It has been proven that Fang Mo's approach to solving problems is impeccable.
Although it might seem costly, in reality, it proved to be surprisingly effective. After Fang Mo performed a dazzling display of lavishness, nearly all the citizens now regard him as a qualified hero.
As for the strange substance on the ground, it indeed came to be considered as a creature by everyone.
Since it had turned into a creature, there was not much more to be said. With a simple punch from Saitama, along with the Deep Sea King and a series of buildings and roads behind it, were all obliterated, leaving a huge hole that extended to the horizon.
This certainly startled everyone.
Keep in mind, Saitama is only a C-class hero.
However, it wasn't long before people began cheering again, as those who were quick to understand realized that the stronger these heroes were, the safer they should be. So why should they be afraid?
The hero Watchdog Man was also a C-class hero when he first started.
Has he now become an S-class hero?
Thus, everyone quickly accepted that Saitama actually possesses S-class strength; it's just that he is currently still placed in C-class. After all, he is someone who can mingle with S-rank heroes like the Priest, so he is certainly not an ordinary hero.
Indeed, everyone's attitude towards Fang Mo has completely changed by now.
Originally, Fang Mo's appearance was quite a bonus for him—black hair, fair skin, tall stature, and a bright, sunny smile. And now, with the addition of an S-class hero title and also being a genuine big spender, pouring out money... who could resist that?
Handsome, wealthy, gentle, and powerful.
In the eyes of these citizens, these words have become synonymous with Fang Mo.
But as for Fang Mo himself...
Honestly.
He was also surprised by Saitama's action.
After all, in Fang Mo's memory, Saitama-sensei's values are quite upright. He had not expected the other party to resolve that strange substance with a single punch.
But upon further reflection.
Saitama in the original work seemed rather indifferent emotionally.
Indeed, he does not kill, but if villains were killed, he wouldn't go out of his way to save them.
Like in the original work, the scientist who developed the ultimate steroids was accidentally killed by a slap from his own brother. If Saitama really wanted to save him, he definitely could have, but he didn't make a move, right?
Or during the Paradise Group incident.
Sonic appeared for the first time and directly killed almost all the Paradise Group's minions.
So, are these minions not human?
Yet Saitama was indifferent... he did not say that because Sonic killed people, he would punch him to death or capture him. He casually let him escape.
But no matter what.
After the Deep Sea King was killed with one punch.
The crisis of the Sea Clan invasion in J City was indeed completely resolved.
Although there might still be some remnants of the Sea Clan hidden in the corners of the city, the weather had already cleared up, and in this dry environment, these creatures, which were only of tiger-level threat, were further weakened and certainly could not stir up any more trouble.
Like Stinger, Lightning Max.
Even Snake Fist Sneck could easily handle them.
This trip for Fang Mo, although not yielding enormous gains, at least avenged the grudge of being kicked out of the dream by Cthulhu, and he even unlocked a set of mods, so it wasn't a loss.
In any case, the incident is over.
Fang Mo didn't stay in J City for long after that; he soon returned home.
And since it was a portal opened by Ancient One, both Saitama and Genos took the opportunity for a free ride, avoiding the need to travel back from J City to Z City again.
After returning home, Fang Mo quickly resumed his normal life, usually just watching TV at home, studying the items in Steve's backpack, or trying to lure the little monster out for a bit of fun, although the latter was still busy grinding, not taking the bait at all.
But after carefully rereading the Abyssal Book.
Fang Mo did understand one thing... why that sarcastic man was resurrected into a strange mass of rotting flesh.
According to the records in the Abyssal Book.
The dark resurrection spell utilizes the dimensional power of the Realm of Fear.
The Realm of Fear is the second layer of the Abyssal realms, originally a purple world composed of pure abyssal essence.
But a creature named "Cha'garoth, The Dreadbeast" appeared there, enveloping a potent, incurable contamination that could even threaten the ancient rulers. The plague of fear began to spread because of his arrival, turning this place into the Realm of Fear, with him as its sole ruler.
The player's use of dark resurrection.
Its essence is the use of Cha'garoth's forbidden power.
However, this resurrection is not unlimited; after a creature has been resurrected beyond a certain number of times, it will be corroded by Cha'garoth's power, assimilated, and eventually completely become a carrier of the plague of fear.
That is, that mass of flesh-like creature.
In the records of the Abyssal Book, this thing is known as the Egg of Fear.
"…Is there such a setting?"
After reading these introductions, Fang Mo was somewhat surprised; honestly, he had previously thought that this thing could be resurrected indefinitely, but he didn't expect such side effects.
But this point does quite fit the Cthulhu setting.
Unrestrained use of the power of the evil gods will ultimately be devoured by this karma.
Shaking his head, Fang Mo also remembered this matter.
It seems that dark resurrection is not a spell that can be used for dark fun. If you really want to troll enemies, you still need to use props like the Time Stone.
However, the Time Stone had already been blown up by him, and moreover, that item is only useful in the Marvel Universe; it's useless in other universes. If he really wants to play, Fang Mo will still need to find a way from his own mods, like drawing the Watch of Flowing Time.
"Oh, right… I still have to draw prizes."
And thinking of the Watch of Flowing Time, Fang Mo suddenly remembered that he had been meaning to find some time to draw some prizes.
After the Deep Sea King incident, it seemed like he had entered some kind of narrative lull.
These days, staying at home, Fang Mo was almost bored sick.
The Mumen Rider took the apple, but didn't come to him proactively, while the Metal Knight's transaction had been completed just last night. The other party sent a drone to collect the gold and stated that Sonic and related equipment would be delivered within a few days.
Saitama and Genos also didn't have time to come and play.
Lately, the two seemed particularly keen on performing justice, constantly on missions in the streets.
During the previous Sea Clan invasion, Fang Mo, Genos, Puri-Puri Prisoner, Ancient One, and Saitama, because they defeated a large number of Sea Clan members and went to the beach to resolve the source of the disaster, all received different rewards.
Fang Mo, Genos, Ancient One, and Saitama all had their hero levels increased.
But compared to the increase for S-class heroes, Saitama's improvement from being a C-class hero was very dramatic, directly moving from the 300th position in C-class to the first place.
It is said that he has already applied for a promotion and might even be a B-class hero by now.
As for the reward for Puri-Puri Prisoner... it's not clear how it was managed, but the Hero Association seems to have reduced his sentence, and now he has already left the large prison.
In fact, Puri-Puri Prisoner was voluntarily in prison, but now with the sentence reduction, his target seems to be Fang Mo, and he even really sent Fang Mo an invitation letter with a heart pattern.
But Fang Mo, apart from wanting to beat him up, isn't really interested in keeping the appointment, after all, "the paths we walk are different, so we do not scheme for the same ends," right?
Luckily, he finally remembered he had this matter of drawing prizes to attend to, so he simply bathed and changed at home, and then flew towards the ruins of the House of Evolution.
Once he arrived at the destination, Fang Mo also took a brief tour of the ruins.
Soon, he found a spot he deemed as a geomantic treasure, and then with a thought, he immediately summoned his Stand, Steve.
This time, Fang Mo had accumulated a lot of lucky blocks.
A total of seventeen.
"Whew... Let's start with a ten consecutive draw."
After thinking it over, Fang Mo decided to start with a ten consecutive draw, after all, metaphysics, right? A ten consecutive draw should have a big guaranteed base.
Then, with a thought, Steve immediately began right-clicking on the lucky blocks.
Accompanied by a bunch of light flashes.
Soon, a bunch of bizarre items appeared in Steve's inventory, some of which even looked familiar to Fang Mo.
"Hmm?"
Fang Mo took a closer look and saw that these items included an Enchantment Table, sleeping pills, chaos metal blocks, an Everlasting Gem, a Gale Ring, a 24K Pure Gold Banana, a Green Heart, an Archangel Ring, an Ultimate Life Ring, and a Chicken Catching Stick.
"Emmm…"
Staring at the pile of items in Steve's inventory, Fang Mo fell into contemplation for a moment.
If you were to say that the items this time were trash, there were still things like the Archangel Ring, Gale Ring, and Dragon Research Chaos Metal which were akin to equivalent artifacts.
But if you were to say that Fang Mo's luck had exploded this time.
What's up with that Chicken Catching Stick… Am I supposed to bring this stick to court?
After taking a brief look, Fang Mo found that the items he drew this time were really a bit messy. First of all, he wasn't clear about what this Enchantment Table was for, and the same goes for the sleeping pills.
Fang Mo vaguely remembered unlocking a mod for sleeping pills.
But the issue is that this item called sleeping pills has a texture that's literally a red brick from the game… so are these sleeping pills physically effective?
Honestly, Fang Mo was really a bit baffled.
Besides these two items, he did recognize the chaos metal blocks, which seemed to be a top-tier material from a collaboration between Dragon Research and Tinkers' Construct, with attributes and features extremely awesome, to say it's an endgame material before Infinity isn't an exaggeration at all.
As for the next item, the Everlasting Gem.
This is an item that looks a bit like a pink emerald.
Honestly, Fang Mo wasn't clear on its effects, but it sounded quite powerful, perhaps an item used to increase health.
The Gale Ring, well, that goes without saying… it's an equivalent to the Wolf Ring.
Fang Mo's Arcane Ring was formed by merging the four rings of Gale, Zero, Flame, and Nature.
As for the 24K Pure Gold Banana after the Gale Ring, Fang Mo had actually played this mod before, it's a light-hearted mod used by players to have fun, called something like Banana Tree.
This mod added a plant and fruit to the game, somewhat similar to a golden apple, and this 24K Pure Gold Banana corresponds to the enchanted golden apple in the original version. Rather than being an efficacy-type mod, it's more about having fun, everyone playing games under the Banana Tree.
Then the Green Heart item.
If Fang Mo wasn't mistaken, this item was originally from Tinkers' Construct 1.
But actually, Fang Mo's Tinkers' Construct mod didn't have this item, and considering its strange texture, Fang Mo suspected it was probably from a mod that replicated Tinkers' Construct 1, called Heart Container.
This mod is pretty overpowered.
It set four types of heart-shaped items in the game, red, yellow, green, blue; red dropped by little monsters, yellow by bosses, green by Ender Dragon, blue by Evokers.
These four types of heart-shaped items could be inserted into an accessory called a Heart Container, which could greatly increase the player's health, to a very exaggerated extent, even more than the bonuses from Tinkers' Construct's renewal + life traits set.
Unfortunately, Fang Mo hadn't unlocked this mod yet.
Having just a single Green Heart by itself was completely useless.
"Heart Container, huh…"
Fang Mo glanced at the Green Heart in Steve's inventory, also subconsciously pondering: "Speaking of hearts of various colors, to unlock this mod, do I need to make a trip to Undertale? I heard the original version has version protection… do I need to go to an AU world?"
Actually, Fang Mo was quite interested in the Undertale game, knowing that back in the day, the fandom for this game was no less explosive than Touhou, Type-Moon, and the like.
Like what, Fear Below, Error Tale, Poem of the Fields, and similar fanworks like Flowers Fall… honestly, Fang Mo originally didn't know about this game, he was completely tricked into the pit by a bunch of fanworks, but if he had a chance to really go there to sightsee, he would be very willing.
Shaking his head.
Fang Mo temporarily dismissed this thought.
And after that, he also briefly checked the last three items.
The Archangel Ring was also an equivalent artifact, its ability was to fire countless arrows to attack enemies, not much need for introduction, and as for this Ultimate Life Ring, it seemed to be a piece of tech equipment, Fang Mo wasn't very knowledgeable about it, planning to take it to Xiao Yao to see later.
As for this last item, the Chicken Catching Stick.
Honestly, it was just a stick, but he had played this mod before, seemed to be called something like Chicken Coop, a mod for the livestock industry, but Fang Mo felt this was also of no use, after all, he hadn't unlocked the chicken coop itself, what use was just giving himself a Chicken Catching Stick?
Even if he caught a chicken, where could he put it?
In his pants?
Aside from being able to secretly poke the Pure White Space-Time's Chicken Demon and make it shout, "Ouch, what are you doing," this thing seemed to have no other use.
Shaking his head.
Fang Mo was not satisfied with this opening.
So quickly, he started controlling Steve to draw prizes again.
However, unlike the previous ten consecutive draws, this time he had just opened a box when suddenly a burst of colorful light shot straight into the sky.
"Damn, a miracle from a single draw!"
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