"Now that the rewards of the Tutorial are settled, shall we move on to the next thing!"
The cute creature said rubbing his hands at each other.
"I am sure many of you have found the golden beads, then let me display the exchange rewards before I ask you to hand them in"
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1 bead – 100 karma
10 beads – random normal artifact box.
20 beads- random rare weapon box.
30 beads – Normal skill(Selected) or an item
50 beads – Rare skill(selected) or a rare item
100 beads - epic rank skill(selected) or an epic Item
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There were things for exchange from one bead to one hundred ranging from karma points to an epic rank skill. Just by seeing the rewards, it seemed like the bear was generous, but the reality couldn't be any more away from that.
There were 100 golden beads when there were more than 400 survivors left, so it was even hard to get their hands on a single golden bead, much less 10 to 20 which was an outrageous number!
But keeping that aside the rewards sure are lucrative!!
Normally, it was hard for participants to even get their hands on a rare skill before the 5th floor not to mention an epic rank skill!
But it can also be said that the Envoy was cunning! Since it knew that no single person would be able to collect all hundred beads, it placed an epic rank skill as a reward.
"Then please everyone who has the golden beads come forward"
It was just that cunning creature never imagined an anomaly like Michel to appear!
Michel who was waiting for him to say that walked toward where he was flying! and he was the only single man in the group who walked forward.
The Envoy was confused since only one man was coming toward it, he was sure that many would have gathered golden beads since they were evenly scattered throughout the whole island.
"I will repeat again, everyone with the beads come forwards, it's fine even if you only have one bead"
It waited for a minute but no one in the group moved an inch.
"This is the last time I am gonna call for…"
"Hey, teddy bear!"
"huh?", It looked down at the young man who was disrespectfully calling it a teddy bear.
"I have it all so just give the rewards already"
He was getting impatient with the teddy bear which was wasting his time.
"You have it all?"
"Yep!"
"I mean the golden beads, all hundred?"
"Are you dumb? I said I have it all", He said as he took out the pouch containing all one hundred beads.
"Why the hell do you have everything?"
It was now time for the Envoy to be shocked, it couldn't believe that a single man had all of them, I mean, there are more than four hundred survivors what were the odds that a single man has all the hundred beads!
'We all felt that shock!'
The onlookers watching the envoy silently nodded with a look of kinship as they all understood what was going on in its mind!
"Well, it kinda happened…"
'It doesn't happen like that, moron' He wanted to shout that at the young man but as an Envoy, it was his duty to reward the participants according to the rules!
and since there was no rule like one man can't possess all the beads or a rule that he can't take them from others, it has to reward him no matter how he got them.
"...sure, please come ahead and pick a reward from these", said the bear suppressing its inner thoughts.
Though it looked calm outside, the bear was screaming inside, 'It's a disaster!'
The bear thought inwardly when offering Michel to choose the reward.
'I never thought someone could have all the beads when giving that challenge'
When it gave the challenge it thought even in the rare case, even if someone made a group just for collecting the beads, at most they would be able to have 50 beads, not ever in its imagination did it think someone would be able to have it all.
'I didn't even think about a reward for 100 beads is possible and put 'That' skill in there.'
Since it thought there would be no way of someone having all 100 beads, it just put random skills in its possession on there.
but the problem was that there was a skill that was too much strong, in that group!
[100 beads - epic rank skill
-> Fire fist(skill)
-> Tiger subduing claw(skill)
-> Golem summon(skill)
-> Lightning shot(skill)
->36 poisons of poison King(skill)
->Motherly Bow (Item)
]
There were five skills and an item which are available for selection in exchange for a whole 100 golden beads, Michel looked through them all, there was no description of the skills or item but he could more or less guess it by their name.
after pondering about a minute, he looked at the bear.
"I want this!"
"Are you sure? That wasn't anything special, more than that you can't use it instantly?"
Said the teddy bear with hesitation, Michel who noticed the nervous expression the bear got even more confident that the one he had chosen was the best!
"I will stick to it", he said smiling broadly!
The teddy was now on the verge of crying.
'This bastard...!'
Michel chose the exact skill that the teddy didn't want him to choose.
'This bastard! can't he choose some other skill?'
Now that the milk was already spilled, the envoy was powerless to do anything!
With a heavy heart, it gave him the skill book and turned around!
"You will all be transported to the first floor of the tower shortly! May you reach the peak of the Tower"
Saying a few words, it disappeared from there and shortly everyone got the notification!
[You will be transported to the 1st floor of the Tower in 10 seconds]
Taking the time that was left, Michel turned toward the people who were getting ready to leave.
"Listen, guys!"
Everyone's attention was drawn towards him as to what he was going to say!
"Don't die"
He smiled broadly as he said that, and soon his figure started to disappear from there.
"Make sure you survive by any means that is necessary! Let's meet on the tenth floor!"
That was the last word he said before disappearing and soon one by one everyone started to disappear from there.
Linda, Murkhan, and Sura who were still there looked at the sky above them, thinking inwardly
Linda: 'Yeah, let's meet there.'
Murkhan: 'I will fight him head-on next time to see what he really is capable of.'
Sura: 'I will be strong enough not to be knocked out by you when we meet again!'
Without even being aware of it, Michel had already induced a spark of inspiration in some people, who are going to become his reliable subordinates to watch over his back.....
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