Chapter 47: New Equipment (1/2)
Chapter 47: New Equipment
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Luo Yuan was carrying his groceries in a burlap sack and walking back home when he saw a man and a woman coming out of his apartment. He watched them walk away before he went into the kitchen. After setting the groceries on the table, he asked Huang Jiahui, “Who were those people?”
“You’re back!” she exclaimed as she was finishing mopping the floor. “Oh, they’re members of the community. They just dropped by some documents that we need to fill in. They wanted to discuss re-enrolling children for classes.”
“Classes?” Luo Yuan shook his head in disbelief.
“I don’t want to go to school!” Wang Shishi threw a tantrum, tossing around on the couch in denial. After being with the two of them for so long, she was starting to be more open around them, especially around Luo Yuan.
“So what will you be doing then?” Huang Jiahui countered while she put the groceries away. “Now that the situation has been stabilized, you’ll have to head out into society eventually and you’re gonna need a degree to get a decent job. Besides, learning is not that bad.”
Once Huang Jiahui was out of sight, Wang Shishi rushed stealthily to sit next to Luo Yuan. She wrapped herself around his arm, silently begging him with her puppy eyes.
Luo Yuan took her side, “I think we should wait it out. I mean, there’s no need to rush back into all of this yet. Besides, she’s still young. It wouldn’t make much of a difference if she enrolled a year or two later.”
“THANK YOU, BROTHER LUO! YOU’RE THE BEST!” Wang Shishi screamed while she jumped up and down in joy.
“Okay, fine. It’s none of my business anyway,” Huang Jiahui replied from the kitchen.
Luo Yuan looked at Wang Shishi and they both giggled childishly. Suddenly Wang Shishi blushed, as if she had recalled something.
“Well, I’ve got some stuff to do,” Luo Yuan said as he carried the burlap sack into his room.
As he closed the bedroom door, Luo Yuan was filled with an unexpected feeling of excitement. He quickly unloaded the dark owl feathers onto the study table and rushed to retrieve some clothes from his wardrobe for the experiment. He picked a pair of track pants.
Injuring one’s legs in the wild was a matter of life or death; hence, it was imperative to be equipped with an enhanced pair of pants. He chose a pair of pants first as his upper body would be protected by the bulletproof vest.
He took a deep breath. Holding the pants in one hand and a feather in the other, he began chanting silently while carefully bringing the two items into contact. The feather started to heat up as he finished the incantation. It gradually softened, and then turned into dust once it came into contact with the pants. The process of transfiguration never ceased to amaze him, no matter how often he performed it. He picked up another piece and continued transfiguring the feathers one by one, merging them in one with the track pants.
The colour of the track pants gradually changed from light blue to black, the colour of the dark owl feathers. To measure the changes in the track pants, he cast an evaluation spell after every successful transfiguration. The pants reached a rarity level of light blue after the eighth feather and were later upgraded to a rarity of blue after the twenty-eighth feather.
Despite the fact that he had underestimated the cost required for the transfiguration, Luo Yuan was still very excited by its success – the feathers on the track pants alone had cost him a 200-gram rice coupon. He decided to stop combining the remaining feathers with the track pants. From his experience transfiguring his sword and vest, he had learned that once a piece of equipment had reached a rarity of blue, it was not worth transfiguring any more. Its rarity would remain the same, and there would only be a slight improvement in terms of its properties.
“I’m in no hurry. Besides, if Qian Dakui is really telling the truth, I’ll have plenty more of these feathers to transfigure tomorrow!”
“Agile Feathered Track Pants”
“Materials: Dark Owl Feathers, Nylon”
“Rarity: Blue”
“Defense: 12-15”