--- New Spells and Ring
[You sent 100k Gold, 50k Platinum, 10k Spirit Stone, Skullsplitter(S), Skillbooks(A)x7, Heavy Armor Set(A) to your friend, Mr.sOHandsOme.]
[You sent 100k Gold, 50k Platinum, 10k Spirit Stone, Slain(S), Bloodletter(A), Skillbooks(A)x5, Leather Armor Set(A) to your friend, Dawn's Strike.]
[You sent...]
[You sent...]
...
[You sent..... to your friend, Windy Whisper.]
Chris mailed his brothers, the four friends in Glaze City, and the five friends he has met in Gaia so far, "a little bit" of his gold and platinum coins, equipment, skillbooks, and spirit stones to help with their growth.
All 11 of them are already in the Lazy Dragons group chat, even the "annoying" blogger. He liked her honesty and talent and deemed them very helpful in the future, so he is willing to help her.
They were currently talking about his current predicament. Except his brothers, the rest were already restless and telling him to be careful. It warmed his heart and said that he had everything under control.
They had doubts but just kept silent while checking out the live broadcast from time to time. With the number of people increasing as time passes, they won't make any difference even if they help; heck, they'll just be a hindrance.
After receiving the mail, all of them were extremely shocked and speechless after seeing the attachment. Just the coins alone can make anyone lose their mind.
One has to know that the current exchange rate for gold to gil is already 1:5,000+ respectively, and it's still increasing day by day. After all, everyone needs gold, especially the top powers. Yet, someone just gave it to them like candy. Is his head still okay?
Except his brothers, they tried to return it to him, but he insisted, saying that he has too much of it and the items were irritating his eyes and clogging his inventory, which, by the way, has infinite space but they don't know that. So he needs to offload them, or else they will be recycled.
They were dumbfounded by his stupid reasoning, especially his newest friends. Are you an idiot or something? You want to scrap such precious items? Is what's on their minds.
In the end, they just accepted it all. They don't want this unreasonable guy to scrap these precious treasures, as he might really do it. They thanked him for all the gifts and vowed in their minds that they would work harder and become useful to him in the future.
The triplets were especially thankful to him as they badly needed money for their sick parents. Even though he just met some of them not even half a day ago, he already has high trust in them.
Like his brothers, he also has a good eye for recognizing people who can be trusted or not. After all, he's been on the run for half of his current lifetime.
Before he sent those things to his friends, he already organized his inventory by upgrading the equipment to at least B rank. Even C rank does not look good in his eyes anymore. For skillbooks, there are some useful C ranks that can't be upgraded, so he lets them stay inside his inventory for now. Players who were to see his imventory will definitely be filled with envy.
He has so many resources that he didn't need to use his experience to upgrade. He can't use it right now anyway, as Alice is currently sleeping.
Closing the chat group, he started to upgrade his own equipment, skills, and spells and learn some. This is what has him the most excited.
"First, I should fuse my earthquake, groundstomp, and the collapse I got from the robot boss before..."
[Do you want to unlearn Earthquake(A)? Unlearning a legendary rank spell costs 100k gold coins to keep the skill book. Unlearning the spell without paying will make it vanish forever.]
"Uhhh... what now!?"
'Right. I completely forgot about that! I'm on the mainland now, and nothing is free here anymore...'
"Yes, yes! I'll pay gold. Unlearn!"
Chris didn't hesitate to pay gold to keep the skillbook. Even though it's very costly and he has some spare, he still paid as it was an A rank and he had millions of gold anyways.
If he were to live auction an A-rank skillbook, especially an AOE crowd control skill, it would fetch trillions of gil in a player auction or billions of gold or platinum coins if NPC auctioned it.
There are two types of live auctions: a trimonthly auction hosted by the World Bank and a bimonthly auction hosted by the NPC Merchant Association. Both happen in Gaia. And powerful NPCs like emperors, kings, mayors, and others will always attend the NPC bimonthly auction, so it is guaranteed to be a spectacle.
After unlearning the skill, he also did the same with his earthquake. Afterwards, he started to combine the three. His excitement is already overflowing.
[You are about to combine Earthquake(A), Groundstomp(A), Collapse(A), 250 Spirit Stones, and 250 Empty Books. Would you like to proceed? (Note: Upon failure, items used will vanish forever.).]
'Damn, so brutal! This is one of the reasons for the slow progression of all the players. Good thing I can see the hidden recipes and combinations...'
"Proceed!"
Without any hesitation, he proceeded. With his system, he has nothing to worry about at all.
[Combining...]
[Combination successful!]
[You obtained Catastrophe(S).]
"YES!"
Nodding his head, he looked at the description of the newly combined spell with great anticipation.
[Catastrophe(S)^: Active Spell. Punch the ground with everything you have. Deals 100x the caster's Int+Str as earth magic damage to hostiles within a radius of 3 kilometers, stunning them afterwards for 20 seconds and slowing them down by 60% for 10 minutes. The area affected by the spell will have an occasional quake, stunning all the hostiles every 5 seconds for 1 second each while taking 20x the caster's Int+Str as earth magical damage and slowing them down by 30% (slow does not stack). The quaking lasts for an hour. Manacost: 100,000. CD: 2 hours.] (Hidden: Catastrophe(S)x10 + 100k Spirit Stones + 100k Empty Books + 100k Earth Gems = Catastrophe(SS).)
"Hm! An incredible spell. The next upgrade is very costly though..."
Chris was smiling ear to ear after seeing the effect of the new spell and instantly learned the skillbook. There was no casting time, or rather, the Gaia system omitted it as he has a high Dexterity stat. His only grievance is the insane cost of upgrading it. But he never dabbles in that for long as he has other ways to upgrade.
[Congratulations on being the first player to combine a heavenly-ranked item! A world announcement will be made due to your achievement. Would you like to hide your name?]
"Heh! NO!"
[DING!]
Another loud ring resounded through the skies of Gaia. Every player stopped their actions and looked up.
[Congratulations to player 'Despair' for being the first to successfully combine a heavenly-ranked item (Skillbook)! . He is rewarded with World Lottery Ticket(S), 25,000 Platinum Coins, 1,000 Spirit Coins, and 25,000 Fame. His name will be recorded in the annals of history!]
The announcement was repeated two more times before it disappeared, leaving a deafening silence behind for a few seconds.
After the short silence, everyone was shocked once again because the man of the hour did something incredible once again. Just what the hell is going on with this man? What kind of talent does he really have? Are some of the questions they had in their minds.
The people who were watching the live broadcast of the flooding of elite players and interviews with the leaders suddenly felt an incredible excitement as he seemed to be preparing himself to take on the top powers who were waiting to ambush him.
Even though they commend his fearlessness, it will never be enough against millions of elite players. But still excited nonetheless.
The players outside the cave, who are waiting patiently, just scoffed at him. Although surprised, one heavenly spell or skill won't make any difference at all. Can you resist millions of us? Is what's on their minds. Their greed just increased even more.
The "professional" analysts who were also being interviewed live, increased the chances of his survival to 0.0001%, one in ten thousand, from the original 0. Almost no one was optimistic about him.
The "professional" analysts who were also being interviewed live, increased the chances of his survival to 0.0001%, one in ten thousand, from the original 0. Almost no one was optimistic about him.
After combining his first heavenly spell, he upgraded the other spells or skills he could upgrade and learned other useful spells or skills.
Blink(A) -> Teleportation(S)
[Teleportation(S)^: Auxiliary Skill. Instantly move the caster to a designated place. Range: Up to 5 KM. Cooldown: 5 Seconds Manacost: 25,000]
(Hidden: Teleportation(S)x10 + 100k Spirit Stones + 100k Empty Books + 100k Space Gems = Teleportation(SS).)
-Chain Lightning(B), +Ruins(S), +Icy Hell(S)
Thunderstorm + Faded Bolt + Electrify + 250 Spirit Stones + 250 Empty Books. -> Ruins
[Ruins(S)^: Active Spell. For 1 hour, rain down destructive bolts of lightning upon your enemies in a 10 KM radius. Each bolt deals 250x the caster's Int as lightning magic damage and a 50% chance of either paralyze or stun. Paralyze lasts for 5 minutes and Stun lasts for 10 seconds. Manacost 100,000 CD: 2 Hours.] (Hidden: Ruins(S)x10 + 100k Spirit Stones + 100k Empty Books + 100k Lightning Gems = Ruins(SS).)
Ice Storm + Frost Bolt + Blizzard + 250 Spirit Stones + 250 Empty Books -> Icy Hell
[Icy Hell(S)^: Active Spell: Freezes the ground and the air above in a 5 kilometers radius for 1 hour. Hostile enemies within the spell's radius slows down by 25% and loses 2.5%(5% if freezed) HP/MP every 5 seconds. Release an icy breeze every 5 seconds that has 50% chance to freeze for 30 seconds. Manacost: 100,000 CD: 2 Hours.] (Hidden: Icy Hell(S)x10 + 100k Spirt Stones + 100k Empty Books + 100k Water Gems = Icy Hell(SS).)
After filling up his active skill cap and upgrading his blink, he looks for good equipment he can use. Sadly, only the warlord armor set and the legendary ring dropped by the old man piqued his interest. But only the ring is usable for now, as the set was level 50.
The legendary ring can also be upgraded, as it is a named one. One of its requirements is also another legendary ring. And he looked at his left hand finger, where his first legendary item was the almighty ring.
Although he doesn't want to lose the conversion skill, he was very tempted to see what a heavenly ring is like, so he decided to gamble, and he was gobsmacked with the result that his brain stopped functioning for a while.
[Soul Herald(S)^. Ring. +2,500 to basic attributes. +250,000 to HP/MP. Add skill Soul Eater and Soul Conversion.] (Hidden: Soul Herald(S) + 100 Rings(A) + 100k Deep Sea Pearls + 100k Spirit Stones + 10,000 Heavenly Shards = Soul Herald(SS).)
[Soul Eater: Siphon 50% of the current HP and MP of the target. Half Damage to boss. CD: 1 Hour.]
[Soul Conversion: Converts HP to MP or MP to HP. Ratio: 1:1. HP or MP lost will be added to physical or magical attack respectively. Lasts for 1 attack. No CD.]
"YES!!! Hahahahaha!"
His happiness is through the roof upon seeing the stats of his new ring. His grin never left his handsome face.
"So it took the almighty ring's previous skill and even improved it. With this bad boy, I can deal even more damage with my new AOE spells."
*Crack!* *Crack!*
"Time to end this..."
Cracking his neck, he stood up, ready to start the show.