Chapter 88: The Nineteenth Trait — Seek Fortune and Avoid Misfortune!
A “wild” Dungeon, also called a natural Dungeon, was a Dungeon that spawned randomly all over the world after the arrival of the transcendent era. Whether or not you ran into one depended entirely on luck.
Moreover, opening this kind of Dungeon required no Crystal Stones, though it did have a limit on the number of entries. After being cleared a certain number of times, it would disappear altogether.
Because of that, natural Dungeons were often fiercely contested by many Class Users who wanted to level up.
Ye Ze was quite tempted as well… After all, it was hard to say no to a free Dungeon.
And since Wan Feipeng was the one who had discovered it, there should not be any problem with Ye Ze taking a few entry slots, right?
You were out there having a grand time, Wan Feipeng… I helped defend your city, so if you did not show a little goodwill, that would be hard to justify!
Turning off his phone, Ye Ze prepared to draw his second Trait before going out to level up.
The experience from Demon King Mirage had let him jump straight from level 17 to level 19, so he could draw two Traits in a row.
After the familiar golden torrent flashed past, one Trait stopped in front of him:
【You have drawn the Golden Legend-grade Trait: Seek Fortune and Avoid Misfortune!】
【Seek Fortune and Avoid Misfortune: Allows nearby allies to instinctively avoid crises and disasters, while moving toward favorable outcomes.】
“Seek Fortune and Avoid Misfortune... That leans a little toward the mystical side of things.”
After reading the description, Ye Ze roughly understood it.
For example, if they came to a fork with three unknown paths, they could instinctively choose the best one and avoid the dangers on the others.
When choosing among several unknown items, they could also rely on intuition to pick the good one.
It was similar to the doubled-luck effect of the Trait Fortune Smiles Upon You!
Luck was like favorable timing.
You absolutely could not do without it. Otherwise, if every choice led to danger, where would opportunity even come from?
And Seek Fortune and Avoid Misfortune felt more like human effort in harmony...
an instinctive drive to pursue what was beneficial and seek out good fortune!
“This effect seems particularly well suited for Secret Realms...”
Ye Ze could not help thinking of that.
Secret Realms were the perfect embodiment of opportunity and danger existing side by side, especially the Myth-grade Secret Realm that would appear soon!
This Trait was also an aura-type effect, so Ye Ze simply gave it to the squirrel again.
“I just wonder whether Traits like these have any hope of being synthesized.”
If support-type Traits based on luck were synthesized into a higher-order Legendary Trait, what kind of effect would they have?
【Trait “Seek Fortune and Avoid Misfortune” successfully assigned!】
【Summoned Beast: Shadow Treasure-Seizing Squirrel (Epic ☆☆☆) advanced → (Epic ☆☆☆☆)】
Support-type roles really did gain stars more slowly.
Star level was a comprehensive reflection of both potential and ability, and support-type Traits simply did not provide that many boosts.
Still, it was fine. The squirrel did not have to fight.
Living as a carefree little squirrel was not bad either...No, wait.
Other than fighting, nearly everything else Ye Ze needed done—patrolling, scouting, swapping places, and more...was handled by the squirrel.
Poor little thing… Just then, after slurping down the last mouthful of instant noodles, Ye Ze saw a group of people hurrying toward his house. At the front was none other than Wan Feipeng, who had just returned from the border.
The moment he saw Ye Ze, the large man, still radiating the scent of blood and battle, looked utterly stunned.
“Ye Ze? You were the one who killed the Demon King in the city!?”
Back at the border, he had indeed realized that the crisis in Linyuan City had been resolved.
But at the time, he had assumed that the City Defense Forces or Wu Ming had arrived in time with reinforcements and taken care of it.
He never would have imagined...
“That’s right, it was Ye Ze! Hahaha!”
Behind Wan Feipeng, Wu Ming burst out laughing.
“So that means your record is actually the same as Ye Ze’s now.”
“You both killed one Demon King, so what are you being so smug about?”
That was right. For all of Wan Feipeng’s heroic performance on the border battlefield—killing one Demon King and severely wounding two more— his kill count was still the same as Ye Ze’s: one.
That instantly froze the prideful expression on Wan Feipeng’s face.
He was a dignified sixth-rank Class User, yet he was somehow on roughly the same footing as a first-rank Ye Ze...
Wan Feipeng immediately protested, “Th-that...”
“I severely wounded two more! One of them was almost dead! It only got away because it ran fast enough!”
But even as he spoke, he suddenly realized what the real issue was.
“No, wait, so what if I killed a Demon King?”
“The truly outrageous one here is this brat!”
Wan Feipeng pointed at Ye Ze, his face full of disbelief.
“It’s one thing for a sixth-rank Class User like me to kill a Demon King, but how did you pull that off as a first-rank?”
Ye Ze scratched his head.
He was wondering whether he should say, “Anyone with hands could do it,” or, “If you’re weak, train harder”...
Hopefully he would not get beaten on the spot?
But Wan Feipeng’s expression quickly shifted into admiration...
A first-rank Class User killing a Demon King—what kind of potential was that supposed to represent?
Ye Ze had not only resolved Linyuan City’s crisis.
His future was clearly boundless as well...
Then, without the slightest hesitation, Ye Ze asked, “City Lord, since you found that natural Dungeon, can I go now?”
“Of course!”
Wan Feipeng agreed at once. “But it’s a third-rank Dungeon, and a natural Dungeon at that!”
Ye Ze naturally understood what he meant.
Unlike artificial Dungeons, in a natural Dungeon, if you died, there was no reviving.
Ye Ze, of course, was not afraid of that. He had already tempered himself in the Contaminated Land. A bit of danger like this was nothing.
But then Wan Feipeng solemnly took out a golden talisman:
【Escape Talisman: Can forcibly leave your current location, ignoring barriers, and teleport back to a safe zone (freely settable).】
A Golden Legend-grade life-saving item!
That was good stuff!
“This one activates instantly, and the set return point is the City Lord’s Mansion...”
Wan Feipeng handed the talisman to Ye Ze. “If you run into danger, use it immediately. Don’t try to save it.”
Even though learning that Ye Ze had killed a Demon King had given him great confidence in Ye Ze’s strength, that only made him more afraid that some accident might ruin such a promising talent.
“There may be Abyssal contamination inside a third-rank Dungeon at the Abyss Frontier. Don’t let your guard down!”
Looking at Wan Feipeng’s serious expression, Ye Ze naturally understood how precious this was.
He nodded, happily accepted the talisman, put it into his backpack, and said in a tone of perfect righteousness, “Do you have any more?”
Wan Feipeng’s mouth twitched. “You...”
A rare life-saving item like that cost more than his annual salary, and it was not even something you could buy just because you wanted to!
Then he sighed helplessly. “I’d better take you to the Dungeon myself.”
At that moment, Wu Ming quickly stopped him and looked at Ye Ze suspiciously.
“You just finished fighting a Demon King. There’s no way you didn’t suffer major losses. How are you planning to enter a third-rank Dungeon right now?”
Not to mention anyone else—even Liu Anran, who had only restrained the Demon King, had already overdrawn her spatial power and needed a great deal of time to recover.
He continued, “Your summoned beasts may not be injured, but their stamina and mental energy must have been heavily drained...”
“I suggest you don’t rush it. Recover your strength first, then go challenge the third-rank Dungeon!”
Beside him, Wan Feipeng nodded. He also felt that Wu Ming’s suggestion made sense.
Hearing that, Ye Ze thought for a moment.
Then he said slowly, “It’s just a third-rank Dungeon. How much effort could it possibly take?”