Chapter 387: First Dibs (1)

“Man, I hunted too long.’

I quickly exited the Land of Titan as soon as I checked the time.

Then I moved to the teleport zone and opened my mouth softly.

“Move to Kotum Castle.”

[You are moving to Kotum Castle.]

Kotum Castle was once crowded with users. But it was almost abandoned after the access restriction penalty was activated for those at level 100, followed by those at level 200, because this place was intended for only beginners.

As a result, not only new users, but also those beginners have all disappeared from this area.

So I set foot inside Kotum Castle, which was empty, and stopped at some point while I was walking.

It was by the forge where I stopped. I was standing before it blankly because I still had three minutes left until the cooldown of my trait God of Enhancement was over.

“Hmm…”

While standing there, I reminisced about the time when I played the closed beta called ‘Forgotten Legend’ before this Revival Legend. As a matter of fact, I didn’t stay in Kotum Castle for long when I started playing Revival Legend because I received a huge reward as soon as I started playing. Besides, I didn’t have to hunt weak monsters here when I could hunt strong ones. In particular, there were already users here who started playing the game several years ahead of me, and I could not afford to be distracted by something else in order to catch up with them.

In other words, the reason why I returned to Kotum Castle every now and then was greatly influenced by my old memories of the closed beta ‘Forgotten Legend’.

“Yeah, I had a lot of fun back then…”

Back then the game was my only exit from the world.

Moreover, the goal of reaching level 100, level 200, and level 300 in two weeks immersed me even more in the game.

In the end, by achieving the goal, I realized through the game that I could do anything if I was determined.

Of course, it didn’t mean hunting was no fun now. To be honest, in some ways it was more fun hunting now than before.

Back then, as my sister once said, I was like a shabby cat that had to hide in a corner, not knowing how to raise its claws despite the fact that I could live like a lion, the king of the jungle, not a cat, at least in Korea, given my hunting environment.

“Hehehe!”

I kept recalling my good old days with a smile.

But I immediately stopped smiling, and moved into the forge in Kotum Castle.

It was still too early for me to keep reminiscing about the past with a smile.

[Welcome! This is the blacksmith of Kotum Castle.]

I briefly responded to the NPC’s words, then put the +7 Enhancement Ice Emperor’s guardian sword into the enhancement window that appeared before me and opened my mouth gently.

“Activate God of Enhancement!”

[You have activated God of Enhancement.

-100% chance of success in enhancement.

-Enhancement target: +7 Ice Emperor’s guardian sword.

-Additional requirements: 1,950,000,000 golden rings, 9.755 billion EXP points.

-Cooldown upon successful enhancement: 361 days]

“The cooldown is almost one year…”

My goal of enhancing Ice Emperor’s guardian sword was +9 enhancement.

In the inventory, there were a total of 5 ancient cooldown removal charms and one 100% enhancement ticket that I obtained from the level 100 only limited enhancement quest. In other words, if I make the guardian sword a +9 Enhancement sword, I could upgrade it immediately to +15 Enhancement, the final enhancement stage.

So I stopped thinking and began to enhance it right away because I had to enhance it by all means.

At that moment, a message rang with a splendid sound effect.

[You have succeeded in enhancing +7 Ice Emperor’s guardian sword. The +7 Enhancement sword has been upgraded to +8 Enhancement sword.]

I have finally reached the +8 enhancement Ice Emperor’s guardian sword.

Then I got a little greedy because if I used up all the spell tickets, I could have the +14 Enhancement sword right now. This sword would turn into a terrific item for me.

However, I would regret it forever for reaching only up to 14, not 15, the final stage of enhancement. And I would have no idea how long the cooldown would be to upgrade it to +15 from there, given that +8 enhancement required 361 days of cooldown.

Of course, I could obtain another ancient cooldown removal charm, but there was no guarantee that I could obtain it anytime soon, so I didn’t want to jump to +14 enhancement right away.

“Great. I’ve held it in well until now. And I’m not so weak as to rely on a weapon anyway.”

If I felt I had a hard time fighting or hunting, I would definitely try to enhance the guardian sword, but that was not the case. And I was convinced that I would not face a situation where I would struggle even in the future.

So, I picked up the +8 Enhancement Ice Emperor’s guardian sword and came out of the smithy, leaving behind the NPC who said, [Goodbye.]

“Check item.”

Even though I came out of the forge proudly, I needed to know how the Ice Emperor’s guardian sword had changed from +7 to +8 enhancement, so I immediately checked the item.

[+8 Enhancement Ice Emperor’s guardian sword (Myth)

– This is the sword containing the final determination of Asirante, the master and emperor of ice, who fought against the Sun God Morotu who burned and evaporated everything in the world.

: Level 700 or higher required to equip.

: 7000 pure intellect or higher required to equip.

: At least 10 ice-type skills required to equip.

-Effect.

: Increases the performance of all ice-type skills by 18% -> (20%).

: Cooldown of all Ice-type skills is reduced by 18% -> (20%).

:

:

: Strength increases by 2500->(3000)

: Agility increases by 1500->(2000)

: Intellect increases by 2000->(3000)

– Safety enhancement: 0

-Physical attack power: increases by 29500->(35700)

-Magical attack power: increases by 15750->(19500)

-Durability: Infinite/Infinite]

All the options of the sword were increased as a whole.

But the overall increase was not as good as it was when I upgraded it from +6 enhancement to +7 enhancement. Obviously, at that time, my physical attack power increased by 10,000 or more and magic attack power also increased by 7,000 or more at once. Despite upgrading from +7 to +8 enhancement this time, there was not such a great overall increase.

“Hmm. It increased dramatically at +3 Enhancement, and also at +7 Enhancement…Was it because of that?”

Between certain grades, the option values increased dramatically. But I would have noticed it if there were such a pattern for general, rare, precious, or legendary items. But there were no such patterns. Upgrading an item for those grades only showed an upward curve. Then, was the margin of increase so small because of that?

That was not true in this case.

Compared to other legendary grade items that increased by several hundreds or up to 2000 in total, this was obviously a terrific increase. Especially my intellect alone increased by 1000 at a time.

“Alright. It would be better for me if there were certain grades where the options increased dramatically like that because my goal is +15 enhancement. If it again goes through one of those grades in the future, the Ice Emperor’s guardian sword will literally become a monster.”