“Underground?” Talia blinked, confused. “There’s no underground area on this island…at least not discovered yet.”
“So, he got a secret area thanks to his summon just like that?” Eliara was slightly speechless.
Almond was also surprised. He smiled and said, “Well then, you can go search for it, Sylvia. The rest of you, move out and bring me the monsters. I need spirits.”
Galvaren and Frank flew up while the others vanished in different directions.
“Now, we can open the chest,” Almond said as he pressed on the chest.
“Wait!!” Natalia shouted. “We haven’t decided who will open it.”
“Fair point,” Marcus stared at Almond.
“Dice,” Maya smiled.
“Dice,” Lily chuckled.
“Umu,” Natalia nodded with a smug smile. “I saved the day.”
Almond wryly smiled and conjured a Dice with Mana.
“Hey, I will also participate,” Kira’s eyes sparkled. “After all, I held them back.”
“Nope, not in this,” Natalia snorted. “This is what we earned, and we almost died, you know?”
“Not we, but Almond, who bore the risks,” Marcus jabbed at Natalia again.
“Yeah, yeah. Anyway, only we will roll the dice, you roll away,” Natalia rolled her eyes.
“Tsk, fine. But I’ll have you know my luck is good,” Kira pouted.
Natalia sneered, “Oh, girl. You’re in for a surprise. But for now, let’s roll the dice. Gimme dat, Almond.”
Almond rolled the dice first on the reward chest and got three. “Guess I’m not opening it.”
One by one, everyone rolled the dice, and Marcus won this time.
“Hahaha, finally, it’s my turn,” Marcus laughed as he walked towards the reward chest.
“So much drama, just open it,” Jian snorted.
“Ignore the salty kid, everyone.”
Marcus rubbed his palm and opened the chest as it spewed out a bunch of orbs containing rewards and a window panel with a list of rewards.
— Epic-rank Equipment set (Mid-tier).
— 100 million gold coins.
— Random Artifact Box.
— 2 x S-rank Mystery Boxes.
— 2 x Epic-rank one-time use items.
— 5 x Insight Stones.
“Holy shit! We got something very juicy this time,” Marcus’s eyes widened as he found the orb containing Insight Stones. “These stones are freaking best things, I can tell.”
‘100 mill gold coins are good too,’ Almond’s eyes glinted. ‘We need to gather gold coins because they’ll be very useful when the system shops open on the 10th Floor once it’s cleared.’
“Two Mystery boxes this time, huh? I wonder what we’ll get from them this time,” Lily muttered.
Almond touched the orb with gold coins and put all the coins inside his storage ring.
“We got three one-time use Epic-rank items now. They’ll be useful in an emergency,” Maya said. “Keep these two to yourself as well, Almond.”
“Yeah,” Almond also put them in his storage ring along with the insight stones. “I’ll put these stones away as well. We aren’t going to be able to use them now anyway.”
“Let’s open this. I want to see what’s the so-called Artifact,” Lily said as she picked up the orb containing the random artifact box.
“Let’s dice for it,” Natalia snorted. “I’ll win this time.
Meanwhile, the rest of the super rookies and other people were slack-jawed as they saw the rewards.
“Epic-fucking-rank SET?! What the fuck?” Amir muttered, feeling envy and excitement both. ‘I have to join their party!’
“This is crazy,” Noah muttered, dumbfounded. “Such good rewards from the third floor?”
He was more and more curious about the Heroic Challenge.
“Getting such rewards, it makes sense that the Heroic Challenge is something hard,” Kira nodded with a wry smile.
“I won this time,” Natalia grinned as everyone finished rolling the dice.
But before opening the mystery box, she grinned at Kira and said, “Who said that this is the only reward chest we got from Heroic Challenge?”
“Whatever difficulty you are thinking in your head, it’s more difficult than that,” Maya nodded.
“Yep,” Marcus nodded with a grin as he looked at the nearby super rookies, “Almond’s all summons die during the battle, and he has to fight with a high risk of instant death with slight carelessness. But only he can afford to fight the boss. Without him, Heroic Challenge Floor Boss is practically impossible to defeat, and even if we succeed, most of us would be dead.”
“Is it that difficult?” Anya frowned.
“You’ll know if you are chosen to be in our party,” Lily said.
“I got this Handfan Artifact, but…” Natalia asked, her expression confused as she looked at the beautiful fan from the Artifact Box she opened.
Everyone inspected it and was startled.
“Can’t inspect it,” Kira blinked.
“Same,” Noah nodded.
“It requires 500 Perception to inspect it and unseal it, it says,” Amir scratched his head. “The fuck, when will you all reach that stat number?”
“It’s similar to the stone we got from roulette,” Lily raised her eyebrows as she picked up the fan from Natalia. “But this requires 500 preceptions to inspect instead of 1000.”
“Here, put it away,” Lily handed it to Almond and winked at him. ‘You’ll be able to unseal it soon.’
‘Yep,’ Almond’s eyes glinted as he smiled and put the fan away. ‘I just need to use Divine Divider’s Harvest on the Heroic Boss of this floor and steal his Perception. I’ll reach above 500 easily.’
Natalia then proceeded to open the two Mystery Boxes since the dice rolled this time were for all three boxes to save time.
She opened the first Mystery Box and got a Random high-rank skill scroll.
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“The fuck, these rewards are damn good!”
While people spoke, Natalia opened the second mystery box, which spewed out a mysterious crystal.
Everyone inspected it and was more shocked than before.
[Wind Elemental Crystal (S-Rank)]
-Activation:
—> Infusing Mana in the crystal will activate it, and it will disappear after 5 hours.
-Use:
—> Meditating while touching the crystal will allow you to feel the wind element in a pure sense, allowing a user with affinity to awaken the Wind Elemental Mastery or those who have already awakened it to increase their mastery further.
-Note: The progress depends on individuals.
Amir, who had the Wind elemental mastery, had his eyes glowing as he inspected it.
He swallowed hard and said, “B-Brother Almond, I want to buy that crystal.”
‘Wind, huh?’ Almond’s eyes glinted as he became contemplative for a moment.
“Sorry,” Almond wryly smiled as he grabbed the crystal. “But I actually want to awaken wind elemental mastery myself. It’s very suitable with my Lightning mastery because both synergize very well.”
There was one more reward chest, his MVP reward chess and it could give more items, like the elemental stones, but he didn’t plan to open it yet.
Hearing Almond’s answer, Amir sighed and nodded, “Understandable. But…I am determined to join your party now. Tell me what I have to do.”
“Same,” Noah nodded with a serious expression.
“Hey, I am already in, right?” Kira asked with a pout.
“I would like to join as well,” Kayla said, her voice meek as she raised her hand.”Me too,” Jemma the Waterloom Haze said as her tall figure matched her sharp face and expression, looking all determined.
Everyone wanted to join except for Jian, who didn’t say anything.