Chapter 146: A Disaster of Keys

Xiao Fen had no interest in dealing with the respectful attitude of the Eastern Depot people. Compared to these mortals, a Trialist’s vision was much higher. As long as the mortals did not pose a life-threatening danger to him, just as the World Tree mentioned in various manuscripts, the Trialist did not intend to intervene in the process of the Mortal World.

This was just like what Xiao Fen experienced in the Level 0 Trial World. His task was to rush to another nuclear shelter, not to participate in the battle between humans and those mutants. It was better for the disputes in the Mortal World to be resolved by the humans themselves.

He and Lycaon each walked into a resting room. At this time, six bright red candles had been lit in the room. The light was not very dim. Moreover, the windows of the room were closed, so the candlelight did not flicker much. After a rough glance, Xiao Fen expressed his relative satisfaction with this temporary residence.

He waved his hand to signal the Agents following behind to leave, closed the door, let out a long breath, walked to the bedside, and with a “whoosh”, poured all the keys onto the bed. Looking at these keys, even someone like him, who usually maintained a calm heart, felt it pounding wildly.

If these keys were not opened, even if they were just sold at an outside Auction House, a single key would be worth around 300 Gene Points. 140 keys would be 42,000 Gene Points. This was already a number beyond Xiao Fen’s current imagination.

Advancing from Level 2 to Level 3 required 18,000 Gene Points. In other words, if Xiao Fen really sold all the keys, he could immediately rise to Level 3 and also pay back the Gene Points owed to the Auction House before. Just think about it, he had only been a Trialist for a few days, and he could rise to Level 3. This speed, if not the fastest among Trialists, was at least one of the top few.

However, Xiao Fen did not plan to upgrade just like that. He currently had too few Skill Points and Gold Points. If he upgraded blindly and didn’t have enough Skill Points to unlock new skills, then upgrading would be worse than not upgrading. 20 points of Attribute might be precious, but without skills to use, no matter how good the body was, it would be meaningless.

On the other hand, Xiao Fen hoped to have at least two bottles of Healing Potion. In the previous battles, the preciousness of this potion had made Xiao Fen feel quite bitter. Sometimes, fighting was simply walking a tightrope, not daring to go all out. If he could have these Healing Potions in his backpack, his endurance in battle would significantly improve.

Healing Potions, Skill Points, equipment—these were the rankings of the supplies Xiao Fen currently needed most. And these keys in front of Xiao Fen happened to be able to satisfy these needs.

After listening to the sounds outside and determining there was no noise, Xiao Fen casually picked up a key and gently twisted it.

With a “click”, in the silent environment, the key made a unlocking sound. The next moment, 5 back cards appeared again before Xiao Fen’s eyes.

Xiao Fen let out a long breath, reached out to pick up one, and the corner of his eye twitched slightly.

“You obtained 500 Gene Points.”

This was almost equivalent to the reward of a B-rank Main Quest. This start looked good. Xiao Fen began to feel full of confidence in the subsequent process of opening keys.

At 5 o’clock in the morning, Xiao Fen had opened 85 keys. The key crystals on the bed had decreased by more than half. In their place was a variety of equipment. These equipment items, which belonged to natural products, were mostly of Ordinary Level, with a few belonging to Excellent Level. As for Exquisite Level equipment, Xiao Fen had not opened a single one yet.

At this stage, Xiao Fen finally confirmed that his luck in opening keys was exceptionally poor. At a time like this, he sincerely missed Sylvia. Just thinking about how Sylvia opened two manufacturing scroll fragments out of 15 crystals, one could know that in this world, some people were naturally able to obtain good things through random selection, but that person would absolutely not be Xiao Fen.

Looking at these metal armors and simple blades on the bed, Xiao Fen shook his head slightly and turned to look at his backpack.

Out of the 85 keys, not a single one failed to meet Xiao Fen’s wishes.

In fact, he had already opened 3 bottles of Primary Healing Potion, 4 Skill Points, and also two Gene Potion manufacturing scrolls, one Poison Agent manufacturing scroll, and eleven other broken manufacturing scroll fragments.

Regrettably, of the two Gene Potion manufacturing scrolls, one was for Constitution Potion manufacturing, which Xiao Fen had already learned. The other was for Agility Potion manufacturing. Having learned this, and adding the previous Strength Potion, among the basic four potions, Xiao Fen only lacked the Spirit Potion manufacturing.

As for those broken manufacturing scroll fragments, they seemed to belong to several different types of equipment, and Xiao Fen could not gather even one complete manufacturing scroll.

Letting out a long breath, Xiao Fen turned his head to look at the sky outside the window, which had become bright. He couldn’t guess what kind of disputes and chaos would occur in the imperial court today. Especially since these matters sounded too absurd and were related to the Eternal Mother. It was unknown whether claims of spreading demonic lies would appear.

He shook his head, turned to look at these keys, moved his shoulders, and prepared to open a few more before resting for an hour or two.

There was no helping it. The new mission required him to find new plugs within 3 days. He feared there would be another bout of killing then, and perhaps another batch of keys would appear. If he didn’t open a few more keys now, in a few days, his leather bag might be piled full of keys.

While others were still distressed by the lack of keys, Xiao Fen was already troubled by having too many keys.

After casually selecting a few, Xiao Fen took out a Golden Key, looked at it in front of his eyes, and directly opened it.

A violent light suddenly rose. Xiao Fen could even feel that this key seemed to have opened something incredible, so much so that the usual back cards did not appear, and the result appeared directly. Xiao Fen had only experienced this situation when opening a BOSS key. That time, he obtained an Exquisite Level Poison Sac. And now, this situation appeared again.

Xiao Fen took a deep breath and carefully looked at the new equipment in his hand. It was a short Staff. It looked like it was made of wood, but it felt heavy in his hand and was exceptionally cold, like a metal object.

“Berela’s Lingering: Staff, Natural Product”

“Quality: Exquisite Level”

“Durability: 110/110”

“Special Effect: Creates an energy pointer, converting original melee and thrown type attacks into ranged attacks”

“Lingering: The Staff has 6 skill storage slots. Each slot can pre-store a skill or a manufactured item. The user can release these skills in turn during battle, or release all these skills at once.”

“Helplessness: The Staff itself does not possess any ranged attack capability; it can only release the skills stored within the Staff.”

“Attachment: When carrying the Staff, the user’s Energy recovery speed +3”

“Note: The maximum retention time of the Staff skill storage slots does not exceed 3 hours. After 3 hours, the skills in the storage slots will automatically disappear.”

“Note: This weapon can only be used under the gaze of Yggdrasil.”

“Deep love leaves only regret. Therefore, keep a little more in hand, and there will be fewer regrets in the future.”