ATPnovel Chapter 016 Black-spined Baby Tortoise
Chapter 016 Black-spined Baby Tortoise
System notification: Congratulations on catching a red carp.
System notification: Congratulations on catching a green carp.
System notification: Congratulations on catching a large yellow croaker.
"System notification: Congratulations on catching a black-spined baby turtle..."
To Li Hanqiang's delight, in addition to the system prompts about his own attribute information, there were also a total of 15 system prompts about fishing at Bibo Lake.
He quickly opened the fish basket to check.
This fish basket is no ordinary fish basket; it has a "shop template." With a thought, a panel with ten rows and nine columns, totaling ninety squares, popped up in front of Li Hanqiang's eyes.
这面板中的前5格已经被占了，其中贴着图标，分别是:红鲤鱼×1、绿鲤鱼×9、大黄鱼×2、小黄鱼×1、小金鱼×1，以及黑棘幼龟×1。
[Red Carp: A common type of fish. Selling it to any shop will earn you 1 silver coin. You can also choose to release it back into the wild.]
Green carp: a common type of fish...
Red carp, green carp, large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, and small goldfish are all common fish with identical attributes. In Li Hanyang's view, they are all trash fish whose only value is to be sold.
However, the last black-spined baby turtle was quite remarkable.
[Blackthorn Baby Turtle: Level 1, Tamed, Rideable, Amphibious, Ranged Attack, grows into a Blackthorn Turtle and then a Blackthorn Giant Turtle as it levels up. Has an elite monster template, level cap 60. Sells to any shop for 1 gold coin, or you can choose to release it!]
You can catch a mount while fishing, and even tame it!
Li Hanqiang felt like he'd struck gold. This black-spined baby turtle could be sold for 1 gold coin, but whoever sold it would be a complete fool. It was a tamed mount, and a powerful one at that, with an elite monster template.
In the Endless World, monsters can be categorized into ordinary monsters, elite monsters, boss monsters, and so on.
Ordinary monsters have poor stats and rarely possess skills, making them essentially like players without any equipment.
Elite monsters are much stronger, not only with higher attributes, but also generally with skills, making them equivalent to players wearing excellent equipment.
The BOSS is even more powerful, with extremely high attributes and super strong skills, equivalent to a player equipped with a full set of divine weapons.
A mount with an elite monster template is an extremely rare and precious item, and it would be even more valuable in the present day, making it something that knight-type professions desperately want.
Knight-type classes can share attributes and skills with their mounts and fight while mounted. Non-knight-type classes can only use their mounts for travel and cannot fight while mounted.
Li Hanqiang wasn't a knight-type class, but without hesitation, he immediately captured the Blackthorn Baby Turtle and released it.
"Looks like I've been blessed by heaven and escaped my fate of being unlucky!"
If he gets an elite mount, is he still Li Hanqiang if he doesn't ride it out and show it off?
With a "plop," the level 1 Blackthorn Baby Tortoise fell next to the small wooden boat, splashing up a wave.
At first glance, Li Hanqiang saw that the black-spined baby turtle was only slightly larger than a washbasin, its entire body was black, it had 100 health points, and it possessed two passive skills: [Water Bomb Attack] and [Black-Spined Thick Armor].
[Water Bullet Attack: The Blackthorn Baby Turtle spews water bullets that can attack targets within 30 meters. The water bullets can be launched in one burst, dealing 50% physical attack damage to one enemy unit around the target.]
[Blackthorn Thick Armor: Blackthorn Thick Armor possesses extremely strong physical defense capabilities, gaining an additional 2 points of physical defense for each level increase. Additionally, units attacking Blackthorn Hatchlings at close range will suffer 10 points of reflected damage per second.]
Black-spined baby turtles are still just juveniles. The edges of their shells are bumpy and they haven't grown any sharp spines yet, but they already look fierce. Their mouths reveal fangs like those of a beastman, and their little eyes are wicked and menacing, giving the impression of them with furrowed brows.
"My perfect mount!"
Li Hanqiang was no longer in the mood for fishing.
The official website of 【Endless World】 once released some attribute information about adventurer classes. It clearly stated that melee classes such as knights, which are tanks, can gain about 100 health points per level and about 1 physical defense point every two levels without equipment bonuses.
Look at the Blackthorn Baby Turtle's passive skill; it gains an extra 2 physical defense points for every level it gains. How can players compare?
Li Hanqiang stood up, laughing loudly, and sat on the back of the black-spined baby turtle in a crazy manner, just like an adult sitting on a child's scooter. Although it looked awkward, the black-spined baby turtle did not "capsize" but swam in the Bibo Lake under Li Hanqiang's control.
However, its speed was rather poor; the black-spined baby turtle was going for its life, and its speed was about the same as that of a little black pig.
Li Hanqiang was already quite satisfied, and so he rode the black-spined baby turtle slowly back to the shore and then returned to Chaos City.
The small wooden boat automatically returned to shore.
By selling trash fish like red and green carp to the Mysterious Shop, Li Hanyang received another 14 silver coins. In a great mood, he rode around aimlessly on his black-spined baby turtle while communicating with the system, intending to activate his City Lord talent.
Just as Half Moon City said, Li Hanqiang can now choose one of the three talents: [Abundant Wealth], [Stone Slab Master], and [Energy Awakening].
To be honest, all three of these talents are quite good, and Li Hanqiang doesn't want to let any of them slip by. However, if he could only choose one...
"Half-Moon City is just a game streamer, what does he know about the Chaos City Lord! These three talents are destined to be commonplace. I, Li Hanqiang, am a lucky genius, would I choose them? Obviously not!"
Li Hanqiang currently has 175 gold coins and can't resist choosing a random talent.
Half Moon City said that 90% of the randomly generated talents are trash talents. Even if that's true, isn't there still a 10% chance of randomly generating a super talent or a god-level talent?
Seeking stability? Forget about it!
Don't they know who Li Hanqiang is?
When the wind is favorable, go for it; when the wind is unfavorable, go for it! If not now, when?
Do you dare to take a gamble?
What is there to be afraid of!
Li Hanqiang made a tough decision and immediately heard a system notification: "Player has spent 100 gold coins to select random talent generation. Talent generation in progress..."
"Ding! Congratulations, player, you have obtained the [Tower Transformation] talent."
Tower Transformation: Special Talent, Unique Talent.
1. The Chaos City Lord can mutate a defensive tower by consuming 10 times its level in Chaos Energy. The direction of the mutation is unpredictable. The talent has a 50% chance of failure upon activation; if the mutation fails, the tower will be destroyed.
Second: The Chaos City Lord consumes 10 Chaos Energy equal to the number of defensive towers to synthesize multiple defensive towers. The synthesized tower is inherently a mutated tower. The talent has a 50% chance of synthesis failure; if synthesis fails, one defensive tower is randomly destroyed.
"Tower Transformation? Unique Talent! What kind of trash talent is this!" Li Hanqiang glanced at the information description and immediately felt uneasy.
One talent, two ways to use it, but the "50% chance of failure" and the setting that failure destroys the defensive tower is too glaring.
Li Hanqiang didn't know if his unique talent, [Tower Transformation], counted as a super talent, but he was certain it was a talent that would ruin a fortune!
If the face looks good, the mutation is successful, and the synthesis is successful; if the face looks bad, the mutation fails, and the synthesis fails. That would mean burning the tower and losing a fortune!
"Another one whose talent is judged by his looks!" Li Hanqiang sighed. "Looks like I, Li Hanqiang, will have to rely on my looks to make a living!"