"...When did you get that treasure chest?"
Silently crossing through the battlefield, Kan Lu returned to this side of the room. Looking at the Bronze Treasure Chest placed between them, he asked speechlessly.
"After you took out those Jokers, I grabbed it while I was at it."
As Bai Zhi examined the Bronze Treasure Chest before him, he waved a hand dismissively.
"No need to thank me."
Kan Lu: "..."
Back when he had first spotted the treasure chest placed at the very back of the room, Bai Zhi had tried to see if he could steal it out using [Puzzle Card ▪ Swap].
However, he had only been able to perform that kind of operation after Kan Lu cleared the game, so he had casually swapped it over and cleaned up the mess on the floor while he was at it.
—He had excellent moral character, after all.
"Forget it. Thanks for earlier. Otherwise, I really would've had no choice but to force my way through them one by one."
Letting out a breath, Kan Lu sat down cross-legged without hesitation, then tossed over the spade-shaped Gem dropped after he killed those two Clowns.
"The key to opening the treasure chest should be Gems like this."
—The Bronze Treasure Chest placed right in the middle of the four of them had four indentations on it, corresponding to spades, Hearts, Clubs, and Diamonds.
He had originally thought that the Gem he obtained was some kind of dropped crafting material, but it seemed he had overthought it.
Both strength and Intelligence held considerable importance for players. Neither was inherently more crucial than the other; it mainly depended on a player's own inclinations.
Take the game Kan Lu had just experienced as an example. Even if he had failed to figure out