novelraw Chapter 54 – It turns out the game can be played like this
Chapter 54 – It turns out the game can be played like this
Lef's intuition was spot on; these three items were indeed meant for the Dark Elf.
Although, in a way, this was like drawing an SSR and then using it as fodder to feed Mash, a true waste of resources, Xia Ya was now wealthy enough not to care.
Who doesn't like giving their wife a new skin?
The size of the leg ring and choker were all made to fit Yveline, and the Dark Elf immediately saw through someone's intentions. But with the mindset of "letting him look but not touch is also satisfying," Yveline didn't resist at all. Instead, she wore them neatly and looked down at him with a proud gaze, hoping to see a trace of pain and regret on Xia Ya's face.
But her plan failed. Xia Ya just quietly admired her like a piece of art, his eyes filled with genuine praise.
Beautiful!
The three small accessories didn't provide Yveline with any offensive attribute enhancements, but who the hell cares!
Forget about those damn equipment and stats! Looking good is the ultimate pursuit!
With everything ready, Xia Ya was about to take Yveline to find a Sun Elf guard he could handle to test detection resistance when Lef suddenly had a request.
"Xia Ya! Can you take me to Howling Stone Canyon?"
"Huh? What kind of thing requires you to go so far?"
Xia Ya quickly searched his mind; most of the skill quests related to life professions were around the town, and Howling Stone Canyon happened to be at the urban-rural junction.
The Starter Village is a basin, about a day and a half's drive from Astan City, and you can leave the village in about half a day. Howling Stone Canyon is right on the border. The northwestern wind from the Red Earth Prairie howls through the steep mountains, sweeping through the beehive-like sandstone, sounding like a thousand people howling together, hence the canyon's name.
Players around level 60 would return here to discover two deeply hidden Pay-to-Win Ruins in the ravines, in a way, revisiting an old haunt.
Xia Ya knew the location of the ruins, but he wasn't interested for now. After all, most ruins had small gatekeeper bosses that tested hardware, leaving little room for loopholes. He'd have to wait until he was around level 40 to have the desire to explore.
"It's not my business... it's, it's a friend of mine..." Lef said, pinching the hem of her clothes, very embarrassed. "She... she's doing a quest over there, ran out of supplies, and got blocked by a pair of monster birds in the mountains, so I'm going to help her..."
Monster birds? In the mountains?
A series of quests flashed through Xia Ya's mind... Suddenly, he looked at Yveline with a strange expression.
"What are you looking at me for?"
"Are you still in contact with the Dark Brotherhood?"
"I haven't been for a long time, why?"
"Nothing, nothing. Maybe I remembered wrong." Xia Ya waved his hand and turned to Lef, "But you have no combat power, what are you planning to do?"
"Oh, I have a way!" Lef pulled out seven or eight arrowheads from her bag, polished to an exceptionally bright shine.
"Military Arrowhead (Detachable)"
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Iron is scarce by the sea, so the arrows in South Sea County are like this, which can be retrieved and reattached to a new shaft. Xia Ya received quite a few of these from the gay guys in the army while doing quests in South Sea County. They even carved blood grooves on them, claiming "the deeper the love, the more it hurts."
"This was my reward for leaving the Starter Village, and I've been trying to add some enchantments to them these past few days..."
Before he knew it, Xia Ya heard another shocking statement.
Listen, adding a few enchantments, how is this different from an artist "adding some details"?
He took the arrowhead, and a stat popped out.
"Skybreaker I: 20% chance to disable the target's flying ability upon hit."
Damn...
What kind of god-tier attribute is this?
Xia Ya couldn't help but scratch his head. Is this the power of an "elite player" who discovers shortcuts on the first playthrough?
Although a Level I enchantment isn't surprising, this is Skybreaker... one of the few bird-hunting methods before level 30, and it's an offensive enchantment. And, most importantly...
"...May I ask, how did you make this? Didn't you just buy an enchantment pen three days ago, and the enchantment was only level 1 at that time..."
In Illusory Realm, offensive enchantments are strictly controlled, much like gun control in China.
After all, in a high-magic world, rulers use magic to set rules, and enchantments are the Babel Tower for mortals to reach this sacred domain. Civilian defensive enchantments like 'Fall Immunity,' 'Water Breathing,' and 'Fire Resistance' are one thing, but if offensive prefixes like 'Sure Hit,' 'Precision Targeting,' and 'Magic Breaker,' frequently used for assassinations, were everywhere, rulers wouldn't feel safe.
Therefore, any offensive enchantment formula can only be mastered by enchanters of advanced level or above, meaning an "enchantment" level higher than 6... Lef has been in the shop these days, where did she find the time to grind reputation and learn formulas?
"Don't tell me your 'enchantment' is already level 6?"
"No, it's only level 2..."
"Then this is..."
"This... wait a moment."
Lef ran into the back room and came out with a stack of leather armor. It looked like something Master Gani left for her as a reference.
Since staying at Reeves Workshop, Lef naturally became Gani's apprentice. But after learning that the thong belonged to Felix, Gani's life suddenly turned a bit gray, and he took a leave to return to the countryside. However, before leaving, he left Lef with a pile of homework.
Adding prefixes to leather armor is also considered a form of surface enchantment in the setting, albeit a relatively primitive method.
Arcane energy flows through the atmosphere, and if complex patterns are used to absorb and guide it, even without the help of alchemical enchantments, leather armor can be superior to ordinary leather, which is what prefixes are.
Of course, the bonuses provided by prefixes are quite limited, heavily reliant on material properties and craftsmanship, and more serve to guide future enchantments, such as how prefixes like 'Tight' and 'Sturdy' can later upgrade to enchantments like 'Enhanced Defense.'
"These were left by Master Gani, mostly 'Arrow Deflection,' 'Updraft,' and such. Initially, I just copied them, but after copying a lot, I noticed a pattern in the leather patterns, so I summarized it a bit, see..."
Lef took out a thick stack of copied drawings, each on parchment, filled with dense lines, twisting and turning like a complex maze. They changed shapes and crowded together, seemingly drawn in one stroke, completely blackening the paper, yet at a glance, no intersections could be seen.
'The intersection of magic only means one thing, and that is an explosion.'
This is the first rule of both enchantment and alchemy, and the same applies to the law of granting prefixes to armor.
Xia Ya's surprise had been exhausted too much, and he unconsciously scratched his head.
"Did you draw this?"
"You can't say that, I just copied them, the second-to-last one is the one I drew... I extracted their similarities, removed the differences, and found that structurally, I could draw a chiral symmetric body, look, here it is."
Lef pulled out a hastily drawn one from the bottom.
"Although very similar, it's a completely different drawing, so I expressed the pattern in the form of an enchantment on the arrowhead, and it became 'Skybreaker I.'"
Xia Ya placed the two drawings together, like two hands spread out in front of him, thumbs touching, presenting a perfect sense of harmony.
As a senior leatherworker, Gani's work involved not only providing leather armor enchantments but also drawing protective layers for the only two airships in the Lugor Kingdom. Prefixes like 'Updraft' and 'Arrow Deflection' were meant to pave the way for more advanced 'Stable Flight' enchantments.
And these enantiomers turned out to be the 'Skybreaker' used for shooting down planes?
So...
The game...
Can be played like this...?
Xia Ya was thoroughly impressed.