Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 227 Spending money like water

Since the storage of innocent souls saved by Soul Salvation will be cleared immediately after leaving the instance, some things cannot be tested immediately.

In the last instance, I wanted to do something with the mummy antidote, but it turned into a drill and roller mode and I ended up leaving it aside.

Therefore, specific situations require specific testing, and Ghosts 'n Goblins is clearly a good testing location.

Cheng Tian is currently full of energy and doesn't want to rest at all. He feels like he can go to the Demon Village after eating something.

But before that...

Cheng Tian took out the straight, crimson Chaos Wand.

As an enhanced version of the Emerald Wand, the Crimson Chaos Wand's enhancement limit has also been increased to 3 people. The primary user can also transfer a portion of the enhancement attributes to minions and battle mounts.

The enhancement attributes of this wand alone already exceed the benefits of a B-grade rating in a normal main quest. It even has dual equipment-specific enhancements and a 150-point increase in maximum HP. For many players who don't focus on increasing strength, this thing might be even more valuable than attribute points or skill points alone.

Eileen is definitely a must-have, but what should we do with the remaining empty space?
Selling it for money is an option; as long as you provide enough money and sufficiently special equipment and skill scrolls, you can sell this third slot to someone else.

Although Cheng Tian has already accumulated over 10 yuan, he spends as much as he earns.

The costs of feeding biological vehicles and combat mounts, acquiring new dual swords and greatswords, upgrading existing equipment to +7, and even focusing on a key piece of equipment towards +10, as well as replenishing mount ammunition, all require money.

Cheng Tian can spend money as long as he wants, no matter how much money he has.

However, Eileen hasn't returned yet, so the enhancement slots will most likely have to be auctioned off. There's also a lot of equipment to enhance, so Cheng Tian slapped his thigh, stuffed the pizza with three layers of cheese into his mouth, grabbed a bunch of bananas from Wu Tan to tide him over, and then went out.

Soon the others arrived near the enhancement machine.

As usual, there weren't many people here during the main quest, and Kelly was still using a fake body to pretend to be a bot.

However, this fake body might have some kind of monitoring system. Cheng Tian saw that Kelly's originally fake eyes immediately became lively, and then she greeted Cheng Tian.

"Hey buddy, your level completion speed is still amazing!"

"...Was my expression that obvious?"

"Hey! I've seen plenty of players who fail the main quest. They're usually either in a panic or looking miserable. They come here to spend all their savings to repair and upgrade their equipment. Unlike you, hunched over, taking small steps, with your hands behind your back and carrying a bunch of bananas, looking like an old man strolling around."

"I see... Want a banana?"

"Give me one, not overripe."

Kelly, who had just taken a banana from Cheng Tian, ​​conjured up two plastic stools out of thin air and gave one to Cheng Tian.

The kind of thing you often see at barbecue restaurants, once stacked up too high, is as difficult to pull out as the Sword in the Stone. The two sat facing each other and then started peeling bananas at the same time.

Interestingly, Cheng started peeling the banana from the stem, while Kelly tore it open directly from the black spot on the other end; the two peeled the bananas in completely opposite directions.

"What good equipment did you get this time? Let me broaden my horizons."

Kelly, who was probably two or three years younger than Cheng Tian, ​​said this. Without dwelling on these formalities, Cheng Tian demonstrated the attributes of both his dual swords and greatsword.

"A decent critical strike and attack speed sword, but it probably won't be very useful in your hands."

Kelly affirmed Balford's dual-sword abilities but denied Cheng Tian's physical capabilities.

Cheng Tian wasn't annoyed, because what the other person said was true. Although he could use the Primal Shell to indirectly obtain more health than many players who mainly focused on strength, his overall attribute allocation trend was towards mental strength. As the difficulty of the dungeons increased, the attribute growth direction of the players he would encounter in the future must have already been determined, and resources had been invested in accordingly.

Therefore, one's physical attributes will inevitably be much worse than those of other players who primarily focus on physical attributes. Under the same conditions, even with an excellent weapon in one's own hands, one will certainly be inferior to a player who focuses on physical attributes and specializes in melee combat.

However, Cheng Tian still quite liked the pair of swords. When playing Plague, he preferred to use the Elf Swords and the Knight's Staff Sword. He could do without them, but he couldn't be without them.

However, Kelly reacted much more strongly to the Prince's Sword, which had very demanding equipment requirements and whose attributes didn't seem particularly outstanding.

Cheng Tian took out the actual item and let her handle it. She first stroked it for a while, and finally sighed and put it back in Cheng Tian's hand.

"This thing originally had the potential to become a gold legendary item, but it looks like it was cut in half and turned into two separate items. Although the overall value should have increased... well, it's a bit of a pity."

Regarding Kelly's assessment, Cheng Tian could only say that she truly deserved to be the one in charge of the enhancement machine; even when she was slacking off, her discerning eye remained unaffected.

This Prince's Sword was indeed the product of being cut by the Chaotic Step Cutting Technique, and what separated out was actually the Titan's Grip in Cheng Tian's current third skill slot.

However, Cheng Tian did not regret it. Without this blow, the final Prince's Sword might have truly been the legendary golden sword, but it would have been completely unrelated to him, and could only be kept in a box or sold for money.

What good are the best attributes if something is unusable?
"In short, weapons that can provide a group aura bonus in legion battles are rare."

Kelly paused for a moment, then scanned Cheng Tianyi from top to bottom.

"Now that you've advanced to Iron rank, it's in accordance with the rules. In the future, when large-scale team battles are involved, the team boost from this item might determine the course of the battle... Moreover, I think it still has the potential to return to Legendary Gold rank, but it requires some rather special circumstances."

"An opportunity..."

As Cheng Tian took it back, he casually stuffed the Prince's Sword into the enhancement machine, muttering to himself, but his mind was on the Prince's brother, the Golden Grand Duke Garibaldi.

This is probably what they call the turning point.

It's fair to say that upgrading high-level equipment is truly painful. The cost of Celestial Coins increases by thousands for each upgrade level. Besides the Prince's Sword, there are also the Dual Swords +2, Dragon Scale Breastplate +5, and Fire Moth Wings +4, all of which require double payment and need to be pushed towards +7. This spending speed, like a fish tank being smashed, directly shattered Cheng Tian's dream of +10.

Moreover, this is based on the premise that the enhancement from +5 to +7 does not fail and result in a downgrade.

For the average player, equipment that is not needed or does not provide much improvement is usually traded away, transferring the cost of enhancement to the buyer. Half of the equipment with enhancement levels is acquired by the user themselves.

Despite his wealth running out in the blink of an eye as his enhancement level increased, Cheng was not anxious. Instead, he immediately took action on two matters.

One of them put the third upgrade slot for the Crimson Chaos Wand directly up for auction, with the highest bidder winning.

The second thing was to directly pull out the Demon King's Castle map that had been sealed for two months and start the solo training mode.

(End of this chapter)