I Save The World In A Doomsday Text Game

Chapter 201-2: The Broken Bow of Apollo, the Crimson Candle Sword Case, Valkyria’s Armor (2)

After this visit to the office, he’d lost three divine items and picked up a debt of three million Spirit Essence.

Just looking at the outcome, three divine items for three million Spirit Essence, it was hard to tell if he’d come out ahead or behind.

But Lin Xun didn’t doubt Li Xingyue’s promise. As long as he gathered enough, she’d absolutely get him another Legendary-grade divine item.

Judging by her personality, even if he fell short by two or three pieces, the black stocking lady would probably cover the gap for him.

“…It’s really a pity not to marry such a good boss and bring her home.”

Lin Xun returned to his rental apartment.

In the game, the Book of Communication had already received a new message.

[Star Glaze: Just got news, Amos has successfully secured the position of Disciple, becoming the eleventh Disciple of the New World. You’re operating under him now, so be extremely careful with everything you do. Absolutely do not expose any information about yourself. Remember! Remember!]

Lin Xun touched his chin and pondered.

Amos was his immediate superior, and his promotion was good news for a subordinate.Barring any mishaps, becoming Amos’s proxy agent was already a certainty.

Now that Amos had secured his position, the territory under his control would only expand. Lin Xun might even have room for promotion himself, and more cities to skim profits from…

The letter also included an attachment.

[Small Fragment of World Wandering Spirit Essence x3: Unknown Spirit Essence drifting through the turbid world. Use to obtain 1,000,000 Spirit Essence.]

Lin Xun collected the three million Spirit Essence into his account and immediately opened the trading channel.

The Broken Bow of Apollo was still up for auction. Its closing price had only risen by ten thousand compared to an hour ago.

With ample funds in his pocket, he didn’t rush and simply waited for the auction time to tick down…

Afternoon arrived.

Only an hour remained on the auction, and the bow’s price had climbed to 3,120,000.

Each bid had only gone up by the minimum increment, and long intervals passed before anyone placed the next bid.

Clearly, there weren’t many Apostles watching this weapon, his chances of winning were high.

Lin Xun stopped lurking and pressed the bid button.

He raised the price by fifty thousand in a single bid, pushing it up to 3,180,000.

The auction duration refreshed to one hour with his bid.

Lin Xun waited quietly. For a long time, no other Apostles placed another bid. It seemed his large increase had scared off the few remaining bidders who weren’t very interested in the first place.

When the auction time finally ran out, no one else had bid again.

[The auction for this item has ended. As the final bidder, you have successfully purchased it!]

[You have obtained Broken Bow of Apollo (Legendary Weapon)!]

Lin Xun opened his inventory. The Legendary longbow he’d been dreaming of was finally lying there.

“This is probably the most expensive thing I’ve ever bought.”

He equipped the weapon on the Valkyrie.

[Your Watcher Battle Angel – Valkyrie has equipped Broken Bow of Apollo (Legendary Weapon)!]

[She has grown stronger!]

The Valkyrie’s previous Windchant and Moonsong Longbow +1 was now spare gear.

Lin Xun listed the now Epic grade bow on the Book of Trade. Before long, he’d recouped 130,000 Spirit Essence.

With plenty of Spirit Essence still left, he decided to buy some powerful arrows for the Valkyrie and also use Forging Stones to enhance his equipment further.

Just as he was about to purchase a strong arrow, a special piece of equipment caught his eye.

[Crimson Candle Sword Case (Special Equipment): An exquisitely crafted sword case of red wood, small enough that it seems only short swords could fit inside, but no one knows what hidden space it contains.]

[Carrying this equipment unlocks an auxiliary equipment slot, allowing you to quickly switch between weapons stored in the sword case. Current slots occupied: 0/3]

[Spirit Essence Value: 250,000]

Although switching equipment in this cursed game was cumbersome, ordinary Apostles never had that many weapons to swap between anyway.

Even Lin Xun, a little rich man with many shells, couldn’t manage to have two or three spare weapons for every shell.

Any surplus weapons had long since been sold to recoup costs. Normal Apostles simply weren’t worthy of owning backup weapons…

And even if you did have to switch weapons, it only took a few extra finger taps, hardly worth spending precious Spirit Essence over.

“This is gear made specifically for whales…”

Lin Xun wasn’t a whale, but he was a cheater.

So he bought this special equipment without the slightest hesitation.

The Abyss Lantern and the longbow couldn’t be dual-wielded, and the Valkyrie just happened to lack an auxiliary weapon slot.

[You have obtained Crimson Candle Sword Case (Special Equipment)!]

The Crimson Candle Sword Case had three empty slots, able to hold three pieces of equipment.

After trying it out repeatedly, Lin Xun discovered that it could store not only weapons and special equipment but also armor… though items like consumables couldn’t be placed inside.

He stored the Abyss Lantern in the sword case, then equipped the Valkyrie with the new setup.

“Raising a wife probably isn’t even this expensive.”

“Now that the Valkyrie is fully armed, should I buy a few pieces of equipment for the Three-Headed Lion too?”

“No wait, the Three-Headed Lion can’t equip anything… It’s not that I won’t buy you gear, it’s that you can’t use it.”

While Lin Xun was muttering to himself, he didn’t know that somewhere in a corner, the Three-Headed Lion was spamming question marks furiously.

At this point, his inventory still held over 200,000 Spirit Essence.

An Epic-grade armor piece caught his eye next.

[Valkyria’s Armor (Epic Armor): Armor forged of pure gold, enchanted with numerous spells to render it indestructible. It once belonged to a female warrior who dominated the battlefield. The armor is adorned with feathers and bird wing motifs, and partially openwork designs make it incredibly lightweight.]

[While wearing this armor, the shell’s movement speed is greatly increased.]

[Spirit Essence Value: 90,000]

“…This cheap? If I don’t buy it, I’m not even human!”

Lin Xun earned Spirit Essence quickly, and spent it just as fast.

As he kept buying and buying in the Book of Trade, before long, there was hardly any Spirit Essence left in his pocket.

He picked up a powerful arrow for the Valkyrie, and spent the remaining tens of thousands on Forging Stones to enhance his gear.

When Dragon Rider’s Regenerating Scale Armor was upgraded to +4, its repair skill improved further.

The biggest surprise for Lin Xun was the Ancient Dragonfang Greatclub. That piece of equipment didn’t have any traits, but it did have the Awakening Effect of the Giant Beastmen Chieftain’s Spirit Essence.

Upgrading it to +4 changed its double critical hit into 2.5x critical damage.

The remaining pieces of equipment had no traits or awakening effects, so their upgrades yielded only slight improvements. Lin Xun stopped enhancing them after +2.

These Epic-grade items could be upgraded by the blacksmith, requiring only Spirit Essence to buy Forging Stones.

But the Chain Blade – Call of the Underworld and the Broken Bow of Apollo were above Epic grade, outside the blacksmith’s scope.

If he wanted to enhance those two new weapons, he’d inevitably have to hand over more Spirit Essence to the cursed game itself.