◎The Devil's Heart is on the sixth floor of the dome◎
"The Devil's Heart lies atop the sixth-floor dome tower. May all warriors strive to obtain the treasure!"
As the NPC finished speaking, a heart-shaped crystal emitting a gray-blue light appeared in front of the players in the form of a projection.
Countless exclamations erupted from the audience. Some were stunned by the heart-shaped crystal's miraculous appearance, while others, realizing it was no ordinary gem, felt immense regret. They beat their chests and stamped their feet, cursing the heavens, the earth, and the miracles, and finally, they cursed themselves for missing the registration deadline!
This is indeed no ordinary gem, as it is the first enchanting material officially released to the world.
As we all know, there's no such thing as the strongest class in the game, only the strongest player. To reach the top, both skill and equipment are essential.
However, the inexplicable skills like operation can only be mastered by players through actual combat. Those with strong comprehension will learn faster and eventually go further than others.
But not all players have this kind of understanding, and most rely on powerful equipment and weapons to build up their combat power.
For example, Long Yan and Man Tian Fei Xue are the typical types who have poor operation skills and rely on krypton gold to push forward. It's okay when they meet ordinary players, they can kill others in minutes, but when they meet players like Xia Li who are already familiar with PK and have even figured out a set of flexible coping methods, they can only be suppressed and beaten.
Having said so much, in the end, most players in Miracle still prioritize improving their equipment's combat effectiveness. Besides using green, blue, purple, orange, silver, and gold, as well as ordinary and precious qualities to categorize equipment, enchantment materials are another type of top-quality material that can greatly improve the original equipment's attributes!
There are only two ways for players to obtain enchanting materials:
The first way to obtain enchantment materials is by disassembling equipment. While white and green equipment cannot be disassembled, any equipment or weapon of blue level or higher can be disassembled. You need to disassemble at least 10 pieces of equipment each time to have a chance of dropping some enchantment materials.
The closer the color of the decomposed equipment is and the higher the quality is, the greater the chance of enchantment materials dropping.
As for the probability, the official hasn't given a clear explanation. Xia Li remembered that in her previous life, an enchanter had calculated that the drop rate for blue equipment was around 15%, for purple equipment 25%, for orange equipment 35%, and for silver and gold equipment... Sorry, until she was surrounded and killed in her previous life, only one piece of silver equipment had ever been found in the entire Miracle, and no one had ever owned any gold equipment, so no one knew the drop rates for silver and gold equipment.
In any case, this shows how low the drop rate of enchanting materials is.
The low price is not enough, but what's even more annoying is that each time the material drops, it's just a fragment! Players have to collect three fragments to get a complete enchanting material!
In the previous life, a player received the first decomposition reward. The system also issued a global announcement to celebrate the player and gave him the title of "The Most Luck-filled" player.
The player was so happy at that time that he distributed red envelopes in the world channel. But after all the money was distributed and the crowd dispersed, the player realized belatedly that he had only received a fragment!
Later, Xia Li never saw the player on the world channel again. It was said that he had completely quit the game after this incident.
In fact, even if the player got the complete enchanting materials, Xia Li didn't think he could keep playing for long.
Because enchantment materials themselves are divided into levels, there are a total of five levels. Every four level one items can be upgraded to one level two item, and four level two items can be upgraded to one level three item, and so on until the maximum level five is reached.
First-level enchantment materials can increase the attributes of a specific piece of equipment by 6%, second-level by 10%, third-level by 15%, fourth-level by 21%, and fifth-level by 28%.
These numbers look particularly tempting, but unfortunately, all the enchantment materials obtained by disassembling equipment are only level 1. In other words, if players want to climb up and obtain the top level 5 enchantment materials, they will have to continue to work day and night.
A new profession gradually evolved and developed - the enchanter. Of course, these are things for the future.
Let’s talk about the second way to obtain enchanting materials - special events.
Similar to the treasure hunt activities currently held at the tavern market, there is no regular pattern in the time and location of special events, and the official will not announce them in advance. Players can only obtain information by communicating with relevant NPCs.
Of course, there are also people like Xia Li who happened to stumble upon the event site by chance rather than through NPC.
Therefore, in such a huge pit, players can only compete with luck, luck and luck!
As the first special event since the opening of Miracle, the official still took into account the activity patterns of all players. The flow of people in the tavern market has always been large, and by putting the event here, many players still have the opportunity to compete for it.
By comparing the two ways of obtaining enchanting materials, it is obvious that participating in special activities is the fastest way to obtain materials compared to painstakingly decomposing equipment.
Xia Li suddenly changed her mind and raised her hand in the audience.
The NPC on the stage saw her and asked with a smile, "Warrior, do you have any questions?"
Xia Li: "I want to participate in the event."
NPC: "...Warrior, our registration ended an hour ago."
"There are only 30 people on the stage. Mr. Willard, are you really willing to watch the treasure being given away so easily?" Xia Li said as she looked at Willard standing beside the stage, smiling calmly and meaningfully.
Xia Li thought that it was not like Willard to let 30 players fight over a first-level enchanting material.
Who is Willard? A man who controls the entire tavern market, with too much money to spend, which has led to all kinds of bad tastes. Seeing other players fighting and getting hurt is the greatest pleasure in his life.
As expected, after meeting Xia Li's gaze, Willard extinguished his cigar and slowly walked out from the side. "As this warrior just said, good things must be fought for by everyone to be fair. I agree to reopen the registration system."
The audience erupted in cheers! Players who had previously complained and regretted not signing up all cheered in unison at this moment!
A registration button appeared in front of the players on the scene. Like other players, Xia Li pressed the button without hesitation.
"However, as punishment for your late registration," Willard narrowed his eyes as he looked at the number of registrants rising backstage, "you must enter three minutes later than the first group of contestants."
"Why the hell do you still wear something like this?"
"That's right, this is unfair!" a player complained.
"It's three minutes late, so what's the point of playing? I don't want to play anymore!" Some players even kicked up their feet on the spot.
Willard saw all kinds of reactions. Xia Li saw him standing on a high place, looking down at everyone, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
The competition scene is a six-story tower, and at the top of the tower is the devil's heart seen in the image before.
The light in the scene was very dim, and only the Demon's Heart emitted a faint blue light in the chaos, making it particularly eye-catching.
Poxiao was one of the first players. He was put into the tower earlier than Xia Li's group. Xia Li and the others had to wait outside the scene.
As soon as the 3 minutes were up, Xia Li immediately jumped into the scene and rushed towards the dome tower with everyone else.
The situation inside the tower was more complicated than she had imagined. As soon as she entered, a group of mummies rushed towards her and began to attack her and other players. The mummies were also a kind of humanoid monsters with some incredible attributes.
But Xia Li didn't know what the attribute was yet, so before she knew the other party's background, she just threw a green mist to explore the situation, then flew up like a kite, dragged the mummy around the field, and observed as she ran.
As she continued to kite, several players failed to dodge and were hit by the mummy's skills, and several of them fell to the ground.
Xia Li immediately understood: physical critical hits. The mummy's incredible attribute was to use its claws to launch physical critical hits. Once hit by them, players with low defense would fall to the ground instantly.
While she was thinking, a few melee players who didn't see the situation clearly rushed forward, ready to kill the mummies. As a result, the mummies swarmed over in groups, and the group of people died as expected.
After these two painful lessons, the players who were about to rush forward stopped in their tracks. Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a moment.
"This is only the first floor. I feel like I can't even reach the sixth floor..." Several players huddled in a corner, sighing with gloomy faces.
"Oh, forget about the eighth floor. I'm thankful we can even reach the second floor."
"Humph, I don't believe anyone can actually make it to the top floor alive! If there is, I'll kneel down and call him daddy right now!"
Everyone: “Are you serious?”
That person: "I always keep my word!"
Everyone: "Okay, then please look towards the southeast corner, thank you."
The man turned around and didn't see anyone else. He only saw a petite figure dragging a group of mummies across the field, constantly releasing skills as she ran.
Because of the distance, the skills that the mummy had used to deal with his companions could not hit that figure. The figure was unharmed and instead increased the intensity of the attack. First, it was surrounded by poisonous bees, then attacked by poisonous gas, and finally it kept throwing out bottles of different colors one after another in its hand. The mummies fell one after another and were soon cleared out by her solo.
Everyone: "See? Get ready to call her daddy."
That person: “…” What should I do? There will be another female father?
After the mummies on the first floor were eliminated, Xia Li immediately rushed to the second floor like a whirlwind. The reason was simply that the monsters in the tower would spawn within a short period of time.
Poxiao and his group were the first group to come in. Logically, they should have killed all the monsters on the first floor, but when they came in as the second group, they still saw mummies everywhere. It was obvious that the monsters here refreshed very frequently.
The second floor is much quieter and darker than the first floor. When you stretch out your hand, you can't see anything except the vague shadow of your hand.
She could only use props. There was a candle in her backpack. She took it out and put it in the palm of her left hand. She saw a bleeding human skin behind the candlelight, staring at her with a pair of green pupils.
Human skin, another humanoid monster.
Willard's evil taste was fully displayed in this tower. Xia Li quickly jumped back and created some distance before the human skin attacked her.
Silk will be spit out from the mouth of the human skin. Once you are entangled in the silk, your movement speed will be slowed down, and your health will also be damaged. Just now, several players who were rushing forward were hit by the silk, and their speed suddenly slowed down. Their souls were directly sucked away by the human skin, and then they themselves turned into human skin and were eliminated.
Being hit by the silk was indeed dangerous, but the most important thing now was to light up the entire second floor. If she couldn't see clearly, she wouldn't know where the human skins were hiding. If she ran into one face to face, she would be dead in a matter of minutes. After all, no matter how fast her reaction was, she couldn't guarantee that she could always avoid the attacks of the human skins.
What's more, the human skin's health is still very high. The previous players joined forces to attack, but they only took away a quarter of the human skin's health. She alone could not fight against all the human skins on the second floor.
Then the only way is to avoid it.
But how to avoid it in the dark is a problem.
Xia Li looked at the only candle in her hand, and then stared at the staircase leading to the third floor diagonally opposite.
The next moment, she threw the candle in her hand, and it flew towards the stairs, drawing an orange-yellow parabola in the air. The candlelight flickered in the air, illuminating everything within a 1-meter range.
There were books scattered on the ground, broken wine bottles, and seven human skins floating in place.
With a click, the candle fell onto the wooden floor and onto the stairs. The candle rolled a few times, and the flame went out after touching a puddle of water on the ground.
The entire second floor fell into darkness again.
A dozen or so players behind him began to huddle together, their voices trembling more than the others. "It's so dark, how are we supposed to get out?"
"What if I bump into human skin again? I don't want to be sucked dry."
"Woo, woo, woo, how about we follow her?"
Who is she? Everyone knows for sure.
Xia Li stood in front of them, raised her eyebrows, and said nothing.
Then she raised her feet, and as fast as a flash of lightning, she ran forward in the direction where the candle had flown!
Just remember the location of the human skin illuminated by the candlelight before, and don't touch them, and they won't come up to attack you.
Xia Li remembered that there was one two steps to the left, then one step to the right, and three meters ahead, there was also one in the middle.
She turned a corner, dodged the human skin in the middle, and continued running forward.
All the players were stunned.
How can I follow her as promised?
With their shitty movements, even if their eyes can understand, their brains won’t be able to do it!
Everyone fell silent again. They huddled together, staring at Xia Li's receding figure.
She successfully dodged the remaining four human skins, but one of them moved a few times, causing her to pass by it when she was about to step onto the stairs to the third floor.
The bloody-faced human skin suddenly spit out silk at her. Fortunately, she jumped a few steps upstairs and got out of the attack range of the human skin. The human skin then gave up and returned to its original position, waiting for the next target.
Every time she climbed a level, the number of players following her dwindled. Her ears, previously noisy, gradually quieted down.
I just don't know where the Dawnbreaker is. A drunk guy has almost no rationality, and I'm afraid he will cause some big trouble in the scene.
Xia Li quickly glanced around and found that there was not a single monster on this floor. It seemed that she had caught up with the first group of players to arrive. The monsters on the third floor had been defeated and had not yet refreshed.
That was a good opportunity to move up.
However, in a coffin placed diagonally opposite, Xia Li suddenly saw a shadow shaking vaguely.
She was ready to attack at any time and approached the edge of the coffin step by step.
The shadow got closer and closer, and became clearer and clearer. When the shadow's face was completely revealed in front of her, Xia Li's face darkened: "Come out."
Dawn lay in the coffin, crying, "I won't."
"Are you planning to stay in the scene for the rest of your life?" Xia Li asked him back.
This scene was created by Willard. There is no day or night, and time does not flow. Staying here is no different from being dead.
Dawn looked at her with tearful eyes, "You don't understand. I have nowhere else to go now."
Xia Li raised an eyebrow: "So you just deleted everyone and quit the guild, isolating yourself from the world?"
Dawn is silent.
"The monsters haven't respawned yet, so come out first and we'll go upstairs together."
Xia Li didn't know how to bring this up. Poxiao was her neighbor, and only she knew about it. Poxiao's unreliable mother had passed away, and only she and Poxiao knew about it.
But Poxiao had never mentioned his family affairs to anyone, which meant he didn't want anyone around him to know. If she rashly tried to comfort him at this time, it might only irritate him further.
After much thought, Xia Li still felt that it would be more appropriate to focus on today's treasure hunt.
However, Poxiao still refused to obey her and continued to lie inside, motionless, with a determined look on his face: "You go up, I'm not going."
"Are you sure?" Xia Li asked him.
"I'm sure." Dawn remained expressionless, and as he spoke, he turned over and faced her with his back.
Suddenly, something moved behind her. Xia Li didn't look back, but she sensed that the monster had refreshed.
Something was approaching her.
Click, click...
Every time that thing took a step, a sound came from its body.
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