Chapter 15 That Thing

"To go through a script as long as that and end up with this..." Feng Bujue muttered as he walked to the second glass cylinder. "What's with the ps in the notes... is that the programmer's self-deprecating humor? Frankly, this is a set of data that should have been deleted."

[Please select your bonus reward: 1. Randomly draw a piece of equipment appropriate for your level, 2. 50,000 game currency, 3. 116,000 experience points]

The familiar window popped up in front of Feng Bujue, but this time he didn't immediately choose.

"My current experience points are 134300290000, if I add 116000, that would be..." Feng Bujue quickly calculated in his head, "250300... still nearly forty thousand experience points away from level thirty." He pondered, "Even if I receive the experience now, it's not enough to level up, I'd still have to play another script. Might as well draw a piece of equipment..."

Because the skill card he got from the clear reward had disappointed him, Feng Bujue had developed a gambler's mentality, hoping to gain something from the long-awaited bonus reward equipment draw.

So, he once again bet on his luck and chose the reward of drawing random equipment.

He watched as white light converged, and a bowl-sized, curved piece of metal appeared in the glass cylinder.

The first time Feng Bujue saw the equipment, he instinctively lowered his head and looked at his chest. "Hiss... no way..." He frowned. "Even if it really is that thing, there should be two..."

Obviously... his mind was wandering into inappropriate places.

[Name: Implantable Alchemic Amplification Device]

[Type: Armor]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Defense: Weak]

[Attribute: None]

[Effect: Slightly increases the effect of summoning skills]

[Equipment Condition: Summoning Specialization F]

[Note: This item can be equipped on either knee. It cannot be equipped or removed in the script, and the wearer's survival value limit will be reduced by 10%]

"Oh... a knee pad, I thought it was something else." Feng Bujue muttered as he picked up the thing and pressed it against his right knee.

The metal piece suddenly heated up like a branding iron when it touched his knee. After a rather intense burning sensation, the equipment was "branded" onto Feng Bujue's knee in an adhesive manner.

He looked down and could see an alchemy array emitting a sinister red light on the surface of the knee pad. Of course, he didn't know what this array represented...

"Tch... if only I could have understood advanced alchemy back then..." Feng Bujue was still a little resentful that he hadn't been able to understand that book in the script from two runs ago.

He then hid the equipment, changing it to only display the state of his clothing.

"The problem is... I don't have any summoning skills right now." Feng Bujue put on the equipment and then opened the game menu, saying, "Should I just put this in the storage room for now?"

Thinking of this, Feng Bujue felt uneasy. The character mission [Use summoning skills and successfully summon a summon fifty times] stuck at 14/50 was already a knot in his heart. And this time he had drawn equipment related to Summoning Specialization. It felt like... it would be a waste not to use summoning skills a few times in the script.

"The summoning skills in the auction house are all ridiculously expensive, and skill like this... the ones that are put up for sale are mostly useless, otherwise people would have learned them themselves." He looked at the [Stinky Chicken "Bomb"] in his skill bar again. "Spending more than a hundred thousand to buy a skill like this is obviously not worth it."

"Hmm..." Feng Bujue pondered for a while. "That's right, the Scare Box!"

He suddenly thought that there was another way for him to directly buy summoning skills, and that was the Scare Box.

In addition to equipment, skill cards were also sold in the Scare Box. However, the number of skill cards lost in the scripts was very small compared to the equipment. Therefore, in the first week of open beta, the Scare Box did not have a skill card search list at all. A week later, all the previously accumulated skill cards appeared in the Scare Box along with the equipment, starting a seven-day countdown to destruction.

Now Feng Bujue's Technique Value was already at 17980 points. Looking at the entire server, even players with higher levels than him might not have obtained that much Technique Value in total.

So, Brother Jue still had some capital to squander.

Feng Bujue returned to the login space. After the elevator doors closed, he pressed the [Scare Box] button and entered the small room once again, with a floor like a chessboard, hall of mirrors on all sides, and a giant gift box in the middle.

Opening the menu, he specifically selected the skill category and then selected the "Summoning" sub-option. Under such a targeted search condition, there were still as many as eight pages of results (each page displaying one hundred entries).

As mentioned earlier, on the Scare Box search list, only the name, type, and price of the item can be seen. To see detailed information, you need to click to view it.

But now that Feng Bujue had specified a search for summoning skills, the type column could basically be ignored. And with skills, just looking at the name is far from enough.

So, Brother Jue, who couldn't find a single book to his liking in the Deduction Club, decided to indulge himself in the Scare Box...

Nearly eight hundred skills, not too many, not too few. Although some of them exceeded Feng Bujue's ability to purchase, he didn't plan to let them go.

Anyway, this was sleep mode, one to ten time ratio, there was no rush to do anything.

Three and a half hours passed in the blink of an eye...

Feng Bujue, with his morbid patience and focus, as well as his continuous and efficient browsing speed, had finished looking at all of these skill cards...

After clicking on the last skill on the last page, he stood up (he had taken out the folding stool from his bag and sat down after watching for three minutes), put away the folding stool, and began to pace back and forth.

What was terrifying about him was not only that he could read so much information, but the key was that he could still remember it after reading it. And while he had an impression, he could also cross-reference this information in his mind...

Another fifteen minutes passed, Feng Bujue stopped, reopened the Scare Box interface, flipped through a few pages, and selected a skill card.

[Name: Summoning Art – Musashi Koganei]

[Skill Card Attribute: Active Skill, Permanently Learned]

[Skill Category: Summoning]

[Effect: Summons Musashi Koganei to become your companion (Cooldown time: 80 minutes, Duration: 20 minutes, Maximum of 1 Musashi Koganei can exist at the same time)]

[Cost: Make a weird gesture]

[Learning Condition: Summoning Specialization F]

[Note: He is a third-grade elementary school student who became a pervert because he believed that "geniuses are called freaks when they are young." His body can rotate at high speed and move on any surface. He often makes incomprehensible languages and strange noises such as "hisssssss". He has extremely high intelligence, can develop many bizarre inventions, and his family seems to be very rich.]

"Okay, you're the one." Feng Bujue spent 480 Technique Value to get this skill, which was 20 points cheaper than buying the [Casey Jones Mask] back then.

At first glance, this was a summon that was almost useless in battle. And in fact, it was useless...

But then again, F-level summons weren't very useful to begin with. A skill like [Summoning Art – Sailor] was already considered very powerful among F-level summoning skills, so summoning it required consuming a specific item—spinach. Other F-level summons, like bats, limping zombies, flying hockey sticks, etc... were basically cannon fodder, mainly for delaying and scouting.

Feng Bujue filtered through the descriptions of that pile of F-level trash monsters in his mind for a long time and found that... only Musashi Koganei, this perverted kid, was a high-intelligence summon.

So, from a perspective other than combat, Koganei would definitely be much more useful than other creatures of the same level.

Of course, Feng Bujue also hesitated whether to buy another summoning skill: [Summoning Art – Toilet Paper]. This skill was useless and required no consumption at all. Its only advantage was that the cooldown time was only ten minutes. But the cost of this skill was as high as 1400 Technique Value. Obviously, the original intention of designing this skill was for players who needed to repeatedly cast summoning skills to grind the number of casts...

And buying both of these skills was not impossible, but since he had already obtained the means to complete the character mission, it was better to save that 1400 if he could.

"Hmm... I'll just casually play a script later and summon him to chat." Feng Bujue muttered to himself after learning the skill.

As a writer who often neglects his main job... oh no, goes out to gather material, he had naturally seen all kinds of materials. The anime *Soar High! Isami* was one of his favorite works. And among them, the character he was most interested in was Musashi Koganei. The reason... was probably some kind of resonance between oddballs.

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After buying the skill card, Feng Bujue finally returned to the login space.

He had been wandering in the Scare Box for nearly four hours. Apart from those professional players who needed it for work, it was hard to find any casual players who would stay in a place other than the script for so long.

"Hmm... I have to level up to thirty tonight before logging off..." Feng Bujue muttered.

At this moment, he had a crooked idea: the cooldown time for summoning Musashi Koganei was 80 minutes, but if he entered a script and summoned him, and then died not long after, he could summon him again when he queued for another script...

With this plan in mind, Feng Bujue resolutely chose the Nightmare difficulty single survival mode. Even if he didn't clear the level, it wouldn't matter, he would just treat it as an experiment for the skill.