Chapter 106: Enchanting Forging! Resource Secret Realm.

Chapter 106: Enchanting Forging! Resource Secret Realm.

"A month later, we will welcome the annual intercollegiate freshmen exchange competition."

"This year's intercollegiate freshmen exchange competition has changed its format, different from the traditional individual and group PVPs of previous years."

"In this competition, each academy will send ten outstanding freshmen to compete."

"The competition mode is a battle royale, and it will be based on a points system. I will explain the details later."

"In a few days, I will announce the list of participants. If anyone has any objections, you can personally come to me to raise them!"

"That's it, dismissed!"

...

The exchange and sparring ended.

Everyone went back to their own homes.

In the following days,

Ling Zhan's life was not much different from usual, as he never liked to interact with others.

Except for necessary interactions with classmates in class, Ling Zhan would not get too involved with others.

In fact, there are many extraordinary figures in the academy who do not need to attend classes every day.

The school has given these outstanding students very unique rights.

For example, Zhu Yaoguang now only studies with the dean of the Shadow Academy, Han Qiao.

She can choose whether or not to attend theoretical and practical classes on weekdays.

The same goes for Ji Wuming, Gao Yao, Qie Biyu, and others.

After all, ordinary theoretical and practical classes have little impact on their advancement.

The representatives of various races are the same.

At first glance, among the top-ranking freshmen, only Ling Zhan attends classes regularly.

In addition to attending classes,

He completes the daily system tasks as usual.

and he must train in the simulated secret realm for two hours every night.

Coming to Tianyan Academy, the biggest gain for Ling Zhan is the foreign professional skill books and the Blood of the Almighty.

So, to get used to these new skills, he must train hard every day.

In addition,

Ling Zhan also considered enchanting his weapon.

There are two ways to improve the attributes of a weapon.

The first is forging.

The second is enchanting.

Forging is more important than enchanting.

Because if forging is successful, it will increase the weapon's level, inherent attributes, and enchantment effects.

While enchanting can only add fixed attributes to the weapon.

Now the school's point shop also has universally enchanting parchment.

Low-level enchanting parchments are cheap and have relatively low attributes. Some low-level enchanting parchments don't even have additional effects.

Intermediate and high-level enchanting parchments have high attributes and additional effects.

But the success rate of enchanting is relatively low.

Therefore, generally speaking, when you obtain high-level enchanting materials or a high-level enchanting parchment, it is best not to enchant it yourself. It is better to find a master-level enchanter to do it for you, as the success rate will be highest.

Naturally, Tianyan Academy has master-level enchanters. Enchanting once costs 1000 credits.

This price is definitely too expensive for most freshmen.

As for forging,

Weapon forging can only be done by a blacksmith.

You cannot forge it yourself unless your secondary class is a blacksmith.

And there is no convenient item like an enchanting parchment.

When you successfully forge, first, the weapon's level and inherent attributes will increase.

The enchantment attributes will have a chance to increase.

For example, the Array Breaking • Thousand Machine Ring.

[Equipment: Array Breaking • Thousand Machine Ring]

[Grade: Gold]

[After equipping: Strength +30; Intelligence +30; Stamina +30; Agility +30]

[Level Requirement: Can be equipped at level 14]

[Class Restriction: None]

[Enchantment Effect:...]

...

[After equipping: Strength +30; Intelligence +30; Stamina +30; Agility +30]

This line represents the inherent attributes.

The enchanted attributes are naturally, the five current forms of the Thousand Machine Ring.

During this time, Ling Zhan has also visited the forging hall and the enchanting hall.

Unfortunately, the materials needed for forging and enchanting the Thousand Machine Ring are currently out of stock.

Ling Zhan has also asked the relevant staff.

Their answer was simple:

"Advanced and rare materials are almost always swept clean by the top ten geniuses on the Tianyan Ranking as soon as they arrive."

After hearing this, Ling Zhan instantly understood.

Trying to buy materials with Tianyan Ranking points in the forging hall and enchanting hall is like daydreaming.

They monopolize them with prices.

If you want to buy them, you can, but you'll have to offer a higher price than others!

The highest bidder wins.

With the Tianyan Ranking points Ling Zhan currently has, trying to compete with those "rich" bidders is a bit too naive.

These top ten "rich" geniuses on the Tianyan Ranking don't necessarily need these advanced, rare materials themselves.

They know that these things are all hard currency, and hoarding them will definitely be profitable.

Faced with this scene, Ling Zhan recalled the evil black-market traders in the game he played in his previous life, who monopolized all the materials and equipment in the region!

It seems that he won't be able to temporarily improve his weapon.

Then he can only focus on increasing his experience points.

Although the attributes and skill points gained from leveling up as a non-specialist are very low, every little bit helps.

When he came to Tianyan Academy, Zhu Xiaoshan promised to give Ling Zhan an A-grade resource area as an additional gift.

Note that the resource area here does not refer to a dungeon in the game but to a real-world area rich in resources.

Regarding leveling up, there are only two paths available to Ling Zhan at the moment.

First, it is to clear the Dungeon instance.

But the rewards for clearing the dungeon instance are limited to once per person.

Repeating the clearance is just useless and futile, as you won't get any rewards at all.

Currently, the low-level dungeon instances controlled by the school, besides the 'Millennium Snow Cave' for the freshman assessment, are the 'Lost Village' for levels 18–22.

And Ling Zhan is only at level 16 now, obviously unable to enter.

Secondly, it is to go to the resource secret realm.

The so-called resource secret realm is actually the realm area that Tianyan Academy has already controlled to descend into reality.

The periphery of the Black Flame Mountain Range has long been controlled by Tianyan Academy.

Inside, countless resource areas are divided.

Naturally, this place is full of monsters.

But one thing to note is that the monsters here, once killed, cannot respawn.

In other words, killing a monster here means one less monster.

Therefore, the school absolutely does not allow students to indiscriminately hunt the peripheral monsters.

Moreover, Tianyan Academy explicitly stipulates the hunting rest periods for each area at specific times.

This is mainly to give the monsters time to reproduce.

Fortunately, monsters are different from ordinary animals. Their reproduction rate is relatively fast, and they can grow from infancy to adulthood in a few months.

Students who want to go in and hunt monsters for experience and materials need to apply for special permission.

Unfortunately...

The A-grade resource secret realm area that Ling Zhan possesses is currently in its 'hunting rest period'.

It is said that this A-grade resource secret realm was vacated by a senior sister who had just graduated.

Before leaving, this senior sister went on a killing spree in this A-grade resource secret realm, leaving only a small number of monsters there to continue breeding.

This has led to Ling Zhan having no monsters to kill...

Damn it!

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