Chapter 347: First Test of the Runic System (1/2)

After Xi Wei personally suppressed the Tortoise Colossus, the first and second-rate Players were all cracking their knuckles and baring their fists, ready to clear the Elven Synchronized Intellect Nation (SIN).

Even noob Players like Simba were intending to join the event as well since anyone above Level 5 could enter the Faint Crystal Stratum, just as they could make an attempt on the Level 15 Deep Wall Stratum if they tried a bit. However, that would still require veterans to scout the road in the dungeon ahead, while Simba and the others would have to stick to their current task of evacuating and relocating survivals of Crookes.

It was worth mentioning that the undead elf —the appetizer of the entire event did not drop any legendary items, but every Player who was a part of the battle were given some ‘elven arcane text’ instead.

After all, while the undead elf could single-handedly crush Mufasa the Pink Flatfish, it proved quite weak when the Players encircled it for a beating, and simply didn’t live up to the Dead Red Dragon or the Nightstalker that were as genuinely powerful as a Boss.

As such, Xi Wei felt that dropping a legendary weapon over such a noob monster really devalues any preceding or subsequent legendary weapon… Moreover, he had just introduced the runic embedding system, and intend for the Players to get to work collecting elven arcane text to be refined into runes. That was why they had to first taste some of the goodness of the runic system beforehand.

And it was the reasons mentioned above that led to Xi Wei canceling any drops for the Undead Elf, and switch it for the elven arcane text which was extracted out of his corrupted clone.

It was an optimal consideration of game planning accountability toward Players, and not because he wanted to hog the corpse of the undead elf for himself!

And just as Xi Wei predicted, most Players were not entering the dungeon although the event had already started. They refined the elven arcane text into runes, and returned to the selected cities or bases to have the dwarven craftsmen who were idling for some time now to embed them.

It was thanks to Xi Wei sneaking an oracle to the dwarven craftsmen by impersonating Stoff, the God of Craftmanship and Fine Wine that they had learned how to embed those runes.

Unlike the strengthening where you would easily get a ‘Ding~ congratulations, your item is gone!’, embedding always succeedsalthough runes are consumables that can’t be extracted again once embedded.

And soon enough, the Players quickly understood the subtleties of runes once their embeddings succeeded.

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Gou Dan had been asking the Players who were done with embedding about the actual conditions before quickly posting the results of the Player forums.

“Unlike strengthening which improves overall stats, runes seem to buff certain unusual attributes at the moment. The currently confirmed runes are ‘Zoffy’ which increase fire resistance; ‘First’ which randomly redistribute weapon stats; ‘Seven’ which increases throw damage; ‘Jack’ which increase damage in fights against multiple enemies; ‘Ace’ which grants melee weapons ranged effect and ‘Taro’, which trades durability for super damage of defense.”

“Since each Player would at most receive two runes, there wouldn’t be definite results if we test arrangements and conditions at the moment, and that is a point for further study. By the way, according to the Players who had tested it, embedding Zoffy on helms would grant the best effect, granting almost double the level of fire resistance compared to embedding in equipment for other anatomies.”

His post was promptly liked and saved by the other Players and commented heavily in no time at all, and was staying on top of the main page and not dropping anytime soon. Players who discovered any new information about the runes would post it below as a reference for other players, including about the ‘Leo’ rune which buffed unarmed damage and ‘Eighty’ which greatly increases defense.