28 Chapter 28 (2/2)

”What should I link next?” Cade thought for a bit and he suddenly came up with an idea. Luckily for him, there were some unused cardboard boxes in his storage.

When he was preparing for his exploration for the big tongue toad dungeon, he bought a lot of things and they came with box.

Cade was lazy, so, he did not throw away the boxes and stored them in his storage. Since Cade decided to take on the character of using the cardboard, he decided to properly went through that.

He even put his nickname on his explorer license, 'The Cardboard'. He should properly embrace that nickname.

Cade decided to make an armor of cardboard. Cade finished his food and took out the cardboard boxes. Cade started making his cardboard armor.

It took him about an hour to finish making the armor. It was just a simple body armor to cover his body. Cade stared at it and thought that he will look sillier with the armor.

However, no matter how sillier he looked, he decided to do it. With the finished cardboard armor, Cade put it on the blue slot in his storage. The system asked if Cade wanted to link with it and Cade said yes.

Nothing magical or mystical happening. Only that the cardboard armor was now on the blue slot permanently. Cade took out the armor and wore it.

He did look sillier. Cade put it back on his storage and started using the magic crystals he had collected since he got into the dungeon to strengthened his linked equipment.

Cade actually wanted to test on something. The system said that in order for Cade to strengthen his equipment, he needed to use the level 1 magic crystal.

The sentence was a bit different compared to when he wanted to increase his growth potential and increase the level of his skill. There was no mention of grade.

When Cade used the E grade level 1 vitality crystal, the stat increase by 10. Cade wanted to test if his linked equipment will get more stat points if he used a higher-grade magic crystal.

Cade used a D grade level 1 endurance crystal on his cardboard armor. However, to his disappointment, it only increased the stat by 10.

”So, it is fix…” Cade felt a bit disappointed. He decided to save his D grade magic crystal for his growth potential. He will only use the E grade magic crystal to strengthen his linked equipment.

Cade increased all of his linked equipment to level 10 including his newly made cardboard armor. They were all roughly had a stat of 250 in their stats.

With his newly added linked equipment, Cade felt like his choice of increasing his luck was right. He did not need to worry being attack on his body anymore thanks to his cardboard armor.

With all of his equipment finished upgrading, Cade decided to level up his physical resistance skill. However, before he wanted to close his storage, he realized something weird were happening to his linked equipment.

All the slots where the linked equipment was located in the storage were blinking. It was not a fast blinking like an emergency happened but a really slow blinking. The blue color slowly dimmed and then, became bright again.

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Cade touched the cardboard round shield slot and a new notification appeared from the system.

[Add anything on the equipment to upgrade]

”… Upgrade? Aren't I upgrading it all this time?” Cade wondered what actually happened but he thought that it might be something good. He decided to add something on his cardboard round shield.

Cade remembered the iron round shield he had before in the beginning collecting dust in his storage. Cade moved the iron shield and put it on his cardboard round shield. A new notification from the system appeared.

[Added the material?] asked the system. Cade said yes. Immediately after he confirmed his choice, the iron round shield disappeared from his storage. The cardboard round shield on his arm also disappeared and entered his storage.

The blinking slot of the cardboard round shield stopped blinking and a meter bar with percentage of 0% appeared on that slot. Cade stared at it and the percentage increased to 1% and then 2% and 3% and go on.

It looked like it will take a while for the meter bar to fill. Cade decided to increase his skill level while waiting for the upgrade to finish.

At the moment, Cade's physical resistance skill was at level 3 with the effect of lowering physical damage done by the E grade opponent by 30%.

Cade poured all of his leftover E grade magic crystal on his skill and increased the level to 5 with damage reduced by 50%. Cade smiled. Half the damage will help him a lot.

Cade checked his upgraded shield and it was at 98%. The percentage increase to 99% and then 100%.

[Choose the new stat to add?]

[1. Def2]

[2. Iron]