A Core Ship From The Start-Chapter 327 - 260: Shelter Buff_1

Chapter 327 -260: Shelter Buff_1

“Phew…..”

Duanmu Huai opened his eyes and stretched.

After taking down that unkillable thing, Duanmu Huai, Claire and Sherry took a train out of the city. Then, the game tally screen appeared, indicating the completion of the first map.

“Let me see what goodies I’ve got…”

Duanmu Huai said, opening the system interface, and soon the system prompt appeared before his eyes.

[Biohazard Map – End of Chapter One]

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[Points earned: 1000]

[Claire completed the mission unharmed +500]

[Sherry completed the mission unharmed +500]

[Consecutive mutant kills x3 +3000]

[Total Biohazard species eliminated +13000]

[Grand Total 18000 points]

[Point Shop now open…]

“Hmm……”

Duanmu Huai opened the shop and gave it a quick glance. Basically, the rewards for this crossover event were neither overly powerful nor unreasonably extravagant. For Duanmu Huai, the only useful things in the real world were the construction points for building facilities, and the exchange for experience points. As for other stuff like rocket launchers or shotguns, he wasn’t interested.

However, as Duanmu Huai scrolled to the bottom of the shop list, he paused.

“Special reward — Shelter Buff? What’s that all about?”

Looking at the special reward at the bottom, Duanmu Huai curiously clicked to open it. Soon, a line of information floated into his view.

[Shelter Buff: Increase followers’ virus resistance by 10% (48 hours cooldown) and remove one disease (Fully unlocked when fully exchanged, 48 hours cooldown)]

So that’s it.

Upon seeing this, Duanmu Huai came to a realization. While he certainly wouldn’t need it for himself, his followers could use it. Duanmu Huai remembered clearly that his followers were under a Shelter of divine protection. Meaning anyone who prays before the Tribunal Statue can receive blessings. And this Shelter Buff is like adding an extra functionality to the blessings.

This is definitely worth exchanging for!

The Shelter effect of Duanmu Huai’s Tribunal Statue, represented by a War Hammer and a skull, is currently a +1 intimidation and a 10% damage bonus against non-human races after receiving blessings.

If this Shelter is exchanged, it would add extra functions.

This Shelter Buff can be exchanged up to five times, meaning the virus resistance can be increased up to 50%. Although a bit pricey, as it takes 10,000 points per exchange meaning Duanmu Huai’s points from this map can only cover one exchange and it would take at least 50,000 points to fully unlock all functionalities of this Shelter Buff. But…to Duanmu Huai, it’s not an issue at all.

After all, this is only the first chapter.

In the game, Duanmu Huai doesn’t remember having this special buff, but it makes sense since when this crossover event was happening, most players weren’t at a high level. And this Shelter Buff is clearly a special reward for players with divine roles — after all, it’d be a waste for regular players, right?

But for Duanmu Huai, it’s not a waste at all. Being able to remove diseases and increase disease resistance would greatly benefit the Tribunal’s operations in various worlds. After all, sickness is an inescapable part of human existence. With just one prayer before the Holy Statue, one disease can be removed. Where else can you find such a benevolent deity? Furthermore, disease resistance is invaluable for the Tribunal’s warriors.

Although there’s a cooldown period, isn’t that okay?

After all, when a “Boss” seeks to destroy humans, there are only a few methods at their disposal: either poisoning, leading them astray or raising an army. With a disease resistance of 50%, if nothing else, survival chances increase significantly in a world like Resident Evil, right?

Duanmu Huai was also curious about how broad the range of “diseases” was…would cancer count?

If it could cure cancer, wouldn’t everyone flock to the Tribunal and make it the number one religious institution on every planet?

But strictly speaking, is cancer…a disease?

Well…that’s debatable.

No matter what, Duanmu Huai chose to spend 10,000 points to exchange for +1 Shelter Buff initially. As for the remaining 8,000 points, aside from spending 1,000 points to exchange for a set of Tribunal’s clothes, he decided to save them up for now. Initially, Duanmu Huai’s intention in playing this quest was just to exchange for some experience points while killing time, but with a great special buff like this on the table, he couldn’t resist claiming it. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be a huge loss?

So next…let’s start Chapter Two!

With this thought, Duanmu Huai closed his eyes again and lay back on the bed — soon, the scene in front of his eyes began to change once again.

The next moment, Duanmu Huai appeared in a withered forest exuding a bone-chilling cold.

This is the opening of the second chapter, Dark Heresy.

In the first chapter, players escaped along with the main characters of the Biohazard series from a city enveloped in plague. However, at the start of the second chapter, players gained an independent identity. In actuality, the scene Duanmu Huai has arrived in now is from Biohazard 4. The protagonist in this episode is Leon, who is a special agent that came here to find and take away the President’s daughter, Ashley, who has been kidnapped by the cult.

But the plot for players in this chapter is completely different from the first chapter.

If the plot of the first chapter was just about letting players reminisce about the classics, the second chapter’s plot is more like reminding them of their identities – in this chapter, players will take on the role of a Judge and do what they are best at, and should be doing – exterminating the cult.

That’s right, unlike Leon, who came here to save people, what the players need to do is to exterminate all the cultists in this chapter and thoroughly destroy this Evil Cult named the Bright Society!

And this time, the clothes Duanmu Huai is wearing are also different from before.

Unlike his Terminator form that ran into bad luck in the first chapter, this time Duanmu Huai came out wearing clothes. He wore a leather shirt, long pants, and knee-high boots on the inside, while a large black trench coat covered his outer body. The erected collar covered Duanmu Huai’s cheek. The eye-catching golden skull buckle was clearly visible, and at his chest where his cloak was secured, a crimson cross with a rose knot of a skull stood upright.

At the same time, on Duanmu Huai’s left shoulder, there was a dark-red wax seal along with two pieces of parchment paper with the following sentence written on it.

“Heretics crave the fire of redemption, they need not fear, because we will bestow this fire.”

“Whew… this is much more comfortable.”

Duanmu Huai moved his body. This was actually standard equipment for a Judge, but as it places emphasis on agility without much defense, only old cunning men and hidden persons would like it.

Of course, if you wanted to pick up girls in a certain world, you could also wear these clothes to try. In reality, in the game, this set of clothes is basically equivalent to the player’s “fashionable clothing”. You could wear it, but aside from looking good, it had no other use.

Hmm, one could not guarantee the outcome, though.

Alright, let’s get started.

Thinking this, Duanmu Huai focused his mind, then he walked down the hillside towards a village not far away.

At first glance, it seemed to be just a remote town cut off from the world, with people coming and going, busy with farming, appearing to be leading calm yet mundane lives – provided, of course, one overlooked the bonfire burning in the town square, and the bodies ablaze within it.

Upon seeing Duanmu Huai’s arrival, the crowd immediately stirred. Then, several men, brandishing machetes and pitchforks, rushed towards Duanmu, hollering as they went.

Well, even if they weren’t cultists, they’d probably become frightened and fight the moment they saw Duanmu Huai.

However, Duanmu Huai obviously wouldn’t care about such minor matters.

“Die!”

Facing the villagers who charged at him, Duanmu Huai clenched his fists, roared, made big strides, and directly rushed towards the crowd. The villagers screamed as they swung their weapons at him, but their attack had no effect. Duanmu Huai barrelled into the crowd like a bulldozer, instantly sending several villagers flying into the sky. He then suddenly swung his arm and swept across the crowd. All the villagers he struck were immediately knocked to the ground by Duanmu Huai.

Before they could even get up, Duanmu Huai stomped on them, turning these people into minced meat.

“Bang!!”

At this moment, some villagers had already taken out guns from their houses. All of them aimed at Duanmu Huai and pulled the trigger. Accompanied by the sound of gunfire, bullets shot out and hit Duanmu Huai. However, this level of attack didn’t cause him any sort of pause, not in the slightest. He turned around, looked at the villagers standing on the second-floor balcony shooting at him, then made a big stride forward, suddenly leaped up as he fixated on the screaming villager, clutched his hands together, raised them, then slammed them down hard!

“Boom!!”

The next moment, the entire wooden house was directly crushed, and the villager on the front line was beaten into a pile of bloody flesh. Duanmu Huai rose from the rubble, his body covered in dark red blood. Just standing there, he gave off the vibe of a Brutal Demon King poised to obliterate the world.

Even these frenzied villagers seem to have sensed a certain fear at this moment. They looked around uneasily, their weapons clutched in their hands, yet they did not dare to act. Fearful that any of their actions would instantaneously put them in mortal danger.

“Ahhhhhh!!!”

Then, at this moment, the wooden wall next to Duanmu Huai suddenly splintered open, and a man wielding a chainsaw charged at Duanmu Huai while yelling. However, facing this abrupt attack, Duanmu Huai didn’t even twitch a brow, he extended his hand, and grabbed the spinning chainsaw. That chainsaw that had been spinning madly and could cleave almost anything, miraculously came to a stop as Duanmu Huai clutched it!

And then, with a firm grasp of his right hand, the chainsaw let out a mournful explosion, actually directly crushed into fragments by Duanmu Huai!

“…………….”

Seeing this happen, even the man with the chainsaw was stumped for a moment, at a loss of what to do. However, before he could react, he saw the crushed remnants of the chainsaw coming at him – consequentially, the broken chainsaw pierced his head, turning the unfortunate villager into a corpse.

The villager, whose brain was impaled, staggered a few steps, then fell to the ground with a “thud”. Duanmu Huai lifted his head, staring coldly at the villagers in front. Under his gaze, these originally frenzied, bloodthirsty villagers stopped in their tracks. Their bodies started shuddering, and their voices became weak. This was the instinctual response all life forms have when facing the terror of death and destruction.

However, Duanmu Huai only slowly took a step forward, crushing the skull of the dead body beneath his foot.

“Alright, die, heretics, you have no tomorrow.”

At this moment, the vicious smile on Duanmu Huai’s face made him look like a demon king about to destroy the world.