Uchiha Dance King: "It really does make one curious."
Uchiha Madara was tempted as well. The Unfettered East had once posted to the chat the enhanced version of Great Absorption; the leap in scope was so vast it practically turned an ordinary martial arts manual straight toward immortal cultivation.
If he could successfully enhance his Rinnegan… Madara's eyes gleamed. After enhancement, the Rinnegan shouldn't be inferior to the Rinne Sharingan, should it? Perhaps it would be even stronger.
No—wait.
He could save this enhancement chance for later: absorb the God Tree, open the nine-tomoe Rinne Sharingan, obtain Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's power—and then enhance it.
At that point, his strength would surely undergo a qualitative transformation.
Umaru the Homebody: "Let the big shots think about this. A normie like me has no ability to take part."
Umaru the Homebody: "Boo-hoo.jpg"
Electromaster: "I really want in too. I don't know if a successful enhancement could push me to LV.6, but judging from how big the leap is, it seems likely."
Electromaster: "If I had LV.6-level power, I wouldn't have to fear Accelerator."
Electromaster: "Also, I don't know why, but lately I keep feeling like someone's watching me. Maybe I'm just stressed? Everything's been handled and there shouldn't be pressure… frustrated.jpg"
Misaka Mikoto herself felt it was weird she was getting that feeling at all; she figured she was probably just overthinking it.
Ordinary Group Owner: "LV.6, huh… Up to the time I transmigrated, I don't recall anyone reaching that level."
Ordinary Group Owner: "No idea how things stand now."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Don't get your hopes too high on success. The chat group itself said the success rate for enhancement will vary based on the base level of what you're enhancing."
Ordinary Group Owner: "So the weaker the thing, the higher the success chance."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Good thing the chat group isn't a penguin—otherwise, even at 99.9% I'd still expect failure."
As she said it, the image of a certain penguin popped into Roxie Vale's head.
She shook it off at once. Best not to think of that—whenever she did, she felt certain she would fail.
Golden Flash: "I suddenly noticed the reward shown in the task template—the one million points look like they're deducted from Lin Fengjiao?"
Golden Flash: "That's…"
So task rewards were actually taken from the person's side?
Then again, that did make sense. It was, after all, a crisis in his own world. Still… something about it just felt odd.
Ordinary Group Owner: "True—and I didn't expect someone as quiet as Ninth Uncle to have at least a million points sitting on the backend."
Nature's Child: "With a school this ancient, it would be surprising not to have some foundation."
Nature's Child: "But the reward really is a bit skimpy this time."
Nature's Child: "One part is points coming from Lin Fengjiao himself; the other is an enhancement attempt that might fail."
Nature's Child: "Is there no reward attached to the Rule-Grade Item?"
Wuxia King: "What exactly is a 'Rule-Grade Item'?"
The Oldest Godslayer: "If it touches on rules, it's not to be underestimated."
Ordinary Group Owner: "A Rule-Grade Item is probably a system. It could also be something like a Space-Time Pearl, Chaos Pearl, Heaven-Earth Pearl, a Gate of Passage, Space-Time Gate, Two-Realms Gate—basically, a thing that lets you travel between worlds. We lump all of these under cheat fingers—golden fingers."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Most transmigrators carry some kind of golden finger, more or less. What it is depends on their luck."
Ordinary Group Owner: "I once thought the chat group was my golden finger—who knew it would be this useless!"
"Ding. Error detected in chat group. Group Owner has been muted for ten minutes."
Nature's Child: "…"
Nature's Child: "Chat group, I want to know whether a Rule-Grade Item is useful to you—and whether, after we complete the task, we'll receive any reward besides the stated task payout."
Nature's Child: "An item that can carry its host across worlds—its value should be even clearer to you than to me."
In Brandon's view, any transmigrator's golden finger could be categorized into four types.
First: Self-based—enhancing memory and physical qualities, most common in urban "rebirth" protagonists.
Second: Items that have absolute utility within a single world, enabling the host to reach that world's summit, but lacking inter-world travel.
Third: Items that let the host travel between worlds and can screen out foreign rules.
Fourth: Those that not only enable world travel, but also grant the host various assistance and rewards—some Myriad-Worlds-type systems usually have this.
Anything tied to inter-world travel, in Brandon's eyes, had extraordinarily high value.
Because they represented infinite possibilities (barring those that can only shuttle between two fixed worlds).
The transmigrator in Ninth Uncle's world clearly fell under Type Three, perhaps even Type Four; his value certainly shouldn't be reducible to a handful of points and a fuzzy-probability enhancement attempt.
"Ding. Detected inquiry from group member Nature's Child. Responding."
"Ding. Rule-Grade Items will grant different rewards according to their level and the proportion of contribution each group member makes in battle."
The chat group's mechanical voice sounded in everyone's ears. Brandon nodded.
Nature's Child: "Then let's settle on the personnel. To secure the Rule-Grade Item reward, I propose only the number of participants specified by the task be allowed in."
Nature's Child: "If too many jump in, it won't benefit us at all."
Not only would extra participants get nothing, they would also risk souring relations within the group.
Richest Man: "We understand."
Richest Man: "To ensure the task succeeds, those who are weak shouldn't make trouble by tagging along."
Richest Man: "Sigh. My strength is still too low—otherwise I'd really want to compete for a slot."
Golden Flash: "I'd love to go, but in Kushina's current condition, I should stay by her side."
Golden Flash: "There are plenty of matters in Konoha that need handling, too."
Namikaze Minato shook his head in regret. The time of Kushina's delivery was drawing near; as husband and father, he needed to be with her. And Konoha had far too many affairs requiring his attention.
ANBU, Root, the business among the clans—
His current strength was already far beyond what the memory playback had shown; though he wasn't sure he matched the First Hokage, he could not be far off.
Suppressing Konoha as it stood was no problem. But Konoha's present issues could not be solved by strength alone.
Even Danzō—without sufficient evidence, he could not touch him for now.
(End of this chapter)