Speed Is King

Chapter 156

“Congratulations for surviving the first week! We have made an Apocalypse Survivor Weekly Update. Please take a look at what your fellow Earthlings had been up to for the past action-packed week!”

“So… It’s been a week.” Jessica thought to herself and looked up into the beautiful cloudless afternoon as if expecting a giant screen to magically appear in the sky.

Nothing of the sort happened, of course. Instead, a series of images began to appear in her mind accompanied by wordless messages.

Jessica dropped the dead Five-Winged Thunderbird from the clutches of her fiery right hand and focused on the images.

“Introducing the stars of our Apocalypse Survivor Weekly Update – Bartholomew Garens of Europe! Diana Liu of Asia! And… Jessica Musk of North America!

Next – Diana Liu. Ahh. Beautiful, beautiful Diana Liu. If her beauty score is 10 out of 10, then her deadly score is 100 out of 10! Diana Liu had only killed 23 beasts in the span of seven days. Too little? No. Too many! She killed 23 King Level Beasts! For all of you out there who are still woefully ignorant, King Level Beasts are like Godzillas. And yes, she killed 23 of them. Like Bartholomew, she had secured an Adamantium Sponsor as well! But unlike Bartholomew, she had also secured not one, not two, but THREE! Diamond Sponsors as well! Well, well, well. What can we say? Well done, Diana Liu!

Finally – Jessica Musk. Cute, little Jessica Must, barely even a woman. But do not let her youth fool you. She is the proud owner of an S Phoenix System which grants her powers beyond any of your imaginations. She had killed a modest four hundred fifty four beasts in her journey last week, but that’s not important. What’s important is that she had also secured an Adamantium Sponsor that is by far the most generous Sponsor out of all the Sponsors in this game! She is now indisputably one of the most powerful players in the Games of Earth!

What have you accomplished this week? The resource boxes are out there waiting for you! As of this moment, there are still over five million unclaimed resource boxes in EACH continent. Go get them, and forge your own glory! This is the end of the Apocalypse Survive Weekly Update. See you all next week! Bye bye!”

“Damn the nosy aliens! Now the whole world knows about my secret sponsor!” Jessica cursed. She had been more and more liberal with curse words now that she was all alone and fighting powerful beasts endlessly.

Although the alien said that killing four hundred fifty four beasts was “modest”, only God knew just how much effort she had put in to do so.

Still, her efforts were not for nothing. She had reached an impressive level two hundred and seven, and had attracted the attention of an Adamantium Sponsor who had given her a surprising boon.

A pleasant surprise, of course.

A resource box had appeared very suddenly and mysteriously from a powerful beam of light mere hours ago. She had opened it and only found two black pills, with an information pad next to it containing a brief description of the pills.

“Crazy Monk “Zero” of the Eight Heavens extends his greetings. Zero is extremely impressed with you, and would like to sponsor you with a couple of unique Adamantium Grade boons.

The first boon is called “Goddess of the Dark”.

This boon would upgrade your Grade S Phoenix System into a Grade SS Phoenix Goddess System. It will not disrupt your current System Level Up progress, and will instead expand the Level Up mission to factor in the additional “Goddess of the Dark” aspect.

Upon completion of the Level Up mission, your Grade S Phoenix Goddess System will be upgraded to become a Grade SSS Black Phoenix Goddess System.

Please eat the black pill with a blue stripe to acquire this boon.

The second boon is called “Dark Flame Body.”

This boon will transform your body to become a Dark Flame Body. You will be able to absorb Dark Energy and Fire Energy and gain complete immunity against the two energies. The Dark Flame Body highly complements the Black Phoenix Goddess System.

Please eat the black pill with the red stripe to acquire this boon.”

Of course Jessica popped both pills into her mouth and swallowed them. Both boons were awesome, and would instantly catapult her into contention for the strongest player status of planet Earth! And when that happens, she would be able to save Jennifer and help her brother do whatever needs to be done.

However, gaining such power was not without cost. The transformation turned out to be insanely painful!

After almost a full thirty minutes of excruciating pain which almost caused her to pass out in a dead faint, she had opened her eyes as a brand new person.

“Show me my status.” Jessica had whispered.

Phoenix Goddess System (S-Grade)

Character Name: Jessica Musk

Current Level: 207

HP: 10300/10300

Current Experience: 6600/20700

Strength: 75

Intellect: 15

Endurance: 15

Reflexes: 50

Luck: 15

Fire Resistance: MAX

Dark Resistance: MAX

Available points: 0

Skills

[Level 20 Black Flame Burst – Release a ring of fire around you and dealing 3000% fire damage.]

[Level 25 Black Flame Sword – Generates a sword of flame that deals 3750% fire damage.]

[Level 22 Black Flame Wings – Creates a pair of flame wings that allows you to fly for 33 minutes.]

[Level 20 Black Flame Armor – Creates a Black Flame Armor that absorbs 3000% of your damage output every second.]

[Level 10 Rebirth – Revive to full HP upon death. 10/10]

[Level 1 Dark Curse – Unleash a curse on your enemy dealing 100% dark damage per second for 1 second.]

[Level 1 Life Siphon – Absorbs 1% of your enemy’s max hp every 10 seconds.]

“Now that my secret is out, I should probably give big bro a call.” Jessica sighed. “I had wanted to give him a surprise when I meet him next. Darn it. But with this, at least Jennifer knows that I am alive. I hope she’ll feel better because of this.”

Jessica sighed deeply once more.