My Misfortune Crushed Instances-Chapter 273: World Storyline Invasion?

Once the inventory of equipment and items was finished, it was time to upgrade the administrator's coat.

Li Rui had someone turn on the equipment enhancement device and began pouring the enhancement materials inside.

After the Secret Realm level increased, the likelihood of encountering high rarity materials also grew, resulting in a multitude of rare materials that upgraded the administrator's coat by several levels, raising the overall elemental resistance to 50%.

This rate was quite astonishing, meaning that half of the elemental damage inflicted by others would be blocked, then mixed with other types of damage to counteract the defensive attributes, and ultimately resisted by body strength. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

After the equipment unlocked the function to upgrade entry slots, one option appeared at one level.

[You can choose to upgrade a skill brought by one of the rare materials]

Of course, only skills labeled as the beggar version could be upgraded, meeting this requirement were Explosive Trap and Afterimage, and Li Rui decisively chose the latter.

[Upgrade beggar version Afterimage to low-end Afterimage.]

Now, the images produced by this skill can not only move but also utilize the basic skills of the original, albeit unfused ones. Of course, the skill effect isn't real and won't cause genuine results.

After upgrading to advanced, the magician's original Afterimage could be used to unleash skills with reduced effects.

But now it's the low-end, who knows if it might one day become original or even high-end?

With rare materials depleted, it was time for epic materials, which further upgraded the administrator's coat by 3 levels and added a new entry.

[Special Effect: Critical damage increased by 20%.]

Fortunately, it's not the critical chance; otherwise, it would be meaningless.

Li Rui pondered lazily, critical damage could pair with Dabidou's guaranteed critical face strike, somewhat coming in handy.

The remaining 2 levels had upgrade options in Animation of Life and Continuous Flow.

The beggar version Animation of Life only lasted 5 seconds, nearly unusable for charging, barely counting as an emergency healing skill, but the low-end version increased to 20 seconds, which was more than enough for Li Rui.

At least in another flag capturing mission, he'd rush in and out, his injuries potentially healed like new.

The other was the duration of Continuous Flow, raised from 3 seconds to 10 seconds.

This way, with Li Rui's current spiritual power density, he could fully replenish at once, more importantly, it gained a toggle function, halting mid-way if a full recovery wasn't desired, preventing damage bonus from battle marks.

These are both practical skills provided by the administrator's coat, although they don't offer damage, their effect on comprehensive power is tremendous.

Enhancements are critically important right before the Secret Realm battlefield begins.

Li Rui returned to the military base, by now, all participants of the Secret Realm battlefield had gathered there, entering the gate, inside the people flow was noticeably denser.

Moreover, he noticed several mysterious auras scanning around, overwhelmingly powerful, approaching the kind in the Superpower Division's inner courtyard, indicating great individuals were on alert.

It's understandable, upon entering the Secret Realm battlefield, all Secret Realm agents must fall asleep, security measures needed to be tight.

Li Rui entered through the gate, before reaching the main building inside the base, suddenly felt a strong gust behind him.

He instinctively turned around and grasped hold, a smooth sensation met him.

"Are you being inappropriate?"

Cheng Mingyue said with a smile.

Li Rui sheepishly released the hand patting his shoulder: "Sister Yue, why didn't you say anything?"

He was a bit amazed, realizing the other had gotten behind him before he noticed.

And unbeknownst to him, Cheng Mingyue was also surprised.

His hand was so quick, I couldn't dodge.

"What level are you now?" she asked.

"45."

"Wow, that's fast." Cheng Mingyue spoke in a languid manner, her eye corners slightly drooping, looking like she had just awoken.

"Come on, be a bit more genuinely surprised."

"I'm serious." Cheng Mingyue paced ahead in slippers with a shuffle shuffle sound, usually ignored by others but not in her case.

Li Rui asked: "Where to?"

"Getting warmed up, haven't moved in a while, Guan Gui is waiting for me. You coming?"

"I still need to find Kong..."

"Come on." Cheng Mingyue teasingly coaxed.

"....."

Li Rui thought, watching her spar Guan Gui was a rare opportunity, why not take a look, so he followed along.

In a rare secluded field seldom visited, Guan Gui, who had been absent for quite a while, stood by the sidelines, staring blankly at the ground, no telling what he was thinking, ever in this state.

"Brother Gui, where have you been recently? Haven't seen you before."

Li Rui waved from afar.

Guan Gui snapped out of it, unusually waved back, but kept his words brief: "Chaos Zone."

Li Rui raised a brow: "What are you doing there again?"

"Mission."

Cheng Mingyue helped explain: "This time, obviously for gathering intelligence from Chaos Zone, checking who they might recruit to the battlefield."

"Chaos Zone could also be selected?"

"Certainly."

Cheng Mingyue tossed her coat aside, wearing only a tight top, approached, "Only they have no say on who's recruited, leaving it to fate."

Li Rui frowned: "Isn't that a waste then?"

"Don't underestimate them, Chaos Zone has a few formidable ones."

Cheng Mingyue laughed, "Besides, whatever happens, why not hit it once, maybe you gain some benefit, altering life's course. Let's go."

At that moment, Guan Gui didn't join, instead raised a hand and summoned two coffins.

Thud thud.

Two monks emerged, faces blueish, exuding deathly paleness.

Li Rui asked: "Who are these people?"

Guan Gui standing beside him calmly replied: "Mola Sect's renegade monks."

Examining further, indeed, tribal tattoos adorned the ragged collar, reminiscent of the elderly bald-headed Gu Suixun.

At that moment, the two renegade monks charged out, clashing into a melee with Cheng Mingyue.

However, Li Rui's focus wasn't on the field, he queried: "When did you encounter these Mola Sect people."

Guan Gui glanced at him: "Previous Secret Realm, around half a month ago."

"What narrative?"

"Lotus Association. Mola Sect attempted annexation."

Li Rui recalled, within the Secret Realm World's backdrop, the Lotus Association presided in the central Eastern Continent, overshadowed by Shenxiao Palace and Fengdu's mega powers, and less than Jingyang Academy, Mola Sect, and Liangting Country's premier powers, roughly second-tier.

Yet in the broader Eastern Continent context, second-tier wasn't pejorative; such power's top figures would reach standards of at least sixty or seventy levels.

"Hold on."

Realizing a discrepancy, "The Lotus Association's Secret Realm there's only three, none connected to Mola Sect?"

"World event." Guan Gui succinctly replied there appeared an elder with head tattoos, I retreated.

"Impressive."

Li Rui sincerely praised him.

Mola Sect's regulations were strict, those tattooed positions especially critical, a privilege reserved for none except Gu Suixun.

And Old Gu could trade blows with Daoist Chongxu, with less than level 50, surviving intact was mighty adept.

Thinking inwardly, true enough, Zuo Qiutian and that bunch would definitely stir things up.

"Hiss, could it be, the world plot about to invade traditional plot?"

Suddenly grasping a worrisome possibility.