Equipment Leaderboard,
will evaluate all players' equipment and then rank them based on their combat power.
As a swordsman, Hawkeye could be said to be obsessed with his blade.
He didn't change his weapon after leveling up like ordinary players; instead, he always carried the blade that symbolized his status as the strongest swordsman.
The first place on the Equipment Leaderboard was Black Blade Night.
The equipment on the leaderboard, with player permission, would reveal its complete attributes.
Hawkeye naturally disdained hiding and chose to make it public.
Black Blade Night: 100 combat power
Base Attributes: Lv.15 Purple Weapon (+30 combat power), Tier 1 Whetstone * 300 uses (+30 combat power)
Rule Attributes: Enhancement Level 5 (+25 combat power), Forging Level 3 (+15 combat power)
"Enhancement and forging are two methods that can strengthen equipment, but the failure rate is too high."
A hint of helplessness was revealed in Hawkeye's sharp gaze,
as he gently stroked the blade, which was as black as ink.
After the game version update,
many dilapidated-looking enhancement machines appeared in the towns of Arad, into which equipment could be placed for enhancement.
Enhanced equipment,
would have corresponding improvements in various attributes, and the higher the enhancement level, the greater the enhancement effect.
Forging was the same.
Most of Hawkeye's reward points during this period were spent on enhancing and forging Black Blade Night.
Once an enhancement failed,
the original enhancement level would randomly decrease, which led to Hawkeye's Black Blade remaining at Enhancement Level 5 until now.
At his luckiest moment,
Black Blade Night had been enhanced to Level 7 by him, and its sharpness, as well as the effect of enhanced slashes, were simply not on the same level as other weapons of the same tier.
However, Hawkeye couldn't resist,
and still wanted to challenge higher levels of enhancement, so it dropped back to Level 5.
This feeling of constantly treading water was almost driving Hawkeye, known for his calmness, insane.
Many times, members of the Adventurers' Guild would see Hawkeye happily enter the town, and then quickly leave the town emitting a chilling killing intent, heading to dangerous areas to hunt monsters.
The reason Hawkeye was deep in thought,
was the junk at the bottom of the Equipment Leaderboard.
Seventeenth Place: Worn-Out Heavenly Realm Rifle: 47 combat power
Base Attributes: Lv.15 White Weapon (+2 combat power)
Other Attributes: Enhancement Level 9 (+45 combat power)
"Who on earth would be so extravagant as to enhance a piece of junk to Level 9?"
Hawkeye took a deep breath,
and various figures kept appearing in his mind, but all were rejected.
Enhancement was very expensive.
Depending on the equipment's strength, each attempt cost thousands of reward points, and there was also a chance of failure.
The Black Blade Night in Hawkeye's hand had already cost him over three hundred thousand reward points.
Who would be willing to spend money to enhance a piece of junk to Level 9?
Suppressing the urge to swing his blade and kill the other party, Hawkeye looked further down.
Third Place: Rusty Rose Beast Taming Whip: 42 combat power.
Base Attributes: Lv.15 White Weapon (+2 combat power)
Other Attributes: Enhancement Level 8 (+40 combat power)
Even with Hawkeye's composure, he wanted to curse out loud.
A worn-out item, a rusty item...
Could two pieces of scrap metal make it onto the Equipment Leaderboard and stand alongside his cherished Black Blade Night?
He then looked further down,
Fourth Place: Faded Venomous Hook Claw: 41 combat power.
Base Attributes: Lv.10 White Weapon (+1 combat power)
Other Attributes: Enhancement Level 8 (+40 combat power)
Worn-out, rusty, faded.
All gathered.
Hawkeye tightly closed his eyes, his fists clenched.
Normally, a base purple equipment without any enhancement or forging was judged by the game to have 30 combat power.
This meant that,
three pieces of scrap metal, not even considered green equipment, had their attributes forcibly raised to surpass purple equipment through enhancement.
Boom.
Hawkeye stood on the deck of the Adventurer's ship, transforming the anger and confusion in his heart into a slash.
"It's like this again."
Beckman smoked his cigar and said helplessly, "Is he going to be alright in that state, Red Hair Guild Leader?"
Shanks, the Guild Leader of the Adventurers' Guild, looked helplessly at the venting Hawkeye and scratched his head, saying, "Ever since the game version updated, he's been like this often. It seems to be because his weapon enhancement keeps failing."
With the first player breaking through to Tier 2, continuing to block life's evolution lost its meaning. Most players who were already at the peak of Tier 1 had successfully broken through to Tier 2.
To be honest,
after breaking through to Tier 2, Shanks didn't feel any increase in strength.
It wasn't until he went hunting that he discovered that Tier 2 Pollution Monsters, which used to require a lot of effort to kill, could now be hunted easily.
After the life core broke through to Tier 2,
the energy within the body was like clear water turning into thick viscous fluid, with its quality increasing countless times.
His cherished blade that had accompanied him,
griffin, which was no less inferior to other Supreme Grade Swords, could no longer accompany him on his adventurous journey.
Driven by curiosity,
he also ran into town to try forging and enhancing the griffin at his waist.
However, the high enhancement fees and failure rate made Shanks stop decisively after only enhancing it to Level 3.
During this time,
he had also advised Hawkeye to stop, but to the strongest swordsman who regarded Black Blade as a companion, he naturally wouldn't listen, so he watched him continuously throw money into that dilapidated machine.
"Mihawk, I heard that a player accepted a counterattack mission, and the rewards after completing the main quest include a large number of reward points and an Enhancement Protection Scroll."
Shanks' voice reached Hawkeye's ears.
The gloomy Hawkeye turned his head, his eyes terrifyingly sharp, and asked, "Enhancement Protection Scroll?"
"A scroll that prevents the original enhancement level from dropping if an enhancement fails."
Shanks had just heard the news as well.
Counterattack Mission.
This was the key focus of the Reincarnation Game version update, directly changing how game items were acquired, so all major factions were treating it with extreme caution.
The overall process was as follows:
Players needed to first go to the game town to accept a [Counterattack Mission],
the mission content would be randomly assigned based on the player's strength, directly teleporting players to various Otherworlds to complete the main quest.
Most crucially,
if the mission failed, a very high amount of reward points would be deducted.
And if one died in the middle of the mission, there was no way to revive, just like dying in reality.
Even Strategist Sengoku,
who had used opportunistic methods to help Navy Headquarters seize several Revival Coins dropped by Soul Reapers, could be considered wealthy,
did not dare to rashly send Admiral-level Navy into danger.
Revival Coins were already rare items, only dropping after Lord Monsters died. Even the Fire Empire, which had hunted two Lord Monsters, was not flush with them and dared not squander them casually.
Otherwise,
Fleet Admiral Sengoku would not have been so pained he couldn't eat after Sakazuki's death, which consumed a Revival Coin.
That was exchanged for several Navy Bases.
Red-Haired Shanks chuckled heartily, "A new adventure. If you want to go, I can accompany you."
"I think you're the one who wants to go, aren't you?"
Hawkeye, dressed in formal noble attire, gave the eager Shanks an irritated glance, then hesitated, "Counterattack Missions, it seems they can't be done in teams?"
Even if they accepted the mission,
and both were randomly assigned to the same world for a counterattack mission, they wouldn't be teleported together.
Most of the time, they would be poles apart, even separated by several continents, or even planets.
"If I wasn't prepared, why would I come to find you?"
Shanks grinned and opened his backpack, pulling out the rule-based item he had just bought.
Although the new adventure was very appealing,
he didn't want to risk his crew or use them to test the dangers, so he wanted to lead by example first and explore the details of the counterattack mission.
Its difficulty and intensity.
Hawkeye's gaze fell on the item, and a slight smile played on his lips. He said, "In that case, let's set off!"
Huo Butian's Jianghu Command: Huo Butian, the manor lord of Huo Family Manor in the Wind and Cloud World, refused the recruitment of Xiongba, the leader of the World Society. Xiongba dispatched the former top assassins, the Twelve Fiends of Tianchi, to exterminate Huo Family Manor. Huo Butian knew he was no match, so he implored martial arts heroes for help.
Note: After using this item, the Counterattack Mission will be fixed as the [Huo Family Manor] faction, and the main quest will be fixed as [Prevent the Huo Family Manor Tragedy]. Can enter as a team (5/5).
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