Chapter 308: The Abominable Status Debuff

Seeing Yun Mu arrive, they simply spread out their right arm in silence, displaying various goods stained with the fragrance of soil before her.

【Worn-out Hoe (Gray)】 (10 Gold Coin)

【Bandage (White)】 (20 Gold Coin)

【Antidote (White)】 (50 Gold Coin)

【Gas Mask (White)】 (80 Gold Coin)

【Bonfire (White)】 (100 Gold Coin)

【Holy Water (Green)】 (150 Gold Coin)

【Attribute Fruit · Random (Blue)】 (1000 Gold Coin)

【Storm Bottle (Blue)】 (2000 Gold Coin)

【Cross Amulet (Ziyue Pinzhi)】 (4500 Gold Coin)

【Note: The items sold by the mysterious merchant refresh every time. Depending on the Dungeon tier, the quality of the items sold by the mysterious merchant will also change.】

Hiss, these pieces of equipment are all too cheap, aren't they!

Yun Mu looked at the product page that had suddenly popped up before her, wishing she could buy every single item immediately.

But the moment she thought about how she only had 5191 Gold Coin on her entire person right now, she suddenly felt discouraged again.

Why couldn't the mysterious merchant appear when she had more money?

"Let's look at the attribute effects of the equipment first."

After thinking it over, Yun Mu clicked on the attribute pages for 【Attribute Fruit · Random (Blue)】, 【Storm Bottle (Blue)】, and 【Cross Amulet (Ziyue Pinzhi)】.

【Attribute Fruit · Random (Blue)】

【After use, randomly increases one character attribute.】

【Leader BOSS cannot use.】

【Before reaching lv10 (Apprentice), can only be used a maximum of five times.】

【When level breaks through to lv11-lv25 (Elite), usage count +10.】

【When level breaks through to lv26-lv50 (Expert), usage count +15.】

【.】

【A magical fruit that can make people stronger; every time it is used, there will be a different experience!】

【Storm Bottle (Blue)】

【Spell Strength +5 / Speed +2】

【Active Skill · Tornado】

【Releases a Tornado to strike at enemies, capable of knocking back all enemies with a Strength attribute lower than 50, and dealing 120 points of base skill damage.】

【Knockback: Body loses balance and flies into the high air, movement speed slowed by 30%.】

【Uses a special spell to seal a Tornado inside a bottle; at a critical moment, the Tornado can be released to deal damage to enemies in its path.】

"Look, a Tornado in a bottle!"】

【Cross Amulet (Ziyue Pinzhi)】

【Health +20 / Defense +5】

【Resilience +2】

【All-attribute negative resistance +40%】

【Passive Skill · Purify】

【Every turn, randomly removes one negative status from the wearer, while simultaneously restoring 5 Health.】

【Active Skill · Zeal】

【Excites the power within the Cross Amulet, simultaneously dealing spell damage with a +20% damage modifier to two units, range 2.】

【100% critical hit against Evil units!】

【An ancient amulet housing Divine power, crafted by an unknown Transcendental, capable of insulating the wearer from all negative statuses.】

What is this!?

Yun Mu stared with wide eyes at the item effect of 【Attribute Fruit · Random (Blue)】, never expecting the mysterious merchant to actually sell such a thing.

After each use, it randomly increases one character attribute.

One can use it 5 times at the Apprentice tier, usage count +10 after breaking through to Elite, and after breaking through to Expert, the usage count increases by another +15; in other words, Yun Mu can use this thing a full 30 times, equivalent to 30 points of character attributes! The only problem is that this thing is also too expensive; it takes 1000 Gold Coin to increase one attribute point.

Moreover, it's not just her who can use it; Lucy, as her teammate, can also use 【Attribute Fruit】 to gain enhancements.

In that case, thirty times one thousand times two—she would need sixty thousand Gold Coin to max out the 【Attribute Fruit】 for both of them! Good heavens, sixty thousand Gold Coin.

Isn't this killing her? Forget it; this thing clearly isn't something she can afford at her current stage.

She estimates she will only have the spare Gold Coin to buy these Attribute Fruits after the game Dungeon development reaches the late stages.

As for now, it's better to just look; she definitely can't afford to buy them.

Hmm... setting aside the 【Attribute Fruit】, 【Storm Bottle】 and 【Cross Amulet】 are actually both quite decent pieces of equipment.

The attribute bonuses provided by 【Storm Bottle】 go without saying; both Spell Strength and Speed are things she needs.

However, compared to herself, Yun Mu actually feels that Lucy is more suited for this piece of equipment.

After all, her own damage is already high enough, and she can basically guarantee acting before the monsters do, so there's no need to continue stacking these two attributes.

By comparison, Lucy is still quite in need of increased Spell Strength and Speed.

The only pity is that the active skill of this equipment isn't great; the damage is fixed at 120 points and is completely unaffected by the holder's Spell Strength.

It feels somewhat lackluster.

If it weren't for the fact that the Speed attribute is quite precious, Yun Mu estimates she wouldn't even have the thought of buying this item.

As for the 【Cross Amulet】 piece of equipment... it's very strong, very broken; broken to the point that Yun Mu has to wonder if this is really just a Ziyue Pinzhi piece of equipment.

20 HP, 5 defense, and most importantly, the effect of +40% resistance to all types of negative status effects.

What is the concept of "all types"? It means resistance to negative status effects including Bleeding, Poisoning, Corrosion, blindness, Chaos, Torrent, freezing, and so on—all increased by 40%!

However, that is not all; the 【Cross Amulet】 actually has a skill effect that randomly removes one negative status effect each turn, and it also restores 5 HP.

Oh my goodness, it was already hard to get a negative status effect applied after wearing the amulet, and even if the enemy goes to great lengths to apply one, the moment she starts her turn, the status on her body is removed!

It can even restore health; although it doesn't restore much in terms of healing, the thought that this is just an added bonus makes me feel incredibly happy.

As for the active skill 【Zeal】, it doesn't feel that great; not only is the range short, but the damage modifier isn't high either.

The only advantage is that it deals 100% critical damage when facing Evil units, so it should be quite good for dealing with creatures like the Undead.

It's just a pity that in terms of dealing with the Undead, it overlaps with the 【Meirniya's Music Box】, so it's not very useful. "Hmm, two thousand plus four thousand five hundred, still short by over one thousand three hundred Gold Coins; I can't buy both pieces of equipment together."

Yun Mu calculated briefly and immediately became a bit dejected.

If possible, she still wanted to buy both pieces of equipment, but unfortunately, she really had no money in her pocket.

If she had known it would turn out like this, she shouldn't have leveled up Lucy earlier; anyway, missing that one level, since she wasn't about to break through to Expert, didn't really matter at all, but instead, it caused her to be unable to afford the equipment now. "Um, can you recycle items here?" Yun Mu pondered for a moment and asked the mysterious merchant in front of her.

The other party did not speak, only silently nodded.

That means yes.

Yun Mu was instantly invigorated and began to think about what she had that she could sell.

The Cat Bracelet—forget it; although this piece of equipment is indeed useless, if possible, she still wants to keep it as a collectible.

Ah, I have it!

Yun Mu suddenly thought of something and took out a crystal emitting brilliant starlight from the space within her earring.

This is the item 【Faded Starlight】 she obtained in the 【Painting Spirit】 Dungeon. After more than a month of sailing on the sea, Yun Mu placed it under the starlight every night to shine, and now the energy inside has been restored, so the word "Faded" in front of the item name has disappeared.

Although Lucy said this thing is a very precious alchemy material, she didn't know what to do with it for the time being.

Let's see how much it can sell for.

【Sell item 【Starlight (Green)】? Yes/No】 (Purchase price: 800 Gold Coins)

Huh, it can actually sell for so much.

Yun Mu was a bit surprised; one must know that for white-quality equipment, the Gold Coins required to upgrade it to green are only 300.

Can 【Starlight】 actually sell for 800 Gold Coins because this item is very rare? Yun Mu tried to sell the 【Tough Mushroom Hat】, which is also of green quality, and found that this thing could only sell for 450 Gold Coins.

It seems that even for items of the same quality, their selling prices are different.

Since that's the case: 【Starlight (Green)】 (800 Gold Coins)

【Sea Roller Bomb (Green)】 *3 (450 Gold Coins)

【Blazing Sun (Green)】 (500 Gold Coins)

【Little Knight Wooden Sword (Green)】 (400 Gold Coins)

【Bird Beak Mask (Green)】 (600 Gold Coins)

After a round of selling, Yun Mu directly obtained 2750 Gold Coins; counting the original balance in her backpack, that makes 7941.

There is nothing much to say about the Sea Roller Bomb; this thing is an alchemy item she refined, and as long as she has materials and time, she can make as many as she wants.

As for Blazing Sun, Yun Mu had already replaced the skill of the 【Joy Apostle Mask】 while sailing on the sea earlier.

The equipment being taken away now is the equipment Yun Mu obtained in the Painting Spirit Dungeon: 【Witch Costume】.

And as for what the skill effect produced by the 【Witch Costume】 equipment is, let's wait until it's needed in the future to talk about it.

As for the Little Knight Wooden Sword, she originally intended to feed it to Chester, but there was never a chance before, and later she forgot about it.

Since it can sell for 400 Gold Coins anyway and keeping it is useless, she might as well sell it together.

Actually, what surprised her the most was that Bird Beak Mask, which could actually sell for 600 Gold Coins!

Is this the value of +15% Death Resistance? It's a pity that after some thought, Yun Mu still decided to sell it.

After all, if possible, she would absolutely not let her teammates take the risk of relying on Death Resistance.

In that case, keeping this mask would be of no use.

Next is the procurement phase; nothing much to say, first take the 【Storm Bottle】 and 【Cross Amulet】, then buy five rolls of Bandage, four bottles of Antidote, one Bonfire, and two bottles of Holy Water.

The final remaining balance is 741 Gold Coins.

Bandage can remove the Bleeding status, Antidote can remove Poisoning, and the effect of the Bonfire goes without saying; camping before fighting a BOSS not only grants a powerful BUFF but also restores one to full status.

As for Holy Water, using it can immediately remove negative resistances like Corrosion, Torrent, and blindness, and it also grants +20% to all negative status resistances; the effect is also quite good, so she bought two bottles while she was at it.

And after buying the equipment, Yun Mu equipped both the Storm Bottle and the Cross Amulet on Lucy.

Still the same saying, compared to her, Lucy needs the attributes and effects of these two pieces of equipment more; anyway, after returning to the real world, these pieces of equipment will all return to her.

"Phew, let's continue forward."

Closing the shop interface in front of her, Yun Mu said goodbye to the mysterious merchant.

The latter still didn't say a word, only silently watching them leave.

And after moving along the road for two minutes, a new fork in the road appeared in front of Yun Mu.

【Adventure Challenge】

【Battle Area lv30 (Expert)】

Adventure Challenge?

What kind of special event is this again? Yun Mu raised her eyebrows and looked at the phantom of the road on the right with a very conflicted expression.

There seemed to be a few monsters wandering there; although it wasn't very clear because of the fog, Yun Mu could be certain that the number of monsters was over six.

And on the left... as always, nothing could be seen, and there was no detailed description of the event; she didn't even know what she could obtain by going there.

But since there is the word "Challenge," does it mean there is also a reward? Otherwise, if there is only a challenge and no reward, isn't that nonsense?

Generally speaking, the gains from this kind of special event must be greater than fighting monsters normally. Decided, I'll go this way! Yun Mu made up her mind, lifted her leg, and walked toward the road on the left. However, what she didn't expect was that waiting for her there was actually Monopoly? Yun Mu looked blankly at the starting square that suddenly appeared under her feet. Beside her, a large Dice was floating in mid-air, waiting for her to roll it.

Fine, fine, so that's how we're playing, huh.

Although there was no introduction to the rules, Yun Mu could see the gameplay here at a glance.

So she threw the Dice high into the air with force, and after it landed, the side with three black dots appeared before her.

【Advance 3】

Yun Mu's body involuntarily jumped forward three squares, the scene shifted, and she suddenly appeared in front of an ancient noble mansion.

【You have arrived in front of a great noble's mansion. Because of the raging Plague, the owner has long since abandoned this place, but there may still be some valuable items left inside. You decide.】【1. Search carefully. 【Costs 10 Action Points】】【2. Take a casual look. 【Costs 5 Action Points】】【3. Turn and leave. 【Costs 1 Action Point】】 "Action Points?"

Yun Mu tapped the Game Panel to take a look and discovered that she currently had 30 Action Points; besides that, there were also 5 Dice available for movement.

One die can be converted into 30 Action Points; furthermore, spending 500 Gold Coins can purchase three Dice.

And three Dice can also be converted into one die of a designated number.

If her Gold Coins and Dice are all exhausted, the Adventure Challenge will end.

All items obtained during the process will be kept.

"Ah, why do I have to spend Gold Coins again."

Yun Mu looked at the conversion rules with a massive headache, hesitated for a brief moment, and then chose Option 1, intending to search carefully.

At a time like this... it's up to you, Lucky Coin!

(End of this chapter)