548 Chapter 548 - Equipment with Command (1/2)

While the two of them were opportunistic in nature, they were also good at making friends. Now that they had acknowledged each other as brothers-in-arms, Silver Moon also acted as how a comrade should and retrieved his King's Blade from his dimensional pocket for No Smile to take a look.

No Smile would, of course, have no problems appraising Silver Moon, and with that one look, he could see that, aside from the high Sword Aptitude requirement of King's Blade, there was yet another tough requirement he had to meet: 25 Command.

Anyone that had a bit of knowledge about Parallel World would be aware that a player's Command stat was critical for a party leader. With 1 point in Command, a leader could create a ten-man party. Any starting player would have 1 point, and those who often got selected as the leader would accumulate experience toward the stat, but the problem was that the limit of this stat at the current stage of the game was 9. Apparently, players would have to search for other means to acquire the necessary experience points to further increase it, and no one was currently aware just what other means there were.

No Smile, who had spent a long time in the company of Dusky Cloud and his lot, naturally heard about the matters pertaining to Silver Moon. He knew that this man had been able to triumphantly swing his King's Blade in Yueye City at level 30; that could only mean that he had already reached the necessary requirement for the blade's use at level 30. Achieving the necessary Sword Aptitude for King's Blade was not actually a tall task because many players knew that there were equipment out there that boosted masteries, traits that gave masteries, and other equipment that significantly increased players' proficiencies. As for Silver Moon, for him to have gotten a hold of such an item at level 30, just showed how much of a forerunner he once was. And regarding this 25 Command stat that the man needed to meet, No Smile reckoned that it had been possible through the use of other equipment, which Silver Moon had unfortunately lost. Seeing that Silver Moon still had his equipment that granted him Sword Mastery, his sword proficiency must be sufficient. Thus, all that he was missing was the 25 Command stat.

”Silver Moon bro, you have a piece of equipment that adds Command?” No Smile asked, despite not having heard of this sort of equipment.

”Yup. I owned a necklace that grants me +20 Command called the Torq of Leadership, but I've sadly dropped it. D*mm*t. To think I managed to drop it even though I've stored it in my dimensional pocket. How g*dd*mn unlucky. I hope that the guy who has picked it up meet a fate worse than death,” Silver Moon cursed. The chance of dropping items upon death in Parallel World was much lower when the player in question had no PK points to speak of, and the chance of dropping an item in the dimensional pocket was even lower than that.

”I've never heard of such equipment before; it should be pretty hard to get a hold of, yeah?” No Smile asked.

Silver Moon nodded. ”That Fleeting Smile guy searched for me and explicitly mentioned that it is because he needs the power of my King's Blade. I've yet to tell him that I can't activate the sword's inlaid skill.”

”But since you've successfully gotten out of your mess from before, you should tell him about it so that we can see how he will handle this. If that person truly has access to insider information, he should be able to help you obtain this sort of gear or maybe even show you a way to directly raise your Command stat,” No Smile said.

”Yeah. That's what I'm thinking of doing right now as well.” Silver Moon nodded.

Ye Xiaowu was not in the least bit surprised when he received this news from Silver Moon, and he was completely aware of what the requirements to the King's Blade were. Sword Aptitude was not a particularly difficult stat to obtain, especially at this stage of the game. Reaching 25 Command was the key here. Ye Xiaowu had appraised Silver Moon's equipment and discovered he did not own anything that boosted his Command. As for Silver Moon only informing him about this after he got rescued, Ye Xiaowu was not particularly bothered by it. Instead, it was Broken Water Arrow who expressed his discontent. ”He's scum all right!”

Ye Xiaowu patted him on his back. ”That may be the case, but we still need to help the man. Being able to unleash King's Blade meant that we can forgo quite a bit of manpower.”

”How are we gonna do that? Help him increase his Command?” Broken Water Arrow asked.

”That's impossible,” Ye Xiaowu denied flatly. ”Increasing a player's Command will require unlocking the Prestige system. That would also require the game world to make a breakthrough in a particular content, and we can't touch that.”

”So, what do we do?” Broken Water Arrow asked.

”This equipment of his couldn't be taken back by the system, right? He must've lost it when he got PKed, which meant that another player out there must have gotten a hold of it. I wonder if there's any news of it being put up for sale in the market. It will of course be best if we can just buy it back with money,” Ye Xiaowu mused.

”If he dropped it, that must be back in Baishi City. Did you not take a look along the way?” Broken Water Arrow asked.

Ye Xiaowu laughed bitterly. ”I came back here straight after meeting up with him. Besides, that rascal only told me about not being able to attain the requirement for it after we reached Linyin City. You've even shown your disdain over him for it.”

”Then, that means we'll have to make a trip back to Baishi City,” Broken Water Arrow said.

Ye Xiaowu nodded. ”Head over to the market and take a look around. Inquire after it, and I'll head over to the forums and make a request to purchase it. Currently, the need for the Command stat has yet to reach such high levels, and players aren't fully clear to the value of this stat, so there won't be much use for that item. Hopefully that guy who picked up the equipment wouldn't have too much of a foresight to hold on it.”

”Is there only this one piece of equipment in the game right now?” Broken Water Arrow asked.

”How would I know?” Ye Xiaowu laughed mirthlessly. He was no more than a normal player right now, knowing something like this would require him to check the backend data; therefore, there was no way he would know the answer to that question. Logically speaking, this sort equipment should not appear in the current stage of the game, but acquiring over-level equipment was a huge feature in Parallel World, and that was something that had to do with the famous chain quest system.

The random lot of quests had an extremely strong degree of freedom when linking up to form chain quests, but it could not be denied that sometimes there would be players out there that just happened to be really lucky, getting a chain quest made up of a string of easy quests. Despite there being a BOSS at the end of the chain to ensure difficulty in the final stage, with how randomly these chains were constituted, that did not mean that the prize would all be concentrated at the end. Take Gu Fei's chain quest as an example; Moonlit Nightfalls and the Midnight Spirit Robe were the final reward, but Eddie's Emblem, the 'Sacred' he got on his Flames of Baptism were also considered as quest rewards, yet he had obtained them all in the early stages of the chain quest.

”I'll make a trip over to Baishit City then!” Broken Water Arrow said.

Ye Xiaowu was not courteous as well. After all, the man's job class was better suited for making this trip, and it would be far more efficient and faster.

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