12: Cat-eared Loli, recast wild rat teeth!
Given my current strength, it's time to find somewhere else to farm energy.
Looking at his energy bar,
[Energy Bar]: 5750/300
5750 energy is still not enough.
The more times an item is strengthened, the more energy is consumed. Strengthening wild spirit ginseng to +5 already requires 4000 energy.
Ye Ze guessed that if he could strengthen it to +8, it should trigger another choice of additional effect entries.
Therefore, he needs to obtain more energy!
"This newly appeared Trial Instance is a good choice."
Ye Ze tapped his finger on his communication watch: "But before that, I must prepare myself to face higher-level monsters."
He patted his bulging backpack, which was filled with Waste Rat teeth.
"After selling these Waste Rat teeth, I'll get a set of beginner combat gear."
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Drip!
With a steady braking sound, the bus stopped smoothly at the entrance of the town.
Ye Ze glanced at the time on his communication watch—around 6:30 PM.
There was still an hour until 8 o'clock, the time he agreed upon with Wei Xingyue.
Ye Ze decided to go to the Blacksmith shop first to sell the collected Waste Rat teeth.
Then he would go to the trading square to complete his set of beginner combat gear. If he had any money left, he could buy some spell scrolls to prepare for tomorrow's Corpse Fiend Dungeon run.
However, just as Ye Ze was about to head to the Blacksmith shop,
Buzz buzz—
A vibration came from his wrist. Ye Ze lowered his head to look at his communication watch.
When he saw who was calling, his hand trembled slightly.
It was a call from his aunt.
Ye Ze had a bad feeling. With a nervous heart, he answered the call.
"Alright, you brat, you've learned to lie to your aunt! You said you were at the restaurant, where are you!" His aunt's angry voice came from the other end of the phone.
"I..." Ye Ze showed a bitter smile. He didn't expect his lie to be exposed so quickly.
"Where are you now?"
"Elite Town." Ye Ze answered truthfully.
As soon as he said this, the other end of the phone fell silent. After a long while, his aunt slowly said in an extremely suppressed tone: "I want to see you at home before 10 PM."
After speaking, his aunt hung up the phone.
"It's over." Ye Ze tilted his head back and sighed.
"If worst comes to worst, I'll have a good talk with my aunt."
"I'll honestly tell her my thoughts. I believe she should be able to understand."
"Right?"
Shaking his head,
He would worry about the evening's matters in the evening.
For now, he should focus on what he needed to do now.
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Deep within the trading square, there was a luxuriously decorated Blacksmith shop. The plaque on the door had five large characters written on it—Liu Blacksmith Shop!
Ye Ze stepped into the Blacksmith shop and found a cute loli with cat ears sitting inside.
This conflicting visual style made Ye Ze somewhat doubt if he had entered the wrong shop.
"Are you here to buy equipment, or do you want to forge equipment?" The cat-eared loli glanced at Ye Ze, then indifferently lowered her head again and asked in a flat tone.
"I'm here to sell materials." Ye Ze replied: "Do you want Waste Rat teeth?"
"Waste Rat teeth!"
The cat-eared loli's eyes lit up. Staring at Ye Ze, she asked: "How many do you have?"
"A lot." Ye Ze opened his backpack and poured them onto the table.
Rustle rustle—
Ye Ze opened his backpack and poured a pile of Waste Rat teeth onto the table.
"So many?" The cat-eared loli's eyes became even brighter.
"10 dragon coins per Waste Rat tooth," she said.
Ye Ze smiled and remained silent.
"20 dragon coins per tooth."
Ye Ze still smiled and remained silent.
"35 dragon coins per tooth. This is the limit I can offer," the cat-eared loli puffed out her cheeks and said seriously.
Ye Ze smiled, then held out five fingers: "55 dragon coins per tooth."
He could already tell that the cat-eared loli in front of him was likely his classmate from the same year, and her awakened profession was Blacksmith.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have had that expression just now when she saw the Waste Rat teeth.
Because she was a newly awakened Blacksmith, she needed a large amount of Waste Rat teeth to improve her forging skill level.
"55 dragon coins each!?" The cat-eared loli widened her eyes and said angrily: "Do you think this is a bank?"
"55 dragon coins per tooth. If not, I can find other Blacksmith shops." After Ye Ze finished speaking, he made a move to pack up the Waste Rat teeth on the table.
The cat-eared loli quickly protected them: "How about 45 dragon coins per tooth?"
"55 dragon coins."
"How about 50 dragon coins per tooth?"
Hearing 50 dragon coins per tooth, Ye Ze was secretly delighted, but he remained calm on the surface, pretending to ponder for a few seconds before finally nodding in agreement: "Alright, 50 dragon coins per tooth it is."
There were a total of 396 Waste Rat teeth, which sold for 19800 dragon coins.
While receiving the money, Ye Ze couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I can't believe I've already killed nearly 200 Waste Rats."
Please call me the Waste Rat Slayer...
After selling the Waste Rat teeth, Ye Ze walked towards the outside of the Blacksmith shop, but after only a few steps, he turned back.
The cat-eared loli thought Ye Ze had changed his mind and quickly protected the Waste Rat teeth on the table: "The deal is done, you can't go back on it and raise the price."
"Not the Waste Rat teeth." Ye Ze smiled, then took out a Fine Steel Dagger from his backpack and gently placed it on the table. "I'd like to ask you to help me reforge this dagger."
The Fine Steel Dagger's quality itself was too low. If its quality could be improved through reforging, then Ye Ze wouldn't need to replace his weapon in the short term.
The cat-eared loli glanced at the dagger on the table and asked doubtfully: "Isn't this just an ordinary Fine Steel Dagger? Is there any need to reforge it?"
Ye Ze shook his head: "This is not an ordinary Fine Steel Dagger." He gestured for the cat-eared loli to use appraisal magic to check. "You can appraise it."
Although reluctant, at Ye Ze's insistence, the cat-eared loli casually cast an appraisal spell.
Immediately after, her disdainful expression disappeared, replaced by a face full of surprise: "How are the stats of this Fine Steel Dagger so high, and it even has skill effects?"
She opened her mouth wide, stared at the dagger for a while, then shouted loudly towards the back of the Blacksmith shop: "Dad, a big order is here."
Clatter clatter—
Following a series of footsteps, a tall man with a full beard walked out.
It turned out that this cat-eared loli was Liu Blacksmith's daughter.
After Liu Blacksmith heard Ye Ze's request and the unique aspects of the Fine Steel Dagger, he also used appraisal magic to examine the Fine Steel Dagger. The result was consistent with the cat-eared loli's findings.
He looked at Ye Ze curiously: "How did you get this dagger?"
"I picked it up in a Waste Rat nest. Maybe it was dropped by another job holder. I'm not too sure."
Liu Blacksmith frowned and said after pondering for a while: "Reforging is possible. There are two options for you to choose from."
"The first option is for him to reforge it using black iron, improving the dagger's material but not retaining the skill. The second option is to retain the dagger's own skill effects while reforging."
Ye Ze chose the second option without hesitation: "Of course, the second option."
"Good!" Liu Blacksmith nodded. "If this dagger of yours is successfully reforged and can retain its skill, it will definitely reach Bronze-grade weapon quality. Compared to a Bronze-grade treasure, it would only be missing a charge effect."
"However..." Liu Blacksmith looked at Ye Ze meaningfully. "The cost of this reforging will be very expensive."
"How much?" Ye Ze asked.
"About 150,000 dragon coins," Liu Blacksmith replied.
"That expensive?" Ye Ze's face fell.
"This weapon of yours already has very high stats. I plan to use millennium black iron to reforge it. Even if the skill is not retained, the stats will be higher than ordinary Bronze weapons."
Liu Blacksmith shook his head and explained: "If the skill effect can be retained, it's equivalent to a Bronze-grade treasure without a charge effect. 150,000 dragon coins is not expensive."