Volume 10 Bugs Chapter 8: Improved Weapons
When a weapon maker reaches level 24, he can begin to learn advanced techniques for "improving weapons", which can improve the level and attributes of a weapon to a certain extent.
However, this does not mean that he can easily transform a level 1 "blunt sword with a gap" worth only 20 copper coins into an invincible dragon-slaying blade. You must know that you cannot endlessly improve a weapon. Each weapon has a limit on the number of improvements. For a pile of level 1 scrap copper and iron, the best we can expect is to transform it into a pile of level 3 scrap copper and iron, and the cost of transforming it may be higher than if you directly bought a level 3 weapon with mediocre attributes. Only those low-level weapons with good basic attributes can be upgraded through improvement to exert greater power.
Therefore, before you decide to improve your weapon, you'd better consider whether it is worth the cost.
When I found the longbow to shoot the sun, he was standing by a furnace busy with nervousness. A large musket that was almost as long as a person and with a barrel thicker than an arm was placed in front of him. I recognized it at a glance as the powerful long-range attack weapon "Sera Jiong" belonging to the elven female beastmaster Yan Zhen.
Yan Zhen and Xian Ge Ya Yi were standing nearby, watching the longbow shooting at the sun with anticipation. In addition to the two of them, the half-orc shadow thief Chang Sanjiao and the white-clothed swordsman Fo Xiao had also heard the news and rushed over.
Changbow Shooting Sun used a furnace to melt several parts of metal into liquid, then cast it into the musket through his tools, and then gently tapped it with a small hammer, changing the shape of the metal bit by bit. Soon, a layer of warm dark red luster flashed around the musket in a spiral shape, and then quickly disappeared, indicating that the improvement of the musket had been completed.
"Huh..." Changgong Sheri breathed a sigh of relief and sent the musket to the front of Yan Zhen, "...I said I would help you improve your weapons. I finally completed what I promised you."
"Thank you so much!" Yan Zhen happily held up "Sera Jiong" and caressed the shiny barrel with both hands, her beautiful eyes sparkling with excitement. In her joy, she seemed to habitually turn her head and smiled brightly at the elven archer, as if she was using this method to share her joy with this elven man. Xiange Yayi also had a knowing smile on her face, and nodded at her tacitly.
Between their eyes, there seemed to be a warm flame burning gently.
The joy of the wild geese formation was completely understandable. With the careful modification of the longbow shooting sun, the level of the musket "Sera Jiong" was upgraded to level 45 - just right for the wild geese formation to use - and its power was far greater than before:
Its attack bonus has been increased to 160 points, hit +15, health +120, 30% knockdown chance has not changed, and the attack speed has been increased by 20%. If there is any shortcoming, it is that the previous scattered attack effect has been lost and group attacks can no longer be performed. However, as our level increases, the enemies become more and more difficult to deal with. Compared with the flashy group attack effect, the powerful single attack ability is much more practical.
The properties of the musket have been significantly improved, which I envied very much. I also wanted to ask Changgong Sheri to help me improve the weapon. However, as a senior who has successfully received the baptism of frustration education, the painful experience of grinding a mountain with my own hands and successfully grinding a glass lens almost accidentally made me stop in time: this kind of newly learned skills always have great instability. Before I have enough confidence in the improvement of Changgong Sheri's skills, I'd better wait and see.
It turns out that my concerns were very prescient...
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Witnessing an accidental success often causes people to ignore potential dangers. This common problem of lack of rational thinking applies not only to many humans, but also to green-skinned, fang-toothed orcs, such as the Yangtze River Delta.
Seeing that the weapons of the Wild Goose Formation were successfully upgraded, the fat half-orc Shadow Thief suddenly became excited. He held the "Corpse Poison Dagger" and approached Changgong Sheri affectionately, asking him to help improve the weapon. His face was full of friendly smiles, like a "bright carnivorous plant" blooming on his big plate face.
The dwarf weapon maker did not refuse Chang Sanjiao's request. He looked at the dagger carefully, and found a lot of high-quality bone materials from his backpack as needed. Then he used tools to carefully inlay them piece by piece, and then used his tools to carefully polish the dagger, carving several fierce lines on the back of the blade. Not long after, another dark red flash lit up in Chang Gong Sheri's hand, and the improved corpse poison dagger finally made its debut in our expectant eyes.
After the transformation of the longbow shooting the sun, the shape of this dagger has become more gloomy and evil. The handle made of finger bones is twisted and tangled together, like the painfully struggling palm of a dying person, full of the cold and desperate gorgeous style of postmodern non-mainstream decadence.
To be fair, the improved corpse poison dagger has indeed changed a lot in appearance. Rather than saying it is an exquisite weapon, I am more inclined to regard it as a powerful work of art.
But unfortunately, this is probably the only commendable aspect of this improvement.
"Corpse Poison Dagger: Damage +88, Agility +19, Health +99, 30% chance to deal double damage with one strike ..." This is what I saw in its attribute column. Does it look familiar? You're right, all of its main attributes are exactly the same as when it was first created, without any changes.
I simply could not imagine how Changbow Sheri, who had only just learned the weapon improvement skill, could achieve such a perfect balance between "addition" and "subtraction" to make everything he had done before become useless.
And this is far from all.
In the column of additional skills for the "Corpse Poison Dagger", I saw the following description: "… Additional skills: Corpse Poison. There is a chance to release corpse poison every 15 minutes, causing at least 30 points of damage per second to the enemy for 30 consecutive seconds. The user will suffer 3 times the backlash of corpse poison…"
If I remember correctly, the damage of corpse poison was at least 20 points per second, and the effect of corpse poison backlash was only twice that.
After discovering this slight difference in attributes, a bleak picture suddenly emerged in front of my eyes: Yangtze River Delta's life was decreasing at a rate of 90 points per second until he was squeezed into a mummy. Unless his health points were filled to the point of urinating blood, he would definitely not be able to withstand the fatal torture of this suicidal attack.
This is simply a miracle that is extremely great and at the same time extremely stupid. I even suspect that this was accomplished by the great Supreme God with the help of his hands that could shoot the sun with a longbow, and that his purpose in doing so was simply to prove that he is omnipotent to the point of shocking people anytime and anywhere.
"Long...bow...shoot...sun..." The half-orc shadow thief gnashed his teeth and called out the name of the dwarf weapon maker, as if he wished he could chew and lick the name and its owner under his teeth and grind them into crumbs to express his indignation:
"…What do you call this? Weapon improvement? What the hell has made this thing better?"
"Hmm..." The dwarf stroked his messy red beard and lowered his head to ponder for a moment. He finally managed to come up with an answer that avoided the main point: "...at least the lethality of its corpse poison skill is higher than before."
"You are a second-class cripple with a tail on your face. What's the use of this increased lethality? Besides making me die faster when I commit suicide, what else did you do?" Changgong Sheri's answer was obviously not convincing. In front of this devastating "magic" weapon, Chang Sanjiao showed obvious signs of mania. He suddenly exploded as if he had swallowed a large lump of gunpowder, grabbed Changgong Sheri's collar and shook it desperately, and roared at him angrily - in order to successfully pull the dwarf's collar, he had to spend a lot of effort to fold up his big belly and squat down.
In the face of the Orcs' fury, Changgong Sheri huddled up shyly, his already short body even shorter than usual. He pointed his index fingers at his chest in grievance, lowered his head and pitifully said:
"…It's even more beautiful than before…"
Rage, numbness, disappointment, sadness... countless negative emotions appeared on Chang Sanjiao's face at the same time, making his expression look ups and downs. I have never seen such a complex expression on anyone's face. This is simply the embodiment of the abstract psychological state of "mixed feelings".
Obviously, he was extremely angry!
Maybe the bigger the face, the richer the expressions it can make?
Looking at Chang Sanjiao's face full of green wrinkles and twisted like a big cactus, I thought to myself, and subconsciously touched my cheek which was only half as wide and narrow as his - no matter what, I couldn't make such a colorful expression.
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In order to make up for the loss caused to his friend by his negligence, Changgong Sheri took the initiative to ask Changjiang Delta to improve his secondary weapon: a level 25 warhammer "Insidious Hammer".
For the Orc Shadow Thief who is about to break through level 50, the level of this warhammer is really pitifully low. But the Shadow Thief relies more on their various powerful traps in battle, and is more adept at using the dagger and short sword in the right hand even in close combat. The reason why Chang Sanjiao still uses this low-level warhammer is mainly because of its additional 5% stun chance - when you fight a Shadow Thief, you will understand: a short fainting often means a powerful trap and an invisible opponent, and either of these two may become the cause of your death.
Because the weapon itself was not of high quality, Chang Sanjiao agreed without much hesitation. It seemed that he had already given up: it was not a valuable thing anyway, so how bad could it be if it was modified?
Just like the previous two times, Changgong Sheri completed his work diligently. After a bright light came on, a reborn "Insidious Knocker" made its debut.
Attack power +120, fighting spirit value +100, 15% chance to stun, attack speed +10%... When I first saw the attributes of this warhammer, a suffocating palpitation flowed through my heart: the attributes of this warhammer have been improved to a dizzying level. Not only has its most important stun attribute not disappeared, but its attack power has also been greatly enhanced.
Faced with such a feared "human weapon", even the most picky people can only drool and say with envy: "Wow..." I have even thought about re-learning the warhammer skills - if this warhammer belongs to me.
At this moment, everyone present felt sincerely that the Yangtze River Delta was really lucky this time.
However, he himself doesn't seem to think so.
"You short-legged garbage maker, can't you make something really useful?" Chang Sanjiao grabbed the complacent red-bearded dwarf, picked up the newly improved war hammer, gritted his teeth, and hit the dwarf's head again and again, looking like he wanted to knock the dwarf's head into his stomach.
"Stop... stop! What are you doing! The properties of this hammer can only be so strong, what else do you want from me?" Changbow Sheri struggled hard, waving his arms helplessly while asking loudly, with occasional "bang bang" sounds coming from his head.
"You're such a fool! The durability of this broken thing is just a little bit, and you call it a 'weapon'? Pah! A fly swatter is stronger than it..." Chang Sanjiao was enjoying the hammering when suddenly his hand felt lighter. The shining hammer suddenly lost its luster and turned into a severely rusted and tattered lump of pig iron. All its attributes were instantly reset to zero.
Changgong Sheri finally escaped from the furious revenge of the Yangtze River Delta, but he looked a lot shorter - his neck was obviously shorter.
After hearing what Chang Sanjiao said, we finally looked at it again. Sure enough, in the corner of the weapon attribute column that is easily overlooked, there is a line of sad and heartbreaking text:
"Durability 0/1"!
After just a few light blows, the war hammer was completely scrapped.
Although the Yangtze River Delta had seen the outrageous weapon improvement results of Changgong Sheri, and had made full psychological preparations, at this moment, no matter what happened, they could accept it calmly. However, Changgong Sheri's improvement ability was so mysterious that no matter how fully you were prepared, he would always find a way to easily break through your psychological bottom line and push you to the edge of collapse.
For example, now: facing a pile of useless scrap metal is one thing, and facing a top-grade weapon with outstanding attributes but being unable to use it is another thing...
Looking at the suicide dagger in his hand that was always ready to take his life and the hammer with amazing attributes that was always ready to strike, the Orc Shadow Thief's deep eyes finally became moist.
He deeply realized one thing:
Uh... maybe today is not his lucky day...
A person involved in the aviation industry once said to me a profound and philosophical statement: Life is full of unknown sorrows, and you never know which step will lead to poop.
Now, the Yangtze River Delta has stepped on shit twice in a row, and his personal experience has verified the mystery and profundity of the phrase "life is unpredictable", which can be described as adding insult to injury.
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Until now, none of us knows what kind of law the weapon maker's improvement follows. In the dark void, whose fate is being plucked by the fingers of the gods, presenting this mysterious ending to mortals.
Could it be...
Could it be true as Foxiao once said: behind all the knowledge we know, behind all the truths that science and magic can touch, behind the surface of this world that we can see with our eyes and touch with our hands, the sacred will of the gods has always been entrenched above the heads of every insignificant life, using another huge and complex system to determine our destiny!
This huge system where destiny is determined by God’s will is called “character issue”.
How to measure and count the hidden attribute of "character" is probably a secret shared by all gods and an unsolvable mystery in this world.
Through field observation, the only thing I can be sure of is that the character of people in the Yangtze River Delta does not seem to be very good...
Every time Chang Sanjiao looked at these two masterpieces of crude weapons, he seemed to have seen through the vicissitudes of life. In just a short moment, this bloated half-orc shadow thief looked much more haggard.
"I have something else to do, so I'll log off first..." he said dejectedly.
"It's just noon, why are you leaving so early?" Changgong Sheri's nerves seemed to be thicker than his thighs, and he actually asked such a reckless question at this time.
"I'm going to see a psychiatrist and ask him how to treat the reactive depression caused by a major blow!" Chang Sanjiao glared at the red-bearded dwarf in annoyance.
"Are you sure it's not secondary depression caused by obesity?" Although Changgong Sheri felt guilty and his face turned slightly red, he still couldn't help but retort.
Chang Sanjiao gave the dwarf an angry murderous look, causing him to shut up immediately.
"Yeah, yeah, it's a bit too early..." Xiange Yayi, who was standing nearby, also advised, "...Anyway, your dagger is still usable. The hammer is not a good thing to begin with. Why don't you just let Changgong pay you with one? You don't have to be hit like this... "
Chang Sanjiao hesitated for a moment, then sighed and explained, "That's not the reason. I signed up for a yoga class last week to lose weight. My class is almost over today..."
"Yoga? You?" His explanation immediately caused a huge uproar. Changgong Sheri, Yanzhen, Xiange Yayi and Foxiao looked at the Yangtze River Delta from head to toe with their eyes (because of their bulging stomachs), their eyes almost popped out. I really don't understand what this "yoga" is, and it can cause such a huge commotion.
"Hey, who said fat people can't practice yoga? Is it so weird that I practice yoga?" Chang Sanjiao's face turned slightly red, and he shouted in anger and embarrassment.
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"I protest, this is body discrimination!" Yangtze River Delta was furious.
They nodded in unison, adding four expressions of approval that said, "It's you who are discriminating against me"...
"I..." Under the gaze of the crowd, Chang Sanjiao's momentum was greatly suppressed, and his arrogance finally gradually subsided. He murmured and explained:
"...Until now, I have only practiced the meditation part..."
"Oh..." Everyone had a look of "So that's it" on their face, as if this key explanation was very much in line with the laws of nature and public opinion.
"Vulgar people! A bunch of vulgar people!" Chang Sanjiao looked at their mischievous expressions and cursed them cynically, "The essence of yoga lies in the completely open mental state and enlightenment. The various body movements are just superficial. It's not that I can't do it, but I just don't want to do it..."
I think his words are very profound, mysterious and seem to make sense. However, my companions do not seem to think so.
They kept rolling their eyes at the Yangtze River Delta, expressing their great contempt and distrust.
"Believe it or not, our coach praised me for my high comprehension ability. Humph..." The fat half-orc's self-esteem was obviously dealt a huge blow, and a cloud of exhaust gas .
"...She said that she had never seen a strong man who started snoring after just five seconds of meditation..."
