At the shore of the ocean where a river flowed the huge waterfall, there appeared a magical store at the riverbank.
“Let’s check out the store first,” Almond said and teleported everyone there.
When they looked at the store, an interface appeared in front of them displaying six item sections inside.
[ Grimworld Heroic Shop ]
1. Extra Divine Boon Selection In the next Heroic Challenge you attempt. — 500 Heroic Points.
2. Growth-type Random Skill Scroll (S to SSS) — 500 Heroic Points.
3. Insight Stone x 1 — 1000 Heroic Points.
4. One-attempt access to one of the Eternal Power devices — 2000 Heroic Points.
5. Universal skill upgrade card x 1 — 1500 Heroic Points.
6. Mystery Box x 1 — 500 Heroic Points.
[Note]: Items in the 2nd to 6th slots can be rerolled at the cost of 100 Heroic Points. The new options would only appear for the one who paid to reroll.]
“Does everyone have the same options?” Almond asked as he projected his shop’s items outward on a Mana screen.
“Yeah, I got the same options,” Ron said.
“Me too,” Amir nodded.
“It seems we all got the same options, but we can change them by paying 100 Heroic Points,” Noah raised his eyebrows. “100 is too much. Wish it was lower.”
“If there are more options, then the next heroic shop will have different options,” Jemma said as she blinked. “I won’t waste points on rerolling.”
“Yeah, that should be the case, so I am also not rerolling,” Eliara nodded.
“I can’t decide what to buy,” Kayla tilted her head as she looked at the screen.
“I am low-key tempted to buy Mystery Box,” Kira dryly smiled and said, “But if I get trash from it, I’ll cry.”
“Tsk, tsk, only I can buy it,” Natalia smugly said as she bought the Mystery Box without hesitation. “It’s been over a month, so a month’s worth of my luck is already recovered.”
“Eh? What are you talking about?” Anya, nearby, confusedly asked.
“Haha, nothing. It’s secret,” Natalia chuckled.
“Everyone,” Almond suddenly said, attracting everyone’s attention. “Don’t buy anything above 500 points yet, or don’t buy anything at all until we get our rewards. If we get more points than last time, we must buy an extra boon selection.”
“True,” Lily nodded in agreement as she understood Almond’s concern. “There are bigger parties than us in the leaderboard, and if a few of those entire parties bought extra boon selection, their score would be very high.”
“That makes sense,” Xavier nodded. “Rank 1 party rewards are great, and they will be better and better in higher floors, so getting first rank is important.”
Everyone decided to hold off buying anything and rest while waiting for rewards.
Five minutes later, the notifications started popping up.
[Congratulations, by crossing the 3 million score on this Heroic Challenge, you have achieved a new milestone in this pool of Grimworld Tutorials—Reward: Heroic challenge new milestone reward chest.]
A big and fancy treasure chest looking straight out of a videogame with sci-fi and magic-themed design appeared above and slowly floated down as everyone made way.
“Damn, this looks sick. My hands can’t wait to open it,” Natalia grinned.
“Yeah, yeah, in your dreams. We are about to roll for this,” Marcus snorted.
“Of course, we gotta roll for this,” Almond chuckled.
“Almond said it, now we are going to roll,” Kira said as she made a face at Natalia with her tongue out.
“Tsk tsk, I am going to win that too, so I am opening this in the end.”
The next notification arrived and everyone was once again focused on it. Explore stories on empire
[The ranking and rewards based on contribution are generated.]
[Contribution ranking and reward]
Rank 1: Almond
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – L – Godly Clay x 1
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – L – Godly Grinder x 1
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – L – Heroic Lobby Card x 1
—> Adventurer’s Essentials – L – Storage Ring x 1
—> Adventurer’s Essentials – L – Fruit-set x 1
—> Heroic Points: +1500
Rank 2: Lily/Marcus
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – SSS – Godly Clay x 1
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – SSS – Godly Grinder x 1
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – SSS – Heroic Lobby Card x 1
—> Adventurer’s Essentials – SSS – Storage Ring x 1
—> Adventurer’s Essentials – SSS – Fruit-set x 1
—> Heroic Points: +1000
Rank 3: Natalia/Maya/Julian/Emma
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – SS – Godly Clay x 1
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – SS – Godly Grinder x 1
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – SS – Heroic Lobby Card x 1
—> Adventurer’s Essentials – SSS – Storage Ring x 1
—> Adventurer’s Essentials – SSS – Fruit-set x 1
—> Heroic Points: +700
Rank 4: Adrian/Noah/Kira/Mira/Jian/Amir
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – SS – Godly Clay x 1
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – SS – Godly Grinder x 1
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – SS – Heroic Lobby Card x 1
—> Adventurer’s Essentials – SS – Storage Ring x 1
—> Adventurer’s Essentials – SS – Fruit-set x 1
—> Heroic Points: +600
Rank 5: Talia/Eliara/Kayla/Xavier/Ron/Anya
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – S – Godly Clay x 1
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – S – Godly Grinder x 1
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – S – Heroic Lobby Card x 1
—> Adventurer’s Essentials – SS – Storage Ring x 1
—> Adventurer’s Essentials – SS – Fruit-set x 1
—> Heroic Points: +500
Rank 6: Roken
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – S – Godly Clay x 1
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – S – Godly Grinder x 1
—> Adventurer’s Heroic Debute – S – Heroic Lobby Card x 1
—> Adventurer’s Essentials – S – Storage Ring x 1
—> Adventurer’s Essentials – S – Fruit-set x 1
—> Heroic Points: +300
“What the fuck?”
“The rewards are hella different,” Finn goofily laughed.
“They look interesting, I’m reading that Heroic Lobby card first.”
“I am already checking out, and what the holy smokes is this Heroic Lobby Card!?” Marcus shouted as he read the card’s details. “We can fucking go to a lobby where other parties from other worlds gather!”
“Crap! That’s awesome!”
“There has to be some sort of activity and other things there!”
“Duh, of course.”
“We are getting strong with these fruits! SS-rank fruit set gives me 30 point increase in all fucking stats,” Amir maniacally laughed as he read the fruit set.
“Fuck.”
“Then what is the effect of SSS-rank, and Almond’s Legendary fruits?!”
Everyone’s eyes focused on Almond.
Almond’s eyes shifted from the detail panel of Godly Clay as he felt their gazes and smiled, “Let me check them first. If they only give stats and nothing else, I’ll distribute.”
“Let’s fucking go!” Natalia cheered.
“Look at her cheering as if she’s already getting one,” Marcus snickered.
“Don’t be a hater. You’ll go bald faster.”
“…”
Meanwhile, Almond who looked at the fruit’s details had his lip arching as he faintly smiled, “Interesting.”
Natalia gulped and said, “Tell me there ain’t any bullshit extra effect on those fruits.”
Almond mysteriously smiled, “Check it yourself.”
Saying that, he shared the legendary fruits’ details with everyone on the screen.
[ Adventurer’s Legendary Essential Fruits ]
-Rank: Legendary