The Invincible Bodyguard Starting by Escorting the Doomsday Imperial Princess Chapter 67 : Chapter 67

Chapter 67: Trait Fusion!

That was probably only the vanguard force leading the way. Heaven knew just how many hidden cards those forr-dynasty remnants had prepared over the course of a hundred years.

It actually made Chen Guan a little regret yesterday’s impulsive decision.

Forget it, forget it...

He was only an Escort Master, not so saint who saved the suffering of the world.

They could fight however they pleased. So long as he delivered this troubleso girl safely to Shangjing City, even if the sky fell, it still would not have half a copper’s worth to do with him.

After the two of them had eaten their fill, Chen Guan decided to show a bit of kindness and let this “walking disaster” rest properly for two hours before going down the mountain, in case soone happened to be blocking the road below and she ended up too exhausted to run.

As for himself, he found a place sheltered from the wind, sat down, and with a thought opened the system panel that only he could see.

【Escort Master】: Chen Guan

【Realm】: Purple Palace Realm (1/500)

【Blood Vitality LV4】: 320/1000

【Physique LV5】: 150/500

【Right-of-Way Traits】 (Permanent)

【Path-Cleaving Slash】 (Attack): Increases saber attack power by 100%.

【Mountain-Severing Slash】 (Saber Art): Ignores 50% of the enemy’s defense.

【Decapitating Slash】 (Saber Art): Each strike carries inherent saber intent. There is a 10% chance to trigger an instant kill, forcibly taking the enemy’s head regardless of realm.

【Thousand-Li Divine Stride】 (Movent): Carrying weight does not reduce speed. Base movent speed increases by 100%.

【Abyss-Inch Advance】 (Movent): Within line of sight, ignores enemy encirclent and instantly advances to within three feet behind the employer or the enemy.

【Night Wraith Phantom Steps】 (Movent): ...

【Right-of-Way Traits】 (Temporary)

【Escorter’s Golden Body】 (Defense): Can be activated when the employer is within ten ters of the host, granting thirty seconds of invincibility.

【Evil-Banishing】 (Defense): Impervious to all evil for one minute.

【Heart Guard】 (Defense): Steadies the mind against all outside interference for half a quarter-hour.

...

Chen Guan looked over the entire fortune he had accumulated over the years.

The rewards from his system mainly consisted of realm upgrades and the drawing of Right-of-Way Traits.

These traits were divided into two categories: Permanent and Temporary.

Permanent traits, as the na implied, could be used over and over again indefinitely.

Temporary traits, on the other hand, were one-ti consumables. Once used, they were gone for good.

Every last one of these was sothing he had drawn from the system only after painstakingly running escort after escort and completing mission after mission over the years.

He had accumulated a total of six permanent traits and fully ten temporary traits.

Most of them fell into three major categories: saber arts, movent techniques, and defensive traits.

Of course, he had also drawn so swordsmanship- and fist-technique-type traits before. But since he disliked close-quarters brawling and had no love for those light, fluttering swords, he had thrown all those useless traits back in for re-fusion.

Three traits of the sa general type could be fused into a brand-new trait. As for the attributes and effect of the new trait, that depended entirely on luck.

Chen Guan carefully took stock of all the wealth he had built up over the years.

He discovered that, with his current realm, quite a few of his movent and defensive traits had overlapping effects, and so were even downright diocre.

One example was a temporary trait called Blood-Burning Burststride.

Its effect was: igniting one’s own blood vitality to erupt with ten tis one’s limit speed, like a raging bull breaking free from its pen. It could forcibly smash through an encircling formation while carrying soone to safety, lasting five seconds.

To put it bluntly, it was just a burst skill.

When his realm had been low, it might have been able to produce a surprising result.

But with his current Purple Palace Realm cultivation, there were probably only a handful of people in all of Great Zhou who could force him into a situation where he actually needed sothing that self-destructive.

If he truly t an opponent of that level, then using a brainless headlong charge like that would not be much different from courting death.

“This ti, I’m accompanying this troubleso girl into Great Zhou to join a rebellion. The road ahead is uncertain. I can’t afford to be careless.”

After thinking it over, Chen Guan directly singled out two permanent traits that had already grown sowhat outdated: Thousand-Li Divine Stride and Night Wraith Phantom Steps.

Then, from among the ten temporary traits, he carefully selected seven as well, leaving behind only Escorter’s Golden Body and Heart Guard as the two life-saving trump cards he absolutely could not part with.

At this point, he could only hope to produce one or two more real trump cards and make the journey ahead a little easier.

After all, the sooner he arrived, the sooner he could take on another escort job.

Looking at the nine traits he had selected before him, Chen Guan rubbed his hands together.

For him, the happiest monts in life were none other than trait fusion, like opening a blind box.

Without the slightest hesitation, he willed it to begin.

“Fuse!”

【Obtained the following new traits】:

【Culinary Mastery】 (Permanent): Any food you prepare staves off hunger 50% more effectively.

【Immune to All Poisons】 (Temporary): Grants immunity to any poison once.

【Boundless Affinity】 (Temporary): For three days, all demons, fiends, uncanny beings, and dark spirits will feel 50% more friendliness toward you.

“Motherf—!”

The mont Chen Guan saw those three brand-new traits on the screen, his face went dark on the spot.

Nine traits!

And this was all the hell he got in exchange?!

He turned his head and looked toward Luo Li, who was sleeping on that big rock in the distance like a dead pig.

The anger in his heart surged.

He discovered that ever since running into this troubleso girl, he had not enjoyed even a sliver of good luck!

Damn it!

At that mont, he was genuinely tempted to rush over there and slap her a few tis to vent his fury.

These were traits he had painstakingly accumulated over one or even two full years, and now they had all gone straight down the drain, exchanged for three pieces of garbage that looked utterly useless!

Still, after he finished cursing and cald down to think about it properly, the three traits were actually not bad.

Take Culinary Mastery, for instance. While cooking well by itself might not sound especially useful, that 50% improvent in resistance to hunger would be vastly more practical than an ordinary offensive trait if he ever had to run an escort through a desert or so deadly wasteland.

Then there was Immune to All Poisons. Being able to negate any poison one ti was no trivial matter. It was sothing almost impossible to find in this world, because even ancient peerless poisons could be neutralized by it.

As for Boundless Affinity, which increased the sense of friendliness that demons, fiends, uncanny beings, and dark spirits felt toward him by 50% for three days...

if he used that deep inside the Ten Directions Marsh, he might be able to swagger through the place and end up calling a few Demon Kings his sworn brothers!

The problem, however, was that what he needed now was sothing that would let him bulldoze through armies, not this kind of flashy nonsense!

Chen Guan began to deliberate.

“Should I... fuse once more?”

But the trump cards left in his hand were already few. He only had one final chance left.

If he managed to get a truly useful trait, then the journey ahead would undoubtedly be much safer.

But if he fused again and ended up with another worthless piece of junk, then those nine traits would really have been wasted for nothing, and he would lose even the shirt off his back.

“No, no!” Chen Guan shook his head again, stroking his chin with a look like a constipated man. “But just resigning myself to fate isn’t my style either.”