Chapter 141: Opening the Harvest, and Return
[You have opened the Drop Card - Butcher.]
[You have obtained 2100 Dimensional Points.]
[You have obtained the item: The Butcher's Leather Coat.]
[You have opened the Drop Card - Queen Maeve.]
[You have obtained 2400 Dimensional Points.]
[You have obtained the material: Eye of a Hero.]
Kaito Shirogane sat in the office Vought had arranged for him and crushed the two blue drop cards he had taken from Kalpa. They were from Butcher and Queen Maeve. He didn't know if Hughie, Kimiko, and A-Train had escaped or if they had simply not dropped anything upon death. Golden Boy was confirmed dead, and Cate was missing.
He examined the black leather coat in his hands. It was indeed Butcher's.
[The Butcher's Leather Coat]
[Quality: Silver Story Equipment]
[Description: The coat worn by the anti-hero who walks the line between chaos and order. Possesses a powerful ability.]
[Requirements: Constitution > 8. (Requirement is doubled for Lawful-alignment wearers)]
[Defense: Low. Durability: Average.]
[Effect 1: Constitution +2]
[Effect 2: When worn, continuously heals the wearer's injuries at a low rate.]
[Effect 3: Gain the special ability Intimidation Lv3 - Inflicts a mental debuff on any target whose STR+SPI is lower than the user's, making them unable to concentrate.]
Kaito tried it on. It fit. He looked at himself in the mirror and said with a note of regret, "So I'm not considered a Lawful alignment?"
After the Underworld Erosion, his base Constitution had dropped to 13. He would even suffer a backlash from using Devil Lance. Therefore, if the Nexus had judged him to be "Lawful," he wouldn't have been able to wear this coat.
He took the coat off. He felt the Nexus's judgment of alignment was perhaps a bit arbitrary. Although he had, objectively, caused the deaths of over twenty thousand New Yorkers, murdered the man who had trusted him (Homelander), and, together with Stan Edgar, had fooled the entire American public and its government... he still considered himself a good, law-abiding person.
"At least," he mused, "I didn't try to assassinate the President…"
He stored the coat. The Silver Story Equipment was decent, but its effects were a bit redundant for someone like him who already had high-level Hamon. He planned to trade it for something more useful in the Nexus.
He then picked up the bloody eyeball. He could still see the grim resolve in Queen Maeve's eyes.
[Material: Eye of a Hero]
[Quality: Scarce]
[Description: The eye of a certain hero. Can be used for Trait Fusion at the Rank Management Office.]
Including this eye, he had now obtained three fusion materials from this world. He wasn't sure if it was because Supes had a high drop rate for these items, or if it was because he now had an open fusion slot, which increased his drop rate. But besides The Deep's gills (Rare), the materials from Stormfront and Maeve were both Scarce-quality. Their effects should be quite good.
He glanced outside the office. The Compound V vials hadn't arrived yet. He decided to open Kalpa's Crimson Drop Card.
A crimson light swirled around the Reincarnator mark on his hand, and he crushed the card.
[You have opened a Crimson Drop Card.]
[Opening Drop…]
[Calculating target's Slaughter Points. Target's Slaughter Points: 42. Reward tier increased by 1 level.]
[Calculating your Karma Points…]
[Karma Points detected... You will receive 1 additional reward choice.]
[Calculation complete. You may select 2 of the following reward categories.]
[A: 90% of target's Dimensional Points]
[B: Draw 6 items from inventory, you may choose 3]
[C: Specify and extract 10% of one of the target's attributes]
[D: Randomly draw 3 proficiencies, you may choose one (capped at Lv4)]
[E: Randomly draw 3 abilities, you may choose one (capped at Lv3)]
Kalpa's Slaughter Points were the highest Kaito had seen yet, which had significantly increased the value of this card. Almost every option had been enhanced. He could now draw 3 items from a pool of 6, and he could even specify which attribute to steal.
Kaito looked at the tempting options. After a moment's thought, he made his choice. "I choose E."
This time, he prioritized the ability draw. He knew Kalpa had the ability to re-allocate his stats, but in the end, his attributes hadn't been that much higher than his own. He likely hadn't broken the limit. A 10% stat steal wasn't a huge gain. An ability, with a three-choice draw, was much more appealing.
[You have selected E. Extracting…]
[Extraction complete.]
[You have drawn the special ability: Rising Tide (C+)]
[Rising Tide (C+): You can adjust your muscle configuration, decreasing your Strength to increase your Agility. This process consumes energy and causes intense pain.]
[You have drawn the ability: Art of the Undead Reincarnation (B+)]
[Art of the Undead Reincarnation: A forbidden jutsu to transfer one's spirit into another vessel. This art requires a massive amount of life energy (Chakra, Ki, etc.) and will cause a certain amount of damage to the user's soul. An immortality jutsu created by a prodigy from the ninja world.]
[You have drawn the ability: Refracted Light Illusion (C-)]
[Refracted Light Illusion: Opens the Chakra - Sea of Illusion. Continuously consumes energy to create an illusion around the body, causing a visual error in any target who observes you.]
Kaito frowned. The draw wasn't great. The "Great Sun" ability was, as expected, not his own. He hadn't even drawn [Buddha's Palm]. The stat-swapping ability, he guessed, was only one half of a pair ("Rising Tide" and "Falling Tide") and was useless to him.
But the [Art of the Undead Reincarnation]… it was indeed a precious ability, a form of immortality. Although it had drawbacks, like a three-year cooldown, the ability to live forever was enough to drive countless people mad. It was just that for a Reincarnator, time was the one thing they rarely had.
Without Kalpa's other abilities to support it, Kaito thought, the Undead Reincarnation is just… His thoughts suddenly stopped. He remembered how strong Kalpa had been after taking over Starlight's body. This ability… perhaps it was not as useless as he thought. In a way, it was extremely valuable.
He gave up the [Refracted Light Illusion], which would have boosted his close-combat and anti-shooter capabilities, but whose low grade limited its value.
A scroll appeared in his hand.
[You have obtained the Ability Scroll: Art of the Undead Reincarnation Lv3.]
The scroll would allow him to instantly master the ability at Lv3, provided he met the requirements. It was very valuable.
He stored it and made his second choice. "I choose B."
He had gotten a high-value ability scroll. The DP was no longer necessary. And from the abilities he'd seen, Kalpa was a strange, hybrid-build Reincarnator. His proficiencies were likely not suitable for him. That left the item draw.
[You have selected B. Extracting Items…]
[Extraction complete.]
[You have obtained Item: Inferior Medicinal Wine (White) x3]
[You have obtained Item: Treasure Map of a Mysterious Sea (Scarce)]
[You have obtained Item: The Debt Collector (Blue)]
[You have obtained Item: Ancient Prayer Wheel (White)]
[You have obtained Item: A Large Bundle of Currency (White)]
[You have obtained Item: Slave Shackles (Blue)]
With a larger draw pool, even from an inventory full of junk, you were bound to get something useful. Kaito instantly discarded the medicinal wine and the bundle of cash.
Of the four remaining items, he already knew the effect of the [Slave Shackles]. It was a hard currency in the Nexus, something he could easily trade for resources. [The Debt Collector (Blue)] was a shockingly long, black sniper rifle with an explosive-shot effect.
The two that caught his attention were the [Ancient Prayer Wheel] and the [Treasure Map].
[Ancient Prayer Wheel]
[Quality: White]
[Description: A prayer wheel imbued with the will of a great practitioner. Contains a special power and meaning.]
[Effect: Unknown]
…
[Treasure Map of a Mysterious Sea]
[Quality: Blue]
[Description: A treasure map to an unknown sea in a certain world. It may lead to a strange adventure.]
[Effect: Appears after appraisal.]
The treasure map, he felt, was most likely from a One Piece derivative world. As for the prayer wheel, it could be from the real world. Kaito knew that there were likely some real-life practitioners with special abilities. He thought for a moment, decided he had no time for such things, and discarded the prayer wheel.
[You have obtained Item: Slave Shackles, Treasure Map of a Mysterious Sea, The Debt Collector.]
Knock, knock.
Ashley walked in, her head bowed. After all the recent events, she had been given a major promotion by Madelyn. For some reason, she was deeply afraid of this Asian man who had replaced Homelander. She found him even more terrifying.
"The herbs you requested… we have found most of them from Japan, Korea, and China. They are being expedited by air freight."
"Only… these two could not be found. The suppliers all said… that the names you gave must be wrong. That these two herbs are only legends."
Kaito looked at Ashley's tablet.
[Immortality Grass, Ziying.]
He just grunted. Ashley grew even more flustered, backing away. "They will be delivered by midnight at the latest. And… that compound…"
Just as she was about to leave, she added, "Also, that [Translucent]… he asked me to tell you that he has already left, and that he will find you again, as promised."
Kaito was a little surprised that [Heartless] had left on his own, but didn't investigate. That night, after he had received his ten vials of Compound V and the herbs, he chose to leave the world.
"Return."
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