Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 386 Devouring Curse
Xiao Ran tried the cursed item [Toba] using Lucky Man, Corpse Catcher, and Horizontal Training, but found that the effect was not satisfactory.

This is a cursed item with extremely high curse attributes and some religious overtones, which is not compatible with his three professions.

Then he thought about it and called Sanli out and asked him to try to activate the cursed object.

After Sanli took the cursed object, purple curse patterns appeared on his hand, followed by a wisp of blue-gray mist appearing on the bone bowl in front of him.

【Toba Exorcist】

Curse Power: 20
Included curse: [empty]

Privilege 1: Cult

When taking damage from a curse, activate the Cult to collect the curse on the target into the cursed object.

And depending on the strength of the curse, you will gain 1-1000 points of curse power.

(Note: Cannot be used on curses above C level.)
Privilege 2: Tenfold Return

Casts the collected curse on the target.

Whenever you have 100 curse power points, the power of this curse is doubled.

"Not bad, it's more suitable for me to hold it."

Xiao Ran took a look at the properties of this thing and decided to leave it for Sanli to use.

Anyway, there is not much difference between using Sanli and using it yourself.

Then Xiao Ran took out the cursed objects of cabbage and onion one by one.

After all the curses of the three people were summarized and sorted out, Xiao Ran's only remaining impression of the three people was just one word: "poor"

Bai Cai has a D-level cursed item [Mirror of Calmness] which is barely acceptable to Xiao Ran.

The remaining E-level and F-level cursed objects can only be treated as garbage by Xiao Ran.

Just throw it aside and let okra use it as a toy.

As for Onion, he didn't even have a single D-level cursed item on him. Only the E-level cursed item [Bloody Spear] was still somewhat useful, and the rest were all garbage.

The three of them together only had 246 pieces of paper money.

"Is the current market environment so bad? How dare you become a bounty hunter with such little equipment?"

Xiao Ran had no idea that the three of them were already considered pretty good. Without the support of a big force like the Changchun Association, many beginners simply wouldn't be able to come up with much money for the dead.

It costs money to purchase advanced spells, rent on Bone Spirit Street, not to mention food, drink, and toilet expenses. Now you have to be careful even when taking the bus.

Life was already tight, not to mention the need to upgrade cursed items, which was a big expense.

Xiao Ran is so rich, but how much of it was earned by him through missions? All of it was the wealth contributed by those who died at his hands.

Although the three of them were a little poor, fortunately they still had some spell patterns, and there were quite a few miscellaneous ones.

Adding to the spell patterns he had before, Xiao Ran can now put together more than ten different spell patterns alone.

There are so many spell patterns, and it is impossible to stuff them all into the corpse.

After thinking it over, Xiao Ran decided to devour these runes. Devouring runes would not improve his profession, but it would strengthen them.

Xiao Ran had always wanted to try it, but at that time he did not have many spell patterns on his hands. Now, the number of spell patterns on his hands is enough for him to spend at will.

Anyway, it was still early before the third watch, and Xiao Ran had nothing to do, so he asked Sister Liu to protect him, and then he picked up an F-level spell [Half-Open Eyes] and prepared to devour it.

The reason why I chose this spell is, on the one hand, its level is not high, and on the other hand, this spell belongs to a new profession, but there is no corresponding advanced information, so I don’t feel bad if it is wasted.

"Do you want to devour the F-level spell pattern [Half-Open Eyes]? There is a certain probability that your spell pattern will be strengthened if it is devoured."

"Yes!"

Following Xiao Ran's choice, densely packed spell tentacles emerged from his arm and pierced into the scroll like lightning. Then, like a pack of wolves tearing a sheep, they tore the spell pattern on his hand into pieces.

“Is this… over??”

Seeing the scroll slowly disappearing in his hand, Xiao Ran blinked and raised his head with a confused look on his face.

"Hehehe... Isn't that the end? Don't you think that the probability of such a thing happening is very high?"

Seeing his confused expression, Sister Liu couldn't help but laugh.

Devouring other spell patterns can strengthen one's own spell patterns, but there is a probability for this to happen, and the specific probability is difficult to judge.

But it definitely won’t be high. If Xiao Ran sells the F-level spell just now, he should be able to get 200 ghost money.

After all, it is a new profession, and many people are still happy to collect it.

But now the 200 ghost money has been wasted, no wonder few people are willing to try the method of swallowing and strengthening.

This is simply a waste of money, but the key is that spending money may not necessarily have any effect. If someone is unlucky, the biggest possibility is that he or she will end up with nothing.

But this has just begun, Xiao Ran doesn't plan to end it like this. Don't forget, his profession is a matter of luck, and no one is more professional than himself.

After activating the [Energy Replenishing Bag] in the space with [Lucky Man], Xiao Ran reached in and fumbled out a lavender gem from it.

Privilege 2: Lucky Bag

After activation, you can draw a lucky gem from it.

Lucky Gem: It can add a blessing of luck to you for a short period of time.

Duration: 2 hours
After Xiao Ran crushed the gem, it turned into golden light that shone around Xiao Ran.

At the same time, Xiao Ran stretched out his hand again, and a white light shone on his body.

Luck

Luck: After activation, you will be particularly lucky in the next 20 minutes.

(Note: Luck itself is part of strength!!)

This is the professional skill of being a [Lucky Man]. With the blessing of the lucky gem, I believe that my luck is now at an extremely high level.

Take out another spell pattern and devour it.

The result was the same as last time, failure.

Continue. The third spell pattern appeared in his hand.

"Swallow!"

"fail……"

"Swallow!"

As one curse pattern after another was torn open, Sister Liu on the side couldn't bear to look at Xiao Ran's luck.

But this cannot be blamed on luck, the probability of success of this method itself is too small.

But gradually, Xiao Ran developed a feeling in his heart, and then he tore open another spell scroll.

As his hands opened, tentacle-like spell patterns pierced into the scroll, and a strange feeling arose.

This feeling……

Xiao Ran stared straight ahead, and saw a dark red spell pattern being slowly pulled over and gradually merging with his own spell pattern.

"Ding! You have successfully devoured an E-level spell pattern [Guardian] Devour. You can choose a profession to strengthen it."

"Lucky guy!"

After a little thought, Xiao Ran chose Lucky Man as the object of strengthening.

On the one hand, it was the first time to strengthen it and he didn't know what the effect would be. As collecting corpses was his main job, Xiao Ran didn't dare to try it easily.

As for horizontal training, to be honest, whether this profession is strengthened or not actually has little impact on one's own strength.

After eliminating [Horizontal Refiner] and [Corpse Collector], only the third profession [Lucky Guy] is left.

As Xiao Ran finished his choice, a line of prompt information appeared in front of Xiao Ran.

"Ding! Occupation [Lucky Guy] +1, Agility +5, Constitution +5, occupation skill Luck is enhanced."

“A D-level profession can be upgraded three times. After completing three upgrades, the quality of the professional skills will undergo a transformation.

After the profession is advanced, the enhancement level will still be retained and more enhancements will be available. "

Looking at the prompt in front of him, Xiao Ran's face suddenly showed joy: "Success!!"

"Sister Liu, I succeeded!"

Sister Liu nodded with satisfaction: "Congratulations, but you should be more careful with this thing in the future, it costs too much money."

With this breath, Xiao Ran destroyed at least half of the professional runes remaining in his hands.

Although most of them are F and E level spell patterns, if they are sold, they can still be sold for around two to three thousand yuan.

This is a great success for Xiao Ran. If he had not succeeded, it would have been a huge loss.

Xiao Ran nodded and made a conclusion in his mind.

This kind of devouring enhancement has nothing to do with the original profession and level of the spell.

But the probability of strengthening should be that the higher the level of the spell, the higher the success rate.

As for the failure, it was not entirely a waste of time, but it was transformed into weak energy and replenished in his own spell patterns, but the amount was too small and almost imperceptible.

In the future, you can collect more low-level spells to use as consumables, and then use high-level spells to try to upgrade.

Of course, as Sister Liu said, this is indeed too expensive.

If I didn't have the [Evil-Suppressing Order] that could extract the curse patterns directly from the corpse, I'm afraid I wouldn't dare to think of strengthening this method.

Time passed minute by minute, and Xiao Ran stayed in the room waiting.

Until the time came to three o'clock in the morning.

Sister Liu raised her head and looked out the window.

"coming!"

As the words fell, three gong sounds were heard outside.

“Bang…Bang! Bang!”

Tap one slow note and two fast notes.

At the same time, someone shouted, "It's the third watch... Yin and Yang have been separated, karma will come to fruition!"

As the voice came, Xiao Ran was already prepared to wait for it.

But after waiting for a long time, until the night watchman's call faded away, Xiao Ran didn't feel anything was wrong.

"Sister Liu, is this...over?"

Sister Liu shook her head and was about to say something, but she saw the white cat lying on the bed suddenly open its eyes.

His eyes were fixed on Xiao Ran's shadow.

"Meow!!!"

The sharp cat's cry made Xiao Ran suddenly alert. He instinctively turned around and looked back, only to see a dark shadow standing behind him on the wall.

He held a guillotine in his hand, raising the knife high, and was about to chop down at his own shadow.

"what!!"

Xiao Ran's expression changed and he raised his hand and punched him.

"boom!!"

The punch hit the wall, leaving a fist mark on the wall, but the shadow was not affected. Instead, it raised the sword and chopped at Xiao Ran's shadow.

"puff!!"

Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain and looked down in surprise. He saw blood seeping out from under his clothes on his chest, and he felt a chill in his heart.

If I hadn't stood up in time, the knife would have chopped off my shadow's head, and I... wouldn't my head be torn apart? ?

(End of this chapter)