When Liu Ming saw the City Lord, the latter was seated with a worried look.
When the City Lord saw Liu Ming enter, he immediately smiled and said to Liu Ming, “Floating Cloud, you’re here. I’ve already prepared your quest reward long ago.”
After the City Lord finished speaking, he took out a few shiny items that glowed brightly and stuffed them into Liu Ming’s hands.
[Congratulations, Adventurer, you have obtained Skywalker Ring (Orange)]
[Congratulations, Adventurer, you have obtained Warrior Of Light Badge (Orange)]
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In addition to regular items like Gold Coins and EXP, the quest reward also included seven items. Putting aside the miscellaneous rewards, Liu Ming was surprised to obtain two Orange items at one go.
Skywalker Ring (Orange)
Level: 30
Power: +178
Agility: +187
Physique +45
Additional Stats: +25% Attacking Speed
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Warrior Of Light Badge (Orange): A medal awarded by the Light Alliance to a warrior who has made great contributions to the Light Camp. The owner of this badge will gain +3 levels of Light Camp Reputation.
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The Skywalker Ring’s Stats were undoubtedly impeccable. The Additional +25% Attacking Speed was not inferior to +25% Attacking Power. However, Liu Ming liked the Warrior Of Light Badge the most.
Camp Reputation Level was considered a crucial Stat in God Domain. Camp Reputation Level was divided into 20 levels from 1 to 20. One could only increase their Camp Reputation and increase the level by completing some tasks.
A player’s Camp Reputation Level would affect various aspects like the player’s reception of hidden quests and the purchase price of items in NPC stores.
Besides, it was extremely difficult to increase the Camp Reputation Level. At present, the player with the highest Camp Reputation Level from the major mainstream guilds was only at Level 2. Even Liu Ming’s Camp Reputation Level was only at Level 3 currently.
The badge Liu Ming had just obtained would actually allow him to increase his Camp Reputation Level by three, which also meant that a large number of hidden quests now awaited him in the future.
If this badge’s information were to be leaked, it would definitely cause an uproar amongst the players.
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After leaving the City Lord’s residence, Liu Ming headed straight to the blacksmith store in the city.
At this moment, it was extremely crowded and lively outside the blacksmith store. A group of players surrounded the newly established refinement cauldron and exclaimed in awe every now and then.
“It’s done! It’s done! My Iron-Blood Sword has finally increased by 13 Refinement Levels!”
“Damn it! The Stats of an Iron-Blood Sword with 13 extra Refinement Levels are almost equivalent to Level 25 Purple weapons!”
“Damn it! I shouldn’t have touched it with my itchy hands. My Dark Night Dagger decreased from Refinement Level 12 to 0.”
“Hehe, you deserve it for being so greedy.”
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The group of players were either shocked at a player’s success in refining or gloating over another player’s failure.
The players refining their equipment were either elated about succeeding or extremely frustrated about failing.
The fact that the players could become this disoriented was enough to show how low the Equipment Refinement System’s success rate was.
After all, players who arrived there as soon as the cauldron was established were probably extremely wealthy, even if they were not the major guilds’ elite players.
For the average bottom-tier players, each Refinement Stone would cost one Gold Coin each. Other than the first-time charge of one Gold Coin for the first refinement, the number of Refinement Stones required for the subsequent refinements would increase geometrically.
Once the equipment’s Refinement Level reached 10, one would require nearly 100 to 100-odd Refinement Stones for every subsequent refinement.
Each Refinement Stone cost one Gold Coin, so 100 Refinement Stones would cost 100 Gold Coins. According to the current exchange rate, it would amount to more than 8,000 yuan, excluding the number of Refinement Stones consumed previously.
Spending thousands to tens of thousands of yuan just to have a little bit more Attacking Power or Defense was not something that an ordinary player could do. Moreover, the players who spent tens of thousands of yuan without batting an eyelid would not be that emotional because of a few successes or failures.
God Domain’s official developers announced the refinement success rates for Refinement Level 1 to Refinement Level 15.
The success rates for the first 11 Refinement Levels were acceptable. Generally, as long as a player was not too unlucky, they would achieve a successful refinement after just two or three failures.
However, the refinement success rates drastically dropped from Refinement Level 12 onwards. The low refinement success rate was evident from the behavior displayed by the players, who rejoiced ecstatically or pounded their chests maniacally.
At this moment, the players focused all of their attention on those refining their equipment. Liu Ming’s appearance did not cause much of an uproar.
Liu Ming was glad to see this too. He passed through the players who were watching the fun and found a newly vacated refining cauldron, where he immediately activated the refinement panel.
[Adventurer, please place the equipment you want to refine into the cauldron, as well as a sufficient number of Refinement Stones.]
While looking at the panel in front of him, Liu Ming did not hesitate to remove the weapons in his weapon list before placing them on the panel and pressing down on the confirmation button.
Even if Liu Ming did not activate the Blessing Of Lady Luck for the first 11 Refinement Levels, he would still have a 100% success rate since he now had twice the luck of an ordinary player. In fact, the probability of going from Refinement Level 12 to Refinement Level 13 was rather high for Liu Ming.
Hence, Liu Ming did not have much to hesitate about during the initial stages of refinement. He just had to throw his equipment into the refinement cauldron.
Hence, a prompt popped up in the regional channel after a minute or so.
[System: Congratulations, Adventurer Floating Cloud, you have successfully refined Sky Sword to Level 12.]
In God Domain, the refinement results after Refinement Level 11 would appear as an announcement in the regional channel, regardless of whether it was a success or a failure.
At this moment, quite a number of players were refining their equipment in Lotter City. Many had also strengthened their equipment to Refinement Level 12 during this period of time. Hence, when the announcement appeared on the regional channel, the players did not pay much attention to it. Many players even subconsciously thought that a system announcement of Liu Ming’s failure would appear in the regional channel if he continued to refine.
However, the messages that appeared next would make the players shocked.
[System: Congratulations, Adventurer Floating Cloud, you have successfully refined Sky Sword to Level 13.]
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[System: Congratulations, Adventurer Floating Cloud, you have successfully refined Sky Sword to Level 14.]
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If the first message about him refining the Sky Sword to Level 13 was shocking to the players, the second message caused the players to be dumbfounded.
“Damn it! Big Shot Floating Cloud is impressive. He has refined it to Level 14.”
“He’s more than just impressive. Big Shot Floating Cloud strengthened his equipment to Level 14 in one shot.”
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However, before the players could calm down, another message of Liu Ming’s successful refinement triggered the emotions of many players.
[System: Congratulations, Adventurer Floating Cloud, you have successfully refined Sky Sword to Level 15.]
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“Damn it, Big Shot! Stop it, stop refining! Please, let us off. We’re greenhorns who can’t even reach Level 13.”
“Damn it. That’s the first Refinement Level 15 weapon of God Domain.”
“Damn it! Big Shot tossed his Refinement Level 14 weapon into the cauldron just like that. Isn’t he afraid of failure?”
“Who cares? Big Shot Floating Cloud is just impressive.”
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All of a sudden, the players shifted their attention toward Liu Ming, including those who were also refining.