Chapter 23 - Five Enhancements, Golden Equipment
This was also information Zhou Han had only just learned from the system.
"Alright, it's fine now! So, am I handsome or what?"
Zhou Han looked at Han Xiangning in his arms. She had her eyes shut tight out of fear, and he spoke with a smug grin.
Sure enough, after Zhou Han killed the Blood Shadow Insect Demon, the densely packed swarm of bugs on the ground all burrowed back underground.
"Stop lying to me. There were so many bugs—how could they all be gone so quickly?"
Han Xiangning thought Zhou Han was teasing her and clearly didn't believe him.
"You're not being obedient, huh? Smack…"
Zhou Han slapped her pert butt.
A crisp sound rang out, and the feeling was soft and pleasant to the touch.
Han Xiangning froze for a moment, then quickly stood up, her face flushed red.
"Pervert! So embarrassing! You actually slapped me there!"
She immediately responded with a flurry of light punches.
"That's what you get for not listening. Let's see if you dare next time!"
After saying that, Zhou Han walked over to the treasure chest.
He directly took out the key, inserted it into the lock, and with a gentle twist, opened it.
The moment the chest opened, two beams of golden light shot into the sky.
They shimmered in midair for a while before falling back into the chest.
Holy crap!
Did it drop golden-quality equipment?
And it looked like two pieces.
Suppressing his excitement, he quickly reached into the chest.
First, he pulled out a pair of boots—the golden-grade Gilded War Boots.
Then came a ring—the golden-grade True Spirit Ring.
There were also four pieces of silver-grade equipment. Zhou Han equipped whatever was useful.
With a full harvest, Zhou Han left the area with the two girls.
Since he didn't have many enhancement points on hand, he didn't rush to enhance immediately.
He searched for several monster spawn points and farmed like crazy, finally accumulating over ten thousand enhancement points.
"Phew! So tiring!"
Even with Zhou Han's strength, such high-intensity combat left him feeling a bit fatigued.
[Your level has exceeded this map's limit. Please leave within 30 minutes.]
[Otherwise, 1% of your experience will be deducted every minute.]
Exceeded the level limit?
Zhou Han seemed to recall that the maximum level in Misty Forest was only level 10.
His current experience had reached level 10 (50.5%).
After hearing the system prompt, Zhou Han didn't rest anymore and hurried toward the exit.
He had worked hard to earn that experience—losing it would be infuriating.
While traveling, Zhou Han also enhanced all the equipment useful to him.
Soon, their attributes were displayed.
[Gilded War Boots +5]
Grade: Gold
Attributes: Movement Speed +100, HP +2000
Effect 1: 50% chance to be immune to control effects.
Effect 2: In combat, movement speed increases by 60%.
Effect 3: All allied units within 3 meters gain +10% movement speed.
Description: Gorgeous in appearance and incredibly fast—a great tool for escaping.
Impressive. After five enhancements, the effects were completely different.
Three effects appeared, each more overpowered than the last.
Effect 1's control immunity chance increased to 50%, and Effect 2 also improved slightly.
The newly added Effect 3 was basically an aura-type skill that granted buffs to allies.
With more enhancements in the future, the buffs his teammates receive would only grow stronger—it would be hard not to soar.
Then he looked at the other golden accessory.
[True Spirit Ring +5]
Grade: Gold
Attributes: Attack +700
Effect 1: 20% chance to ignore the target's armor.
Effect 2: For every accumulated 100,000 damage dealt, a True Spirit is summoned once. (0/100,000)
Effect 3: Increases all attribute resistances by 20%.
Description: Protected by a True Spirit, its offensive power is formidable.
Attack power directly increased by 700.
Effect 1's armor penetration was extremely powerful—late-game bosses would obviously have absurd defense.
With this effect, dealing damage would become much easier.
As for Effect 2, the details of the summoned True Spirit weren't specified, so it was unclear how it worked.
Effect 3 increased all resistances—this was shaping up to be a fully well-rounded build.
[Mithril Belt +4]
Grade: Silver
Attributes: HP +800, Defense +50
Effect 1: Upon entering combat, max HP increases by 50%. Disappears 10 seconds after leaving combat.
Effect 2: After taking damage, attack increases by 30% (non-stackable). If no further damage is taken within 10 seconds, the buff disappears.
Description: Forged from mithril—performs very well in combat.
After all, it was only silver-grade, so even with four enhancements, it wasn't as overpowered as the golden gear.
Zhou Han didn't pay much attention and simply equipped everything.
If other players knew he was dissatisfied with such top-tier equipment, who knows how they'd curse him out.
As for the remaining three silver items, either their attributes were mediocre or they overlapped in slot. Zhou Han enhanced them twice and handed them to the two girls.
This drew waves of astonishment from them, their beautiful eyes shining brightly.
At the same time, they became certain that Zhou Han's talent was definitely related to equipment enhancement.
After all, the silver equipment they now held had effects surpassing ordinary golden equipment.
Of course, they wouldn't reveal this—even if they did, with Zhou Han's strength, who could do anything to him?
After updating his equipment, Zhou Han opened his character panel.
[Zhou Han]
[Level: 10 (50.5%)]
[Class: Sword Soul (First Awakening at Level 25)]
[HP: 3000 + 4400]
[Attack: 500 + 1000]
[Defense: 100 + 300]
[Talent: Infinite Enhancement]
All his attributes had increased significantly. Zhou Han nodded in satisfaction.
Then came the equipment overview.
[Weapon: Mithril Longsword +3 (3x Attack, Execute)]
[Accessory: True Spirit Ring +5 (Armor Ignore, Summon True Spirit, 20% Resistance)]
[Helmet: Hongyu Helmet +3 (20% Damage Reduction, 30% Crit Resistance)]
[Armor: Mystic Radiance Robe +3 (500 HP/s Regen, 40% Dodge)]
[Bracers: Azure Steel Bracers +3 (400 HP/s Regen, 20% Damage Reduction)]
[Belt: Mithril Belt +4 (+50% Max HP in combat, +30% Attack)]
[Legguards: Tigerhide Legguards +3 (Ignore Terrain, Target Attack Speed -10%)]
[Boots: Gilded War Boots +5 (50% Control Immunity, +60% Movement Speed in combat, 10% Movement Speed Aura)]
Now, the monsters in Misty Forest were far too weak—they couldn't even withstand a single normal attack from Zhou Han.
The experience gained was also very low.
Even without the system's forced warning, he would have switched maps.
Because Misty Forest no longer posed any challenge and couldn't yield anything valuable.
As he got closer to the entrance, more players appeared.
After all, the monsters here were the lowest level, being on the edge of Misty Forest.
Most players could only handle level 1 monsters.
If they encountered level 2 monsters, they would have to avoid them, not even daring to take a second look.
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