My Computer Leads to an Instance Dungeon-Chapter 98 - 90: Great Increase in Strength, ’Fallen Knight

Chapter 98: Chapter 90: Great Increase in Strength, ’Fallen Knight

"Traits you have comprehended:

Dogman Slayer (A comprehension of Kobold behavior patterns and habits learned through extensive combat. When facing Kobolds, you possess a calm and certain confidence, naturally exuding an oppressive aura. Kobolds can sense this and will be spiritually suppressed and intimidated to a certain extent.)

Solidify: 50 Merit Points

Dark Night Walker (Rapidly adapt to combat in dark environments. Reduces mental fear of the dark, overcoming the dread caused by the absence of light sources. At the same time, allows you to maximize the use of darkness as an ally, enhancing your own advantages. Provides a certain degree of immunity to terrifying scenes caused by special types of darkness.)

Solidify: 50 Merit Points

Natural Affinity (A mental trait that allows you to maintain a relaxed and natural state of mind when interacting with people. You have a strong affinity for most non-hostile, neutral units. By accumulating time spent interacting and chatting, you can gradually shift neutral units toward a friendlier disposition. Note: The effect of this mental trait is subtle and limited. Even if others have a degree of goodwill toward you, they may still attack you due to more powerful factors such as faith, stance, or personal interest. Please do not place blind faith in this kind of mental power.)

Solidify: 50 Merit Points

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Fang Zhen looked at all these skills and couldn’t help but feel his hands itch with anticipation. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

’The skills on offer this time are so high-quality!’

He even saw a level 2 skill among them: level 2 Combat Intuition, also known as Precise Intuition.

He had now confirmed it. As he suspected, skills didn’t just end once you acquired them. To be precise, at least some skills could be continuously upgraded and had immense potential for growth.

He totaled up the Merit Points needed for all the skills and traits. The total cost to solidify the abilities was 240 points, while the three traits required 150 points.

In total, he would need 390 Merit Points.

Fang Zhen’s total earnings from this dungeon run were 420 Merit Points. He had just spent 100 points successfully gambling on solidifying ’Source Power’, leaving him with 320.

He couldn’t spend all 320 of these points. He needed to save at least 20 Merit Points to decrypt information for the next dungeon.

Not only that, but Fang Zhen was still unsure if the continuation of the Redstone Town dungeon—the third act—would unlock. Therefore, he had to set aside another 20 to 50 Merit Points as a fund to search for a new, suitable dungeon in case the third act of Redstone Town didn’t open up.

To be conservative, he should reserve 30 to 35 Merit Points for that.

Adding the 20 Merit Points for dungeon decryption, he needed to keep 50 to 55 points in reserve.

Therefore, the actual amount of Merit Points he could spend was between 265 and 270.

’Looks like I’ll have to make some choices after all.’

Looking at the screen full of skills he could solidify, Fang Zhen truly wanted them all. But for a stable, long-term strategy, he had to be selective.

However, this round of choices was much easier than the first time he had to solidify abilities.

After all, with at least 265 to 270 Merit Points at his disposal, his options were far greater.

He wanted every ability on the screen, and a few of them were must-haves.

First off, Fatal Dodge and Level 2 Combat Intuition—also known as Precise Intuition—were two absolute must-picks.

When Fang Zhen was solo-clearing dungeons, survival skills were actually more important than strengthening his offensive abilities.

Solo-clearing with a single life meant safety first.

Fatal Dodge could avoid lethal attacks.

He recalled two instances in the mines where he had relied on his intuition: once to dodge a Flaming Arrow, and another time to avoid a cone of fire unleashed by a Dogman Priest. Both times, he had narrowly averted disaster.

That flash of intuition back then was likely the Fatal Dodge skill at work.

’This skill is a real lifesaver at critical moments. It’s a definite pick.’

Level 2 Combat Intuition, Precise Intuition, was also a must-pick.

He had already chosen Combat Intuition last time. By the same logic, it made no sense not to choose its upgraded version this time.

Having confirmed his two mandatory picks, Fang Zhen felt a bit more relaxed.

His thoughts shifted, and he used the process of elimination, first discarding the ’Dogman Slayer’ trait.

Just like ’Goblin Star’, it was far too situational.

Next, he stared at the ’Natural Affinity’ trait for a long while before finally shaking his head.

’This trait is actually not bad.’

He guessed he’d obtained this trait because he had spent a fair amount of time talking with people like Ande and Matthew.

It was basically a subtle friendly aura that gradually increased favorability over time.

Fang Zhen thought for a moment. ’If I were living in a city, this trait would actually be quite useful, especially for making friends or picking up girls.’

As long as you didn’t make any major mistakes, its ability to steadily increase favorability over time would be incredibly useful.

Unfortunately, while the Natural Affinity mental trait was good, he was in the wrong setting for it.

Inside a dungeon, Fang Zhen spent most of his time killing monsters. Besides, he might never return to this dungeon world after clearing it once, so wouldn’t all that accumulated goodwill be wasted?

Moreover, for just a few days or a dozen days inside a dungeon, he could rely on his own social skills to feign friendliness and curry favor. It seemed he didn’t really need the Natural Affinity trait for that.

What’s more, the trait’s description explicitly stated it was only a mental trait. It could only make neutral units tend toward being friendly; it had no effect on hostile units. And if someone betrayed you for powerful reasons like faith, stance, or personal interest, that friendliness would be useless anyway.