NOVPUBChapter 109: Chapter 107: Dragon Knight’s Regeneration Scale Armor _3
Chapter 109 -107: Dragon Knight’s Regeneration Scale Armor _3
The remaining three high-level Forging Stones could be used to strengthen each piece of the epic armor once.
However, Lin Xun hadn’t planned to enhance them like this; being proficient in everything would mean being weak in everything.
Clicking on the ‘Book of Craftsmen’, he opted for the enhancement option in the forging section, first checking how much Spirit he could save with free-tier enhancements.
[Strengthening the epic weapon ‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’ would consume one Forging Stone and 1000 points of Spirit.]
[Do you want to strengthen this weapon?]
Strengthening epic equipment required 1000 points of Spirit, which seemed not too expensive.
Could it be that the real expense lies in the Forging Stones?
Lin Xun opened the Book of Trade to check the price of Forging Stones.
The common Forging Stones were surprisingly cheap, costing only thirty spirit points each.
It makes sense, since basic Forging Stones could only strengthen Ruined-Level and Ordinary-Level equipment, and the top-tier for these Ordinary+ class equipment was only priced around 500.
He continued to check the price of Forging Stones.
The price of an intermediate Forging Stone was about three hundred Spirit, as expected.
Only then did he realize he had misunderstood the ‘Fallen Blacksmith’…
The blacksmiths in the game’s chapters charged less for forging than the ‘Book of Craftsmen’ did.
The blacksmith had charged him for a dozen basic Forging Stones along with an intermediate Forging Stone, totaling nearly eight hundred Spirit.
For an Apostle facing three levels of difficulty, spending less than a thousand Spirit for the NPC’s goodwill and getting discounted equipment forging in return is certainly worth it.
“The ‘Fallen Blacksmith’ is now part of my family, so it would be odd to apologize…”
Lin Xun continued to check.
The high-level Forging Stone, corresponding to the enhancement of epic equipment, was incredibly expensive with an astounding price of 5,000 Spirit points!
“It’s really expensive!”
Opening the panel, clicking on the skill ‘Grandmaster Forging Skill’, he selected to strengthen the ‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’.
[Do you want to consume 1 high-level Forging Stone to strengthen the ‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’?]
Lin Xun planned to follow a route of extreme damage output and use all three Forging Stones to strengthen this weapon.
[Enhancement in progress…]
[Enhancement successful, the ‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’ has been enhanced by +1, and its power has been slightly increased.]
In the Shell panel of the Earth Giant, the weapon in the equipment slot changes to ‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace+1’.
Lin Xun continued the enhancement.
[Do you want to consume 2 high-level Forging Stones to strengthen the ‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace+1’?]
???
“What’s going on?”
It took one Strengthening for the first Enhance and two for the second?
So, does the third enhancement require three or four?
He switched to the ‘Thunder Dragon Staff Spear+1’ and tried again, the +2 enhancement indeed required two Forging Stones.
Opening the Apostle forum to search, he soon understood.
The number of enhancements required equaled to the number of Forging Stones. Maximum enhancement was up to +10, and going from +1 to +10 would require a total of 55 Forging Stones.
To enhance a piece of epic equipment up to +10, just the Forging Stones would cost more than 270,000.
“Such twisted logic…”
Despite the cost, Lin Xun braced himself to continue strengthening the mace.
[Enhancing…]
[Strengthening succeeded, ‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’ enhancement level +1, power slightly increased.]
All three high-level Forging Stones had been used up, bringing the ‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’ to a +2 enhancement level.
Lin Xun opened the item bar and clicked on an item.
[‘Spirit of the Chief of the Giant Beasts’: … can be added while forging Shell equipment, there is a certain chance of achieving an awakening effect, generating additional properties.]
According to information on the Apostle forum, the process of awakening equipment seems to be like imbuing it with a soul.
The more compatible the monster’s Spirit is with the equipment, the greater the chance of awakening.
He planned to use the spirit of the Chief of the Giant Beasts to awaken the mace, turning this weapon into the strongest.
[Use ‘Spirit of the Giant Beast Chieftain’ to awaken ‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’, with a success rate of 92%]
[Do you want to continue with equipment awakening?]
Lin Xun tried to awaken several pieces of epic equipment, but each one had different success rates.
The success rate of mace’s awakening was the highest among all the equipment, probably because the mace suited the wild and brutal style of the Chief of the Giant Beasts.
He didn’t think that the awakening would fail; a success rate of 92% was almost a sure thing.
Moreover, he also had a lucky charm, the ‘Lucky Coins’.
“You may come out ahead, but I will never lose.”
With the faith that he wouldn’t lose with the Lucky Coins, Lin Xun pressed awakening.
[Awakening in progress…]
[Awakening successful!]
[The ‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’ has been granted an awakened effect by the special Spirit.]
Lin Xun quickly opened the item to check.
[The ‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’ (Epic Level Weapon): … The weapon has been successfully awoken; when you attack, there is a certain chance to summon the ‘Spirit of the Chief of the Giant Beasts’, making your attack deal double damage.]
Ecstatic, Lin Xun exclaimed, “This is what you call a crit!”
Double damage was undoubtedly very powerful, though he wondered about the chances of triggering a crit.
He planned to find an opportunity to test it out.
But the apostles matched using the invasion bookmarks were too weak…
His gaze involuntarily fell upon the ‘Book of Duels’, which offered public arena features where he could choose his own PK foes.
Once both Apostles agreed to PK, the ‘Book of Duels’ would activate a live streaming feature.
All Apostles in the Library could participate in betting. 𝘯𝑜𝘷𝘱𝘶𝑏.𝘤𝘰𝑚
The winning Apostle could open corresponding blind box rewards based on odds.
Yet the rewards were secondary to him; primarily, he simply wanted to test the strength of his weapon…
