Chapter 231 - 155: Element Combination?
Chapter 231: Chapter 155: Element Combination?
And just as the discussions he’d overheard suggested, the rewards for this quest were indeed a bit outrageous.
1. Adventurers participating in the rescue operation will receive a base reward according to their Professional Level: a Level 1 Adventurer gets 10 gold coins, a Level 2 Adventurer gets 25 gold coins, a Level 3 Adventurer gets 50 gold coins, and a Level 4 Adventurer gets 100 gold coins!
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Their opening move could be described in a single word—lavish.
The base reward alone was enough to put the minds of the onlooking Adventurers at ease.
After all, not everyone was an expert like Lin Mo or Landon. For most Adventurers, this base pay was close to or even more than what they’d earn from a typical adventure.
2. For every captured maiden successfully rescued, everyone will receive an additional 1 Gold Coin. The primary rescuer (if any) will receive an additional 30 Gold Coins!
The second reward was an added bonus, and a handsome one at that.
However, the rewards so far were still relatively conventional.
Good as they were, the rewards were all just Gold Coins, which felt somewhat lacking. It was enough to attract plenty of Adventurers, but it would be difficult to draw in the true masters.
What came next, however, was the main event.
3. Participants who make a significant contribution will be gifted one Excellent Level weapon. Participants who make an extremely significant contribution will receive one Excellent Level weapon plus one piece of Excellent Level armor OR one piece of Excellence Level equipment. The participant with the greatest contribution may choose any two pieces of Excellence Level equipment!
’Equipment!’
If you were to ask Adventurers what they wanted most, the answer might be money.
But if you were to ask what Adventurers wanted money for... excluding those who just saw adventuring as a means to make a living, most ambitious Adventurers would only have two answers.
Skills and equipment.
Especially for the many Adventurers who weren’t as naturally talented and learned Skills more slowly, equipment was even more important.
They had yet to fully master the Skills they already knew, so they had neither the time nor the energy to practice new ones. Good equipment and weapons, however, were a surefire way to increase their Combat Power!
The boost from a suitable Excellent Level weapon could rival months or even years of effort for many people!
And Excellence Level was even more incredible.
Once equipment reached the Excellence Level or above, the magnitude of the boost would increase dramatically. It was said that a single piece of Excellence Level equipment was enough to erase the gap between a Professional and a Non-Professional!
For a Professional, it was equivalent to gaining half a Level.
Furthermore, equipment of Excellence Level and above was more diverse, no longer limited to weapons and Armor, but taking on many more forms.
For example, Rings, bracelets, Cloaks, and so on.
The boost from equipment came not just from its materials but primarily from its Hidden Attributes and Equipment Amplification. Compared to common forms of equipment like weapons and Armor, special items like Rings and Cloaks were much more difficult to craft, as it was harder to preserve the properties of the raw materials or apply an Enchantment. Therefore, if one was successfully forged, its quality would start at the Excellence Level.
In short, such powerful equipment wasn’t just a matter of price; often, you couldn’t buy it even if you had the money.
For example, in the few smithies in the city, you could still see some Excellent Level equipment, but Excellence Level... most of them simply didn’t have the skill to forge it!
Even the Adventurer’s Association in Silver Stream City mostly sold only Ordinary and Excellent Level equipment; Excellence Level items were a rare sight.
Lin Mo himself currently had only one piece of Excellence Level equipment... the Mithril Gloves, worth over 800 Gold Coins!
The power of the Mithril Gloves needed no explanation; Lin Mo, having used them for some time, understood this deeply.
Therefore, this reward was also quite attractive to him.