Having just finished one town-defense battle and a super dungeon, both Shen Chi and Chu Fu were extremely busy.
This was the first time she had run into a shortage of Contribution Points.
What she absolutely had to redeem were two Talent Enhancement Stones and ten Skill Enhancement Stones—four attributes in total, costing exactly forty million Contribution Points.
She also needed to redeem the Town Upgrade Blueprint. Once used, it would increase the town’s side length by 100 meters.
It looked like a loss, but in reality, upgrading a 2,000×2,000-meter town to a 2,100×2,100-meter town would add another 410,000 square meters of land.
Buy it!
There was no need to redeem the Second Talent Awakening, since she already had one.
The Growth-Type Divine Artifact Embryo was necessary too.
That left her two hundred million Contribution Points short.
However, because Chu Fu had entered the Origin Dungeon, the monsters in the tenth wave had not appeared. As a result, the entire Novice Village was missing ten billion Contribution Points this time.
After accounting for everyone’s spending, they might not even have enough to redeem everything.
What Chu Fu hadn’t expected was that the moment she sent out a message through the public announcement channel, she was immediately surrounded by countless players.
“Plant Boss, I’ve got a little over a thousand Contribution Points left. I’ll give them all to you—no charge.”
“Plant Boss, thank you for taking us into the dungeon. Take all my Contribution Points.”
“I’m giving them to you directly. Don’t pay me, or I’ll get mad!”
“No need for a private trade. I’ve put them on the ground directly. Don’t forget to pick them up.”
“They’re yours, Boss.”
Chu Fu tried to pay them, but none of them would accept her money.
She could only turn into a broken record.
“Thank you, thank you! Thank you so much!”
“What are you thanking us for, Boss? To put it plainly, the only reason you didn’t get any Contribution Points this time was because you took us into the dungeon.”
“Exactly. If not for this dungeon run, improving my talent would have cost ten million Contribution Points. There’s no way I could have afforded that.”
“Ah, Boss, why didn’t you say so earlier? I already spent mine. I feel like I owe you a hundred million now.”
Chu Fu was both amused and embarrassed.
Lively Not Delicate shouted, “What’s going on? Why didn’t any of you give me anything when I was collecting them? You wouldn’t even let me round down a single point!”
“Everyone knows you’re loaded. Our Plant Girl used to be bedridden!”
“Lively, you heartless capitalist! We have to make you pay through the nose!”
Lively Not Delicate felt as if she had been wrongfully accused like a victim of an ancient injustice. Plant Girl was now so wealthy that even she could only look up to her; she was simply too low-key.
But Lively Not Delicate naturally couldn’t say that and ruin Chu Fu’s image. In fact, she hoped Chu Fu would accept this gift, because it was what she deserved.
Helpless, Chu Fu didn’t want to owe so many people favors. She simply said that she wouldn’t accept any more donations, then transferred some gold coins to Lively Not Delicate and asked her to help purchase the Contribution Points.
Even so, some people still chased after Chu Fu to give her their Contribution Points.
Those who had three thousand or five thousand points left and nowhere to spend them all sent them over to Chu Fu.
In the end, she somehow gathered one hundred million without spending a single copper.
At least ten thousand players seemed to have come over to give her their points.
“Thank you, everyone, but you really don’t have to do this. If you have spare Contribution Points, sell them to Lively Not Delicate instead!”
After saying that, Chu Fu chose to return to Thorn Town.
In the end, Lively Not Delicate also purchased one hundred million Contribution Points, spending ten thousand gold coins, and then transferred them to Chu Fu.
Chu Fu bought the Growth-Type Divine Artifact Embryo.
This time, she hesitated.
At present, earrings and forehead ornaments were extremely scarce in the game.
However, the poison bottle had played a major role this time, making Chu Fu realize just how rare and unique this piece of equipment was.
Most importantly, within the game, the poison bottle could currently only collect effects such as the plagues and toxins released by Chu Fu.
But once it was withdrawn into reality…
Chu Fu didn’t even dare imagine how powerful this thing would be.
It was obviously an item that was mediocre in the game but terrifyingly useful in the real world.
Chu Fu no longer hesitated and upgraded the poison bottle.
[Poison Bottle (Gold Grade—Growth-Type):
Additional Trait: Growth-Type. Requirements for the next growth stage: Collect 10 types of Gold-grade toxins, 10 types of anti-toxin or detoxifying substances, and 50 Space Stones.]
The requirements weren’t too high.
After that, Chu Fu used the Talent Enhancement Stones on her S-rank talent, Poisonous Being.
Yet after using all six Talent Enhancement Stones, Poisonous Being still hadn’t advanced to SS-rank.
“The experience requirement for a second class is double. Could it be that enhancing a second talent also requires twice as many stones?”
Chu Fu helplessly pursed her lips, but there was nothing she could do.
The stones had already been used. If the talent didn’t advance now, it would eventually improve later anyway. Once she adjusted her mindset, Chu Fu stopped paying attention to it.
Next came the Skill Enhancement Stones. Including her rewards and purchases, she had twenty of them.
Her new class had given her three additional abilities, and she could learn a new one upon reaching Level 30.
But then again, her new class, Spirit of the Forest and Sea, was only Level 1!
[Class: Spirit of the Forest and Sea (Hidden Class)]
[Class Trait: Increases the attack power of all wood-element skills by 20%.]
[Basic Skill 1: Nature Spirit Contract: Form a contract with a plant, granting it sentience and allowing it to share 30% of your attributes. One plant can be contracted for every 10 points of Spirit.]
[Basic Skill 2: Verdant Rejuvenation: Wield wood-element healing magic. It can heal contracted classes, as well as yourself or any friendly target. Adds 20% of your own Spell Attack to the healing amount.]
Chu Fu’s eyes instantly lit up.
The Spirit of the Forest and Sea seemed to be a class similar to a plant summoner, and it complemented her Plant Girl abilities perfectly. The effects could even stack together.
She hadn’t expected her Second Talent to correspond with her First Class, while her First Talent corresponded with her Second Class.
Without giving it much thought, Chu Fu used Enhancement Stones to raise the Spirit of the Forest and Sea’s first basic skill to Level 10.
[Nature Spirit Contract: Form a contract with a plant, granting it sentience and allowing it to share 80% of your attributes. One plant can be contracted for every 5 points of Spirit.]
The amount of her attributes shared had increased by 50%, while the contract requirement had been reduced by half.
Chu Fu glanced at her own Spirit attribute.
The Origin Dungeon had given her +100, the town-defense battle +4, purchasing from the Town Defense Contribution Shop +10, and leveling up had given her +16 free attribute points.
Spirit: 647 (+857) = 1,504.
She could contract 300 plants.
That was nowhere near the thousand-strong army of skeletons commanded by Laoji Fuli, but Chu Fu’s contracted plants would possess 80% of her attributes. They definitely wouldn’t be cannon fodder—they would be an elite force.
She could hardly wait to raise the Spirit of the Forest and Sea’s level.
Just as Chu Fu was planning how to improve herself later, Laoji Fuli sent her a private message.
“Classmate Chu, are you planning to run a dungeon first later, or are you going straight to change classes and withdraw your in-game abilities into reality?
“If you’re running a dungeon, you have to bring me!
“If you’re withdrawing your abilities, Linjiang City recently issued a new regulation.
“Any player who withdraws their abilities into reality has to sign a declaration and watch a video about the confidentiality agreement.
“It will all take place at Origin University. Don’t forget to go.”
