I have an Apocalypse City

Chapter 35: Mutated Pine Nut

Translator: 549690339

Song Jian threw a one-time-use spell scroll at the snake-creature;

Originally, Song Jian wanted to buy a skill book at the Doomsday Supermarket to enhance his strength, but in the end, he found out that he could not afford even the most basic one with the Doomsday Coins in his pocket. Helplessly, he spent all his Doomsday Coins on this one-time-use spell scroll.

Thunder Web Scroll (One-time-use): Effect: After using it on a single target, it restrains the target’s movements for 5 seconds. It performs a lightning resistance check on the target every second. If it fails the check, it inflicts lightning damage on the target, starting at 120 points, with each subsequent damage decreasing by 20%. Usage conditions: Can only be used on creatures below level 10, and not on players.

The torn scroll flew towards the snake-creature. The elite snake-creature seemed to be able to sense that the scroll would cause massive damage to it, hissing and constantly writhing its body, swiftly slithering through the grass and doing its best to evade the scroll’s target lock;

The scroll disappeared in mid-air, and in its place was a giant net that emitted lightning, covering the snake-creature.

The snake-creature let out a terrified cry, and no matter how it tried to escape, the lightning could accurately find its shadow. It twisted around a few times in the air, as if there was an invisible hand controlling the net. Eventually, the snake-creature could not escape, and the Thunder Web covered its mutated body completely.

Zap-

An even more intense electric light flashed across every intersection of the Thunder Web, and the snake-creature let out a painful cry. A light blue damage number of 120 appeared above its head.

Song Jian leaped forward, dagger in hand, and viciously stabbed the mutated snake-creature, not caring about hitting its weak points. He simply stabbed it repeatedly.

Thunder Web’s lightning damage seemed to be able to differentiate between friend and foe. The imprisoned snake-creature let out painful hisses, its body continually writhing in agony, with burnt marks appearing on the surface of its scales. But when Song Jian touched the Thunder Web, he didn’t feel any damage.

The 5-second movement restraint was enough for Song Jian to stab five or six times. Even without the Thunder Web’s damage, the snake-creature did not have enough Vitality Points to withstand so much damage.

Unable to endure for a full 5 seconds, the snake-creature struggled for only 3 seconds before its Vitality Points hit zero, and it collapsed limply. The Thunder Web began to slowly dissipate, revealing the charred remains of the mutated snake-creature.

With its mouth wide open, revealing sharp tusks, the snake-creature looked ferocious and appeared to be in a state of constant pain.

Looking at the snake-creature’s corpse, Song Jian felt surprised as he thought, “The power of this Thunder Web is beyond my imagination!”

He originally thought that the one-time-use consumable that he had spent nearly two hundred Doomsday Coins on would at most cause some trouble for the snake-creature. He didn’t expect it to be so effective that it could so easily take down an elite-level mutated snake-creature.

Soon, the surface of the mutated snake-creature’s body began to burn with transparent flames. In no time, its body turned into a pile of black ash, blowing away without a trace in the wind.

At its original spot, the mutated snake-creature left behind four items emitting blue-green light;

System: You killed a Level 5 Mutated Snake-Creature (Elite) and gained 580 Experience Points.

System: Your Experience Points have reached the upgrade requirement. Your level has been raised to Ordinary Level 5. You have gained a skill point.

A golden light shone brightly, and a surge of warmth flooded his body. His Vitality Points, which had been reduced to half, were fully restored. This was the benefit of leveling up – regaining his peak condition.

Song Jian did not care about leveling up because he had already raised his experience to Level 4, 87%. Leveling up was just a matter of course.

Song Jian set his sights on the four items dropped by the mutated snake-creature.

“A Level 5 Elite BOSS. 1 wonder what kind of items it will drop for me.” Song Jian thought as he picked up the items on the ground one by one.

“Mutated Snake-Creature’s Leather (Blue): Material, can be used to make leather armor. Leather armor crafting success rate increases by 30%, with a certain chance of adding an extra attribute. Usage requirements: Leather armor crafting Level 2.”

“Mutated Snake-Creature’s Snake Meat (Green): Material, can be used for cooking. Chance of understanding a new recipe increases by 30%. Usage requirements: Cooking Level 1.”

“Mutated Snake-Creature’s Core (Green): Material, can be used for Alchemy. Chance of understanding a new formula increases by 30%. Usage requirements: Alchemy Level 1.”

“Tusk Fang Stinger (Blue): Dagger, Main Hand Weapon, Attack: 18-25, Strength: +1, Attack Speed: +10%, Special Effect 1: After damaging a target, the target’s poison resistance is reduced by 50%; Special Effect 2: When damaging a target, every inflicted damage adds a Poison Mark, each Poison Mark can deal 5 points/second of toxin damage, and can be stacked up to 5 times. After stacking 5 Poison Marks, Poison Nova can be triggered voluntarily, detonating all 5 Poison Marks and causing (100+self-basic agility attribute*2) damage to the target. Usage requirements: Level 5. Can it be taken out of the game: Yes.”

Three materials and a top-quality blue-grade dagger. Level 5 Elite creature, the mutated snake-creature, brought significant gains to Song Jian.

Moreover, the most important thing was that this dagger called “Tusk Fang Stinger” was an item that could be taken out of the game.

Apart from these items, there was an even greater harvest waiting for Song Jian: all the remaining pine nuts on the pale golden pine tree.

With the guardian gone, Song Jian easily picked the only pinecone left. The human head-sized pinecone had many empty spots, leaving only nine golden glowing pine nuts.

“Mutated Pine Nut (Pale Gold): Food, effect: After consumption, it increases the upper limit of Vitality Points by 50. The effect will weaken with repeated consumption. One person can eat up to 3 of this item.”

It really was a treasure similar to the Attribute Fruit. It’s worth mentioning that even leveling up would not increase Vitality Points; only raising the Constitution attribute could do that. And all of Song Jian’s active skills required consuming Vitality Points to cast, so the more Vitality Points he had, the better.

Without hesitation, he threw a pine nut into his mouth. The originally hard shell instantly softened as it entered his mouth, and the pine nut turned into a surge of heat that entered Song Jian’s stomach. A warm current spread out from his stomach to his entire body, making him feel as comfortable as if he was immersed in warm water.

His Vitality Points did indeed increase by 50 points. After eating the second and third pine nuts, the second one increased his Vitality Points by 30 points, and the third one by 20 points. This was the limit, and eating more would have no effect.

Song Jian knew that such a magical treasure was extremely valuable. However, since the players’ purchasing power was currently weak and selling it in the store would be a loss, Song Jian simply put it into his inventory.

Finally, Song Jian’s gaze fell on the pale golden pine tree that was emitting a pale golden glow.

“I wonder if my current strength is enough to gather this pine tree?” Song Jian looked at his fist and thought to himself.