Chapter 77 – Hidden Reward of the King of Chests

“Hiss~~”

Another Rule Item!

And not just an ordinary Rule Item at that!

Xiao Wuwang stored the Compass of Destiny’s Choice in the deepest part of his Portable Space. This item had to be carried on him at all times—it might just save his life at a critical moment!

He never expected that opening a high-level treasure chest for the first time would come with a Hidden Reward.

Now, Xiao Wuwang finally understood why Crazy Stone had been so insistent on trading for the Diamond Treasure Chest back then.

He must have been eyeing the Hidden Reward for being the first to open a Diamond Treasure Chest.

Thinking of this, Xiao Wuwang felt a pang of regret: “Ah, why didn’t I obtain this Talent earlier? I wasted the Hidden Reward from a Diamond Treasure Chest.”

Then he scolded himself silently for being too greedy.

Now, with the King of Chests Talent, as long as he had enough time to accumulate resources, he could continuously Synthesize high-level treasure chests and obtain even more rare items.

The future looked promising!

Xiao Wuwang reined in his thoughts and refocused on the present. There were still quite a few treasure chests on the ground. Without hesitation, he Synthesized all the chests upward—the rewards from opening high-level chests were far greater than those from low-level ones.

After Synthesizing everything, he was left with: Wooden Treasure Chest2, Silver Treasure Chest1, Diamond Treasure Chest*2.

Having already opened a Radiant Treasure Chest, Xiao Wuwang naturally didn’t want to open the chests he had now, not even the Diamond Treasure Chests. He could hold back because he still wanted to see if there were even higher-level chests above the Radiant Treasure Chest.

After dealing with the treasure chests, Xiao Wuwang installed the Composite Shield Matrix Module on the Level 4 Living Carriage where he spent most of his time, while the Continuously Variable Transmission Module was naturally installed on the train’s locomotive.

At this point, the Instance Event entered its third phase.

Suddenly, a sharp alarm sounded from the void, followed by a rain of Bone Demons falling from the sky.

As soon as these Bone Demons landed, they swiftly charged toward Xiao Wuwang’s train.

However, Xiao Wuwang’s train was now traveling at 99 km/h, and despite their best efforts, the Bone Demons couldn’t catch up.

Seeing this, Xiao Wuwang knew that the third phase of the Instance Event posed no challenge to him either.

Xiao Wuwang returned to the Living Carriage. First, he opened the Terminus Camp Group Chat to check. Everyone had gained quite a few treasure chests during the second phase, and their trains were now much better armed, so handling the third phase wasn’t a problem.

Next, he checked the Server Zone group chat. The number of survivors had plummeted to 4,680, meaning over 2,000 people had already died. This showed just how brutal this Instance Event was!

Xiao Wuwang didn’t feel much about it—he had seen scenes like this many times in his Previous Life.

The final hour passed without incident.

[Ding!]

[The first Instance Event—Death Race—has reached Consummation!]

[Instance Event rewards have been announced. Please open the list to check!]

The survivors finally breathed a sigh of relief!

Hearing the Notice, Xiao Wuwang in the Living Carriage immediately sat up straight and opened the Instance Event Settlement page.

One after another, system voices rang out—

[Ding!]

[Instance Event reward Settlement begins—]

[Personal Performance Evaluation: S]

[Personal Performance Ranking: 1]

[Personal Rewards: Alloy Axle, Universal Upgrade Resource Card (limited to below Order 4)1, Plasma Shield Device Module1]

——————

He had the blueprint for the Alloy Axle and could produce it himself, and since he had no use for it, trading it would surely fetch some good items.

The Universal Upgrade Resource Card (limited to below level 4), for Xiao Wuwang, held its greatest value in exchanging it for a Train Upgrade Card, equivalent to 100 Train Upgrade Shards.

Lastly, the Plasma Shield Device Module could be loaded directly onto the Composite Shield Matrix Module.

Looking at the rewards for the others, the second-place winner received one less Plasma Shield Device Module than him, and the third-place winner received one less Universal Upgrade Resource Card (limited to below level 4).

Only the top three were rewarded with the Alloy Axle, while the rewards for those ranked further back gradually became more ordinary.

Xiao Wuwang closed the panel, and at this moment, his Fatigue Points had also fully recovered.

Xiao Wuwang took out the Supply Crates of those individuals.

He first picked out the Supply Crates of the three who had Talents, upgraded them to level 4, and then opened them one by one.

He was most concerned about Crazy Stone’s Supply Crate.

With the King of Chests Talent, Crazy Stone had opened quite a few high-level treasure chests. When looting supplies on the train, his haul was the most valuable, so the items he stored in his Portable Space were certainly not lacking in quality.

The items in the Supply Crate were extracted from the contents of his Portable Space as rewards. Now, thanks to Xiao Wuwang’s Talent, the Supply Crate was upgraded by one level, increasing the likelihood of extracting the more valuable items from it.

With a flash of light, the items in the Supply Crate appeared one by one.

There were seven items in total in the Supply Crate.

After appraising them, Xiao Wuwang couldn’t help but smile slightly.

The most valuable item was the Mad Dragon-X Ice-Fire Launcher Module.

This was an Offensive Module capable of launching ice or fire-attribute attacks.

It was precisely the bargaining chip Crazy Stone had used to exchange for the Diamond Treasure Chest with Xiao Wuwang.

This Module required additional fire-attribute cores or ice-attribute crystal stones to operate.

It was likely that Crazy Stone didn’t have these two types of crystal stones on hand, which prevented him from loading this Module onto his train.

If he had successfully activated the Mad Dragon-X Ice-Fire Launcher, he might have been destroyed by the Antimatter Particle Beam Turret, and it wouldn’t have ended up in his hands.

Now, by a twist of fate, it had conveniently fallen into his possession!

And he happened to have a Fire-Attribute Crystal Stone on hand, so he could immediately arm himself with this Module.

Looking at the other items: Infinite Coins120, Intelligent Chip3, a level 3 Peachwood Sword, a level 3 Plasma Gun Blueprint, a Chest Respawn Double Card, and a Basic Storage Space Link Card.

“Hah~”

All of them were good items!!

Leaving aside the Infinite Coins and Intelligent Chips for now.

The level 3 Peachwood Sword had unique uses in the Eerie World, but since he had the Spirit-Purifying Sword, the Peachwood Sword wasn’t very useful to him. However, he could trade it for some rare Items or cards.

As for the level 3 Plasma Gun Blueprint, this was an unexpected delight!

The upper limit for gunpowder firearms was level 4, while plasma weapons had an upper limit of level 7. With this Plasma Gun Blueprint, he could develop an entire series of weapons.

The Chest Respawn Double Card, for someone with the King of Chests Talent like him, spoke for itself in terms of usefulness.

Finally, the Basic Storage Space Link Card was a rare card. It could link the Storage Carriage and the Portable Space, greatly enhancing the convenience and flexibility of resource management.

For instance, in the future, if Xiao Wuwang enters the Platform World and encounters a particularly large quantity of supplies that cannot all fit into his Portable Space, having a Basic Storage Space Link Card would allow him to directly store these supplies into his Portable Space and then transfer them to the train’s storage space.

Similarly, he could link a storage cell in the train’s storage space that holds a large amount of ammunition. This way, without needing to carry ammunition on his person, he could extract it indefinitely from the train’s Storage Carriage for use, greatly reducing his own burden.

The sheer convenience of this made even Xiao Wuwang feel moved.

Xiao Wuwang collected all these items.

Then, he proceeded to open the other two Supply Crates.