Chapter 98: Pure, Unadulterated Stats!
Shadow Treasure-Seizing Squirrel’s Treasure Seizure was super-enhanced, changing from stealing one random item to stealing three to five.
Back at the Special Training Camp, Ye Ze had still exercised some restraint.
But now that he was in a Secret Realm where nations were competing, facing a rival from the Freedom Empire, Ye Ze went completely feral!
【You have stolen the equipment: Sea King’s Crown, Deepsea Armor, Ocean Spear...】
In a single wave, the squirrel stole five pieces of equipment.
But that was not all. Ye Ze used the Spirit Pact Ring’s Copy...to copy 【Treasure Seizure - Super】!
And steal again!
This time, however, he only stole two pieces, because a Class User could wear at most seven pieces of equipment...and he had already stolen them all.
It had to be said, the Freedom Empire’s gear really was not bad. Everything was Epic four-star or five-star.
As for the rest, he also stole a few consumables and items for later use.
The one-eyed man, who had long since passed out, had completely lost all value. His equipment was gone as well, so in the end, he could only become Ye Ze’s EXP...
Panda stepped down with one foot and crushed the one-eyed man into a bloody pulp.
【Killed a fourth-rank Class User, gained EXP +16000!】
Come to think of it, this was the first time Ye Ze had truly killed someone.
After all, if someone died inside a Secret Realm, they would not revive...Only their ruined corpse would be teleported outside, so as not to pollute the Secret Realm’s environment.
His emotions were not particularly complicated. The only thought he had was:
that was a pretty decent amount of EXP!
A few more kills and he would level up again.
Ye Ze was in a good mood. He fed the seven pieces of stolen equipment to Panda...
After increasing his attributes by a little over ten points, they just so happened to satisfy Equipment Shredder’s conditions.
【Equipment Shredder — Seven pieces of equipment have been destroyed. New equipment obtained: Slow as the Forest!】
With a flash of golden light, this time it produced a green belt.
On the surface of the belt, one could vaguely see mountains, rivers, flowers, grasses, and forests painted across it...
【Slow as the Forest (Legendary): All four attributes +60; Special Effect — All four attributes +10%!】
The moment he saw that effect, Ye Ze was delighted.
Compared to the properties of the other set pieces, Slow as the Forest had none of the flashy tricks.
It perfectly embodied simple, brutal power!
It was nothing but pure stats!
Not only did it add sixty points to the base value, it added them to all four attributes!
And once the special effect was included, Panda’s four attributes would all rise by more than one hundred and ten points at once!
For an ordinary Legendary piece of equipment, adding one hundred and ten points to a single attribute would already be excellent.
But Slow as the Forest added over one hundred and ten points to all four attributes, which meant an increase of over four hundred and forty total attribute points!
There was no technique to it.
Nothing but raw numbers!
This pushed Panda’s Strength past 730 and his Agility past 770.
Even among level-49 Class Users, those just one step away from fifth-rank, those numbers put him among the absolute elite!
And on top of that, this Legendary set named War of Armies had now reached 5/6. It lacked only one more piece to be complete!
“Please don’t learn from those games from my last life and make me forever unable to get the final piece...”
Ye Ze could not help grumbling once again.
After all, he had been deeply scarred by certain games in his previous life.
Afterward, Ye Ze continued onward, searching for Secret Realm monsters and for enemies from other nations.
By his usual method, he first had the squirrel release a hundred clones to conduct a carpet search of the surrounding area, mainly exploring farther away.
Yet not long afterward, he discovered a location where a battle was taking place!
Whatever kind of battle it was, it was worth going over to take a look.
As he approached and looked out ahead...he found a boss nearly twenty meters tall, the 【Spirit Rock King】, engaged in combat against three Class Users. It was hammering the ground again and again, causing violent tremors.
Ye Ze and Panda watched from behind a nearby rocky slope, but thanks to the effect of Difficult as Shadow, it was very hard for the enemy to notice him.
“So a Secret Realm boss really has appeared?”
Though it shared the same origin as the stone men, the Spirit Rock King was clearly stronger. It was a level-50 Epic boss!
And in Ye Ze’s perception, the Spirit Rock King seemed to carry a somewhat ethereal, almost immortal aura...
It was very unusual.
Perhaps it had stayed too long within this Secret Realm. Even a rock seemed to have acquired a trace of celestial energy.
And when Ye Ze saw the three Class Users fighting it, the corners of his lips immediately lifted.
“They’re all from the Lionheart Kingdom...”
How wonderful!
This place really was... heaven.
Moreover, the noble youth leading the group, whose class was Nightmare Baron, clearly came from an extremely powerful background in the Lionheart Kingdom. His family’s status was obviously very high!
He even had two Legendary pieces of equipment on him.
Although neither had very high star ratings, they were still Legendary equipment, which was enough to show how highly valued he was by his family.
“Heh...”
Ye Ze suddenly smiled.
“Let me thank you in advance for weakening that boss for me and for donating your equipment.”
A Shadow Treasure-Seizing Squirrel clone was sent out, quietly approaching the three who were fighting the boss by using Shadow Meld.
Perhaps because so many of their own country’s teammates had entered the Secret Realm, the three from the Lionheart Kingdom showed very little caution. They were enthusiastically attacking the boss and the stone men around it.
Their offensive was fierce. Many Greater Stone Men had already been split into Little Stone Men.
The moment Ye Ze saw that, he immediately used Swap!
However, the one who swapped places with the squirrel clone was the magic dragon, Simon!
A colossal shadow suddenly descended and blotted out the sky. The noble youth who had been fighting the boss instinctively turned his head to look...
and saw a huge magic dragon standing directly behind him!
“What the hell!?”
Along with that cry came countless columns of demonic flame erupting from the shattered earth.
Demonic Flame Burst sent pillar after pillar of demonic fire surging out from the ground, causing widespread burning and damage.
“Shit! What is this!?”
“It’s someone from China! An ambush!”
When he heard the people from the Lionheart Kingdom roaring in anger, Ye Ze could not help saying mockingly, “Come on. Weren’t you the ones who started playing dirty first?”
The three from the Lionheart Kingdom were instantly scorched, but they still wanted to counterattack.
Unfortunately for them, that one strike from the magic dragon not only hit the three of them, it also killed countless Little Stone Men...And with that, the fear effect from Overlord was triggered!
After crying out in shock, the noble youth from the Lionheart Kingdom instantly found his mind blank.
The emotions of all three were swallowed by terror in an instant. Their expressions turned dazed, their legs went weak, and they even dropped their weapons without realizing it!
The duration of fear varied from person to person.
Though the fear effect on fourth-rank Class Users did not last long, that brief moment was already enough for Panda to move.
One strike each, and all three were easily gravely wounded and knocked unconscious.
“Excellent. Time to loot!”
Taking advantage of the moment, Ye Ze and the squirrel both rushed forward, brimming with the joy of harvest...Treasure Seizure! Five pieces, ten pieces, fifteen pieces...Among them were nineteen level-40 Epic-quality pieces of equipment, and naturally the two Legendary pieces were stolen as well.
More surprisingly, he also stole two Lotus Petals. It seemed they had been lucky and run into quite a few Secret Realm monsters...No, rather, it should be said that Ye Ze had been lucky.
Now that the three had lost all value, they were naturally “sent off” and turned into Ye Ze’s EXP.
...
At the same time, elsewhere in the Secret Realm, Liu Anran, now dressed in a star-blue magic robe after changing equipment, was flashing through the mountains alone.
After entering the Secret Realm, she had been randomly assigned to a separate region. Without the spatial marks and contact points of her teammates, all she could do was keep searching.
“I wonder how Ye Ze is doing on his own?”
Among all her teammates, he was the one she worried about most.
“Ye Ze entered the Secret Realm first. He probably still doesn’t know what happened outside, so it’ll be very easy for the enemy to catch him off guard...”
“And besides, Ye Ze is a Summoner, and only first-rank. His self-preservation ability isn’t that strong.”
“If he runs into a siege from multiple fourth-rank Class Users from the other two nations...”
As that thought crossed her mind, Liu Anran quickened the speed of her Spatial Teleportation.
“I’m afraid that would be extremely dangerous!”