Chapter 23: Upgrades
"That's right, system,"
Qiming suddenly remembered something and asked:
"Didn't you say before that completing quests rewards skill points? Where? ”
"Skill points have been distributed, please log in to the badge system to check them."
"Hmm......"
Qiming turned on the badge system, and sure enough, a number appeared in the lower right corner of the interface.
"Two o'clock?"
Qiming muttered to himself.
At the same time, he noticed that the grayed badge icons had now become clear, but only in the first few rows.
"Skill points can light up badges?"
Qiming asked in surprise.
"Yes."
"It costs 1 skill point to light up a beginner badge, and 2 skill points to upgrade a beginner badge."
The system displays it as such.
"That is, my current skill points can light up two new badges, waving to upgrade my primary reflex badge?"
Qiming confirmed.
"Yes."
"Uh......"
After thinking about it, Qiming asked again:
"Can't you just redeem a higher-level badge?"
"The Skill Points required to redeem the Premium Badge are the sum of the Bonus Points spent to redeem the Beginner Badge and move up to the Advanced."
"In other words, I want to exchange the intermediate badge directly and need 3 skill points?"
"There are no intermediate badges, and the junior badge will be upgraded to an expert badge."
“...... Then, yes, it takes 3 skill points to redeem the Expert badge. ”
"That's not a lot."
Qiming said nonchalantly.
However, as soon as the words came out, he realized that something was wrong, and said tentatively:
"Well, system, I'm level two now, right?"
"Yes."
"How many zombies do you have to kill to get from level 2 to level 3?"
"40 of them."
"Uh......"
"That third level up to fourth level?"
"80 of them."
It seems that the system already knows what Qiming is asking, and directly displays:
"The number of zombies you need to kill is doubled for each level."
"I knew it!"
Qiming looked like this.
It seems that one skill point can be exchanged for a beginner badge, and three skill points can be exchanged for an expert badge, which seems to be very cheap.
However, the only way to earn Skill Points is currently known to be through Skill Points.
Not to mention the future, just for now, if you want to move from level 2 to level 3, you need to kill a full forty zombies, or complete tasks of corresponding difficulty.
Looking at it this way, the two skill points in his hand immediately became rare.
"How do I change it?"
Qiming muttered.
Whether to redeem two more primary badges or upgrade the primary reflective badge, for a while, Qiming was a little hesitant.
After thinking about it, he asked:
"System, I ask you. Do other badges also consume stamina like primary reflective badges? ”
"All badges are designed to stimulate the body's potential and use them with energy."
"In other words, even if Lao Tzu exchanges a new badge, all the badges together can only be used twice, right?"
Qiming asked.
"Yes."
"Day. Does Lao Tzu still have a choice? ”
Qiming no longer hesitated, and with only two skill points, he upgraded the primary reflection badge.
Suddenly, I saw a golden light on the badge icon, and then I saw that the text on the badge changed from "Primary Reflection Badge" to "Expert Reflection Badge", and other than that, there was no other change.
It's still black on white, and the scum of the soil.
"That's it?"
Qiming said in disbelief.
"The badge upgrade is complete."
The system said.
"Has anything changed?"
Qiming blinked in confusion.
Except for the name change, there was no caption under the badge, and Qiming didn't feel the slightest change at all.
"Badges only have an effect when they're on."
"Oh, yes."
He forgot about it.
"Tell me what's new."
Qiming asked the system.
He didn't dare to try to use it directly, and before leveling up, the badge could only be used twice with his stamina reserves, and more than two would overdraw his stamina.
He'd used it once before when he was fighting an intruder, and he hadn't had any food at all other than that Snickers.
Although the system said that the energy consumption of the badge will be less after the upgrade, he doesn't know how much less.
He had to save what he had to do to deal with the rest of the situation.
"Expert Reflex Badge that will moderately boost nerve reflexes when activated, lasting 2 seconds, and 20% energy exertion."
"So much improvement?!"
Qiming said in surprise.
Although I don't know how much neural reflexes this moderate increase has improved compared to the initial level, not only has the duration been doubled, but even the physical exertion has been reduced by half.
This made Qiming a little overjoyed, those two skill points were indeed not in vain.
"Still,"
Qiming was a little depressed,
"Next time I get skill points, I don't know when I have to wait."
Because of the completion of the rescue mission, the system directly rewarded Qiming with a first-level achievement level, and now, Qiming's current achievement level has become level 2.
In order to get from level 2 to level 3, you need to kill a full 40 zombies.
Involuntarily, Qiming opened the achievement interface, and when he saw the experience bar on it, he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Huh? System, how can it be full of half pipes? ”
As Qiming said, the achievement experience bar is more than half a pipe full, and the small print below also prompts: 25/40.
This was not what Qiming expected.
"When a mission reward is upgraded to an achievement level, the XP points already earned in the previous level will be retained and carried over to the experience bar of the next level."
"Shouldn't there be so many?"
Qi Mingqi Dao,
"At level 1, isn't my experience 10?"
"Complete the rescue mission and reward 12 XP, and kill 3 zombies and reward 3 XP."
"Uh......"
In this way, it is indeed 25 points, but Qiming always feels that something is wrong.
"System, how is the experience value of this mission completion reward calculated?"
He asked.
"The experience points obtained by completing the task are determined by the number of zombies killed in the completion of the mission, and the experience gained by completing random tasks is twice the number of zombies killed, and the experience gained by completing novice tasks is twice that of random tasks of the same level."
"So good?"
Qiming was surprised.
"Then if I kill a few more zombies when I complete the mission, won't they all count towards the mission experience?"
"Yes."
The system answers.
"That's ......"
Qiming touched his chin and said.
The system seems to be encouraging him to take the initiative to kill zombies.
But think about it, too, the upgrade experience of each level in the future is increasing exponentially, and after the previous levels, the number of zombies he needs to kill if he wants to upgrade to the next level will be hundreds or thousands, if there is no multiplier given by the task, it will be difficult for him to upgrade in the later stage.
Suddenly, Qiming finally realized something, and said with wide eyes:
"System, isn't it?"
"What's wrong?"
"You're having a problem calculating your experience points, right?"
Looking at the experience bar on the achievement interface, Qiming frowned and said,
"After completing the rescue mission, Lao Tzu gained a total of 15 experience points, if it is directly added to the experience bar at level 1, Lao Tzu can be upgraded directly, right? Then you will reward the achievement level +1 in the task, so shouldn't Lao Tzu be level 3 now? ”
"There's something wrong with your algorithm!"
As Qiming said, in this way, he still loses.
“......”
A string of ellipses, seeing this, Qiming immediately became proud.
This is a clear miscalculation of the system.
However, before he could manage the system to compensate, the system displayed again:
"Additional note: Quest rewards take precedence over XP earned for completing quests."
"Hey! You're going too far! ”
Qiming said speechlessly.