271 Chapter 271 - A Champion’s Prize I (2/2)
+ 10 Endurance
+20% Heal Enhancement
Special skill: Phantasmic Lifeforce. Instantly fills the target's HP to full, disappearing once the skill duration expires
Skill duration: 30 seconds
Skill cooldown: 2 minutes]
As everyone looked at the staff, Brother Assist immediately said, ”This skill is so… sinister…”
He then showed off his item reward to everyone, ”Take a look at mine!”
[Twilight Blade
+ 10 Strength
+ 10 Agility
+ 10 Endurance
+ 20% attack Enhancement
+ 10% chance of inflicting the Weaken effect]
”This…” The others looked at Brother Assist. ”Did you advance your job class to a Dark Knight?”
Brother Assist nodded his head in confirmation, saying, ”The high-level skills of a Holy Knight specialize in party-wide buffing and such. I feel that our mercenary group doesn't really need that sort of skill.”
”You should've just chosen whatever you wished to play with; no need to think about this group,” Young Master Han chastised.
”Well… The sight of you guys having fun killing made me somewhat envious!” Brother Assist smiled.
”Assist has finally woken up!” Gu Fei felt pleased. He had never truly understood where Brother Assist was finding the joy in playing Parallel World all this while.
Brother Assist laughed as he glanced at Royal God Call, ”What did you get?”
The item reward seemed to have failed to mitigate Royal God Call's sadness for missing the guild versus guild tournament as he still had an awkward expression when he took the item out of his dimensional pocket. Suddenly, the room was illuminated by two bright lights.
Everyone showed an astonished expression, ”What did you just take out?”
Royal God Call was equally shocked by the sudden glow. Did he miss a finer detail that made his equipment emit godly lights? As he was about to closely inspect the item, Sword Demon apologetically said, ”Sorry about that. Wounds and I just leveled up.”
”Ah?! Oh… Did they award the gold coins and EXP already?” The others hurriedly checked their money pouches and experience point bars, realizing that they received quite an increase. Sword Demon and War Without Wounds accumulated a lot of experience points, so their experience point rewards allowed them to rise to level 41.
Since the six men all received these rewards, they were not that surprised by them. All turned their gazes on the item Royal God Call had placed on the table.
[Point of Ephemera
+ 10 Agility
+ 10 Strength
+ 5 attack range
+ 35% attack Enhancement
+ 10% chance of inflicting the Pierce effect]
”This…” Brother Assist, along with the rest, was silent for a moment before saying, ”You can't really tell if it's better than Sniper's Scream or worse!”
”Yup!” Royal God Call could also not decide which was better between his two weapons. Sniper's Scream increased Agility by 20 points, Attack Range by 10 points, and Fatal Blow by 15% with 30% Snipe enhancement. While Point of Ephemera was the better choice in terms of basic attacks due to its '35% Attack Enhancement' trait, Sniper's Scream could greatly enhance the Attack Power of Royal God Call's ultimate skill, Snipe.
”Just swap it when the need arrives. There's no such thing as perfect equipment, anyway,” Brother Assist told Royal God Call after comparing the two items on the table.
Royal God Call could only nod his head as their gazes shifted onto Sword Demon.
”Fortunately, the prize I got isn't a weapon!” Sword Demon expressed his relief as he took out something from his dimensional pocket. He already had the two overleveled daggers, Lasting Sentence and Dying Breath, which were also set equipment. The system would certainly give out items according to the current level 40 standard, so it would have been a waste if Sword Demon had gotten a weapon. Sword Demon placed a piece of bandana on the table, yet it was different from the pieces of cloth Gu Fei and the rest used to cover their faces as it had stats.
[Assassin's Bandana
+ 10 Agility
+ 10 Strength
+ 10% defense Enhancement
+ 20% Stealth Enhancement]
”That name is so plain!” everyone exclaimed.
”Stealth enhancement… So Stealth could be enhanced, huh!” Royal God Call muttered.
”It's probably because no equipment has skill for detecting Stealth yet, so there isn't an urgent need to enhance Stealth at the moment!” Sword Demon glanced over to Gu Fei. Although the latter told him that he did not depend on equipment or skill to detect Stealth, Sword Demon could still not help but be curious if Stealth enhancement would be effective against Gu Fei.
It was Gu Fei's turn to show them what he got. Fishing out an item from his dimensional pocket, he casually dropped it on the table, ”It's this accessory.” His item reward was a ring.
[Ring of Subdued Lightning
+ 12% chance of triggering additional lightning attack
+ 12% lightning resistance]
Different types of equipment had different criteria to judge their grades. Accessories and similar items were different from weapons when it came to the amount of traits. Ring of Subdued Lightning for instance was purple-tier equipment despite it only having two traits.
The system judged the equipment's value rather differently from players because it never considered trait application. Take Gu Fei's Ring of Subdued Lightning as an example; while it giving such an item to the Lightning Mage Gu Fei was apt, its 'additional lightning attack' trait was something the average Mage would be unable to utilize. As for the 'lightning resistance' trait… A majority of Mages had chosen the job class with Water Affinity, so equipment related to the Water Affinity would be more valuable to them. Lightning Affinity equipment was therefore not really in demand and highly valued.
No matter how exceptional the traits were, top-grade equipment with 'useless' traits was still considered as faux top-grade equipment.
Parallel World's system did not distinguish between true top-grade and faux top-grade equipment like players did. The ring's two traits had high value, so the system evaluated it highly to the point that the A.I. considered it as the most fitting item reward for Gu Fei. From its perspective, this ring could even be valued higher than Sword Demon, Royal God Call and the others' item rewards. Fortunately, Gu Fei was a faux Mage; if he were like the other Mages, he would probably be cursing Parallel World for awarding him such an item right about now.
No matter how the system or players judged the items they had received, everyone in Young Master's Elite unanimously agreed that Young Master Han's holy staff with a skill was the most outstanding item reward thus far. If the system had gifted the players based on the number of kills and ilk, the best equipment would have never fallen in the hands of Young Master Han. After all, Gu Fei had the best performance in the tournament out of them all.
Everyone pondered on this issue for a long time. In the end, Brother Assist came up with a logical answer, ”I GOT IT! Only Young Master has perfect attendance throughout the tournament.”
”Perfect attendance?” Everyone thought back to the first match of the mercenary PvP tournament. On the first day of Parallel World's PvP event, the square by the Hall of Mercenaries had been thoroughly filled with players that only Young Master Han and Gu Fei had decisively participated in the first match against only one opponent.
As for Gu Fei, he had missed a match when he had gotten waylaid by Cloud Herder Guild. Indeed, only Young Master Han had participated in all the matches of the mercenary PvP tournament.
Just like how not turning up for work was the biggest mistake one could make when working, the system also handed harsh punishment for players who failed to participate in all the PvP event's matches. Although Young Master Han had not earned his group kill points, the system had still judged him as the role model of his mercenary group and had thus assigned him the greatest item reward.
”Heh... I'm truly wonderful,” Young Master Han boasted.
The others did not know what to say and could only blame themselves for letting this narcissistic person obtain the greatest prize out there.
”Alright. Let's get the freely assigned prizes we've earned!” War Without Wounds felt thoroughly envious as he watched everyone pull out top-grade equipment one after another and deemed it to be his turn to get an item reward!