Having browsed the trading market for over an hour with no results, Mu Bei ran straight towards the central area of Order Paradise.
After jogging for nearly 20 minutes, Mu Bei finally reached the central area.
Over a dozen magnificent buildings stood before him, much taller than the shops and stalls in the trading market.
Standing at the foot of these buildings, Mu Bei looked up but could not see their tops.
【Attribute Enhancement Hall】, 【Equipment Enhancement Hall】, 【Skill Enhancement Hall】, 【Paradise Trial Ground】, 【Paradise Arena】...
Currently, Mu Bei only had permission to enter the five buildings listed above. The remaining buildings were shrouded in a layer of mist, their specific appearances unclear, let alone being able to enter them.
Mu Bei didn't hesitate and walked straight towards the 【Attribute Enhancement Hall】.
Normally, Mu Bei's action of going to the Attribute Enhancement Hall would seem somewhat redundant.
But A Ling had told Mu Bei two important pieces of information:
One, when a Contractor's attribute reaches a specific value, such as 20 points, they can go to the Attribute Enhancement Hall to receive an attribute breakthrough reward.
Two, free attribute points can be traded with other Contractors by condensing them into attribute crystals, although few Contractors do this.
Mu Bei still had 32 free attribute points. Since he couldn't use them himself, selling them was a good option.
When Mu Bei stepped into the 【Attribute Enhancement Hall】, his vision blurred, and the next second he appeared inside a metal cubicle a few square meters in size.
The cubicle was empty, with only a chair and a screen suspended in the air.
【Please first pay 100 paradise coins as the activation fee for the Attribute Enhancement Chamber.】
Mu Bei paid 100 paradise coins as prompted, and immediately heard mechanical operating sounds from all around, "click, click".
The content on the screen changed accordingly:
【Welcome Contractor using Attribute Enhancement Chamber number 114514, your information is as follows:】
distortion - force: 100
Mutated Constitution: 100
Deformation · Agility: 100
Alienated Intelligence: 100
Deformation · Charisma: 1
【You currently have 32 free attribute points, with a maximum of 0 points that can be allocated for attribute enhancement.】
【Besides enhancing attributes, you can also choose to condense free attribute points into attribute crystals. Each attribute crystal requires paying 1000 paradise coins to Order Paradise.】
【Detected that your Strength, Constitution, Agility, and Intelligence attributes have all reached 20 points, you can claim the relevant attribute breakthrough rewards.】
Mu Bei carefully browsed the options on the screen.
If a Contractor wants to trade free attribute points, they must first condense them into attribute crystals, and each attribute crystal requires paying a 1000 paradise coins handling fee.
Order Paradise had prompted Mu Bei when he was increasing his Constitution attribute:
The value of 1 free attribute point is 2000 paradise coins.
In other words, this 1000 paradise coins handling fee is equal to half the value of a free attribute point, which is quite expensive.
To maintain a balanced competitive environment among Contractors, Order Paradise restricted the concentrated circulation of free attribute points through high handling fees, preventing adventurer teams from heavily tilting resources and disrupting the balance of power among Contractors.
Imagine, what would happen if the World settlement rewards of hundreds of Contractors could be concentrated on one Contractor without loss?
The strength of this Contractor who concentrated resources would definitely skyrocket, causing extremely serious damage to the balance of the "game".
The degree of damage would probably be less than half of what Mu Bei caused before becoming a Reverse Entropy Body.
This was actually already very strong.
After all, Mu Bei was a numerical monster who raised his Strength, Constitution, Agility, and Intelligence attributes to a full 100 points after going through just one trial World. This was equivalent to using nearly 400 free attribute points.
If Mu Bei's matter were to spread, it would directly drop the jaws of all Contractors.
Even if a Contractor's overall evaluation in each mission World was S+, they would need to go through about 12 Worlds to accumulate nearly 400 free attribute points. (Of course, this is without buying attribute crystals.)
Mu Bei didn't think much and directly chose to condense all 32 free attribute points into attribute crystals.
【32000 paradise coins deducted, you gained attribute crystal ×32. Attribute crystals have been stored in storage space.】
After obtaining 32 attribute crystals, Mu Bei sent them all to A Ling using the order imprint's mail function.
A Ling had previously told Mu Bei that she had contacted a large merchant association.
The other party had a high-quality AOE area-of-effect skill scroll suitable for Mu Bei, priced at 200,000 paradise coins.
At the same time, this merchant association urgently needed attribute crystals and was willing to purchase them at a price of 7000 paradise coins per crystal.
The market price of attribute crystals usually fluctuated between 5500 and 6500 paradise coins. 7000 paradise coins was already considered a hefty sum.
Mu Bei had previously seen the skill scroll information through the email A Ling sent, confirmed it was very suitable for himself, and instructed A Ling to secure it directly.
After completing the attribute crystal transaction, Mu Bei began to claim the attribute breakthrough rewards:
【distortion - force unequipped attribute has reached 20 points. Contractor can choose one of the following rewards:】
1. Strength Enhancement: distortion - force +2.
2. Judgment Correction: Add 4 correction points when making a Strength attribute judgment.
3. Strength Breakout: When facing physical restraints or blocking type controls, based on the actual situation, exempt 0.1%~10% of the control effect.
【Tip: As you have not yet broken through the 1st and 2nd tier attribute barriers, if you choose Strength Enhancement, this attribute reward will only officially take effect after you complete the breakthrough.】
Mu Bei examined the 3 options before him. After a moment, he chose option 3 - Strength Breakout.
The first two options were just simple numerical increases. Compared to these small values, Mu Bei now needed to fill the shortcomings in his own mechanics more.
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【Deformation · Agility unequipped attribute has reached 20 points. Contractor can choose one of the following rewards:】
1. Agility Enhancement: Deformation · Agility +2.
2. Judgment Correction: Add 4 correction points when making an Agility attribute judgment.
3. Nerve Enhancement: The speed of all signal transmission in the nervous system +3%.
【Tip: As you have not yet broken through the 1st and 2nd tier attribute barriers, if you choose Agility Enhancement, this attribute reward will only officially take effect after you complete the breakthrough.】
For the same reason as above, without further explanation, Mu Bei chose 3 - Nerve Enhancement.
Inside the attribute enhancement cubicle, Mu Bei used his will to control an eyeball to grow on his hand. This time it took about 9.7 seconds in total, which was about 3% faster than before the enhancement.
...
【Mutated Constitution unequipped attribute has reached 20 points. Contractor can choose one of the following rewards:】
1. Constitution Enhancement: Mutated Constitution +2
2. Judgment Correction: Add 4 correction points when making a Constitution attribute judgment.
3. Anomaly Resistance: Slightly increase resistance to physical abnormal states such as dizziness, blindness, bleeding, and paralysis.
For the same reason as above, without further explanation, Mu Bei chose 3 - Anomaly Resistance.
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【Alienated Intelligence unequipped attribute has reached 20 points. Contractor can choose one of the following rewards:】
1. Intelligence Enhancement: Alienated Intelligence +2.
2. Judgment Correction: Add 4 correction points when making an Intelligence attribute judgment.
3. Mana Recovery: Mana value recovery speed doubles. (After enhancement, the mana value recovered per hour increases to Alienated Intelligence attribute ×3, current coefficient is 1.5.)
Although Mu Bei currently didn't have skills that consumed mana, he would after getting that high-quality AOE area-of-effect skill scroll.
Furthermore, most potions on the market could not restore Mu Bei's mana value, and even if they could, the effect was very poor.
In this situation, the natural recovery speed of mana value became very important.
Therefore, Mu Bei chose Mana Recovery.
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【Detected that the Contractor has not yet broken through the 50-point attribute barrier and cannot claim the relevant 50-point attribute breakthrough reward.】
"How do I break through this 50-point attribute barrier?"
【Contractors can choose to participate in the attribute barrier breakthrough assessment before entering the next mission World.】
【Note! If the Contractor chooses to participate in the attribute barrier breakthrough assessment, the difficulty level of the next mission World will increase.】
So that's how it is. Then I'll just break through this damned barrier in the next World.
Afterwards, Mu Bei stood up, preparing to leave the attribute point allocation chamber.
But when the Contractor imprint was half-activated, Mu Bei suddenly interrupted the activation himself.
Because he suddenly thought:
Since he had already received the 20-point breakthrough rewards for the four attributes of Strength, Constitution, Agility, and Intelligence, the 20-point breakthrough reward for the Charm attribute could also be claimed!
Don't look at Mu Bei's Deformation · Charisma attribute currently being only 1 point, but he still had over 1700 unused negative entropy points!
Raising the Charm attribute from 1 to 20 should only take about 0.19 negative entropy points, right?
Thus, Mu Bei began to attempt to add points to his Charm attribute.
【Tip: Due to your excessive killing behavior, your Charm attribute is undergoing a deep transformation.】
【If you wish to increase your Charm attribute, you must first use 10 negative entropy points to interrupt this process.】
This time, Mu Bei looked very carefully at the Deformation · Charisma attribute on the information panel, and then discovered something unusual—
The color of the four characters "Deformation · Charisma" was different from other attributes, such as "distortion - force", "Mutated Constitution", and so on!
The others were pure black, only the four characters Deformation · Charisma were black with a hint of red!
Now, a question was placed before Mu Bei, which was—should he interrupt the transformation of the Charm attribute?
Mu Bei's answer was without hesitation—No!
A mere transaction of 0.19 negative entropy points actually requires paying 10 negative entropy points upfront?
Did they know how many living beings he had to diligently slaughter to obtain 10 negative entropy points?
So expensive! Why don't they just rob me?
This damned Charm attribute can do whatever it wants. I can just give up the 20-point breakthrough reward for this lousy attribute.
Farewell!