Bai Qiu got the answers he wanted.
He bought a storage ring and the remaining equipment upgrade cards from the mage merchant.
His gear had already fallen far behind his attributes—if this continued, his equipment would become more fragile than he was!
The Flame Orb upgrade had given him far too many pleasant surprises.
Without the Flame Orb’s support last night, how could he have squandered his mana so freely?
As for the people still waiting in line, Bai Qiu felt a little sorry—but since he was already here, he might as well finish everything.
If you’re going to cut in line, you might as well enjoy it.
As for his dragonfangs reserves—well, this stuff he had in abundance!
After all, every single darksteel arrow he fired yesterday was destroyed naturally…
Thinking of this, Bai Qiu sold what he needed to sell and immediately headed back to the Black Tower.
He went straight to the blacksmith shop and handed his longbow and heavy spear to the [Blacksmith] Li Zhu for repairs.
When Li Zhu saw the weapons Bai Qiu took out, he couldn’t help but laugh and shake his head.
“Young man, these two weapons can’t keep up with your physique anymore. Even if I repair them, they’ll break again after a few hits.”
“Then do you have any better weapons to recommend?” Bai Qiu asked.
In the mage merchant’s shop, most C-grade weapons existed only as single copies.
For bows, there were only Zhang Shiyao’s mithril shortbow and one mithril longbow—but those weapons had big limitations.
More importantly, Bai Qiu had a hard time finding weapons that felt right in his hands.
Only the darksteel series had the weight he preferred.
And the darksteel series already had the highest durability among all D-grade gear.
Any other D-grade weapon would have long been smashed to scrap by him!
Li Zhu shook his head.
“Your progress is too fast. Right now, we [Supporters] don’t have the authority to purchase C-grade materials. We have the skills, but nothing to use them on.”
“But… didn’t you kill a bunch of lord-tier monsters yesterday? You must have some high-level materials, right? If you’re willing to provide them, I might be able to reinforce these weapons. If you have elemental crystals, I might even be able to boost one to pseudo-C-grade!”
Bai Qiu nodded and checked the lord-tier monster drops from yesterday.
Rare Dragonfang +120
True Dragon Bone Shards +14
Flame Crystals +3
Dark Crystals +4
Skill Card 1: Skeleton Summoning (C-grade)
Consumes mana to summon elite-class draconic skeleton soldiers of any form!
(Except Dragonfang Priest Skeletons.)
Summon Limit: 10
Summon Level: Same as summoner
Cooldown: 60 minutes
Complete trash! Bai Qiu thought.
Ten elite mobs? I kill elites like chickens.
And this dares to call itself C-grade?
Skill Card 2: Spear of Piercing (C-grade)
Consumes mana; after charging, unleash a lethal strike in coordination with your mount.
Effect: Increases movement speed by 300% and deals
200% personal strength + 300% mount strength + 300% mount speed as damage.
Cooldown: 15 minutes
Note: This skill can only be used while riding a mount.
Bai Qiu nodded to himself.
This counted as a small artifact-type skill; its destructive power was unquestionable.
Even he couldn’t say for sure whether he would survive a direct hit from a Cavalry Monarch using Piercing Lance.
The problem was—he couldn’t use this skill at all.
Skill Card 3: War Trample (C-grade)
Consumes a certain amount of mana and stamina. Activates War Trample:
Ignores basic control effects, reduces intermediate control by 40%, reduces advanced control by 5%.
This skill cannot be interrupted.
Duration: 15 seconds.
Cooldown: 15 seconds.
Note: This skill is mount-exclusive.
Bai Qiu: “…”
Skill 4: Sonic Dash (C-grade) (exclusive to flying mounts)
Skill 5: War Mount Summon (D-grade) (trash)
No equipment, no weapons.
Without exception, everything that dropped was skills—and they were either useless trash or skills he couldn’t even use.
The loot only included the guaranteed drops, and all the guaranteed drops were things he didn’t need…
Bro… what is this? Are you cursed? Where’s Origin Flame?
That skill sounds powerful—so why won’t it drop for me?!
Eh? There were two single-use summoning cards.
Bai Qiu perked up.
Summoning two boss-class monsters could serve as decent trump cards—definitely better than those skills he couldn’t use!
Cavalry Monarch One-Time Summon Card (C-grade)
Winged Dragon Monarch One-Time Summon Card (C-grade)
Description: Summons one Dragonfang Monarch for 15 minutes.
Trait 1: The Dragonfang Monarch enters a berserk state. All attributes +200%. All skills enhanced! It will slaughter all living beings it sees, regardless of friend or foe.
Trait 2: The Dragonfang Monarch will always be 10 levels higher than the summoner—and will prioritize killing the holder of this card.
What the—?! This counts as a summon?
Bai Qiu was stunned.
These weren’t helpers; they were two demons coming to end him!
No doubt about it—his F- grade luck was acting up again.
Bai Qiu appeared calm on the surface, but internally he was boiling.
He originally thought single-use summon cards could serve as trump cards for emergencies.
Instead, these things were designed to kill the summoner first.
Skill books might be garbage, but at least he could sell them.
But these summon cards?
Unless someone’s brain was fried, who would buy them?!
Bai Qiu took out all the True Dragon Bone Shards, along with the Dark Crystals and Flame Crystals.
He looked at Li Zhu and asked, “Are these… enough?”
“Oh! Not bad!” Li Zhu said, pleasantly surprised.
“With these, plus some work from me and the Enchanter, we can at least make you a couple of pseudo-C-grade weapons!”
“That… how much is the processing fee?”
Bai Qiu asked nervously.
After all, they were talking about crafting C-grade items.
Even though he had plenty of Sanctum Coins now, he understood how valuable C-grade gear was.
Li Zhu laughed.
“The processing fee is simple. If the result is only pseudo-C-grade, we won’t charge you—since that would count as our failure.”
“But if we successfully produce true C-grade gear, we’ll give you a discount. The Enchanter and I will each charge some Sanctum Coins. And as for the repairs on your weapons—I’ll waive those.”
Bai Qiu nodded, understanding immediately.
It looked like the darksteel heavy spear and darksteel longbow were very likely going to be elevated into C-grade weapons.
And these [Supporters]—for them to be able to do this despite the system restricting their permissions—they were definitely people with some serious background.
After all, the system announcement said that unlocking all [Supporter] permissions wasn’t truly all permissions in the literal sense.
For example:
If a [Supporter] was D-grade like Li Zhu currently was, his permissions would only allow him to exchange for D-grade materials and forge D-grade weapons.
Once he reached certain conditions and obtained C-grade permissions, he’d be able to exchange for or purchase C-grade materials and craft C-grade weapons.
But if players directly provided high-grade materials, they could bypass the system’s limitations and create—or at least upgrade into—higher-grade equipment!
“By the way, young man… tell me secretly—just between us—how many lord-tier monsters did you kill last night?”
Li Zhu suddenly leaned close and whispered into Bai Qiu’s ear.
Was this appropriate behavior for a big burly blacksmith?
Bai Qiu was speechless.
After a moment of hesitation, he awkwardly said:
“Uh… do I have to say it…?”
— The end of the Chapter–
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