Chapter 743: Zhang Tie's Reward

Points...

After the shock came a wry smile.

Lin An couldn't bring himself to check the follow-up rewards, his mind wholly occupied by that glaring sss-rank.

One Evil God-rank mission only gives 200 points.

Such difficulty..

All trump cards exhausted; if not for the Second Will suddenly popping up to remind, once dragged into the late stage and reacting.

The price paid is unimaginable.

The point demand is too high..

No one knows.

While they were still worrying over a dozen points, racking their brains to calculate whether to exchange attributes or the chance to rank up to third rank.

Lin An was frantically thinking about how to get at least ten thousand points.

Twenty Evil God-rank missions just thinking about it makes the scalp go numb.

In his subconscious, Lin An even felt the system wasn't playing with him.

If you want to play, just say so...

Simply mark it as ninety-nine thousand, so I won't have any lingering thoughts.

"Lin Dui?"

Xiong Hanzi squatted on the ground, grinning as he looked at his reward—a wildly exaggerated wolf-tooth club.

Though called a club, its appearance is fierce like a torture device.

Beneath the interlocking sharp teeth, a single strike feels like it would leave no trace of any enemy.

"Why does your face look so awful?"

"Hehe, I damn well swapped for an A+ rank skill, Super Boundary Bear Roar!"

"Damn, that's imposing!"

Like presenting a treasure, Zhang Tie squeezed his eyes and brows, edging close to Lin An, completely unaware of how complicated Lin An's mood was at the moment.

"【Curse of the Lingchi Victim】, heavy weapon, Epic Tier equipment."

"Strength attribute +9. For equipment below third rank, exceeding the limit converts to critical rate."

"When equipped: continuously inflicts damage on oneself; this negative effect comes from the equipment's curse."

"Equipment special effect: bleeding, bone shatter, skinning, wound aggravation."

"Attached skill 1: Bone Shatter."

"【Bone Shatter】: After activating the skill, deal a crushing strike to the target, ignoring physical defense. Guaranteed to cause limb-shatter effect."

"Attached skill 2: Blood Mire."

"【Blood Mire】: After dealing 70% of the target's max HP damage, there is a chance to trigger an execution effect, ignoring HP recovery and rapid healing."

An extreme violent weapon, specialized against fast-moving, high-recovery enemies.

Lin An glanced at Zhang Tie, pondered briefly, then gave his evaluation.

This equipment actually suits Zhang Tie perfectly, greatly compensating for Xiong Hanzi's attack methods.

As long as it hits once, any enemy will be beaten to death in a chain, unable to run.

And the Super Boundary Bear Roar is simpler: an A+ rank skill that causes a group stun and sonic attack.

The highlight is that damage depends on strength and constitution, not willpower.

Among skills, it's quite suitable for strength-system Awakened Ones.

Zhang Tie, who usually likes to shout in battle, now truly can shake enemies to death with a single yell.

After gaining Lin An's approval, Xiong Hanzi's face practically burst into a smile.

"Lin Dui, what did you get?"

"I can get Epic Tier equipment; did you get a set again?"

Asking with envy, yet discovering Lin An's face looked even worse.

His rewards had no equipment.

The remaining two are a title reward and a mission-start prop whose purpose is unknown.

Title: 【Enemy of the Evil God】

When fighting evil spirits and Western fantasy evil creatures, it deals an extra 20% damage.

The cost is that cultists' hatred increases by 100%.

If one is in Europe-America, the Nordic theater, then one could try to trigger some special events to gain decent effects thanks to this title.

As for the rest, likely once displayed, everyone will know that he, Lin An, is the one who completed the Evil God mission.

The mission prop is 【Evil God Festival Ritual】.

A burnt sheepskin scroll; its effect is to open in the real world, difficulty unknown.

Besides that, there's nothing else.

I suppose not receiving equipment reward is because the system judged the sss-rank skill as the highest reward and released it.

Logically, as a participant Zhang Tie should have an Epic Tier reward.

As the main completer, he should at least have a ready-made set.

Well...

Put bluntly, in the system's judgment, the chance to obtain this skill is better than a set.

Precisely because of this, Lin An's heart feels like a cat's scratching.

"There are still three trials…"

Seeing that the system restrictions did not allow third rank to enter the subsequent trials, Lin An had little reaction.

He originally also planned to solidify his third rank level after completing all trials.

It's obvious even with your toes that the all-system third rank solidification effect is absolutely far superior to a single-system one.

In his past life, the strongest few Awakened Ones were basically all multi-system.

Just don't know what special effect will happen when the time comes.

Moreover..

The characteristics of third rank, he has actually already obtained.

The three constant passives happen to be the unique traits of third rank from his past life memories.

Always maintain the strongest burst state.

This is a passive that other Awakened Ones need to advance to third rank to obtain.

So, the system's restrictions basically don't exist for Lin An.

"Relying on completing tasks to earn points.."

"Unrealistic..."

He muttered softly, Lin An rejected the plan to rely on himself.

Even if he worked himself to death, he couldn't get that many points.

Relying..

Cheat?

He slightly frowned.

It's a bit unrealistic.

Points are about as important as life for Awakened Ones.

If points are insufficient, advancing to third rank carries a death risk; who would be willing to give them to him?

Outside the noisy trial tower, the most common thing Lin An heard was people wanting to buy points.

But no one was willing to make a move, unwilling to exchange at any cost.

Headache.

With a heavy heart, Lin An tentatively opened the system panel.

"Can I query skill information?"

This was the first time he asked the system; he didn't really expect an answer.

Vaguely, he had a few ideas on how to get points, but the means were too extreme.

Once used, it would easily make him a public enemy of the whole people.

If this SSS-level skill isn't as strong as imagined, he would find it hard to make up his mind.

As if sensing his thoughts, the system rarely appeared silently with a line of explanation.

"SS-level skill, choose one of three:"

"Displacement-type skill: Blink, instant teleport to a target within up to 100 meters. Cooldown 60 seconds."

"Damage-type skill: Lava Storm, deals flame storm damage over a maximum area of 300 meters."

"Special-type skill: Mental Control, you can consume mental power to control humans of lower rank than you; each additional unit increases consumption by 300%, maximum number 3."

Looking at the skills available now, Lin An's brows slightly furrowed.

It's not bad; if other Awakened Ones saw these skills, they'd probably be excited to the point of fainting.

But the first two overlap with his abilities.

Blink's 100-meter range, with a long cooldown, is nowhere near as good as the descent barrier in other talents.

In the descent state, he could actually continuously teleport, but previous battles never needed it.

After all, mental power consumption is too great; it's better to use mental power to kill enemies.

Flame Storm, at most, is just a convenient version of the Judgment skill.

Mental control is somewhat interesting, though...

It can only control those of lower rank than oneself, making it more suitable for stealth assassination.

As for the two SS-level skills to choose from, they are respectively the death-ray skill for ultra-long-range sniping.

And a 3-second invulnerability skill named Deathless Barrier.

He tentatively asked:

"I want to know what the SSS-level skill is..."

The next second, the text on the system panel paused briefly, then refreshed:

"SSS-level skill: Death Calamity"