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Chapter 55: End, Dominate

Time passed day by day. Zhou Chen met the others during the last few days of the Survival mission and took turns dealing with the attacking monsters. They shared the tasks of finding firewood or fetching water until the last moment.

During this period, they encountered group attacks of the monsters which they had expected, but their combat strength was not low. They relied on the trees in the forest to cover their blind sides and fight and retreat. They spent some time killing all the monsters and obtained some food and equipment.

Zhou Chen's luck was quite ordinary. After the Frost Necklace, only an iron staff dropped, but he obtained a lot of food, so he did not starve.

To their surprise, the tree demons in the forest did not attack them.

Zhou Chen and the others heaved a sigh of relief. If all the tree demons in the forest were to riot, there was a high chance that they would be completely wiped out.

"The system is quite human! These trees are clearly monsters, but as long as we don't provoke them, they are quite peaceful."

On the last night, the ponytail girl who was sitting near the fire and eating a white bread said.

Zhou Chen's fourth official Survival mission, which was the longest one, was successfully passed. The survival rate was not low, and only two of the six people died.

[You have completed the Survival mission. Reward: 1 Physique Scroll (Low Bronze), 1 Small Canoe (Low Bronze), 1 Cold Resistance Potion (Low Bronze)]

"I got a canoe…"

Zhou Chen was a little speechless about the reward. He, who had already finished the Survival mission and returned to the sofa in the living room of his new rented room, did not choose to take this reward out to take a look. He only looked at it a few times in his inventory before using the Physique scroll. Then, he took out the cold resistance potion to take a look.

[Cold Resistance Potion

Type: Low Bronze potion

After consumption, it can remove coldness and increase resistance to freezing damage.

The more you consume, the longer the effect will be. A bottle can guarantee a day's effect.]

"Potion to deal with special situations might be useful in the future."

Zhou Chen returned the bottle of cold resistance potion to his inventory and began to check the other items.

"Spear, claymore, machete, round shield, sword, ax, iron staff, healing potion X2, mask, lighter, coke bottle, candle, roasted potato,… There are also over a hundred thousand Dragon Country bills."

Zhou Chen had tested the Dragon Country bills in the inventory space. The system had limitations on it. It could not be taken out of the inventory space during the Survival mission, possibly because it was not produced by the system.

"I can sell a few weapons, and I will soon have enough money for the fee."

Zhou Chen thought for a moment and placed the iron staff and sword on the trading area, marking the price.

Finally, he opened his character interface to confirm the change in attributes.

[Name: Zhou Chen

Physique: 1.9

Agility: 1.7

Spirit: 1.8

Talent: Passive Plunderer

Active Skill: Windrun I

Passive Skills: Corpse Poison I, Snake Venom I, Agility Enhancement I, Spirit Enhancement I, Physique Enhancement I, Giant Strength I, Combat Arts I, Spear Arts I, Low Light Vision I, Life Recovery I, Underwater Breathing I, Breath Holding I, Body Regeneration I, Light Energy Conversion I

Comprehensive Evaluation: Low Bronze]

"It's still at the low bronze level. I wonder when it will advance to the middle bronze level."

After doing all this, Zhou Chen took off his tattered desert camouflage clothes and washed up.

"Today is Saturday, I don't have to go to work."

Because it was the weekend, he did not need to take leave. He slept after showering.

Although this Survival mission was the longest he had experienced, he was not very hungry after coming out, so he did not eat before sleeping.

He woke up after sleeping for more than four hours. It was noon, and he found that his sword was sold. His savings had broken through 200,000.

"I can pay the fee now. 200,000 in one go might attract attention at my age, I should pay in installments."

After some thought, Zhou Chen gave up on paying all at once and prepared to pay in installments.

He put on clean pants and a shirt and left his room. He took out tens of thousands of Dragon Country bills from his inventory and deposited them in his bank card. Then, he went to the Yang City Orphanage to settle the payment.

After spending some time, he basically solved the issue left behind by the original owner.

When he was returning from the orphanage, he received a call from Boss Liu.

"Little Zhou, that old geezer Wang has sent someone to challenge the dojo again. Are you free today?"

"I'm free. I'll be there in a while."

As the assistant dojo leader, Zhou Chen was okay with overtime occasionally.

Before long, he arrived at Weijiang Dojo and saw a muscular young man of medium height waiting inside. This young man was wearing a black martial arts suit. He had a buzz cut and looked a little ferocious.

"Are you the one who wants to do a dojo challenge?"

Zhou Chen's heart was as calm as water when facing this seemingly ferocious young man. After all, he had killed several people, and his mental state was different from ordinary people.

"Yes. Let's cut the crap. When can we begin?"

The muscular young man was not polite in his speech.

"Let's do it now."

This challenger did not like talking nonsense, and it was the same for Zhou Chen. He walked to the side of the ring and jumped over the ropes.

The muscular young man's eyes immediately lit up when he saw this jump. He also exerted strength and jumped onto the ring, but he was clearly not as smooth as Zhou Chen.

This was not because this young man was weak, but because the stage was quite high and was surrounded by ropes. It was very difficult to jump onto it directly. At least, ordinary people could not do it.

"Begin!"

The moment this young man entered the ring, he immediately announced the start of the battle. He raised his hands to protect his head, while agilely moving toward Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen did not evade the aggressive young man and faced him in the same battle stance. He could tell that this person was stronger than the previous one, and was worth fighting seriously.

Ten minutes later.

Only Zhou Chen was still standing on the ring. The muscular young man had already fallen to the ground due to exhaustion.

His arms and legs had already deformed his tight black martial arts suit due to the swelling. There were also some bruises on his face, making him look a little miserable.

Zhou Chen was in a much better state. His body was covered in sweat, but there was only a slight swelling in some areas.

"I lost… I'll challenge you in two months."

Before long, the muscular young man got up and admitted his failure. Then, he nimbly left the Weijiang Dojo.

Zhou Chen also left after a short rest. He had originally planned to come over for training today, but he could pass it for now since he went through a fight.

"The physique enhanced by the system is really strong. My combat skills are clearly inferior to his, but because I'm more resistant, stronger, and have faster reaction speed as well as high perception, I dominated this strong opponent."

This battle allowed Zhou Chen to see his current level.

Comments 16

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    I think mc should collect money from people who are coming to challenge the dojo. I mean they are wasting your time and energy. If they are stronger than you then they might even hurt you real bad.
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    That makes no sense,
    "The physique enhanced by the system is really strong. My combat skills are clearly inferior to his, but because I'm more resistant, stronger, and have faster reaction speed as well as high perception, I dominated this strong opponent."

    It was said an average young man has a stat of 1.0, right now he doesnt even have 2.0.
    If you look at a body builder, an athlete, or just you look at a martial artist, they have been training for a while, and if truly proffesional they have been training since they were children. One Body Builder can easily have strength multiple of an 'average young man'.

    Unless the battle power difference between 2.0 and 1.0 isnt double but like xmore
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      I think it’s his passives. I mean giant strength let’s him hit him with the force 2.4 strength and his life recovery with his physique probably means he recovers stamina 10 times faster because he is healed by 10 times faster than his current physique. And his combat arts boost his ability to exert that power. And since he can perceive and react twice as well which is difficult to train means he can dodge most of the blows. And yes, against a world class athlete he will lose this guy is probably a disciple of wang or some random martial artist because he targeted a random weak dojo
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      Agreed, kinda wierd
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    YonexAstrox77
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    I don't know why so many saying that author is dumb, FOOO MC need money, but I think you just ignored the fact that MC is smart enough to realize that if full payment at once to the orphanage would cause attention so he paid in installment. Other Chinese MC would just pay in all at once therefore inevitably step on high profile path, but this MC is is truly trying staying low-key, just from the mask alone is already a BIG BIG improvement from those mediocre brainless MC. SO STOP COMPLAINING FOO, MC won't have time to make all that arrangement using hammer or spare spear cause he need to survive first.
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    [Frost Necklace

    Type: Low Bronze item.

    After wearing this necklace, you will obtain the blessing effect, Heart of Frost.

    Heart of Frost: Immunity to low bronze spiritual attacks. Increases resistance to mid bronze and high bronze spiritual attacks.]

    This should be a higher type item to be immune
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    More dumb dumb. If he kept his knife or hammer he could use rope-like materials found in trials or through system trading to make a spare spear or hammer polearm good at using heavy swings to deal with armored opponents.
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      + 51 -
      the author clearly isn't smart enough to think that far ahead
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      1. Offline
        YonexAstrox77
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        But Author is smart enough to make a novel with an average rating of 4 stars.....so just enjoy buddy....
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          Considering what fills over 2/3 of this site, it's not THAT big of an accomplishment.

          And that's a weird argument to make anyway. We're the audience and making remarks about our experience is a completely different thing from writing a novel.

          You don't need to be intelligent to write a story anyway. Plenty of extraordinarily intelligent people can't write novels, or write them well. You'll see that it's quite apparent of you delve into hard scifi, filled with very advanced scientific concepts but sometimes very lackluster storytelling.
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      YonexAstrox77
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      Buddy MC have spear arts.....why would he need other weapon when SPEAR is literally the best weapon against heavy armor enemies......plus you think buying other equipment/materials is easy, it is better to solve current problems such as debt first, lessen the burden then he can focus more on survival......
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        Weapons can break, and in this novel they do.

        Spear is actually quite poor against heavily armored targets. Look up IRL history regarding melee combat. Maybe you're thinking of the lances used in cavalry combat, which have the benefit of a running, armored human and horse to generate an outrageous impact force.

        Lol your priorities are a little odd. Debt won't kill him but insufficient preparation for a death game will. All he needs to survive in the regular world is food and water, which he can easily get for free considering his power. He doesn't even need a house. He certainly won't die to the elements or violent hobos and thugs.

        And when potentially imminent death is at hand, you really aren't distracted by those things.
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      mc has machete so already got shit to cut small shit like ropes and other crap like that
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      Why though. Why would he spend tens of thousands buying a spare spear or making (because he will need a rope by the system or else it will disappear and he would need to find the materials to make it, that being very difficult in a desert) some sort of big hammer. Not only is the big hammer impractical to use (because of it’s DIY origins it’s weight being unbalanced and far away basically means it is impossible to control even with super strength) but it is also dangerous as it can break in combat because rope is easily cut by anything he has to face and burnable so good luck with anything like a dragon. He clearly wants to save up to buy a house and car and buying a spare spear will probably be useless as if his spear is destroyed or thrown away from him the logic it can happen once it can happen twice. It is doubtful that he will even survive then. I think the only reason why he would have a spare spear is if it was convenient like having a better on so I might as well keep it just in case. But is the better one breaks the worse one probably will as well. So the only one who is a dumb dumb is you for not realising how stupid this is. (Also if he sells the metal rod, dagger and hammer he will be able to buy another spear and have some money left over.
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        Don't insult people. It's toxic, adds nothing to your argument, and encourages others to be also be toxic which always ends up killing all the good things in any community.

        People worth interacting with typically avoid toxic environments since that's the smart thing to do, so unless you want to surround yourself with dumb assholes, try to remind yourself not to insult people.

        Anyway, as I mentioned in another reply, it's been awhile since I read this so I don't know the specifics, but I assume that since I mentioned the rope, it's a plausible solution.

        Ropes out of textiles can be surprisingly strong. With nothing but a wet shirt and a broom handle, you could make a crank that can bend metal bars.

        Also, given that the materials are sourced from the system or the world they're in, they would be much stronger than ordinary. Not to mention the mechanical advantage of twined and twisted fibers or just a lot of wraps and layers. The strongest rope known to man are metal cables made of lots of little wires, some of which you can bend and break by hand.

        Also, recall that old sailing ships were put together with rope, and they had to deal with forces strong enough to snap their enormous masts.

        And he may not be able to buy another spear. Small and less effective weapons would be a lot, and I mean a LOT cheaper than full on war gear, especially something like a spear which history has proven to be top tier, not to mention the psychological advantage of being able to attack from a safer distance.

        Oh yeah, and spares are always useful. Things wear out and break all the time. Doesn't mean it's useless. Everything wears out. There is no machine that doesn't. Even diamond cutters wear out.
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          Sorry for calling someone a dumb dumb , a critical insult for anyone especially from a stranger. I apologies for the years of therapy I have caused.

          But no the rope is never said to be special in any way (I have read the entire novel) and the minimalistic system wouldn’t give a rope above or below the standard of ropes. And even if he got the rope he still is a novice at tying ropes. The knife could be argued for but a hammer is dumb as the type of hammer is important, if it is a nail hammer then he might as well hit with the pole and if it is a war hammer the weight will be to a lot for the rope if not the weight the force it will feel every time it hits something with super strength. And If a proper spear breaks why would a makeshift D.I.Y weapon work better. And if things wear out he can just get a better or equal spear even if it’s pricey. And war gear might be pricer but because of the utility of knifes hammer and ropes they should be worth the same ( I don’t think he has rope now anyways)
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