Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 726: Choice and Exchange [6.8k words]

Inside the room, Xin Lailai looked at the eight reward options in front of her and struggled for three full minutes before she could make a decision.

So tempting.

When seeing the rewards given by Paradise, Xin Lailai even regretted for a moment giving two space coordinates to Randy and White Mage.

Of course, this thought only flashed through his mind for a moment before he extinguished it. After all, even if other factors were put aside, judging from the contribution of the old guard captain in that battle, the three space coordinates that Randy and the White Mage obtained were what they deserved.

In other words, if it weren't for Randy's spatial ability that could instantly pull them back from hundreds of kilometers away and White Demon's abyss form that could hold out against the old guard captain for a full minute, it would be impossible for them to defeat the old guard captain with their strength alone.

How much money you get for how much work you do is his consistent principle, and it is also the core reason why so many people are willing to cooperate sincerely with the identity of "Black Sword". Xin Lailai will never break this principle.

The reason why he had such a thought just now was simply because the rewards given by the park this time were too generous, even to the point that even a pioneer like him with a willpower of 152 points could not control his greed for a moment.

——Although if you take into account their five master-level passive abilities, it seems even more shocking that they haven't been devoured by greed yet.

As for the specific concept of the rewards given by Paradise this time, emmm... Regarding this point, just look at the reward that makes them most entangled, that is, the last item, the "Royal Set", and you will know:

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【Royal Set (8/8)】

Set effect 1, Bloodline of the King (Passive): All real attributes +20, all damage reduction +50%, upper limit of health, upper limit of mana, upper limit of soul energy +5000 points, immunity to control effects of fourth tier and below, and when the attribute bonus exceeds the current tier limit, 50% of the overflow value can be converted into "temporary attribute gain".

*Temporary attribute gains: This type of attribute only has a basic physical fitness improvement effect, cannot trigger attribute-related active/passive abilities, and does not enjoy its own potential level bonus (taking the Pioneer itself as an example, if you increase your temporary real intelligence by 10 points, this temporary real intelligence can only bring a temporary mana limit gain of 500 points, and this mana limit cannot be affected by equipment bonuses).

Set effect 2, ???: (Insufficient permissions, unable to view)
Set effect 3, ???: (Insufficient permissions, unable to view)
Set effect 4, ???: (Insufficient permissions, unable to view)
Set effect 5, ???: (Insufficient permissions, unable to view)
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Yes, this is the set effect of the Royal Set, and it is only the first set effect.

It can be said that just by looking at the effect 1 of this set, one can see how amazing this set that requires eight equipment slots to trigger is. This is also the key reason why Xin Lailai is so hesitant about the Royal Power Set. It's nothing else but too strong.

Even though their current equipment system has been formed, the Royal Set alone has a miraculous bonus. It is definitely not a loss to prepare such a spare set and put it in the storage space to deal with special situations.

However, the two lines of prompts and warnings below the Royal Set are too intimidating.

Forced to trigger the ??? series of tasks, and the difficulty of the tasks is LV.40~LV.???, and even once this series of tasks named ??? is triggered, their future world progress will undergo a huge change. These prompts and warnings are almost enough to write openly that there is a big pit behind the royal suit.

You have to know that they are pioneers now, and they have extremely high additional permissions. In this case, they can make Paradise display the information as ???, which means that this big pit must be dug to the ninth level at least, and it will not be sealed... well, it must be dug to the level below the peak.

Simply put, it is likely to accompany you for a lifetime.

This is why Xin Lailai was so hesitant. Perhaps he was too suspicious, but to be honest, now whenever he saw something like this delivered to his doorstep and of unknown origin, he would always feel a bit scared.

To put it in a more vivid way, the royal suit in front of him felt more like a super-doubled "paradise loan" to him than an opportunity, and it might even be beyond their ability to "repay the debt".

As for why they were worried and didn't exclude it from the options directly, one reason was that the effect of the royal suit was indeed too tempting, and the other was that Xin Lailai was not sure whether the royal suit in front of them just happened to find them or was specifically aimed at them.

If it is the former, it means that the worst consequence of their rejection is just missing an opportunity, which will not have any long-term impact on them.

If it is the latter, it means that even if they do not choose the royal suit here, the other party is likely to continue to appear in their lives in other ways. In that case, it is better to take it down early, investigate and prepare early, so as not to be forced to be involved in it unclearly.

Fortunately, it is very easy for them to judge this thing -

In a word, if you are in doubt, just ask for help!

[Ding~The message was sent successfully, please wait patiently for a reply]

A cold reminder sound rang in Xin Lailai's ears. Inside the room, Xin Lailai looked at the eyebrows and the name 83203 on the communication channel. Without hesitation, he sent a message to each of them, asking whether they should choose the royal suit.

[Ding~ You have a new message to view, sender: Meimu]

After a while, Meimu's reply came first from his communication channel. Xin Lailai saw it and quickly clicked it to see:
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Eyebrows: "I didn't expect those guys to come after you guys? Ha, it seems they still have some foresight."

Xin Lailai: "Those guys? Boss Meimu, who are you talking about specifically...?"

Eyebrows: "Don't pay any attention to them. They are just a bunch of people who are obsessed with the past glory and don't have the courage to look directly into the future."

Eyebrows: "You don't need to choose the royal suit. Just let those guys figure out how to solve their problems. You have your own path to follow. Don't bother with these boring things."

Xin Lailai: "Okay, sorry to bother you, Boss Meimu!"

Eyebrows: "Well, you just need to know the number yourself."

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I always feel like... Boss Meimu seems to look down on the existence behind the royal suit?
In front of the communication channel, Xin Lailai looked at the message of Meimu's reply, with a hint of curiosity in her eyes.

For some reason, he always felt that the other party seemed to have a kind of... disdain for the things behind the royal suit?

"Could it be that the power behind this has offended the Meimu boss in the past...?"

Xin Lailai lowered his head and thought curiously. At this moment, a new message alert sounded, which was a message from 83203:
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83203: "Don't worry about the royal suit. Prioritize the spiritual transformation source."

83203: "As for the matter about the Monarch's Breath you asked about before, it's not bad that you guys were able to think of this on your own. It seems that Kagus has not taught you in vain."

83203: "After you have dealt with your own affairs, bring the source of spiritual transformation with you. This thing has a wide range of uses and can be used for the ideas you have in mind."

Xin Lailai: "Boss 83203, are you saying that the spiritual origin can help us transform the monarch's breath into the additional abilities of the soul master?"

83203: "It is just to advance the process. Since you have found your direction, even if you do not have the source of spiritual transformation, when your soul master is promoted to the next stage, there will still be an opportunity to transform the monarch's breath into additional abilities."

83203: "Also, I have learned from Kagus about your last talk about the crystal-devouring technique and the independent development of new versions of demon power and angel power. Since you have this awareness, I will leave room for the new version of energy in your new career template. But on the other hand, I need to see your results by the next time you come back, otherwise you will bear the consequences at your own risk."

Xin Lailai: "Understood! Please help Boss 83203!!"

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Lines of light blue communication information flashed across the branding interface. After replying to 83203, Xin Lailai's face showed an extremely excited look, as if she had heard some great news.

Right way!!!
They integrated breath-related abilities into the direction of Soul Master and successfully gained recognition from 83203!
"Haha, Ling Yuzi, did you see that? Boss 83203 approved of the method we came up with!"

"Well! Is this the first time that Sister 83203 has taken the initiative to praise us since the crystal surgery?"

Xin Lailai said excitedly, and Ling Yuzi beside him nodded excitedly, his eyes full of joy.

For them, the sense of accomplishment of being recognized by people of 83203's level on the path they have chosen is even more precious than earning billions of park points.

That means they have truly begun to look for and explore a path and direction of their own, instead of relying on the experience and guidance of their predecessors for everything as in the past.

I don’t know what their breath-type abilities will look like after they transform?
Xin Lailai looked at the chat history in front of her and couldn't help fantasizing in her mind. After a while, she calmed down and refocused her attention on the branding interface in front of her.

Although the breath-like abilities after the transformation are fascinating, it is more important to choose the reward at the moment. After all, this is a real and huge profit.

"Well, now we don't need the royal suit anymore, which means we have to choose two more from the first five options, right?"

Ling Yuzi looked at the reward options in front of him, put his index finger to his lips, and muttered.

"Ah."

Xin Lailai nodded slightly, with a hint of recognition in her eyes. Now that they no longer had to worry about the royal suit, their choices naturally became more flexible.

The first things are the Origin of Spiritual Transformation and the business license of Dark Star. These two must be obtained. The importance of the former is self-evident, and the latter, if we only talk about its value, can be said to be the most subtle one of all the options.

Based on the number of soul crystals given by the paradise, it can be judged that the value of a single reward for this settlement is approximately 5 million paradise points.

In other words, if they choose the Dark Star Business License Certificate, they are equivalent to using more than 10 billion park points to purchase various business-related rights of the Dark Star.

Normally speaking, using this amount of park points to purchase a business license for a third-level native world is actually an extremely unprofitable move, even if the other party is a world with super rare resources, because the payback period for this type of investment is really too long.

Especially for those of them who are at the external level, because the promotion speed is too fast, many times they are promoted before they even have time to wait for the operating results in the native world to come out.

And by the time they reach the fourth or even fifth level, even if the profits they ultimately gain from that third-level world are several times what they gained from purchasing the business license at that time, the help it brings is likely to be less than if they had spent the money from purchasing the license on other things directly related to improving their strength at the third level.

This is the so-called growth trap. From the perspective of final benefits alone, 300 points of resources may indeed be a lot more than 100 points of resources. But in terms of actual help, which one is more helpful, 200 points of resources when the total assets are 100 or 1000 points of resources when the total assets are 300? Anyone who is not a math idiot should be able to figure it out.

Not to mention anything else, on the Paradise forum alone, he had seen no less than a hundred posts talking about how people were cheated by growth-type returns.

For example, a certain contractor obtained the right to share in a seventh-level world when he was at the seventh level, but was blinded by the so-called long-term benefits and chose not to sell it all at once.

Finally, when the total profit from long-term earnings exceeds the one-time profit from the initial sale, its rank will have already been raised to the limit of the ninth rank, and it will be only one step away from becoming the absolute strongest.

The income from that seventh-level world had long since gone from being able to bring obvious help to the opponent at the time to a level that could not even make up for the small gap needed for its promotion, causing the contractor to slap himself twice, regretting that he did not decisively sell the income rights of that seventh-level world in exchange for a greater improvement when he was at the seventh level.

There are many tragic cases like this on the Paradise forum. To put it simply, when one's own rank is improving very quickly, it is not recommended that any contractor choose the so-called long-term returns that require a year or even several years to pay back. This is the lesson learned by our predecessors using the bloody Paradise points.

The problem is that the situation on Dark Glow Star is not a simple third-order native world, but a high-potential world that is about to be promoted to the fourth order, and even has a great probability of being promoted to the fifth order within half a year.

In other words, as long as they obtain the operating license of Dark Glow Star now, by the time they are promoted to the fourth level, the operating license in their hands, which should belong to a third-level native world, will most likely have been upgraded to the operating rights of a fifth-level native world of super rare resources.

By then, the return brought by this thing will not be just a few times. The guaranteed return will be an astonishing ten times. After all, the value of a fifth-tier super rare resource world and a third-tier super rare resource world... are completely different concepts.

- Of course, the premise of all this is that they have a team that can fully realize the value of this license certificate. If they give it to a lone wolf like Bai Mo who can scare people away with just a word, let alone making a profit, it would be a smart move for the other party not to lose money.

"As for the rest..."

Xin Lailai looked at the remaining options, thought for a while, and first ticked the 20 platinum medals of honor. Normally speaking, without the discount in the Honor Store, these 20 platinum medals of honor are actually the worst option in terms of value, but their current Honor Store has a full 75% discount.

Based on the calculation that one Soul Crystal Secret Box (complete) only requires 0.25 Platinum Medals of Honor, these 20 Platinum Medals of Honor are equivalent to 80 Soul Crystal Secret Boxes (complete), 240 Soul Crystals (complete), and a total of 12 billion Paradise Points.

Of course, the premise is that your luck is not too bad, otherwise if you can only get the minimum living allowance all day long, you will probably lose money even with a 75% reduction. After all, there are quite a lot of gambler boxes like the Soul Crystal Secret Box or the Gem Secret Box in the Honor Store.

"The last item... attribute, title, equipment, soul crystal, one of the four options?"

After confirming the other options, Xin Lailai looked at the last four options, thought for a while, and chose the title resin.

In terms of value, these four options are actually similar, but Soul Crystals and Miracles of the Gods are things that can be bought on the market if you have money, while Attribute Points and Title Resin are products that cannot be obtained through normal channels.

Among them, 25 attribute points + 2000 soul coins should actually be more difficult to obtain than title resin. After all, attribute points can basically only be obtained through world progress, while title resin is a fixed item sold after the exploration store is upgraded.

The key point is that as a formal member of the Lailai Cult + an outer-level team + with a perfect physique LV.EX, he actually doesn't lack attribute points.

You know, he still has 14 real attribute points left on him that he hasn't used. According to his next plan, including the fourth-level promotion trial, he will need at least three full world progresses to be promoted to the fourth level. As long as he can get more than 3 real attribute points in these three world progresses, he can guarantee his attribute point needs throughout the fourth level period.

Of course, the actual situation must be a little more than this. After all, he will soon have a new big attribute point consumer. In other words, he chose the title resin just for that thing.

"Limit Breaker, I originally planned to upgrade this thing to five stars after reaching the fourth level, but since Paradise has provided such a convenient thing, it's a good time to prepare it in advance..."

Xin Lailai looked at the reward on the branding interface, his eyes moved slightly, and he pressed the confirmation button.

Limit breaker.

Normally, this medal could break the attribute barrier and allow them to temporarily obtain a title that pushed their combat power to the limit. He actually planned to keep it until the fourth stage... or at least until he took the fourth stage assessment, so that he could have a rough estimate of the attribute points he could save for the entire third stage before upgrading.

But after experiencing the battle with the old garrison commander, he suddenly felt that it would be a good idea to upgrade the Limit Breaker to five stars now and make some preparations two worlds in advance.

Apart from anything else, when facing the old guard captain, if he had a title of Limit Breaker to temporarily increase all his attributes to 100 points, even if he was no match for the old guard captain, he would not have been stabbed away by the opponent with one shot, broken with two shots, or exploded with three shots.

Although attribute points are only the most basic element in measuring combat power, the improvement they bring is often far beyond the reach of other gains. This is the importance of numbers.

[Reminder: Confirmation completed. Pioneer has currently selected rewards C, E, F, and G. Settlement begins...]

[Settlement completed, rewards deposited into Pioneer Brand]

A cold reminder sounded. Seeing this, Xin Lailai did not stop to rest directly. Instead, he stood up and walked to the Honor Store to continue checking:

[Pioneers are welcome to use the Honor Store. The current level of the Honor Store is gold level. Pioneers can redeem the following items in total:]

[Tip: The current store has reduced: 75%]

[Tip: The number of medals of honor currently held by the Pioneer is: Gold Medals of Honor * 7.5 pieces]

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Soul Crystal Secret Box (Large)*1
Effect: Randomly draw 1 to 3 soul crystals (large)
Price: 0.25 gold medals of honor

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Honor Recovery Potion (Level 1)*
Effect: Instantly restore 100% of health and mana.

Price: 0.25 gold medals of honor

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Deep treatment authority (Level 1)*
Effect: Obtain one deep treatment permission, valid within level 3.

Price: 0.25 gold medals of honor

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Deep treatment authority (Level 1)*
Effect: Obtain one deep treatment permission, valid within the fourth level.

Price: 0.75 gold medals of honor

Tip: This is a rare product and will disappear after refreshing 3 times. The Pioneer can voluntarily give up the product.

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Holy Spirit Spring Water (special item) *80L
Effect: The spring water produced from the Spring of the Holy Spirit can slightly increase the strength of the soul when soaked, and has a miraculous effect on the growth of plants.

Price: 6 gold medals of honor

Tip: This is a rare product and will disappear after refreshing 3 times. The Pioneer can voluntarily give up the product.

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Very good, just as tailor-made as before. Even the water from the Holy Spirit Spring was specially adjusted from 7.5L worth 100 gold medals of honor to 6L worth exactly 80 gold medals of honor.

After just one look at the items in the Gold Honor Store, Xin Lailai exchanged them all without hesitation. This time, the Gold Honor Store did not produce any special items, but they were basically what he needed now.

Especially the deep treatment authority. This time he participated in a world battle without a settlement evaluation. In other words, he did not get new deep treatment authority times.

During their battle against the old guard captain, they came into contact with a lot of abyss energy. Although the elemental secret medicine bought from Randy did not have much impact overall, it would be better to use deep healing authority to eliminate the hidden dangers.

Moreover, he and Ling Yuzi had just come up with a new idea for saving money, but he was too busy with things last time he returned and had no time to put it into practice. But this time he has more time, so he can take advantage of this opportunity of intensive treatment to test it out.

[Reminder: Exchange completed, 7.5 gold medals of honor have been paid, and the following items have been obtained]

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Soul Crystal Secret Box (Large)*1
Honor Recovery Potion (Level 1)*
Deep treatment authority (Level 1)*
Deep treatment authority (Level 1)*
Holy Spirit Spring Water (special item) *80L
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"Lai Lai, here."

"Well, hard work."

After exchanging the items in the Gold Honor Store, Xin Lailai didn't stay for too long. After taking the tea handed over by Ling Yuzi, he directly switched to the interface of the Platinum Honor Store:

[Welcome Pioneers to use the Honor Store. The current Honor Store level is Platinum. Pioneers can redeem the following items:]

[Tip: The current store has reduced: 75%]

[Tip: The number of medals of honor currently held by the Pioneer is: Platinum medals of honor * 20 pieces]

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Soul Crystal Secret Box (complete) *1
Effect: Randomly open 1 to 3 soul crystals (complete)

Price: 0.25 Platinum Medal of Honor

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Honor Recovery Potion (Level 1)*
Effect: Instantly restore 100% of health and mana.

Price: 0.25 Platinum Medal of Honor

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Honor Recovery Potion (Level 1)*
Effect: Instantly restore 100% of health and mana.

Price: 0.75 Platinum Medal of Honor

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Starry Sky Teardrop (Special)*1
Effect: After using it on any legendary or lower quality equipment/suit/item, its score can be raised to the "limit score" of the current quality, and the "enhancement level" will no longer drop during the next "quality upgrade".

*Tip: This item can be used on equipment/suits/props/items with the "World" attribute.

Price: 1 Platinum Medal of Honor

Tip: This is a rare product and will disappear after refreshing 2 times. The Pioneer can voluntarily give up the product.

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Soul Secret Art: Heart Flame*1
Effect: After use, you can learn "Soul Secret Art: Heart Flame" by independently interpreting its content.

Tips: This secret technique can only be learned when Soul Mysticism reaches LV.20, Soul Runeology reaches LV.20, Soul Strength is not less than 100 points, and Willpower is not less than 100 points.

Price: 2.75 Platinum Medal of Honor

Tip: This is a rare product and will disappear after refreshing 3 times. The Pioneer can voluntarily give up the product.

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Heart of Heaven Flame Seed (Epic)*1
Effect: It can be used to assist the "Soul Secret Art·Heart Flame" to ignite the "Heavenly Heart Soul Flame", which is extremely effective for "meditation" and "mental power" training.

*Warning: Igniting the "Heavenly Heart Soul Flame" has extremely high requirements for willpower and deep meditation. Those with willpower below 150 points and deep meditation level below the "Life of All Things" level should attempt with caution!

Price: 5 Platinum Medal of Honor

Tip: This is a rare product and will disappear after refreshing 5 times. The Pioneer can voluntarily give up the product.

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(End of this chapter)