Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot

After the competition ended, it was supposed to be the time for Zijin Base to announce some matters. However, because the potion used by Nie Siyan was so incredibly effective, it drew all the attention to itself, with folks from the four major factions even crowding around Nie Siyan… So, a significant amount of time passed before those from the major factions finally left, seemingly reluctant to part.

“Brother Wang! We sold quite a bit this time!” Nie Siyan said with a little excitement.

The people from the four major factions had just placed their orders after learning about the uses of these potions.

These potions weren’t cheap, but those people didn’t even blink. Nie Siyan gave them a few bottles, and they didn’t even wait for the experimental results—who needed results when actual combat was far more convincing!

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“Next up is the announcement of the rankings…” The staff from Zijin Base began to declare the rankings.

Firefly Club unquestionably took first place, while Thunder Guild had to settle for second.

Winning first place in the competition meant, to some extent, that Firefly Club’s strength was ranked first among all mid-sized factions. Below the four major factions, it was ranked fifth!

Of course, these honorary titles were irrelevant; what mattered were the benefits allocated by Zijin Base!

“According to the agreement among us four major factions, out of 15 Level 3 ability user slots, we will give out three, going to Firefly Club for placing first, Thunder Guild for second, and third goes to…”

The four factions equally shared twelve slots, three each. Then, they gave out another three slots, one for each of the top three… This outcome was as expected by everyone.

After all, these were the four major factions, and it was impressive enough that they were willing to distribute any slots at all. Other factions without slots were both envious and regretful.

However, at that moment, the announcer added:

“However, these 15 slots are not set in stone, since nobody knows what kind of Crystal Cores zombies might drop. Our intention is to put all efforts into killing zombies and gather enough cores for the 15 slots. If we end up with extras, those will naturally be distributed among everyone!”

Upon hearing this, many people got excited.

There was still a chance!

Seeing the mood had been stirred up, the man continued:

“Next, let’s talk about how to kill Level 3 zombies. Level 3 zombies are very strong, especially since we need to kill a large number of them, so we’ll need some special methods. For instance, the ‘Weak Slime’ Crystal Cores—this ability can weaken a zombie’s strength! Coming up, I will distribute these cores according to rank, free of charge…”

Wow—

Hearing that Zijin Base was giving away Crystal Cores for free, everyone became very excited.

“Oh right, the power of these Crystal Cores can be stacked. The more people use it, the stronger it is! So after everyone integrates their Crystal Cores, come over for an emergency intensive training session to get acquainted with how to stack them…”

Upon hearing that the abilities could be stacked, people became even more excited.

It was the first time they had encountered powers that could be used in combination!

Those who had already received some intel murmured to themselves as expected. Zijin Base indeed had these sorts of Crystal Cores! But it seemed that fusing these Cores wasn’t exactly easy… ȑＡɴổ₿Εꞩ

At that moment, the man brought over a case that looked like it had a combination lock, filled with Level 1 Crystal Cores that were blue and purple, with none of the lowest quality white ones.

“But to integrate this Crystal Core, there are conditions. As for what the conditions are specifically, we have not fully understood them, so the failure rate is high…”

Zijin Base didn’t hide anything and openly shared the downsides of the Crystal Core.

The crowd didn’t seem to care about that—what did it matter when they were getting Crystal Cores for free?

He distributed Crystal Cores to the factions present according to their rankings.

Since Firefly Club ranked first, they received a total of 20 cores, 10 blue and 10 purple.

The lower the ranking, the fewer the Crystal Cores received. Some factions towards the end only got two each.

When Wang Tao saw these Crystal Cores, he finally understood why their fusions often failed.

[Level 1 Crystal Core·Weak Slime]

[Quality: Excellent (60%)]

[Purity: 50% (Side Effect: Cannot be successfully integrated if internal impurity is less than 10%)]

[Weak Slime: Consumes energy to spray a slime that puts zombies in a weak state; the weakening effect is related to the number of people using this ability.]

The side effect of this Weak Slime was that anyone with less than 10% internal impurity couldn’t successfully fuse it. Without a 10% internal impurity, even an Epic Crystal Core would be useless.

This condition was quite troublesome.

With no external factors affecting it, 10% internal impurity was equivalent to fusing 20 Level 1 Crystal Cores.

And people who could fuse 20 Level 1 Crystal Cores were very likely to have no space left to integrate other Cores.

Moreover, Zijin Base would certainly prefer to let those who were not ability users integrate these Weak Slime Crystal Cores…

So, that was why their chances of successful integration were not high.

Plus, there was another drawback to this Crystal Core—the slime could only weaken zombies, which meant it was useless against humans, right?

The value of that ability had just taken a serious hit.

In a post-apocalyptic world, they faced dangers not just from zombies, but from people as well!

If it were a struggle between various factions, then this ability would be useless.

But on the flip side, since this ability was effective only on zombies, it would make killing zombies a lot more comfortable, without fear of affecting one’s own side…

“Brother Wang, we can’t integrate these Crystal Cores!” Nie Siyan said after receiving the cores, feeling a bit troubled by this stroke of good luck.

No doubt the Weak Slime Crystal Core was valuable, but all of them who came to Zijin Base were Level 2 ability users. Not to mention whether they had any slots for abilities left—if they did, Level 2 ability users were unable to integrate Level 1 Crystal Cores anyway.

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