Chapter 61: Dawn
After long anticipation, the nourishing equipment was finally obtained. Although it wasn't a stamina-type nourishing equipment, as a close-combat technique-type, strength-type nourishing equipment was also very important to Su Xiao.
【Strength Lord】
Origin: Void · Silver Star Ring · Ufulairo.
Quality: Immortal Rank.
Category: Hunting Belt.
Durability: 450/450 points.
Warning: The durability of nourishing equipment cannot be repaired.
Equipment Requirement: 800 points of True Strength.
Equipment Effect 1: Beast King Etiquette (Passive), when in a dangerous environment, there is a 5% probability of stimulating your own perception ability, immediately increasing it by Lv.1.
Current perception ability: Instinct Lv.82.
Equipment Effect 2: Strength Fragment (Nourishing · Passive), when you are in a world that possesses World Force, this equipment can absorb the World Force of this world without being rejected by the world, thereby forming a 「Strength Fragment」 every 5 natural days. There are three types of 「Strength Fragments」 in total. Absorbing a red 「Strength Fragment」 increases True Strength attribute, absorbing a black 「Strength Fragment」 increases close-combat attack power (including Blade Arts and kick techniques), and absorbing a golden 「Strength Fragment」 allows you to master 「Annihilation Force」 (at most one golden Strength Fragment can be absorbed; after absorption, this equipment will no longer generate golden Strength Fragments).
Tip: The characteristics of the 「Annihilation Force」 mastered by each person will differ. If you master 「Annihilation Force」, you will gain the following bonuses.
Annihilation Force: Your True Strength, True Agility, True Stamina, and Soul Strength attributes will all provide attack power bonuses to kick technique damage.
Maximum number of 「Strength Fragments」 you can absorb: 0/6 pieces.
Rating: 6000 points (Immortal Rank equipment rating is 3000~6000 points).
Introduction: This is the masterpiece of the strongest artisan master of the Void · Second Era · Silver Star Ring. It was originally ordered by the Beast King of Wind Sea Continent. However, after the completion of this equipment, the aging Beast King died at the hands of a Sea Clan Shadow Assassin. This equipment was not successfully delivered. Later, due to the invasion of Abyss Energy in Silver Star Ring · Ufulairo, this equipment became even stronger under the nourishment of Abyss Force.
Price: 13,000 Soul Coins.
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One Strength Fragment every 5 days, six in total. If a golden 「Strength Fragment」 is actually formed, then Su Xiao's straight kick attack intensity will increase significantly. The reason is that currently, the straight kick enjoys attack power bonuses from Strength and Agility attributes.
The Strength attribute bonus ratio is 0.8. For example, with the current 646 points of Strength attribute, it adds 517 points of attack power, while the Agility attribute bonus is 0.4. Speed also determines the strength of the attack, which is 258 points of attack power bonus.
It must be understood that these 775 points of attack power are the base attack power of the kick technique. All subsequent damage increases are built upon this base attack power.
The benefit brought by 「Annihilation Force」 is to change the calculation of the base attack power of the kick technique to: (Strength × 0.6) + (Agility × 0.6) + (Stamina × 0.6) + (Soul Strength × 0.3) = base attack power of the kick technique.
According to this formula calculation, Su Xiao's 775 points of kick technique base attack power will immediately skyrocket to 1490 points. This is the lowest layer of base attack power. Adjacent to the base attack power is the 「Kick Technique Damage Tier」. After the two are combined, various percentage bonuses and the eight kick technique enhancements of the Melee Grandmaster begin to be calculated.
Su Xiao took out the sheathed Dragon-Slaying Flash and checked the attributes of the Soul Gem. Although it still gave Dragon-Slaying Flash the Soul Sever effect, the Soul Sever intensity was vastly different from before.
Arriving in front of the Awakening Stele, Su Xiao began to master the various basic passives on it. After consuming 54 Law-Destroying Skill Points, he mastered a total of 12 types of Lv.1 「General Passives」.
Entering the Skill Upgrade Pod, he chose to upgrade the first type, 「General Passive · Life Soul Enhancement」.
【Yes/No to upgrade Life Soul Enhancement Lv.1, upgrading this ability requires paying 1500 Soul Coins.】
【You have paid 35,000 Soul Coins, this ability will be upgraded to Lv.20 (this ability can be upgraded to a maximum of Lv.20).】
【Life Soul Enhancement (Passive.Lv.EX): Permanently increases 60,000 points of Health Points.】
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1 Law-Destroying Skill Point + 35,000 Soul Coins exchanged for 60,000 Health Points. This ratio of strength improvement to resource consumption was an incredibly profitable deal that left one stunned.
Of course, abilities with such high cost-effectiveness like 「Life Soul Enhancement」 were extremely rare on the Awakening Stele.
There were also abilities with low cost-effectiveness, such as 「Body Energy Activation」. This ability initially increased 300 Health Points, and at max level, it increased 6000 points. The principle was through body energy activation, i.e., Mana Points activation, to nourish vitality to a certain extent. The principle was borrowed from 「Spirit Shadow Constitution」. The mastery cost and upgrade cost of this ability were the same as 「Life Soul Enhancement」.
The reason for this was that it was a pursuit of improvement at the extreme. After the Ancestral Law Destroyers mastered hundreds of General Passives and had no other ways to improve, mastering an ability like this was still quite satisfying. Perhaps in a life-or-death battle, life and death could hinge on those few thousand Health Points.
Su Xiao didn't need abilities with such low cost-effectiveness. Just mastering the hundreds of cost-effective General Passives on the Awakening Stele would make his already tight wallet even worse.
He didn't have the Law Destruction Faction's treasury backing him up. As for mastering all these hundreds of abilities, he would naturally find other means of improvement later. Although he didn't have the Law Destruction treasury, being in Reincarnation Paradise, the ways to improve himself were not comparable to those of the Ancestral Law Destroyers.
If one put themselves in the shoes of the Spellcasters, facing Law Destroyers who had an average of hundreds of basic passives, plus high immunity to magic damage, and unreasonably high attack power, speed, Health Points, and defense, it was quite despairing. The only good news was that each generation had only a few Law Destroyers. The bad news was that these few Law Destroyers all met the above strength standard.
【Yes/No to upgrade Abyss Wanderer Lv.1, upgrading this ability requires paying 5000 Soul Coins.】
【You have paid 350,000 Soul Coins, this ability will be upgraded to Lv.30 (this ability can be upgraded to a maximum of Lv.30).】
【Abyss Wanderer (Passive.Lv.EX): Permanently increases 10 points of Abyss Resistance.】
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The higher the Abyss Resistance, the harder it is to increase. Currently, Su Xiao's Abyss Resistance was 70 points. Adding these 10 points brought it to 80 points. Looking across the Void Myriad Realms, people with this level of Abyss Resistance were few and far between.
Su Xiao continued to max out all the abilities he had mastered at this stage. Before long, his Soul Coins were reduced to only 504. The total abilities he upgraded were as follows:
「Azure Steel Shadow · Enhancement I (Passive.Lv.EX): Permanently increases 200 points of Azure Steel Shadow Energy's Mana Points burned per enemy hit.」
「Azure Steel Shadow · Enhancement II (Passive.Lv.EX): Permanently increases 400 points of True Damage caused by Azure Steel Shadow ability per close-combat attack.」
「Azure Steel Shadow · Enhancement III (Passive.Lv.EX): The defensive form of Azure Steel Shadow Energy, Proud Song's intensity, is permanently increased by 30%.」
「Azure Steel Shadow · Enhancement IV (Passive.Lv.EX): Increases Azure Steel Shadow ability by 10 levels.」
「Azure Steel Shadow · Enhancement V (Passive.Lv.EX): You can make one change to the current combat form of the Azure Steel Shadow ability, choosing one from 3 types of Azure Steel Shadow · Combat Form abilities recorded on the Awakening Stele.」
「Tip: You have postponed this choice. When you are in front of the Awakening Stele, you can activate this choice at any time.」
「Immovable as a Mountain (Passive.Lv.EX): Permanently increases body knockback resistance by 60 points.」
「Spirit Body Enhancement (Passive.Lv.EX): Permanently increases 7500 points of Mana Points.」
「Powerful Physique (Passive.Lv.EX): Increases body strength by 40 points.」
「World Thunder Characteristic Body Cell Activation (Passive.Lv.EX): Body speed increases by 0.51 times.」
「Physique Enhancement (Passive.Lv.EX): Permanently all attributes +5 points.」
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The last ability, 「Physique Enhancement」, was particularly expensive to upgrade. After finishing the upgrade, Su Xiao realized that in the Law Destruction Faction's understanding, all attributes meant Strength, Agility, Stamina, Intelligence, and Abyss Resistance.
As for why there was no Charm attribute, hah, look at the old Law Destroyers, Mawen Hua'erzi, Ximan Aqide, Daomo (former Law Destroyer), Green Gillian. Which of these people had a high Charm attribute?
Of course, when 「Physique Enhancement」 entered Su Xiao's skill list, it naturally displayed according to Reincarnation Paradise's certification standards, becoming Strength, Agility, Stamina, Intelligence, and Abyss Resistance +5 points.
Thus, Su Xiao's Abyss Resistance skyrocketed to 85 points. Consider that Mage Sage Seraphilia had dealt with Abyss-related matters for so many years, and her Abyss Resistance was only around 80~100 points. Now Su Xiao's Abyss Resistance had reached 85 points. This was the inheritance system of the Law Destroyers.
The accumulation of General Passives was crucial. Su Xiao was already at the Absolute Strong Rank limit tier. At this level, when he strolled through the Great Gathering Place, those passive skills that previously could increase Strength attributes by 10 or 20 points now only increased them by 0.2~0.5 points. Some simply had a bright red prompt font stating: 'Mastering this skill provides no beneficial increase.'
Why had Su Xiao previously spent 3.7 million Soul Coins heavily on the high-tier passive, Technique Sublimation · Supreme Blade? Didn't he understand the cost-effectiveness of improving himself? Of course not. At this stage, there was no choice. Every passive ability that could improve oneself was a good thing. Technique Sublimation · Supreme Blade and the General Passives he had just mastered were the most cost-effective abilities for improving himself at this stage.
Su Xiao took out the 5 existing 【Awakening Stones】. His 「Demon Spirit Awakening」 ability could only be upgraded using 【Awakening Stones】. Previously, because his Soul Strength was insufficient to suppress the Demon Spirit, he didn't dare try to upgrade this ability. Now the time had come.
He first used one 【Awakening Stone】. Half an hour later, the upgrade was complete. He checked the 「Demon Spirit Awakening」 ability and found that its enhancement to the Blade Demon Spirit's intensity wasn't high. He picked up the remaining four 【Awakening Stones】. With his current physique, it should be fine. Using four together would have a better effect.
The four 【Awakening Stones】 shattered in Su Xiao's hand. His vision immediately went black, and he fell into a 'dream' within the Skill Upgrade Pod. He slept quite well. When he woke up, it was time for breakfast the next day.
【Demon Spirit Awakening, Lv.MAX+++++ (Passive)】
Skill Effect 1: Blade Demon Spirit Intensity +45 points.
Skill Effect 2: Metering (Passive), based on your current comprehensive combat power and Blade Demon Spirit intensity, in each battle (with an interval of no less than 24 hours), you can use the Demon Spirit ability a total of five times. Afterwards, the Demon Spirit will return to Dragon-Slaying Flash and can only be awakened when activating the 「Demon Blade」 execution.
Demon Spirit Ability Usage Count: 5/5 (1 usage count recovers every 4.8 hours).
Currently usable Demon Spirit abilities: Substitution, Transmission, Dual Blade.
Skill Effect 3: Dual Blade (Active), the Blade Demon Spirit immediately empowers you from behind, using the same slashing momentum as you, causing your next close-combat slashing damage intensity and damage judgment count to be ×2.
Tip: Only 「Blade Path Sword: Extreme」 and your normal slashes can be enhanced by this characteristic.
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The improvement of his own combat power was basically complete. After breakfast, Su Xiao took Beini and headed to the Equipment Enhancement Hall. Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha had gone out to have fun early in the morning. They had received a lot of pocket money this time.
When Su Xiao walked into the Equipment Enhancement Hall, the noisy sound of people came. Some were laughing wildly like they had won the jackpot, while others looked ashen-faced, walking out with dull eyes.
【Welcome to use No. 208 Equipment Enhancement Machine.】
The tray of the Equipment Enhancement Machine extended out. Su Xiao placed Dragon-Slaying Flash on it. The metal tray retracted.
【Equipment inspection complete. To enhance Dragon-Slaying Flash (Immortal Rank) to +6, 1 Rare Origin Stone is required.】
【Tip: Due to Dragon-Slaying Flash's enhancement method being an Immortal Rank exclusive enhancement certification, even if this enhancement fails, the equipment's enhancement level will not decrease.】
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Su Xiao currently had two Rare Origin Stones available for enhancement: 【Origin Stone · Dark Erosion】 and 【Origin Stone · Soul Resonance】. In addition, he also had 96 「Moon Stones」.
「Moon Stone: 5 standard unit-sized Moon Stone blocks can be exchanged for 1 Rare Origin Stone of random grade.」
He chose to activate the exchange authority. A total of 19 「Rare Origin Stones」 were obtained. Adding the existing ones, he had 21. After equipping the enhancement-specific title 【Immortal Luck】, Su Xiao pressed one of them into the slot on the right side of the enhancement machine. A prompt appeared.
【The success rate for this enhancement is: 100%.】
Enhancing to +6 wasn't particularly difficult. As long as the 「Rare Origin Stone」 used was precious enough, a 100% success rate was achievable. As the highest quality Immortal Rank weapon enhancement, there was no risk of the equipment enhancement level dropping or the weapon shattering. Of course, if the enhancement level was extremely high, reaching +15 or above, there was still a risk of the weapon shattering.
Currently, enhancing Dragon-Slaying Flash was very safe. However, this safe enhancement method was both loved and hated. Loved because failure was just failure. Hated because the higher the enhancement level, the more pitiful the success rate became.
Su Xiao chose to start the enhancement. The Equipment Enhancement Machine began to operate. Accompanied by the machine's roar and the sizzling sound like electric current inside, the enhancement started. After about ten minutes, the machine's noise subsided.
Pfft～
Steam sprayed from the bottom edge of the enhancement machine. A prompt appeared.
【Dragon-Slaying Flash enhancement +6 successful.】
Su Xiao pressed another 「Rare Origin Stone」 into the slot of the enhancement machine. A few seconds later, a prompt appeared.
【The success rate for this enhancement is: 95%.】
Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao added his existing 【Star Force (Enhancement Item)】 to this enhancement. The good news was that the success rate increased to 98.3%. The bad news was that subsequent 【Star Force】 could not affect enhancements of +7 or above for Immortal Rank weapons.
The enhancement began. The wait started to feel a bit long. As the enhancement ended, a prompt appeared.
【Dragon-Slaying Flash enhancement +7 successful.】
As the saying goes, strike while the iron is hot, then it weakens, and then it's exhausted. The luck for enhancement was good right now, so of course, he should continue enhancing.
【Dragon-Slaying Flash enhancement +8 successful.】
【Dragon-Slaying Flash enhancement +9 successful.】
【Dragon-Slaying Flash enhancement +10 successful.】
Counting the previous two, that was a total of 5 consecutive successes. This made Su Xiao feel that his luck had turned. What Law Destroyer luck being unlucky, what luck electrocardiogram, all nonsense. He looked at the remaining 15 「Rare Origin Stones」. Shouldn't he enhance Dragon-Slaying Flash to +15... cough~, +13 was more reliable.
Enhancement continued.
【Dragon-Slaying Flash enhancement +11 failed.】
【Dragon-Slaying Flash enhancement +11 failed.】
【Dragon-Slaying Flash enhancement +11 failed.】
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【Dragon-Slaying Flash enhancement +11 failed.】
【Dragon-Slaying Flash enhancement +11 failed.】
Su Xiao looked at the last 「Rare Origin Stone」 in his hand, pressed it into the slot of the enhancement machine. The enhancement began.
【Dragon-Slaying Flash enhancement +11 failed.】
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Su Xiao took Dragon-Slaying Flash from the metal tray, turned around, and walked out of the Equipment Enhancement Hall. In the near future, he didn't plan to come to this place again.
Returning to his Exclusive Room, Su Xiao saw that Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha, who had gone out to have fun, had all returned and were playing Landlord. Bubu Wang and Baha's faces were already covered in paper strips. Amu was looking at his hand, his expression hesitant. After all, the looks in Bubu Wang and Baha's eyes were particularly fierce at the moment.
Su Xiao, who had suffered 15 consecutive enhancement failures, sat down on a single sofa. He decided to take a rare afternoon nap. An hour later, he opened his eyes, sat on the sofa without saying a word. However, a thought that came to him later turned his mood from cloudy to sunny.
Previously, when the Demon Flame Dragon · Barbatos was teleporting from the Witch Realm to Green Shade Star, it had incidentally swallowed something in the Star Realm. Later, that thing was sealed by Jila and sent to Su Xiao's Exclusive Room using the Follower authority. It was currently placed in the Alchemy Laboratory. After returning to Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao had been busy improving his own strength and hadn't had time to study this thing.
Arriving at the inner side of the Alchemy Laboratory, a glass bead seven meters wide and over four meters in diameter was filled with liquid. Inside, a huge eye, resembling a giant brain, with a diameter of 3.19 meters and a weight of 93.5 tons, over 65% of its area damaged, with neural structures and living tissue scattered out, was soaked in the solution.
The sensory impression this being gave was like a brain full of neural tissue wrapped around a giant eye. This giant eye had six pupils. The six pupils were symmetrical to each other, each extending a black line, forming a spiral pupil at the center of the six pupils.
The spiral pupil had already dilated. More importantly, within the pupil of this giant eye, there was a black ф, as if branded on by intense heat, or rather, branded on while forcibly executing it.
Taking out a sample, Su Xiao came to the test bench and sat on the guard seat. This seat was not only comfortable but also had defensive functions. When focused on creation and preparation, one's energy was all on the item being prepared. If an accident suddenly occurred, one could easily be burned or injured by the prepared substance. If it was a general injury, it was nothing. The problem was that the things Su Xiao studied were either related to the Abyss or various bizarre and evil things.
Su Xiao took out a portion of Divine reagent. The result was that the sample of the unknown big-eyed monster was unrelated to the Divine system. Then he tried Dark creatures, World-Destroying level beings, Drifters, Abnormal beings, Ancient Gods. He even took out reaction solutions for Original Sin characteristics. The result was that this unknown big-eyed monster was none of these types.
After pondering for a moment, Su Xiao took out a crystalline object. This was a 「Paradise Imprint」 he had obtained when dealing with a Violator. He brought it close to the sample tissue of the unknown big-eyed monster. There was no resonance, but a slight detection reaction appeared.
This 「Paradise Imprint」 came from Sanctuary Paradise. If there was resonance, the unknown big-eyed monster was likely from Sanctuary Paradise. The appearance of a detection reaction indicated it was from another Paradise faction.
Su Xiao took out items from various Paradises: Apocalypse Paradise, Death Paradise, Sanctuary Paradise, Watchful Paradise, Holy Light Paradise, Reincarnation Paradise. He tried using items from each Paradise. The results were all the same: there was a detection reaction fluctuation, but no resonance.
Su Xiao took out a 【Dawn Fragment】. As soon as he took this out, the sample tissue of the unknown big-eyed monster had a resonance reaction, and it was particularly strong. So strong that this thing actually had Dawn Paradise characteristics.
Never think that something from a certain Paradise has that Paradise's characteristics. For example, Su Xiao, even the Reincarnation Hunter Imprint he possessed did not have Reincarnation Paradise characteristics. It had his personal aura characteristics. Things with Reincarnation Paradise characteristics were basically the Attribute Enhancement Pods, Skill Upgrade Pods, Equipment Enhancement Machines, etc., here.
This big-eyed monster was a living creature when alive, yet it had the characteristics of Dawn Paradise facilities. Moreover, it had been forcibly executed by Reincarnation Paradise. Su Xiao opened the prompt list, opened the branch list's prompt history, and searched upwards for a very old prompt. That was a series of chain prompts that appeared after he killed Xi. The content was:
【Constructing Aggregation Space Hub... Construction completed.】
【Inspection complete, target locked. Location: Void · Tianji Star Sea.】
【Forcing Reverse Position Teleportation...】
【Blocked, correcting...】
【Reincarnation Paradise has completed correction. Forcing Reverse Position Teleportation activated.】
【Teleported 10%, 37%, 65%...】
【Interrupted again.】
【Correction completed.】
【Successfully reverse position teleported 'Void Eye' to designated location.】
【Seizing Space-Time Power...】
【Seizure completed. Adjudicating...】
【As Void Eye has violated Initial Regulation Article 193427, forced execution is about to begin.】
【Forcing execution...】
【Void Eye has been executed.】
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The big-eyed monster in front of him was very likely the Void Eye that was executed by Reincarnation Paradise back then. Thinking back now, the first time Su Xiao defeated Xi, Xi was already beyond hope. But after a few ranks, Xi made a comeback and clashed with Su Xiao a second time in Source · Divine Village.
Now it seemed that what gave Xi the chance to make a comeback back then was this Void Eye. And why it could support Xi from behind involved Dawn Paradise.
First, in the Paradise competition war many years ago, Reincarnation Paradise defeated Dawn Paradise. Tuanzhang, as a representative figure on their side, had even attacked into Dawn Paradise.
The result was that Dawn Paradise did not collapse, but it also fell silent. The interior of Dawn Paradise turned into a dark ruin. The Void Eye entered this ruin. It was unknown whether it assimilated the infrastructure within Dawn Paradise or a single derived authority of Dawn Paradise. The Void Eye became a super old grandpa, reaching a level where it could help low and mid-rank Contractors grow.
Therefore, Xi, who received the secret support of the Void Eye, went from a person who was destined to die to a Contractor without a title.
This question that had puzzled Su Xiao for a long time was thus resolved. But he was more concerned about another matter: how many special beings like the Void Eye, which attached themselves to Dawn Paradise's Dark Ruins and became abnormally powerful, were there? And what kind of treasure chests would drop after killing these special beings?
Su Xiao placed the 「Dawn Fragment」 in his hand on the coffee table. Previously, during the battle against the Ancient King and the Initial Witch in the Witch Realm world, Amu's situation was extremely dangerous. Facts proved that it was time to get a powerful defensive equipment for Amu.
Follower equipment was already scarce. Those Follower armors that looked quite strong, once Amu wore them, would be blown up by powerful enemies in no time. The enemies it faced were too strong. So the 「Dawn Great Shield」 needed to be prepared as soon as possible.
Space-Time Power remained at 19,460.5 ounces. He hadn't used too much when buying the Soul Gem before. Su Xiao got up and came to the Honor Shop. After activating it, he found that the Honor Shop hadn't refreshed significantly. It seemed that in this World Competition War, his side had won fewer matches, which also affected Su Xiao as an Absolute Strong Rank. The problem was that he could no longer participate in World Competition Wars.
Absolute Strong Rank corresponds to Transcendent Worlds. The three Transcendent Primordial Worlds didn't seem to have any that would conduct World Competition Wars.
【You have paid 900 ounces of Space-Time Power.】
【You have obtained Primordial Fragment ×3.】
【You have paid 3500 ounces of Space-Time Power.】
【You have obtained Secret Treasure Box ×7.】
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Checking the cooldown time of the 【Fate Dominator】 equipment ability, the cooldown phase had just ended not long ago. Su Xiao activated the 「Absolute Fortune」 bonus again.
Feeling his own vigorous fortune, he felt that these seven Secret Treasure Boxes might not even yield 5 「Dawn Fragments」. Among the outputs of Secret Treasure Boxes, 「Skill Upgrade Pod Free Use Permission (One Time)」, 「Primordial Fragment」, 「Primordial Life Force Fruit」, 「Full Rating · World Rank Equipment」 were all good things.
If he got the free upgrade permission, 「Blood Sublimation · Life Soul: Lv.30」 could be upgraded to max level. That was several million Soul Coins.
【You have opened Secret Treasure Box ×7.】
【You have obtained Dawn Fragment ×7.】
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Excellent. The 「Dawn Great Shield」 would no longer be crafted from just 10 「Dawn Fragments」. 10 pieces would make it somewhat small. Now with a total of 12 pieces, it could be crafted into the most powerful defensive shield in history.
Putting away all the 「Dawn Fragments」, Su Xiao took Amu and Bubu Wang and headed out towards Forging Street. Half an hour later, he knocked on the door of Lide's Forging Shop.
The iron-black metal door opened. Lide, with somewhat messy hair and stubble, looked at Su Xiao with a rather unfriendly gaze. It was understandable. Lide had just been repairing the 「Wild Hunt Night」. Hearing the knock and Su Xiao's 'It's me,' Lide wanted to pick up the hammer on the forging table. It was only the remaining friendship for an old friend in his heart that stopped him from picking up that thing.
Let's just say, during the period of repairing the Wild Hunt Night, Lide had friendship for Su Xiao in his heart, but not much. It wasn't like the usual life-and-death old friend relationship.
"What's the matter?"
Lide's tone was normal. The 「Wild Hunt Night」 and 「King's Crown」 were both stored in the forging shop. Lide didn't believe his old friend could give him any more surprises.
"Forging a large shield."
"You finally remember I'm a blacksmith. Go on, what materials are you using?"
"The external defensive materials of Dawn Paradise."
"?"
Lide looked at Su Xiao with a confused expression. Su Xiao didn't speak. He took out all 12 「Dawn Fragments」 and placed them on the forging table.
"Did you enter Dawn Paradise? Got so many 「Dawn Fragments」."
As Lide spoke, he picked up a 「Dawn Fragment」 and examined it carefully.
"Opened some Secret Treasure Boxes."
"You... opened Secret Treasure Boxes and saved up 12 「Dawn Fragments」? Hahaha, say that again."
The painful expression Lide had been wearing while repairing the 「Wild Hunt Night」 instantly vanished. As an old friend, he even laughed out loud.