Rags to Riches: The Rise of a Dual-Talent Prodigy
Chapter 34 She Hates Every Magic Beast Equally!

Chapter 34: Chapter 34 She Hates Every Magic Beast Equally!

Different-level instance strategies have different reward mechanisms.

After E~B-level dungeons are cleared, the person who kills the boss last will receive attribute bonuses based on the boss’s characteristics. For example, the Three-headed Demon Electric Lion rewards strength, speed, agility, and thunder attribute bonuses.

E-level instances can only provide one attribute bonus, and which one you get depends on the killer’s own quality conditions.

If you’re a Thunder Attribute Elemental Master, you’ll receive a Thunder Attribute bonus first; if you’re a Strength Attribute Supporter, you’ll receive a Strength Attribute bonus first.

But if you’re like Qian Qi who is none of these, then it’s up to random luck~

Fortunately, the strength attribute of this Three-headed Demon Electric Lion has long surpassed E-level, reaching the D-level, a good deal for this rookie, Qian Qi.

Qian Qi is very satisfied with his strength increase. Removing the external weapon’s enhancement, the innate strength is the true king, under absolute defense and heavy punches, all the fancy moves are just clouds.

[Other clearance rewards↓]

The blue panel floats above the horn lion’s head, reminding Qian Qi.

Qian Qi looks over and finds the horn on the lion’s head falls off naturally. She can’t help but rejoice, looking at the lightning attributes stored within the aqua-blue horn, she asks, "How much is this thing worth?"

[...] Are you only thinking about money!

[100 yuan can buy you the ’Demon Electric Lion Horn Usage Manual.’]

Qian Qi: ... Hey, hey, hey, who only thinks about money here!

Qian Qi doesn’t want to buy it; thinking about the "ninety thousand yuan" she just gobbled down makes her heart ache. Now she really doesn’t want to spend a penny!

When she goes back, she’ll ask Senior Su Xingle, he surely knows!

Thinking this, she starts rummaging around the Demon Electric Lion again, trying to find something else valuable.

Several minutes later, Qian Qi suddenly speaks, "Tongzi, do you know?"

[What?]

"When I was little, the Mother Director said she’d make lion’s head meatballs for us to taste the next day." She slightly narrows her eyes, a few strands of nostalgia flash through them.

Seeing her so sentimental, the system panel faces her for a while in silence.

"Back then, being little, I thought the lion’s head was made from a real lion’s head and was full of anticipation."

Qian Qi strokes the black lion’s head under her palm, her tone becoming more mournful, "Until the next day, it turned out that the lion’s head was just a large meatball, but for us poor folks, having meat to eat was a great happiness."

[... If you want to eat, we can buy some on the way back.]

"Oh, Tongzi..." Qian Qi shakes her head, sighs deeply, filled with regret, "Until today, that imagined ’lion’s head’ has yet to appear on my plate..."

System: [...]

System: [???]

Wait? That can’t be what I think it means, right?

Qian Qi pats the lion’s head, somewhat expectant, "Do you think this thing will taste good roasted?"

System: [...]

This can’t be eaten!!!

Seeing the system speechless and sending a flood of ellipses, Qian Qi can’t help but laugh heartily. Just as she thinks of teasing the system more, she suddenly feels the ground shaking.

"What’s happening? An earthquake?"

Qian Qi panics, she quickly looks around but discovers it’s not an earthquake, it’s a Magic Beast Tide!

Though not an extreme tide, the number of beasts in this Black Forest is indeed sparse. A dozen or so magic beasts scattered and are rushing towards here, but it’s still enough to scare Qian Qi witless.

"Oh my!" Qian Qi quickly stuffs an Earth Fan Fruit into her mouth, not forgetting to grab the lion’s head tightly, dragging the Three-headed Demon Electric Lion as she flees.

Behind her, the magic beasts pursue relentlessly. Their eyes glow scarlet as they fixate on the Three-headed Demon Electric Lion, as if it’s some delicious feast.

Qian Qi wants to cry but has no tears, "Why are they chasing me unwaveringly!"

The blue panel glances at the brain matter on the lion’s head, smiling: [Because you have urgent sugar~ brain matter?]

Qian Qi: ... Don’t use such old jokes!

Qian Qi obviously can’t outrun magic beasts. She’s directly topped and flown up by the rushing beasts; Qian Qi and the Demon Electric Lion draw a black and yellow arc in the air, finally "boom" landing on the ground.

Qian Qi has long lost count of how many times she’s been flown out. To save her life, she painfully abandons the Demon Electric Lion, frantically running back the way she came.

It’s not that she can’t fight these magic beasts, but her stamina is depleted.

Just throwing the blue panel earlier, dealing C-level damage, her fragile arm muscles were strained painfully.

So she’s not sure if the Earth Fan Fruits in her pocket are enough to kill these magic beasts; rather than waste money and stamina, it’s better just to leave the instance.

Leaving behind the Demon Electric Lion to them, they’ll surely stop pursuing her, right?

Such is Qian Qi’s silent thought.

But, things didn’t go as she had planned.

A few higher-level magic beasts monopolized the Demon Electric Lion’s body, and the rest, driven mad by hunger, turned and targeted the isolated Qian Qi.

Qian Qi: ???

I’m really not tasty!

I’m super tough!

Qian Qi runs desperately, but as mentioned, human speed can never match that of magic beasts; Qian Qi is naturally caught up by them.

However, things are not entirely bad; in their struggle over Qian Qi’s skinny morsel, the beasts continually threw her back and forth. Qian Qi crawled out from one mouth, only to be tossed into another.

"Four hundred eighty thousand, four hundred fifty thousand, four hundred twenty thousand... three hundred ninety thousand, three hundred sixty thousand..." Qian Qi sobs, her face full of tears as she stuffs Earth Fan Fruits into her mouth.

Darn it, her little money!

Her sweetly beautiful retirement life!

She hates magic beasts! She equally hates every magic beast!!!

After great difficulty, Qian Qi finally reaches the plains, where she appeared on entering the instance before, standing before a rectangular black hole space.

That’s the exit of the instance!

Qian Qi cries tears of joy; she runs to the front of that black hole space, lifts her foot to step into the instance exit, not forgetting to turn back and flip off the magic beasts, "Goodbye to you all!"

As soon as she finishes speaking, Qian Qi leaves the instance and returns to the vegetable garden in the backyard of the Bright Orphanage.

The clean and clear air makes Qian Qi feel immensely secure; she takes several deep breaths of the air of the human world, satisfied, "Surely, this place is better."

"Oh right~" Suddenly remembering something, Qian Qi quickly walks to where she had fallen before and found the previously fallen sharp black object.

She foolishly touches it, the next second she’s back in the dungeon, staring eye-to-eye with the magic beasts searching for her.

Qian Qi: ...

Qian Qi: "Hi?"

The magic beasts roar angrily, scaring Qian Qi as she tumbles and crawls back into the dungeon exit, returning to the human world.

"Phew! This dungeon is too inhumane! At least give a confirmation key!" Qian Qi curses and gives a bad review, very dissatisfied with the dungeon’s entrance mechanism.

System: [...]

It’s not a game instance, right? Confirmation key, you wish!