My Misfortune Crushed Instances-Chapter 99: Discipline Is an Added Service
The clerk’s regret was understandable.
At any other time, missing a task because of being a bit slow wouldn’t have mattered, since whoever speaks up first gets it.
But as soon as Leader Wu heard the words "Leader Pu," he got agitated and turned to stare at Pu Tong.
"Old Pu, 05783, will your team have any trouble taking it? How about letting me handle it?"
"Leader Wu, you’re too kind. It’s just a small thing, no need to trouble you."
"Oh, it’s not about trouble or not, it’s about concern."
The short-haired man smiled insincerely, "If you take the task and mess up in the handling, there could be a penalty. As a colleague, I have to remind you."
Pu Tong wasn’t good at being sarcastic, so after wiping his face, he said with a lack of momentum, "There won’t be any mistakes."
The short-haired man wanted to say more when someone else interjected to defuse the situation: "Wu Di, I see there’s a 06128 that’s quite similar to your previous fieldwork, come take a look."
Although both sides annoyed each other at the time, at least there was no real argument. With the interruption, they didn’t continue bickering, since the task was already decided.
Pu Tong then went to accept another task involving a level 20 present realm with an Elite Monster, which was Li Rui’s requirement. Since they were about to enter the Secret Realm, he didn’t want to challenge the level 25 one. He could handle it, but if He Chengli and the others got hurt, they’d suffer from negative states in the Secret Realm, so they decided not to take the level 25 task for now.
Seeing him take on another task, Wu Di spoke up again: "Leader Pu, be careful, if you’re short on people, feel free to ask me for help anytime."
Pu Tong ignored him and walked away with a smacking sound.
He couldn’t argue because the people under that guy’s team were on average a few levels higher than his. In terms of strength, his team was indeed somewhat lacking, making it a bit of a stretch to take on the level 30 present realm with an Elite Monster.
Besides, when he first took the task, he felt nervous inside but didn’t know why. However, Li Rui’s words on the phone gave him confidence, but after being mocked by Wu Di, he started to waver. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
"Forget it, at worst, I’ll ask Yu Xin for help later."
...
Li Rui didn’t expect that after submitting a promotion application yesterday afternoon, the result would come out the next day. Seeing the signatures in the process, Wang Ba, Wu Mengying, and Song Yao, it was all good.
However, although he had only gone on three field assignments before applying, he had a city-level branch special contribution medal and a provincial branch third-class merit. These were all solid credentials for promotion, with no personal favoritism involved.
Now that he officially became a mid-level agent, he was eligible to exchange for rare-grade strengthening materials.
So after returning from the Qing Garden branch at noon, he headed out again in the afternoon, but this time he didn’t need Pu Tong to guide him to the support team.
He found the logistics personnel who had previously helped him make blood mist bombs and explained his purpose. Knowing he was equipped, the other party didn’t dare to delay and listed out the inventory.
Li Rui calculated that the stock from Mihe City’s villa area plus the harvest from Dalin City’s desert was more than enough to exchange for the rare materials needed to upgrade the administrator jacket. He had already invested in a Spiritual Profound Iron and also had a Thick Earth Crystal on hand.
Given this situation, he also chose to exchange the remaining materials related to physical resistance.
This attribute was indeed quite important. When facing Li Xiaolin, he had taken a full blow to the chest from a tiger’s claw, suffering serious injuries that required him to rely on regenerative skills. But if his physical resistance increased by 10% or even 20%, he might not have needed to use a skill immediately.
He placed the Thick Earth Crystal and the five pieces of Linglong Steel he exchanged into the enhancement tab, bringing the enhancement progress to 98%, so he added some miscellaneous materials to fill it up.
[Enhancement successful!]
The administrator jacket was now at level 12, and besides the increase in panel attributes, there were two additional changes.
[Special Effect 5: Physical Resistance +8%]
[Active Skill — Earth Block: Gain an invisible damage-reducing shield that reduces received damage by 10% for three seconds. Cooldown time is 30 minutes, and the cooldown is not shared inside and outside the Secret Realm.]
Skill-wise, this Earth Block was somewhat inferior to a nerfed version of the regenerative skill, but it couldn’t be helped, as it was acquired with rare materials. At least it added 8% physical resistance.
Anyway, it was definitely better than ordinary-grade enhancement materials. Previously, when enhancing from level 1 to 10, those bits of elemental resistance were only 2% or 3%, with the highest being 8% for lightning resistance. Now, increasing one level with rare materials brought 8% physical resistance.
If he were to enhance the jacket to several dozens of levels later, his Rain Summoner class might turn into some muscular demon, with a sturdiness comparable to a Survival Master who advanced as a Hunter, an Iron Knight who advanced as a Warrior, or a Vajra Protector who advanced as a Martial Monk.
And that’s without considering active skills, just various passive attributes.
The only problem was that rare materials were too expensive; he pretty much had to sweep through two present realms on his own to enhance by one level.
Li Rui turned off the equipment, with the logistics person waiting outside. They weren’t familiar, so naturally, he couldn’t watch others enhance equipment — it was basic courtesy.
He returned to his residence and sent Kong Ji a message.
[Brother Kong, just asking, besides present realms, where else can I get high-rarety strengthening materials?]
A few minutes later, a reply came.
[In the Secret Realm.]
[......Besides the Secret Realm and present realms?]
Li Rui was speechless; mainly, in the Secret Realm, what he got was usually of random quality and mostly plain, so he subconsciously excluded it.
[That’s it. No, wait, there’s the Land of Chaos, hahaha.]
[That place gathers extraordinary individuals from all over the world, and things like looting corpses after killing are quite common.]
Kong Ji replied casually, mostly jokingly, as the Land of Chaos also meant danger. Even someone like Li Xiaolin was just a small fry there. If he could swagger around, he wouldn’t have to take risks to return to the country for business.
However, Li Rui replied seriously:
[Got it, thanks, Brother Kong.]
Hey?? He’s not really planning to go, right?
Kong Ji was so startled that he quickly made a phone call.
"Don’t worry, Brother Kong, how could I possibly go now? I’m not stupid," Li Rui laughed.
"Oh, that’s good. You sounded too serious," Kong Ji breathed a sigh of relief.
"I’m about to enter the Secret Realm, at least wait until I come out to consider it."
"Not even after you get out!!"
Kong Ji’s heart, which he’d just put down, was immediately raised again.
"Just kidding."
"Don’t joke about important things like this!"
"Hahaha, sorry, sorry, what’s your younger brother doing? We still need to tackle a present realm in the next few days. Does he need to come and meet us first? Get familiar ahead of time."
Kong Ji paused for a few seconds and said, "Hmm... that would definitely be better, but the kid is a bit rebellious, I’m not sure...."
Li Rui smiled and said, "No worries, beating kids for customers is also a value-added service. One rare strengthening material can buy it, interested, Boss Kong?"
"So cheap? I’ll give you two pieces, keep one for later, just in case he acts up again."
"Generous boss."
