Free Web NovelChapter 484: Chapter 277: Star Stone, All-round Attribute Enhancement
"Exploration Performance: Excellent
Key Item Acquisition: Exceptional
Dungeon Development Completion: Exceptional
Skill Acquisition and Development: Exceptional
Other Comprehensive Performance: Exceptional.
Calculating comprehensive score...
Calculating...
Your comprehensive performance reward is 3,295 Merit Points.
Congratulations. Your total reward for the Normal World, Nightmare Difficulty dungeon—Starfall Eternal Night—is 3,805 Merit Points.
Character ’Fang Zhen’ has received an ability enhancement during the dungeon mission, gaining 2 free attribute points."
"Unique dungeon drop detected for character Fang Zhen. Proceed with appraisal immediately?
This appraisal is free of charge."
Reading this, Fang Zhen recalled the stone he had obtained after killing the Vice-Chairman of the Eternal Night Council. It looked like a miniature moon.
He took the item out and placed it on his desk. Sure enough, a faint light began to glow from the stone.
Fang Zhen didn’t hesitate. He moved his mouse across the computer screen and clicked "Appraise."
"Appraising...
Appraisal Result: The item has been identified as a Star Stone. Upon use via the inventory, you will absorb the gentle, peculiar substance within. This substance can drastically alter a human’s physical attributes, improve physical constitution, and comprehensively upgrade one’s personal essence.
Using this item will result in an upgrade to your base constitution and body within a certain range, depending on the outcome. The final result involves a degree of probability. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
Furthermore, a protective coordinate exists within the item’s core, corresponding to the location of a certain subspace. This subspace is in a dormant state and can be absorbed by the Dungeon Life Game’s peripherals.
Special Note: The special substance on the exterior of the Star Stone can only be absorbed by those with positive energy within the universe. For those with stronger negative energies, such as chaotic or tyrannical ones, absorbing the Star Stone is tantamount to ingesting a potent poison and will cause their own power to collapse.
Do you wish to absorb it?"
After the appraisal, another screen popped up from the Dungeon Life Game.
Fang Zhen read the text and considered it for a moment.
He suddenly understood the origin of the dungeon’s name, Starfall Eternal Night. ’Could it have been referring to this Star Stone all along?’
And according to the game’s appraisal of the Star Stone, its exterior was an energy substance that could enhance one’s physical constitution, while its interior was a coordinate for a subspace.
He had no idea who created the Star Stone, or how they managed to materialize a subspace coordinate and encase it within an outer substance.
But based on normal logic, the person who did this was probably not evil.
The outer layer of substance aided neutral and positive energies, but was poison to evil ones.
Following that logic, whoever left behind an item like the Star Stone must have also been a relatively neutral or positive individual.
This thought put Fang Zhen more at ease. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
Besides, the Dungeon Life Game hadn’t warned him of any great danger in absorbing the stone. ’Might as well give it a try.’
Fang Zhen controlled the mouse and clicked "Yes."
The instant Fang Zhen confirmed his choice by clicking "Yes," the Star Stone erupted with light. It emitted a dense, silvery radiance that flowed like molten silver.
The silver light enveloped Fang Zhen, and soon his entire body was glowing.
A powerful force, like the pull of a magnet, entered Fang Zhen’s body.
His body was like a lodestone, continuously drawing energy from the Star Stone.
And the Star Stone, much like the mass-energy conversion Einstein described, continuously shrank, its matter seemingly turning into energy to be absorbed by Fang Zhen.
This state lasted for more than ten seconds.
After absorbing the Star Stone, Fang Zhen felt a mellow yet nimble energy inside him, which seemed to be constantly remodeling his physical state.
The last of the silver radiance was also absorbed into Fang Zhen’s body.
What remained on the desk was a metallic cube, about the size of a fingernail.
The cube had a smooth surface and a silver exterior. It looked a bit like the coordinate for that space inside Fang Zhen’s consciousness.
At that moment, a new dialog box popped up on the computer.
"Character ’Fang Zhen’ has absorbed the Star Stone’s energy substance. Its core subspace coordinate has emerged and can be absorbed by the hardware peripherals. Do you wish to absorb it?"
Fang Zhen didn’t hesitate and clicked "Yes" with the mouse.
But as he gripped the mouse, there was a sudden CRACK.
The white Logitech mouse he was using had been crushed in his hand.
Fang Zhen was a little surprised.
Although his strength had increased before, it had always been within his control. But that last motion felt like his power had gone wild, becoming too great for him to manage for the moment.
Slightly startled, he pushed off the armrests of his computer chair to stand up.
But the chair let out another CRACK. The simple act of grabbing the armrests had caused Fang Zhen to rip them clean off.
He managed to stand up, but as he stared at the broken computer chair, holding an armrest in each hand, Fang Zhen was rendered speechless.
’Okay, it seems I’ve gotten much stronger than I thought. I can’t control this power just yet,’ Fang Zhen thought.
’This is a problem, but it’s a pretty good problem to have. It’s fine, I’ll probably get used to it after a little while.’
