Chapter 18 Confronting the Final Battle (Part 1)

What appeared before Feng Bujue’s eyes was a pair of mid-length boots, the shaft just high enough to cover the ankles, made of exquisite black leather. The boots were also adorned with dark-colored patterns, which at first glance resembled the cloud patterns on traditional Chinese boots, but upon closer inspection, they were geometric shapes rather than curves.

[Name: Ta Xu (Treading Void)]
[Type: Armor]
[Quality: Legendary]
[Defense: Medium]
[Attribute: Isolation]
[Effect: Absorbs all damage from falls (must land on the soles of the feet); can walk or stand on water at will; can stand stably in the air for a short time; doubles the efficiency of kicking off for momentum; doubles maximum running speed; Leg-based skills (under reasonable circumstances) are 30% more effective; can tread on pure spiritual bodies]
[Equipment Requirements: Spiritual Art Specialization unlocked, General Specialization B, Fighting Specialization B, Successfully cleared at least five Nightmare Difficulty scripts, cannot be traded after pickup]
[Remarks: Everything is empty, everything is permitted.]

"Hmm... although I got something like the One-Hit Kill Pistol before, this should be the first legendary equipment that truly belongs to me... I'm a little excited just thinking about it." Feng Bujue muttered, looking at the equipment before him. "But... this thing is outrageously good... It's too much."

As he muttered, he was already taking off the Jazz Dance boots he was wearing. At this moment, this veteran equipment that had accompanied him for so long had finally reached the end of its service life and was added to the list of items "about to enter the shredder."

"Sir Matthews, your will shall be inherited by my next legendary equipment, rest assured," Jue Ge bid farewell to Jazz Dance in a chuunibyou (middle-schooler syndrome) tone, temporarily placing them in the storage. Then, he excitedly put on the new foot equipment.

"With this, plus the skill combination that I've painstakingly put together in the last few days..." Feng Bujue pondered, "It should be fine, right..." In his heart, he still wasn't entirely confident.

Before the final battle, let's take another look at Jue Ge's current stats:

Title: [Hatred Magnet], Title Ability: [Hate Furnace]

Experience: 2100000043000000, Skill Points: 306, Game Coins: 1560000.

Specializations: General B, Machinery C, Investigation d, Fighting B, Shooting C, Medical d, Spiritual Arts C, Summoning C.

Inventory (10/15): Mario's Pipe Wrench, Desert Eagle-500 (5/20), Composite Anti-Gravity Catapult, Miss Moxxi's Bad Touch, Vajra Bell, Survival Value Supplement (Medium) *5, Endless Grenade Magazine, WJq-308 Military Shovel (Indestructible Type), Holy Shit Holdable Mushroom *1, Deception Pocket Watch.

Equipment: Death Poker (Psionic Weapon), Echo Armor, Artemis' Embrace, Implanted Alchemy Amplification Device, Ta Xu, Phantom Mistress's Caress.

Storage (2/10): Jazz Dance, Puzzle Card - Strawberry

Skill Slots (11/12): [Not-So-Hasty Repair], [Ling Shi Ju Shen Shu (Spirit Consciousness Gathering Art)], [Perseverance of the Ice Alchemist], [Nanto Flying Dragon Fist], [Summoning Art - Musashi Koganei], [Moon Step], [Rankyaku (Storm Leg)], [Flying Sand in the Wind], [Evil King Inferno Scorching Kill], [Kikoho (Spirit Energy Cannon)], [Summoning Art – Ma Sun].

It's not hard to see that in these five days, Jue Ge's combat power has reached new heights.

Of course, this is also normal. The change in attitude is key; when he treats this game as an important and serious matter... he has the ability to reach this level.

The descriptions of those new items and skills will be listed one by one later in the text; detailed descriptions are not provided here.

Let's talk about other aspects: Feng Bujue's current three hundred-plus skill points are the leftovers after spending a large amount. In the past few days, he went to the Thriller Box no less than and spent over thirty thousand skill points. His game coin expenditure was also not small, but it was basically all spent on buying cheap, useless equipment from the auction house, the purpose of which... everyone understands.

In terms of specializations, when Feng Bujue leveled up to level forty, his General Specialization jumped to B level along with his level; his Shooting Specialization also rose to C in a later script; and the biggest improvement should be his Summoning Specialization.

After the match on the morning of May 25th, the four members of Hell Front went to queue for a script together, which happened to be a long-term script. Thus, Feng Bujue successfully completed the character task of [Using Summoning skills and successfully summoning summons fifty times] that night.

After returning to the landing space, the system prompted him that the first step of the character task had been completed, and the newly refreshed second step was [All summons have used skills a cumulative total of one thousand times, current progress 0/1000]. As for the reward for the first step, it was the d-level summoning skill: [Summoning Art - Ma Sun].

As for items and skills: In a script world with extremely high technology, Jue Ge's regular flashlight has been combined with the anti-gravity catapult, which is now the [Composite Anti-Gravity Catapult]; in a Ukiyo-e style grotesque script, Jue Ge obtained a mushroom that can remove multiple negative statuses, namely the [Holy Shit Holdable Mushroom]; in a martial arts style supernatural script, Jue Ge exchanged a folding stool (number five) from the Eighteen Bronze Men for a martial art called [Flying Sand in the Wind] (He used the Vajra Bell's effect to identify that a certain NPC was actually an Eighteen Bronze Man who had returned to secular life, and thus made this deal); in an adventure tomb raiding style script, Jue Ge acquired the [Deception Pocket Watch].

In addition to these items obtained from the scripts, [Phantom Mistress's Caress] was synthesized by Feng Bujue using the original [Puzzle Card - Monkey] and another puzzle card he obtained. It is a pair of gloves; and the two active skills, [Evil King Inferno Scorching Kill] and [Kikoho (Spirit Energy Cannon)], both came from the Thriller Box.

In short... Feng Bujue today is really strong.

If Dream Inc. were to list all the data of the fifty players participating in the Peak Tournament (doing so should make about ten chapters…), and publish a voting post on the official website, letting players judge who is the strongest, then Feng Bujue would definitely be ranked in the top five.

But even so... Feng Bujue himself still holds a pessimistic attitude towards the prospects of the final. He is such a person, a faithful believer of Murphy's Law, always making the worst plans for everything.

As the saying goes, when soldiers come, block them with generals; when water comes, dam it with earth; when things happen, the way lies in people.

Within the limited time, Feng Bujue has basically maximized the improvement of his character's abilities, and almost all available resources have been used. The remaining things can only depend on that unpredictable but unavoidable fate...