Chapter 190 - 131: Height Card and Lighting Stone! A Bloodthirsty Vine that Can Simulate and Learn! The Upcoming Rainy Season

Chapter 190: Chapter 131: Height Card and Lighting Stone! A Bloodthirsty Vine that Can Simulate and Learn! The Upcoming Rainy Season

[Daily settlement beginning. Based on your gains and performance over the past day, you will receive a score and rating, which will be automatically converted into corresponding Card rewards.]

[Over the past day, you have forged multiple Extraordinary Weapons and Extraordinary Artifacts, including the Blood Eye Blade, the Snakebone Giant Axe, and the Bipolar Bow. Additionally, your raised poultry have begun laying eggs for the first time, and you have officially consumed crops from your farmland...]

[Score: 131 Points]

[Rating: A]

[Rewards: Ability Card - Top-Level Recruited Person Enhancement Card, Building Card - Height Card, Building Card - Lighting Stone]

[Hint: Excess score points have been automatically converted into low-level Cards.]

"131 points, an A Rating?"

Chen Chong wasn’t surprised.

He vaguely recalled that the last time he forged an Extraordinary Artifact, his score was 167 points, and his rating had reached A+.

But that was with the bonus of going to the barren mountains to collect the teeth of a Blood-tooth Python, selling some coarse salt, and the haul from the traps he brought back from the riverside.

This time, however, he had gained almost nothing all day besides forging a few Extraordinary Weapons and Artifacts, so to still get an A-Rating was something Chen Chong was quite satisfied with.

’It seems forging Extraordinary Weapons and Artifacts can also increase my score, but there are limits. It doesn’t add as much as hunting Extraordinary Creatures directly.’

’Still, even so, this is a rating the others at school would find hard to achieve...’

Chen Chong looked at the three cards before him—one purple, one blue, and one green.

Aside from the "Top-Level Recruited Person Enhancement Card," whose purpose he had guessed, the other two were cards he’d never seen before. He didn’t quite understand their function at first.

[Card Type: Ability Card - Top-Level Recruited Person Enhancement Card]

[Rating: A-Level]

[Description: Upon use, this card will significantly enhance all major attributes of a recruited person: strength, speed, stamina, reflexes, and physical constitution.]

[Note: The effects of an Ability Card are permanent. If a superior card of the same type is fused, it will directly overwrite the ability of the inferior card and slightly strengthen the ability.]

[Hint: This ability can only be used on recruited humans. Other creatures cannot use it.]

’Just as I thought. The Top-Level Enhancement Card is the superior version of the Comprehensive Enhancement Card. Their names and descriptions are almost identical.’

’The "minor" enhancement to all physical attributes has become a "significant" one.’

Looking at the Top-Level Enhancement Card in his hand, Chen Chong already had the perfect candidate in mind...

[Card Type: Building Card - Height Card]

[Rating: B-Level]

[Description: Can be used on an area of 100 square meters to increase the indoor height by 10 meters.]

’Increase the height by 10 meters...’

Chen Chong’s brow furrowed slightly.

Although this was the first time he had received such a card, he could tell that the Height Card, like the Vacant Land Card, was a type of card that expanded space.

However, compared to the Vacant Land Card, the Height Card was clearly more limited.

It could only be used inside a building.

So far, the height of his house wasn’t in urgent need of increasing. The three-meter-high ceiling was perfectly adequate.

’It would only be necessary if he had an enormous building, or if a giant Extraordinary Creature like the Blood-tooth Python or Stone Claw Eagle was living inside...’

After thinking for a moment, Chen Chong decided to use it anyway.

He chose to use it in his room, not the living room.

Firstly, the Rock Armor Eagle was growing quickly and would likely become a large Extraordinary Creature in the near future.

Although, based on the size of its egg, it might not grow larger than the Stone Claw Eagle, its size definitely couldn’t be compared to the Tiger Striped Dog or the Lion-headed Goose.

After all, it already weighed several dozen pounds as a fledgling. Chen Chong absolutely refused to believe it wouldn’t weigh hundreds, if not over a thousand, pounds as an adult.

Even though he hadn’t figured out how it would get in and out of the house once it grew that large, the increased height would make it more comfortable for the eagle as its body grew bigger.

Secondly, he also wanted to see the effects of the Height Card for himself.

After using several Vacant Land Cards, his room’s area had long exceeded one hundred square meters, which happened to match the area of effect for the B-Level Height Card.

Soon, with the use of the Height Card, the room’s ceiling shot up out of thin air.

One moment, the candlelight could still illuminate the ceiling; the next, it became a pitch-black expanse, the top almost invisible.

Chen Chong was dumbfounded. Holding the candle in one hand and shielding the flame with the other, he started jumping on the spot.

Putting more and more force into it, he jumped higher each time.

Finally, using almost a third of his strength, he managed to touch the ceiling.

"It’s this high?"

Chen Chong was a little surprised. The room’s ceiling height was definitely over ten meters.

’It seems the height increase was the card’s ten meters added to the original three meters. By that calculation, the total height is a full thirteen meters.’

’That’s almost as high as a four-story building.’

Judging by the candlelight, the newly added wall height, just like the space extended by the Vacant Land Card, was made of some kind of grayish-white material of unknown composition.

Gazing at the room, which could now be described as "cavernous," Chen Chong looked at the sleeping Rock Armor Eagle in its enclosure and smiled.

"There we go. With this much space, even if you grow as big as a Stone Claw Eagle, it’ll be enough for you to come in and rest."

"When you’re all grown up, I’ll either build you a nest on the roof or open up a passage through the windowsill. We’ll see where you prefer to be then..."

It was unclear whether it heard Chen Chong’s words or if it was just a coincidence, but the sleeping Rock Armor Eagle’s beak opened slightly, and it snuggled deeper into its nest...

Chen Chong gently stroked its feathers, only turning his attention to the third card after a long while.

[Card Type: Building Card - Lighting Stone]

[Rating: C-Class]

[Description: A peculiar stone from the sunless abyss that can emit light in the dark.]