CHAPTER 273: CHAPTER 190: DOUBLE THE OVERWHELMING! (THREE-IN-ONE, 5/5)_2

Inside the instance, there was also an Explosive Damage Pearl. If bound, Critical Damage could be increased tenfold. When bound together with the Crit Pearl, the increase in killing power was astonishing. Moreover, there was even a Forbidden Curse Scroll. Once bound and activated, it could directly cast wide-area forbidden curses, which was extremely terrifying! If there weren’t a limit to the number of items he could bind, Chen Mo would have bound them all and simply bombed his way through. Now, all he could do was stare at this pile of good things and slowly contemplate how to use them.

He had collected over three hundred supplies, divided into more than a hundred types. Chen Mo had generally picked up two of each kind but hadn’t yet found a third of any. He really wanted to find three of a kind to try synthesizing them. How much would their power increase? And after synthesis, would a corresponding recipe appear? Could he take this recipe with him when he left the instance? Could he pay to craft it in the future? Could items he crafted outside this instance also be used outside of it? All these questions needed to be verified.

As Chen Mo searched, he prayed he could find three identical items to conduct his first experiment. Halfway through the fifth hour, Chen Mo had found several more items, but none of them completed a set of three with those he already possessed. However, as he persevered in his search, finally, at the forty-minute mark of the fifth hour, he found the third piece of an item he already had in his bag.

"An Invincible orb! This is the third one!"

Looking at the Invincible orb in his hand, Chen Mo showed a trace of excitement. He promptly called up the synthesis interface and placed all three Invincible orbs into it.

[The Heavenly Dao’s Hint: This is a special instance item. Please add ten other special auxiliary items for synthesis!]

Chen Mo randomly threw in ten junk special items. The synthesis interface quickly began to change. As everything fused together, Chen Mo immediately clicked to skip the synthesis animation.

[Congratulations, synthesis successful!]

[You’ve obtained the ’Super Invincible Pearl’! Please claim your synthesized item!]

[This synthesis recipe has been recorded in your recipe list!]

"It can really record the recipe?" Chen Mo was surprised. He immediately clicked on the synthesized item to examine it.

[Super Invincible Pearl]: Grants 10 seconds of invincibility upon activation. Cooldown: 1 minute.

"It became 10 seconds... what if I continue synthesizing?" Chen Mo suddenly grew interested. He tried to use the Token Function directly for synthesis.

"I wonder if this thing can calculate the token cost?"

[The Heavenly Dao’s Hint: Calculating value...]

[The Heavenly Dao’s Hint: Calculation error. Apologies, special instance items cannot be synthesized using the Token Function!]

"Well, that’s just great. Dead before even starting, foiled at the first step." Chen Mo smiled helplessly. Still, being able to synthesize items within the instance was quite good. This way, at least the items he bound would be far more effective than those of others.

"If I can find more Invincible orbs and synthesize them into an Ultra Super Invincible Pearl that grants half a minute of invincibility, then it’ll be an easy fight no matter who I come across."

The dream is grand, but reality is stark. Finding three identical items was already difficult enough, let alone so many. By the end of the fifth hour, Chen Mo had only managed to find a third matching item for three different types of items. He synthesized all of them. After all, not synthesizing them would be a waste. He could bind at most five items, so any extras were useless to him anyway. He decided to synthesize them and see their effects.

[The Heavenly Dao’s Hint: Six hours have passed in the instance, with six hours remaining. It is now the top of the hour. Everyone’s coordinates will soon be revealed. Please be prepared. This coordinate exposure will last for 120 seconds!

Supplies in all regions of the instance have been refreshed, now at double the previous amount. Please explore thoroughly; even previously visited areas may have new supplies!]

[The Heavenly Dao’s Hint: Half of the event time has elapsed. Poison Fog Mode has officially begun! A lethal poison fog will steadily shrink from the edges towards the center of the instance. Participants near the edges are advised to move away as soon as possible!

Special Warning! Participants near the edges of the instance must evacuate immediately! Failure to do so will be at your own risk!

The poison fog is currently advancing at a rate of 1 meter per second! Please take evasive action.]

This time, the Heavenly Dao did not introduce any troublesome new rules. It seemed the threat of the poison fog was deemed sufficient to compel the participants to fight amongst themselves. As The Heavenly Dao’s Hint concluded, everyone clearly saw a faint purple trace appear at the edge of their minimaps, indicating the poison fog had begun to spread. The radius from the center of the instance to its edge was 55,000 meters. At this rate of contraction, the poison fog was still quite far from the central area for now. However, this was clearly intended to force participants towards the center. After all, one might think the poison fog is still far off and doesn’t matter now, but it will only spread faster later. If you don’t secure a position in the central area early on to understand the situation, rushing there later would just be asking for a beating.

Due to the previous chaotic coordinate swaps, the group that had been hunting Chen Mo had failed to find him and had instead ended up fighting amongst themselves. Now, most people couldn’t be bothered to track Chen Mo’s whereabouts.