40: Put the backpack inside the backpack

[Schematic: Copper Engineer's Chest]: Teaches you how to craft a Copper Engineer's Chest.

This item...

[Starting Bid: 1 Silver Coin, Current Price: 4 Silver 24 Copper, Buyout Price: 15 Silver Coins, Remaining Auction Time: 3 hours 22 minutes]

Copper Engineer's Chest... Checking its properties, this thing can only hold Engineering items.

Commonly called an Engineering bag, its property is similar to a quiver, both can only hold a single type of item.

Although it has 20 slots, this also greatly reduces the item's value...

And now it's only the third day of the game, everyone is still quite poor. Money needs to be spent wisely, so it's normal that no one is interested in such an item!

However, Xu Shian thought he could buy it and gamble on his [Craftsmanship Special Effect].

Buyout!

There was only one of these in the Auction House...

If he bids and someone snipes the price at the last moment, it would be annoying, especially since he still needs to go back to sleep...

Xu Shian retrieved these two schematics from the mailbox by the door and learned how to craft them on the spot.

While in Stealth, Xu Shian slowly walked back, checking the material requirements for these two schematics!

[Alchemy: Swiftness Potion]

Effect: Increases your movement speed by 50% for 15 seconds after use. Cooldown: 1 minute.

Requires: Swiftthistle, Bruiseweed, Crystal Vial.

Great, neither of these herbs can be found in the Novice Village.

So where exactly did this schematic drop from?

With my luck stat being so high, I haven't even encountered it?

Xu Shian didn't stop to think about how many good things he had already gotten?

This is called 'human greed is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant,' always focusing on what one doesn't have...

[Schematic: Copper Engineer's Chest]

Effect: Teaches you how to craft a Copper Engineer's Chest.

Materials: Copper Casing, Copper Bar *10, Copper Bolt *5

Xu Shian checked his backpack and his Engineering skill.

Previously, Xu Shian hadn't started leveling Engineering, so he didn't make Copper Casings at the Engineering shop.

Making this requires an anvil. Xu Shian thought about it and decided to make a trip anyway...

Copper Casing requires two Copper Bars as material.

Xu Shian thought, since he was here, he wasn't short on money or materials.

He simply made four. The last one even crit, producing three.

Holding six Copper Casings, Xu Shian didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This could be considered a happy problem.

When about to leave, Xu Shian thought again and decided to buy more [Weak Flux].

Since the [Craftsmanship Special Effect] for the grenades was developing in the direction he hoped, there was hope for future upgrades!

The only problem was... this thing was a bit expensive! Thirty Copper Coins each...

Xu Shian thought about it, directly opened the bulk purchase, and bought one thousand!

Then the [ancient jade of reincarnation] made its appearance... [Special Effect Three: In *myriad realms online*, you can designate one system item per day to purchase at a 10% discount.]

Then... [Weak Flux]: Price, 3 Copper Coins!

One thousand acquired, costing Xu Shian a total of 30 Silver Coins...

Another day of fleecing the system, happy!

Xu Shian returned to his private room with the items and began crafting the Engineer's Chest...

[Ding, your talent 'Versatile Craftsmanship' triggered. Congratulations on obtaining 'Copper Engineer's Chest' +2]

Xu Shian made all six in one go, and the finished products totaled nine!

Why make so many?

Because the very first one gave him a huge surprise.

[Copper Engineer's Chest]

[Engineering Bag]

[20-slot Container]

[Craftsmanship Special Effect: Adds an additional 20 container slots.]

...

This, this is simply unreasonable!

Impressive, right?

Don't rush, there's something even more impressive!

[Copper Engineer's Chest]

[Craftsmanship Special Effect: Can be placed and used normally within a backpack.]

In other words, this Engineering bag can be placed inside a backpack, occupying one slot, and then used as a backpack!

You must know, in the game's settings, backpacks can only hold items when equipped. And as long as a backpack contains items, it cannot be unequipped...

It's impossible to do the imagined trick of unequipping a full backpack and swapping in an empty one to exploit a bug!

And this Craftsmanship Special Effect perfectly accomplishes this impossible task...

Later on, Xu Shian wondered if he could continue and create more miracles.

Unfortunately, those two were the best ones...

The other seven basically added 10 to 15 extra slots!

Looking at the Engineer's Chest's function, Xu Shian secretly decided that he was definitely going to learn the Tailoring skill!

Not even Jesus could stop him... Xu Shian said it! No one can stop him from crafting backpacks!

Six groups of [inferior copper shell grenade], one hundred per group, were finished by 1:30 AM!

Sleep! Sleep!

Waking up after a night's sleep, it was 8 or 9 AM again.

Xu Shian had his own ideas about leveling up...

Making so many grenades yesterday was in consideration of leveling needs!

Lying in bed for over ten minutes, he finally fully woke up.

First thing, he quickly checked his Stealth skill.

[Stealth: Level 1 Black Iron Tier skill; Upgrade Condition: Stealth duration reaches 100 hours, 14.5/100]

Hah...

Xu Shian let out a long sigh of relief!

Fortunately, you don't drop out of Stealth while sleeping.

He didn't know if this was a privilege of Black Iron Tier skills or if everyone could exploit this bug!

Otherwise, leveling this 100-hour Stealth skill would be truly difficult!

And it's obvious it will become increasingly harder to level in the future...

But if sleeping counts towards the duration, then it doesn't matter much!

Getting up and going downstairs, he ate breakfast in the hall, pulling his satiety value to full.

Checking his own status.

[Satiety: 100/100]

[energy points: 100/100]

(Note: Some changes here; energy points and satiety no longer exceed the maximum.)

[slaughter value: 1 point]

(You are in a red name state and may be pursued and arrested by NPCs of the Order faction!)

Today's main task is leveling up, so this one point of slaughter value isn't worth using [Exemption Value] to cleanse just yet.

Better save it for next time!

Xu Shian, having eaten and drunk his fill, was ready to leave when he saw An Xixi coming down from upstairs!

'Morning!'

Seeing Xu Shian, she greeted him warmly.

'Morning...'

Checking the system time, it was already 9:40. Calling this 'morning' at this hour was a bit self-deceiving!

'Getting up so late... Aren't you going to level up?'

'Of course I'm leveling up, but if I don't get enough sleep, I'll be listless all day! I have to sleep until I have no more morning grumpiness before getting up...'

Xu Shian just wanted to write a big 'Clothes' (Clothes气, meaning 'I'm convinced') for her.

Liu Lili, behind her, was also rolling her eyes hard!

'Researching the new posts on the forum yesterday took up a lot of sleep time...'

Liu Lili greeted Xu Shian, explained a couple of sentences, then went to the front desk to buy breakfast.

Watching these two, Xu Shian didn't know what the point was of them changing inns?

Could it be they came for me?

The three great illusions of life: Hmm... she likes me...

Jokes aside!

Xu Shian planned to use grenades to farm monsters and rush levels today!

'Hey, where are you going to level up today? Want to team up?'

Team up? Buddy, I'm a paying player. Making these grenades last night cost me at least four gold coins! And that's even with cheating for a discount!

Of course, the [Weak Flux] wasn't all used up, still had over six hundred left...

So, you want me to team up and share experience with you?

Share experience?

Xu Shian suddenly remembered...

[Skill 3] Whats Wrong With Me Slacking Off??

When you are in a party, you can also receive 100% experience gain, which does not decrease as the number of party members increases.

King of Slacking: When you are in a raid or party and rewards depend on performance, even if you slack off the entire time, as long as the BOSS is killed, you receive the full reward.

If I team up, at most I'll lose a bit of loot from small monsters...

But the leveling efficiency would improve tremendously!

Why not team up? In fact, Xu Shian could even use his grenades to negotiate terms with everyone!