Infinity Armament - Volume 3 - Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Book 3, Chapter 3 – Collective Enhancing Part 1

The Thunder Gauntlet could be said to be the best Rank D equipment Shen Yi had seen so far aside from Vampire Touch . Aside from not being able to be leveled up and upgraded, the other aspects were quite good .

Scarface said, “The Thunder Gauntlet is an equipment I got from a Difficulty Level I world; it has brought me great help . Unfortunately, because it cannot be leveled up and upgraded, the current attack damage is a bit too low . For the Difficulty Level I, it should be just enough . But I can’t sell it to you for only 3000BP . This is a unique item, if you want, I’ll give you a cheap price; 5000BP . ”

Anything not sold in the store could not be estimated in accordance with the standard pricing, Shen Yi had long been clear of this fact .

But, for a 5000BP price… he shook his head .

“I just bought a skill, and now have a little more than 8000BP left . The Thunder Gauntlet, although it’s good, but my Strength is only 4 . And I also did not learn Fighting Forte . To meet the conditions to wear it, I need to spend a lot of BP . Couple it with reserving some BP for preparations before entering a mission, I will have barely any BP to enhance my other attributes . If your Thunder Gauntlet was cheaper, I would consider buying it . ”

Shen Yi’s words made Scarface hesitate .

He wanted to sell The Thunder Gauntlet for a period of time now, but this equipment was quite tasteless .

In the Difficulty Level I worlds, it was a good weapon . But to Difficulty Level II worlds, it obviously had an insufficient power . But, the adventurers in the Difficulty Level I level that could afford this gauntlet’s price was very rare . For a Difficulty Level I adventurer, a reward in a mission normally only allowed them to learn a skill and add a few attribute points . Some may be even worse, not being able to afford even a skill .

Today, this newcomer was obviously quite powerful . Even after buying skills, he still had 8000BP left . In the entire Slums District, it was rare to see someone like him . If he missed this chance, maybe there would be no other chance left . And to wait for another strong adventurer to take a fancy to his Thunder Gauntlet, he didn’t know until when he would have to wait . Selling to the store? He wouldn’t even get 2000BP .

Thinking of this, Scarface said to Shen Yi, “Well… 4500BP, this is a fair price . ”

Shen Yi still shook his head, “4000BP . I will only pay that much . ”

Scarface’s face became ugly .

Shen Yi’s price touched his psychological bottom line . He said, “4000BP is too cheap . If I went to the Slums District, there will be someone willing to pay a higher price to buy it . ”

“If no one buys, you will lose 200BP for transit fees . ” Shen Yi laughed .

He thought and then said, “For your gauntlet’s attributes and skills, 4500BP is not too expensive, but I’m a bit low on BP… So be it, we will make a contract again . I agree will with your 4500BP price . But for the first payment, I can only pay 3000BP . After I come out alive from the next mission, I will give you 1500BP more, how is it?”

Scarface was shocked .

This time, Shen Yi didn’t mention 5 times the profit but simply agreed to his asking price . In turn, he asked to be granted 1500BP in credit .

Scarface was stunned .

If it was 5 times the profit, Scarface would definitely continue to invest in Shen Yi . But the return now made him somewhat hesitate .

With the first risky trade, Scarface had more confidence in Shen Yi . The confidence has increased, however, the rate of return has declined . This made him greatly unhappy .

Shen Yi grinned and said, “You have trusted me once and got a return . Now I have reason and qualifications to ask you to continue to trust me . Either sell it to me for 4000BP or allow me to owe you 1500BP, you choose . ”

While saying that, Shen Yi showed his Bloody Crest to Scarface .

Looking at the Private First-Class Military Rank, Scarface’s eyes were wide open .

Scarface was the clearest about Shen Yi’s origin of all people .

Raising his rank to a Private First-Class in two missions, there was only one possibility—he had two Perfect Evaluations .

A newcomer with two consecutive Perfect Evaluations, what did this mean?

Don’t look at Scarface, who was now in the Difficulty Level II area and had a Sergeant Rank . He has experienced more than ten missions, his performance was also quite good, he continuously got several Excellent Evaluations . A considerable part of the adventurers were not strong, and when completing missions, they could only get an Ordinary Evaluation . Five Ordinary Evaluations could also bring about a rank promotion, but the income was absolutely impossible to be more than a Perfect Evaluation .

The most simple example was in the Operation Market Garden mission . By completing the first and second Main Quests, an adventurer could only get 1500 and 1700BP . Giving up the Optional Quest to head back to the City, he would get an Ordinary Evaluation .

Completing the Optional Quests, the adventurer would get an Excellent Evaluation . Finally, the one that had the best performance got a Perfect Evaluation . Of course, there were exceptions . Fatty completed the Optional Quest, but the evaluation was Poor .

The basis of an Excellent Evaluation was 5700BP plus a skill point, equivalent to more than three times an Ordinary Evaluation reward . But for a rank promotion, an Excellent Evaluation only equaled to two and a half of an Ordinary Evaluation .

A Perfect Evaluation even rewarded valuable awards like a Rank CC award—although Shen Yi unluckily couldn’t use it now .

So, even for the same ranked Private First-Class adventurers, rising to a Private First-Class through Perfect Evaluations had the highest value, while the strength also was the strongest .

Being able to have two consecutive Perfect Evaluations fully illustrated the quality of this guy .

In such a place like the Bloody City, strength was the basis of trust, followed by interest .

At this moment, seeing the military rank of Shen Yi, Scarface immediately said, “Give me 3500BP, I’ll let you owe 1000BP . You must pay me after the next mission . ”

“Good!” Shen Yi immediately agreed .

The two signed a contract . Shen Yi, after paying 3500BP, finally got the Thunder Gauntlet . With this item, Shen Yi could be considered to have a real powerful attack skill .

Scarface’s words were true, just the Thunder Gauntlet’s item skill alone was in fact, stronger than many Rank D skills . But, because it couldn’t be leveled up or upgraded, it was so easy to be eliminated .

Buying the Thunder Gauntlet, Shen Yi was satisfied as he hurriedly went back to the Slums District .

When he just returned to the Slums District, he saw Wen Rou approaching .

Seeing Shen Yi, Wen Rou eyes went bright as she ran over to give him a blow on the chest, “I was looking for you everywhere . ”

“What is it?” Shen Yi asked .

“Hong Lang and Jin Gang went to go get enhanced, this time we have earned a lot so we wanted you to go with us . ”

Enhancing originally was a very private matter, no one wanted to expose themselves in front of others . But this time, regardless of Hong Lang, Jin Gang, or Wen Rou, all of them wanted to enhance together with Shen Yi .

He didn’t ask too much as he just nodded and said, “Good . ”

Coming with Wen Rou to the store, Hong Lang and Jin Gang had been waiting for them .

After talking, Shen Yi knew that the four people enhancing together was Jin Gang’s proposal .

In accordance to the Jin Gang’s idea, although enhancing was a very private thing, but because of the mutual suspicion among adventurers, all of them had their own enhancement directions . So the phenomenon of enhancement duplication often happened . This phenomenon in the last World War II mission’s performance was the most obvious, most adventurers only enhanced melee ability . This led to the lack of support abilities, detection abilities, and other capabilities . Ranged abilities were also rare, the results were that the World War II world caused heavy casualties . If the adventurers’ enhancement had attention to mutual cooperation, then many missions would be much easier .

Jin Gang could not gather all the adventurers in East Region, but he hoped that at least a few people could carry out an agreement to enhance, resulting in a more powerful combination . Rather than “1 plus 1 less than 2” results .

But, behind this proposal, Jin Gang had another purpose . It was to present the four individuals through the enhancing, that a real trustworthy group could form a cooperative team .

Shen Yi, of course, understood the motives behind his proposal . Yet, he didn’t have any opinions on this proposal .

Shen Yi had his head down for a moment, as he then slowly said, “Your opinion is good, but have you not thought of a problem? Since the Bloody City has a team co-operation mode, maybe there is also a solo mode, a kill each other mode… What if our next mission is not teamwork?”

“At least, I will not choose to become your opponent . No matter what the mode, it cannot be the reason for us to become enemies . ” Jin Gang very authentically said .

Hong Lang also said, “In the team co-operation mode, adventurers can still kill their own people . In a kill each other mode, why would we not be able to cooperate? As long as we want to be friends, there is no reason to make us enemies . Shen bro, you don’t look down on this Hong Lang, right?”

Shen Yi smiled, “I don’t mean that . Jin Gang is right, as long as we want to be friends, no matter what kind of reason and design, it cannot make us become enemies . I support Jin Gang’s proposal, we will enhance together . ”

Jin Gang was overjoyed, “Since you agree, it is much easier to handle . First of all, we openly make public our respective attributes for a mutual understanding . We cannot become friends when don’t know the other’s ability, right? Here isn’t the mission world, we don’t need to conceal it . ”

Saying that, Jin Gang was the first to open his status screen, revealing all his enhancements .

“ID: E4528, Zhou Lin, Private First-Class . Main Attributes—Strength: 15 (20), Agility: 10 (15), Vitality: 30, MP: 25 (30), Will: 15 . ”

“Psychic Power: Telekinesis (this ability can’t be used on a living body) . Psychic Energy: 100 points . ”

“Skill: Armor-Eating Attack (Level 2)—After hits the target, reduce 1 point of defense, up to 10 points . Priority: 14 . ”

“Equipment: Gauntlet of Wind (Rank D)—Attack Damage: 9-18 . Item Skill: Strong Wind Blow—Makes the power of the wind wrap around the user’s hands . Increases 20% attack speed, Duration: 1 minute . Can stack with other skills, Cost: 3MP, Cooldown: 1 hour . Can be leveled up, but cannot be upgraded . Priority: 16 . ”

“Equipment: Bagpipes (Wear Position: Waist)—After wearing: Strength +5, Agility +5 . ”

“Equipment: Ring of Sap—After wearing: MP +5 . ”

In the end, he was indeed a veteran adventurer . Regardless of skills, equipments, or attributes, all aspects were quite good . What was especially rare, was that he had a ring which increased MP . This kind of thing and Mana Potions were the same, but could only be met by luck and could not be found .

Hong Lang also opened his own status screen .

“ID: E3216, Hong Lang, Private First-Class . Main Attributes—Strength: 30 (36), Agility: 10 (12), Vitality: 20, MP: 15, Will: 7 (10) . ”

“Skills:”

“1 .  Strong Impact (Rank D, Level 3)—Deals (1 . 6 x Strength) damage to a single target, with a 10% critical chance . Cost: 3 MP . Cooldown: 1 minute . Priority: 17 . ”

“2 .  Axe Chop (Level 1)—Uses axe-type weapons to make a strong chop attack on the target, deals additional 20 points of damage . When the enemy use weapons to block, 5% chance to cause damage to the enemy’s weapons . Cost: 2MP, Cooldown: 1 minute . Priority: 18 . ”

“Equipment: Wolf Fang’s Ring—After wearing: Strength +2, Agility +2 . ”

“Equipment: Skeleton Ring—After wearing: Strength +4, Will +3 . ”

Wen Rou was puzzled while a smiling, “Hong Lang, you have an axe skill but no axe?”

Hong Lang flushed, “I didn’t buy this skill, I got it from the mission . I wanted to buy a good weapon, but thinking of the current stage, I gave up . ”

Wen Rou smiled happily, “I thought I was the only one to have such an embarrassment . ”

As Hong Lang was surprised, Wen Rou also put her status screen publicly out .

“ID: E3325, Wen Rou, Private . Main Attributes—Strength: 4, Agility: 10, Vitality: 12 (15), MP: 10, Will: 10 (18) . ”

“Passive skill: Enhanced Hearing—You capture the abnormal sounds from the wind and produce auditory memory . Can clearly distinguish the source of sounds and record other’s voice information . ”

“Skills:”

“1 .  Whip Wrapping (Level 2)—Uses whip weapons to wrap the target, making the target temporarily unable to use skills to attack while causing the target to take 3 damage per second . Skill duration depends on the gap of power between the two sides as well as skill level and the opponent’s Will . The greater the gap, the longer the duration . Maximum Time: 18 seconds . Cost: 3 MP . Priority: 12 . ”

“Equipment: Will of Dead Souls (Necklace)—After wearing: Vitality +3, Will +8 . ”

Compared to Hong Lang and Jin Gang, Wen Rou only experienced a beginner mission, so obviously in all aspects, there was a big difference . But, that she only experienced one enhancing, but already had two skills and good equipment, meant that her performance in the beginner mission was also very good . Since she was now a Private, it was easy to determine that Wen Rou got an Excellent Evaluation in the Beginner’s Mission .

“My two skills and one equipment were from the beginner mission, but the BP reward was little . ” Wen Rou helplessly said, “Adding some attributes points, buying guns, and provisional items made me thoroughly bankrupted . ”

“So you also took the 100% difficulty beginner mission . ” Shen Yi blurted .

Only in the 100% difficulty would the Bloody City reward you a Rank D skill from the start .

Wen Rou very seriously nodded, and then helplessly sighed, “Unfortunately, I couldn’t complete the quest as good as you . I barely managed to complete the Main Quest, while the Optional Quest failed . Being able to escape, I was really luck . ”

Shen Yi smiled, “This result is already very good . When I completed the Optional Quest, I almost died for sure . ”

That’s the truth . If Bottle of Holy Water didn’t eliminate Dracula, the only thing he could do was immediately use the Stealth Pill to escape . The result would be all awards being halved, and he also wouldn’t have his current power and prestige .

Saying no more words, Shen Yi immediately opened his own status screen; attributes, skills, and equipment made everyone stunned .

Pointing to Shen Yi, Wen Rou cried: “You… you… you…”

Shen Yi lightly said, “Don’t misunderstand, Arc Trajectory and Thunder Gauntlet are things I just bought, I owe 1000BP because of it . ”

“This is enough to make us envy . ” Hong Lang muttered, he looked at the Vampire Touch displayed in equipment, and saliva almost flowed down from his mouth . This dagger should be very useful to Agility-Type adventurers, but Shen Yi has put it to use as a deputy equipment . Even in the eyes of a senior adventurer, it also belonged to the luxury category . While Jin Gang stared at the Medal of Honor, Medal of Undead Hunter, and Crystal Tears Pendant, his eyes didn’t even blink .

Wen Rou was more concerned about the Appraisal Skill .

Wen Rou asked< “Appraisal is your skill reward in the beginner mission, right?”

Shen Yi nodded .

Wen Rou cried, “I’m really mad, why did you get Appraisal while I only got a hearing enhancement!”

Jin Gang immediately said, “It should be the difficulty of the mission world . Wen Rou, your beginner mission was Resident Evil, Shen Yi’s was Van Helsing . Remember the Bloody City’s difficulty classification? Firearms background worlds are the lowest level of difficulty, so Resident Evil world’s difficulty was lower than the difficulty of a fantasy world like Van Helsing . Obviously, the reward would also be lower . ”

This was true . When Shen Yi did Main Quest 1, he stood on the verge of life and death, almost being killed by the Silver Werewolf . If he couldn’t borrow a gun from Scarface, or if he didn’t have special bullets, he would have had no possibility of survival .

There were five Difficulty Levels in the Bloody City . The first four were firearms background, magic background, science fiction background, and fantasy games background . To the fifth Difficulty Level, it’s an unknown background . It’s rumored that the difficulty is extremely high, a small minion is as strong as a Boss at lower levels .

But Shen Yi was still unflinching, “In fact, your skills are good too . Do not forget that, after all, it doesn’t occupy skill bar slots . And different skills corresponds to different needs . In scenes like Resident Evil, in fact, it’s more meaningful . Or when you face a sea of zombies, using Appraisal, the result will be… Hehe . ”

Wen Rou also imagined this and grinned .

Hong Lang asked, “Which is your highest reward?”

Shen Yi wryly smiled, “…Nothing of these . ”

Everyone was surprised as Shen Yi explained a bit of what happened .

Hearing that Shen Yi had received the Winged Serpent Martial Arts but had no BP to learn, the three people actually laughed together .

Hong Lang patted Shen Yi’s shoulder, “You finally let my jealous heart calm down . Brother, I wish you would never have enough BP to learn it . ”

Shen Yi angrily said, “Did you used to be a gangster? Your mouth is so poisonous . ”