Chapter 106

[Translator - Kiteretsu][Proofreader - Kyros]

Chapter 106

Yoo Na-Eun's pupils shook wildly as she watched from a distance.

'What? No... Is that even possible?' She thought to herself.

She was the representative enhancer of Ho-Yeong.

Although she was Epic grade, she was a hidden class that could grant special abilities to various equipment.

She had done a lot of enhancements.

But she had never seen the results in front of her.

'That's the 39th fully enhanced Rare... with that skill.' She thought, observing Jeong-Hoon.

The dagger that Jeong-Hoon had just put down was the 39th Rare grade dagger that had been fully enhanced.

"If you want to enhance your equipment, please search for JH anytime and request it," Jeong-Hoon said, promoting his service.

The promotional effect was clear.

He was doing it with Ho-Yeong's support, so he thought about starting with Epic grade, but the Epic success rate was 80%.

Broadcasts had to be stimulating.

It was much more effective to try with Rare and show no failures at all, rather than trying with Epic and showing even one failure.

- Wow... A 100% enhancement success rate hahaha

- Crazy lol Is that even possible?

- Wow! He's doing it for 10% of the market price for 48 hours?

- I'm going right now!

- Me too! I need to fully enhance my equipment!

- I broke my fixed deposit after seeing this~

- I'm withdrawing my invested coins! I have to make a profit from this.

The viewers, who had been indifferent at first, were now captivated by Jeong-Hoon's enhancement.

'Let's wrap it up.' Jeong-Hoon thought and signaled to Ha-Jin

"Alright, that's it for today's broadcast." Ha-Jin said.

Ha-Jin tactfully gave the ending message and immediately ended the broadcast.

"Jeong-Hoon."

Yoo Na-Eun approached Jeong-Hoon as if she had been waiting.

Jeong-Hoon was taking a short break.

"Yes. What is it?" He asked

"...What's the success rate of that skill?"

"100%."

"What...?"

Yoo Na-Eun's expression went blank for a moment at the words '100%'.

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Her mind became jumbled at Jeong-Hoon's further explanation.

'That's impossible...' She thought to herself

Even she, an Illusion Enhancer, had an 81% success rate for Rare grade enhancements.

It meant that there was a chance of failure about 2 out of 10 times.

And when it came to Epic grade, the probability dropped drastically to 38%.

A success rate of a little less than 4 out of 10 times.

But Jeong-Hoon, who wasn't even an enhancer, had a 100% success rate for Rare and a whopping 80% for Epic.

"Are you okay...?"

Ha-Jin knew exactly what Yoo Na-Eun was feeling.

A sense of relative deprivation.

Unlike Ha-Jin, who had nothing, she was recognized as an enhancer, so she would feel it even more.

"...Damn, what a dirty world."

Oh dear...

It seemed like she was quite shocked.

"Whoa, it looks like it'll be a big deal if we touch her."

Ha-Jin wisely gave up on trying to comfort her.

* * *

The broadcast effect was tremendous.

When he checked the exchange after the LIVE ended, as expected...

Over 100 requests had come in.

As expected, most of the requests were for Normal and Rare.

Epic and above required a considerable amount of capital.

Unless they were users who had accumulated some wealth, not many people had them.

The usual route was to endure with fully enhanced Rare grade equipment and then switch to Epic after reaching level 200.

'The exchange level is still too low to handle Epic.' He thought

Exchange level.

The level increased according to the number of requests, and the maximum level was 10.

Therefore, most people entrusted Epic or higher grade items to exchanges that were level 8 or higher.

Jeong-Hoon wasn't greedy for Epic or higher grade items yet.

Now was the time to quickly count Normal and Rare.

Epic would come next.

But in one request, an Epic grade armor was clearly stored.

'Huh? Someone's already entrusting me with Epic?'

They must have really liked the LIVE broadcast.

He wanted to know who it was, but the exchange was strictly anonymous.

So unless it was a named item, it was difficult to guess the owner.

'It's even a set?'

But it wasn't just one piece of Epic armor, he had sent a whole set of 4 armor pieces, from head to toe, along with Epic Enhancement Stones.

'Huh? 120?'

He had sent a whopping 120 Epic Enhancement Stones.

- Please enhance them all.

It was a very simple and clear request.

Epic enhancement cost 3 gold per attempt.

For Rare to Unique, you could try 30 times, so it was 90 gold per piece.

But at 10% of the price, it was 9 gold.

'There are 4 pieces, so it's 36 gold.'

36 gold was enclosed, as per the request.

Jeong-Hoon received the equipment and enhancement stones and started enhancing.

[Enhancement successful.]

[Enhancement successful.]

With an 80% success rate, it was indeed going well.

[Enhancement failed.]

[Enhancement attempts are not consumed.]

The power of Transcendent Enhancement activated, and the attempts were not consumed.

'This is the biggest advantage.' He thought

The fact that the attempts weren't consumed meant that full enhancement was guaranteed.

The only downside was that he didn't know how long it would take.

'Hmm, for now, it's better to do it according to the request, right?'

If he could be greedy, he wanted to fully enhance them.

But the Epic Enhancement Stones he had were just enough for the number of enhancement attempts requested.

He couldn't exceed the quantity.

Jeong-Hoon attempted 30 enhancements per piece.

[+24 Solein's Wind Hood]

[+24 Solein's Wind Armor]

[+23 Solein's Wind Gauntlets]

[+26 Solein's Wind Shoes]

These were the results.

It was a bit disappointing considering the 80% success rate, but they were all over +20, and there were still enhancement attempts left, so he thought it was a decent result.

'Let's not be hasty.' He thought.

There would be plenty of opportunities to enhance Epic or higher grade equipment as time passed.

He was in the process of making the system that way anyway.

So there was no need to obsess over full enhancements from the beginning.

Jeong-Hoon returned the enhanced equipment to the client.

* * *

Kaneda Shun, who had come to Korea to study.

He was currently at the exchange, waiting for his items to arrive after placing an order.

'There's quite a decent enhancer here. I wonder if Haruto would find this interesting?'

Today was his day off.

He was browsing YouTube for New World-related content when he stumbled upon a LIVE broadcast.

It was a channel that had been created not too long ago, but it already had nearly 80,000 subscribers.

Kaneda Shun, out of curiosity, entered the LIVE broadcast and watched the user enhancing equipment in real time.

'Oh! He's continuously succeeding with Rare enhancements? Is that Haruto?'

Currently, only Iwase Haruto had a 100% success rate for Rare enhancements.

But now there was one more person.

Kaneda Shun watched the broadcast with rapt attention, unable to take his eyes off it for a moment.

As soon as the broadcast ended, Shun entered the capsule and searched for the exchange called 'JH' that was mentioned in the LIVE.

[Open Service!]

[For the next 48 hours, we will enhance your equipment at 10% of the current market price!]

[My enhancement success rates are as follows!]

- Normal: 100%

- Rare: 100%

- Epic: 80%

- Unique: 60%

* Officially certified by New World

"Oh? The Epic success rate is 80%?"

Iwase's was 87%, wasn't it?

So the difference was only 7%?

That was crazy.

He felt a shiver run down his spine.

Although he loved Korea, he thought of it as a developing country when it came to New World.

He hadn't expected such an amazing enhancer to appear in a developing country.

"Should I send something?"

Kaneda Shun placed an order, enclosing his Epic grade armor set and Epic Enhancement Stones.

The enhancement fee was 36 gold, after a 90% discount from the total of 360 gold.

It was an incredibly cheap price.

And soon, the armor set arrived.

[+24 Solein's Wind Hood]

[+24 Solein's Wind Armor]

[+23 Solein's Wind Gauntlets]

[+26 Solein's Wind Shoes]

"Oh!"

The enhancement levels of the armor were all decent.

As expected with an 80% success rate, they averaged around +24.

If he had entrusted it to Haruto, it could have been slightly higher, around +25 or +26, but he would have had to pay almost 600 gold to Haruto for that.

In terms of price, it was a very satisfactory result.

"Huh?"

But there was one strange thing.

[Remaining enhancements: 6]

[Remaining enhancements: 6]

[Remaining enhancements: 7]

[Remaining enhancements: 4]

The remaining enhancement attempts weren't 0.

What was this? Did he skim some of the enhancement stones?

No. For that to happen, the Epic enhancement success rate would have to be 100%.

Then did he restore the remaining enhancement attempts and return them?

"Haha! This is really amazing! Haruto, you need to step up your game."

Kaneda Shun smiled brightly.

* * *

"Keheuk!"

Iwase's hammer struck the head of a Lv. 133 Arc Enermic.

The Arc Enermic staggered and collapsed.

"Die!"

Iwase continued to hammer the head of the fallen Arc Enermic.

Only after confirming that its head had exploded did Iwase move on to the next Arc Enermic.

The hunt had been going on for days.

[Level Up!]

[All stats have increased by +1.]

[Bonus stat +1 has been granted.]

After a while, Iwase's level rose to 136.

"Phew, it's so damn slow to level up!"

Even though his level had increased significantly, Iwase wasn't happy at all.

The fact that the Ruined City was being continuously cleared in Korea.

That fact kept Iwase feeling uneasy.

That's why he had to reach level 151 even faster.

He was even ignoring all the requests coming into the exchange recently.

"Hey, is that true?"

"It is! They say a video of someone clearing the Ruined City in Korea was uploaded on YouTube!"

"So you can clear it just by following that?"

News of clearing the Ruined City was coming from users moving between fields.

Iwase felt his heart sink and hurriedly went to YouTube.

"What is this...?"

It was true.

The reason the Ruined City was being continuously cleared in Korea was because of this damn video.

"Fuck!"

The Ruined City was a paradise of bugs.

It meant that you didn't even have to hunt monsters, you could just find and solve the hidden cheats.

Iwase had known the solution to the Ruined City early on.

But how did that guy know?

"Wait a minute..."

If he could use Search to that extent... wasn't there a high probability that he had already taken the power of transcendence?

Iwase's fist clenched tightly as his thoughts reached that point.

That couldn't happen.

What was the reason he was trying to reach level 151?

Iwase dragged his trembling legs and entered the vicinity of the Ruined City.

The conversations of the users heading to the Ruined City became clearer.

"Ah, and my Korean friend said that the person who cleared the Ruined City did a LIVE broadcast about enhancing this time."

"Really?"

"Yeah! And they're only charging 10% of the current market price."

"The success rate isn't low, is it?"

"No. The Rare success rate is 100%, and Epic is 80%!"

"Wow... Really?"

"They even said they can enhance Unique with a 60% success rate."

Damn it... He took it, didn't he?

Iwase Haruto had an 87% success rate for Epic enhancement.

But his Unique success rate dropped drastically to 31%.

This was because he hadn't completed his 3rd job advancement yet.

But he had thought that if he had the power of transcendence, all of this would be covered.

"You fucking Korean bastard! If I ever meet you, I won't let you off easy... I swear..."

Iwase cursed and then muttered in a hateful voice.

[Translator - Kiteretsu]

[Proofreader - Kyros]