My talent is 1.

Zhang Haitao's men have now experienced firsthand just how fierce the people of Xianyang Palace were.

An epic boss that over a thousand people were unsure of could be defeated was brutally beaten to death by this bunch of animals.

The whole thing only took a little over a minute.

Wei Xian dealt the least damage, but was the most popular.

The most incompetent blacksmith in the fantasy world.

Everyone stared blankly at the guild tokens that were thrown over. Although the first kill announcement was long gone, this BOSS was the first to drop loot, so the quality of the loot was still guaranteed.

"Thank you, thank you!"

"Alright, let your men leave."

As agreed, the top ten players with the highest output would share the spoils, and Zhang Haitao would receive the guild token.

Now that almost all the damage dealers are from Xianyang Palace, there's no chance of getting drops anymore.

The group took Zhang Haitao's money and left.

Zhao Wuji's men immediately sent the video to Zhao Wuji, leaving Sikong Shen and the others somewhat bewildered.

No wonder Zhang Haitao dared to fight the epic boss. Although they could defeat it, some people would inevitably die. This way, when fighting the boss later on, basically no one would be able to catch up.

Therefore, no major power dares to take this risk; otherwise, guild tokens wouldn't be so rare, and their prices wouldn't remain so high.

"We now have two guilds in the Flame Dragon Empire; we can't delay any longer."

"We've killed so many level 30 gold bosses, but not a single one has dropped."

"We've killed two level 40 silver bosses, and a few people died once without getting any loot. Everyone's starting to get hesitant. If the difficulty increases any further, it'll be impossible."

"Are you really looking for Xianyang Palace?"

"Perhaps we could try to reach out to Shen Mengli."

"I've tried it. I don't add anyone as a friend except for Zhong Wuyai. However, Shen Youchu, the vice president of the Blooming Guild, has listed a lot of equipment and materials on the consignment shop."

"What exactly is going on with Bloom? Apart from the two presidents, I haven't seen anyone else."

"Who knows? They might all be hiding somewhere, grinding monsters together."

On the other side, after Shen Mengli defeated a level 30 gold BOSS, Shen Youchu couldn't help but mention it.

"Mengli, let's recruit a few people, my inventory is full again!"

"Go back and put it in the warehouse!"

"The warehouse is full too!"

"Then put it in the guild warehouse!"

"You have to contribute points to get them? Do you even have that many contribution points? And it's just the two of us. When will the guild level up? We haven't done any guild quests for days."

Shen Mengli was also at her wit's end. The people she had planned to meet were all in various powerful organizations, and she couldn't find some of the independent individuals either.

Although I've added a few friends, now when I join a guild, I bring their friends along, and many of these people are problematic.

This troubled Shen Mengli greatly, as he knew many tasks and shortcuts to improve his strength.

Some are repetitive tasks that haven't been discovered yet, but once you recruit people, many factions will occupy the task points, giving them away to others for nothing.

She had also told Zhong Wuyai about these potential problems.

But she couldn't understand how Zhong Wuyai could be so sure that the people of Xianyang Palace wouldn't betray him.

"Youchu, can you guarantee that the people you recruit won't betray you?"

"It's fine in the short term, but if it goes on for a long time..."

Shen Youchu didn't say anything more. Two days before entering the fantasy world, she had witnessed a nurse who was treating the wounded being attacked by several people...

"So we're just going to continue like this?"

"Before level 30, there won't be many guilds. After level 30, many problems will be exposed. At that time, I will be able to recruit some of the people in my friend list."

"What should we do with these things?"

"Special materials will only go up in price. As for the others, ask Yang Yimu. His guild should be in short supply."

Zhong Wuyai spent two hours completing an S-rank hidden quest and also accepted the last S-rank hidden quest, but instead of doing the quest, he went to the jewelry store.

With enough materials, the first thing to do is to make the equipment.

Next comes enhancement, but there are no enhancement scrolls available right now. Zhong Wuyai looked at them and didn't see any attributes he particularly needed, so he didn't plan to add any attributes.

Instead, it was added to the enhancement.

The talent was placed after Enhancement +2, and then...

[Shadow Ring +10]

French equipment

★★★★★★★★★★

Durability: 32/32

Grade: Silver

Wearing level: 25

Magic Attack +10450

Spell critical strike chance +10%

Intelligence +193

Spirit +186

Mana regeneration per second +12

Casting speed +10%

The term "Drain Mana" restores 50 mana points for each target killed.

Are 10-star equipment really that terrifying?

Zhong Wuyai was stunned and launched a direct attack of 10,000 magic attacks.

Also need the Wolf Fang Set Dry Ball.

I just didn't expect that the mana regeneration per second would increase from 2 to 12.

In other words, mana regeneration can be enhanced or improved. Regardless of which one, if your talent is upgraded to ten stars, then mana and health regeneration are no longer a concern. The only thing to pay attention to is the cooldown.

Zhong Wuyai thought about it for a long time but still didn't know which equipment to use to reduce the cooldown, so he could only keep the Tide Belt for the time being.

It's obvious that 10-star equipment is many times stronger than equipment that you enhance yourself and then use talents to improve its attributes.

Therefore, you'll need to completely overhaul your equipment.

Weapons, armor, helmet, necklace, two bracelets, two rings, boots, belt.

Ten items in total

As for the magic manual, it cannot be enhanced, so Zhong Wuyai has considered putting the cooldown reduction into the magic manual countless times.

However, since the Magic Handbook is a growth-type equipment and is bound, Zhong Wuyai repeatedly dismissed the idea.

The Magic Handbook's growth rate is already maxed out. As for why it can't be upgraded further, it's probably related to your current level.

You must have an equipment talent that increases cooldown reduction.

Eight pieces of equipment enhanced to +10 are more than enough; ten pieces of equipment with +10 star upgrades for skill enhancement are insignificant compared to 110% cooldown reduction.

Each of his skills has an abnormal effect, and his attributes far exceed those of ordinary people.

Skill enhancement is now optional.

After crafting two 10-star pieces of equipment, Zhong Wuyai went to the warehouse to retrieve the materials.

Since this time we're making gold equipment, it's only for +2 enhancement, so the demand for silver crystals isn't that high.

After taking out all the crystals from the warehouse, along with some materials and magical essence, Zhong Wuyai found something at the very bottom.

The Warrior Medal is much better than any equipment.

"I have a question for you!"

Zhong Wuyai continued to question the all-knowing and insightful Shen Mengli.

"What is it?"

Can medals be upgraded to higher stars?

"No, there aren't even any NPCs that can enhance it. However, you can enhance it with enhancement scrolls, but the effect is minimal, and even high-level enhancement scrolls can only go up to +9, which is meaningless and very expensive."

Strengthening is enough; nothing else is something I need to consider.

"Okay, I got it!"

Shen Mengli was exasperated. All she asked was about medal enhancement? Why didn't she just try it herself...?

Zhong Wuyai regretted not experimenting with reinforcement earlier; the reinforcement reel was essentially a waste of his time.

While the Flame Heart Bracelet's nearly 30,000 magic attack is tempting, the overall effect of the 10-star version is significantly stronger.

Besides, these are all low-level equipment, and I'll have to replace them sooner or later anyway, so there's no need to worry about it so much.

First, I used some Soul Stones to craft an item that increased Soul Attack and Soul Resistance. After using the talent, I immediately dismantled it.

The number of Soul Stones suddenly reached over 100.

When his talent was on cooldown, Zhong Wuyai went to the capital.

While exchanging the crystals, I also sent a message to Zhang Haitao.

How many low-grade reinforced scrolls do you have?

Zhang Haitao perked up at the news, for whenever Zhong Wuyai approached him, it was always for a big deal.

"Seven? Are you in a hurry? If not, give me two days and I can collect about ten."

"That's enough, bring it all here!"

Zhang Haitao also put down what he was doing, gave instructions to a few people, and then went to the capital.

That guild token he received last time allowed him to establish the 11th guild in the game, which was quite a source of pride for him.

Both the Zhang and Li families were interested in acquiring the guild, but Zhang Haitao refused.

Because the boss was defeated in Xianyang Palace, and everyone knew about the battle in Xianyang Palace.

Everyone is now extremely wary of Xianyang Palace, to the point that apart from Zhang Haitao's men, no one else dares to approach the Yunhai City mine.

They weren't sure if Zhang Haitao's guild was a branch under Zhong Wuyai, and Zhang Haitao's words to them were ambiguous, so for a while no one dared to make a move against him.

You could say that they unwittingly borrowed the tiger's power.

Now Zhong Wuyai is like a second parent to Zhang Haitao, so Zhang Haitao naturally grants all his requests.

Seven low-level reinforced reels are more than enough.

When the scroll was delivered, Zhong Wuyai took it without saying a word and continued disassembling it.

"Um, there's something I wanted to tell you."

"What is it?"

"We've discovered a golden boss, it's full of question marks. You know we can't beat it. I asked Xiang Yang, and the people from Xianyang Palace aren't confident either, since we don't know its attributes, and it's unknown whether the tank can withstand it, so..."

"You want me to call for you?"

"If you have time..."

"Okay, send me the coordinates and calculate the time. I'll go with you in a bit. Just don't waste time on the road."

"Okay!"

Zhang Haitao immediately arranged for someone to scout out the BOSS location, clearing out all the smaller monsters along the way.

Zhong Wuyai thought for a moment. Logically speaking, before they upgraded their equipment, Xiang Yang and his group of 10 could defeat the level 40 Gold BOSS in Qianfeng Mountain Stronghold. How come they can't handle a Gold BOSS in the wild? This doesn't make sense...

"Has no one tried to test the BOSS?"

"The summoner's summoned creature tried it out, but it was instantly killed. The BOSS's control skills are very strong, including confusion, blindness, and silence!"

This is damn troublesome...

What is the BOSS's attack range?

"100"

This is absolutely terrible! I should have known better than to agree. No wonder Xiang Yang refused. Once the BOSS gets out of control, one skill can control a whole group of people. Reduced output is a minor issue; it will be much harder to control the BOSS again. The cooldown gaps for control skills will become larger, and people will definitely die.

How many summoners do you have under your command?

"Two of them, plus a rare skeleton mage who can also draw some fire."

"Does the BOSS have any other characteristics?"

"I don't know!"

"Let them try again, behind the BOSS and in the blind spots of his skills."

"OK."

After looking at the wolf-tooth boots, Zhong Wuyai immediately took them off and disassembled them.

I need to work on my movement speed and the range of my skills, because there will definitely be a lot of monsters like this in the future, and I need to prepare in advance.

Besides the crystal, the Wolf Fang Boots also yielded 5 Wind Stones.

It seems this is the key to increasing movement speed.

Zhong Wuyai used gold materials, along with several gold crystals, and also added more than ten silver crystals and silver materials, and handed them over to the blacksmith.

"Sorry, you can only use a maximum of 3 Wind Stones at a time when crafting level 25 equipment."

Holy crap, there's even this kind of setting...

However, considering that my only goal is speed, attributes are not very important. I'll focus on increasing speed first, and then make a pair of boots to switch between during battle.

You just need to be quick.

After spending over two thousand gold coins...

【Speed ​​Boots】

All class equipment

Durability: 45/45

Grade: Gold

Wearing level: 25

Agility+70

Spirit +70

Physical defense +50

Magic Defense +35

Movement speed +2

Attribute 1 [Swiftness]: Increases movement speed by 5 points when not in combat, disappears when entering combat.

Item 2 [Jump]: After use, you can leap 50 units in the specified direction. Cooldown time: 100 seconds.

This is for myself, for goodness' sake.

I originally intended to add this to speed, but with the jump ability, it doesn't really matter. Jumping over short distances is much easier than running.

Moreover, there's no need to focus on speed; it's another ten-star item...

Let's get creative...

Zhong Wuyai had considered using the talent after upgrading it to +3, +4, or +5, but since they needed to kill the BOSS first, they decided to deal with it first and then experiment with other equipment.

After strengthening, apply the talent...

[Swift Boots +10]

All class equipment

★★★★★★★★★★

Durability: 45/45

Grade: Gold

Wearing level: 25

Health +7050

Physical evasion +38

Magic Evasion +38

Agility+211

Spirit +211

Physical defense +191

Magic Defense +176

Movement speed +2

……

Health and evasion are clearly attributes that are increased by star level.

The enhanced attributes are the built-in attribute boosts, but armor and helmets mainly increase defense.

It seems that the more attributes an equipment has, the better its enhancement effect.

The star rating is fixed; whether you have it or not, the star rating attributes for this part are always the same.

Sometimes rings increase magic hit rate, and sometimes they increase critical hit chance.

Of course, there may be other attributes, but they are random.

It's possible that changing the boots might not increase evasion.

Now... a level 40 gold boss is no big deal.

After putting on the Swift Boots, Zhong Wuyai found that his movement speed had not changed.

After looking at the attributes for a long time, I finally understood that agility was the key to power.

20点敏捷1点移动速度，200点以上50点敏捷1点移动速度。

Now, with the Swift Boots' agility plus his own, he has 249 points. One more point of agility will increase his movement speed by one point.

In fact, movement speed is the hardest stat to acquire, even harder than cooldown reduction.

Cooldown reduction can only be increased up to 50%, unless the talent breaks the cooldown cap, but even then it can only reach 55% or 60%.

However, Zhong Wuyai's is 110%, which can be considered a bug. It directly surpasses the 50% cap to achieve no cooldown.

Aside from boots, movement speed is also affected by assassin-type skills, but the increase is minimal; it's mostly related to movement speed, similar to jumping.

Perhaps in the future I could consider maxing out a pair of boots to 10 stars, and then using the talent points to increase speed...

Assassins and thieves would be devastated; even running at full speed wouldn't be as fast as walking.

There's not much need for mana restoration anymore.

With nearly 40,000 mana, even with the 7 points of spirit attribute regeneration per second, it's enough.

"Come on, lead the way!"

Zhang Haitao immediately sent the coordinates and told Zhong Wuyai the shortest route as he walked toward the teleportation array.

Zhong Wuyai didn't care. As long as he found the right opportunity to unleash a chain lightning attack and didn't get controlled, the BOSS would basically be gone.

Outside Shengyang City, thousands of people stood guard at various monster spawn points like sentries, ready to eliminate any monsters that appeared.

As they approached Blackwater Pool, the number of people gradually increased, and some of them even had the words "Zhang's Trading Company" written on their heads.

Zhang Haitao still hasn't changed his old habits; even the guild name he chose is so eye-catching.

I don't know what the name of the Zhang family's guild in the capital is, but the name of Zhang Haitao's guild left Zhong Wuyai speechless.

As soon as the monsters around the Blackwater Pool spawned, more than twenty people focused their attacks on them. Although the monsters were difficult to defeat, even ordinary monsters couldn't withstand such concentrated fire.

Furthermore, based on the damage and attributes, Zhang Haitao determined that this was a level 40 monster.

If it weren't for the guild totem's attack bonus, most people wouldn't be able to break through the defense.

Even so, it takes more than twenty people two or three minutes to defeat a single monster.

The difference between it and Xianyang Palace is not even a little bit.

Tandisk

Golden BOSS

grade???

That's all the information available.

Tandisk is in the water; even if it's knocked down, you'll have to retrieve it from the pool.

This is actually a bit tricky.

Even ignoring the fact that Zhong Wuyai's magic attack and spell critical strike are currently 62070, he still has the attributes of 5 pieces of enhanced equipment.

3000 points of true damage, 9000 points of elemental damage.

Skills trigger basic attacks, which also grant a 30% magic attack bonus.

Zhong Wuyai himself doesn't even know how much damage he's suffered.

"All summoned creatures and skeletons, get in front of me and attack the BOSS! Everyone else, don't get in my way!"

That's what they say, but among Zhang Haitao's subordinates, the skeleton mage can only summon two skeletons, while the summoner does have one who can summon three summoned beasts.

It's because the summoned beasts are quite special; otherwise, there would be two of them.

The five little guys, looking a bit silly, rushed towards Tandisk.

It's like five ants crawling towards a lizard.

The Tandisk has a head that resembles a lizard, but its hands are human hands. It has no feet, a fin on its back, and a fin on each side of its lower body.

Its enormous size exudes an invisible pressure...

Zhong Wuyai stopped at a distance of 101.

As soon as Tandis attacked the skeleton, Zhong Wuyai immediately jumped forward.

Immediately afterwards...

Chain lightning!

A barrage of damage occurred, and the BOSS's health bar dropped a tiny bit.

Tandisk was paralyzed; the two skeletons died, but the summoned creatures were still alive.

Zhong Wuyai ignored everything else and stood with his feet in the water.

"Fireball!"

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A dense barrage of damage appeared above the BOSS's head, and the BOSS died on the spot.

[Ding! Defeat the Gold BOSS Tandisk, gain 280000 experience points. An additional 1120000 experience points are gained for defeating a monster of a higher level.]

Everyone was stunned. Even Zhong Wuyai himself was a little confused. Was his damage really that terrifying?

A single fireball deals over two million damage, instantly killing a level 40 gold boss...

The people of Zhang's Trading Company had their worldviews shattered once again.

No wonder the people in Xianyang Palace are all so perverted; it turns out the chairman is an extremely perverted one.

Is this even human? A level 25 character one-shotting a gold-level boss that's probably way higher level...

With over a million experience points, Zhong Wuyai's experience bar increased significantly, and he was only about 800,000 more away from leveling up.

This amount of experience is enough to fill a dozen or so question marks. Perhaps leveling up first is the priority, otherwise you'll just be stuck with question marks and getting ambushed by monsters one day.