MTLNOVEL Chapter 166: Abnormal Amplification! (Three in One, 9/9)_3
However, once they realized they were just sent to put on a show, the Aliens paid no further heed.
Sometimes, becoming too overwhelmingly strong can feel so fake that both allies and enemies may treat you as a sham.
That's what's happening to Chen Mo right now.
Previously, people tried to assign various abilities to Chen Mo in an attempt to justify his performance. However, after failing to find a plausible explanation, they just gave up, dismissing it as simply outrageous.
In the Underworld City, Chen Mo had now reached the 25th floor's BOSS.
This giant BOSS resembled a Tyrannosaurus Rex and seemed quite terrifying, as if it could devour hundreds of people in one bite.
After defeating this beast, my reward will be upgraded to an SSS-level reward!
As long as he managed this, Chen Mo would be satisfied, regardless of the possibility of being killed and disqualified on the subsequent floors.
What else can you ask for when you're able to earn an SSS-level reward?
In contrast, many ordinary players who made it this far often still only possessed their initial C-Class reward, as many could only have reached this point by selecting attribute rewards right from the start.
The 25th floor's BOSS was akin to a level-20 silver-grade BOSS, but with no first-transition state, its Health was relatively low. Even after increasing forty-fold, it only amounted to several hundred million.
It was still quite easy to deal with.
A dense swarm of Skeleton Monsters spread out around Chen Mo. Despite the BOSS having a Dodge BUFF, just a few more arrows would be enough to instantly kill it!
To claim Chen Mo was slaughtering a low-level BOSS like a chicken would be no exaggeration!
[The Heavenly Dao's Hint: You have successfully killed the 25th floor Guardian of the Mysterious Underworld City. You can choose one of the following three rewards! Additionally, you can consume 1 bravery point to clear a Global BUFF or grant your team a Global BUFF.]
[Reward 1]: Remaining time increases by 5 hours!
[Reward 2]: Current reward rank increases by one tier!
[Reward 3]: Attributes of all team members increase by 100%.
Chen Mo closed his eyes and chose the second option.
[The Heavenly Dao's Hint: Upgrade successful. The reward you can acquire upon completion of the current Underworld City is now SSS-level!]
Good. The minimum guaranteed reward is secured. Now I can really let loose.
Since the Underworld City doesn't cause actual death, Chen Mo was keen to venture deeper into the following floors.
[The Heavenly Dao's Hint: You have successfully defeated the 25th floor's Guardian of the Mysterious Underworld City, earning you five bravery points. With a current total of fifteen bravery points, the rank of the title reward you can claim at the end of the Underworld City will depend on your bravery points.]
Right after The Heavenly Dao's Hint ended, a cloud of smoke rose up in front of Chen Mo, and a mysterious man wearing a hooded cloak appeared before him.
"Greetings, valiant Adventurer. I am the Skill Master who provides assistance in this Underworld City. Here, you can use your bravery points to buy some Skills, or I can help reduce the Cooldown of your current Skills."
"Oh? Cooldown reduction? How does that work?"
"If you're willing to pay me 1 bravery point, I can reduce the Cooldown of all your Skills by half."
Halve the Cooldown on all Skills?! Chen Mo felt genuinely tempted by this offer.
However, he was unsure about the number of bravery points required for an SSS-level title, so he dared not use them rashly.
"Excuse me," Chen Mo asked, "could you tell me the relationship between bravery points and title ranks? If you tell me this, perhaps I can part with some bravery points."
The mysterious man in the hooded cloak smiled and said, "Of course, I can. You can get an A-Class title with ten bravery points, an S-level title with fifteen points, an SS-level title with twenty points, and an SSS-level title with twenty-five points."
"I see. Give me a moment to do the math," Chen Mo replied.
He immediately began muttering and calculating.
I currently have fifteen bravery points. If I don't spend any, I'm guaranteed at least an S-level title.
If I can pass the 30th floor, my bravery points will reach twenty-one. I would be guaranteed an SS-level title and have one extra bravery point to spend, but it wouldn't be enough to get an SSS-level title.
If I can pass the 35th floor, my bravery points would reach twenty-eight. I would be guaranteed an SSS-level title and still have three extra points to spend.
Others who reached this floor only got an A-Class title because most people had already spent bravery points earlier on, and fifteen bravery points were just enough to trigger the acquisition of an S-level title.
Even spending a single bravery point earlier would prevent one from getting an S-level title on the 25th floor.
Chen Mo had held back from using any bravery points to reach this stage, thus securing the fifteen-point threshold.
However, for the twenty and twenty-five point thresholds, there was clearly some leeway.
The only concern was that if Chen Mo spent one point here but then failed to pass the 30th floor, he wouldn't just miss out on the SS-level title; his guaranteed S-level title would also be downgraded to A-Class.
Chen Mo considered it carefully. If his Skill Cooldowns were halved, passing the 30th floor shouldn't be too difficult, given the current rate of increase in the BOSS's strength.
The 30th floor could either have a level-30 silver-grade BOSS or a level-20 first-transition silver-grade BOSS.
The former would be manageable, but the latter's strength would be a significant step up.
After all, the power gap between a monster that had undergone its first transition and one that hadn't was enormous.
Nevertheless, Chen Mo felt his current strength could withstand even a first-transition silver-grade BOSS that had received a substantial attribute boost.