190: Chapter 190 [Puppet Expert] Bonus, potential not yet fully explored?

This Puppet did not look much different from the previous ones.

Whether in height or build, they looked almost identical.

Only the external color had changed from silver-white to golden-yellow.

Clang, clang, clang!

The Reception Envoy tapped it lightly with his finger, feeling somewhat curious.

"What's the strength of this thing?"

Zhang Jian sent him a screenshot directly.

[Sword Puppet]

Quality: epic-grade

Rank: 1

Health: 2000

Attack: 100

Defense: 50

Skills: Sword Slash, Sword Shield

Equipment Slots: Empty [Main Weapon], Empty [Shield]

The Reception Envoy pursed his lips. "Looks average."

Zhang Jian smiled and began to operate.

Rays of golden light drifted up.

In just a few moments, the Sword Puppet had been upgraded to Rank 40.

[Sword Puppet]

Quality: epic-grade

Rank: 40

Health: 2,376,000

Attack: 237,600

Defense: 95,040

Skills: Powerful Sword Slash, Comprehensive Sword Shield

Equipment Slots: Empty [Main Weapon], Empty [Shield], Inactive [Armor] (activates at Rank 50), Inactive [Boots] (activates at Rank 60)

The Reception Envoy compared the stats before and after, his eyes flickering slightly, but he was still somewhat disappointed.

"This is indeed much stronger than an average Puppet, but it still feels unworthy of the skill effects of your unique Heavenly Dao-Grade Professional class."

Zhang Jian shook his head.

"You've just seen too many good things."

"Not to mention that this is just the increase in base stats after leveling up, it can also consume experience points to individually boost its three major stats: Health, Attack, and Defense."

"Just the ability to equip weapons and shields alone can boost its stats significantly."

"Moreover, every 10 levels, it adds an autonomous learnable skill slot. Right now, it can learn four more epic-grade skills."

The Reception Envoy's eyes lit up.

"Put that way, it's actually quite good."

"The foundation isn't too powerful, but the growth potential is commendable. If one is willing to spend money, arming it up would make it comparable to an average Professional."

Zhang Jian shook his head.

The Reception Envoy still didn't quite understand this type of stat distribution.

Based on the current stats, it was already equivalent to the effect of the [wind walker] that Ye Tianchen, a Divine-Grade Professional, had manufactured back then, after all its attributes were boosted.

And once he finished boosting all the attributes himself, it would far exceed that.

Moreover.

This was just the most ordinary Puppet.

With the blessing of several major affix skills, this was far from the limit of the Sword Puppet.

[Puppet Expert 1] (legendary rank)

When manufacturing Puppet-type items, the probability of rare-type effects appearing increases by 100%

(Upgrading affix quality requires: crafting 4/100 Puppet-type items)

[Puppet Expert 2] (legendary rank)

When manufacturing Puppet-type items, material consumption is reduced by 20%

(Upgrading affix quality requires: crafting 1/100 Puppet-type items)

[Puppet Expert 3] (legendary rank)

After successfully manufacturing a Puppet-type item, bind it as your own exclusive, increasing base stats by 50%.

(Upgrading affix quality requires: crafting 6/100 Puppet-type items)

These three were affixes specifically for Puppet manufacturing.

It was only because of the high number of manufacturing attempts that they had just been upgraded from excellence to legendary rank.

Zhang Jian didn't pay much attention to the first two more conventional affixes.

However, the [Puppet Expert 3] affix made him think.

Since it could be bound as an exclusive, just like weapons and equipment, and boost stats additionally, didn't that mean an unbound exclusive could be separated from himself and used by others?

But for the ones he was currently crafting, there was no option to operate in that regard.

Zhang Jian decided not to focus on it for now.

Besides these three newly activated affixes, there was another one that had appeared before when forging weapons and had now been upgraded in quality.

[Efficient Craftsman] (epic-grade)

Forging time reduced by 50%

(Upgrading affix quality requires: crafting 6/1000 weapons, equipment, and Puppet-type items)

This was also the reason why Zhang Jian seemed to work so fast and had continuously crafted several Puppets.

The originally required forging time was not short.

Clearing his mind, Zhang Jian began to continue manufacturing.

After the Reception Envoy brought over enough Materials for 20 crafting attempts as he requested, he departed.

Although the Ta City defense mission triggered by Wang Dong, Zhang Jian, and the others was successful, and to everyone's delight, over a dozen Divine-Grade Professionals had emerged, the appearance of Ming Kong and the other members of the Void God Clan made him feel a sense of crisis.

It turned out the enemy had been lurking right beside them all along, just not exposed.

The Professionals of today were still too comfortable!

Under the instruction of Xuan Jizi, the Galaxy Academy established a holiday training camp in advance to conduct intensive training for this year's freshmen.

The goal was to ensure that after school started, they could all enter the Second Job Change and quickly become the backbone strength of the Professionals.

As for Zhang Jian, he naturally did not need to participate.

His current strength was something even the Reception Envoy couldn't fully fathom.

Conservatively estimated, he was equivalent to an average third job change Professional.

Not to mention standing out among the freshmen, even among the seniors who had been studying at Galaxy Academy for four years, there was not a single one who could compare to him.

Making Zhang Jian go to the training camp would be a pure waste of time.

As for Wang Fei, Wei Donglai, and the others, after seeking their opinions, they were left to their own devices.

They had just successfully changed jobs, and although they had all obtained career prospects that other Professionals could only dream of and never imagine, their basic strength had not improved too much because of it.

They still needed to change into equipment corresponding to the Second Job Change and learn more powerful skills to quickly translate this into real strength.

And these things required money.

A lot of money!

Although everyone who participated in the mission had obtained the corresponding crafting recipes and optional skills, and they had a Great Master of crafting like Zhang Jian by their side who could help them craft the highest quality weapons and equipment, the various basic Materials, rare Materials, and even special Materials required for crafting still needed to be prepared and provided by them.

Especially Wang Fei, who understood Zhang Jian's crafting ability, made it very clear to the others.

If you want the best things, prepare the Materials to the highest standard.

Fill every available slot with special Materials when the time comes!

Therefore, they had long set their sights on Dungeons suitable for themselves and started adventuring in a team.

When the Reception Envoy contacted them, they had already tried the Hell difficulty of a certain Dungeon.

It was just that because the rating hadn't been maxed out, they only received an excellence rating and were currently feeling annoyed.

When they learned that Zhang Jian was manufacturing Sword Puppets in the Galaxy Academy warehouse, they were all clamoring to come over.

The director of the Galaxy Academy's logistics department was in a difficult position and found Xuan Jizi.

Zhang Jian was a special case; with Xuan Jizi's word and the Reception Envoy responsible for the pick-up and drop-off, he could completely accept it.

But several freshmen who hadn't even started school yet, plus a few idle personnel, also wanting to enter the warehouse so casually—wasn't that a bit too disrespectful?

Regarding his request, Xuan Jizi quickly provided a solution.