Their Bizarre Commission Rewards!
Author: Escaping Cat
Synopsis:
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Ding! Congratulations, you have unlocked the EX-level talent—Traveler.
After completing a thousand everyday commissions, Chen Luo successfully unlocked his talent.
After unlocking his talent, completing commissions would earn him rewards, including Primogems and skill rewards.
Household Item Mastery, 100% Unarmed to Blade, 100% Foxes Returning Favors...
As he completed more and more commissions, Chen Luo accumulated increasingly bizarre skills.
Still, Chen Luo could accept having strange skills. What troubled him most was that some people's commission rewards were becoming more and more bizarre...
Mobius, you wanted him to accompany you in research? Fine! But why was the reward a memory fragment?
Ganyu, you wanted him to work overtime with you? That was fine too, but why was the special reward a Qiqi? Where did you get her?
"The commission rewards they give are getting more and more bizarre!" Chen Luo complained as he teased the pink-haired fox he had picked up.
Volume One (Chapters 1–2000)
Talent Awakening—Traveler (EX Rank)
"Chen Luo, Chen the Great Philanthropist, help me out. I need these paper stars tonight, but I really don't have time now. Could you fold a few for me?" A girl smiled as she dumped a pile of thin, multicolored paper strips that had already been cut in front of Chen Luo.
Though she sounded like she was asking, she did not seem embarrassed at all, as if she did not think he would refuse.
"Sure." Chen Luo nodded calmly.
"Thanks." After offering a perfunctory thanks, the girl hurried back to her seat.
"Honestly, can't you ever refuse people? The next class is our homeroom teacher's. If she finds out you're folding little stars during class, be careful or she'll call your parents." Chen Luo's deskmate lay across the desk, stretching her graceful curves as she spoke to him lazily.
"Wouldn't it be fine as long as I don't get caught?" Sitting by the window, Chen Luo propped up his chin and looked at the huge pile of paper strips.
That pile definitely did not look like just "a few."
"No wonder everyone calls you Chen the Great Philanthropist. You really are..."
It was not as though Chen Luo's deskmate had never tried to refuse such requests for him, but the problem was that he himself never turned anyone away.
Your subjects are ready to fight to the death, yet Your Majesty insists on betraying us?
"You're so awful, making Chen Luo fold them for you. Didn't you say that for something like a boyfriend's birthday present, you had to fold it yourself for it to be sincere?" After the girl returned to her seat, her deskmate whispered.
"Come on, you know I'm clumsy with my hands, right? This is the last class already, and tomorrow's his birthday. How could I possibly finish in time?" The girl rolled her eyes at her deskmate.
"Then fold them tonight?"
"Don't I have shows to catch up on at night? Whatever. Chen Luo doesn't mind anyway, so why do you care? He's Chen the Great Philanthropist. When classmates ask him for help, he never refuses."
"That may be true, but..."
Ring, ring, ring!
The class bell rang, and the history teacher, who was also their homeroom teacher, entered the classroom. The previously noisy class instantly fell silent.
Chen Luo folded the little stars in his hands while staring blankly in the direction of the homeroom teacher.
He appeared to be spacing out, but a closer look would reveal that his eyes were focused on a certain spot in front of him.
Unfortunately, this was the homeroom teacher's class. No one dared look around.
They would die.
99.9%
"Damn it, what kind of lousy talent is this? Why does it have to get stuck at 99.9%? Is it trying to make things difficult for me?" Chen Luo sighed as he looked at the number floating before him while continuing to fold the little stars.
"I just hope that after this talent awakens, it won't turn out to be some helping-others talent. If it is, I'm going to collapse."
As he complained internally, Chen Luo also recalled the miserable story behind his title of Chen the Great Philanthropist.
"And that girl too. If it's a birthday present for your boyfriend, fold it properly yourself. Why give it to me? I'm not your boyfriend." Chen Luo had sharp hearing and caught the girl's quiet muttering.
But complaints were complaints. For the sake of awakening his talent, Chen Luo endured it.
The Talent Awakening interface that had suddenly appeared before his eyes one day had been hovering there for who knew how long. If he had to trace its origin, he could only trace it back to when the title Chen the Great Philanthropist had started spreading.
In short, after Chen Luo casually helped someone throw away a bag of trash once, and the Talent Awakening interface jumped forward by 0.1%, he knew his hard days had begun.
This is outrageous! Is this thing making me do a thousand acts of kindness?
Whoever wants this job can do it. I'm not goi... Forget it. For the sake of this talent whose effects I don't even know, I'll endure it for now.
But later, Chen Luo discovered that he did not necessarily have to perform a thousand acts of kindness as he had imagined.
Because sometimes, even if he did something for someone, if they did not acknowledge it, it did not count.
Of course, there was good news too. If the help he provided was genuinely important, the progress would increase by more than 0.1%.
For example, when he saw someone bullying a classmate in the restroom, he dipped a mop in shit, swept through them all, and taught that ultimate technique to the victim. That had directly added 0.25% progress.
Although a thousand good deeds sounded like something that could be finished in a short time, it really was not that easy.
Because sometimes, he could go an entire day without encountering even one opportunity.
After all, Chen Luo was still a student. How could he have so much free time to help others? He had to study too.
Chen Luo did not even know how much of his free time he had sacrificed to finally reach 99.9%.
After folding sixty-six little stars, his hands were trembling slightly, and every paper strip had been used up.
Under Chen Luo's expectant gaze, that final sliver of the progress bar instantly filled up.
"I already said it—the Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties were chaotic times, not some wonderful era!"
"No, the Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties were absurd yet beautiful."
"In that era, boys could also consider delicacy beautiful, girls could also go into battle and kill enemies! Boys and boys could even..."
Bang! Chen Luo's head slammed directly onto his desk.
"Sun Lian! Look at how angry you made Chen Luo!" The young history teacher, wearing light makeup, pointed at Chen Luo, whose head was still on the desk, and said.
"???" Sun Lian looked utterly confused.
How was this somehow her fault too?
"Chen Luo, are you okay?" The history teacher looked at him with concern.
But Chen Luo's deskmate was even quicker to show concern.
"Chen Luo, are you okay?"
"I-I'm fine. My head just suddenly hurt a little." Chen Luo covered his head and raised one hand slightly to show that he was still alive.
"It's good that you're fine. Sun Lian, have your parents call me later. Look how angry you made him." The history teacher glared at Sun Lian.
Sun Lian was bewilderedly told to have her parents called, then bewilderedly accepted a tube full of little stars that Chen Luo secretly passed over.
Could it be that making him fold the little stars had caused his headache?
Since she was in the wrong, Sun Lian did not argue and could only suffer the loss in silence.
The history teacher resumed the lesson while Chen Luo rubbed his head and listened to the voice ringing in his mind.
Ding! The Talent Awakening progress bar has been filled. Awakening talent. Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the EX-level talent—Traveler. As someone unwilling to settle for mediocrity, you would eventually embark on a journey, travel across the entire world, and explore unknown realms. You were born a traveler, destined never to remain in one place for long. Not even the world could confine you forever. And your willingness to help others would bring you unexpected surprises.
Give Herrscher of Knowledge a Home???
"Traveler? It doesn't sound like a particularly powerful talent. Could it be the kind of talent that makes me stronger the more I travel around the world? I'm not entirely satisfied, but at least it isn't a helping-others talent." Looking at this impressive-sounding but incomprehensible talent, Chen Luo finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Though the Traveler talent sounded ordinary, it was still better than making Chen Luo continue helping others.
It was called helping others, but Chen Luo felt like a tool person.
It was not that Chen Luo thought helping others was bad, but frequently giving away kindness would eventually make the people around him take it for granted.
Chen Luo understood the saying about how a small favor earns gratitude, while a large one breeds resentment.
But just as he began examining his Traveler interface, Chen Luo froze again because he saw something that looked terrifying.
Commission List
Fuck, isn't this still just helping others?
Damn it!
Chen Luo's Traveler interface had a total of four main options.
Main Interface
Commission List
Friends
Backpack
There were other options besides those four, but they were all blacked out, and he could not even make out their names.
Before Chen Luo had time to look at anything else, the sight of the Commission List gave him a headache.
Commission List (Helping others is a fine virtue. Do good deeds and receive Good Karma. Offering others friendly assistance during your travels will often bring unexpected surprises.)
Although the list sounded alarming, Chen Luo was relieved to find that there was currently nothing on it.
The Main Interface displayed a three-dimensional miniature version of Chen Luo, with all sorts of data beneath it.
Name: Chen Luo Gender: Male Age: 17 Title: Chen the Great Philanthropist (Gold): As a good person, you are more likely to gain others' trust and more likely to receive their commissions. HP: 100% Primogems: 0
Chen Luo's face darkened when he saw that. Good grief, did being a good person mean he deserved to be ordered around? Did good people deserve to be Tool People?
Friends 0/50
Emmm, who is this mocking for having no friends?
I have friends too, okay? There just aren't many of them.
I may not have many friends, but they're high quality.
Finally, there was the Backpack Chen Luo had been looking forward to most.
Ah, a backpack. Chen Luo understood that. Wasn't it just Storage Space? That was how it worked in games.
What game had a backpack that could not hold things? Could a backpack that could not hold things even be called a backpack?
And by common sense, when you first got a system, something like a backpack should come with a beginner's gift pack, right?
Could a system without a beginner's gift pack still be called a system?
Chen Luo eagerly opened the Backpack interface, and then... then he found nothing at all.
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