Damn! I almost forgot, this wasn't actually a system. This was my talent.
This thing looked so much like a system that Chen Luo had gotten his genres mixed up.
Chen Luo felt disappointed for a moment.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. That was exactly it.
And most importantly, no matter how Chen Luo looked at this so-called EX-level talent, Traveler, he couldn't find anything particularly amazing about it.
Yeah, it was utterly unremarkable in every way. Chen Luo didn't even know how to use the thing.
What a lousy talent. I got excited for so long, and its description made it sound so impressive...
Chen Luo instantly became sullen.
The key was that he couldn't bring himself to be happy anymore.
Ding! You have 1,000 Primogems waiting to be claimed. Would you like to claim them?
"???" Chen Luo's body inexplicably jolted upon hearing that voice.
For some reason, the moment Chen Luo heard "Primogems," his spirits lifted.
"Why are there 1,000 Primogems?" Chen Luo couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he thought.
This was a talent. How could there possibly be a beginner's gift pack?
But then, an inexplicable and indescribable memory suddenly flooded into Chen Luo's mind.
Instructions
After recovering for a moment, Chen Luo gloomily shook his slightly swollen head.
"Why didn't you bring out the instructions earlier?"
After taking a moment to recover, Chen Luo finally finished processing that memory.
Only then did Chen Luo understand that those 1,000 Primogems were the reward for the nearly 1,000 good deeds he had done.
He could originally have received more, but because his talent had not fully awakened at the time, the maximum number of Primogems it could store was only 1,000.
However, it seemed that the excess Primogems he couldn't receive could accumulate as good fortune and be used for his first pull. According to the instructions, the good fortune he had accumulated could guarantee that his first ten-pull would yield an exceptionally rare special five-star, the one-in-ten-thousand kind among five-stars. There would be no such benefit in the future. It actually sounded like a pretty good deal...
The sources of Primogems were completing commissions, helping others, and receiving varying quantities of Primogems. The other source was monster drops.
And since this talent was called Traveler, Chen Luo would also receive some Primogem rewards whenever he saw scenery that moved him. Not much, but enough.
All sorts of bizarre achievements were also one of the sources of Primogem rewards.
And these Primogems could be used for draws and... purchasing skills?
The draw system was easy to understand. Once Chen Luo saved up 1,600 Primogems, he could unlock the gacha system and make pulls.
The prize pool had everything, from a Star Destroyer Mothership to Otaku Happy Water. He could even pull character cards and gain a Paper Waifu. But what he could actually pull in the end depended on his luck.
As for the skill-purchasing function...
Simply put, he could purchase other people's talents or special skills, but it cost Primogems.
Within the Traveler talent, Primogems were omnipotent.
And the prerequisite for purchasing skills was that the other person had to be your friend.
That was right. If they weren't his friends, then all he could do was beat them to death and see whether they dropped skill scrolls or something.
The skill scrolls obtained that way were random, and there was a considerable chance they wouldn't even be skills the target possessed.
The more Chen Luo looked at this Traveler talent, the more it resembled a game.
And beating people to death... was being this violent really okay?
However, Chen Luo glanced at his completely empty friends list and instantly fell silent.
If... Chen Luo meant, if.
If he found a way to kill a water bear, could he possibly gain that near-immortal ability water bears had?
Generally speaking, he probably could, but that was assuming the Traveler talent really recognized a water bear as an enemy.
"Ring-ring-ring!" The final bell... the holiday bell rang.
The last class on Friday afternoon was always the hardest to endure, but Chen Luo had been absorbed in all sorts of bizarre matters throughout the entire class, so time had passed quickly instead.
"Chen Luo, it's my turn to clean today, but I have something urgent to do. Can you help me out?" The moment the homeroom teacher left the podium, a boy darted over to Chen Luo's deskmate.
Ding! You have a new commission.
Cleaning Duty: A classmate who was rushing to see his girlfriend and had absolutely no desire to do the cleaning wanted you to help him clean.
Reward: 5 Primogems
Difficulty: 0 stars
"Sure..." Chen Luo felt a little helpless.
Still... earning Primogems wasn't beneath him.
Ding! You have a new commission.
Take In the Herrscher of Knowledge (Timed Commission): The Herrscher of Knowledge, who had just been scammed over the phone by her own mother, was swept into a space-time passage by Space-Time Turbulence and seriously injured. Go on, give her a home!
Reward: 600 Primogems + any Weapon Mastery
Difficulty: 0 stars
Countdown: 20 minutes.
(For timed missions, if you do not reach the mission location and accept the mission before time runs out, it will automatically disappear.)
(Note: This mission is extremely rare. Please choose carefully.)
"So you can, right? Thanks." The male student spoke without the slightest hint of gratitude.
"Sigh..." Chen Luo's deskmate sighed.
Wouldn't cleaning alone take twenty minutes? He could only help him out.
What a sin. How had he ended up with a deskmate like this?
"Sure my ass. Do your own damn work!"
Five Primogems? Were they trying to send a beggar away?
A tool person? I'm not doing that anymore!!!
Hope you stay late cleaning, then get stabbed in the kidneys by the blue lancer!!!
After giving the other person the middle finger, Chen Luo vaulted over the desk and rushed out of the classroom at top speed.
Leaving only the male student and Chen Luo's deskmate standing there in utter confusion.
The difference was that while Chen Luo's deskmate was confused, a flash of surprise appeared in his eyes.
Another Way to Complete Commission Missions!
Although Chen Luo knew that what he had just done was vastly different from his usual good-guy behavior, the problem was that Chen Luo had never really been a good guy to begin with.
It was all just the Traveler talent's missions.
If it were normal helping others, Chen Luo wouldn't mind doing it.
But you were a high school student with perfectly functional hands and feet, yet you wanted someone else to clean for you? Did you not have hands and feet of your own?
And Chen Luo had also discovered that the commission system within his talent could reveal certain information in addition to assigning missions.
For example, how did this talent know that the male student had dumped the work on Chen Luo because he was going to see his girlfriend?
Although Chen Luo couldn't understand it, even more unbelievable things had appeared before him long ago. He could accept something like this.
And right now, the most important thing was to hurry up and complete that timed mission.
Come on, that timed mission was seriously valuable, okay?
Six hundred Primogems! That was more than half of all the Primogems he had earned through hard work over the past two-plus years.
And that special Weapon Mastery reward... was truly tempting.
Chen Luo's home wasn't far from school, and he had ridden his bicycle to school today. At most, it would take five minutes to get home from school.
If nothing went wrong...
But if nothing went wrong, then something was bound to go wrong.
The moment Chen Luo ran to the bicycle parking area, he saw someone committing violence against the rear tire of his bike.
"You damn Blondie, you're taking apart my bike again!" Chen Luo's anger surged as he looked at that bastard with a head full of dyed yellow hair.
"Holy shit, why did you get here so fast today?" Blondie, holding a screwdriver, was instantly shocked when he saw Chen Luo come out so quickly.
Normally, all the cleaning in Chen Luo's class was handled by Chen Luo every day. It had practically become routine.
"Fuck your mother!" Under normal circumstances, Chen Luo wouldn't care much about the guy. At most, he would call a teacher or summon a security guard.
But Chen Luo was in a serious hurry today.
Because Chen Luo had discovered that the Herrscher of Knowledge's marked location was right outside his house. No wonder he had received this commission.
And Chen Luo was no stranger to Blondie. He was the school bully who had been nearly traumatized after being hit with a mop smeared with shit, like Lu Bu reborn.
That was how the grudge between the two of them had begun.
"Since you saw me, I won't pretend anymore. I was the one who took apart your bikes before." Seeing that Chen Luo had uncovered his secret, Blondie didn't hide it anymore.
No more pretending. He laid all his cards on the table.
Chen Luo strode forward angrily.
"What? You dare hit me?" Blondie rose onto his tiptoes and looked at Chen Luo, who was slightly shorter than him, then laughed.
Chen Luo walked to the rear seat of his bicycle, placed his backpack on it, and began rummaging through the bag for something.
"What, is that all the courage you have? Now that we're not in the restroom, you don't have the guts to fight anymore?" Blondie sneered twice.
Then Blondie's smug smile slowly froze. He saw Chen Luo slowly pull out a... brick?!!
Smack!
While the other man was stunned, Chen Luo directly smashed the brick into his head.
As everyone knew, Chen Luo loved helping others, so it was perfectly normal for him to carry some "equipment" to help people, right?
And since bricks were easy to pick up and easy to discard, they naturally became Chen Luo's weapon of choice.
Chen Luo stood where he was and coldly watched Blondie get knocked down by a single brick.
I'm an exemplary student who once smashed a bank robber with a brick during a robbery. And you think you can fight me?
Chen Luo really wanted to give the guy another couple of hits to the head, but after looking at the mission countdown, he gave up on the idea.
Chen Luo tossed his backpack into his bike's basket, grabbed a brick, and ran toward the school gate.
Forget the backpack! Primogems were more important!
As for why he was taking the brick with him? Obviously, it was to destroy the evidence.
As for Blondie?
Heh. If there had been surveillance cameras in the bicycle parking area, Blondie would have been caught long ago, so there was no need to worry about cameras.
What if Blondie later accused Chen Luo of attacking him?
Come on. One was a publicly recognized exemplary student and good guy who had received a commendation banner from the police station, while the other was Blondie. Who did he think the police would believe?
"Good thing school was out and there were usually plenty of taxis at the gate. Otherwise, I almost wouldn't have been able to complete the mission." After getting out of the taxi and seeing that twelve minutes remained on the countdown, Chen Luo finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The reason he had wasted eight minutes was mainly because the traffic jam had been truly terrible.
And to keep the taxi driver from picking up more passengers and wasting what little time he had, Chen Luo directly paid triple the fare.
To ensure that the mission wouldn't be interrupted, Chen Luo got out of the car while he was still a short distance from home.
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