[You have passed the punishment test, beginning to leave the instance...]
After piercing the masked knife wielder in front of him with one strike, a notification immediately appeared before Wang Zhifan, informing him that he had cleared the level, but his mood was not relaxed at this moment.
This was because just a moment ago, at the last moment of his confrontation with this punishment enemy, he had been somewhat careless, not anticipating that the opponent was completely unafraid of death. As a result, he was hit squarely in the waist and abdomen by the enemy's broken blade.
Fortunately, Wang Zhifan was currently wearing a Fine Layer wolf-hide armor, which had excellent physical defense capabilities. Moreover, because he was in the Tiger Slaughter state before, his strike inflicted dual damage to the masked knife wielder's body and soul, causing an instant death without any chance of a dying outburst. Consequently, Wang Zhifan's physical body sustained no actual injuries from the broken blade, leaving only a line of indentation on the wolf-hide armor.
This punishment test likely lasted only about three minutes in total, but Wang Zhifan felt it was quite dangerous. If he hadn't surpassed his level significantly in personal attributes, gear, and skill levels, he might have died in this punishment test or at least been seriously injured.
One must not assume that being seriously injured in a punishment test is no big deal, as the mechanism of the punishment test is very different from ordinary instances.
Aside from having no rewards, players are not healed when leaving the punishment test, meaning if a player defeats their enemy at the cost of serious injuries, they will remain seriously injured upon returning to reality after leaving the instance. It's even possible to die upon returning to reality.
Therefore, the mechanism of the punishment test is quite intimidating for players. No one wants to be thrown into an instance that offers no rewards but only resource depletion, physical pain, or even death.
In a moment of mental distraction, Wang Zhifan found that he had left the moonlit mountaintop of before, leaving the punishment test. However, he was not returned to the previous Giant Wild Boar instance world but directly back to the real world, into his rental room.
"Oh no! I haven't chosen my reward yet!"
Upon realizing that he didn't return to the grassland, Wang Zhifan felt a rush of anxiety, but soon he saw the reward selection panel from the Giant Wild Boar instance slowly appear before him, realizing that entering the punishment test had not taken away his unselected rewards, and he still had a choice to make.
"At least it's somewhat humane, otherwise, it would be unbearable if they threw me into the punishment test and swallowed up my rightful rewards."
After experiencing an unexpected punishment test, Wang Zhifan felt uneasy, but before reflecting on his personal actions, he decided to first select his instance rewards.
"No need to look at ordinary items... Fine Layer armor, firearms, bullets, skill scrolls are all options... These rings also seem quite interesting..."
At this moment, Wang Zhifan noticed each of the rings in the Giant Wild Boar instance reward list had its own merits.
[Unyielding Ring (Fine)]
[When you wear this ring, your life recovery speed increases by 200%. This effect doubles when you are in a severely injured state.]
...
[Ring of Fury (Fine)]
[When you wear this ring, your strength attribute increases by 3, and your agility and spirit attributes each decrease by 1.]
...
[Tusk Ring (Fine)]
[This is a ring as well as a hidden weapon. You can use it to unexpectedly launch tusks at enemies within fifteen meters, dealing physical damage equal to 10% of a Level 3 boar charge each time, capable of launching three times per day.]
"The effect of this Unyielding Ring looks pretty good, it's like having a permanent weaker healing skill... The Ring of Fury is somewhat useful for a physical class like mine... The hidden weapon setup of the Tusk Ring is also a bit novel..."
After reviewing the Fine Layer rewards on the list, Wang Zhifan then shifted his attention to the most crucial rare-level rewards.
[Iron Mountain Belt (Rare)]
[When you wear this lightweight belt, each point of your constitution attribute grants you 0.6% physical damage reduction, with the belt offering a maximum of 60% physical damage reduction.]
"Up to 60% physical damage reduction? You just need a constitution attribute of 100 to get such a powerful effect! My constitution attribute is currently at 18 points, which means wearing it will give me over 10% physical damage reduction! Why is such a divine artifact only of rare level?"
After reading the introduction of the rare-level Iron Mountain Belt on the reward list, Wang Zhifan found it hard to believe that a rare-level reward could be so powerful, offering as much as 60% physical damage reduction. Such a high percentage of damage reduction seems to far surpass the rare level.
"Could it be because of the existence of penetration attributes? Making such high damage mitigation not as useful?"
Wang Zhifan then recalled the 40% physical penetration trait of his Wolf-Slaying Blade. The Wolf-Slaying Blade is also rare-level equipment, but it directly possesses 40% physical penetration without requiring any other attribute conditions. From this, one could deduce that more advanced weapons would certainly have higher penetration attributes, so even if a player managed to stack up 100% damage mitigation, it wouldn't necessarily allow them to withstand attacks.
"Anyway, this is definitely a good piece of equipment. Hopefully, I'll have the chance to increase my constitution to 100 points someday."
Without overthinking, Wang Zhifan began to make his final selection. Soon the reward panel in front of him disappeared, and three items appeared out of thin air before him: a black leather belt, a silver-white handgun, and a yellow-gemstone ring.
Among them, the black leather belt was naturally the rare-level "Iron Mountain Belt," the silver-white handgun was the Fine Layer firearm he had chosen, the only firearm-type weapon in the previous reward list, and the yellow-gemstone ring was the Fine Layer "Unyielding Ring."
Initially, after obtaining the handgun from the trench coat youth in the instance, Wang Zhifan didn't plan to select another handgun. However, he discovered that the Fine Layer firearm was considerably better than ordinary-level ones. Since he wanted to use a gun, he needed to choose a high-quality one. Otherwise, if he had neither shooting skills nor a good firearm, the weapon wouldn't be of much use in his hands.
[Handgun (Fine)]
[Compared to an ordinary-level handgun, this gun's shooting accuracy is improved by about 20%, and its magazine capacity is increased by 4 rounds, allowing a maximum of 12 bullets to be loaded.]
Wang Zhifan currently has 10 Fine Layer handgun bullets prepared in his personal space, perfectly matching this Fine Layer weapon. Fine Layer handgun bullets also have significant advantages over ordinary-level ones.
[Handgun Bullet (Fine)]
[These Fine Layer bullets have roughly 30% more power compared to ordinary-level bullets. Additionally, they are more stable, with a reduced ricochet rate.]