Chapter 421: Royal Road (1/2)
The next day, very early in the morning, we bade Fei’er goodbye before going our separate ways. It was time to return to Suzhou. Luckily for us, the traffic was pretty smooth today, so we reached our workshop around 9 am or so.
I went online. It was time to check out the equipment I had won in the tournament!
Swhoosh!
I appeared at Sky City as a Level 115 Undead Swordsman. One of the rewards of being the runner-up of Who Will Rise was 2 levels, and the MVP reward was another 4, so I had gotten 6 free levels in total. I was sure that Candlelight Shadow was rolling in envy right now. How many days would it take for him to grind and catch up to my level? How many more days would it take if I grinded just as hard and widened the gap even more? Alternatively, I could do something else to strengthen the guild and prepare for the upcoming wars.
……
But first, I opened my bag and stared at the God Suppressing Necklace and God Suppressing Helmet. Two 5-star Outstanding Spirit-grade items, man. This is so awesome!
I equipped them immediately and felt a tremendous surge of energy inside my body. I was actually shocked when I checked my own stats—
ID: Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand (Title: Purgatory Thunder)
Class: Undead Swordsman (Dark Gold Swordsman)
Level: 115
HP: 12200
Attack: 1674~2130
Defense: 1920
Magic Resist: 1715
Reputation: 120764
Tactics: 119
Luck: 22
……
Incredible. My max HP was now 12200 thanks to the +2400 HP from the God Suppressing Helmet. I also had over 2100 max Attack and almost 2000 Defense—in fact, my real Defense should be equal to a 3000-Defense player because of my skills, equipment passives and properties.
I also had 22 Luck. This meant that I had better chances than most to hit my max Attack value or dropping good items!
More importantly, I now had 119 Tactics, which meant that the effectiveness of my Tactics skill was boosted by 119%. In other words, instead of the base 40%, Martial God now boosted my Attack by a whopping 87.6%. How awesome is that?
After that, I tossed the Explosion Necklace and Purgatory Helmet into the sales corner of Air Force One for sale. Both equipment were still pretty good by today’s standards, so I expected them to sell almost a hundred RMB each. Long story short, my overall strength had improved drastically after the Who Will Rise tournament!
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It was at this moment a beautiful knight walked out of Sky City’s inn. It was none other than He Yi, of course. She walked up to me with a smile and asked, ”Do you want to see my mount, Lu Chen?”
”Sure!”
”Okay!”
”Have you learned Mount yet?” I asked.
”Of course!”
He Yi smiled and pulled herself up her horse. She looked ridiculously cool the way she was holding the reins with her left hand and the Soul Stealing Spear with her right. The mount itself was cool enough, but the way her armor glinted under the sunlight made her look even cooler. Sigh, the spring of Knights had finally arrived!
All around us, a lot of Sky City players were shooting us looks of astonishment. Although the mount system had been open for some time, and all magic knights and wanderers above Level 100 could learn the skill ”Mount”, the actual mount itself was so god damn rare that even the Fruit Knife Goddess herself didn’t have one yet, let alone everyone else!
Therefore, it was only natural that a magic knight as beautiful as He Yi riding a mount this handsome would draw looks from her surroundings.
”Can I see the stats of your mount, Eve?” I grabbed the reins of the Windchaser and asked.
”Mn.”
He Yi nodded, added me into her party and shared her mount’s stats with me. I was surprised by what I saw—
Snow Domain Windchaser (Purple Rank Mount)
Strength: +240
Stamina: +220
Attack Increase: +14%
Defense Increase: +10%
Attack Speed: +35%
Movement Speed: +75%
Attack Range: +25 Yards
Max HP: +4000
Turn Rate: -70%
Mount Tenacity: +30%
Passive: Movement state cannot be easily interrupted, resistance to ice magic +40%
Level Requirement: 100
Reputation Requirement: 40000
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I was speechless for a moment. I already knew that a mount could transform a player and boost their power to a whole new level, but the sheer amount of stats a high-rank mount like the Snow Domain Windchaser could provide still startled me. Not only did a mount boost its rider’s Attack, Defense and HP drastically, it also gave the rider the ability to attack from range. The era of cavalry had finally arrived!
”What’s wrong? Don’t you want to make a comment or something?” He Yi said with a smile.