Chapter 60 Level 3 Ore
However, faced with the temptation of this hidden mission, Xu Youming couldn't resist and finally accepted the commission from Wu the Blacksmith.
"There should be level 3 ore hidden deep in the mine. You can try your luck. Level 3 ore is special. You will know it after you see it."
After saying this, Wu the blacksmith continued to work on his ironwork.
After accepting the task, Xu Youming felt a little regretful. Was he too greedy?
I have been in the mine for so long, but I have not found any trace of level 3 ore. I don’t know how long I will have to search for level 3 ore.
Intermediate mining skills can already mine level 3 ore, but the level will be lower. However, the prerequisite is that there must be level 3 ore.
Xu Youming looked up information about mining techniques on the forum.
Primary mining technique, can only mine level 1 ore.
Intermediate mining skills can mine level 2 to level 3 ores, and so on. With each level increase in mining skills, the quality of the ores that can be mined will jump by two grades. However, mining high-level ores is much more difficult.
However, hidden tasks represent scarce things , so how could he bear to miss them?
Now that you have accepted the task, complete it as soon as possible, so that you can leave the Novice Village earlier.
Soon, Xu Youming appeared in the mine again, hammering on the stone wall with a pickaxe in a bitter and resentful manner, while observing the surroundings to see if there was anything unusual.
According to Blacksmith Wu, level 3 ore should be very special and can be easily distinguished from these black lumps.
But Xu Youming was disappointed. Until sunset, he did not see any level three ore.
[Ding, your Yin Yang Mirror has been upgraded, and the current level is intermediate]
Yin Yang Mirror·Intermediate (0/10000)
Can identify and check item properties with a 10% success rate and a 1% chance of improving equipment quality.
Features: Identification level +1
Cost: 10
After the Yin-Yang Detective was upgraded to a higher level, the success rate did not increase. This is the fixed success rate for all identification techniques. Only the level of items that can be identified has increased.
Of course, this 10% success rate is based on the current level of the item. If you identify lower-level items, the success rate will increase significantly.
Similar to the mining skill, the intermediate identification skill can identify items up to level 3, and as for equipment, it can identify items up to the silver level.
The characteristics of the Yin-Yang Mirror allow Xu Youming to identify gold-level equipment.
What surprised Xu Youming the most was that the intermediate Yin-Yang Appraisal had a 1% chance of increasing the level of equipment during appraisal.
However, this is only limited to equipment. Materials such are not within the scope of this improvement.
Otherwise, Xu Youming would have identified level 3 iron ore from these level 2 ores.
Although it was a bit regrettable, Xu Youming was already very content. This 1% probability would definitely become his fortune-making tool in the future.
The only thing that made Xu Youming dissatisfied was that after the Yin-Yang Mirror was upgraded to the intermediate level, the consumption doubled, making his already tight wallet even drier.
This upgrade did not trigger the system's reward. It seems that not only I am upgrading, but other players are also not idle.
I don’t know if I can be the first to upgrade my secondary profession to a high level. If so, I should get a good reward.
[Ding, identification successful, obtained level 2 iron ore*1]
[Ding, identification successful, obtained level 2 iron ore*1]
For two consecutive times, Xu Youming successfully identified directly. The extremely high success rate stunned him. In this way, although the amount of mana consumed by the Yin-Yang Mirror increased, it still saved more mana overall than before.
This made things much more convenient for Xu Youming.
After identifying all the ores he had obtained, he quit the game. The repetitive mechanical mining every day was still very boring.
Fortunately, Xu Youming has been accustomed to loneliness since childhood, so he can still endure this loneliness.
The next day, Xu Youming brought supplies and prepared for a protracted war, determined to find level 3 ore.
Arriving at the deepest part of the mine, Xu Youming began to knock on the stones on the stone wall. In about an hour, he dug up nearly 50 level 2 iron ores. Just as Xu Youming was about to take the ore back to the village, suddenly a light green luster appeared on the stone wall.
That is where Xu Youming had just dug out the ore. The green is hidden behind the stone.
Looking at the strange sight in front of him, Xu Youming was delighted. Could this be the level 3 ore?
In an instant, Xu Youming became excited and started hitting the green stone.
“Ding ding dong!”
After hitting it for two minutes, the green stone didn't move at all.
When Xu Youming looked at the stone carefully, a progress bar appeared in front of him.
15%
It turns out that the steps for level 3 ore mining are like this: the mining is considered successful only when the progress bar reaches 100%.
Helplessly, Xu Youming could only continue to swing the pickaxe and smash it.
What he didn't know was that under normal circumstances, with his current mining skills, it would take at least ten minutes to mine level 3 ore, but because of the bonus of the golden mining pickaxe, the speed could be increased to 7 or 8 minutes.
“Snap!”
Finally, the long-awaited level 3 ore was obtained.
Xu Youming couldn't wait to perform identification techniques on the green stone.
[Ding, identification failed]
[Ding, identification failed]
As expected, more than ten attempts ended in failure, but something unexpected happened when it failed for the tenth time.
[Ding, identification failed, proficiency +1.2]
Although the appraisal failed, I still gained a proficiency of 1.2. Perhaps this situation only occurs with high-level items.
Finally, during the 18th appraisal, Xu Youming successfully identified the stone.
[Ding, identification successful, obtained level 3 refined iron]
At the same time, the proficiency of identification increased by 6 points.
After the successful identification, the green stone underwent some changes in appearance and turned into a shiny black iron block.
Looking at the grade 3 fine iron in his hand, Xu Youming was still a little surprised. He originally planned to spend two days looking for grade 3 ore, but he didn't expect to find it in just over an hour.
At this time, his package was full. Loaded with ore, Xu Youming came to the blacksmith shop.
After selling all the ores, Xu Youming took out the level 3 refined iron ore.
"Uncle Blacksmith, this is the level 3 ore you wanted."
The blacksmith was forging iron. When he heard Xu Youming's voice, he suddenly stopped hammering.
"It's incredible, you are so lucky."
Blacksmith Wu looked at the level 3 refined iron ore in Lin Feng's hand, took it hurriedly, and stroked it lovingly.
"With this, I can continue forging silver equipment!"
It turns out that level 3 ore is the material for crafting silver equipment, which is why it is so rare.
However, these didn't matter to Xu Youming. What he cared about was what reward Wu the blacksmith would give him.
