Anyone who's read the Primordial World mythology knew Red Cloud's story — the infamous hard-luck case, the textbook example of a good man who got a terrible deal.
Bad luck aside, he was still a named heavyweight in the Primordial World. His friend was Zhenyuanzi, the Ancestor of Earth Immortals. Three million points would probably be like bending down to pull two weeds out of the ground for him.
The fact was, for simple resurrection, Yggdrasil had no shortage of revival items.
But an item like [Life and Death] — one that contained resurrection as a function without being limited to resurrection — was considerably rarer.
And most importantly: no level restriction.
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Ordinary Group Leader: "Wait, I just thought of a brilliant use for this item."
Ordinary Group Leader: "In novels, when a powerful fighter is pushed to the absolute limit, they often choose self-detonation as a last resort — to take the enemy down with them."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Self-detonation also unleashes terrifying destructive force."
Ordinary Group Leader: "If someone can survive in soul form after detonating — like someone at the Nascent Soul realm in a xianxia world — and they have enough points, couldn't they just make self-detonation a permanent trump card?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "The instant they detonate, use [Life and Death] to restore the body. If the enemy's still alive, detonate again. Repeat indefinitely!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "What do you think? I'm calling this the Self-Destruct School!"
Uchiha Dance King: "..."
The Most Ancient Godslayer: "..."
Fifth Division Captain: "An unexpected line of thought."
Richest Man: "Is this something a sane person comes up with?"
Though — not to give her too much credit — that approach did actually seem viable.
For now, there probably weren't many in the chat group who could use it.
Ordinary Group Leader: "Art is Patrick Star.jpg"
Roxie gave herself a mental thumbs-up. The only problem was that she had no idea whether her soul would survive after death, or whether that soul would retain consciousness — after all, she hadn't died yet.
Should she buy one just in case?
The thought surfaced in her head, then she shook it off.
Forget it. With her luck in this world, the chances of anything going seriously wrong were slim.
Unless she ran into a transmigrator.
But if a transmigrator showed up, the chat group would send an alert and issue a mission, and everyone would hunt together — that was actually a windfall for her. She'd benefit from the whole thing.
As for transmigrators in other members' worlds?
The chat group would pick whoever was capable of handling it. She'd just hide somewhere and watch.
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Richest Man: "I just thought of something — our world systems are completely different from Flying Squirrel's. How do the levels roughly correspond to actual strength?"
Richest Man: "In the Memory Replica, Flying Squirrel and all those NPCs were max level, but their actual combat power varied wildly."
Richest Man: "That said, max level shouldn't mean weak by any standard."
Richest Man: "Revival items cost different amounts of points depending on the required level. If I want to buy one, which tier should I get?"
Tony Stark was a scientist at heart, and hadn't ventured much into the mystical side — but he had purchased constitution upgrades, including the Celestial Body.
He did have some interest in magic, though it wasn't the magic of the Marquis Voban's world he was drawn to — it was Marvel's.
If he was going to buy a revival item, which tier made the most sense?
Ordinary Group Leader: "Under level ten?"
Cook Daigu Into Soup: "Level five?"
Utaha: "Level one?"
Richest Man: "Hey, hey, hey. Level ten I can barely stomach. Level five I could accept with some humility. But level one? That's going too far!"
Richest Man: "I've at least purchased the Celestial Body. I've bought a few combat skill sets too."
Richest Man: "There's no way I'm a level-one fighter."
Richest Man: "Oh — it was Kasumigaoka Utaha who said that. Well, that explains it."
Richest Man: "Since you don't have the points to buy the Celestial Body yourself, you naturally have no idea what it does to a person's physical baseline."
Richest Man: "Underestimating me this badly is completely understandable coming from you."
Utaha: "Pfft."
That stung.
That really stung.
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Richest Man: "@Child of Nature @Ordinary Group Leader"
Richest Man: "You two have a deeper understanding of this — what does Flying Squirrel's world's max level roughly correspond to in our terms?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "That's a tough one to answer…"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Combat power shown in anime alone is really hard to analyze, and I'm just an ordinary anime fan. Unless the difference in strength is super obvious, I honestly don't know either."
Ordinary Group Leader: "On top of that, a game player's strength doesn't just come from level — it's also tied to equipment and class."
Ordinary Group Leader: "You know as well as anyone how absurdly broken world-class items can be."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Somewhere between city-leveling and crust-shattering, I'd say. That's roughly the range."
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Child of Nature: "If your goal is simply to figure out which tier of revival item to buy — spending the minimum number of points for the most practical insurance —"
Child of Nature: "I personally recommend purchasing the Dog Talisman."
Even the lowest-tier revival item cost fifty thousand points. A level-fifty item ran three hundred thousand. Level one hundred was seven hundred thousand — and every revival item was single-use.
For that investment, the Dog Talisman was clearly the better choice.
The Dog Talisman cost only one million points.
It didn't just grant immunity from fatal damage — it granted permanent life.
Compare that to any revival item, and there was no competition.
If further protection was needed, add a Horse Talisman on top. Two million total.
At that point, there was virtually no need to worry about one's life.
Even now, Brandon still believed that the chat group had dramatically underpriced the Twelve Talismans. They deserved a far higher cost.
But if the chat group didn't mind, he certainly wasn't going to complain.
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Richest Man: "The problem is that talismans still require a substantial number of points. Absolutely worth it — but right now, I'd have a hard time spending that many points on them."
He had his Wakanda partnership and wasn't hurting for points these days.
But he was in the middle of preparing something big, and the point expenditure on that project was already enormous.
In the short term, spending several million points on talismans was simply not possible.
Even for the sake of personal safety.
As for what he was currently building — that had to stay classified.
When Thanos, that damned bastard, finally showed up, he was going to blow that bastard's head clean off with it.
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Flying Squirrel: "Revival items aren't exactly rare — I've collected quite a few over these past days."
Flying Squirrel: "Once I cross over to the other world, if anyone needs one, just ask."
Flying Squirrel: "Given that the average level in the other world is around thirty, I doubt I'll be needing revival items myself."
*(End of Chapter)*