CHAPTER 156: CHAPTER 143 FIVE RARE REWARDS! (1/5)_1

Facing ten Elite Beasts at once would be extremely difficult for any single challenger.

Chen Mo evaluated the attributes of these ten Elite Beasts. Although they fell short compared to his current attribute values, he knew it would still be a tough battle, even if he could emerge victorious in a one-on-one fight.

Ordinary challengers first had to endure a relentless attack by minor monsters before immediately facing an encirclement of ten Elite Beasts.

Both rounds demanded intense concentration and mental effort and were hard to endure.

A momentary lapse could potentially lead to a fatal outcome.

After all, both minor monsters and Elite Beasts possessed control abilities.

If they managed to hit a challenger under normal circumstances, that challenger would be hit even harder once the monsters used control skills.

Just at the start of this SSS-level challenge, there was already a high mortality rate each round.

However, with the help of his Skeleton Army, Chen Mo bulldozed through each time, as easily as a bulldozer flattening the ground.

The ten Elite Beasts didn’t even get a chance to flex their muscles before they all bit the dust.

[The Heavenly Dao’s Hint: Second stage has ended. Due to the effect of your title, you can obtain rewards from all reward options in this stage. If you are dissatisfied with the current five rewards, you still have five more chances to re-roll.]

Chen Mo skipped the first two sets of rewards since they did not contain any rare rewards and thus seemed mediocre.

Only after Chen Mo re-rolled twice did he encounter rare rewards.

[Choice one]: Life Sublimation (Life value increased by 100%).

[Choice two]: Attribute Sublimation (Attribute value increased by 100%).

[Choice three]: Energy Sublimation (Energy value increased by 100%).

[Choice four]: Damage Sublimation (All damage you inflict is increased by 100%).

[Choice five]: Permanent Invisibility (Rare reward: You can stay in invisible mode indefinitely; entering a battle state will not cancel invisibility).

Permanent Invisibility?

Upon seeing this rare reward, Chen Mo had a different line of thought.

No doubt, the effect of Permanent Invisibility is potent. But if Permanent Invisibility couldn’t be dispelled in SSS-level challenges, then their mortality rates certainly wouldn’t be so high. Even if Permanent Invisibility is a rare reward, with so many challengers, surely many would have chosen this reward. Wouldn’t that mean the success rate would be high? So, the BOSS must have the ability to break invisibility. It seems there’s not much use in choosing this rare reward.

Considering this, Chen Mo decided to continue re-rolling.

He had five chances to re-roll, three of which remained.

However, rare rewards weren’t a dime a dozen. Chen Mo used up all his re-rolls and still didn’t get any rare rewards.

Finally, Chen Mo had no other option but to settle for the last set of rewards he rolled.

Luckily, the last set of rewards he rolled was not bad.

Regular rewards for Life, Attributes, and Energy were included, as well as an additional elemental damage increase.

Since Chen Mo possessed Elemental Control, he could change his attack effect to any elemental damage. Thus, an increase in any type of elemental damage would be useful to him.

In the subsequent rounds, the difficulty began to escalate.

The third round required him to survive for five minutes amidst a joint attack by minor monsters and Elite Beasts.

The fourth round was a battle against Elite Beasts and the familiar Demon King’s Incarnations. However, this time, the attributes of the Demon King’s Incarnations had greatly increased.

The fifth round was another five-minute survival challenge, but this time it was more demanding: for every minute that passed, the monsters would gain a random buff.

The sixth round involved defeating a new enemy: his own Avatar.

Fortunately, the Avatar used a different set of skills from Chen Mo, employing the standard skills a Skeleton Mage could learn at that level.

Chen Mo, of course, easily crushed it.

The seventh round was not about survival but a challenge against an Avatar with twice his attributes.

The eighth round was a fight against an Avatar with five times his attributes.

Round nine necessitated defeating an Avatar with ten times his attributes.

Ever since the Avatars appeared, Chen Mo realized how perverse this SSS-level challenge had become.

While these Avatars didn’t possess his various special skills or Equipment Special Effects, the sheer increase in attributes alone was troublesome enough.

Especially when facing an Avatar with ten times his attributes; if not for his various damage-enhancing effects, he could barely even dent its defenses.

Chen Mo strongly suspected that many challengers failed to even encounter the final BOSS, having already been defeated by their own Avatars.

The most frustrating part was that after finishing round eight and choosing his reward, Chen Mo found his attributes were capped.

Starting from the second stage, all rewards involved attribute-doubling.

Moreover, the multipliers increased with each advancing stage.

However, the rewards had a cap: All Attributes could only be increased to a maximum of 10,000 points, while life value and energy value were capped at one hundred million each.

Fortunately, when Chen Mo reached his attribute cap, the Heavenly Dao showed some mercy. The reward phase then began to display five rare rewards simultaneously.

Chen Mo re-rolled a few times until he finally encountered an incredibly strong batch of rewards.

[Choice One]: Damage Conversion (Rare reward: There is a 30% chance to convert all received damage into healing effects.)

[Choice Two]: Demon Sealing Stone (Rare reward: Seals any ability of the BOSS.)

[Choice Three]: Death God’s Arrival (Rare reward: Upon inflicting damage to a target, that target will die in exactly 5 minutes.)

[Choice Four]: Power of Rebirth (Rare reward: At the moment of death, refresh all abilities and respawn with full health. Cooldown: 1 minute.)

[Choice Five]: Non-corporeal (Rare reward: You will only take damage from Spell, true, and chaos damage types.)

These rewards are undoubtedly lifesavers!

Chen Mo immediately locked in this set of rewards.

However, the better the rewards, the more curious Chen Mo became about the final BOSS.

How monstrous must the final BOSS be, to be practically unbeatable even with such high-tier rewards? Of course, this 99.99% mortality rate doesn’t necessarily apply to those who reach their full potential; many die before reaching that stage. Only that 0.01% persist until they are fully developed. Looked at this way, the final stage might actually be the easiest. Although this line of thinking seems reasonable, given the Heavenly Dao’s consistent principle of balance: The more benefits you receive early on, the greater the adversity you will face later. The likelihood of the final BOSS being overwhelmingly strong is clearly higher.

[The Heavenly Dao’s Hint: Selection complete. All abnormal statuses will now be removed, and all your stats will be fully restored. The final stage of the challenge will begin shortly! Defeat the five-star Demon God’s Incarnation!]

[Special Warning! The final stage is extremely challenging. You have one last chance to abandon the challenge. Do you wish to withdraw?]

I’ve come this far, who would give up now! It would be more practical if you gave me a simulation opportunity like the Realm Breakthrough Assessment. Chen Mo ignored the warning and chose to proceed with the challenge.