Crafting and Clan Territory
Over the past 3 weeks time, Treech has been quite busy with a variety of things. In addition to his recruitment of Prince as a clan member, he also wanted to further solidify his hold on his first-place position as a player. He had a lot of newbie players to deal with and the last thing he wanted was to be swarmed by level 30s so that they could steal his gear after he died from 1 damage from each of them. So he explored the area of the 4th Zone in the most efficient manner possible.
Conqueror's Merit was definitely his favorite kind of item, it provided him with a detailed map of the surrounding areas while exploring. And because of it, he was able to locate a few odd places on this part of the 4th Zone. He found a celestial metal ore mine and claimed it for [Dark Reunion] as a part of his clan's territory. He sold the majority of his Forth Rite city loot for Yggdrasil gold in the online auction house and used it to summon a significant amount of pop monsters to guard the new ore mine.
It would be an extremely important part of the guild's financial aspect, and he didn't think he could protect it alone. He needed to bring into existence his 4 High-Dragon class data crystals of NPCs at the very least. These NPCs would not be custom Guild NPCs, but they could be used as powerful monster guards. Thankfully, he could use the majority of the Celestial metal from the ore mine, to provide the data capacity needed to create a High-Dragon NPC guard. It wasn't anything specially customized and had some generic Dragon stats, but they were dragon-level stats nonetheless.
========***++++***========
[Race]: High-Dragon
Level: 75
Hp: 90
Mp: 85
========***++++***========
The dragons were a Fire Dragon, Ice Dragon, and Two Forest Dragons. Since they were considered High-Dragons, they could assume a human form, which they did. The 4 dragon guards were surrounded by a variety of Starlight pop summons Treech had access to inside his clan leader interface. It was one of the biggest advantages of having a clan... even if he was the only member.
========***++++***========
[Race]: Starlight Assassin
Level: 54
Hp: 32
Mp: 64
========***++++***========
========***++++***========
[Race]: Starlight Knight
Level: 61
Hp: 78
Qp: 44
========***++++***========
========***++++***========
[Race]: Starlight Swordsman
Level: 48
Hp: 53
Qp: 68
========***++++***========
After setting up a lot of summons at the mine, he used the rest of the ore and time to make some gear for himself. He only used a Relic-Class belt, and since it had fixed data, it couldn't be improved or converted into data crystals. He decided on working on a flexible robe for himself, something that would reduce his mana expenditure in addition to reducing his damage taken. But he wouldn't settle for just any dumb robe. He wanted it to be the best in a class of the highest class item eventually.
(Author's Note: Unknown -> Artifact -> Low -> Middle -> High -> Top -> Legacy -> Relic -> Legendary -> Divine -> Guild -> World Champion -> World Item)
(Author's Note: Here are the item ratings from least to best. They are rated based on their Data Limit. The higher the data limit, the more abilities/SD cards/Data crystals you can add to the item. The item system of Yggdrasil was like trading up in computer storage space from 1GB memory to 2GB to 4GB, etc. )
(Author's Note: Let's say you got a cool item drop from a boss and like its effect. Ex: Reflect damage. You could turn that into a data crystal and install it in another item if it had the storage space for it. But you can't do that with Relic-Class items, they can't be improved or converted to data crystals for some reason.)
So Treech got to work on a scheme he had been working on to produce an unparalleled robe that could even surpass some World Class items in their data limit. He only wished it was possible to know if he could craft a World-Class item. He had a few theories, but based on Yggdrasil lore, he could only give up on it as the lore stated there were 200 World-Class items born from the World Eater's stomach. In other words, they were born from the world and it would be nearly impossible to craft something that was recognized as a World Class item in the Yggdrasil system. The highest craftable item category was Divine Tier, With Guild Weapons being a special category as only one is allowed per guild and only usable by the Guild Leader.
But he could craft a Divine Class item that could break previously theorized limits with his Racial ability: [World Mutation]. See, when he first designed his race in a half-assed manner, he didn't really care too much about this ability. But only now did he realize what kind of game-breaking ability he had to craft items with it. The ability took two plants and combined them as long as they were of different species, creating a new plant from its mutation. It would keep the purpose of one of the originals according to Treech's choosing, however, it increased the data limit of the plants in question by their COMBINED original data limits.
Treech found an ordinary yellow-cotton plant that was used in any robes crafting materials. Normally, a player would need to hunt for a special or rare kind of cotton, which had a high data limit of around 100,000DL. (100GB equivalent) But Treech's ability broke the rules. He directly combined this yellow-cotton plant(1,000DL) with mana-weeded red-grass herb (20,000DL) and created a new plan altogether. He kept the original cotton functionality so he technically created a new cotton plant material:
========***++++***========
[Plant]: Red-grass cotton
Rarity: 21,000 DL
========***++++***========
If Treech wanted to, he could create up to a Top-Class item with just this material alone. But it was not the end. Since the game considered this plant as a new type of plant, as long as he mutated it with another type of plant that he hadn't used before, he would continue increasing the data limit. So he continued to do just that, he used his maxed basic herbalist skill to hunt for rare herbs and plants in the 4th Zone, continuing to collect them all and combine them with his cotton, until finally, he had a plant he was satisfied with... for now.
========***++++***========
[Plant]: Dead-Life Cotton
Rarity: 821,000 DL
========***++++***========
With this absurd level of crafting ingredient, he used it to attempt to craft a Divine-Class item. Of course, the higher the data limit, the higher the chance of failure to craft the item. But Treech didn't care about that, the game was Pay2Win and he expected the developers to put some 'hidden' cap on spiraling power creep.
He bought a 'Crafting Improvement Luck Booster Stone' from the shop to increase his chances by 10% to craft it. It cost him a ridiculous 100$ to buy this thing as well... he felt the developers were too greedy sometimes, especially since he failed 8 times before he finally succeeded in crafting his first Divine-Class Item. He failed this many times, despite being a Grandmaster Enchanter.
He looked over the robe in a content manner. It was very ugly, but he knew this was just the default skin of the robe. The developers designed it this way on purpose to encourage buying the custom reskin kit in the shop. Treech didn't care, his heartfelt some slight satisfaction at his success. Now all that was left, was to skin the item with a custom kit. He bought the custom skin tool for another 20$ to finish his robe. He also mentally made a reminder to himself to be sure to find some way he could get make money again. This was his life now and even though he wouldn't die if he didn't have money, he might not be able to progress in the game. His slowly rekindling heart might return to being dead inside again if that happened.
He spent the next 2 hours customizing his robe and even added a few additional touches to it to match his race. It had dark green leaves around his collar, intertwined skinny fines that lined the hem of the robe, black and silver starlight to reflect the night sky at his back, and two long-tailed comets on the left and right sides of the front.
For the description, he didn't put much. Just a bit of poetry he felt was nice. He put that he created the robe from the night sky with the comets of fate and destiny so that he was unbounded by them. When someone wore the robe, they 'took on their own destiny'.
Treech was happy with the description, he felt it fit him well now.
"Let's call you, [Cloaked Fate]," Treech said, entering the robe's name in the description box. He finally selected confirm and his robe was completed.
========***++++***========
Cloaked Fate
[Item Tier]: Low-Class Item
[Item Potential]: Divine-Class Item
[Rarity]: 881,000DL
[Effects]: {None}
Description: Plucking the comets of fate and destiny from the night sky, Treech Worsap wove them into the fabric of life and death. Whosoever wears this robe, carries with him his own fate and destiny. He is unbounded.
========***++++***========
Treech chuckled slightly. He was having a bit of fun with his roleplaying of the descriptions this time. Unlike last time when he had barely cared about his racial backstory and half-assed it, this time he liked the poetic description. The item didn't have any data crystals installed so technically it had the capacity to be a Divine-Class item when the Data Limit was being used, but right now it was only a Low-Class item.
"Alright, perhaps I should take another look and see how that kid is doing." Treech put on Cloaked Fate and threw out Conqueror's Merit to take another look.
He admitted that he was being hard on the kid with a test of his intelligence and potential, but he would check in on him from time to time with Conqueror's Merit. He could read his stats from his HUD from here quite easily. He originally gave him a test because he noticed something strange about a cavern under the mountain range on the board. There was a chunk missing from the board next to a powerfully level 100 Abeloth creature there. He was a bit confused about this at first, why was there such a creature in the zone and why was a section of the map missing/not appearing. it was a very small section, but Treech noticed it.
It only took him 5 minutes after rereading over Conqueror's Merit's description. World Items could not affect other World Items, then wouldn't this mean that his Mapping-Class world item could indirectly find other World Items in the world if they were within range? Couldn't he use a cross-examination technique of divination/scouting and Conqueror's Merit to verify if an enemy had a World-Class Item?
After he discovered this 3rd use of the item, Treech marked Conqueror's Merit as a top-class World item, just based on this. It would definitely be at the top of the list if its effects were ever made known. So he planted a few hints to Prince that they should meet at the mountain range, he hoped the kid would realize that something was strange about it when he specifically zoomed in on it.
He even used up a [Wish Upon A Star] to put the Abeloth to sleep for 4 weeks time at the cost of 4 of his levels. If Prince couldn't figure out the truth within 3 weeks, he would have gone in himself and taken the World Class item. But he was definitely taking his job seriously since the kid called him his teacher so often. Despite the level drop, he still reached level 92 after the 3 weeks' time, because he was constantly logged in and never needed to sleep.
He put in all his SP into stat points and finally selected his End-Game Class: Druidic Calamity. He got access to High-Tier Physical Nullification and High-Tier Magical Nullification which would nullify Spells and Techniques of up to the 6th Tier/Rank. He was now officially in the End-Game and only other End-Game classes could threaten him. He would spend the rest of his time recruiting members for his future guild, claiming territory, farming data crystals, and crafting items.
Treech came out of his thoughts and glanced at Prince, who was fighting against 3 members of the DemiDemi hunting party at the mountain. He had already killed off two of the members, which surprised Treech a bit. but he quickly came to the conclusion that the World-Class Item was a consumable 1-time booster type, like his Heteromoprhic Race Creation ToolKit, which he used at the beginning of the game. He concluded this because he could still see Prince on the map of Conqueror's Merit and the caverns below were now visible. He figured that was the case of the highest probability, or that someone stole it from DemiDemi and he couldn't see them.
But just in case, he was headed over there now to make certain.
"[Greater Teleportation]" he recalled Conqueror's Merit and teleport across the 4th Zone, halfway up the mountain. Prince had just finished using a lightning technique and finished off Tonks.
He was picking up her dropped Legendary-Class item when Treech decided he should greet his disciple and now new clan member.
"Nice job kid, I thought I'd have to step in." He said with a slight smile in his voice.
(Author's Note: Hope you guys like it. Was just item system introductions and a recap of Treech's lone adventures. )