into a database’s firewall; a high degree of erosion could lead to obtaining modification permissions in the database...

The cat spirit cloak’s Strengthening was more focused on the God’s Corpse.

After all, the cat spirit cloak was like the ’corpse’ of the cat spirit. Thus, when the cat spirit executed Malicious Erosion, it could subjectively target enemies, obtaining significant damage and control reduction as well as additional immortality and lethality against locked-on enemies.

With excellent compatibility and with the charitable services of Dusk, the cat spirit cloak’s fusion with the God’s Corpse fragment reached a unique extent of change.

Du Gang handed over the new materials he obtained to a Dusk nun. The Dusk nun, holding the pile of materials that exceeded half a ton, left the place—carrying that thing seemed as effortless as carrying a feather, without any signs of struggle.

Later, Du Gang found another Dusk nun who took him to the infirmary; in less than ten minutes, he returned holding two jars, "Here, speciality alcoholic beverages from the ancient capital."

"Are you healed?" Zheng Yichen did not touch the jars immediately but instead looked over Du Gang.

"I was fine after getting a shot; I always feel that treatment at Dusk is just a matter of going through the motions, and the actual process of healing isn’t important," Du Gang clenched his fist and said, "Once that shot was administered, the life substance you’d put into my heart completely dissolved, and the injury recovered as if new."

In short, this time the treatment at Dusk wasn’t really a cure but just an acceleration of his absorption of the life substance. He was prepared to spend one or two merit points on it, but the shot from the Dusk nun was almost free; spending money was not important, the consumption of merit points was.

However, the merit points spent this time were well worth it to Du Gang, he had obtained unique materials and even a new weapon, not to mention avoiding the consumption of a reserved opportunity, which are not easy to come by.

Normally, a Proxy Agent could earn between 15 to 40 merit points per task, usually around 15 merit points under common circumstances.

This is mainly because after Proxy Agents grow stronger, they find most problems not too difficult to solve, so the merit points they earn are like high-level players beating lower-level monsters, which results in significantly reduced gains. Dusk will not allow Proxy Agents to bully the weak and still obtain a large number of merit points.

However, recently, the Great World developed the Descent of God Technique, which allowed Proxy Agents to earn some more merit points, as they had to deal with the more troublesome God Descenders. Thus, the normal gains are around 20 merit points.

Like this time, in Du Gang’s view, it was a top-tier gain, provided that he could resolve this matter on his own.

However, with the addition of another Proxy Agent, the final gain probably wouldn’t be too high, as Dusk has always been very strict in this aspect.

Even so, it’s better than consuming a reserve chance. Accumulating a reserve chance is not easy—once every two to three years, and that’s under normal circumstances. Who can guarantee, after using one up, that they won’t frequently encounter even more troublesome situations in the time that follows?

Especially after the widespread application of the Descent of God Technique from the Great World, the rate of Proxy Agents’ failures soared, and the Boundary Breaking Faction’s targeting of Dusk mercenaries was relatively low.

That’s because with Proxy Agents taking on the front line, more troublesome beings are highly active, becoming a baseline for Dusk mercenaries’ operations. The Boundary Breaking Faction naturally doesn’t spend much thought on targeting Dusk mercenaries—killing one Proxy Agent is more cost-effective than killing a bunch of Dusk mercenaries.

The Descent of God Technique can be entirely seen as developed precisely for killing Proxy Agents more effectively.

Therefore, after the introduction of the Descent of God Technique, veteran Proxy Agents also tended to not be reckless—recklessness could lead to a death and the consumption of a reserved chance. Even if they survived, that one gain would be completely lost. Although Dusk wouldn’t deduct their merit points, Dusk would arrange more demanding tasks.

Actually, that would be even worse than losing merit points.

Dusk is tolerant toward Dusk mercenaries, but when it comes to Proxy Agents, Dusk is far from lenient.

So it doesn’t matter even if a lot of merit points were spent this time. The consumption of merit points does not affect the total accumulation of merit points, nor does it affect the reserved opportunities. To not use those chances would be a waste; only by using them to become stronger can one go further.

Even if the gains are reduced, it doesn’t matter, use them to accumulate experience. After all, no matter how much the gains of a Proxy Agent are reduced, they will never be too low. On the contrary, hoarding merit points like a hamster and not using them could turn them into a coffin book.

Du Gang, who has a broad perspective on the use of merit points, has no burden in this regard. Instead, he felt quite happy at the prospect of obtaining new high-quality weapons.

"I actually don’t like drinking alcohol very much."

"Hahaha, don’t worry, the wine from the ancient capital isn’t that bad." Du Gang laughed and said, "I know some people only feel the bitterness when they drink, and many do it just to experience the sensation of being drunk. We find it hard to get drunk, so we drink to taste something mildly stimulating.

Otherwise, if it’s just bitter, I wouldn’t like to drink either."

Zheng Yichen opened the jar and tasted the liquor inside. It had a mildly stimulating and rich aroma, a hint of alcohol warmth, but it lacked the bitterness of ordinary drinks. Some people might find the flavor of the alcohol nice, yet everyone’s constitution is different; personally, that was how it tasted to him.

Even after his strength had improved, there wasn’t much change, although his heightened sense of taste could discern some nuances—still, it was dominated by bitterness.

Yet, the drink he tasted this time had a distinctly different flavor.