At around 15 o'clock in the afternoon, Li Ming and his teammates had just upgraded to level 25. Tian Xinhong also sent a message, notifying him of the good news of the discovery of strengthening materials...
The discovery of lapis lazuli really makes Tian Xinhong extremely happy. This basic strengthening material has no value in the current low-level equipment. When the players level up and the equipment gets better, this strengthening material will definitely become the most popular on the market.
Popular consumables!
But a guild like Tianxin League that pursues the development of strength will definitely not sell this kind of treasure, and will only leave it to the people of its own guild.
The output of the lapis lazuli mine is 999 pieces a day, which is enough to greatly enhance the strength of the Tianxin Alliance!
"Thank you for your advice, brother. A reward of 100,000 gold coins will be mailed to you immediately. Remember to notify me immediately if there is such a good thing." Tian Xinhong said with a smile.
"Guildmaster, remember there is one more condition." Li Ming reminded with a smile.
"Whenever you need lapis lazuli, just say hello and I'll mail it to you right away." Tian Xinhong said without hesitation.
"Then I want a few now." Li Ming said directly without any politeness.
"No problem, it's a bit difficult to collect. I'll get you 10 first." Tian Xinhong nodded and said.
After ending the private chat, Li Ming quietly told Fan Hua the news, which immediately made him very upset...
"Let me go, you have another hundred thousand gold coins in your account, and you also discovered lapis lazuli. It's really a bargain for the Tianxin Alliance!" Fan Hua said privately in surprise.
"Don't think so much. Even if we find the mineral vein, will you be able to occupy it?" Li Ming asked with a smile.
"That's right, it's more cost-effective to exchange money." Fan Hua nodded, expressing his helplessness.
"My email is here, I won't tell you anymore." Li Ming smiled and closed the private chat and hurried to receive the email...
Tian Xinhong was indeed true to his word. Not only did the email contain the promised reward of 100,000 gold coins, but it also came with 10 sparkling blue diamond-like transparent stones.
Lapis Lazuli: Special consumable material, auxiliary strengthening props. The caster can fuse lapis lazuli with equipment or weapons to increase the upper limit of the basic attributes of the props.
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Indeed it is!
As the gold coins jingled, 10 lapis lazuli stones automatically entered Li Ming's package.
Although only advanced professional casters of the blacksmith division can use lapis lazuli power-up items, there is currently no caster except Li Ming.
It turns out that casters can strengthen props...
Li Ming now understands the benefits of being a forger. According to the system introduction, a forger can create more iron props besides weapons and armor. Strengthening equipment is actually the scope of the forger's work...
In other words, no matter what profession’s weapons and equipment you have, if you want to strengthen their attributes, you have to ask a caster for help.
The reason why Li Ming asked for 10 lapis lazuli stones was because he wanted to try the benefits of strengthening items. After all, the short staff of destiny in his hand is a weapon that can grow, and it will be more powerful after strengthening.
With the gold coins and materials in hand, he followed the team with peace of mind and continued to clear monsters. Now that he was at level 25, he could return to the city at any time to take on more advanced main quests.
But now, the threat of the spider tattoo forced him to speed up his leveling and find a way to enter the imperial city as soon as possible...
The team kept grinding monsters until the sun went down, and then the beautiful captain spoke and ended the day's leveling activities. Because the teammates' online time could not be consistent at night, the evening was free time.
"Everyone, remember, we will go online at 0 o'clock and gather here. We are going to deal with the BOSS." Li Ming reminded everyone.
"I understand, I won't forget it." Everyone smiled and nodded.
The team disbanded and several teammates went offline early. Li Ming and Fan Hua used the return scrolls and returned to Huangsha Town to continue taking on tasks.
Swish!
Two white lights flashed, and Li Ming and Fan Hua appeared in the center of the square, and the two immediately walked towards the governor's mansion.
"Brother Ming, how do you get strengthened equipment? Don't you meet the conditions now? Let me see if you strengthen one." Fan Hua urged curiously.
"Follow me." Li Ming immediately led him to a corner of the town's mansion. He also wanted to try out the enhanced weapons.
The two walked to a secluded corner, and Li Ming opened the life occupation skill bar. As expected, there was a built-in command in the caster option to enhance the function!
Clicking on the strengthening command, a simple interface suddenly popped up in front of him, and he needed to enter the forging space to continue.
Li Ming immediately chose to enter the space. The environment in front of him changed. He returned to the familiar stove and immediately turned on the sharing function, pulling Fan Hua into the space.
"Do you need to use the forging space to strengthen weapons?" Fan Hua was stunned.
"I'll give it a try first." Li Ming quickly called up the equipment column, removed the short staff on it, and then took out the short staff and three lapis lazuli stones from the package and placed them on the crafting table.
The lapis lazuli that had just appeared on the forging platform suddenly shone with brilliant white light, and the short staff of destiny also shone with white light at the same time...
An enhancement interface immediately popped up in front of Li Ming's eyes. It was a strange triangular pattern. There was a square box at the top of the triangle with two big words "Learning Props" inside, and there were two square boxes below the triangle with the words "Learning Props" in it.
There are two words: [Reinforcement Materials] and [Supplementary Materials].
In the middle of the triangle, there is a command option to start strengthening...
At this time, Li Ming finally understood that if he wanted to strengthen the props, he only needed to put in the corresponding props according to the prompts on this interface, and then he could start.
However, what are the auxiliary materials? It seems that he does not have such things...
After telling Fan Hua the situation, he also frowned curiously and thought.
"Brother Ming, maybe that is an auxiliary material to increase the success rate of enhancement. You are just a primary enhancement now, so you probably don't need it," Fan Hua said.
"Let me give it a try." Li Ming nodded, put the short staff of destiny into the item column, and then put a lapis lazuli stone into the reinforcement material column. Sure enough, the [Start Strengthening] command in the middle was flashing with a halo, even without assistance.
Materials can also undergo a strengthening process...
He immediately clicked on the command to start strengthening, and with a swipe, the interface in front of him disappeared, and a strengthening progress bar appeared instantly!
As the progress bar continued to advance, a piece of lapis lazuli was automatically attached to the short staff of destiny with a clanking sound on the crafting stage. Without Li Ming's actions, the cyan diamond seemed to be embedded in the short staff, with a layer of light.
A white light enveloped the whole body of the short staff, flickering brightly and dimly...
The progress bar was still growing slowly, which made Li Ming confused.
"Brother Ming, don't be stunned, quickly hit it with your forging hammer, otherwise it will fail!" Fan Hua also felt that the situation was very bad, so he reminded loudly.
"Isn't it? Strengthening props should be the same as forging?" Li Ming quickly picked up the hammer and hit the short staff harder...
Ding-ding-ding-ding!
Just as he struck the hammer, the progress bar quickly jumped upwards. Now Li Ming knew what was going on, and he continued to swing the hammer, hitting the short stick like he was making equipment...
However, he found that although tapping the short stick could make the progress bar continue to increase upwards, the speed was very slow. At this rate of progress, it would be difficult for the progress bar to fill up in just ten seconds. The longer it takes, the easier it is to fail.
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What should be done to increase the speed and success rate of reinforcement?
Li Ming frowned and looked at the short staff of destiny on the crafting table. Now the entire short staff was wrapped in a layer of white light. It seemed that the strengthening material was working, and he had already used all the crafting methods with both hands. He could dye the short staff that could not be enhanced and strengthened.
speed.
This shows that the strengthening process and the forging process are two different things, each with its own different techniques...