Making Up for His Constitution
[You opened 12 wooden treasure chests and obtained: 10 loaves of black bread, 28 bottles of drinking water, wood ×200, stone ×60, 24 cans of Lamp Oil, [Meditation], steel ×1]
[You opened 8 iron treasure chests and obtained: 5 pieces of deluxe beef, 3 cases of drinking water, wood ×500, stone ×400, steel ×50, 35 cans of Lamp Oil, Everbright Lamp Oil (fine) ×3, [Basic Surgery], [Traction Technique]]
[You opened 3 gold treasure chests and obtained: Food Selection Voucher ×3, steel ×300, Everbright Lamp Oil (fine) ×8, Lumenleaf ×1 [Kunai (fine)], [Iron Underpants (fine)], [Forging]]
Su Luo glanced at the results and instinctively compared them with a statistics post on the forum. His luck today hadn't been very good.
[Lumenleaf]
[No effect when consumed by you]
Su Luo picked up the Food Selection Vouchers and got himself a full Manchu-Han banquet. Then he put away [Basic Surgery (white)] and [Traction Technique (green)], adding them to his list of skills to learn.
"First, let's have a better meal!" Su Luo wolfed down the food. For the past week, he had eaten nothing but fruit or grilled fish without seasoning, and his mouth had nearly gone numb.
After eating and drinking his fill, he felt a long-lost sense of satisfaction in his stomach. Su Luo turned his gaze to the pile of Skill Experience Stones. It was time to make up for his greatest weakness.
Su Luo had clear reasons for choosing to invest the Skill Experience Stones in skills related to Constitution and Strength:
First, Su Luo had indeed said before that he would use spells to make up for his weakness in Constitution and Strength.
But in this battle, if he hadn't put enough distance between himself and the monsters by standing on a stone pillar, he could very well have been killed the instant they appeared.
His mind could react, but his body couldn't keep up.
The speed of his thoughts needed a matching physical response to put them into action.
Second, it would maximize efficiency.
He already had to study the knowledge gained from upgrading mental skills himself through his Learning Gains Talent. Using Experience Stones on them would be a complete waste.
Knowledge related to Physique, on the other hand, wasn't the focus of his current studies. Using Experience Stones to force an increase in his attributes was the optimal solution.
With all that in mind, Su Luo opened the images of the Skill Book.
A bit obsessive about such things, Su Luo first finished the small amount of content remaining in the second chapter of [Basic Body-Strengthening Technique].
[Your "Basic Body-Strengthening Technique" has leveled up!]
[Basic Body-Strengthening Technique (white) Level 2 (0/100)]
[Constitution +0.1]
Su Luo took out the [Stamina Potions] as well.
They could be taken orally or injected, and both methods had the same effect. He didn't know how that worked.
Su Luo downed two bottles in one gulp and began using the Skill Experience Stones.
[Your "Basic Body-Strengthening Technique" has leveled up!]
[Constitution +0.1]
[Your "Basic Body-Strengthening Technique" has leveled up!]
[Constitution +0.1]
[Strength +0.1]
It had increased his Strength too. Su Luo wasn't surprised; Constitution and Strength were closely related attributes to begin with.
[Your "Basic Body-Strengthening Technique" has leveled up!]
[Constitution +0.2]
[Strength +0.1]
Holding the only Basic Skill Experience Stone he had left, Su Luo checked his attributes.
[Strength: 6.1 (↑1.2)]
[Constitution: 7.5 (↑2.8)]
Not bad at all!
Su Luo ran to the stream for a bath, then lay naked on the grass.
He had no choice. He had washed his clothes, and he hadn't gotten a single outfit from all those chests.
Don't ask why Su Luo didn't use Fireball to dry his clothes. He just didn't want to wear them.
After thinking for a while, Su Luo decided to first study the knowledge in [Meditation] and the related Skill Books to raise his Spirit attribute.
An increase in mental power would not only make his spells more powerful, but also directly increase his learning speed.
After all, there was still plenty of time. The next Monster Tide was seven days away, giving Su Luo ample time to develop.
Song Shige had just finished a call with Qin Lang. The final transaction confirmation was still displayed on the translucent screen in front of him.
[Qin Lang: The [Shelter Fusion Ticket] costs 10,000 SC. That's a bit too expensive.]
[Song Shige: I still have quite a lot of SC here.]
[Qin Lang: The organization won't ask you for Survival Coins, and it will allocate you another batch of Survival Coins later. But the organization really does need a large number of Survival Coins right now to merge Fused Sanctuaries and establish a headquarters. It also needs Survival Coins to stabilize the market prices of basic supplies...]
[Qin Lang: Right now, the only sources of Survival Coins are leaderboard settlements, Monster Tide rewards, and recycling boxes. The relevant departments have done their best to collect them, but it's still a drop in the bucket. We've decided to borrow some Survival Coins from members of the organization who rank near the top of the leaderboards.]
[Song Shige: I can lend 35,000 Survival Coins.]
[Qin Lang: ...We don't need to borrow all of it. We'll borrow 30,000.]
[Song Shige: All right.]
[Qin Lang has listed the item "wood ×1"]
[Price: 30,000 SC]
[Song Shige has purchased Qin Lang's "wood ×1"]
Song Shige closed the chat window and muttered to himself as he sorted through his haul:
"Great, I can finally help the organization!"
"Qin Lang's position seems to be getting higher and higher, too. He was only a liaison before, and now he's already managing resources. Maybe next time I'll have to call him Director Qin..."
Song Shige looked at the SC balance on his personal panel, which had shrunk to a few thousand, and opened the [System Shop] interface. His gaze swept over the [Random Skill Book (blue)] priced at 15,000 SC, and he felt tempted.
As he continued browsing, Song Shige found something interesting.
[Random Dungeon Teleport Ticket (permanent)]
[Price: 10,000 SC]
[Upon use, teleports you to a random Dungeon entrance]
[Random Dungeon Teleport Ticket (temporary)]
[Price: 20,000 SC]
[Upon use, teleports you to a random Dungeon entrance (duration of stay: 50 hours)]
[Targeted Dungeon Teleport Ticket (permanent) -- Wizard's Abandoned Experimental Field]
[Price: 20,000 SC]
[Upon use, teleports you to the entrance of the Dungeon [Wizard's Abandoned Experimental Field]]
[Targeted Dungeon Teleport Ticket (temporary) -- Wizard's Abandoned Experimental Field]
[Price: 30,000 SC]
[Upon use, teleports you to the entrance of the Dungeon [Wizard's Abandoned Experimental Field] (duration of stay: 50 hours)]
Wasn't that the Dungeon Consultant Su was in?
Song Shige's eyes lit up, but then he noticed something he had overlooked.
Why was the temporary one more expensive than the permanent one?
After examining them closely for a while, Song Shige understood.
The permanent ticket was a one-way ticket. Once he went, he couldn't come back, and the System Shop had no item that could teleport him directly back to his own Sanctuary.
The temporary ticket was a round-trip ticket, but it cost more.
"Dungeon... Class Change..."
Song Shige pondered for a moment, then used Skill Experience Stones to raise [Flame Attachment (green)] to its maximum level. Afterward, he put the remaining experience into skills related to Constitution.
Once he was done, he picked up the fearsome Zhanmadao and strode outside.
"First things first, I'll reach Level 5 and max out my experience!"