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With surprised eyes, I looked again and saw the word “Unique” clearly engraved next to the Ring of Immortality. This proved that even by defeating a raid boss, you could obtain a Unique item.
“So you can get Uniques from raid bosses……”
Even though I expected it, seeing it with my own eyes made me feel a renewed sense of awe. Anyway, the Ring of Immortality’s performance was incredible, as expected of a Unique item, but it was an item I couldn’t equip due to the stat restrictions.
Let’s say I could get past the Magic Power requirement, but Intelligence 250?
It would be problematic even if I could equip it. There wasn’t a single effect that would apply to me. All the effects were related to fire attributes.
“Hwaryeon would love this.”
Hwaryeon, an executive of the Emperor Guild. She was a player who mainly focused on fire attribute skills, so she would be able to utilize the effects of this ring better than anyone else. Of course, that didn’t mean I had any intention of giving it to her.
Am I crazy enough to give away a Unique item?
‘Should I just put this ring on the Real-Time Auction House?’
Checking my Status Information Window, I saw that my pure Intelligence wasn’t even 100. To increase my Intelligence, I had to level up the Provoke skill, but even that only increased by 3 points per level.
It meant I didn’t know when I would be able to equip this item.
‘To think my low Intelligence would hold me back like this.’
Anyway, I decided to think about the ring later, put it in my Item Storage, and looked at the other items I had obtained.
‘The other items are…… skill books?’
Thinking back to the message I saw earlier, it seemed like an A-rank skill book. And next to the skill book, there was an Enhancement Stone, and next to that, three pieces of red leather, and that was it.
‘This leather keeps popping up strangely.’
It wasn’t bad since some recipes required leather.
Taking my eyes off the leather, I took out the skill book and checked it. An A-rank skill from the raid boss. Even Beksha dropped a B-rank skill, so I checked the skill book with a sense of anticipation.
[Flame Ray] (A-rank)
Description: A magic spell that fires extremely compressed flames forward in an explosive manner. Although it takes time to compress the flames, it is a high-level magic spell with destructive power and range that more than makes up for it.
“Flame Ray?”
Did Deronak use this? No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t remember seeing it, but it popped up as a skill book. Moreover, ray-type skills were rare, even among players.
‘……This is tricky.’
In a way, it could be the ranged skill I wanted. If I learned this and leveled it up to 20, the Intelligence increase alone would be 120. If I leveled up Provoke as well, I might be able to reach Intelligence 250 somehow.
And if I equipped the Ring of Immortality that way, the power of Flame Ray would increase even further, so there wouldn’t be any downsides. But there was one thing. The fact that it was magic made me hesitate.
‘Should I learn it?’
If I learned this and equipped the Unquenchable Flame Set, what kind of power would it unleash? On the other hand, I decided it was unreasonable to change my equipment just for this one skill, so I eventually decided to put it on hold.
“As expected, let’s put this on hold for now.”
I was excited for a moment, but my magic attack power was negligible. Besides, what’s the point of using magic when I’m already wielding a Unique hammer? I let out a small sigh, put the Flame Ray skill book back into my Item Storage, and took out the Enhancement Stone next to it.
‘Huh? This is different from the Enhancement Stones I’ve seen so far?’
The Enhancement Stone I took out was a bit bigger and seemed to shine.
[Brilliantly Shining Accessory Enhancement Stone] (Rare)
Description: A stone made of mysterious power. It has the property of being able to surpass the limits of accessories. Also, due to the mysterious power the stone possesses, there is a high probability of a positive effect. It can be applied up to 15 times, but if it fails, the accessory may no longer be usable.
*Slightly increased success rate.
━Single-use consumable.
“……It would have been better if it was a Weapon Enhancement Stone.”
If it was for weapons, I would have used it on Roar of the Thunder Dragon without hesitation, but unfortunately, it was for accessories. Should I use it on the Ring of Immortality then? Since the Ring of Immortality was a Unique item, I thought it wouldn’t be bad to use it, and decided to head back.
‘Well, anyway, I’m done checking.’
Besides, I had a lot to do when I got back to town. First, I had to enhance the staff and then put it on the Real-Time Auction House, and I also had to finish the tedious Random Skillbook work.
Plus, the A-rank skill book, Flame Ray. I had to figure out what to do with it. If I got an S-rank ranged skill from the Random Skillbook, I could just sell it without hesitation, but knowing that things wouldn’t go that smoothly, I let out a short sigh and used the Return Scroll from my Item Storage.
[Using Return Scroll.]
Whoosh!
Returning home instantly with the Return Scroll, I immediately headed towards the crowded street. It had been over a month since Twilight opened, and since Enhancement Stones were a money-making item that surpassed most other items, they were relatively easy to obtain.
After purchasing about 10 Weapon Enhancement Stones without much difficulty, I returned home again using the Return Scroll.
“Now, then……”
Shall we play a fun enhancement game?
I took out the Weapon Enhancement Stones I bought from people and the Flame Staff and made them touch.
[Ding!~ Attempting to enhance ‘Unquenchable Flame Staff’.]
[Related stat Luck (157) is being applied.]
[Enhancement probability…… 57.8%.]
[To cancel, please separate the Enhancement Stone.]
[3…… 2…… 1……]
[Enhancement successful.]
‘Easy.’
Convinced of success using Intuition, I succeeded in enhancing it to +1. From +2 onwards, the probability was 52%. +3 was 46.2%. It dropped steadily like this, but I didn’t think the enhancement was particularly difficult.
[Enhancement probability…… 11.5%.]
[To cancel, please separate the Enhancement Stone.]
[3…… 2…… 1……]
‘+9 Enhancement probability is 11.5%……’
[Enhancement successful.]
Even with Luck around 150, the +9 probability didn’t really increase. Would it be higher if I had a related skill? Because of this, after a few failures, I barely managed to succeed up to +9, and I didn’t even attempt +10.
Why would I need to enhance it to +10 when it’s not even an item I’ll use?
A +9 Rare weapon. I thought this would be enough to rank within the top 5 on the Real-Time Auction House, so I decided to stop here and check how much the weapon had improved.
[+9 Unquenchable Flame Staff] (Rare)
Description: A staff equipped with the heart of Deronak, who breathes flames. The heart itself contains such a powerful flame that if you look closely, you can see the flames flickering. And that flame power emanates from a powerful magic power, making it possible to use even more powerful fire magic.
Attack Power: 164 (+94) Magic Attack Power: 754 (+434)
Durability: 189/189
*Fire attribute skill effect increased by 30%.
*When using fire attribute skills, 30% chance to inflict Burn (LV20) damage.
*Enhancement Option (1): Fire attribute increased by 2%.
*Enhancement Option (2): Fire attribute skill damage increased by 50.
*Enhancement Option (3): Magic Power recovery speed 2 per second.
“Good.”
Checking it, it had options that would make any magician with fire attribute skills go crazy. In other words, I thought it might be too specialized in fire attributes, but since I couldn’t use it anyway, such drawbacks didn’t catch my eye.
By the way, it seems a shame to just put this on the Real-Time Auction House……
“Should I just learn Flame Ray?”
If I learned Flame Ray and equipped the Ring of Immortality, the Azure Guardian Set effect would combine for a total of 5 level increase. In other words, I could ultimately use Flame Ray at level 35, but again, due to my low magic attack power, I couldn’t make a decision easily.
[Emperor Guild’s ‘Aizen’ has invited you to the guild chat.]
[Do you accept?]
Aizen?
“Accept.”
While I was contemplating Flame Ray, I saw a message from Aizen and immediately accepted, and soon I could hear Aizen’s voice.
‘By the way, what happened to the expedition?’
━Rudin-nim. Are you busy right now?
“No, not really…… why?”
━I contacted you to have a brief meeting.
‘A meeting?’
I was puzzled by the fact that he called me for a meeting and asked about it.
“You’ve never called me for a meeting before, have you?”
━That’s true, but I wanted to hear Vice Master Rudin-nim’s opinion as well.
“……”
My opinion? We already defeated Deronak and finished the enhancement, so the only thing left was the tedious Random Skillbook work. Moreover, the memory of struggling with skill books all day yesterday came to mind, so I thought taking a break wouldn’t be bad and decided to participate in this so-called meeting.
“Okay, I understand. Should I go to the meeting room?”
━Yes. I’ll be waiting.
[Exiting guild chat.]
‘What kind of meeting is it anyway?’
After confirming that the guild chat had ended, I used the Return Scroll again to move to the Guild Castle and headed to the meeting room on the second floor.
Click━
Entering the noisy meeting room, I could see a few empty seats, but most of the guild members were seated. I looked around at them and sat in my seat next to Aizen, and then listened to the content of the meeting.
“Don’t we need a higher-ranked Exploration skill?”
“It just seemed like there was no path.”
‘Is this about the expedition we went on before?’
Listening quietly, it seemed like they had failed. That was a bit surprising. With Aizen and the other executives, they shouldn’t have had any trouble with combat, and thinking about it that way, it was possible that there was no path, as someone had said.
‘Hmm, a high-ranked Exploration skill?’
I briefly thought of the Gem-Eating Snake, but there was no need to bring it up. Anyway, Aizen, who had been listening quietly to the opinions of the executives, came to a conclusion.
“Just in case, we will form an expedition team once again. If we can’t find it this time, let’s give up.”
“Yes.”
“Just one more time……”
“Well, it would be ridiculous to give up after just one failure.”
Seeing everyone nodding in agreement with Aizen’s conclusion, it didn’t seem like a very important meeting. Since the current topic was already being discussed without me, I didn’t really care and listened to the next topic.
“The next topic is…… an executive application. For those who don’t know, a guild member has applied to become an executive.”
“If they have the skills, wouldn’t it be fine?”
“That’s true, but it’s their skills that are the problem.”
At that answer, a few people nodded, but the rest looked at Aizen with puzzled faces.
“What do you mean by their skills being the problem?”
“They are not a combat class. To be precise, they are a production class.”
‘Production class?’
Naturally, all the guild members sitting here were combat classes. In other words, production class players couldn’t become executives, and thinking about it carefully, this could be considered discriminatory.
“If they are helpful to the guild, wouldn’t it be fine for them to become an executive?”
“If we allow it, other production class guild members will definitely apply.”
Listening, it seemed like the opinions were divided into two. Those who were against production classes becoming executives and those who thought it was fine as long as they were skilled. In the midst of this, someone spoke up.
“But what class is the guy who applied for executive?”
“Enhancement class.”
“Enhancement? You mean enhancement with Enhancement Stones?”
“Yes. I heard their +1 success rate is over 70%.”
‘70%?’
Not only was I surprised by the Enhancement class, but I was even more surprised by the +1 success rate of around 70%. 70% was just a number; in reality, to achieve that kind of probability, you needed a Luck stat of at least 400.
Moreover, skills that increased Luck were not easy to find, so it was quite impressive.
I didn’t need that kind of probability, but…… what about others?
‘By the way, what’s my maximum Luck?’
Calculating in my head, I could have a Luck stat of 277. Because my stats increased by 20% due to the title and Hero of the Present World, I could achieve this level of Luck.
Well, there were ways to increase Luck further, but……
Simply put, I just needed to enhance the Gem Dice. I happened to have a Rare Accessory Enhancement Stone, so I could enhance it up to +11. If I did that, my Luck might even reach around 400.
‘Since I thought of it, should I enhance the Gem Dice?’
Thinking about it that way, a Luck stat of 400 suddenly felt low.
“What are your thoughts, Rudin-nim?”
“Huh? What did you say?”
“I was asking for Rudin-nim’s opinion on the executive application…… It seems you need some time to think.”
“Well, personally, I think their Luck is a bit low.”
Everyone made a strange expression at my answer. Then, I saw Hwaryeon, who was sitting nearby, trying to explain to me.
“Rudin-nim. You need the Luck stat to increase the enhancement success rate, but items and skill books related to Luck are hard to come by. Also, if the guild supports them, their probability could increase even further.”
“Ah, support?”
That’s right. Right now, their Luck felt low, but if the Emperor Guild supported them, it could become even higher.
“Besides, Rudin-nim needs to enhance as well, right?”
“……Yes.”
Honestly, I didn’t need enhancement, but I agreed. Anyway, if the Emperor Guild was going to provide support, it would be better to have an Enhancement class player.
One way or another, we needed enhancement to become stronger.
“Then, those who oppose, please raise your hand.”
After Aizen’s words, no one raised their hand.
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