The greatest use of the Academic Overlord Suit isn't its defense.
Instead, it's the incredibly powerful effects each individual component provides, and the reduction in crafting consumption when all suit components are acquired.
A Lv5 Academic Overlord Suit has a 25% chance to grant 2 skill crafting points when using a magazine.
Of course, this is a more formal explanation.
Simply put, wearing the Academic Overlord Suit while using a magazine has a chance to yield the effect of two magazines from one.
"This is truly a pillow delivered when one is sleepy. With this heavy armor, the rate of magazine level-ups won't slow down much due to changes in the upgrade rules."
"If I can gather a complete set of this suit in the future, the reduction in crafting consumption will also be extremely significant."
Shawn was very satisfied with the four component sets he had drawn.
He didn't actually have many suit components in his hand, so not drawing duplicates was already a gain.
As Shawn continued to look down, the moment he clearly saw the reward, he couldn't help but shake his head.
"Can't they give me something practical? Is a pennant all I get as a reward?"
The badge rewarded by the system had no attributes whatsoever; it was truly just a souvenir.
Its gilded exterior had several intentionally aged claw marks, looking as if they were left by Walkers. In the upper right corner was a large, blood-red full moon, almost occupying a third of the entire badge.
Its appearance was quite good, looking very much like something from the wasteland.
Shawn flipped it over and examined it a few times, then casually tossed it into his system backpack.
Compared to the previous rewards, this one seemed a bit bland.
Shawn then used the three magazines and three additional modules together, since they were all random anyway.
Southern Planting...
Pistol Magazine...
Sharp Stick...
4x Scope Module...
Crippling Module...
Heat Insulation Lining Module...
In fact, when Shawn saw the first magazine, his eyes couldn't help but light up.
Southern Planting was already Lv15, just one last book away from max level, which would grant a 90% replanting rate.
He had originally been thinking about whether to make a detour to the state library in Atlanta, but fate is truly wonderful; the last Southern Planting just showed up, didn't it?
Shawn quickly changed into the freshly warmed Academic Overlord Suit and used all three magazines in one go.
Southern Planting reached max level Lv20, unlocking the highest-grade seed—potatoes.
Pistol Magazine leveled up 5 times, reaching Lv15, unlocking Quality 2 pistols.
Pistol Magazine
Sharp Stick fortunately triggered the 25% chance, effectively counting as two books, and directly reached Lv31.
Sharp Stick
"Good luck."
Shawn took off the Academic Overlord Suit and put back on the stalker suit.
The Academic Overlord Suit was heavy armor. Shawn had put points into medium armor skills but not yet heavy armor, so wearing it felt strange, like being in shackles.
Putting the stalker suit back on, Shawn let out a breath: "Medium armor is still more comfortable for movement."
At least Shawn felt that wearing medium armor was not much different from wearing normal clothes, and the effect of the stalker suit actually made Shawn's movements more agile.
As for the three additional modules.
Shawn couldn't use the 4x scope yet, so he directly tossed it into his backpack.
The Crippling Module, however, was quite good; each bullet had a 20% chance to directly cripple the opponent's legs.
Shawn had just obtained an assault rifle with four attachable slots, so he went ahead and installed it.
Crippling Module
The last item, the Heat Insulation Lining Module, could add 5 points of cold resistance and 1 point of explosive resistance.
These attributes weren't particularly amazing, and cold resistance wasn't essential, but it was better than nothing.
Thinking this, Shawn embedded the module into his stalker suit.
He stretched, and after embedding the module, he indeed felt warm all over.
Heat Insulation Lining Module
In the past, Shawn would at least feel a hint of chill from the cool breeze, but now it was as if he had a personal air conditioner attached to every part of his body, constantly maintaining a mild temperature for Shawn.
Shawn wondered, if just a module had this effect, would he become a reverse-season warrior on the spot if he maxed out the skill called 'Perfect Protection' under the Fortitude sequence?
Wearing shorts in winter and wrapped in a quilt in summer?
Shawn thought with amusement, while looking at the last reward.
But the moment he saw the reward, Shawn paused.
If he remembered correctly, the effective range for team experience sharing was around 200 meters before. Now, the effective range had expanded by an additional 4 times, a full 1 kilometer.
This meant that from now on, no matter where Shawn was in the Prison,
Excluding the Prison area, as long as team members killed Walkers within 500 meters of the Prison as the center, Shawn would receive 25% of the experience gain.
And the moment he saw this reward, Shawn suddenly had a sense of playing a cultivation game, for some reason.
If he could cultivate more talents, would it mean that even if he never left his house, he could still level up to max?
Currently, it was a limited sharing range of one kilometer. Would it continue to expand in the future, gradually becoming 5 kilometers, 10 kilometers, 100 kilometers?
"Not bad."
Shawn nodded slightly.
Most of the rewards from the Achievement System brought Shawn pleasant surprises.
Shawn had almost forgotten about expanding the experience sharing range, but the system suddenly brought it up.
After looking through them for a while, Shawn was basically satisfied with every reward.
"I need to rest for a bit. If you feel tired, go switch places with someone in the back row."
Then, Shawn looked at the Zealots in the driver's seat and said.
He swallowed, nodding repeatedly.
Closing his eyes, three hours passed quickly.
When Shawn opened his eyes again, the sky was already faintly bright. The convoy, having driven non-stop all night, had already entered the map boundaries of Georgia.
The road there, the road back.
The convoy was heading towards the Prison, following the direction Shawn had driven from.
After about another 20 minutes, the convoy slowly stopped by a ruin.
Shawn got up and out of the car, stretched his somewhat stiff body slightly, and looked into the distance.
The Centers for Disease Control was still as they had left it, unchanged.
And Shawn knew that, barring any accidents, it would remain this way for the next few decades.
Without human activity, and with everything here destroyed, this large area of the Centers for Disease Control was no longer suitable for survivors to reside in for long.
"Rest in place for a moment! Then we'll switch drivers!"
"We're rushing back to the Prison tonight!"
Shawn's voice gradually spread through the convoy, and then he gathered with Daryl and other core members, as well as future core members, to eat and drink some things.
Shawn bit into a piece of air-dried cured ribs, his gaze inadvertently sweeping into the distance.
A figure in a camel-colored assault jacket suddenly appeared in his vision, only to turn and leave the next second.
Watching the direction he left, Shawn's eyes narrowed.
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