[World Channel]
"This kind of gray scroll, as far as I know, is usually equipment blueprints," Ethan said to the magic book, "As for what kind of blueprint it is, I'm not sure. You can only tell after opening it."
The moment Ethan opened the gray scroll, a wizard hat pattern lit up on it.
[Mage Hat Crafting Blueprint: This is a retro-style wizard hat designed by top-tier designer Bing Wuyou. The brim has been given some special curvature, making the mage's face look smaller when worn. At the same time, it grants a 50% reduction in spell chanting time and increases elemental cohesion by 20%. Crafting requirements: Advanced beast hide 1466/1, hemp thread 482/2 (water ghost green silk 3292/2), water-type beast core 981/1, earth-type beast core 1213/1, wood-type beast core 1132/1, fire-type beast core 6105/1, metal-type beast core 968/1]
Anyway, even if you knew the materials for crafting the mage hat, without the blueprint, it still couldn't be made.
So Ethan didn't bother hiding it and directly revealed the mage hat crafting blueprint.
However, because the magic book had a built-in privacy protection effect, aside from Ethan himself, others couldn't see the actual quantity of beast cores in his storage. They could only see the materials list as [Crafting requirements: Advanced beast hide 1, hemp thread 2, water-type beast core 1, earth-type beast core 1, wood-type beast core 1, fire-type beast core 1, metal-type beast core 1].
One core from each of the five elements meant this wizard hat was an all-element hat.
It didn't lean toward any specific element.
But because of that, this kind of mage hat also couldn't provide extra help to mages of any specific element. It was a standard, well-rounded piece of equipment for all-element mages.
However… when Ethan looked at the materials list below, his eyes lit up.
Earlier, when he had been collecting the corpses of dead crows, rotten corpse wolves, and the carrion moles underground, he hadn't really paid attention to how many good things he had gathered.
Only now did he realize that the beast cores of the water, earth, wood, metal, and wind types had actually increased quite a bit.
Especially the water-type beast cores. After he used them to upgrade the hot spring pool earlier, there had been almost none left.
But now it had actually become 981 again.
This was thanks to the carrion moles and the rotten corpse wolves. The moles were water and metal types, while the corpse wolves were wind and water types, and the dark crows were wind and wood types.
As for how exactly these creatures were classified by element, Ethan had no idea. Whatever, it didn't matter.
As long as he could get beast cores, that was all that mattered.
The moment Ethan posted the video of the wizard hat crafting blueprint.
It immediately triggered another wave of heated discussion in the world channel.
["Holy shit,"] Player B was instantly shocked and said, ["This is a mage hat? As expected, the big shot is already a mage. Otherwise, there's no way he could pull something like a mage hat from a chest."]
["Yeah, after opening so many chests, I'm starting to get it,"] Region Two Lord David also spoke up, ["Usually, whatever class you are or whatever direction you're leaning toward, the items you get will also tend to favor that direction."]
["I just want to ask the lord of Region Nine, does this slap your face or not?"], Region Eight Lord Luna @Region Nine Lord Duma, dragging his corpse out for another hit.
Sure enough, the previously silent Region Nine Lord Duma immediately came back to life.
["I know your Region Eight has already allied with Region Seven. Stop showing off here,"] Region Nine Lord Duma said, ["So what if Ethan got a mage hat blueprint? Didn't you see the materials?"]
["Five-element beast cores! Do you think you can just grab any five beast cores and that's enough? Or do you think these are just some ordinary materials?"]
["What's so great about having a damn blueprint? If you can't craft the equipment, then having the blueprint is the same as having nothing."]
["Even if it's five elements, each one only needs one,"] Region Eight Lord Luna said, ["A few of us lords pooling together, we can always gather them! Why are you worrying for nothing?"]
The reason Region Eight Lord Luna said this was entirely because of the regional nature of monsters.
Generally speaking, players living near rivers mostly encountered water or earth-type monsters, while those living near grasslands or forests mostly encountered wind or wood-type creatures.
If you lived near caves, then metal and earth types were more common.
Only fire and wood-type beast cores were relatively rare.
This wasn't exactly a secret in the world channel, so that was why Region Eight Lord Luna said what she did earlier.
At this moment,.Ethan stepped forward and @Region Nine Lord Duma, saying, ["I really don't lack any of the five-element beast cores, so there's no need for you to worry about it! Not only that, I'll even craft two mage hats and give them to my allies as thanks."]
Anyway, the mage hat wasn't worth much.
After showing it off in the world channel, Ethan immediately crafted three mage hats, one for himself and the other two for his allies.
["Heh, keep bragging,"] Region Nine Lord Duma sent a mocking emoji and said, ["You probably can't even gather the materials for one mage hat, and you're talking about making three?"]
["Go check the trading channel, I just saw two mage hats listed."]
A player suddenly shouted.
Everyone quickly rushed to the trading channel to take a look, and sure enough, there really were two mage hats listed, and the trade targets were specified.
Luna was stunned.
Although she leaned more toward the warrior path, she could completely give it to her subordinates.
Especially Selena. She already showed signs of awakening as a mage. Even if she didn't, with her intelligence, whatever she awakened would definitely be something related to intelligence.
So being able to get a mage hat was absolutely a great thing.
But when Luna opened the trading channel and clicked on the trade invitation sent by Ethan, she immediately rolled her eyes, 'This man is still the same shameless profiteer as always.'
Trade content: [Mage Hat ×1]
Trade conditions: [First installment settlement of loan item interest]
"Cheapskate!"
Region Eight's Luna cursed under her breath. Sure enough, there was no way this guy would ever let others take advantage of him.
So the mage hat wasn't free after all. She actually had to settle the first installment of the loan interest in advance to get it. She could have delayed it for another two days, but if she waited, she definitely wouldn't get the wizard hat.
Luna felt extremely conflicted.
In the end, under Selena's suggestion, Luna reluctantly took out the few remaining materials in her storage to settle the interest with Ethan and got the mage hat.
But these trade details could only be seen by the specific trade parties. Naturally, others couldn't see them.
Therefore, at this moment, everyone in the world channel believed that Ethan not only had capability, but was also very generous.
He was actually giving his allies mage hats for free, something that required so many materials to craft.
All of a sudden, some players who knew they definitely couldn't survive the three days of extreme night began to reconsider Ethan.
As for those lords who hadn't chosen to cooperate with Ethan from the beginning, they were all starting to feel some regret.
If they had known that allying with Ethan meant getting a mage hat, then why would they even need other lords.
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