SSS Class Awakening: Start With A God-Level Choice System-Chapter 50: Bloodthirsty Ring Of Lifesteal (E)

When Ainsworth remembered that the fourth main mission would only be revealed two weeks later, he soon realized, "Two weeks later, with how quickly zombies could evolve, Elite Zombies would become more common while Special Zombies would no longer be that rare."

"At that point, every city might even have a Zombie King, so unless the evolvers are willing to take the risk in absorbing more moonlight, I doubt they could compete with the evolution speed of the zombies."

"In the end, the zombies in this world would defeat humans due to faster evolution time. Of course, there’s also the possibility of the government resorting to MAD to nuke every place on this world and ensure that zombies wouldn’t even be able to rule the world if the human race can’t live on."

"No matter what, this world is screwed unless the protagonist of this world is stronger than the entire zombie race combined or there would be a powerful zombie who would side with the humans which I doubt it."

Despite that, Ainsworth didn’t care much, as the lives and deaths of the people in this world have nothing to do with his team.

Although that made him realize something, "No wonder this is a world with Unknown Difficulty. If it was a bunch of awakeners thrown into this world, they’d no doubt die in the first week or so when Special Zombies became more prominent."

"Even I’m not certain of how powerful a Zombie King is, so I can’t say for sure whether I can defeat them or not. But, I’m still confident that with how high my freedom is, I can undoubtedly retreat from any enemies. Doesn’t matter if I can’t defeat them as long as I can live long to tell the tale."

"Although that would pose a problem, as I might be able to retreat easily, Dante and Rian might not. I could bring them with me using Ultimate Freedom, but there would still be a slight delay in comparison to just retreating alone."

When Ainsworth thought of that possibility, he didn’t want Rian and Dante to die as they were the only few friends he could trust with his life. Such friends were valuable especially in a world where only the strong and powerful thrived so it’s rare to have such friend.

He started to think of ways on increasing Rian and Dante’s survivability but he then remembered that he had obtained three 100% Perfect Healing Potion from a choice reward when he was faced with the option of choosing the Unknown Difficulty from his choice system.

That was the choice option reward, where he also got the Formless Kitchen Knives (S) skill. Aside from that, there was also the random compatible E-grade growth-type equipment, which he hadn’t used yet as he never found the time to sort out his gains until now.

Using the random compatible E-grade growth-type equipment reward, Ainsworth obtained relatively powerful equipment, but it would likely only be useful in the late game rather than the early game. freeweɓnøvel.com

[Item: Bloodthirsty Ring Of Lifesteal

Item Rank: E

Item Type: Accessory (Growth)

Item Ability:

(1): There will be a blood percentage bar that you can see when wearing this equipment. When the blood percentage bar is increased to 100%, the item will be upgraded to a higher rank, and its overall abilities will be improved. The blood percentage bar can only be increased by feeding the ring with blood. The higher the quality of the blood used, such as coming from a strong enemy, the greater the increase in the progress of the blood percentage bar.

(2): You will gain 1% lifesteal for every attack you deal, no matter the type of attack. Lifesteal will be granted in the form of health, even if the attack was based on mana and not a physical attack. However, if physical health is full, excess stolen health will be redirected to your other injured parts, such as if you have a soul or mental injury, it will be healed.

In the case where you are truly at full health, your stolen life will be placed in the ring and can be used when you want to use it. If your life is in danger, the ring will automatically transfer the stolen life inside it to heal you.]

Although the 1% lifesteal from the Bloodthirsty Ring of Lifesteal (E) wasn’t that high and game-changing, Ainsworth still felt it was better than nothing.

After all, in a situation where he two awakeners were equal in everything, then the one who has this equipment will have more advantage than the other who didn’t have it.

E-grade equipments weren’t that particularly valuable especially for a talented awakener like himself, Rian, and Dante. What Ainsworth valued from it was it being a growth-type equipment.

So even if he became an S-rank Awakener, as long as he had fed it with enough blood, then it would grow alongside him and become an S-grade equipment.

Not only would its lifesteal percentage increase, but it might even unlock more abilities. The system had described the choice reward as a random compatible growth-type equipment so the system must have chosen this equipment for him due to it being compatible with him.

No matter what strategy he would use in his playstyle, lifesteal was still important in combat. At least, he was very satisfied with the ring compared to if he got, let’s say, a mage’s staff or a tank’s shield. Those pieces of equipment would be useless to him.

Wearing the Bloodthirsty Ring of Lifesteal (E) onto his right middle finger, Ainsworth then took out the two 100% Perfect Healing Potions from his system inventory.

Heading to Rian and Dante’s rooms, respectively, he gave them a 100% Perfect Healing Potion each and explained its usage and effects. They accepted it gratefully and didn’t ask why he got a ring on his middle finger or where he got the potion.

Anyway, Rian and Dante wouldn’t care even if out of nowhere, Ainsworth pulled out a Tommy gun or a star-destroying cannon. For them, as long as Ainsworth was still their bro, they wouldn’t care about his secrets unless he himself told them about it.

After returning to his room, Ainsworth heaved a sigh of relief that he left Rian and Dante a last resort item so he didn’t have to worry much about their safety.

’Forget about a glass cannon like Rian, if someone can kill Dante before he could even use the potion, then I’d stand no chance against such an opponent. In such situations, it would be far better to abandon the team and let one of us live than let the rest of us die.’

’Anyway, the worst scenario is that I’ll grind for godhood and find a way to resurrect them. It would be foolish to let everyone die just to sacrifice our lives for the sake of friendship.’

’Before we even started the team, Rian, Dante, and I had already agreed that in a scenario where one of us would undoubtedly die, it would be Dante who’d sacrifice his life. He had less mobility and could buy the most time for our escape, while Rian and I would split up and see which of us could survive.’

’As our team’s tank and due to the military teachings of his family, Dante had already prepared himself to die on the battlefield in order to protect his team. Furthermore, Dante has the highest defense among us, so an enemy who could one-shot him would easily wipe our team out, so retreating would be a strategic move to preserve the fire of hope in our team rather than let it extinguish in a mere Otherworld.’

’And besides, in the Otherworld, there are plenty of resurrection items. Although a lot of them have restrictions, there is still a way to resurrect a dead teammate, even if it’s by using a very valuable artifact, so not all hope is lost.’

After finishing his preparations, Ainsworth’s worries lessened as he decided to make use of his free time to explore the world at night.

As the team’s scout, it was Ainsworth’s duty to scout for intel and acquire as much information as possible, so he planned to study the strange moonlight and the behaviors of the zombies at night.

With that plan in mind, he used Freedom of Movement (SSS) to swim through the walls and then run in the air.

While he left his hotel’s room, he observed the hotel from outside and noticed that the survivors had done a good job in fortifying the hotel’s windows and entrances.

’From the looks of it, it will be impossible for those Normal Zombies to break inside the hotel. Only a powerful Elite Zombie could destroy the walls of the hotel and trespass, but otherwise, the hotel should be safe for most threats.’

’However...’

Pausing his train of thought, Ainsworth surveyed his surroundings and began to notice that the zombies at night were not only much more active, but they seemed to be even stronger than in daytime!

’It’s quite possible for a Normal Zombie who’s on the verge of evolution, during nighttime and empowered by the strange moonlight, to break into the hotel.’