Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree-Chapter 266 - 258: Mission Complete, Equipment Bound

[Ding—]

[The major story mission "Faith War" is complete]

[All participating players have received 30,000 experience points, 5,000 contribution value, 30 resurrection coins, 1 luck lottery ticket, and an exclusive blue rare title "Guardian of Faith"]

When the sun rose again, all players who participated in this unprecedented story battle received a new system notification.

The mission... was over.

Seeing the system messages flash before their eyes and the large rewards credited to their accounts, all players were excited...

Many couldn’t wait to equip the new title, and then a line of blue text appeared under their IDs—

"Guardian of Faith"!

Admittedly, having a title made all the difference; it looked much more pleasing.

The war came suddenly but ended just as swiftly.

The army of thirty thousand, the most elite troops of the Half-Beast Royal Court, were almost entirely wiped out in less than two days within Black Dragon Castle and the Dark Mountain Range...

Afterward, the fleeing Half-Beast troops experienced a day and night of players’ pursuit, leaving only a few lucky ones who hid deep within the Dark Mountain Range, escaping thanks to the limited range of players’ activities...

However, only a few lucky ones managed such a feat.

The vast majority of Half-Beasts were turned into player experience points.

From Black Dragon Castle heading south, the path was littered with gear left by fallen Half-Beasts, as well as players focused on looting...

Players looted so much equipment that their hands became numb, and they were already desensitized.

By the end of the chase, they desired the heads of Half-Beasts more than their equipment.

Because... there were just too many Half-Beasts killed this time, and their equipment had become completely devalued, long since worthless.

On the contrary, the high experience points and game mall lottery tickets were more enticing to them.

Especially after the prize pool opened up, more than one Luck King had drawn a gold-tier legendary item, envying many non-Luck players.

Of course, the poor quality of Half-Beast equipment was also a reason players weren’t interested.

Without remaking it, only beginners would consider using such quality gear.

Perhaps at the game’s launch, everyone treated them as treasures, but now that better ones could be exchanged in the mall, nobody cared for these trash items anymore.

Of course, offering these junk items to the Goddess was also a good option, as you could trade them for a bit of contribution value from the generous Goddess...

After the war, many players gathered in an inconspicuous corner near Black Dragon Castle.

They avoided the line of sight of NPCs like Alice, joyfully carving sacrificial arrays and offering unusable Half-Beast equipment, along with damaged gear, to the Goddess through glitches in the game system to surreptitiously earn some contribution value.

Accumulate little by little, and it’s still quite delightful.

So... after the war ended, Eve soon found a big pile of junk popping up in her Divine Country.

And Eve welcomed it all.

She repaired it a bit with Divine Power, altered the appearance, added some effects, then tagged it with a touching price, and put it all up in the system mall.

However, to say that all the gear obtained by players was trash would be inaccurate.

Among the items dropped by Half-Beasts, there were indeed some rare treasures.

The most famous among them were the Priest Robe dropped by the Half-Beast’s Chief Priest and the Lion Heart Sword of Lionheart King Imsh.

These two items, after system appraisal, were Silver Upper-tier equipment!

That’s right, silver-tier equipment.

Although both Half-Beasts were Gold Professionals, their equipment was still of silver level.

After all... the scarcity of Half-Beast resources was well-known.

However, these two items among silver equipment were still very good, much better than the plain Half-Beast Priest Robe Li Mu acquired.

Not to mention, the Half-Beast’s Chief Priest’s robe came with the effects [Accelerated Meditation] and [Enhanced Perception].

Even by system evaluation, it was undoubtedly a purple epic equipment.

And the system description of the Lion Heart Sword was even more remarkable—a Divine Artifact! freewebnσvel.cѳm

This was a Divine Artifact passed down among Half-Beasts, the King’s Sword symbolizing the royal power of the Half-Beasts—the Lion Heart Sword.

Although it was only of silver level, it indeed contained traces of Uller’s Divine Power, possessing the effects [Sharpness], [Intimidation], and [Freezing].

Three effects!

To gauge the quality level of equipment, it’s enough to see how many effects it has.

Those without effects are common white tier, one effect is blue rare, two effects is purple epic, three effects is gold-tier legendary... As for more, players hadn’t seen them, so they naturally assumed three was the max.

Hmm... all rights of equipment evaluation interpretation belonged to the official game.

In short... this was a Silver Upper-tier gold-tier legendary equipment!

Though the Lion Heart Sword might be less impressive than other gold-tier legendary items in the exchange mall... it was indeed a genuine gold-tier legendary.

And... it’s of silver tier!

It could be said this was, up till now, the most incredible equipment to appear in the game.

However, because this piece of equipment was obtained by hundreds of players, dividing it wasn’t easy.

After discussions, they could only distribute the contribution points through auctioning.

Of course, considering that this was a Silver Upper-tier equipment, unprecedented and far exceeding the exchange limits of the mall, more limited than limited editions... no player was sure of its actual value.

So... after player discussions, they decided to find a time for a server-wide auction, and the highest bidder would win.

When Eve learned of this, she did not intervene.

It was just a silver-level equipment. Though it was indeed powerful, ultimately, there was only one, and it couldn’t disrupt the game’s balance.

Moreover, high-level equipment could only be fully utilized by those of high levels.

It would be remarkable if players wielding this sword could even exhibit a tenth of its power.

Besides, it’s just a piece of equipment; it’s not an entire golden suit.

Even if the attack power soared, there was still a risk of downfall due to carelessness.

However, the appearance of the Lion Heart Sword did give Eve a new idea:

"As players grow, they’re bound to encounter more such rare items. Perhaps... I should also prepare a binding function? Or... a recognizing master function?"

In Segis World, weapons that could recognize a master were all Divine Artifacts.

And they needed to be at least Half-God Artifacts or above.

While the Lion Heart Sword, a sub-Divine Artifact, was indeed a Divine Artifact, it didn’t have the master recognition function.

And such Divine Artifacts were the most common.

"Hmm... this idea could work! Call it binding! Weapons would be integrated into the game system, marked as personal, and players could transport their weapons upon death!"

"Additionally, apart from the player themselves, other players would not be able to harness the weapon’s bound effect, similar to the recognizing master effect of Divine Artifacts!"

"However, maintaining the game system like this would consume more; though not much more, it shouldn’t be in vain..."

"Hmm... let’s do it this way. There could be a binding maintenance buff for equipment; players could bind equipment but would need to deduct some experience points or contribution value to maintain the binding; yes... that’s the necessary maintenance for binding!"

"However, this shouldn’t be explicit; it should be covert. During player binding, just prompt that binding weapons could impose certain mental burdens, possibly leading to slight reductions in experience point and contribution value acquisition!"

"I really am a genius!"