Second World-Novel



There was quite an assortment of items in Grace's hands, but Jack's eyes were fixed on one particular item because it was registered with purple color in his monocle. The item was a large piece of cloth.

"A legendary item!" Jack exclaimed and picked that cloth up. It turned out to be a cloak. This was even better. This was his first legendary equipment.

The cloak's color seemed to constantly change. Red, green, blue, yellow, purple, light, black, and then back to red again. The sight was mystifying.

"Yeah. Even without mana sense, anyone can see this is an exceptional cloak," Grace said.

Jack used his Inspect.

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Cloak of the Elemental God (Legendary cloak)

Select one element among Fire, Ice, Wind, Earth, Lightning, Dark, or Light. Cooldown: 5 minutes.

+100 resistance to the selected element.

+500 to physical and magical defense.

All hostiles within a radius of 3 meters received 10% damage from the selected element each second.

Automatically parry incoming attacks, blocking 30,000 damage. Any excess damage will be reduced by 25%. The effect is doubled if the damage is from the selected element. Cooldown: 5 seconds.

Elemental God Barrier (Active skill): Form a protective shell within a radius of 5 meters for 5 seconds. Block 500,000 damage. Excess damage is reduced by 50%. The effect is doubled if the damage is from the selected element. Cooldown: 2 hours.

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"This is very good defensive equipment!" Jack exclaimed after reading the description.

Without further ado, he immediately unequipped his Cloak of Shadow to put on this Cloak of the Elemental God. He had a slight sentimental feeling when he took off the Cloak of Shadow. This cloak had followed him for quite some time. Its shadow meld ability had saved him many times. But he had the invisibility spell now, he didn't need that ability anymore.

"What is the grade of your cloak?" Jack asked Grace.

"Unique grade. Why?" Grace asked back.

"Never mind," Jack said. He planned to give the Cloak of Shadow to Grace if she was still wearing a lower-grade cloak. He would just give it to the others in the guild later.

When Jack equipped the Cloak of the Elemental God, it asked him to choose an element. If he didn't respond within five seconds, a random element would be chosen. Jack chose the fire element.

Jack didn't worry that the choice was permanent because he saw a cooldown period in the description for the element selection.

After the fire element was chosen, the cloak behind him seemed to burst into flames. His friends even worry that he got burned, but he felt just fine. He didn't feel any heat. He even touched the fiery cloak and lifted it. It still felt like cloth. The fire was raging in his hand but it didn't burn him.

He looked at the cloak's cooldown timer, he could change the cloak into another element once the five-minute cooldown was completed. This meant he could adjust the element based on his opponent. This allowed for great flexibility. He liked this cloak very much.

"Grace, attack me with your mana bullet," Jack said.

"What? Why?" Grace asked.

"I want to test this cloak's ability," Jack answered.

"Don't you see my hands are full? Aren't you going to take these remaining items?" Grace asked.

Jack took all the goods and just shoved them into his inventory. He would browse through them later.

"Okay, hit me," Jack said.

Grace shook her head. She cast her mana bullet at Jack. Jack remained still with folded arms.

When the mana bullet almost hit Jack, his fiery cloak moved by itself and intercepted the attack. Jack didn't receive any damage.

"Cool!" Jack exclaimed. "The description says it can block damage up to 30,000 damage. That is more than half my HP. If it is an attack from the selected element, it can block twice the damage. This means at this moment it can block a fire attack that might have killed me in a single hit, and it can do that every five seconds."

"You will be harder to kill with that cloak," Grace said.

"Hehe," Jack grinned.

He was tempted to test the active skill of the cloak, the Elemental God Barrier, but this skill had a cooldown of two hours. It would be trouble if he suddenly needed this skill in the coming two hours.

Even so, two hours was a very short cooldown for such a powerful skill. The skill could block 500,000 or even 1,000,000 damage if it was the chosen element. That was almost half of Euphosine's total HP.

He figured if he used this skill, it might look similar to what Talia used to protect them when Aglea used her Light Nova. Especially since he was using the fire element at the moment.

"That is a very fine cloak," Talia said. She looked much better than before. She still seemed sad but there was also a relief in her expression.

"Are you okay?" Jack asked her.

Talia simply smiled in response.

"Let's go outside to the garden," she said. "Euphosine's dimension where her game took place had been destroyed. The past participants that are still in training within that dimension should be outside."

"What about the outworlders in the basement?" Jack asked.

"You know about them?" Talia asked.

Jack nodded. During the time he was freeing Talia, he sent one of his copies to check on Grace and the others who were fighting the happy dolls outside in the garden. After seeing that there was nothing to worry about, Jack sent that copy to roam around the mansion, especially the area where he had not gone to when he was in his incorporeal state.

He found stairs that led into the basement and under there, he saw lots of players in bound condition. All these players were level 1. They were all bound and had a large tube going into their mouth. Every few seconds, these players jerked and then something shiny flowed out of them through the tubes and went somewhere else. The scene was extremely bizarre, like some sort of human factory from some sci-fi movies.

"They should be outside as well," Talia replied.