Chapter 26 A Staff

Midnight, Feng Bujue logged into the game in sleep mode.

The first thing he did upon entering the login space was to open the social menu and find the nickname 【Xu Huai Shang】.

"Very good..." Seeing that the other party's status was "In Game," he was very happy, which saved him the trouble of communicating.

Then, Brother Jue entered the mailbox interface through the quick option in the friend list, and sent a very neat email to Xu Huai Shang, greeting Ruo Yu on his behalf.

After doing these things, he casually flipped through his own mailbox.

Coincidentally, the puzzle card exchange's notification email arrived. Feng Bujue knew just by looking at the title... that the 【Puzzle Card - Sword】 had been exchanged.

Five minutes later, he had made a trip to the exchange and returned to the storage room.

"Hehehe... finally..." Feng Bujue said excitedly, holding the 【Puzzle Card - Loli】 in his hand, "The moment to witness a miracle has arrived..."

His expression and wording, combined with the items in his hand, really made people want to make fun of him...

"A combination of twelve..." Brother Jue said as he took out the cards from the box, "The probability of getting legendary equipment is also very high, right..."

Viewers familiar with the plot of this book should understand that this kind of self-establishing fLag behavior is mostly going to be tragic, but Brother Jue just likes it this way...

He first put the other card he exchanged, 【Puzzle Card - Tears】, into the storage box, and then took out the eleven cards he had accumulated for a long time.

When all twelve puzzle cards were in his hand, he summoned the menu and selected "Combine."

【A possible combination sequence has been detected.】

A system voice that was exhilarating to Feng Bujue's ears entered his ears, and the synthesis list immediately appeared in front of him—

Deck Name: 【Zodiac】, consumes 【Puzzle Card - Sheep*2】, 【Puzzle Card - Bull】, 【Puzzle Card - Twins】, 【Puzzle Card - Crab】, 【Puzzle Card - Lion】, 【Puzzle Card - Loli】, 【Puzzle Card - Libra】, 【Puzzle Card - Scorpion】, 【Puzzle Card - Archer】, 【Puzzle Card - Bottle】, 【Puzzle Card - Fish】, can form a combination.

【You have chosen to generate the deck combination: Zodiac. Please confirm this operation.】 Two seconds later, another prompt sounded.

Feng Bujue certainly chose to confirm. As a result, the twelve cards turned into white light in an instant, and were reorganized into one card in his hand.

The pattern on this deck was very delicate, with the universe and stars as the background, and the starlight and sun wheel as the outline, arranging the images of the twelve constellations in a ring.

【The deck has been generated. Do you want to exchange it for equipment?】

Although the system voice came quickly again, this time, Brother Jue did not immediately select "Yes." After all, it was something he had accumulated for a long time, and emotionally speaking, it was very different from the kind of deck that was casually combined. Therefore, he looked at the deck with a smug look for a minute before reluctantly choosing to exchange it.

As the deck turned into light and dissipated, a white light suddenly appeared on the other side of the storage room, and then turned into a glass pillar.

Feng Bujue turned around and walked over. After waiting for a few seconds, he took out the equipment from the pillar.

【Name: Staff of Asclepius】

【Type: Weapon】

【Quality: Legendary】

【Attack Power: Medium】

【Attribute: None】

【Effect 1: Power of Evolution (Doubles a player's basic physical skills and their stamina cap, and makes their stamina recovery speed 1000 seconds, lasting for three minutes, cooldown thirty minutes)】

【Effect 2: Power of Summoning (Doubles a player's summoning creature ability and their spiritual power cap, and makes their spiritual power recovery speed 100 seconds, lasting for three minutes, cooldown thirty minutes)】

【Effect 3: Power of Immortality (Gives a player the ability to resurrect once in a script, limited to once per script)】

【Equipment Requirements: Medical Specialization A, Bound after equipping】

【Remarks: A staff with the power of evolution, spirituality, and immortality, symbolizing the noble will of the god of medicine.】

"It really is legendary..." Feng Bujue's expression immediately turned cold. "But..." He shouted, "I can't use it!" He waved the golden staff with golden snake carvings wrapped around it, as if he wanted to break the thing. "This is like waiting for months and all you get is sh*t! Do you know how hard it is for me to save up these cards!"

It was unclear who he was angry with. Anyway... a few minutes later, he calmed down.

"Oh well... forget it..." Brother Jue muttered, "I'll throw it into the guild warehouse. An Daixiao’s medical specialization is probably not far from A-level. As long as she gets this thing... she can directly become a first-line player, right..."

He was telling the truth. Anyone... as long as they could equip this staff, their ranking on the comprehensive strength list of players would definitely soar.

Putting aside everything else, just the third effect of this staff... the entire *Thriller Paradise*, all the guilds, regardless of whether they have a studio background, would be rushing to be friends with you...

Seeing this, some people will definitely say... since this is an item bound after equipping, why doesn't Brother Jue just sell it?

Admittedly, that's a good idea.

Objectively speaking, if Feng Bujue really wanted to sell equipment like the 【Staff of Asclepius】, then he wouldn't even need to sell it in the game's auction house... he could directly go to a virtual item trading website and put it up for 100,000 or 80,000 (RMB), and he would definitely be able to sell it.

Brother Jue naturally had this idea... but he didn't do it.

The current Feng Bujue is no longer the casual player he was four months ago who thought about "playing games to treat his illness and making some extra money."

Regardless of the knowledge he has mastered or his own abilities, he has already broken away from the category of "ordinary people"... his motivation for participating in the game has also changed.

Right now, compared to money in the real world, he feels that improving the team's strength in the game is more important.

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After putting the 【Staff of Asclepius】 into the guild's public warehouse and sending an email to Hua Jian, Feng Bujue simply stayed in the login space and started browsing the forums.

Because Xiao Tan, Xiao Ling, and Hua Jian had not yet logged in, he decided to wait for them for a while. He could also use this time to make up for the lack of game time from not logging in for half a month.

"Internet addict dies tragically on the street, driver of the car that caused the accident is released without charge." As soon as Brother Jue opened the forum, he saw such a post being pinned to the top of the homepage; next to it was also marked with the word "Hot."

After reading the title once, he clicked on the post...

"Recently, the xx City Supreme Court made a final judgment on the 'Bentley car crushing an Internet addict to death' case that has been widely discussed online, declaring the car owner not guilty and releasing him. The defense lawyer proposed that 'Li Moumou, a young man with the online name 【Zhong Er Chui】, was addicted to the Internet for many years, resulting in mental confusion. Therefore, he should be judged as a person without full capacity for civil conduct. Allowing such a person to walk on the street is the dereliction of duty of the guardian.' The court rejected all the arguments raised by the prosecuting lawyer, such as 'the Bentley owner bribed police officers, destroyed evidence at the scene, and forged alcohol test certificates,' because of insufficient evidence..."

After reading the post, Feng Bujue sighed: "Ah... is it this kind of annoying social news again... no wonder it's become a hot post."

Brother Jue was already accustomed to similar reports. The media these days are also happy to hype up some negative energy things. The more this kind of news that can stimulate the class struggle emotions of netizens, the more it can grab attention.

Anyway... in the end, what can calm everything down is still time. At most, in ten days or half a month, the people who are currently posting passionately will still do what they should be doing...

"Oh? Has someone already reached max level?" Brother Jue continued browsing and soon saw another post titled—【Another fastest max level record! Order—once again proves that they are the real kings】.

Regardless of whether Order is the so-called "king," their hired trolls are really intellectually challenged. This kind of title is simply shouting to the world: "I just got fifty cents for posting!"

Feng Bujue clicked on this post and roughly understood the situation. It turned out that during the half month he was Afk, 【Tun Tian Gui Xiao】 had already leveled up to 50. The moment he reached max level, all the players in *Thriller Paradise* received a system notification.

That kid... ever since he was defeated by Ruote in the Peak Tournament, he can be said to have learned from his pain, restrained his previous casual attitude, and seriously played for more than a month.

Today, even 【Shiva】, the arrogant one from the "Gods," has to admit... in terms of combat power, Gui Xiao is the number one person in *Thriller Paradise*. Moreover, this situation is likely to not change for a long time in the future.

Of course, there are people who are convinced, and there are people who are not convinced... The people from Corpse Blade are obviously not very convinced.

Perhaps no one will believe it... in the field of "leveling up," Order's biggest competitor is not the Gods, nor is it the Blade, Jianghu, or other powerful guilds, but Corpse Blade...

The reason is simple, the people from Corpse Blade are using drugs...

It was mentioned earlier that the drugs they use can suppress fear value to a certain extent. Although it is impossible to be completely without fear like Brother Jue, it is much stronger than players who have not used the drug...

The management of Corpse Blade also knows very well that in terms of the strength of top players, they are definitely not the opponents of other studios. After 【Corpse Blade is King】 left, this gap became even larger.

Therefore, the strategy they came up with was... relying on their advantage in fear value assessment, they would have all the first-line players constantly grind solo normal dungeons in order to hit the "first to reach max level on the entire server" record.

But unexpectedly... in the end, they still failed to catch up with Gui Xiao's pace and failed.

How could they not be angry and ashamed at such an ending.

Thus, on the day Gui Xiao reached max level, a war outside the game had quietly begun...