I was an apprentice in Ferren

Chapter 188 Post-war Inventory
After much deliberation, DuPont decided to temporarily set aside this legendary expertise.

While increasing innate attribute values ​​is a versatile option, given that a Legendary Book costs around 50,000 gold, this Legendary feat is only worth 25,000 gold. It's clearly not worth it to exchange a feat that you normally acquire after level 20 for such a small value.

Since I have enough experience points right now, I might as well level up this warrior skill to reach a total level of 12 and then raise my intelligence to 20 to see the effect.

Your Arcane Paladin is now Rank 4. You have gained a feat. Arcane Paladins now have 3 spell slots in their first level.

Your total level is 12, and you have gained 2 attribute values.

Your innate intelligence is 20.

[Your experience gained from books, courses, or self-study increases by 200%, and your efficiency in learning new spells increases by 50%]

Your current learning speed is 500%.

[Scroll success rate increased by 40%, learning speed increased by 50%, copying speed increased by 30%, and success rate of copying scrolls below the fourth ring increased by 30%]

Your success rate in crafting magical items has increased by 30%, and your success rate in alchemy has increased by 30%.

Your spellcasting failure rate is reduced by 18%, your spellcasting speed is increased by 25%, and the success rate of counterspells is increased by 25%.

All knowledge and skills related to intelligence have increased by 10 points.

You have acquired an extraordinary skill: photographic memory.

Photographic memory: You will be able to automatically recognize any spell you see; your memory has been enhanced.

杜邦翻看了下系统记录，自己智力从16到18，经验值获取是从50%到120%，总体有70%的提升，智力18到20的提升就变成了200%。

Clearly, as intelligence increases, the benefits one gains do not increase linearly; rather, the higher the value, the greater the increase.

I can now gain 90 experience points per spell class, so I no longer need to copy spellbooks. With 13 classes a week, I can gain 1170 experience points.

Even when my intelligence was 14, I didn't accumulate this much in a month.

Level 4 warriors have some bonus perks, and DuPont wants to focus on weapon perks, but he's torn between buying a longsword or a greatsword.

The greatsword was key to his final, decisive victory over the two Drow spellcasters. In a single, frenzied strike, the powerful adamantite greatsword severely wounded both fifth-ring spellcasters. It's fair to say that without this weapon, relying solely on his Eastern longsword, he could never have won so quickly.

But that's the problem: I can't use my current power effectively; without going berserk, I can hardly use it smoothly.

The Eastern Longsword is much lighter and more agile. When combined with the War Alliance skill of the Arcane Knight, it is comparable to the Flying Sword Technique, allowing for free movement. It is perfect for ambushing people and is also much more flexible when facing mobs. It is not a burden on one's physical strength.

After much deliberation, DuPont decided to apply this expertise to greatswords.

Weapon Specialization: Greatsword

Note: When you attack with a greatsword, your attack rolls have an additional +1 bonus.

Although longswords are also very useful, as a mage, clearing mobs is never a problem. It's more reliable to draw out a greatsword and deliver the final blow at crucial moments.

Furthermore, I had previously contacted the black market to buy a +4 Strength/Constitution belt, and once this item arrived, the Strength burden would be much less.

They should have arrived by now, but I doubt they can contact me. However, I'm a bit short on funds because I plan to invest in the grain warehouse.
Oh dear, I also took two spatial bags!
As DuPont spoke, he rummaged through the bedside table and sure enough, he found the two gray leather bags, along with a scroll of lightning bolts next to them.

They were all small-sized 2500 gold models. DuPont first looked at the monk's, and the hundreds of scrolls inside made DuPont whistle.

Wow, no wonder they're a long-lived species, they have a lot of stock.

Unfortunately, this guy's mansion is located in a dark area thousands of meters underground; if we could plunder it, we probably would have even more stock.

After a careful examination, I found that these spell scrolls were mostly spells from the old system. There were only a few first-level spells and a dozen or so second-level spells, with most being life-saving and protective spells such as invisibility.

The most common item was the Three Rings Scroll, but I didn't see a single Fireball. There were a total of 28 Lightning Bolts, followed by Haste and Dispel Magic, each with 10. There were also quite a few other miscellaneous items.

四环卷轴18张，8张高等隐身术，2张侦测探知2张生物定位术2张次元锚2张秘法眼，1张李欧蒙庇护所1张移除诅咒。

The five ring spells are: Break Barrier, Mind Link, Sightseeing Eye, Domination of Man, and Disguise.

Picking up a four-ring scroll, DuPont carefully examined the magical patterns on it and vaguely felt that he should be able to activate it.

However, each of the four-ring scrolls was worth between 2 and 300 gold, so trying it out was a bit wasteful. DuPont put all the scrolls into his spatial bag.

I already have two storage bags, so it's more worthwhile to sell these two extra ones for gold coins.

Besides these scrolls worth tens of thousands of gold coins, there was also a staff and a magic wand inside.

Search Wand
Grade: Rare

Note: This wand has 7 charges. You can use 1 charge to use the enemy search spell. It is restored at midnight every day. There is a chance that it will be damaged when all charges are used up.

Enemy Spotting: Within one minute, you can determine the direction of the nearest hostile creature within 60 yards, but not its distance. This detection range includes cloaked, aetherized, disguised, and concealed hostile creatures.

Warning: The spell's effect ends when you stop holding this wand.

How should I put it? This thing is a staff with a specialized effect, similar to the mage's many divination scrolls. Although it can't be used directly against enemies, it's quite effective in preventing ambushes in unfamiliar environments.

+2 War Arcane Wand
Quality: Rare

Note: When you cast a damaging spell, your spell power will be amplified, increasing spell damage by two.

This is great stuff. I've wanted to buy one for a long time. I saw one at Benjamin's place when I was settling a personal score, but I was too embarrassed to take it. Now I can finally get one for free.

+1 Spider Robe
Quality: Rare
Attribute: When equipped, you can cast Spider Walk or Spider Web once per day.

Value: 1000 gold coins
This thing is ordinary, but the design is not bad, and it feels cool to the touch, so it should be quite comfortable to wear.

However, DuPont was dumbfounded when they saw the next column.

Light-sensitive: This robe is made using a special Drow technique. Its magic will dissipate when exposed to sunlight. After one hour, all magic will vanish, and after one day, the cloak will dissipate into powder.

Holy crap, what kind of ridiculous effect is this?

DuPont looked at the other equipment, such as the immunity cloak and a pair of shoes that increased jumping ability. The attributes were no different from his usual magical items, but they also had the added attribute of being afraid of light.

It can be said that, apart from these two wands, all the others are afraid of light.

Isn't this a funny item?
DuPont quickly searched through the space bag engraved with a human-faced spider, only to find that the items inside were even more outrageous. Everything inside had the property of being afraid of light, and even a set of mithril chainmail inside had this property.

+3 Mithril Chainmail

Grade: Rare

Enchantment: Lightness, Magic Resistance
Lightweight: This chainmail will weigh as much as leather armor.
Magic Resistance: Grants an additional 10 magic resistance when wearing this chainmail.

Afraid of light: (omitted)
Value: 10000 gold coins
Note: Due to the special forging process by the Drow craftsmen, this mithril chainmail will gradually lose its enchantment under sunlight and will eventually only be used as mithril raw material.

Although mithril is an expensive metal, its true value lies in the enchantments provided by mages. These enchantments genuinely require experience points and magical proficiency; otherwise, it's merely a light medium armor piece, offering a mere 14 points of defense. Normally, medium armor with these stats would cost around 100 gold. While heavy, it's cheap and offers the same defensive capabilities. Using pure mithril like this is a complete waste; it would be far more profitable to melt it down and sell it for materials.

Looking at it this way, DuPont lost his mood. He flipped through the other things and found 20 large bottles of valuable healing potions, 13 bottles of zonal paralysis poison, 5 bottles of black spider bile, 5 bottles of calcinic acid, and 5 handkerchiefs called Rose's Veil.

Black spider bile
Category: Poison

Effects: Causes 1-6 points of corrosive damage upon throwing. If not wiped away in time, it will continue to cause 1-6 points of corrosive damage. When the container breaks, it will also release a foul odor that will cause a Constitution check of 15. If the check is not completed, it will cause a nausea effect.

Calcined carboxylic acid

Effect: It can cause corrosion damage of 2 to 12 to strong acids that affect stones and other minerals, regardless of hardness.

Rose Silk
Category: Curiosities

Effect: Affects webs within 10 yards, making them more durable and increasing the break-out check value by 2. Also applies to Web Spell.

+1 Precision Crossbow
Precision: After you miss, your next shot will have 2 more points of accuracy. If you miss again, the effect will accumulate. When you hit, the effect will disappear.

+1 Spider's Kiss Arrow, 100 shots

Note: When you strike, the Spider's Kiss effect will be triggered. Those entangled by the effect will be bound by spider webs. Those who break free must make a 20-point Strength check, or they will be bound for 30 seconds.

The crossbow can only be used at night, but the poisons don't have this restriction.

Other miscellaneous items included a dozen or so pairs of stockings and underwear, some women's items, which felt silky smooth to the touch, and were classified as cobweb silk.

It's a pity it's not a magical item, but it's not afraid of light, so I can only keep it and give it away.

After a final inventory, the two had a total of over 8600 gold, most of which was the mage's savings, while the priest had only over 1000 gold.

The priest had more gems, but they were only worth 6500 gold in total, for a total of 15100 gold.

Although the design of the Drow's gold coins is different from those on the ground, they are still a form of hard currency everywhere; you just need to go to a bank to exchange them.

This battle only included the consumables and property. All the scrolls were worth about 17,000 gold coins, large bottles of healing potions were about 100 gold coins each, totaling 2000 gold coins, and the small poisons were worth about 1000 gold coins. Adding the coins and the easily convertible space bag, I gained about 40,000 gold coins.

Magical equipment is not easy to sell. Although all of these items together are worth about 20,000 gold coins, it's a bit of a rip-off that they can only be used at night. Even selling them at half price wouldn't be easy.

Adventurers earn money by risking their lives, so stability is naturally their priority when facing life-or-death situations. These things aren't much better than what's in the magic shop, so no one in their right mind would buy them.

Wait a minute.
You can sell it to the system yourself!
To DuPont's surprise, the system actually accepted this thing, but only at a 4% discount.

Even a 40% discount is still money, so DuPont didn't hesitate to sell everything except the two magic wands, ultimately earning 6000 gold.

You can use this deposit to purchase special skills.

[Due to your improved credit, you can now borrow up to 3 gold coins worth of knowledge or expertise.]

Buying a special skill costs 8000 gold, but a fighting style only costs 2000. DuPont thought about it and learned Blind Fighting.

Fighting style: Blind fighting

Note: Even if you are blind, you have blindness within a 10-yard radius.

Blindness: Monsters with blindness can still perceive a certain radius range without relying on sight.

With this skill, you won't be afraid of blindness spells. Even if your opponent removes your dark vision, you'll still have a fighting chance. It's better to be prepared than not.

With 5,000 left, DuPont thought for a moment and added 3000 to buy weapon specialization.

Weapon Specialization: Greatsword

Effect: When using the selected weapon, your damage rolls have a +2 bonus.

Prerequisite: Weapon specialization

杜邦的焰形巨剑本来的伤害是2~12+3，在学会这个专长就变成2~12+5，稳定性又加了一分。

As for the additional loan services offered by the system, DuPont thought about it and decided not to accept them.

As a Chinese person, he naturally has some aversion to loans, not to mention that during his time of financial hardship, this damn thing was like a nagging ghost, reminding him every time he opened his eyes, which was really annoying.

Although there's a saying that the one who owes money is the boss, the system is not like those cowardly bankers who bully the weak and fear the strong. If something unexpected happens and you can't pay back the money, it can really be a matter of life and death.
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DuPont had a pretty good few days afterward.

He wrote a letter to the black market and successfully obtained the Strength and Constitution Belt he had longed for, spending 12000 gold coins.

As for the Drow Gold Coins and the space bags themselves, they were all bought up by Moonflower.

“These drow items may not mean much to you humans, but they sell quite well in the elven market. After all, each item represents the death of an enemy, and they can fetch a premium in our land.”

Yuehua quickly counted the items, then took out several bags of platinum coins, which made a loud noise when she placed them on the bedside table.

“I’ll buy it at 1.2 times the price. If it’s more than that, I’ll just consider it a profit. Don’t accuse me of being greedy and stealing your money.”

"How could that be? This is just to make things convenient for me, okay?" DuPont chuckled as he put the platinum coin, worth 16320, into his bag. "Besides, we're all good friends, so doing business should naturally be mutually beneficial. That's how friendship lasts."

"Yes, I didn't realize you were so open-minded." Yuehua smiled faintly and took out a pair of simple white leather shoes: "Thank you so much for your help this time. I'm afraid I would have had a hard time getting through this without you. Consider these shoes my thank-you gift. Please accept them and don't be shy."

"Oh?" DuPont glanced at it, his eyes widening, and he didn't even have time to pay attention to the slender hands holding the boots.

Moon's Blessing White Deer Boots
Quality: Legend

Attribute 1, High Agility: Your Agility increases by 6 points when wearing these boots.

Attribute 2, Silent: You walk silently when wearing these boots.

Attribute 3, Champion: When wearing these boots, your athletic ability increases by 5 points and your jumping ability increases by 1.5 times.

Attribute 4, Moon Healing: Under moonlight, your life force recovers by one point every 10 minutes, and your stamina recovers slowly.

Note: This is one of the Moonflower Clan's secret treasures, crafted by a legendary mage and blessed by a priest. Even members of the royal family would find it difficult to obtain without sufficient merit.

Value: 70000 gold coins
DuPont felt a pang of unease after seeing it. It wasn't that the item was bad, but rather that it was far too valuable: "This isn't quite right. The lives of those few Drow aren't worth that much. Why would I send you such a treasure?"

Has he already determined the properties of these shoes?

The smile in Moonflower's eyes deepened: "Their lives are certainly not worth this treasure, but am I not? Not to mention that you indirectly saved the life of my personal attendant, and even Cuixing has a gift to give you."

"This isn't really appropriate," DuPont said somewhat embarrassedly. "The gift you gave me is already so valuable, it would be awkward for me to accept anything else."

Moonflower smiled and shook her head: "Don't even mention giving you a gift, Qi Nawei. One of my guards was even moved by your righteous act, and she's willing to be your maid if you agree. So, are you interested?"

　Ahem, although the author has been updating only once a day recently, each update is over 4000 words!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)