Chapter 15: Thunder Fruit

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

“Killed great white shark (level 5), obtained Shark Armor (bronze), +2000 copper coins. +200 EXP +200. +1 Hunter Level, +10 Endurance, +10 Speed, +50 Strength.”

As the game’s prompt sounded, Ye Jun’s weariness was instantly swept away, and he now felt much stronger.

He took a look at his attributes.

Player Ye Jun (Death Mode).

Titles Obtained:

Beginner Flame Controller. Fire Energy Level: 2 (150/200)

Flame Affinity: 10 (You can absorb 10 points of Fire Energy per day.)

Beginner Hunter. Hunter Level: 3 (71/300)

Beginner Lightning Controller. Lightning Level: 0 (0/10)

Lightning Affinity: 10.

Skill: Fireball

Skill: Palm Thunder

Endurance: 100, Speed: 100, Strength: 242.

Hunter level has been raised to level 3.

Endurance: 100, Speed 10m/s, Strength 242kg.

His physical fitness, whether it was his strength, endurance, or speed, was comparable to the top athletes of the world in all areas.

As for the athletes who could reach the top of these three attributes at the same time, there simply weren’t any.

Before Ye Jun had time to celebrate, his face suddenly paled.

It was because he had sensed that the sharks had given up chasing the doll and were returning towards the surface of the sea after being attracted by the smell of this great white shark’s blood.

Ye Jun hurriedly knotted the fishing net and tied it around the shark’s tail, trying to drag the great white shark onto the raft.

However, this great white shark was too heavy. Even with Ye Jun’s current physical strength, he was unable to carry the great white shark onto the raft.

By now, the other great white sharks had caught up.

Instead of attacking the raft, these great white sharks launched themselves at the great white’s carcass.

Their bloody maws were incomparably fierce.

In a few bites, the carcass of the great white shark was mostly devoured.

Ye Jun was worried that these sharks would chase after the raft, so he had no choice but to cut off part of the meat of the great white shark, discarding all the rest of the great white shark’s carcass.

It was a good thing those great whites were attracted to the shark meat and slowly disappeared with the currents.

The crisis was finally over.

However, this attack by the great white sharks also gave Ye Jun a wake-up call.

The merchant ship must be built as soon as possible. At sea, a ship was needed for basic self-preservation. Rafts were no longer a match for large marine animals.

Ye Jun put up all the hundreds of catties of shark meat he had cut off for trade.

Now Ye Jun simply didn’t have the time and energy to grill fish. He just put up all the raw meat to trade for wood.

Afterward, Ye Jun threw out his magical fishing rod and let the empty hook drift with the waves to see if he could catch something rare. Anyway, he had no shortage of fish meat now, and the EXP gained from hunting smaller fish was too little, so he might as well try his luck.

The magical fishing rod didn’t need him to keep an eye on it either. Ye Jun could still control the doll while searching the seabed.

At the bottom of the sea, attached with the glow of the pearl, the doll wove through the corals and seaweeds.

The shipwreck from yesterday was long gone.

This was the bad thing about floating on the sea. In one night, there was no telling how far away he would be from yesterday’s location.

“Ding! Metal ore found, would you like to collect it?”

Metal ore?

This metal ore didn’t seem to be of any use to the current Ye Jun. After all, he couldn’t possibly open a furnace to refine metal on a raft!

But Ye Jun still chose to collect it!

Whether it was useful or not, he would get it first and if he truly had no use for it, he would trade it with someone else.

Collected successfully, +1 Metal Ore!

Collected successfully, +1 Metal Ore!

+1 Metal Ore.

…

Soon, a pile of yellow ores was piled up in front of Ye Jun.

There were hundreds of these ores, and each one of them was the size of a fist.

‘I think this is copper ore. I wonder if it can be exchanged for copper coins after it is refined!’

‘It’s just that it’s a question of how to refine it.’

Ye Jun used a fishing net to catch all the copper ores before pulling them back onto the raft.

At this time, the magical fishing rod also caught something.

A worn-out package was fished up.

“Unopened parachute (soldier, I’m sorry I didn’t open it)”

‘What’s the point of fishing up a parachute? I don’t need to parachute.’

‘Even if I have a parachute, this one can’t be opened. Isn’t this thing just dangerous?

Ye Jun had a moment of silence in tribute for the previous owner of this parachute.

However, the parachute rope and cloth would be of some use for making sails.

Ye Jun controlled the doll down to salvage the metal ore over and over again, while angling on the side.

After a short while, the fishing line tensed up and a heavy thing was pulled up by Ye Jun.

Surprisingly, it was a crucible with a corner missing!

‘Awesome!’

This was like being sent a pillow when one dozed off!

A crucible was delivered just after the metal ore was collected.

It seemed that there was truly a blessing after the disaster; he had good luck today.

After half an hour, Ye Jun fished up a wrecked barbecue grill.

It was rusty, but it was still usable after being washed.

Over the next few hours, Ye Jun caught a whole bunch of miscellaneous things, from worn-out slippers to broken backpacks, and even caught a section of railroad track—no idea why this was in the sea, as it had exhausted Ye Jun quite a bit. Nothing useful was fished up again.

On the other side, the doll made several deliveries and collected several hundred pieces of metal ore.

As the raft drifted away, each round trip took more than an hour, so Ye Jun gave up the idea of continuing to collect ores.

But the strange fruit tree gave Ye Jun a surprise.

A few more fruits appeared on top of the formerly bare strange fruit tree.

There were eight in total!

The largest one was the size of a thumb, the others were the size of a soybean.

These fruits were purple and surprisingly, there was lightning flickering around them.

“Thunder Fruit: fruit produced from a strange fruit tree after it absorbs the electrical energy from the remains of the electric ray. When consumed, it enhances the power of lightning.”

Seeing the properties of the Thunder Fruit, Ye Jun was overjoyed.

All this time, he didn’t know how to absorb the power of lightning. He even thought of making a kite just as Franklin did to attract the lightning from the sky, but then he would most likely be killed immediately by the thunderbolt.

Ye Jun had only buried those useless bones and internal organs leftover from dissecting the electric rays under the tree at first, but he never expected that this strange fruit tree would give him such a big surprise.

In that case, as long as Ye Jun caught some electric rays, electric eels, and other creatures that could discharge electricity and buried them under the tree, he would be able to obtain a constant supply of Thunder Fruit, allowing him to practice lightning spells.

Ye Jun couldn’t wait and plucked the largest Thunder Fruit before swallowing it in one bite.

Instantly, a tingling sensation exploded in his mouth.

From the esophagus to the inside of his stomach, it was as if an electrical current had slid through and conducted itself to all of his limbs and into every cell.

“Consumed Thunder Fruit, +5 Electrical Energy.”

Beginner Lightning Controller: Level: 0 (5/10).

Ye Jun simply ate all of the few remaining fruits.

“Consumed Thunder Fruit, +5 Electrical Energy.”

“Consumed Thunder Fruit, +5 Electrical Energy.”

…

“Consumed Thunder Fruit, +5 Electrical Energy, +1 Lightning Level, +10 Strength.”

Spells and other upgrades didn’t have a big boost to Strength, but…

Ye Jun flicked his finger and a bolt of tiny lightning shot out.

“Palm Thunder!”

Instantly, a palm-sized snapper flopped up its belly and floated to the surface.