MMORPG: Rise of the Primordial Godsmith Chapter 586 Four Pillars: Advancement

"Speaking of which, since I still have all this XP to use, I should max that skill out." Since he had more or less gone through all of his notifications from the ascension, as well as increased his stats to the peak of Rank 3, Valyr finally focused his attention on what he planned to do for the night.

Commanding the system to upgrade the skill he had obtained to its current limits, a prompt swiftly appeared in front of his field of vision.

[Would you like to consu 1 Common grade Skill Key, 1 Uncommon grade Skill Key, and 1,049,986 XP to upgrade 'True Prodigious Equipnt Advancent' to the peak of Uncommon grade?]

Saying yes to the prompt that had popped up, a great influx of information soon inundated the entirety of Valyr's mind. Though it was by no ans a pleasant experience, the amount of information flowing through the young man's mind at that mont was still tolerable compared to what he had put himself through in the past.

Neatly organizing and processing all of the information he had gained from upgrading the skill to the peak of Uncommon grade, Valyr let out a satisfied sigh as he finally looked at the pile of equipnt he was going to work with. "These guys have really been taken good care of by their respective guilds."

Although he hadn't noticed it at first, the equipnt everyone else gave for him to upgrade were more or less around the sa rarity as his current armor set. Utilizing [Greater Analysis] on them a couple of tis, a bitter smile soon adorned his face as he thought about all of the hardships he had to go through to upgrade his equipnt to their current states.

'I even got a curse placed on just because I wanted to upgrade my equipnt,' jokingly thought the young man, faintly chuckling as he continued to look at the equipnt the others were using. Eventually, one of the pieces of equipnt from the others caught his eye, though it was not due to its design or function.

It was the rarity of the equipnt itself.

'Mystia definitely dotes on Vera a lot… if this piece of equipnt doesn't already make it obvious.' Taking in a few deep breaths to calm himself, a slight smile appeared on his face as he read through the information written on screen.

Ding!

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[( 20) Arcane Mystic Staff of Excellence] (Level 35)

Rarity: Legendary

Weapon Bond: Lv. 1 (Vera Aschel)

Attack: 2,806 - 4,676

Foundation Tier: None

Forge Quality: Transcendent

Additional Attributes:

> AGI 18

> INT 20

> WIS 32

A staff forged by a legendary entity of the Mystic Plane, this staff… description has been omitted.

Remarks: Such a weapon can only instill fear into one's enemies.

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'Even if I take into consideration the fact that its awakened attributes don't scale with Vera's current strength, this is a weapon that even I'd be jealous of.' Whistling in admiration after he was done reading through its information, the young man placed the staff to the side as he began to upgrade all of the equipnt that he had been given.

As the weapon's description still lingered in his mind, a thought eventually surfaced in the midst of his upgrading session. 'The blacksmith that forged this has definitely got to be Rank 5 at the very least, owning an Epic blacksmith class probably. If not Rank 5, then that blacksmith would be at the peak of Rank 4 with a Legendary blacksmith class.'

Though Epic and Legendary was only a single rarity in difference, the difficulty in forging an equipnt with the latter grade was hundreds of tis greater than forging an equipnt with the forr grade. Even Valyr did not believe he could forge a piece of Legendary grade equipnt any ti soon, even though he was the owner of a Mythic blacksmith class.

Then again, the difficulty of forging Legendary grade equipnt was nowhere near the difficulty of forging Mythic grade equipnt, wherein even soone at the peak of Rank 5 could only dream of forging one. Of course, having a Legendary or Mythic blacksmith class made the chances of one forging sothing like that higher, though one would be better off saying there was no difference in one's chances at all.

Nevertheless, by the ti one was at the peak of Rank 5, it could be said that one would only need to put in a bit more effort if one wanted to forge Epic grade equipnt. If one had high stats, great levels of skill, and a decent blacksmithing class, then the chances of one forging a piece of Epic grade equipnt was considerably high.

'I'll probably start seeing more Epic grade equipnt once I head to the ltierre Empire,' thought Valyr to himself as he finished upgrading Faulus' equipnt to the peak of Rank 3. 'Then, I guess Epic would be the new Rare once I make my way to the Zeihardt Sovereignty… whenever that may be.'

Making sure that [True Prodigious Blacksmith's Sight] was active, the young man double checked if he had upgraded Faulus' equipnt before moving onto Hal's equipnt. Being composed of a sword and a few pieces of armor, the young man hamred away at it with his Hamr of Beginnings as he began to whistle a tune.

Eventually, by the ti a couple of hours had passed, the young man had gone and upgraded everyone else's equipnt to the peak of Rank 3. In fact, he even went ahead and refined all of the equipnt with a low refinent level to 10, which made him briefly wonder why it had not been refined to that level by the blacksmiths that had forged it.

Reminding himself that it was only possible for him to do so due to him owning a Mythic blacksmith class, Valyr finally went ahead and focused on his equipnt after giving everyone's equipnt back to their respective owners, which prompted him to receive a few words of gratitude from the others.

'Though it's quite tempting, I'll save the Advancent stuff for my equipnt.' Placing his spear on the anvil as he began to upgrade it to the peak of Rank 3, the young man thought about the urge he had earlier to try Advancent on everyone else's equipnt.

Though Enhancent, Refinent, and Advancent all sought to awaken the latent potential of equipnt and increase its strength, these things approached that awakening in different ways. For one, Enhancent was more or less self-explanatory, improving the materials that were already there in order to obtain more strength.

On the other hand, Refinent was slightly more convoluted as it refined the process of enhancent rather than the material itself. In a way, that difference was the reason why there was a limit to how far one could refine equipnt depending on its rarity.

As for Advancent, it approached the improvent of strength differently from Enhancent and Refinent. If both Enhancent and Refinent were said to approach improvent from an external standpoint, then Advancent approached improvent from an internal standpoint.

In other words, Advancent aid to improve the strength of equipnt by changing the foundation of the equipnt material itself. Because of this, there existed a limit on how far one could improve equipnt through this process, with a piece of equipnt at the highest possible rarity only being able to go through five advancents at most.

Aside from that, there was also a minimum requirent if one wished to advance an equipnt's foundation, which was the fact that it needed to be a piece of Uncommon grade equipnt at the very least. Then again, the chances of succeeding to improve its foundation by one tier at that grade was considerably low.

That was why most blacksmiths only began to start toying around with the concept of Advancents on Epic grade equipnt, which could handle two advancents if the blacksmith wished to do so. It was also the reason why the young man had a strong urge to try the concept out on the equipnts of the other four since the lowest grade out of all of them was Epic.

"Alright. Let's get this show on the road. These things won't upgrade by themselves." Discarding all of the unnecessary thoughts that continued to linger in his mind, Valyr finally began to go through his equipnt and upgrade them. With that, the sound of constant hamring faintly resounded throughout the area as he continued to work through the night.