Chapter 15 Better to be prepared
Just when Ruger was beaming with joy, Tia, who finally followed him from behind, added fuel to his fire.
"Eh~~~? You actually killed them with only the lost weapon?"
"Brother Ruger, you are so awesome!"
He had already made a fortune unexpectedly, and now he was praised by his beautiful teammate. Ruger felt so happy.
However, Tia's next sentence immediately calmed his feverish brain.
"Or, let's not go back to prepare first, just go in directly!"
Okay, okay, this sentence alone can't calm him down.
Because deep in his heart, he may have the urge to just use armor-piercing bullets to push all the way.
What calmed him down was another series of voices.
A series of terrifying voices like thousands of horses galloping.
Seeing the dark monsters in the depths of the cave rushing like a tide, Ruger was in a bad mood.
In an instant, it seemed as if he was "back to the starting point".
The immature face in the memory...
Ah,
I lost my mind~
I returned to the ruins of the city hit by the zombie tide in the memory.
Although he also knew that since the zombies with high defense and thick blood could be killed by two armor-piercing bullets, most of the other monsters would be killed instantly.
However, facing this monster like a tide, even if he could kill one with one shot, what would it matter?
Won't it be quickly swallowed by the tide!
So he didn't care how eager Tia was to try, he reached out and grabbed her and turned to run out of the cave.
"Well, sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood, let's go back and make more preparations~"
In fact, he didn't know what Tia meant by preparation...
However, Tia didn't care about his inconsistency at all, but nodded in agreement.
Her point of view was that as an alchemist, you should make more preparations in advance.
As a result, someone gained a lot of favorability for no reason...
About half an hour later, the two finally returned safely to Tia's wooden house.
It's not about how fast they run, or how weak the pursuers are.
The main thing is, in Tia's words, those pursuers have serious "home addiction".
When they were in the cave, they chased after them faster and faster.
As soon as Kozi left the cave, the group of monsters seemed to be instantly slowed down by the quagmire spell.
They wanted to look back every three steps, but they didn't want to leave the cave too far.
When Ruger and the others really ran far away, these guys seemed to have forgotten why they came out, and they ran back to their nest happily.
Well, if that's the case, why did they chase them out in the first place?
"What's wrong with them? Could they be earthbound spirits? Cursed and can't leave there?"
Ruger asked when he returned to the mezzanine on the second floor of the broken wooden house.
Tia explained to him while fiddling with her bottles and jars.
This matter, in the final analysis, has to be attributed to the fragments of the dark world.
Unlike the world of the lost, which originally had no magic, the dark world has magic.
So naturally, the fragments of the dark world thrown into the Lost Planet carry a lot of magic.
But because the original world was magic-free, the magic on the fragments would naturally spread outward and be diluted.
For this reason, whether it was monsters or nephalem on the surface, Ruger saw that their abilities were just so-so.
However, the magic on the world fragments, which were relatively small and had little contact with the outside world, would be preserved.
In other words, compared with the diluted surface, the magic concentration in places like underground caves was higher.
This showed that the monsters there were far more powerful than their counterparts on the surface.
Ruger really didn't expect that this could be explained in this way.
The "nightmare" suffix in the system record seemed abrupt to him, but it was also very familiar.
After all, the original Diablo 2 was famous for three difficulties corresponding to three rounds.
In the normal difficulty, characters and monsters all start at level 1.
The second round of nightmare difficulty is level 36.
The third round of hell starts directly at level 67.
Each nightmare zombie contributed 36 points to him, and seemed to be hinting at this.
As a result, this is what happened?
The concentration of magic power on the world fragments is different, so there are normal difficulty surfaces and nightmare difficulty crypts?
Well, is this considered a copy or dungeon?
If we follow this line of thought, then if it is the lair of the hell demons, such as the underground of the cathedral at the end of the first act of the game...
Will it be directly the hell difficulty starting from level 67?
Hiss~
Thinking of this, even though Ruger has always been optimistic, he shuddered.
Fortunately, according to Tia, the monsters in the cave are unwilling to come out because they can't stand the thin magic power outside.
Then, for the same reason, it seems reasonable that those hell difficulty monsters did not come out to flatten humans.
Taking a deep breath, Ruger decided to put aside these things that seemed to be hiding great terrors.
Anyway, considering his combat power of no more than Dark Level 10, worrying about the problems of Level 67+ is just unnecessary worry.
The most urgent thing is to improve his strength.
While explaining to him, Xiao Tia also made more bombs on the tool bench, really preparing for war.
Her improved large-scale flame bomb can kill the fallen demons within a radius of more than ten meters with one shot.
When she encountered the witch and her group being attacked by monsters halfway before, she was reluctant to use this improved version.
On the one hand, she didn't want to show her true colors in front of her enemies, and on the other hand, it might be because there was not enough stock of this improved version.
In her words, this improved version of the fire bomb is the key to breaking through the evil spirit blockade in the cave, and it is never too much to make more.
Seeing that she gradually focused her energy on making bombs, although Ruger was still full of doubts, he didn't want to disturb her.
Then, he should make some preparations himself.
For example, upgrade and add points.
As early as when he checked the logistics space facilities, he noticed the point-adding method of this system.
Generally speaking, the point-adding system of this system is closer to Elder Scrolls and Fallout, rather than Diablo and World of Warcraft.
For example, skill levels are improved by use rather than skill points.
But compared with the fact that attributes cannot be easily improved in Fallout, this system still leaves enough room for improvement.
That is the attribute enhancement potion in the medicine vending machine.
The reason why it didn't improve before was mainly because the attribute enhancement potion was too expensive.
A shot of any attribute enhancement potion costs as much as 100 points, which he really can't afford.
Even if he has earned a lot of points now, he can only buy one bottle at most.
So he has to make a careful choice.
First, let's look at the attribute column.
[Character: Luger]
[Gender: Male; Race: Huaxia Human]
[Health: 98%; Physical Strength: 92%; Vitality: 100% [Caffeine is taking effect]]
[Attributes [Normal adult male standard value is 5]:
Strength: 4; Agility: 5; Constitution: 4; Spirit: 5; Intelligence: 6; Perception: 6]
[Skills (beginner, intermediate, advanced, expert, master, grandmaster...):
Single-handed gun proficiency: 1 [beginner]
Two-handed gun proficiency: 1 [intermediate]
Los Santos Mechanic: 3 [Master]
Light weapon manufacturing and modification expertise
Land vehicle modification and maintenance expertise
Flying vehicle modification and maintenance expertise
Vehicle weapon manufacturing and modification expertise...]
This was the first time he saw the abilities represented by his mechanic template.
That string of skill expertise, especially the master level of the skill tree itself, was particularly dazzling.
The more he looked at it, the more comfortable he felt.
The two-handed gun skill that was upgraded to the intermediate level by exploding two nightmare zombies' heads in a row was now completely overshadowed.
