Chapter 53: The Blessed Jade, Meeting the Parents

Knowing there was nothing for them, the black-clad players obediently returned to their tasks—searching and sorting. The four women eyed each other, some with hopeful glances, others with murderous intent, as they gazed at the five skill books spread across the table. The skills were perfect in effect, but not a single team coin could be found in their inventories.

Personal Skill: Lava Essence
Class: Mage Exclusive, Rainbow-tier Passive
Effect: Grants the ultimate evolution of fire in two forms—liquid and solid.
Liquid Passive: Every area attack ignites the caster, dealing burn damage equal to one-tenth of their strength. After ten seconds, the burn turns into searing, causing damage equal to one-tenth of maximum health. After another ten seconds, it becomes Devouring Fire.
Devouring Fire Passive: Can be attached to any creature, tripling or reducing total power at will, friend or foe, but halves healing rate as a cost.
Solid Passive 1: In battle, every five seconds, a rain of fire is summoned within 100 meters, automatically tracking enemies. The damage triples the base effect of any fire rain equipment.
Solid Passive 2: All fire skills deal double their original damage, casting speed reduced by one second. Each successful cast restores 10 health.

Personal Skill: Aftershock
Class: Warrior Exclusive, Rainbow-tier Passive
Effect: Allows for unlimited strikes on airborne targets.
Passive 1: The higher the target is launched, the more lethal the fall—ignoring all fall protection.
Passive 2: If a target dies from a fall, deals an additional tenfold death blow to all enemies within ten meters, one-time effect.
Passive 3: The owner is permanently immune to knockback and forcibly launches targets regardless of their immunity during attacks.

Personal Skill: Battle Frenzy
Class: Gunner Exclusive, Rainbow-tier Skill
Effect: Endless combat stirs the blood.
Active: The more enemies targeted, the greater the power buff, up to twentyfold; immediately doubles firing speed upon activation.
Unique Passive: Hitting a weak spot doubles the damage again; striking a vital point doubles it yet again.

Personal Skill: Heart on the Move
Class: Assassin Exclusive, Rainbow-tier Passive
Effect: Supreme assassination technique in motion.
Unique Passive: The faster you move, the higher your next attack’s damage and speed, up to thirtyfold. Can be used with additional items.

Personal Skill: Life and Death in My Hands
Class: Paladin Exclusive, Rainbow-tier Passive
Effect: With me around, death is impossible.
Passive 1: Any creature healed by the owner gains one chance to cheat death and one immunity to absolute hit effects.
Passive 2: The lower the target’s health, the more they heal. Completely ignores anti-healing effects. If a healed target dies, they are forcibly resurrected with one HP remaining—triggered by any healing skill.

The four women looked at Hua Tian and each other. Their team coin balance was about to drop by another ten billion. Two of them, who had just calmed down, now wanted nothing more than to strangle him on the spot.

“Sister Han, if we’re down ten billion, we’ll have to pay back two billion every month. I’m not sure I can do that much. Oh well, I want the skill book anyway!”

“Take them, take them all! If anyone dares leave one behind, I’ll…” Han’s eyes flashed darkly as she finished, and she pulled her sister’s greatsword from her inventory.

“Sis, that’s my battle sword! Give it back!”

...

“Fine, I won’t be polite then.” Xiao Yu and Liu Xin, having claimed their books, settled in to enjoy the drama.

“Captain Han, I have something else—that item I think is the strongest!” Han Qianyun looked at it.

“Didn’t you say you got your gold from a vault? You didn’t secretly farm it with this, did you?”

“No, it just appeared there. To be honest, it looked weird, so I picked it up. When I did, everything else around me vanished except for a shining thing ahead. I rushed to grab it, but I wasn’t fast enough, so I used a speed skill to blink over and snatch it. It was just gold coins… and then nothing. I’m still bitter about it!” Kuang Sha’s heart ached more with every word as she retreated to a corner.

Han Qianyun and the other three examined the item’s details, pondering quietly.

“No wonder the Ancient City was so strong at first, then fell so quickly—the real answer is here!”

Item: Blessed Jade
Tier: Rainbow
Description: One of the Ancient City’s greatest treasures
Skill: Growth
Item Skill: Growth
Details: As a jade item, the Blessed Jade’s exclusive skill.
Effect: Humans blessed by this jade receive double the slaughter bonus, double skill proficiency and forging experience, double technique mastery, and fivefold gold acquisition.

However, within the Blessed Jade’s area, all allies’ attack power increases tenfold but their defense drops to zero—an irreversible effect. The jade can be reconstructed with most Starlight Stones and Starlight Water to regain its original form.

“So, six rainbow-tier items, over a hundred purple gear pieces, and these personal skills—altogether a bit over sixty billion team coins! Wait, that can’t be right. You should have a hundred million items! That’s strange. Even with ten million miscellaneous items, I’m getting a headache.”

“My inventory’s too small. These are what I sorted out—I don’t want anything below blue tier. That’s why there’s less—ah!”

A voice boomed from the corner.

“Sprite, what are you doing out again? You can forget about the gold area—I’m not paying another twenty billion team coins!” Hua Tian looked up to see the sprite flaunting her new golden empress outfit and purple-gold helmet, showing off everywhere.

With a resigned air, Hua Tian returned to her friends. Seeing his team coin balance even lower than Han’s younger sister, they all burst into ladylike laughter.

Han turned to him, “If you liquidate those, you’ll get about six billion. If you want cash, I can pay you directly outside the game. If you want team coins, the sum is too large—I’d have to apply to raise the cap. Out of a total of a hundred billion team coins for fifty thousand players, you’d be taking half. It’ll take me a month to get approval to increase the cap.”

Han Qianyun thought to herself: A hundred billion isn’t enough. Twenty days in seclusion and we’re already halfway there. In two or three months, we’ll be way over. I need to raise my value, quickly.

“I’ll just take the cash. The sooner my dad’s illness is treated, the better. I don’t know much about hospitals, so I’m not sure who to give it to.”

Xiao Yu urged, “Sister Han, don’t you want to meet your future in-laws? A lifetime of happiness awaits!”

“If you keep talking, I’ll sew your mouth shut!”

Han Qianyu, nibbling snacks and watching the show, looked tearfully at Kuang Sha at the mention of ‘future in-laws.’

Could it be that my sister is… with Kuang Sha?

No wonder she was so reluctant to part with the foodie dragon. But after her sadness subsided…

“Sis, when can I come to your wedding? I want to be there!”

“Don’t—stop, I promise I won’t tease anymore. ┭┮﹏┭┮”

“Fine, I’ll go to the hospital. Which one is it? I’ll be there tomorrow. If you dare laugh again, I’ll…”

...

Apart from Hua Tian, no one had learned new skills yet. Xiao Yu, after removing his blessing skill, acquired a new one.

Captain Han issued an order: “I won’t be online tomorrow. Once you’ve learned your new skills, get them to at least level one proficiency.”

Back in the real world, the three of them pondered how to spend their days ahead, now that the boss would no longer be one of them.

(*^▽^*) Hehe, oh yeah!