The Great Thief - Chapter 667

Chapter 667

Seeing as the Strengthening Stones were in limited supply, he naturally had to upgrade his best equipment first .

There were a few things left that he had to strengthen – the two daggers, one of which was the Epic dagger that he couldn't use yet, and the ring he always relied on .

Lu Li first took out the Shard of the Defiler . This was a Dark Gold dagger that was originally level 40, but he had mounted a stone onto it that reduced its level requirement .

It could be said that a considerable amount of Lu Li's damage came from this dagger .

Ravenholdt Manor once attempted to make a batch of Epic gear, but there were a number of failures and these were the failed weapons . Water Fairy had also acquired one under Lu Li's instruction .

Unfortunately, Ravenholdt Manor was a small camp, so Lu Li didn't dare to introduce his guild to it .

When he had brought Water Fairy in last time, the organization had given both of them a near-impossible Boss quest . Perhaps the fear was still lingering, because he hadn't gone back to ask for quests since .

Even so, he had to go in tomorrow to check – he needed to upgrade his equipment as much as he could before the professional league .

After being lost in thought for a while, Lu Li put the exquisite weapon into the furnace with the Strengthening Stone and ten gold coins .

It failed!

What? How did it fail on the first try?

In principle, the success rate of the first attempt should have been at least 78% . With the bonus 20% success rate from his skill, there was almost no chance of it failing .

Although the last eight items didn't produce any special effects, none of them had failed on the first try .

As someone who had a bonus 20% success rate, there was no way he would need to ask someone else to help him, right? Lu Li was standing there with his mouth wide open in shock .

He first suspected his own bad luck and thought it was because of his character .

When strengthening equipment, failure was just a normal thing, even though it was really unlikely in this instance .

Lu Li tried again and succeeded .

If it had failed again, Lu Li would have given up and left . For him to fail like that again would have meant that God had closed this door and even boarded up the windows .

The whole process of strengthening his equipment had been filled with frustrations, but the results were worthwhile .

In the first upgrade, the dagger increased by 15 attribute points . Its Agility went from 20 to 35 points .

This was the kind of attribute that a level 40 Dark Gold equipment should have, but the dagger was too stingy to give it . Fortunately, the upgrade easily raised that stat .

The second strengthening wasn't as unlucky as the first, but Lu Li was a little apprehensive as he heard the system's congratulatory voice .

It was just that the result of the strengthening was slightly unsatisfactory . The Strength property had been buffed from 12 to 20, and it gave the first special effect a small buff .

The attack speed had been increased from 30% to 35% .

Lu Li had seen Water Fairy's Shard of the Defiler; she was showing it off a few days ago after upgrading it three times . It was now at 40% attack speed .

This meant that Water Fairy's weapon was currently better .

The Attribute increases weren't bad, but Lu Li wanted an extra effect . He hoped that the special third strengthening would increase the attack speed a little more .

Lu Li could understand if his third attempt wasn't successful .

In fact, there was a strategy to doing the third upgrade . If you had many Strengthening Stones available, you could upgrade all your items twice . You would attempt to upgrade an item until it was level 3 and repeat with different items until an upgrade failed . Then, you would take the important item and upgrade that .

This was called 'padding' because the probability of failure after failing was smaller .

It was only those who were super unlucky that would fail multiple times in a row .

However, as of now, Strengthening Stones were too precious and even someone like Lu Li who had acquired so many of them in the secret area couldn't afford that . As such, he could only rely on his luck .

System: Congratulations, your third strengthening of the Shard of the Defiler was a success .

Shard of the Defiler (Dark Gold): 42-56 damage, +35 Agility, +20 Strength, Socket Slot 1(Enhanced) . Special Effect 1: Apply a 20% Armour Pierce on a target for 5 seconds . 2 minute cooldown . Special Effect 2: Attack speed +35%, Special Effect 3: Defile, active . Decreases target's armor and movement speed by 25%, cooldown 360 seconds . Special Effect 4: Fatal Strike, when the target's HP drops below 20%, chance to kill the target instantly . Requires level 40 (-8), Durability 120/120 .

When Lu Li saw that there was no improvement in the attack speed, he was a little disappointed .

However, when he looked carefully, he was surprised to find that this equipment had four effects . It had gained a completely new effect .

The newly added effect was quite a common one – Armour Pierce – but that didn't mean that it wasn't good . Armour Pierce was the top-ranking effect for melee classes as reducing your opponent's defence was the same as increasing your own attack .

This item now had four special effects, which was what the Shard of the Defiler should have been like .

Lu Li barely managed to hold back the urge to send Water Fairy the properties of his weapon, especially since she had just shown off hers to him two days ago .

However, he was a man and he had no reason to create additional opposition between them . Besides, if he showed her the properties, wasn't he just losing his trump card? Lu Li's thoughts were usually quite strange, but they weren't exactly wrong either .

Now, he was done with his dagger .

The fourth strengthening would damage the equipment if it failed . It didn't matter if he lost a few attribute points, but if he lost an effect, that would truly be depressing .

There would be an abundance of Strengthening Stones in future, and when he could pad his other pieces of equipment first, he could increase his chances of success .

Lu Li then began to strengthen his ring . The Epic dagger wasn't particularly urgent as he couldn't use it now anyway . It was also unlikely that he would be able to buy a stone that reduce an equipment's level requirements any time soon .

On the other hand, strengthening this ring was a little wasteful .

If he strengthened it now, he would have to strengthen it again later if he upgraded it .

In fact, any upgradeable equipment would be like that as the game took every opportunity to squeeze some money out of the players . This was one of the game company's favourite ways to balance the wealth gap .