Chapter 5: Wang Fugui's Shock!
The maximum limit for each Novice Village player is one hundred thousand.
The first day of server launch had the most online players, with over ninety thousand players online in the entire Novice Village.
Excluding some players who dislike fighting, ninety thousand players were killing Wild Chickens, and the output of burning sticks was extremely terrifying.
Li Xiang's 40 silver coins, converted to copper coins, was 4000 copper coins.
For the first 3000 copper coins, Li Xiang paid 1 copper coin per burning stick, and for the last 1000 copper coins, he changed it to 1 copper coin for two burning sticks.
He spent over half an hour acquiring 5000 burning sticks.
Acquiring burning sticks on such a large scale also attracted the attention of many players, but Li Xiang didn't care at all.
PK is not allowed in the Novice Village; one must reach Level 5 to PK.
As long as he hasn't reached Level 5, he is absolutely safe.
Returning to the Village, Li Xiang turned a few corners in the alleys, shaking off the tracking players.
"Start synthesizing!!!"
「Ding! 'Inferior Wooden Stick' synthesis successful, obtained 'Ordinary Stick'」
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A total of 4002 Inferior Wooden Sticks were synthesized into 1334 Ordinary Sticks, plus the previous 2, making a total of 1336.
「Ding! 'Ordinary Stick' synthesis successful, obtained 'Tough Iron Stick'」
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1336 Ordinary Sticks were synthesized into 445 Tough Iron Sticks, with 1 Ordinary Stick remaining.
「Ding! 'Tough Iron Stick' synthesis successful, obtained 'Bronze Stick'」
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445 Tough Iron Sticks were synthesized into 148 Bronze Sticks, with 1 remaining.
「Ding! 'Bronze Stick' synthesis successful, obtained 'silver stick'」
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148 Bronze Sticks were synthesized into 49 silver sticks, with 1 Bronze Stick remaining.
Li Xiang looked at the 49 silver sticks in front of him, excitedly took out 3 and put them together, clicking synthesize!
As three beams of silver light converged, a golden light appeared.
After the golden light persisted for a moment, it began to dissipate, revealing the golden stick body within.
「Ding! 'silver stick' synthesis successful, obtained 'golden stick'」
【golden stick】
Quality: Gold
Part: Weapon
Strength +11
Spirit +5
Physical Attack: 81～94
Trait: +35 True Damage
Durability: 100
Required Level: 1
Restriction: Physical
【Commentary: A stick crafted from mysterious gold, rarely seen in the world.】
Seeing the attributes of the golden stick, Li Xiang was extremely shocked.
The Physical Attack bonus wasn't very high.
But the Strength increase reached a full 11 points, which is 33 attack points, directly boosting this equipment's Physical Attack to over 110.
At the same time, the trait was also greatly enhanced, changing from adding 15 True Damage to adding 35 True Damage!
"Continue synthesizing!"
The remaining 46 silver sticks were synthesized into 15 golden sticks, with 1 remaining.
Looking at the total of 15 golden sticks, Li Xiang excitedly put them together again to synthesize!
「Ding! 'golden stick' synthesis successful, obtained 'Stick of Faith'」
【Stick of Faith】
Quality: Platinum
Part: Weapon
Strength +15
Spirit +7
Physical Attack: 115～130
Trait: +70 True Damage
Durability: 100
Required Level: 1
Restriction: Physical
【Commentary: Condensed from the beliefs of a mysterious race, possessing special power!】
Seeing the attributes of the Stick of Faith, Li Xiang was stunned.
"Strong!!! Too strong!!!"
Besides 'strong', Li Xiang couldn't find any other words to describe this equipment.
"Can still synthesize!!!"
16 golden sticks were synthesized into 5 Sticks of Faith, and he could synthesize one more time!!!
"A Level 1 Platinum-grade weapon is already this strong, how terrifying would a Diamond-grade weapon be?!"
Three Sticks of Faith were placed together, and as three beams of platinum-colored light converged, a transparent light sparkling with starlight appeared.
This was the light of Diamond-grade!!!
After a few seconds, the light dispersed, revealing an incredibly clear long stick shining with dazzling light.
「Ding! 'Stick of Faith' synthesis successful, obtained 'invincible stick'」
invincible stick?!
"What a cool name!"
Check attributes!!!
【invincible stick】
Quality: Diamond
Part: Weapon
Strength +30
Spirit +13
Physical Attack: 201～221
Trait: +180 True Damage
Durability: 100
Required Level: 1
Restriction: Physical
【Commentary: Possesses invincible power, helping You charge forward fearlessly! Charge!!! Kill!!!】
After reading the attributes, Li Xiang was completely stunned.
"The attributes of this equipment are amazing..."
Li Xiang felt that based on the attributes of the invincible stick, he could probably continue using it even after finishing the entire Novice Village stage.
30 points of Strength converted into Physical Attack is 90 points of attack, making the combined Physical Attack 291~311!!!
Such terrifying Physical Attack power, plus 180 points of True Damage.
Which Monster in the entire Novice Village could withstand this damage?
Moreover...
"This is still the limit of synthesis!!!"
"Can still continue synthesizing!!"
"Above Diamond is epic, above epic is legend, and above legend is god-level!!!"
"Keep synthesizing!!!"
Although he was a bit slower, there might be a slight gap in level compared to other players.
However, sharpening the knife doesn't delay the woodcutter!!!
Li Xiang looked forward to taking his artifact and heading straight for the Novice Village BOSS!
Small Monsters? What are those, not worthy!!!
Just thinking about that scene made Li Xiang excited.
Moreover, given the abnormal attributes of the Novice Village Monsters, the level gap wouldn't be significant at all.
Looking at the abnormal attributes of the Great Goose, it would probably take two or three hours before any player could solo the Great Goose!
Li Xiang immediately ran towards the Money House.
Upon reaching the Money House, the Money House NPC Wang Fugui saw it was Li Xiang again and immediately came forward to greet him.
"Borrowing more?"
Seeing Wang Fugui directly state his purpose, Li Xiang knew this was the effect of the favorability bonus.
His relationship with him was no longer that of strangers.
"Yes, this is what I'm mortgaging this time."
Saying this, Li Xiang took out the Stick of Faith.
Seeing it was a Platinum-grade weapon, Wang Fugui's eyes almost popped out.
He had been in this Village for many years, and in the entire Village, let alone Platinum-grade weapons, he hadn't even seen the silver-grade equipment Li Xiang just mortgaged.
And weapons, among equipment, are the most valuable kind, even more rare and uncommon.
"You... are You sure You want to mortgage it?"
"Of course! How much can I mortgage it for?"
Wang Fugui's mind raced.
A Platinum-grade weapon, let alone in a Village, is uncommon even in regular small cities.
After thinking for a long time, Wang Fugui held up two fingers again.
Li Xiang exclaimed in surprise, "20 gold coins?"
Wang Fugui quickly shook his head and explained, "This equipment is good, but my authority can only go up to 2 gold coins at most. This is the limit I can offer. If You want more funds, You'll need to go to the city."
So that's how it is...
In the city... this equipment wouldn't fetch such a high value.
"2 gold coins it is then. I have two here, give me 4 gold coins."
Saying this, Li Xiang also took out the remaining Stick of Faith.
Wang Fugui stared at the two Platinum-grade pieces of equipment, standing rooted to the spot.
【Ding! 「Wang Fugui」 Favorability +60, Current Value: 80】
【Ding! Relationship with Wang Fugui reached: Respect】