LWGP - Chapter 145

Chapter 145: Ghost Shadow Armament

Wang Jiu was suspicious, but she collected everything except the Homestead and the Mystic Realm Fragment. Her assets were as follows: 2000 gold, 12 pieces of gold equipment (a set), 20 pieces of furniture (totaling 2500 permanent spirit energy), two gold growth accessories, the Trickery Badge (purple-gold, non-growth), the Chameleon Badge (silver), and other miscellaneous items from the package that were insignificant and wouldn't be missed if dropped.

Diao Guang had indeed died a few times, but his assets were mostly in the auction house—a well-known bug by now.

After they were returned to Wang Jiu's inventory, she took a look and casually calculated their value to be around eight or nine thousand gold. This Diao Guang was truly a rich guy.

A rich guy with 0 reputation? A thought flashed through Wang Jiu's mind.

But that bastard had listed them all at high prices.

System: "Go on, don't list them then."

Wang Jiu: "Now that you say that, I'll do it just to spite you."

Then, Wang Jiu listed them back at similarly high prices to avoid dropping them, just like leaving items that couldn't be listed, like the Homestead, in her mailbox.

The System nagged again about fixing this bug soon.

"Seeing how strong his attributes were, I thought his badge and accessory setup was similar to mine. Now I see it was his set of gold equipment, all enhanced to +7."

In fact, without the debuff, anyone with average attributes over 2500 would have been tempted to use strengthening stones on their basic equipment. But for people like Wang Jiu who saved resources for the long run, gold equipment was the baseline—enhancing a gold set was a given.

"No wonder he didn't have a single strengthening stone on him."

Wang Jiu had just assembled a full gold set and hadn't equipped it yet. But seeing a ready-made enhanced set before her, she naturally had no need for her own. Before changing her equipment, however, Wang Jiu glanced at the Trickery Badge.

Trickery Badge (Purple-Gold, Non-Growth)

Attribute: Immune to 30% of damage and simultaneously enters a state of 30% increased speed.

Skill: Freely fabricate or hide one's displayed data. This effect is permanent and can be toggled at will, unless the opponent possesses an item or ability that can break through the Trickery Badge's effect.

Use: Cannot be enhanced, but can be upgraded with Upgrade Scrolls.

System: "How sneaky. Good thing you can slash HP directly and leave no room for error."

Wang Jiu suddenly understood. No wonder she felt the damage was off at the time. Logically, even if the opponent's original attributes were high, they were still a large margin below hers. Moreover, her burst damage was so strong that she should have been able to kill him in one strike, yet it ended up taking two.

The main reason was this Trickery Badge. Purple-gold grade badges were rarely of the growth type.

Her Warlord's Glory Badge was the same, but at least it could be upgraded by stacking glory badges of the same series, which just meant fighting more wars.

But this Trickery Badge was a different story.

To upgrade a purple-gold item, you'd probably need a truckload of upgrade scrolls.

It would be better to spread those resources among other badges to get them to purple-gold.

After all, her Demon's Eye and Nightmare Descent were both purple-gold growth-type badges, providing an extremely terrifying boost in power, especially Nightmare Descent. And they could eventually be promoted through enhancement, giving them a higher ceiling than non-growth types.

System: "You dislike the Trickery Badge that much? Just throw it away."

The contrarian was at it again. Wang Jiu ignored it, equipped the Trickery Badge, roughly fabricated her stats, and then put on the enhanced gold set.

Her average attributes increased by 700 (without the 50% reduction, it would have been a 1400 increase).

The effect of a +7 enhanced gold set was indeed awesome.

But this Diao Guang had put in a lot of effort.

"The set's combined attributes are permanently boosted by 30%. No wonder his stats were so much higher than others."

"But a set's attribute boost isn't the best path. Burst damage or damage reduction would be better."

Diao Guang was definitely not weak. His class planning and resource allocation were very cohesive, even down to the coordinating Chameleon Badge.

Chameleon Badge +7 (Silver, Growth)

Unfortunately, burst damage or damage reduction sets were very hard to come by.

Wang Jiu didn't dwell on it. She used upgrade scrolls on the Chameleon Badge. After using 10, it became gold.

Its attributes also changed.

Attribute: All Attributes +350.

Skill: Can be used for environmental camouflage, duration 3 days. After deactivating camouflage, can enter an escape state with a 30% speed boost.

"Suddenly, I feel like running dungeons isn't that great. Killing people to get rich seems pretty good too," Wang Jiu said in an incredibly magnanimous tone.

And top-tier resources like badges could only be obtained through a method like HP-slaying. No wonder she was tempted.

The System didn't condemn her actions. Perhaps it, too, was encouraging humans to slaughter each other for this?

Wang Jiu didn't ponder such moral questions. After learning all the skills she had selected, her permanent spirit energy was almost completely depleted.

Then she looked at the other gold growth badge, Wolf Fang.

Attribute: Strength +200

Skill: Armor Penetration Effect +20%.

Its potential was very high; after all, it was dropped by a level 30 gold BOSS.

She had used up all her strengthening stones and didn't take any from the loot, so she didn't touch it.

Even so, her current attributes were a huge leap from before. Without the reduction, her base stats would have reached an average of 6500 (with Strength and Agility over a thousand points higher than Stamina, without any buffs, just pure attributes). Her permanent base burst damage, in particular, reached 210% because the 《Black Witch Grimoire》 was a permanent burst damage skill, adding 30%. All told, it pushed her burst damage high. Of course, there was also the 30% damage reduction and 20% armor penetration, which were no weaker than burst damage.

These were stronger qualities that surpassed mere attributes. Even with a thirty or forty percent attribute disadvantage, these qualities were enough to compensate or even secure a comeback.

The System asked: "Your attributes are stronger, but your spirit power is gone. Why didn't you take the medium Spirit Recovery Array? Just because you have bananas? The latter is a consumable; a permanent skill is the way to go."

"I don't need to take it to enjoy its benefits."

The System was surprised. It checked the current loot distribution among Yan Guanqi and the others. Lin Guiwan's participation score wasn't from DPS but entirely from support. She had actually surpassed single-target attackers like Chi Mantou. Within Wang Jiu's team, her participation score was second only to Wang Jiu, even higher than Xie Lu's.

A top-tier healer could heal the entire field, which meant continuously earning contribution points.

No wonder.

Yan Guanqi, who had the second-highest participation, proactively asked Lin Guiwan if she needed it, and she admitted she did.

Clearly, Wang Jiu had grasped the personality and mindset of the team leader, Yan Guanqi—he was reasonably fair and also smart enough to know how to handle people, as he wanted to win over Wang Jiu's group and avoid conflict.

Wang Jiu didn't watch the group's distribution. Instead, she held the Ghost Shadow Armament, lost in thought.

Previously, she had obtained the Scepter Armament, which was a territory reward. To be honest, it was quite powerful, boosting attack power on par with burst damage.

But she wasn't familiar with armament sets, which belonged to the cosmetic system.

The scepter was a standalone armament. So what was the effect of a full armament set?

Ghost Shadow Armament (Rare Armament, Permanent Item, Gold Grade)

Attribute 1: Maintains the essence of a gold armament, solidifying and protecting the equipped gear set. The gear will not drop upon death unless the opponent has a purple-gold armament set of a higher grade than the Ghost Shadow Armament. This effect is permanent.

Attribute 2: Can enter a ghostly state, detaching from the physical body to phase through material objects indefinitely. Duration: one hour. Cooldown: one hour.

Although it had no attributes or skills that enhanced her power, Wang Jiu's eyebrows raised for the first time, showing her delight.

"I like this brainstorm from your planners."

The System sent a rolling-eyes emoji and ignored her.

Wang Jiu was swift in taking resources, and her speed in processing them was even more monstrous. She sold what needed to be sold and listed what needed to be listed. Soon, her personal funds had accumulated to 30,000 gold.

She bought out all the Strength and Mastery skill books, only leaving the Stamina ones untouched. Even after clearing out the market, she still couldn't reach level 9.

It was clear that the other top players had finally freed up some funds, or the mid-to-high-level elites were also frantically buying things up. A basic skill book now cost 7 gold.

As a result, the funds of lower-level players also started to become plentiful.

So Wang Jiu raised the rental price for silver equipment and threw it all into the territory's equipment depot.

She divided her remaining funds into three parts: 1. Buying Holy Light and Blood Wrath. 2. Buying mid-to-high-grade clothing materials and recipes. 3. Buying rare metal ore materials.

In less than ten minutes, her personal 30,000 gold was spent. In contrast, her territory's funds had crazily accumulated to 5,000 gold. So fast. Wang Jiu checked the territory's status and found that it was completely full. Both the number of households and residents were at maximum capacity. Even Wang Shu's and the others' were full.

The overall occupancy of the combined territory had reached 80%.

A large territory, a large territory!

Someone in the ninth district had already gotten one.

Someone with the surname Song.

A coldness flickered in Wang Jiu's eyes. She pressed her temples, finished organizing her resources, and saw the competition for resources unfolding in the team channel.

You have participation points, and so do I. But what if we want the same thing?

You can only complain or rely on the team leader to distribute it.

In any case, it was very lively.

But Wang Jiu glanced over and discovered that the most hotly contested treasures were neither the pet egg nor the summoning horn, but the Deluxe Bathroom and the Elegant Toilet Set.

All in all—what they wanted most was a toilet.

Even a C-list socialite like Luo Sheng was resorting to both hard and soft tactics…

Wang Jiu: "…"

Amid the commotion, Wang Jiu looked at the remaining members of Diao Guang's team.

This group, of course, knew their situation was awkward. Without Diao Guang, their strength ranked last, and they were under suspicion. But even if they wanted to leave, they had to wait for the resources to be distributed.

In the silence, a private message suddenly popped up for one of them. It was from Wang Jiu, asking about Diao Guang.

"We met yesterday. He led us through a wilderness invasion, and then we happened to run into this dungeon…"

"Him? I don't know. He didn't seem to be a lord, because we all thought he was really strong and treated us well, so we wanted to join his territory. But he said he didn't have one, just that he was a member of a territory."

"His territory is a small one, very inconspicuous. Hardly anyone in our Xi'an knows about it. But their territory was full, so we couldn't get in. He told us to wait for their territory to expand."

"What's the small territory called?"

"I don't know. He said it was full, so we didn't ask."

Wang Jiu didn't ask much more. After the man answered tremblingly, he breathed a sigh of relief when he didn't get a response from her, only to quickly learn that the others had been privately messaged and questioned just like him.

In other words, she had questioned them separately to verify the truth.

Everyone broke out in a cold sweat. Luckily, they hadn't lied. If even one of them had, this ruthless woman might have wiped them all out.

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