#515Chapter 515: Unboxing Review Episode 8: Jie DropsAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 515: Unboxing and Review of the Eight Heavenly Kings' Drops
Cheng Tian's team's overall gains were far greater than they appeared.
After the purification of the Hell Band trio's souls, the Dried Earth, Raging Lightning, and Flame of Destiny soul bodies that separated were all sealed within the Ghost Gauntlet. They also provided an additional increase to the soul reserve limit, though compared to true arch-villains like "Immortal Vega," the three soul bodies belonging to Orochi's henchmen were clearly less evil, only increasing Cheng's 399 to 549.
Of course, it wasn't just soul bodies. Yashiro, who died from being ganged up on, Shermie, who coughed and died when her health bottomed out, and Chris, who was split in two, had all been placed in the personal lab's cultivation tanks, joining the cybernetically enhanced Juri Han.
For Cheng, death was not the only end.
However, regarding whether to create clones of these three, Cheng was still maintaining a relatively restrained attitude.
It had nothing to do with ethics; he simply didn't want to add extra variables.
Because from the perspective of a vessel, if he cultivated new clones with the Heavenly Kings' bloodline, wouldn't that mean these clones would also have the traits to become one of the Eight Heavenly Kings, and potentially meet the conditions to become a new vessel for Orochi's descent?
Based on the current kill feedback, Orochi's overall health is highly correlated with the Eight Heavenly Kings. If creating a clone added 5% to his health, that wouldn't be good.
So, he'd hold off for now.
Besides souls and corpses, they also each contributed different treasure chests.
Shermie and Chris were eliminated entirely by Cheng Tian's team, so their treasure chests were awarded with the full standard drops.
Chris dropped one gold chest, and Shermie dropped one silver chest. However, due to Rampage Yashiro being killed by a joint effort of players and NPCs, his drops were distributed based on contribution in a player-versus-BOSS raid. Cheng Tian's team only received a single bronze-colored treasure chest, which could only be opened once.
But the other two chests, because they were obtained through a legitimate team contract after completing 100% of the boss's health and the boss template reached Champion-level or above, could both be opened twice, once per person.
It was true that Cheng's item inventory was disabled, but this didn't prevent him from putting things into it; it just meant anything put in couldn't be taken out temporarily.
Moreover, while Cheng couldn't use his item inventory, Eileen's challenge mission didn't have any such restrictions. That second volume of the Qin Secret Scroll was currently sitting in her inventory.
After being busy in various ways, opening treasure chests was the perfect way to relieve fatigue. The order naturally went from bronze to silver to gold.
"Uh… you open it?"
"I was waiting for you to say that!"
Eileen, who had been rubbing her hands together like a fly for a long time, rushed forward upon hearing this. With a slap of her small hand, she opened the bronze treasure chest dropped by Yashiro.
This level of treasure chest was basically for warming up; you generally couldn't expect anything good from it.
However, this time the drop exceeded Cheng's expectations.
It was actually a green-quality electric guitar, "Hellbone"!
Seeing this guitar, Cheng suddenly remembered that Yashiro's role in the Hell Band was the guitarist… So how did he get into a conflict with Iori Yagami, the bassist? Was it a classic bassist joke?
Then, this guitar was a strange item that combined battlefield support and a melee weapon.
During the performance of Hellbone, friendly units within a 25-meter radius would receive a 5% critical hit bonus and a 5% accuracy bonus. The downside was that it required continuous performance; once the performance was interrupted, the support effect would immediately be lost.
The melee weapon aspect was more straightforward: turn the electric guitar upside down, hold it with both hands, and smash it at the target… This bizarre thing was actually a two-handed weapon with decent stats!
The specific feel could be directly compared to *Left 4 Dead 2*; the swing felt very average, but when it hit a target, the discordant vibrations from the strings were quite satisfying.
Rockers just have to fight with guitars!
However, when used as a melee weapon, there was a medium chance of the guitar strings breaking, thus losing its battlefield support function. In such cases, besides replacing the strings, it could only be repaired by returning to the space. It was a somewhat subtle toy.
Cheng and Eileen each opened Shermie's silver chest once.
As expected, one of the drops was a blue-quality electronic keyboard, corresponding to Shermie's role as a keyboardist—
But this thing was actually a tactical rifle!
Besides being able to fire 5.56 rounds as a conventional tactical rifle, it could also provide extra buffs to the next attack and perform energy shots through specific key combinations.
Of course, it wasn't as complicated as imagined; its melodic combinations were roughly equivalent to the Hunting Horn in *Monster Hunter*, easy to get the hang of after a bit of practice, and quite versatile tactically.
Eileen, as a traditional elven archer who wasn't averse to modern firearms, showed a considerable liking for it.
As mentioned before, Eileen not using firearms wasn't because she disliked them, but because bows and arrows were almost never restricted by dungeon modifiers, and they were also part of her high-tier gear and suited her professional skills.
However, she had a vague feeling that if she completed the Rakshir Ritual this time, the restrictions on her skills might be relaxed.
What Cheng opened, on the other hand, was a C-rank skill book, 『Dark Thunder Fist』.
Honestly, this skill book was quite suitable for Bazett, who was proficient in hand-to-hand combat. However, Bazett currently only had one empty skill slot, and Cheng also had a Qin Secret Scroll waiting to be deciphered, so he wasn't in a hurry to decide immediately.
Next was Chris's golden treasure chest, which theoretically had the best drops.
Cheng and Eileen opened their chests simultaneously. Just as a bottle glowing with purple light, looking at first glance like a 100% recovery potion, fell into Eileen's hands, a cluster of purple-black flames, appearing like a candlelight, materialized in Cheng's hand.
But before Cheng could clearly see its true stats, this thing suddenly shot into his palm!
In an instant, Cheng felt as if his blood was slightly boiling within him.
This feeling came and went quickly. Before Cheng could figure out what had happened to him, the Space had already thrown a notification in his face.
[Detected that you contain a special bloodline related to "Destiny," "Daywalker"—]
[Detected that you possess the aptitude to generate "Psionic Flames"—]
[Detected that you have captured "Purple Soul Flame of Destiny"—]
[You have automatically absorbed "Power Seed: Flame of Destiny."]
[Your Psionic Flame attribute has a new option: "Flame of Destiny."]
[You can simulate abilities related to the bloodline essence source "Remilia Scarlet" by activating your bloodline power.]
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