Chapter 2642: Basic Passive

A pendant appeared in Su Xiao's hand, the main body of the pendant being a gold-black gemstone; though the pendant was not ornate, it had a cold and splendid feel—correct, it was merely a dead object, yet it gave people a cold and splendid feeling.

【Queen's Pride】

Origin: Primordial Continent, exclusive to the Lord of Tiger Wasps, Thamisha.

Quality: White (initial growth state·rare trait)

Type: Pendant

Durability: 17/17

Equipment Requirement: Female/Feminine, requires binding this equipment.

Equipment Effect 1: Queen's Demeanor (Passive), True Charm +5 points, Summoned Creature Quantity Limit +12.

Equipment Effect 2: Upon upgrading to green, blue, purple, dark purple, light gold, gold, legendary, epic, and holy spirit quality, this equipment will gain a beneficial effect.

Growth Condition: Receiving reverence.

Rating: Severely exceeds white quality rating.

Introduction: I despise, all humans holding strange scrolls, Tiger Wasp Lord Thamisha.

Price: Cannot be sold after binding, currently binding.

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Seeing the equipment requirement, equipment effect, and introduction of 【Queen's Pride】, Su Xiao concluded it was trash equipment.

Of course, this is from Su Xiao's perspective; actually, this item could sell for a very high price and would be favored by most female contractors.

After opening the treasure chest, overall, the gains were quite good—World Core (Fragment) + Queen's Pride already constituted a major profit.

Bu Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang and Bahha's eight scarlet cards were also opened; seeing one crouched in the wall corner and the other half-body diving under the bed, the gains were worrying—so worrying that Bu Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang and Bahha felt embarrassed to say what they had drawn; seeing those gains, they wanted to open a daily杂货 store.

Organizing his current items, Su Xiao stored 【Furious Beast Roar (Active Type·Skill Scroll)】, 【Crimson·Purgatory (Active Type·Skill Scroll)】, and 【Queen's Pride】 into the team storage space, and sent a message to Benny, asking her to sell these items on Trading Street.

Su Xiao urgently needs soul coins now; his current 2672 are far from enough. The two abilities he is about to master require consuming large amounts of soul coins to upgrade: one is 【Supernatural Item Detection】, the other is 【Basic Passive Scroll·Recovery】 not yet sent by the God Emperor.

【Basic Passive·Recovery, lv. 1】

Type: Basic Passive Scroll

Prerequisite: None

Skill Effect: Overall increase in base mana by 1.5%.

Skill Upgrade Requirement: Intelligence attribute above 10 points.

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In most cases, the probability of low-tier contractors obtaining a 'Basic Passive Scroll' is dozens of times, even higher, than that of mid-to-high-tier contractors—this counts as preferential treatment for newcomers.

The bonus from Basic Passive·Recovery is very low; when Su Xiao just inherited the Shadow of Extinguished Law, his mana was 153 points, and a 1.5% increase amounts to just over 2 points of mana.

After discovering this, newcomer contractors will definitely curse it as trash ability—know that upgrading basic passives consumes a lot; for newcomer contractors, it's like cutting flesh.

Spending a large sum of Paradise Coins, yet only increasing mana by 1 or 2 points, the mindset of newcomer contractors will definitely explode.

Is this really the case? Of course not—Paradise is not that stingy, giving newcomer contractors a useless preferential treatment.

'Overall/Base Mana Increase 1.5%'—the overall part is easy to understand; then what is base mana? Answer: mana increase derived from raising intelligence attribute, mana increase from talent abilities, and mana increase from permanent buff items.

After raising 【Basic Passive·Recovery】 to a certain level, assuming its increase reaches 10%, Su Xiao's talent ability Soul Eater could increase mana by 500 points per world; thus, Su Xiao could gain an additional 50 points of mana increase through 【Basic Passive·Recovery】.

When Su Xiao fights, he activates the Azure Qing Qing Gang Ying ability—first, not mentioning the base consumption of Azure Qing Qing Gang Ying clinging to the blade, the crystal layer, exile (Shadow of Slaughter), and energy blockage derived from Azure Qing Qing Gang Ying—none of these have low consumption.

Su Xiao now, through manifesting the crystal layer, can consume up to 5200 points of Azure Qing Qing Gang Ying energy in a single use—this is his strongest defensive measure; and to convert into Azure Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, he must consume mana, with a 1:1 conversion rate.

Is the crystal layer's consumption high? No—large-scale use of energy blockage consumes even more terrifyingly; Su Xiao has over 20,000 mana points, and after activating energy blockage, his mana drops like flowing water.

Benny's side has already been selling items on Trading Street; Bu Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang went to meet the Mad Fox of the God Emperor Adventurer Team to obtain 【Basic Passive·Recovery】.

In the huge room where the Black Maple Tree stands, Su Xiao inserted five World Core (Fragments) diagonally into the soil around the Black Maple Tree.

At this moment, the Black Maple Tree has reached 3.25 meters in height; previously, with just one World Core (Fragment) buff, its growth speed had increased considerably; now, with five surrounding it, its growth speed will definitely increase significantly.

Su Xiao set the room's environment to extremely harsh—this alone consumed him 400 soul coins; in this aspect, he cannot cut corners, as there are already three grown Black Maple Trees in the void, whose output cannot compete in quantity, so Su Xiao competes on quality.

How Blade Demon treats the Black Maple Tree, Su Xiao does not know; but at Arcane Eternal Star, they would absolutely not allow the Black Maple Tree to grow in extremely harsh environments—one faction owning a Black Maple Tree differs from an individual owning one.

After Su Xiao just finished paying the soul coins, snow began to drift in the sky; he observed the Black Maple Tree for a while, saw no change, touched the trunk, and felt some warmth transfer to his palm—the Black Maple Tree has passed its sapling stage and will not casually die for Su Xiao to see.

After leaving the room where the Black Maple Tree stands, Benny sent a message: 【Crimson·Purgatory】 and 【Queen's Pride】 had been packaged and sold, bought by a female contractor who offered 6600 soul coins—know that the price of a single Origin Stone is only 5000 soul coins.

Finally having a large sum of soul coins in hand, Su Xiao left his private room and headed straight to the Skill Upgrade Hall.

【Welcome to using Skill Upgrade Warehouse 1518.】

After the door of the Skill Upgrade Warehouse closed and locked, Su Xiao took out two scrolls, first using 【Basic Passive·Recovery】, then using 【Supernatural Item Detection】.

【You have mastered 'Basic Passive·Recovery, lv. 1'.】

【You have mastered 'Supernatural Item Detection, lv. 1'.】

【Supernatural Item Detection, lv. 1】

Skill Effect: Can identify a small amount of supernatural items; through the item's supernatural traits and appearance, obtain detailed information (hidden effects, origin, properties, elemental tendency, etc.).

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Supernatural Item Detection is a pretty good ability; in mission worlds, sometimes things that seem insignificant actually have great value—if not discovered, they are permanently missed; many items cannot have their detailed information viewed just through physical touch.

In the Skill Upgrade Warehouse, Su Xiao chose to prioritize upgrading Supernatural Item Detection, as the upgrade cost for this ability is very low.

【Yes/No upgrade Supernatural Item Detection lv. 1, upgrading this ability requires consuming 300 Paradise Coins.】

This is a skill with high mastery demand but very low upgrade cost; Su Xiao used his remaining Paradise Coins to begin continuously upgrading Supernatural Item Detection.

【Supernatural Item Detection has been upgraded to lv. 2.】

【Supernatural Item Detection has been upgraded to lv. 3.】

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Continuous upgrading began; Su Xiao's Paradise Coins were soon exhausted—he first exchanged soul coins for Paradise Coins, and when Supernatural Item Detection's level exceeded lv. 40, he directly used soul coins to upgrade.

After consuming a total of 470 soul coins, Supernatural Item Detection reached lv. 65; this ability directly converted to x, having reached its limit.

A large amount of knowledge about supernatural items appeared in Su Xiao's mind; compared to each improvement in alchemy, this amount of knowledge was nothing. After organizing it for a moment, he basically understood it, and then it was just a matter of practice.

Compared to supernatural item sensing, the basic passive·recovery is the main focus. Su Xiao's current mana is 23,250 points; even a 10% increase in mana would be a significant improvement for him. He accumulated this much mana from the first to the seventh rank, plus the bonus from the Soul-Eater talent. For him, 1 point of mana equals 1 point of Azure Qing Qing Gang Ying energy.

【Yes/No increase basic passive·recovery to lv. 1? Upgrading this ability requires consuming 5,000 Paradise Coins.】

Seeing the upgrade cost for basic passive·recovery, Su Xiao felt an ominous premonition. Although it seemed like a small expense now, upgrading to lv. 40 or lv. 50 later would be an entirely different matter.