Chapter 162: Upgrade

"A bird on a tree is never afraid of a branch breaking because his trust isn't in the brunch but in his own wings."

- Charlie Wardle

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Of course, it's impossible.

If the resistant skin is really that invincible, its price in the system would not be just average but would be at the highest level, like the Superhuman Reflexes.

The resistant skin reduces damage by a terrifying amount, but it doesn't work against all kinds of damage.

It only applies to special damages caused by natural forms like burning, freezing, corrosion, toxins, radiation, explosions, high temperatures, etc.

It doesn't provide any defense against supernatural damage.

For example, any kind of magic or cosmic power can ignore the resistant skin.

Furthermore, the resistant skin is also ineffective against normal damages that are not in special forms.

What is considered normal damage?

The most obvious example is physical combat. The resistant skin doesn't defend against punches.

Dean was aware that resistant skin doesn't protect against damage from forces, kinetic energy, and other similar techniques.

Dean is not sure if his understanding is correct because he feels that the system's judgment in many parts seems... unscientific?

But Dean feels that it should be close enough.

For example, a super-powered individual who can freely manipulate gravity can forcefully tear apart Dean's body, and the resistant skin would be useless.

Similarly, while the explosion's shockwave and high heat would lessen the damage to Resistant Skin, any shrapnel produced by the explosion could still pose a fatal threat to Dean.

In short, the resistance skin's function is indeed very powerful and gives Dean excellent survivability.

However, it wasn't invulnerable, not even close to indestructible.

For Dean, the existence of the resistant skin is more like insurance.

It allowed him to withstand extreme conditions, like poison, fire, radiation, and more, and ensured his survival in hostile environments.

He does not have to worry about being suddenly killed by a large-scale, unknown AOE attack.

In the world of DC, no one should ever think that this is a silly worry because of the real disaster that could happen at any time.

Dean believes that this is the true value of resistant skin.

After spending five thousand points to upgrade the low-level resistance skin to a high level, Dean spent another five thousand points to upgrade the Mid-Level superhuman reflexes to a High-Level.

As for why he upgraded the superhuman reflexes, the reason is even simpler.

The most important quality that will help Dean survive in the DC universe is his quick reflexes.

While other abilities were important, but reaction speed must be put first.

Dean can do magic tricks more proficiently and dodge most attacks more easily if he can react faster.

This will be true even when he gets to Central City in the future.

When faced with the fastest person in the world, Dean didn't even have time to blink before he was sent to prison.

Soon, his balance decreased by ten thousand points as he upgraded Resistant Skin and Superhuman Reflexes to High-Level.

[Resilient Skin (High-Level): Reduces sixty percent of external damage caused by various special attributes such as burning, freezing, corrosion, toxins, radiation, explosions, etc., and accelerates healing.]

[Superhuman Reflexes (High-Level): Can temporarily greatly increase the body's reaction ability in necessary situations. The degree of improvement depends on the body's condition at the time, but it also leads to rapid stamina consumption. In extreme conditions, the host can keep up with movements below ten times the speed of sound. In the inactive state, it can slowly increase the host's reaction ability up to a maximum of ten times the speed of sound without consuming stamina.]

What should he buy next?

Dean looked at the remaining balance of over twenty-five thousand points and fell into contemplation.

He opened the system store and scrolled through the list of items. The system had too many items, and it was impossible to count all the useful ones.

After a quick glance, Dean found ten items that would greatly help him.

However, he only had enough points to buy four or five of them, and he would be broke after that.

Dean didn't plan on spending all his points at once because he couldn't predict all the future possibilities.

What if there was an unexpected event that happened and his current items couldn't deal with it and he didn't have enough points to buy specific items...

That would be a big mistake for Dean.

He decided to reserve at least five thousand points, which meant he had around twenty thousand points to spend right now.

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, Dean spotted an item with great value for points. When he looked at the price, he immediately decided to buy two items.

First, there were the "Mystic Eyes":

[Mystic Eyes: can be used on living beings and non-living objects. It can see through the basic information and abilities of all entities below god-level within a single universe.]

[Value: twelve thousand points.]

With Mystic Eyes, Dean wouldn't have to go through additional investigations when encountering unfamiliar supervillains or superheroes.

He could directly obtain their basic information.

However, this basic information wouldn't be particularly detailed.

It would be equal to a brief introduction, name, special abilities, and hobbies.

For deeper levels of preference and personality, it wouldn't display that information.

However, this is already quite useful.

Next is the second item.

[Small Virtual Live Room: can create a virtual live room with a maximum capacity of five thousand people, which will automatically appear on the electronic device closest to the specified audience.]

[Value: seven thousand five hundred points.]

The system description of this item looks a bit abstract and not very understandable.

But actually, it is quite easy to understand.

Firstly, the virtual live room only applies to the specified audience.

For example, Dean can select 'people who want to watch the Phantom Thief show but are not at the location'.

Then, the electronic devices closest to this group of people would automatically display Phantom Thief's performance.

The benefit of this is that Dean can always be sure that at least five thousand people are watching him perform, which gives him a steady gain of five thousand points.

After all, he can't expect to have a wealthy person book Gotham City Stadium every time to allow so many audiences for Phantom Thief's shows.

Phantom Thief usually appears in places like museums or vaults, where only two or three thousand people can fit in, and the vast majority of people can't squeeze into the scene and can only watch through media live broadcasts.

In the system's assessment, only those who personally witness Phantom Thief's performance on the scene can provide points, and those who only see it through media live broadcasts cannot provide points.

The existence of the virtual live room can make up for this.

Not only that, but the virtual live room also has another benefit.

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