Chapter 24

At this moment, Lin Cheng's heart could no longer be described with just the word "pleasant surprise."

Lin Cheng never imagined that merely upgrading Ace's star rating from one star to two stars would give him a skill gift package, and even yield two skills with extraordinarily high practicality.

Especially the Substitute Doll.

Although it permanently consumes a doll to block a fatal blow for him, Lin Cheng has a hundred and ten Sloth sub-dolls on hand.

C-rank Finger Dolls can't be casually consumed, but D-rank Cultist Dolls are still fine.

In other words, without considering cooldown, Lin Cheng now has a hundred lives, and most importantly, after reviving, Lin Cheng can use Reverse Summon at any time to summon himself to a safe place.

The Substitute Doll and Reverse Summon — these two skills can truly be called a perfect match.

Of course, after his pleasant surprise, Lin Cheng quickly shifted his attention back to Sloth and Ace; after all, the script had only just begun, and all that had happened was blocking a single Magic Convergent Ray.

Just blocking one Magic Convergent Ray had harvested nearly a million emotion points.

The arrival of a brand-new worldview, brand-new factions, the Four Emperors lineup and the Monu Sect lineup — if it didn't bring in several million or even tens of millions of emotion points, that would really be inexcusable.

"......"

"Sorry about that."

"Looks like I accidentally stole your thunder."

Ace, now a two-star, looked at Erza, whose expression was somewhat bewildered, gave her an apologetic smile, then turned his gaze back to the Ghost Dominator and said: "However, I sensed the presence of the Monu Sect."

"When facing those fanatics, it's better to be cautious."

"I heard Blackbeard seems to have some connection with these fanatics — don't know if it's true or not."

This chatting technique was one Lin Cheng used before transmigrating to pick up girls — pretty ordinary.

Bring up something the other person doesn't know much about but that seems interesting, and pull the topic along.

Generally speaking, as long as the other party is interested in you, they'll definitely press for more; it's a kind of universal chat method, and its actual effect is directly tied to looks or the thickness of one's wallet.

And the scene of Ace taking a Magic Convergent Ray head-on had just happened — there was no way anyone wouldn't be interested.

Not to mention Erza — even Joseph on the Ghost Dominator's side unconsciously pricked up his ears, ready to hear how this guy who could take a Magic Convergent Ray head-on would chat about the Monu Sect.

After all, right now by his own side, there was a so-called Dazuisi Sect of the Monu Sect.

"Monu Sect?"

Hearing an unfamiliar term pop out of Ace's mouth, Erza, just as Lin Cheng had predicted, showed an even more confused expression on her face while pressing for more.