Reward: 700 Primogems + Megumin's Favorability +30
Difficulty: Three Stars
"Just trade me your staff."
"Eh, but my staff was a gift from my classmates..." Megumin hesitated.
"...Then 100,000 Eris. If you can't afford it, you can owe me for now. No rush to pay it back." Chen Luo settled for the next best thing.
Chen Luo now wanted even more to give her the staff for free in exchange for Primogems, but he was afraid she would think he had ulterior motives, which was why he proposed an additional condition.
"Okay! Deal!" Megumin agreed immediately.
"Then this staff is yours. Oh, right. Aside from the advantages I mentioned, this staff has another trait." After somehow gaining a future possible payment of 100,000 Eris, Chen Luo reminded her.
Ding! Commission completed!
"What trait?" Chen Luo's words caught Megumin's attention.
"Recovery. This staff has that trait. After you use it to cast magic, it returns 1% of the mana you spent. That's why you haven't collapsed completely yet." Chen Luo explained.
"Oh, that's not bad..." Megumin nodded.
Then the wind blew, and Megumin fell straight to the ground.
Mana did flow back, but far too little. For Megumin, who had cast Explosion Magic twice in a row, it was utterly useless.
And that was why Chen Luo had trimmed off this World Tree branch in the first place: the stat percentage was too low.
Although mana recovery was a decent attribute, World Tree branches normally had effects of at least 20% to 30%.
Put another way... this branch was like a three-star relic with a crit-rate stat that had rolled badly on every upgrade.
The other branches, meanwhile, were guaranteed five-stars.
Winner Takes All, Loser's Feast!
Competition among World Tree branches was just that brutal!
"By the way, Kazuma, did you