Chapter 68: Weapon Upgrade System

After such a quest that didn’t have equal costs and rewards was issued, Bei found that he seemed to be even more popular with the players?

This was directly reflected in the various foods that greeted him being more than before when he went out again… he could clearly hear his old waist creaking in protest.

Bei, who had issued the quest according to the boss’s instructions, had added harsh additional conditions, but still failed miserably, had a question mark slowly appear on his forehead.

In the past, if he, as a not-so-popular runemaster, had dared to make such a request, he would have most likely been kicked out by the employer.
But after coming to the Sea of Death, these cubs actually didn’t loathe and stay away from him because of this?

No matter how much Mr. Bei thought about it, he couldn’t have imagined that the two hundred and forty-nine merman cubs in front of him were actually players from another world.
Especially in the closed beta stage, the vast majority of those who could be selected were seasoned players who had been through hundreds of battles, had dabbled in various games, and could list the characteristics and faults of various game developers like family treasures.

And as a player who had been abused by all sorts of bizarre developers for one, two, three, four, five rounds, what did this small request count for?

One must know that after Contemporary Foodie’s personal account, the players all understood what the new mentor was capable of—this was clearly a super ability that was read as “item repair” but written as “weapon upgrade”!!

They had always been wondering before, skills could be upgraded, magic power could be upgraded, but what about weapons?

The weapons sold by the exchange post had not changed from the beginning.
Whether it was the material, function, or those strange special effects, what they were like when the server opened, they were still the same now.
This was not scientific!

Where was the weapon upgrade system?!

Many players had already mentioned this point in the forum, and there was even a tall building for a related topic.
Every day, someone would insist on signing in and checking in, which, while reflecting how boring the lives of players and cloud players were, also reflected their anticipation for weapon upgrades.

And when the signs of this appeared, it was needless to say how enthusiastic the players would be.
The herbal plaster on Mr. Bei’s waist had already vividly explained all the problems.

What’s 100 slimes!
To upgrade my weapon, I can kill until the slimes pack their bags and run away overnight!

So what if there’s a chance of failure?
Which game’s enhancement doesn’t have a failure rate?
As long as it’s not as faulty as Company B, where you have to repeatedly wash everything from strength to function to stats, they can forever support this function!

As for the one… between the NPCs… anyway, the players haven’t experienced anything so far.
Because Bei, who had just broken the boss’s ink, was in a relatively diligent period of behaving well to avoid being kicked out, so he had fixed three weapons in one day and handed them over to the players who had completed the mission first.

These three weapons came from Old Li, who could punch a slime with one fist, Ge Feifei, whose fire ring had a wide range, and the team leader of a certain life-skill player team.

While they were happily going to the novice village to test their new weapons, Mr. Bei slammed the door shut with a ‘pang’, and by the way, dragged a long table to block the door, wishing he could hang a ‘do not disturb’ sign on the door—he was so tired.
For a job that included food and lodging, it really wasn’t easy.

Thinking this, Bei wiped the sweat from his forehead, walked unsteadily to the second floor, and fell headfirst onto the super-large bed he had chosen himself.

Ah… a new life.
I wonder if this choice is right?

He struggled to turn himself over, his face facing up.
His long black hair was scattered on the white soft cushion, as messy as his confused heart.

He was Bei, an existence who didn’t know where he came from, where he was going, or even what race he was.

From the moment Bei had consciousness, he had already forgotten everything.

[“Who are you?
Why did you collapse at my door?”]

[“Looking at your clothes, you must be a noble personage, right?”]

Facing the inquiry of the kind old fish woman who had saved him, Bei shook his head in a daze.
“I don’t remember…”

The old fish woman’s eyes became very pitiful.
She sighed and handed him a bowl of hot soup.
“Then do you still remember what you are called?”

“…Bei, my name is Bei,” he answered firmly.

After thanking the kind fish, with the help of her daughter, Bei found a house nearby that no fish wanted and settled down.

Fortunately, he vaguely understood some runic knowledge, but this did not rely on memory, but was more like an instinct engraved in the deepest part of his body.

Occasionally, he would take on some repair orders, occasionally be kicked out by an angry boss, and occasionally lie on a worn-out wooden bed looking at the half-leaking roof.
Bei had lived like this for a long, long time.

So long, that her grandchildren had grandchildren.

[“Mom, there’s a strange person living there.
He looks so scary!”] an ignorant cub asked in a low voice as he passed by his door.

His mother scooped him up and held him tightly in her arms.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, my child is being impolite.”
Then she said, “He’s a monster!”

“Mom, that uncle looks so nice, isn’t he ?” 

[“What else could he be but a monster?
What normal fish can live that long?
I heard from my grandfather that he had seen that guy when he was a child!
Don’t go near him again, be careful he’ll catch you and eat you!”] The mother scared the child like this.

The impolite child was scared and cried loudly.
The crying gradually faded away.
Bei watched them from behind and silently closed the window.
From then on, he didn’t like to open the window much, nor was he willing to go out and walk around.

That was a small place.
The fish living in the small place didn’t know what a long-lived species was, what runes were.
Prejudice and fear surrounded Bei.
He finally left that small town.
After a certain ordinary dark night, the residents of the small town were surprised to find that the small house where the monster lived was never opened again.

[“He must be dead.
That monster is finally dead!”] They ran around telling each other.

Only when the blacksmith in the town had worn out the last hammer that Bei had repaired and went back to using the ordinary utensils ordered from the merchant guild did he find that not all hammers could easily flatten the hard fluorite.

Others also discovered the decline in the quality of their utensils and scrambled to make up for it.
But the merchant guilds that had previously commissioned them also changed their faces, accusing them of submitting materials of inferior quality.
So the fish in the small town received fewer and fewer orders.

Monster, please come back quickly.
They all prayed in their hearts, but nothing would happen.

At this time, Bei had already begun his wandering.
Until one day, he passed by a city and saw a fish at the window that looked very much like the old fish woman who had saved him.
Only then did he finally stop and become her neighbor.

Right, the new neighbor’s house had a lively and cheerful granddaughter, a little golden-red goldfish, who was always enthusiastically helping Bei with his ideas.
After successfully cooking, she never forgot to bring him a portion.
Although most of them were very unpalatable, Bei still ate them all without a word.

It seemed that everything was getting better, wasn’t it?

But having no memory meant having no past.
A person with no past, even if they were temporarily tied down by something, was still a rootless duckweed.

He only remembered that his name was Bei.
He held on to this only memory like a dragon guarding its only treasure.
Every day before going to sleep, he would panic, panicking that he would forget even this the next day.

It wasn’t until he saw the rune shown by that Mr. Snail that he finally felt a connection with his past—he should have known this rune!
This might be related to his past!

So he followed the snail here without hesitation, got a kind boss, and also a comfortable room.

Bei stretched out a finger and traced the shape of the rune in the air.
From that day on, he had done this action countless times, so he was extremely skilled.

After finishing the last stroke, the black-haired, black-eyed runemaster sighed, retracted his hands and feet, and lay down on the bed properly, his hands crossed on his abdomen, as standard as a beautiful dummy, and then slowly closed his eyes.

I hope that what that guy said is true.
It would be nice if he could really find his past here…

After Mr. Bei fell into a deep sleep, the players’ side had already exploded.

The current novice village construction progress bar had already reached 99%, which meant that only the last 100 slimes were needed to complete this full-server monster-killing quest.

Perhaps it was because the three lucky ones belonged to the three major categories of combat in the martial arts school, combat in the magic school, and life skills, covering all the players present.
So they tacitly stopped their monster-grinding actions and prepared to leave the opportunity to finish the mission to these three upgraded weapons to show off.

When the three players who had gotten the improved weapons arrived at the novice village, the players who had received the news early were all waiting at the entrance, wanting to get a glimpse of the effect of the new weapons.

“Old Li, Old Li, which weapon did you take to be modified!”
Hua Yibing squeezed left and right in a crowd of people and finally squeezed out with difficulty.
Then he excitedly pounced on Old Li.

Old Li smiled helplessly and threw the gauntlets that had just been modified by Mr. Bei to Huahua.

Huahua caught the gauntlets with one hand and opened the item description—

[Item Name: A Pair of Ordinary Gauntlets (Upgraded Version)]

[Quality: Extraordinary Grade]

[Item Description: Ordinary but very practical gauntlets.
Five openings have been thoughtfully made on them, suitable for the claw combat style of enhancement-type players.
After being modified by the kind Mr. Bei, they are more convenient to use.
With an additional 30% weight, the damage can be amplified by 20%.]

[Note: Requires a certain amount of strength to control.
It is highly not recommended for weak nature-type mages to use.]

“The grade has really been upgraded!” Huahua’s eyes shone brightly.
He shared the item information in the current channel, letting the combat-oriented players who were crying out for food have a feast for their eyes.

“!! This is blatant discrimination!
It’s the game’s stereotype!” The nature-type players on the other side protested.
A male player even rolled up his sleeves in anger and showed off his biceps.
“Who says nature-type mages are weak!”

A burst of laughter erupted from the crowd, and then they began to urge Ge Feifei, to see if she, as a representative of the nature-type, could win back some face.

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