155: Sacred Stone, comprehensive upgrade, huge improvement!

“Shining Bladepoint Gem”

Quality: Legendary

Critical Hit Rate +3%

Critical Hit Damage +30%

Attack Speed +30%

Movement Speed +30%

…

Lin Ye opened a hundred chests, and only three such top-tier gems with full critical hit chance, critical hit damage, and bonus attack and movement speed appeared.

However, Sevena, holding Mythic and Primordial equipment, showed a bitter smile.

“Your Highness, Legendary gems can only be socketed into Legendary equipment at most, but your Mythic-grade… is too high.”

There’s such a thing?

Lin Ye had never considered this situation.

“Logically speaking, for something like a gem, as long as there’s a slot, shouldn’t it be usable anywhere?”

Sevena nodded and said, “That’s true for Legendary-grade and below, but it doesn’t work for Epic-grade. The equipment’s own power is too special, causing rejection, and the effects cannot be fully utilized. As for higher-tier Mythic-grade… of course, it’s even less possible.”

Tsk~

Although Lin Ye still had a few Legendary items, their tier was too low and he would definitely need to replace them.

Before, he was limited by his level and couldn't change them.

Now with the Queen here, unless an artifact couldn't be equipped, what else couldn't he wear?

Honestly, Lin Ye didn't even care much for Epic-grade items now.

As for these few gems, if they weren't for the critical hit chance and critical hit damage, with their excellent attributes, Lin Ye actually brought back quite a few Epic-grade attribute gems from a thousand years ago that he could use.

He opened his panel and checked his equipment.

After much deliberation, Lin Ye still said, “No, I still need critical hits!”

Attribute boosts, he already had plenty.

Even if he got another 300%, the increase would indeed be significant, but in terms of actual output, it simply couldn't compare to a critical hit build.

Critical hits inherently provide a 150% damage increase.

This is the strongest settlement term besides global increases.

It's calculated by multiplication.

No matter how much damage your normal attack deals, as long as it critically hits, the result will be multiplied by the critical damage.

Therefore, any damage-dealing profession's primary goal is to achieve maximum critical hit rate, followed by an endless pursuit of high critical hit damage.

Even if Lin Ye stacked critical hit rate to the maximum, increasing critical hit damage was still very cost-effective. Except for skill output supported by special affixes, critical hit damage was always worthwhile.

“But, it’s difficult…”

Lin Ye’s current equipment had very few options for critical hit chance and critical hit damage.

Because several Primordial and Mythic items were fixed.

For example, Candle Soul and Star Devourer, those were impossible to replace.

Accessories, which were already the easiest slot among high-tier equipment to find critical hit chance and critical hit damage. Other slots weren’t impossible to find, but it wasn’t cost-effective to do so, sacrificing too much.

After much consideration, gems were always the best way to supplement critical hit chance and critical hit damage.

Although it was only 3%, stacking 5 of them would result in 15% critical hit chance and 150% critical hit damage.

As long as it critically hit, it would consistently deal 3 times the damage.

Stacking with Candle Soul's 5 times, that would be 15 times.

And Lin Ye also had the Chronal Eye; once he activated its skill, it would be a guaranteed critical hit, consistently dealing 3 times the damage. After activating Candle Soul, he could consistently achieve 15 times the burst damage.

Tens of millions of normal attack damage, achieving 15 times the burst?

And it’s stable?

Tsk tsk~

Even without considering attack speed, this was an extremely terrifying number.

“Forget it, if it doesn’t work this time, then…”

Lin Ye was tidying his spatial ring when he suddenly discovered a pile of glittering materials.

“This is… Holy Stone?”

“Holy Stone.”

Mythic-grade material, usable for enhancing Mythic-grade skills or equipment.

Lin Ye’s heart trembled.

“Can Holy Stones be used to enhance lower-grade gems or equipment?”

Upon hearing this, Sevena’s face immediately lit up with joy: “If Your Highness has Holy Stones, I can help you upgrade the gems, and Tu Xiusi can help with the equipment.”

“However… for your time-based equipment, we are powerless. That’s a craft only mastered by the artisans of the Strobes family.”

Good!

Lin Ye was overjoyed and immediately took out the gems: “Let’s begin!”

Sevena held a tool in one hand and pressed down on a gem with the other.

With a clang, a dazzling Holy Stone was forcefully embedded into it.

“Your Highness, it’s a success! Please take a look~” Sevena said.

“Perfect Bladepoint Gem”

Quality: Mythic

Requirement: Mythic-grade equipment

Critical Hit Rate +6%

Critical Hit Damage +60%

Attack Speed +60%

Movement Speed +60%

When critically hitting, there is a 6% chance to gain Bladepoint State (Critical Hit Rate additionally increased by 10%, Critical Hit Damage additionally increased by 100%)

Critically hit 3 times consecutively to enter Fury State (Each critical hit grants 1 stack of Fury, Attack Speed and Movement Speed increased by 5%, lasts 5 seconds, max 30 stacks)

…

“Perfect, truly perfect!”

Lin Ye did a quick calculation in his mind.

If he could get 10 such gems, that would be 60% critical hit rate.

Then, adding the base critical hit rate of 5%, and finding another 20% critical hit rate from other equipment, plus triggering the state, he could achieve max critical hit chance.

As for critical hit damage, it would directly break through to around 800%.

If he could find more critical hit damage on other equipment, his daily normal attack output would be over ten times the damage.

“Over 100 million?”

Lin Ye’s heart trembled.

Tens of millions of damage, with over ten times critical hit damage at max critical hit chance, that would be a stable 100 million damage per hit!

Holy cow!

That powerful?

Lin Ye knew that critical hit builds were strong, but he never expected them to be this strong.

Especially with his current attributes, the increase wasn't just massive, it was… terrifying!

“Do it!”

“Continue!”

Lin Ye directly picked out 10 critical hit and critical hit damage gems and handed them over. He didn't care about other attributes; as long as the base values for critical hit and critical hit damage were good enough, it was fine.

Soon, 10 gems were formed.

As for other attributes, Lin Ye didn't look for attack speed or movement speed anymore; he wasn't lacking in those.

The remaining nine gems had a total of 36 attributes.

Lin Ye decided to supplement them by looking at his panel.

His top priority wasn't offense, but rather defensive construction.

“Life Increase 60%”

He took eight of these.

“Gem attributes can be stacked repeatedly, this is truly comfortable. That’s 480% life!”

“At any time, life is the best defense, no explanation needed!”

“Global Defense Increase 60%”

Still eight of these.

And then…

“All Elemental Resistance Increase 60%”

“Dark Element Resistance Increase 60%”

“Light Element Resistance Increase 60%”

“I need to take a few more of these, four!”

Lin Ye himself had no Light resistance, and his ring even reduced it quite a bit. Furthermore, Dark-element skills were inherently countered by Light-element ones, suffering a 60% resistance penalty.

Most critically, his current most troublesome enemies were Light-element.

“No, let’s take six!”

Lin Ye felt he still needed to be a bit more stable.

“Tenacity Increase 60%”

“Immunity to Stun (Only for skills below Mythic grade; for Mythic grade and above, stun effect is reduced by 50%)”

“Immunity to Slow…”

“Immunity to Freeze…”

“Immunity to Bleed…”

“Immunity to Electrocute…”

Lin Ye thought about what else he was missing.

“Abnormal Status Effect Reduction 60%”

“Physical Damage Taken Reduced by 6%”

“Magic Damage Taken Reduced by 6%”

“Critical Damage Taken Reduced by 6%”

“Damage Over Time Taken Reduced by 6%”

“Light Element Damage Taken Reduced by 6%”

“Dark Element Damage Taken Reduced by 6%”

“Last one.”

“Spatial Stealth at Low Health (Immunity to Physical and Elemental Damage, lasts 3 seconds, automatically dispelled after active attack)”

“Now it’s truly perfect!”

With a series of actions, Lin Ye finally finished with the gems.

Defense maxed out.

Looking at his health value again, 36 million!

“Safe, thoughtful, comfortable~”

“Hahahaha!”

Just as Lin Ye finished, Tu Xiusi also completed the equipment upgrades.