ℙ009 – Sorting Loot and Glory Points Exchange

P009 – Sorting Loot and Glory Points Exchange

Ignoring the continuous wailing in the distance, Hecate sat on the floor leaning her back against the Save Crystal.

Now that everything was done, she checked her appearance. Her robes and hair were dirty with maggot mucus, as well as spider blood and ashes from these unnamed 1F and 2F ruins. This dirt wouldn't go away on her robes until she cleaned it, and neither would her hair.

"Oh well, that can be done later... More importantly..."

She opened her inventory and storage from the Save Crystal, checking of the loot that she obtained.

; ; 98 Unknown Meat. 85 Cobweb. 687 Veliperalocator Spider leg. 130 Veliperalocator Spider Carcass. 479 Maggot Carcass. 512 Fire Ant Carcass. 103 Salamander Carcass. 402 Bottle of Sticky Mucus. 230 Bottle of Acidic Liquid. 145 Bottle of Spider Ashes. 12 Broken Golden Chandelier. 15 Scorched Woman Statue. 30 Broken Ornamental Sword. 21 Broken Ornamental Shield. 5 Burned Painting. 120 Unknown Coin. 2 Maggot Soul Essence. 5 Larva Spider Soul Essence. 3 Veliperalocator Spider Soul Essence. 1 Adult Veliperalocator Spider Soul Essence.

Compared to 1F and B1F, Hecate wasn't able to collect many loot in 2F. Fire-type spell sure is powerful, but at the same time is detrimental to use, making it quite double-edged sword.

Using fire spells in hunting would definitely destroy the enemy along with their loots!

Hecate could only shakes her head, trying to not think about that again and proceed to calculate her loots.

"Lets see...Let's look at the Soul Essences first!"

Soul Essence is an item that won't do anything by itself. It only reveals its effect by compounding it on the Equipment. However, only an Equipment with Enchant slots that can be compounded with it.

The type of equipment was also important because the essences had different effects depending on where they were compounded.

Spoiler ; ; Item Name: Soul Essence: Maggot Type: Soul Essence Rarity: Durability: Effect: Slot: Armor - Body:

MaxHP +800

If UpgLv +6: Change the Armor property into Acid.

If UpgLv +12: MaxHP +1000 UpgLv

Slot: Armor - Garment:

MaxMP +800

If UpgLv +6: Can use Acidic Splash (UpgLv) times per day.

If UpgLv +12: MaxMP +1000 UpgLv

Details: The extracted soul of a Maggot.

It can be compounded into any Slotted Equipment.

Incorrect slot placement will not grant any effect.

Other than increasing MaxMP, this essence has little use to Hecate. Acidic Splash is a skill that just spurting acid to the enemy. The acid liquid only do a little damage, though it was highly combustible to Fire.

Perhaps it has some uses to increase her Vermilion Blast power, but its few limit use makes it not worth the trouble.

Spoiler ; ; Item Name: Soul Essence: Larva Spider Type: Soul Essence Rarity: Durability: Effect: Slot: Armor - Arms:

Can use Sticky Web (10UpgLv) times per day.

Slot: Armor - Shoes:

Movement Speed +2%

Able to stand on the wall (Gravity still applied)

If UpgLv +9: Movement Speed +(UpgLv)%

Details: The extracted soul of a Larva Spider.

It can be compounded into any Slotted Equipment.

Incorrect slot placement will not grant any effect.

; ; Item Name: Soul Essence: Veliperalocator Spider Type: Soul Essence Rarity: Durability: Effect: Slot: Weapon

Adds Poison property to melee physical attack.

Have a chance to Bleed the enemy with physical attack.

Attack Speed increases by (5+UpgLv)%

Slot: Armor - Shoes:

DEX +6%

Able to stand on the wall (Gravity still applied)

If UpgLv +9: DEX +(2UpgLv)%

Details: The extracted soul of a Veliperalocator Spider.

It can be compounded into any Slotted Equipment.

Incorrect slot placement will not grant any effect.

The ability to stand on the wall sure is great, though it was redundant with Hecate's skill Wall Run that she got from Acrobatics Sub-class. Both can make the player walks in the wall. The difference is, Wall Run requires Hecate to run, or else she will fall down.

In that sense, the Soul Essences effect is superior than her skill.

Sticky Web is a skill that makes player can unleash spider silk. The silk is brittle so it can't be used like Spiderman does, like propelling oneself to jump from building to building. Though, it was burnable so it does have some use to make Fire spread faster. Even if she did not go to combat, it can be used to produce Cobweb every day.

"It seems, the Larva Spider one is more useful to me, while Veli-spider is more useful to Assassin or Ranger."

Hecate nodded with satisfied face after looking at both of their effect, but she was shocked when she saw the last essence.

Spoiler ; ; Item Name: Soul Essence: Adult Veliperalocator Spider Type: Soul Essence Rarity: Durability: Effect: Slot: Head - Upper (Hairpin or Earring type):

Decrease Spell Cast-time by of the Base Cast-time.

(Effect will not stack)

Poison-based Spell did not require catalyst to cast.

Slot: Head - Upper (Helmet or Hat type):

Decrease Skill Arts Cooldown by of the Base Cooldown time.

(Effect will not stack)

Poison-based Arts did not require Stamina to use.

Slot: Head - Lower (Necklace type):

Details: The extracted soul of an Adult Veliperalocator Spider. ; ; Please select an action: Spoiler ; <td colspan="2"><big><big><big> <td colspan="2">Remaining Points: <big></big>1840; <big></big> Skill Assimilation Orb <big></big>1000 <big></big> Shining Knight Set Equipment <big></big>400 <big> </big> Sacred Healing Set Equipment <big></big>400 <big> </big> Imperial Spellcaster Set Equipment <big></big>400 <big> </big> Crushing Combo Set Equipment <big></big>400 <big> </big> Shadow Stealth Set Equipment <big></big>400 <big> </big> Master Tamer Set Equipment <big></big>400 <big> </big> Vulture Hunter Set Equipment <big></big>400 <big> </big>Slot Enchant Core <big></big>100 <big></big> Nucleus of Fire <big></big>65 <big> </big>Nucleus of Water <big></big>65 <big> </big>Nucleus of Earth <big></big>65 <big> </big>Nucleus of Wind <big></big>65 <big> </big>Max HP Rune <big></big>25 <big> </big>Max MP Rune <big></big>25 <big> </big>Strength Rune <big></big>15 <big> </big>Agility Rune <big></big>15 <big> </big>Vitality Rune <big></big>15 <big> </big>Intelligence Rune <big></big>15 <big> </big>Dexterity Rune <big></big>15 <big> </big>Luck Rune <big></big>15 <big> </big>Super Exp Potion <big></big>10 <big> </big>Super Hi-Potion <big></big>5 <big> </big>Super Hi-Ether <big></big>5 <big></big> <big></big>1

Glory Points is very hard to get, and the most easiest to obtain it was to kill Boss Monsters. Killing a regular boss in a dungeon while in a party gives 10 points, while soloing a boss gives 200 points. World Boss gives 5 times the regular boss does, though the difficulties obviously are far higher.

But in exchange, the items that can be exchanged could be quite balance-breaking items.

Firstly, Equipment Sets for all Job-classes. They provide great bonuses and can multiply the player strength by fold.

Leon's Shining Knight Set was from this list, except, all of them was custom upgraded by a master Blacksmith. His Equipment also enchanted several times by a skillful Runemaster, using various Runes that can be obtained from the same lists.

With those Equipment, Leon's HP supposedly reached more than 100.000 HP, with various buff that almost double his strength. A normal Templar would only have around 40.000 HP without equipping them.

- But in the end, he still died from Hecate's Mana Explosion.

Sacred Healing Set is tailored mainly for Priest and High-Priest Job-class. Rena-cchi had this set equipment and her heals can recover 30.000 HP with a single hand wave, though her +6 Healing Wand is now in Hecate's hand.

- Without the wand, Rena-cchi's Set Equipment is drastically weakened and her heal wouldn't be as good as before.

But fortunately, Equipment Sets can be exchanged individually, though the total cost will be higher than exchanging the whole set at once. If it wasn't for this, Rena-cchi might be crying blood as she have to collect 400 Glory Points again.

Imperial Spellcaster Set is mainly for 2nd tier or higher Spellcaster Job-classes. Equipping them can raise INT stat, MaxMP, gives high MP regeneration and reducing Spell Cast-time. A truly meta equipment for Spellcasters and sells with very high price in the market when it appeared.

Many Spellcaster players uses them and love them, but not Hecate. Mainly because of the existence of the next items.

Nucleus of 4 Elements... Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind.

They're just a little shiny orb that glows red, blue, brown, or green. It doesn't do anything and just looked pretty like marbles or pearls. That is... if the player doesn't have Blacksmith Sub-class like Hecate does.

By using her skills, Hecate can use them as a material to create elemental equipment.

The equipment that using these Nucleus will give the player boost damage and resistance to a single element, in exchange increase the damage taken from the other element.

And since players can equip up to 10 rings, she collected 650 points first. Then she uses cheap ring that can be bought in the NPC shop to be "fused" with the essences. She repeated the above step gradually to create the elemental rings, starting from Ring of Aqua, then Ring of Ventus, Ring of Ignis, and lastly Ring of Gnome.

The total bonus damage from the 10 rings is far greater than the set equipment could offer. And Lv1 advanced-tier spells from the rings did not require too much Cast-time that needs to be reduced.

- In Hecate's view, Imperial Spellcaster Set is no longer fragrant!

Why only Hecate that exploited this method?

Did any other players not discover this, even though the game is already more than 2 years?

Well, they did... Except it was used mainly to create Elemental Swords or Armors. As for rings, an increase in 80% of damage taken by other elements is giving a strong deterrent to the players. They might equip just one, and just one only. Not many dared to equip 10 all at once like Hecate did, nor did this idea occurred in their mind in the first place.

Unlike the old MMO, Ascension is a Virtual Reality that makes the player can feel the sensation inside the game as close as possible with the real thing. Getting hit by a 80% damage increase is not a pleasant sensation, much less 800% damage increase.

Besides, Imperial Spellcaster Set uses Glove, which prevent the player equipping 5 rings in one hand. And its benefit is just looked too delicious to be passed. So many spellcaster players did not think further and just use ready-made equipment.

And the last is Slot Enchant Core.

As the item name implies, this item can be used by Blacksmith to insert a Slot into the equipment so it can be used to compound Soul Essence. Every piece of Equipment can be slotted without any upper limit.

However, the inserting process can fail and the difficulty of failing will rises by fold the more slot it have.

The failed process can be very well ruining the equipment itself, turning it into useless junk.

Originally, Hecate planned to exchange few Slot Enchant Core, along with some Nucleus of Water and Wind to create another elemental equipment and boosts her spell power to a new height.

But then, her eyes quickly fixed on something that was not existed in the list before.

; ; <big></big> Skill Assimilation Orb <big></big>1000

"Hmm? Isn't this..."

It was something that she already saw before, right after she nuked the ground with Mana Explosion and killed both Leon and the world boss. An item dropped when Leon died from the collateral damage.

Perhaps, this item will only appear under a condition that her available Glory Points must be enough to exchange the item. This also happened in the past, the 4 Essences suddenly appear in the list once she collected 65 Glory Points.

Hecate quickly put on a pair of white gloves and took out the orb she had gotten in that battle from the storage.

In that moment, an unexpected system message notification appeared in front of Hecate.

; ; Hidden condition has been activated!

You recognized the true identity of a non-appraised item.

The item description suddenly changed and its true information is now revealed.

Now she did not need to bring the item to the Appraiser anymore.

; ; Item Name: Skill Assimilation Orb Type: Consumable - Miscellaneous Rarity: Durability: 1/1 Effect: Fuse the fuse-able user's skills to create a brand new skill.

The fused skill will not return.

Details: Orb containing the power of Origin.

Gifted to the user as a reward for great achievement.

Obtainable by trading it with 1000 Glory Points

Hecate stared at the window screen for a while, trying to comprehend the written sentences with excitement.

"Oh... what's this? Fusing skills?"

She quickly accessed the internet and search for relevant information of the item. But there was none of it even after changing the keyword several times. It is either players did not know of such items, or the big guys keep this thing as a secret.

After all, not many player can casually kill bosses and collect the staggering 1000 Glory Points. Even if they could, most player would've used it right away to exchange with

Gems or other items, without letting it to accumulate until 1000 points.

"Leon-sama... You unexpectedly hiding such interesting thing..."

Hecate couldn't help but let out a smirk.