Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree-Chapter 274 - 265: How Can You Get Strong If You Don’t Grind?
Chapter 274: Chapter 265: How Can You Get Strong If You Don’t Grind?
The summer event, which lasted ten days on Blue Planet and forty days in the Segis world, ended quickly without anyone realizing it.
Some were thrilled, while others were disappointed.
The thrilled ones were those who had incredible luck and finally managed to draw their desired golden legendary equipment, while the disappointed ones... naturally, were those with awful luck who gained nothing.
Overall, however, the players were quite satisfied with the event.
With double experience activated, they went on a grinding spree, and now the players’ strength had once again advanced.
The battle at Black Dragon Castle especially netted some high-level players a massive amount of experience points, allowing them to level up again.
Players of the Black Iron Upper Rank had appeared.
Led by Box Lunch, some players from the first test and a few Second Test Liver Emperors had already broken through the level 30 bottleneck, advancing to the final stage of the Black Iron Rank.
Besides these high-level players, the backbone forces of the players had also broken through to level 20, advancing to the Black Iron Middle Rank.
Except for a very few casual players who remained apprentices, it could be said that over 99% of the players had become formal professionals.
This rapid speed of advancement left players unfazed, but the native elves of the Segis world were genuinely shocked.
At first, they were astonished by the players’ growth, which turned into shock and eventually numbness...
To rise from apprentice to Black Iron Upper Rank in less than a year... such speed would be considered genius-level no matter which faction on the continent!
Such individuals wouldn’t even appear in many years, yet the Mother Goddess summoned a whole group...
This was truly terrifying.
Of course, it wasn’t just the players whose strength improved.
The native elves’ strength was also gradually increasing.
The Elf Clan... originally a Silver Race, reached silver adulthood.
Their previous fall in rank was due to the True God’s fall, and the entire race was shackled with curses cast by other hostile True Gods.
Since Eve’s revival, the shackles were lifted, and with the magic power of the Segis Continent reviving, their increase in strength was natural...
Of course, most of the living elves were born after the thousand-year divine war.
These elves were burdened with a curse since birth, so for them, advancing in strength was not an overnight process.
It could be said that after the battle with the Half-Beasts, the strength of the entire Elf Forest began to rapidly expand.
Eve was quite pleased with this.
As a considerate planner who took good care of the hardworking players, Eve naturally didn’t forget to update the exchange shop’s equipment as players’ strength grew.
Initially, with the increasing number of players and the consumption of equipment, Eve’s stock of equipment began to run low.
Most of the remaining equipment was scavenged by players from ruins back then.
Those items were initially sacrificial offerings to her from players, later repaired by her into mid-high grade items.
Currently, mid-high-grade equipment was still too far for the players.
Fortunately, nearly half of the three thousand Half-Beasts’ lousy equipment was offered to Eve by the players.
Though many of those pieces were poor quality, quite a few had potential for modification, providing Eve with a significant stockpile.
Thus, Eve naturally modified them, changing their appearance, transforming them into purple-black equipment, and putting them up in the exchange shop.
As for the mage players’ equipment...
No way around it, as there were no spellcasters among the Half-Beasts except for priests, Eve simply made them using the materials offered by players.
She didn’t lack divine power currently.
In her Divine Country, everything was according to her desires.
Therefore... mass manufacturing some low-rank magic robes wasn’t difficult.
For this, Eve even specifically looked online for some attractive magic robe designs as references.
Of course, the equipment crafted personally by the Goddess herself was naturally priced higher than the repaired ones.
After completing everything, Eve naturally tossed them into the exchange shop.
Unexpectedly listed.
And... incredibly expensive.
The starting price for purple-black epic equipment was 50,000 contribution points!
That contribution point amount nearly caught up with the golden legends of the lower black rank...
Of course, the quality was top-notch.
Eve dared to assure, "True God’s seal, quality guaranteed."
Pity the high-level players who ground tasks like mad, finally saving up for the purple epic graduation set of the Black Iron Middle Rank, took advantage of the summer double-experience event, worked hard overnight, finally breaking through to the Black Iron Upper Rank...
Yet, before they could even enjoy their success, finally take a breath without grinding so much, have some leisure time to enjoy the scenery, chat up NPC misses or misters, the equipment update notification popped up again.
Stronger, more expensive purple-black middle-rank equipment arrived!
*Smile slowly faded.jpg*
Even those who drew golden legendary equipment wore complex expressions.
Because the golden legendary of the Black Middle Rank came alongside the purple-black equipment!
These were selected from the wrecked equipment Eve found in the ruins, repaired and listed.
Like the Black Lower Rank, these golden legendary items were also outfitted with the top three rare effects, exceptionally stunning in appearance, exuding an untouchable aura.
But... they could only be exchanged with contribution points.
"I knew it! Anything that enters the prize pool must be nearing obsolescence."
Looking at the exaggerated contribution points price in the exchange shop, Transforming Ji Gang suddenly felt his ultimate speed shoes had lost their allure.
Once the Black Middle Rank golden legendary appeared...
The Black Lower Rank instantly became the younger brother!
And as the purple epic of the Black Upper Rank was out, how far could the golden legendary be?
"*Liver pain*..."
"*Damn planner! Does the equipment need updating this fast?!"*
*This was every player’s sentiment...*
Of course, while they complained, they still needed to grind.
After all... with equipment being updated to stronger models, how could you grow stronger without grinding?
And if you didn’t grow stronger... how would you show off, enjoy slaying monsters and dungeons? How would you happily escort girls? How would you happily plant flags?
*No rule truer than this...*
Therefore, the native elves found it odd that these Chosen Ones recently seemed to be acting quite peculiarly...
They would be happy one moment, disappointed the next, then excited, and suddenly let out a sigh of relief, yet moments later looked tense with a distressed expression...
However, one thing was certain.
After repelling the Half-Beasts, these Chosen Ones seemed to have become more diligent and committed.
"*As expected of the Divine Envoys chosen by the Mother Goddess.*"
Watching the Chosen Ones diligently moving stones on the construction site in Feilengcui, Elf Blacksmith Carlos remarked admiringly.
Of course, this situation didn’t last long...
Because, a few days later, the native elves suddenly discovered the Chosen Ones had disappeared en masse.
Or rather... collectively fell into a slumber.
This puzzled the elves who had only recently returned to the Elf Forest.
However, the senior members, mainly the Fiery Flame Elves, were quite accustomed to it.
Similar occurrences happened from time to time.
And each time, there would be significant changes in the actions of the Chosen Ones.
However, as a right-hand arm in task management, Natural Saintess Alice had a bit of understanding regarding this.
The event time had passed, and the game version was about to update again...
*Hmm...*
*In the words of the Chosen Ones, it should be put like this, right?*
