The sight in the second room was even more eerie than the first. The four walls, the floor and the ceiling all had faces drawn on them; the room was completely empty, and the faces on the wall were densely packed. Yet, in the middle of this empty room, on the floor, laid a solitary safe.

This mysterys intention is thoroughly exposed. Feng Bujue walked directly to the safe, and carefully examined it after squatting down, Hmmit is training mode after all, its probably factored into consideration that the player might be frightened to the point where he cant calm down to think things over. His words seemed to suggest he doesnt like the difficulty too low

Wang Tanzhi also followed him in. At that moment he only thought about how realistic each of the faces on the walls were, so much so that he couldnt find any two that were identical. It really felt as if in this room, there were over a hundred eyes just staring at him. It felt absolutely horrifying.

Jue Bro, how about we carry the safe out before we study it? Wang Tanzhi said.

Ill be done in at most three minutes. Feng Bujue quickly stood up again, took out the set of six face sketches, lifted them close, and began to view the many faces on the wall, Approaching the safe will prompt the system to let me enter a six digit numerical passcode that allows me to open it. His gaze quickly locked onto something, Hnits there. He walked over to one of the walls and crooked his head to the left, The numerous faces drawn in this room are merely here in order to distract the players line of sight. He pointed to the wall, Look, a continuous row of six faces, lined up in a slant. In addition they are just like the sketches on the six pages; the profiles are identical. He compared those hard to look at and terrifying faces one by one. Left to right, top to bottom. As each face appeared in order, he matched it to the corresponding page number from the sketches. Quietly he read, 4, 1, 6, 4, 5, 2

Feng Bujue returned back to the side of the safe and began to input the passcode, If we only roughly examined the first room, and didnt carefully search it, then we wouldnt have found the sketch clues. Following that, when we were to open the second room, we wouldve been unable to crack the safes passcode. He turned his head around again to glimpse at the six pages of faces, Actually, the solution is arranged in just the right place so that when you open the door, it is in the most brightly lit position on the wall. But without the sketches from the previous room, even if the order was known, you would not find the passcode.

At this time, the safe really opened. There were two things inside: a key and a card.

I miscalculated. Feng Bujue immediately said after looking at the two items attributes.

Whats wrong? Wang Tanzhi seemed to have been affected by his unruffledness. Currently he had already calmed down a lot; his Terror Value returned to about 3% again.

The key should be used pretty soon, but this Feng Bujue passed the card to Wang Tanzhi.

Name: Explosion Boxing

Skill Card Attribute: Activate skill, after two uses will disappear

Skill Type: Fighting

Effect: Creates an explosion after hitting the target, causes fire-type attribute damage

Consumption: 50 Stamina Value

Learning Prerequisite: Fighting Proficiency F

Note: BOOM!

I originally thought the reward would be equipment, in the end its a skill. Feng Bujue said.

Uhlets not talk about whether its equipment or a skill first. Howd you know thered be a reward Jue Bro? asked Wang Tanzhi.

Isnt it obvious? Even though this mode, besides experience points, doesnt give any additional rewards, to ensure the players interest the scenario still provides two methods to clear it. Feng Bujue explained, Right now were walking the mystery solving route, not the violent rush and kill the enemy route. He held the key in his hand, and led Wang Tanzhi out of the second room.

To not fail on the solve mystery route, the player only has to conquer his fear, cool-headedly face the enemy, fight efficiently, and he can right away level up the Grade of his Proficiencies. As the characters level increases, the number of Fighting Skills and Styles will grow. Its even possible for them to obtain Skill Points in the middle of battle.

Our approach in this game puts more emphasis on improving the overall efficiency in game rather than simply improving combat capability. Solving the mystery could lower the clearance difficulty, lessen the amount of fighting, and better grasp the circumstances in the scenario. This sort of person would lag somewhat in their Proficiency Grades, so the system would naturally have to compensate them in some way. Generally speaking, itll be in the form of more Skill Points.

Listening to this Wang Tanzhi understood, and continued after his words, Since Training Mode has no obtainable Skill Points the players that choose to solve the mystery would just directly obtain materials from within the scenario as a type of bonus.

Correct. Feng Bujue tested the third door and like he predicted, the door was locked. He immediately opened it using the key he held; sure enough it fit perfectly. Once the door opened the key faded away.

The third room was very clean. Located in the area near the wall was a desk, and placed on the tabletop was a single notebook.

Right, what grades are your Proficiencies at? Feng BuJue asked as he picked up the notebook.

My Fighting and Standard are both F, how about you Jue Bro?

I only activated Standard. Feng Bujue had already opened the notebook and looked up, Under what circumstance did your Fighting Proficiency trigger?

I was attacked by some monkey-looking things during the Tutorial. After killing them, the system just alerted me that was I was F Grade for Fighting Skills. Wang Tanzhi recalled, However, Standard Proficiency appeared after the Tutorial ended.

So it was like that, looks like well have to discuss this later, after all six Proficiencies are activated. muttered Feng Bujue.

He immediately turned towards Wang Tanzhi and said, When you gained the skill, the Skill Hotbar also appeared in your menu, right? Since the prerequisite has been met, you should quickly take and equip that Skill Card from just now, maybe itll be useful in a while.

That moment ago was also Feng Bujues first time picking up a Skill Card. When he viewed the Attributes, the system simply notified him that his Skill Hotbar had opened.

Within Terror Paradise the characters Skill Hotbar has twelve slots altogether for Skills, which can only be adjusted before the scenario starts. That is to say no matter how many kinds of skills the character obtains in the future, when entering a scenario the maximum that he can equip is twelve. Moreover, skill cards that have already been equipped, regardless of whether its ever been used or not, all shall be permanently bound with the character and become untradeable. So if a player obtains a Skill Card and wants to sell it off, they should put it inside their messenger bag and should absolutely not equip it to their Skill Hotbar. If they equip the card the item will just disappear and the skill will transform into a set of data in the players menu.

Another game mechanic is that when Skill Cards are treated as items they can only be taken out from a scenario, not taken in. The purpose of this is to prevent someone from equipping twelve skills beforehand and entering while bringing in a pile of spare cards in their bag.

Theres only one exception; precisely, when a player picks up a new Skill Card in the middle of a scenario, fulfills the learning prerequisite, and his Skill Hotbar is not already full. At this moment he can change the newly obtained card from an item to an equippable skill. Furthermore, that exchanged skill needs to return to the login space before it can be re-equipped.

Note: This just means the skill equipped during the scenario will auto-unequip when you return the to the login space and youll have to remember to re-equip if you want to use it later.

If its appeared, then its appeared. But why does this skill state that after two uses itll disappear? Wang Tanzhi puzzled.

Asking this sort of question obviously shows he didnt read the game explanations.

Feng Bujue explained while eagerly flipping through the notebook in his hands, The Skill Cards Attributes are keyskills are separated into active and passive. The active type cards are either Permanent, Time Constricted, or Consumable. There are only two types of passives, Permanent and Time Constricted. He thought for a few seconds, Yours is classified as a Consumable. After two uses the skill will cease to exist.

Feels like a con Even though Wang Tanzhi said this, he did as Feng Bujue suggested and equipped the skill.

No, its very reasonable. Feng Bujue said, According to your current Stamina Value, even when its maxed out, you can only consecutively use the skill to hit twice. Even if you could, under this circumstance for at least this scenario, theres no way youll need to use the third fist. Its possible you wont even need to use the first fist. He paused a moment, Whats more, if it were the Permanent or Time Constricted versions, the learning prerequisite and the consumption, Im afraid, wouldnt be this low. Its very possible it would need an even higher Fighting Proficiency Grade and consume even more stamina. Otherwise this variant of the skill would be too broken, just like if you had a Level 50 player just randomly equip a permanent fighting technique. If that Fighting F only consumed 50 Stamina Value, then he could consecutively use it 100 times, whenever he wanted. How could this be allowed?

As Wang Tanzhi listened he thought it made sense, Hnthats true. If right now you gave me a skill, with the prerequisite of Fighting Proficiency F, but with a Stamina consumption of 101, then that means this games design has issues.

Oh, I should still remind you, in the system, Proficiency Grade F should only have a 20% success rate when equipping. Thereforefor low-leveled characters that have obtained skills, whether or not they can activate will have to depend on their luck. Feng Bujue stated.

Isnt this a con then!?

Thats why I was wholeheartedly expecting to find equipment, hah. I went online to go look, this morning the closed beta just started and this afternoon the raiders all came out. On the discussion forums there were already several Level 10 fellows that said the things that power up a low level character the best are equipments. But having Superior quality and higher ranked qualities for low level equipments is extremely uncommon. As Feng Bujue wholeheartedly blabbered, he had already quickly finished reading the notebook, I reckon its because it doesnt take long to reach level 10 and higher in this game. In addition, if a low leveled player had very good equipment as support, he wouldnt need to solve the mystery and could just quite efficiently clear the scenario with brute force. So it seems the game wouldnt offer that sort of powerful, low leveled equipment. He closed the notebook and continued, Another thing, after Level 10, low leveled superior quality equipment will just become a useless gesture. At present, the Exchange isnt even open, so it can only be put in the messenger bag.

As Feng Bujue talked and talked, suddenly he said, Ah crap, I miscalculated

What happened? Wang Tanzhi tensed as he hurriedly picked up the fruit knife, and at once turned around and anxiously looked at the corridor framed by the doorway. But apart from the bloody handprints on the corridors opposite wall, he didnt see any new abnormality.

Speaking of whichfrom now on whenever a chest needs to be opened, I should let you open it. I just need to inform you of the passcode or the method. Feng Bujue said.

TL: Because our lovely MC has just wonderful luck like when he got that OP rock.

Che~and I was wondering what you were going to say. Wang Tanzhi said, Appearances and such are all fleeting; its only probability thats all. Dont tell me youre so positive youll open up crap?

TL: Wang Tanzhi is suggesting that Feng Bujues bad luck, like his looks, is only temporary. And then makes fun of Feng Bujue for thinking hell keep having bad luck with rewards.

I really want to go out to the corridor, pick up a rock, and beat you to death.

AlrightI was wrong.

Feng Bujue took the notebook and placed it into his messenger bag and said, Come on, while we walk Ill tell you the story of this scenario once and for all.