raknovel Chapter 40 Artifact Spirit
Chapter 40 Artifact Spirit
"Look, you yourself don't even have that confidence."
Undine leaned forward and asked in a low voice, "If that's the case, why not make a change?"
"It's always been this way," Willis said, his voice strained.
"Is it right just because it's always been this way?" Olya retorted sharply, "Do you think we're some sheltered young ladies from a wealthy family?"
"We are adventurers, adventurers who walk the line between life and death every day. Even if we die in the future, it will not be your responsibility."
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In the end, Willis relented and agreed to formally form an adventure team with the two of them after returning from the Holy See, but he would not hesitate to leave if the two of them could not keep up with him in the future.
"Please pass on my message to the leader of the succubus clan. When I return, I hope they will have figured out how to use that agreement."
"If the Vatican wants to harm them, I will try my best to intervene... but I can't guarantee success."
Willis said in a deep voice, a hint of helplessness in his eyes.
He is the ninth hero to appear in the last hundred years. If we don't limit the time frame, the Holy See currently has nearly thirty heroes, most of whom are legendary.
The number of legendary figures in the empire is only about fifty.
As fellow heroes and legends, if they were to learn of the succubus's situation and plot against Lucia and Luna, Willis would have little say in the matter.
"We will convey the message."
Olya and Undine nodded in agreement and didn't ask for anything more.
……
The next day, in the North Underground City.
After listening to the employees' report, Caesar became even more determined to create artifact spirits in the next update.
In his North Dungeon, the gap in talent will no longer be a barrier. As long as you are lucky enough, or if you come to conquer difficulties, even goblins can humiliate the hero.
Then Caesar remained silent for ten days.
His group lottery was very popular among adventurers, and the lottery bandits no longer existed due to the major changes in the mechanism, so they couldn't figure out the so-called "guaranteed" reward at all.
Some people have specifically compiled statistics on the probability of group lotteries and other related issues.
However, since it was truly random, the probability of an adventurer winning a prize was different each time they drew a lottery, so they gave up on precise mapping.
However, this led them to propose a draw of 100 people, which became the basic number of participants for adventurers to participate in the lottery.
Over the course of ten days, two truly lucky individuals won the grand prize: one Succubus and one Enchantment Soul.
One of them was a spirited young adventurer, and the other was an old man with a hidden ailment who had no hope of breaking through level 40 and was stuck at level 39.
The former drew the succubus and left with a custom order.
The latter, in order to achieve the legendary level upgrade, made the difficult decision to give up the grand prize.
The result was gratifying; the old man successfully reached level 42, and all his hidden ailments were completely cured, giving him a second spring. He might even be able to reach the fifth rank.
When this news spread, countless elderly and frail adventurers cheered and rushed to the North Dungeon.
Even adventurers whose level exceeds the dungeon's maximum allowed level have come here, buying houses in North City in advance, intending to live here until the North Dungeon is updated to the point where they can enter.
In an instant, housing prices in North Underground City skyrocketed, and the Ston family seized the opportunity, decisively choosing to expand the city.
This was a huge undertaking, and Orlando and the Earl had no choice but to share 60% of the profits with other factions.
After failing to win the lottery dozens of times in the dungeon, the hero Willis also left the North Dungeon on the tenth day and headed to the Holy See.
He had announced to the outside world long after that day that he would be forming an adventure team with Olya and Undine.
Once they pass the Vatican's approval, they will be officially registered as an adventurer's guild.
Those secretly eyeing Undine were wary of the hero's identity and potential, and their desire to seize his weapon remained unspoken.
As a result, Olya was able to stay in the North Underground City with Undine for a long time.
Faced with the choice of marrying his daughter to a nobleman or betting on a hero, the count unhesitatingly chose the latter.
Ten days later, Caesar felt the time was right.
On a dark and windy night, a towering golden pillar of light once again stood on the earth.
[Life Points: 3256340]
Caesar was incredibly excited when he saw the number 3.2 million life points.
He skillfully paused time in the dungeon and began the first step of the update—expansion.
With several bursts of news, the North Dungeon was packed with people in the last few days. Adventurers who wanted to participate in the lottery had to queue up on the surface, because there were quite a few adventurers who were lamenting their fate.
Caesar, unable to bear the suffering of adventurers, doubled the dungeon's capacity again and added hundreds of teleportation traps, leading directly to the last two levels.
Then, he began the main event of this update.
Create a spirit.
The principle behind this is a product that transcends alchemy technology. In the field of alchemy, it is considered a divine realm, and no alchemy master has ever achieved it.
Therefore, the life points required to create it are enormous.
Caesar spent a million life points to successfully create the prototype of the artifact spirit.
[Race: Spirit]
[In its normal state, it is a pure soul form that cannot be captured unless locked by a specific contract. It possesses its own intelligence and has a different personality.]
[You can choose one weapon as your dwelling throughout your life, allowing you to control it to a certain extent and slightly enhance its durability.]
[Weapon spirits cannot freely choose their dwelling place; they must be bound to a specific contract to attach themselves to a weapon.]
They are born with a desire for a place to live.
As long as the weapon spirit chooses the weapon as its dwelling place, minor damage can be repaired by absorbing metal of the same origin as the weapon, provided the weapon is not completely destroyed or the weapon spirit is not dead.
[The spirit will be bound to the soul of the person who makes the designated contract. It cannot be broken or replaced. It has a spiritual affinity for its master, but if the master treats the spirit badly, it will also feel disgust and may even turn against them.]
[Spirit artifacts do not amplify the effects of enchanted souls, but they can block them.]
[Weapon spirits do not have levels; their strength depends entirely on the quality of the weapon. The higher the weapon's quality, the stronger they are.]
The only boost to their power comes from their mana storage, which can serve as an external mana source for the weapon's owner.
During the forging process, they can enter the 'reforging' state in advance, so even if the weapon is forged into an iron ball, they will not suffer any damage.
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Caesar spent an entire day fine-tuning the various settings of the Spirit race, investing a total of half of his life points before finally completing the task.
"Next, it's time to create levels..."