Chapter 3: Original Sin Scholar · Nine Stars · Limit Forging · 1 Time (70.1%)
As a result, the price of [Title Chest (★★★★)], which could only produce one-star titles, skyrocketed to 1,800 Hunter Gold Coins each, simply because these title chests could yield titles with high potential.
What is title potential? To put it simply, if a title has 50% potential, its strength at one star is roughly 1 point. By the time it reaches nine stars, its strength is around 270 points. After five subsequent "Limit Forging" processes, its final maximum strength reaches 8,640 points.
However, if a title has 100% potential, its strength at one star is also 1 point. But as it advances all the way to nine stars, its strength reaches 1,781 points. Then, after five "Limit Forging" processes, its final maximum strength reaches 432,783 points.
The reason for this absurd difference is that for titles with potential below 99%, when they reach nine stars and qualify for five Limit Forging processes, the calculation is: current strength × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 = final strength.
For titles with 100% potential, during these five Limit Forging processes, they can unleash their true power: current strength × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 = final strength.
Don't underestimate this difference. The resulting gap is enormous, to the point where one strength is a four-digit number while the other reaches six digits.
Consequently, [Title Chest (★★★★★)], which can produce a full-potential one-star title, costs 500,000 Hunter Gold Coins each.
Of course, Su Xiao wouldn't save up that many Hunter Gold Coins. After performing Limit Forging · 5 Times on [Abyssal Shadow], he completed the "Achievement Task: Supreme Title Creator," which unlocked the "New Authority: Title Reforging."
Generally speaking, this authority helps contractors obtain high-potential titles. The issue lies in the success/failure mechanism of "Title Reforging."
"Title Reforging: After activating this authority, you can place the title to be reforged into the forging slot and perform one reforging. If successful, the title will be upgraded to One-Star · ??? Potential (the title's potential will be determined by your luck)."
The combination of "Title Reforging" + "Law-Destroying Luck" created a powerful yet pathetic synergy. Given the sheer magnitude of Su Xiao's luck, he would either "fail the reforging" or 100% produce a full-potential title.
Between saving up 500,000 Hunter Gold Coins and trying once for 1 Hunter Gold Coin, the latter was clearly more reliable. Even if Su Xiao's "reforging failure" probability was 99.99%, there were ways to temporarily increase the odds. For example, with the "Luck Force" boost from [Fate Dominator], he had a certain chance of "successful reforging" within the next 20 minutes. Once successful, it would immediately be equivalent to earning 500,000 Hunter Gold Coins.
Since he already had the combat title [Abyssal Shadow], Su Xiao needed a meditation title and an alchemy preparation aid. He decided to acquire the latter first. He exchanged the remaining 64 Hunter Gold Coins for 64 [Title Chest (★)]. When he tried to open them, a prompt appeared.
[You must first select the title type before proceeding with the random one-star title draw.]
[Selected: Support Title · Alchemy Branch.]
[You have obtained the following titles…]
…
One by one, titles appeared in Su Xiao's title list. All of them, when equipped, boosted alchemy preparation—some increased preparation success rates, others enhanced quality caps, such as the currently owned [Miracle Maker (Nine Stars)].
He didn't bother checking the detailed attributes of each title. Instead, using his current authority, he chose to perform automatic "Title Reforging."
The forging disk materialized before him, along with fragments of the same material. These dark brown fragments, covered in magma-like veins, gathered together to form an absurdly large forging hammer.
Boom!
The process of "Title Reforging" was exceptionally fast—one hammer strike was all it took. Either the title shattered, or only its essence remained, undergoing a rebirth-like refinement. Unfortunately, the first title shattered on the spot.
"Title Reforging" continued. Unbeknownst to him, the sky had brightened. As the sun rose, teams from other factions arrived on the scene. Except for the Haoji Team, the other teams had yet to appear.
[Prompt: The final phase of the first match of the Struggle Battle · Material Struggle will begin in 30 seconds.]
[The first batch of supplies to be dropped: Soul Crystal × 300 (will be divided into six "Purple Supply Crates" and dropped simultaneously).]