Global Composite Master: Compositing an Undead Army from the Start-Chapter 119 - 116: Heart Pendant! (4/5) _1

Chen Mo found it in Xu Tao’s backpack.

The name and effects of this special equipment were similar to, but not exactly the same as, what the man had described earlier.

It showed that Xu Tao was quite adept at making things up, painting a convincing picture that the two men had wholeheartedly believed.

[Heart Pendant·Purple Gold-grade]

[Profession Restriction]: None

[Equipment Requirement]: None

[Equipment Attribute]: Life recovery speed 10% per second, energy recovery speed 10% per second.

[Equipment Special Effects]: Unity

[Unity]: If there is a friendly unit with the same profession system within a radius of one hundred meters around you, you can choose to bind with one person. During the binding, you will acquire immunity to all damage. However, any damage inflicted on the bound person means you will suffer double the damage! The binding must last for at least 5 minutes before it can be unbound or the binding target can be changed.

Warning! If you move more than 100 meters away from the bound person, you will die immediately!

[Equipment Description]: Stand together in unity, faithful until death. Beware of betraying your vow, or else...

Wow! What a deceitful pendant. No wonder Xu Tao didn’t dare reveal its real information, Chen Mo thought.

"How deceitful is it?" Yan Yingyue’s large eyes were filled with questions as she looked over curiously.

Chen Mo immediately shared the pendant’s information with Yan Yingyue.

"The effect of this pendant is quite different from what the man described earlier," Yan Yingyue remarked.

"Of course," Chen Mo replied. "Xu Tao had to lie to save his life and reduce their covetousness!"

"Then why did he look for two people? According to the pendant’s description, there doesn’t seem to be an upper limit on the binding duration. Couldn’t he just bind with one person?"

"No, he needed two people because one person is more dangerous than two and also harder to control."

"Why?"

"Firstly, for mutual supervision! Secondly, to increase his control! And thirdly, to reduce variables!" Chen Mo explained.

"Imagine this: after Xu Tao binds with someone and starts fighting monsters, what if his teammate suddenly acts up and runs out of the 100-meter range? It would be hard for Xu Tao to notice while he’s focused on fighting. But with two people, one can keep an eye on things for him, ensuring he’s promptly informed."

"Secondly, if there’s only one person, Xu Tao has fewer options. It would become a purely cooperative relationship where he might not be able to maintain control. However, with two people, they would feel a sense of competition with each other. If one performs poorly, they risk being replaced, so they naturally wouldn’t dare to disobey or run off."

"Thirdly, considering the psychological effect of weighing pros and cons, fewer variables are likely with two people compared to one. And since he lied to two people, even if variables arise, they are more controllable. After all, he doesn’t actually need two people; one obedient person is enough."

"I see. No wonder he had to lie," Yan Yingyue said.

"But this pendant has such a nasty catch. Once its effect is activated, moving more than 100 meters away from the bound person causes instant death."

"There’s no help for it. Invincibility is an ability strictly limited by the Heavenly Dao; it’s clearly under high-level control. This price is actually quite good." Yan Yingyue mused that as long as one could find a trustworthy person, this pendant could be a very powerful tool.

Thinking of this, she inadvertently stole a glance at Chen Mo.

Forget it. At least it has an unconditional recovery effect. Having it is better than nothing. I’ll just wear it as a recovery necklace, Chen Mo decided.

He immediately equipped it.

As for the Unity effect, he didn’t even consider using it. It was too much of a trap. He disliked entrusting his life to others.

「Meanwhile, outside the instance.」

"Huh? This bizarre trio has actually all been killed, one after another," a teacher exclaimed.

As the number of remaining participants dwindled, many teachers had already taken notice of these three individuals. Their presence was even more peculiar than Chen Mo and Yan Yingyue’s. After all, Chen Mo and Yan Yingyue had the mysterious five-star profession. But these three were all known four-star professions, and the teachers were very clear about their capabilities. For such a small team to have survived and farmed monsters until now was indeed quite strange.

This was especially true since it was already the twelfth day; by rights, the current monsters should be very difficult to kill. Even normally configured teams had to farm monsters with extreme care. Yet this trio of assassins completed their tasks at an incredible speed. While they couldn’t compare to the absurd pace of Chen Mo’s duo, they were still remarkably fast—so fast that even the strong teams from the aristocratic families and the Anti-Aristocratic Alliance couldn’t hope to match them. Such strength was definitely not to be underestimated.

But now... such a strong team of three had inexplicably died, one after another. This was truly baffling. Their names hadn’t even flashed, which meant they weren’t wiped out by a BOSS. So, the only remaining possibility was that the three of them were killed by other participants! Only three factions remained in the instance, and at a glance, any of them seemed capable of eliminating the trio.

Just then, a teacher joked, "This trio came from behind, surpassing the aristocratic family teams and the Academy Alliance team. Do you think they were ganged up on and killed by those two groups?"

Another teacher retorted, "If those groups wanted to do that, why wouldn’t they target Chen Mo and Yan Yingyue first? They’re firmly at the top of the leaderboard."

"But look at the members of the aristocratic family teams. With Chen Mo, who is himself from an aristocratic family, likely to interfere, I’m afraid no one in this instance could make a move against him."

"That’s plausible," a third teacher chimed in, "but I thought of another possibility. Perhaps these three were discontented. Figuring they had already made it into the top five, they thought, why not try to break into the top three? So, they tried to pick a fight with Chen Mo and Yan Yingyue, but were outmatched and killed instead."

"Now that you mention it, that’s also quite possible," another agreed.

The teachers from the school these three students attended felt somewhat displeased hearing the other teachers jokingly discuss their deceased students. However, by this late stage of the instance, it had essentially reached a point where killing was tacitly accepted. The so-called "college entrance examination bonus instance" was not as simple as it appeared on the surface. The entire world nowadays was a brutal battlefield; no one could grow up sheltered in an ivory tower. Warriors needed to be forged through blood and fire.

So what if they were five-stars? New five-star talents emerged every year; there was always new talent. The world was not short of geniuses. Even geniuses had to undergo cruel competition and trials, standing out from the crowd to become powerhouses in their own right. This examination was, in fact, a clear life-or-death trial. That was why there was a warning to dissuade participants before it began! Once inside the instance, as long as one didn’t kill excessively and wasn’t caught with solid evidence, the Academy Alliance would naturally not take the initiative to pursue accountability.