Chapter 26: Gene Breakthrough Potion!

Nick's face was serious. If he had retreated a few seconds later, he might have already been in the Desert Worm's belly.

He held the hilt of the sword tightly with both hands, without any skill, purely using his physical strength, and slashed at the body of the Desert Worm.

This made the already sharp short sword cut through the Desert Worm's body like cutting through melons and vegetables, cutting it in half.

At the incision, countless mucus and the green blood of the Desert Worm spurted out. Nick didn't have the conditions to take a bath now, so he decisively retreated.

The severed head of the Desert Worm slammed heavily on the ground, and even the huge body completely lost its movement.

"Finally dead..."

Nick looked at the head of the Desert Worm. This guy was similar to an earthworm, a segmented animal with a head and a tail.

It's just that the Desert Worm disguised it as a head, and if one was not careful, it was really possible to be deceived by it.

With a short, dazzling light, a yellow-brown box lay quietly beside the corpse of the Desert Worm.

It was the reward for killing the dungeon creature, the Desert Worm.

The Rune Bow in Nick's hand was the reward from the bronze box, and this time the reward for hunting the dungeon creature was also a bronze box.

This made him look forward to the reward.

"It would be nice to have a melee weapon or something..."

Nick whispered softly. He now had a long-range attack method, but the limitations of using the Rune Bow were too great, and it couldn't play any role in close combat.

With a handy weapon and his current physical fitness, even if he faced a dungeon creature at close range, Nick was confident that he could kill it.

However, when Nick opened the yellow-brown box and saw what was inside, his face instantly became much more serious.

A syringe with a strong sci-fi style lay quietly in the box.

Nick reached out and picked it up, then decisively opened the black panel and used the [Identify] function. He wanted to see what the so-called generous reward in the hint was...

[Gene Breakthrough Potion]: After the physique reaches a bottleneck, it can be injected with the Gene Breakthrough Potion to break through the physical gene limit and enter the Transcendent stage.

"..."

Nick looked at the syringe in his hand and twitched his lips slightly. He had previously taken three [Gene Potions], and his physical fitness had already exceeded the scope of normal people.

After reaching the bottleneck and developing further, it would no longer belong to the human category, right?

....

Nick's almost crushing battle scene shocked the survivor team and Sally in the distance. It was simply too clean and efficient.

First, an arrow blew up the head of the Desert Worm, and then the several arrows fired made the Desert Worm fall into a frenzy.

Finally, as if he had foreseen the future, he accurately predicted the place where the Desert Worm would attack, quietly avoided the danger, and only used a short sword to cut this behemoth in half.

Not to mention Nick's strength, his courage alone was enough for others to learn for a lifetime.

"Now, can we talk about the reward?"

Sally's eyes were quite shocked, but it was quickly hidden. She looked at the stunned squad leader not far away.

"No... no problem."

The leader of this survivor squad nodded quickly after hearing Sally's words. His initial plan was to let Nick and Sally hold it back so that he could find an opportunity to slip away.

But he never expected that the Desert Worm, which their team could hardly contend with, was so easily dealt with by Nick.

Decisive and clean, without any hesitation.

If they wanted to renege on the debt and run away at this time, they would have to weigh their own strength, otherwise their end would definitely be the same as that worm.

When Nick picked up the harvest in the bronze box and rushed towards Sally and the survivor team, except for Sally, whose expression remained unchanged, the other four faces were mostly a little reserved.

The vast majority of the reason came from the strength Nick showed.

Nick glanced at Sally and took the initiative to ask, "Sally, how are things going with you and these guys?"

"We haven't started yet..."

Sally's face was a little helpless. She originally thought it would take a while, but she didn't expect Nick to end the battle so quickly.

She finally looked at the several people in the survivor squad, a faint smile appeared on her face, and she said, "Our captain has already killed the Desert Worm, as for the reward..."

"In addition to all the resources collected in the current dungeon, we also want to choose three items from your previous exploration gains."

Sally's words made the faces of the four members of the survivor team change instantly. This was no longer a lion's big mouth, this was simply a vampire sucking on a major artery!!

The leader of this survivor team had some changes in his expression, and he said, "Isn't this too much? The resources of this dungeon were all collected by us through hard work, and even some of our teammates lost their lives..."

"At most 50%!"

However, just as the leader was about to continue speaking, Sally glared at him and retorted, "Actually, we could have waited until you were all dead before choosing to take action."

"And, I'll reiterate, you don't have the right to refuse."

Sally's words were already full of warning. Even if they wanted to bargain, they had to have the confidence and capital to do so.

She looked at Nick and said with a smile, "Captain, after we came to this dungeon, we found a survivor team that all sacrificed themselves while fighting the Desert Worm."

"For better survival, we looted all their equipment and resources. Isn't that reasonable?"

Nick twitched his lips. As expected of the person he took a fancy to, this heart was dark enough, almost writing the words "murder and robbery" on his face.

But he still nodded slightly. For survival, it's not shameful!

The leader of the survivor squad was not stupid, and naturally understood the implication of Sally's words. The former was to agree to Sally's proposed reward and leave here alive.

If they didn't agree, there would just be a few more survivor corpses killed by the "Desert Worm" in this dungeon.

The leader of the survivor team nodded very unsatisfactorily and said, "Okay, okay! The reward will be as you proposed..."

Sally's cold face showed a faint smile again after hearing this. Only such a reward could satisfy them!

The four people in front of them, after experiencing Sally's greetings, all honestly placed the materials in front of Nick and Sally, without any reservation.

Seeing this, Sally said quite sincerely.

"Thank you for your cooperation."