With Lin Mo's current fame in Inferno City, as expected, the moment his message appeared in the chat channel, it immediately drew the attention of quite a few players.
Aside from some meaningless attempts to strike up conversations and flirt, Lin Mo still gained something.
From the players in Inferno City, he successfully purchased three more Knight passive skill books that increased maximum HP.
Although the quality wasn't high, quantity made up for it.
After learning these three passive skills, Ling Xiao's HP limit broke through again, rising from 146,000 to 190,000.
"Still a quarter short of the target."
Lin Mo frowned slightly.
He also understood the problem: the quality of Ling Xiao's passive skills was too low, almost all of them being D-rank or C-rank.
Unfortunately, Lin Mo's SSS-rank talent Soul Flame couldn't be used on Ling Xiao.
Otherwise, if all of Ling Xiao's passive skills were evolved to SSS-rank, his HP would probably exceed one million instantly.
For a moment, Lin Mo couldn't think of any other good way to continue increasing Ling Xiao's maximum HP.
But just then, Ning Xi suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Brother Lin Mo, there's another way. Maybe we can try it."
"Equipments!"
Buzz!
Lin Mo's eyes lit up, "Right! How did I not think of that?"
He had been focused on skills.
And overlooked that equipment was the fastest way to boost a player's attributes.
Although Ling Xiao was currently wearing a full set of the golden Toxic set that Lin Mo had given him, its quality was only Tier 3.
If the armor and belt slots, which provided HP, were replaced with Tier 4 or even Tier 5, combined with the bonuses from all his passive skills, his HP would definitely break past the 250,000 mark, enough to instantly blow up the Blood Emperor.
Without wasting time, Lin Mo immediately took Ling Xiao and the others to find the blacksmith master of Inferno City, Zhong Liang.
One can't just carft any quality equipment they want.
Based on the current situation in Inferno City, the highest players could craft right now was Tier 4 equipment. Tier 5 was still out of reach.
But Tier 4 was enough.
"As long as we get a red or orange Tier 4 piece, the HP bonus will far surpass Tier 3 gold. Combined with your passives, it'll boost your HP a lot."
"If one piece doesn't work, then two. If two don't, then three!"
As soon as Lin Mo finished speaking, when Ling Xiao spoke to Blacksmith Master Zhong Liang and learned that crafting a single specified Tier 4 piece required, aside from various high-grade materials, a whopping 2,000 reputation, he instantly felt despair.
"This reputation cost is too high. I only have a bit over 800 reputation total right now. I can't even craft one piece…"
Ning Xi said, "It's fine, I'll make it for you."
A mere 2,000 reputation meant nothing to Ning Xi, who ranked first on Inferno City's reputation leaderboard with an astonishing 600,000+ reputation.
Noticing the guilt in Ling Xiao's eyes, Ning Xi said, "It's okay. I'll help you craft the equipment. Then you can help Brother Lin Mo blow up the BOSS."
Ling Xiao nodded, "Alright!"
"Then thanks, sister-in-law."
Ning Xi's face turned red.
So they got to work immediately.
Ning Xi spent 2,000 reputation to obtain a Tier 4 Magic Knight armor crafting blueprint from Blacksmith Master Zhong Liang.
Following the blueprint's requirements, they left the city to start gathering materials.
The areas where these materials could be found generally required players to have reached Bronze Rank 2 or Bronze Rank 3 to enter.
From yesterday to today, the Super God Arena had only been open for two days.
Even if someone played all matches both days, across the entire city, fewer than 10% of players had reached Bronze Rank 3.
Fortunately, Ling Xiao and the others were quite capable.
They had won all their matches over the past two days.
All of them had reached Bronze Rank 3.
They hadn't let down Lin Mo's investment of two full sets of level 50 Tier 3 gold Toxic gear for each of the five of them.
Moreover, with this full set of Tier 3 gold Toxic gear, Ling Xiao and Xia Wanwan's strength was considerable. They could easily solo monsters below level 55.
So, Ling Xiao and Xia Wanwan formed one group.
Lin Mo and Ning Xi formed another.
Qin Feng, Skinny Monkey, and Fat Dahai formed the third.
They split into three teams, simultaneously hunting monsters in three different locations to gather three different materials.
Staying up late was standard practice for young people.
Unfortunately, luck wasn't on their side.
After grinding for several hours, all the way until 4 a.m., they crafted three pieces of level 50 Tier 4 [Demon Armor] for the Magic Knight class. The highest quality among them was only purple, with the other two being green and blue.
Although blue was already considered top-tier, it was still far from enough to further increase Ling Xiao's HP on top of his current foundation.
Usually, gold equipment, SSS-rank skills, and gold titles came so easily to Lin Mo that he felt they were nothing special.
But now, seeing how difficult it was for normal players to obtain even a B-rank skill or an orange piece of equipment, Lin Mo finally realized just how valuable his SSS-rank talent Soul Flame truly was.
Seeing that continuing like this wasn't a solution, Lin Mo said to the others, "Log off and rest for now. We'll continue tomorrow."
Just as Lin Mo and Ning Xi logged off, Ling Xiao called out to Skinny Monkey and Fat Dahai, "Are you brothers or not?"
Fat Dahai yawned nonstop, "Brother Xiao, I can't take it anymore. I still have class tomorrow…"
"If you're brothers, then help me push through a bit more!"
"The boss is doing all this for me. I can't let him down!"
"I'm going to help him blow up that BOSS!"
Skinny Monkey quietly circled behind Fat Dahai and, catching him off guard, jabbed him hard in the backside, instantly waking him up completely, "Awake now? If not, I'll do it again!"
"I'm awake! I'm awake! Monkey, I'm awake!"
"Then let's go! Help Brother Xiao gather materials!"
"Ugh…"
At the same time, after learning that Lin Mo was gathering materials to craft equipment in order to blow up a BOSS, Qin Feng also started calling people from his Zhufeng Guild one by one, dragging them online overnight.
"Brothers, help farm materials! I'll give each of you 300 yuan as overtime pay."
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[8 A.M.]
When Lin Mo and Ning Xi logged in, Ling Xiao, Qin Feng, and the others presented a large amount of materials.
Only then did Lin Mo realize, "You guys stayed up all night just to gather materials?"
Ling Xiao said firmly, "That BOSS must be very important to you, boss, right?"
"I'll help you blow it up as soon as possible."
Lin Mo nodded, his eyes full of approval.
So Ning Xi immediately spent reputation to craft equipment at Blacksmith Master Zhong Liang.
They crafted four more pieces of Demon Armor in succession.
This time, they finally got an orange-quality piece with triple Constitution bonuses, a top-tier Demon Armor.
"Brother Xiao! We did it! We really did it!"
"A whole night of effort wasn't wasted!"
And so, under everyone's eager anticipation, Ling Xiao put on the Demon Armor.
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