Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible.

Chapter 465: Retreat and Ruthlessness
【Transfer Completed】

In the exclusive room, a tall figure quickly took shape. When the scene in front of him gradually became clear, the first thing that caught Xu Yue's eyes was Ah Fu standing beside him, and the azure manta ray circling in the sky.

[Hunter level: LV.14, you can receive a notification minutes before entering the derivative world. The hunter will enter the derivative world in one hour. Please wait patiently.]

"Bah"

"Welcome back, sir."

"Yeah." He nodded lightly, then Xu Yue lowered his eyes to look at the complete set of black clothes in Ah Fu's hand, as well as the familiar captain's token.

“Have you tested the effects?”

"Well, we checked it before receiving it. The Sun Chaser has been upgraded to pale gold quality. All effects have been nearly doubled, especially the output power of the main gun... It's incredible!"

Hearing this, Xu Yue's eyes lit up. Even Ah Fu used such uncertain words to describe it. It seemed that the Cybertron manager had done a very good job in transforming the Sun Chaser.

After stroking the smooth surface of the captain's token, he did not ask too many questions, but directly took it back into the space. After arriving in the derivative world, he would have enough time to test the specific power of this new Sun Chaser.

After putting away the token, his eyes then fell on the neatly folded black clothes. Although it was just a set of clothes, he spent a whopping 200,000 Paradise Coins on it, which was much more than the cost of renovating the Sun Chaser.

"How about this outfit?"

"It suits you very well."

[Red Flame Set] (Set 3/3) (Full set includes top, bottom, and cloak)
Place of Origin: Samsara Paradise, Universal Store
Quality: purple

Durability: 90/90
Type: Clothing set

Equipment Effect 1: Ultimate Stretch (Passive), a full set of clothing made of special elastic fibers as the base material, which makes it extremely elastic and stretchable, and can be stretched up to 30 times its initial length, and the defense of the clothing will not be affected after stretching.

Equipment Effect 2: Adaptive (passive), the clothing can adapt to the wearer's body shape, with a physical comfort level of +7, and constant effects such as "self-cleaning", "cold resistance", and "poisonous insect dispel".

Equipment Effect 3: Red Flame (Passive), the clothing's toughness +10. When burned by flames, the red flame fur components contained in the clothing will be completely activated. By swallowing the overflowing firepower, the clothing's defense will receive a small boost and it will actively repair its own damage.

Equipment Effect 4: Wild Temperament (Passive). When wearing a full set of clothing, you will gain a special bless of Charm +9, increase the effect on the opposite sex by 30%, and appropriately increase the favorability of animal creatures. (Limited to fur creatures.)
Tip 1: When 'Wild Temperament' is in effect, its charm bonus has a 10% chance of being transformed into Greedy Attraction.

Tip 2: Frequent stretching and shrinking will quickly consume the durability of the clothing. When the durability value is less than 10 points, you can exchange it for a new one at half price in the Universal Store.

Rating: 149 (Note: Purple items are rated from 71 to 150.)
Introduction: A universal store that provides all the products you can imagine. We serve all your imaginations. Detailed address: Paradise City Machinery Street...

Set Effect 1: Ascension (Passive), wearer's health +150, fire, ice, poison element resistance +15%

Set Effect 2: Mimicry (Active), this set can be transformed into any regular clothing according to the wearer's wishes.

Set Effect 3: Beast Devour (to be activated), manipulate the set to devour any dying fur creature. After that, the wearer can temporarily transform into its beast with the help of the clothes and fully inherit its talents and attributes.

Tip: The size of the devouring beast cannot be smaller than that of an adult. A beast that is too powerful may cause damage to the clothes, and this effect will not change once it is activated.

Price: 80000 paradise coins

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"Yes, the two hundred thousand is well worth it."

After checking all the properties of the Red Flame Suit, Xu Yue's eyes were filled with joy. This set of clothing did not provide much improvement in terms of defense, but it perfectly met his needs in other aspects, and it could even be said to be far beyond his expectations.

Only spending two hundred thousand to get a set of clothing of this quality was definitely worth it from any perspective. This all-purpose store was actually more unfathomable than he had expected.

He raised his hand to take the suit from Ah Fu's hand, and without too much delay, he put on the three pieces of clothing one by one.

The suit was extremely plain in its initial state, with just regular T-shirts and trousers, and only the wolf-hair cloak revealed a bit of luxury. However, when paired with Xu Yue's tall and strong figure, the originally plain and simple clothes now looked particularly upright and slim, and an extremely aggressive and wild temperament instantly came to the fore.

Without paying attention to the changes in his own temperament, after feeling the comfort brought by the whole set of clothes, Xu Yue's thoughts turned, and then his clothes began to change rapidly. The original wolf-hair cloak was transformed into a thick, long lapel suit jacket, with a shirt and tie inside, and the trousers underneath also quietly became looser and straighter.

Soon, a set of clothing that perfectly met the definition of a suit thug took shape. On the other side, Ah Fu, who was quite perceptive, had taken out a large full-length mirror more than two meters high from somewhere when Xu Yue started experimenting with clothes, and silently placed it at the most advantageous angle for observation.

Noticing Ah Fu's actions, Xu Yue turned slightly to look at himself in the mirror, who was dressed in a suit and tie. Then his clothes began to change again, and clothing styles of different styles such as aristocratic robes, assassin's hoods, wide robes with large sleeves, and tight hunting suits appeared one after another. Except for special clothing such as heavy armor, the mimicry effect of the Red Flame suit can almost construct most of the regular clothing on the market.

Although this ability may seem insignificant, it is quite helpful for him to quickly integrate into those derivative worlds with different styles. It can also be extremely useful in disguising his identity.

After briefly experimenting with the Red Flame Suit's camouflage ability, Xu Yue signaled Ah Fu beside him to step back. Then his entire body began to expand rapidly until his head touched the wall above and then he barely retracted.

After some extremely efficient zooming in and out, he looked at his clothes again, which showed no signs of damage or even the slightest signs of bulkiness or deformation, and his eyes were filled with more satisfaction.

"Not bad!"

The cold introduction on the paradise panel was far less convincing than the feeling he got after personal experimentation. With this set of clothes, he would be able to fight more freely in the future. At least he wouldn't have to worry about the embarrassing situation of being naked in the middle of the battle.

Don't think this is a joke, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can even buy a large number of senior contractors' naked combat collections in the Paradise City's intelligence black market. Well, this naturally includes many female contractors, but don't expect those intelligence dealers to have any moral integrity.

In a fierce battle, sometimes even life cannot be taken care of, let alone the fragile clothes on the body. This is why most of the melee contractors in the paradise like to wear armor. Strong defense is one thing, the main thing is that this thing is strong and durable.

After testing the equipment, Xu Yue looked up at the world on the panel and saw that it was entering a countdown. It would take another thirty minutes for him to know the specific name of the next derivative world. This period of time was originally for the contractors to prepare supplies and related props, but after having Ah Fu, he no longer needed to worry about these trivial matters.

However, this does not mean that he does not need to make any preparations. Thanks to the "Book of Talent" obtained from the main line rewards, if nothing unexpected happens, his most important task in the next derivative world will be to awaken his own talent.

He flipped his hand and took out three soft metal pages from the space. When he lowered his eyes to look at them, he saw that each page was filled with all kinds of strange text symbols. Just one glance at them gave people a strange illusion of dizziness.

Although these three pages are few in number, it took Xu Yue two of his soul crystals (large) to complete them. This was all he had in stock.

【Book of Talents (Complete)】

Place of Origin: Samsara Paradise

Quality: light gold
Type: Consumables
Effect: There are three pages in total, which can be combined into the Book of Talent (complete) after collection.

Book of Talent: A must for awakening talents (current talent: Chewing Steel).

Rating: 310 (Note: Pale gold items are rated from 151 to 310.)
Introduction: The Book of Talent can be exchanged for Soul Crystals (Large). Each Soul Crystal (Large) can be exchanged for one page of the Book of Talent.

…"Paradise, check the information related to talent awakening."

[The hunter level is under review...]

[Review completed, provide relevant information according to the hunter's authority]

[There are various talents, including common talents, rare talents, special talents, plundering talents, killing talents, etc.]

[Talent ability is E-level ~ SSS-level, no level before talent awakening]

[Talent awakening requires the following conditions to be met: any naked equipment attribute reaches 50 points (achieved), three S- or S- above clearance ratings are obtained (achieved), Talent Book (achieved (3/3), Talent awakening mission is completed (not achieved)]

[After awakening the talent, the talent ability will display the corresponding level, and enhance the existing ability or develop new abilities]

[Awakening talents is extremely dangerous, more than 50% of the contractors cannot awaken their talents]

[Awakening talents is of great significance. Plundering talents must be awakened. Samsara Paradise will issue mandatory tasks after the hunter reaches level 10. The higher the hunter level, the more difficult it is to awaken the talent. The regular tasks will be higher than the hunter level.]

[Tip: It has been detected that the hunter's talent and bloodline are highly correlated. It has been detected that the hunter is of great value to the "Exotic Plan". According to Article 816474 of the Initial Regulations, Paradise can provide corresponding resource deflection to high-value targets. The awakening effect is changing...]

[Changes completed, the hunter's talent awakening will simultaneously stimulate its bloodline to undergo a deep evolution, and the difficulty of awakening will be increased accordingly. Be sure to complete the awakening task as soon as possible]

[Insufficient permissions to view the following information]

[Warning: Hunters are not allowed to reveal any matters related to awakening talents and exotic plans]

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[Hint: The hunter has met the prerequisites for the Talent Awakening mission, yes/no to trigger the mission]

Just after checking the relevant information about talent awakening, another new prompt popped up. Xu Yue looked deep, and did not rush to choose to trigger it. Instead, he slowly focused his sight on the "Alien Plan" in the paradise warning.

"Paradise, check the information about the exotic plan."

[Insufficient permissions, unable to view relevant information]

As expected, the four cold characters "Insufficient Authority" came into view. However, even if he could not get the answer from Paradise, just by looking at the word "foreign land", he could roughly guess what it represented, which must be related to the golden sea of ​​stars.

Once he guessed this, the fact that Paradise suddenly began to allocate resources to him was terrifying. Equivalent exchange was the unchanging premise of Samsara Paradise. The greater the benefits, the greater the risks behind it. In addition, the reminder of "Be sure to complete the awakening task as soon as possible" was filled with strong urging.

Paradise has almost made it clear: If you don't want to die in the "Alien Plan", then complete the talent awakening immediately.

Thinking of this, Xu Yue's eyelids drooped slightly, but a slightly crazy and suppressed smile slowly appeared at the corner of his lips.

"Trigger the mission."

[Tip: The talent awakening mission has been triggered and will be launched automatically in the next derivative world]

A prompt sound rang out, and the three pages in Xu Yue's hand instantly turned into golden light and merged directly into his body. This meant that the difficulty of his next derivative world would increase to a terrifying level.

Failure means death. To be honest, he has basically gotten used to this pressure. After taking a long breath, he restrained the arrogant smile on the corner of his mouth, took out a gold medal from the space, and walked quickly towards the honor store in the corner of the room.

He had originally planned to save this medal, but now it seems that if he does not want to die in the next derivative world, it is better to use it sooner rather than later.

[Welcome to the Honor Store. It is detected that the hunter has a gold medal of honor. You can redeem it as follows]

1. [Main Mission Failure Immunity]

Effect: Can exempt one main mission failure penalty (including deduction of attributes, Paradise Coins, forced execution penalties, etc.).

Price: One gold medal of honor.

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2. [Space Breaking Device]

Effect: Restorative food or restorative potions can be loaded inside and brought into the real world (maximum number of items allowed, 1, subject to inspection to see if they are dangerous or unstable).

Tip: The upper limit of the recovery items you can carry is blue quality.

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3. Emergency Medical Kit

Type: Restoration item (contains three types of restoration items)
1. Honor Recovery Potion Type II x1
Effect: Restore 100% health and 100% mana within two seconds after use.

2. Adrenaline x1
Effect: After use, it reduces pain by 70%, and increases attack and movement speed by 20%. It also has a hyperactive effect that can relieve fatigue, and the effect lasts for 10 minutes.

3. First aid bandage x10
Effect: Restores 3 health points per second after use, and the effect lasts for 1 minute.

Introduction: A medical kit with rich contents, a regular supply for the Void Ranger troops.

Price: One gold medal of honor.

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A total of three items were unfolded one by one in front of Xu Yue. If he looked at it rationally, choosing the first item [Immunity for Failure of Main Mission] would undoubtedly be the most appropriate.

After all, knowing that the difficulty of the next world will increase significantly, being prepared to give up the main quest and concentrate on the talent awakening quest is definitely the best solution to ensure safety.

But don't forget, after the awakening of talent, there is an "exotic plan" that even Paradise is willing to allocate resources to. If you don't dare to face the current difficulties, how can you face the more terrifying crises that will come later?

The first lesson he learned from his years of experience in illegal boxing was that as long as he stepped onto the ring, he should never think about having a way out. If he had a way out, he would inevitably slack off, hesitate, and retreat. For a black boxer, retreat means death!
A long-lost ruthlessness quickly emerged in his black and white pupils. He moved his eyes away from option one on the screen and decisively chose to exchange for the third item, the [Emergency Medical Kit]. Rather than having a safe retreat, he needed the guarantee that would allow him to stand up and punch again even when he was on the verge of death.

The exchange was completed, and a small white medical box was put back into the space by Xu Yue. Soon, the forty minutes used for rest came to an end, and a new park prompt popped up.

(End of this chapter)