"Ding, ding, ding."
Ye Chuan had recently become obsessed with blacksmithing. After hearing the pleasant sound of metal being struck, another weapon would appear in his backpack—
He had made a rapier for Luo Xi as well, but since it was only a high-grade spirit sword, better materials would be needed for a higher level one.
After Ye Chuan had forged a full thirty weapons, he discovered that a new function had been unlocked in the forging interface.
[Enhancement Amplification]
"Enhancement Amplification?" Ye Chuan glanced at it. Judging by the literal meaning, it seemed to be an option to enhance equipment and magical treasures. After clicking in, he found an icon of a furnace.
After clicking the familiar [+] button, it was filled with all the equipment and magical treasures from Ye Chuan's backpack.
"It really works."
Ye Chuan stroked his chin, then tentatively placed a spirit sword into it.
[Equipment: Nameless Spirit Sword
Enhancement Level: 0
Attribute Bonus: 0%
Success Rate for Enhancement +1: 100%]
[Spend 1000 for Enhancement Amplification?]
"A thousand bucks, cheap." Ye Chuan immediately clicked to enhance.
On the phone screen, the furnace began to creak and shake into operation. After a few seconds, a new prompt popped up.
[Amplification +1 Nameless Spirit Sword successful]
Equipment: +1 Nameless Spirit Sword
Enhancement Level: 1
Attribute Bonus: 5%
Success Rate for Enhancement +2: 100%]
[Spend 5000 for Enhancement Amplification?]
Ye Chuan stroked his chin, "Five thousand..."
Ye Chuan felt it was a bit of a waste to use it on this spirit sword, so he removed the equipment and threw in his own Ten Thousand Souls Banner instead.
[Equipment: Ten Thousand Souls Banner Gold
Enhancement Level: 0
Attribute Bonus: 0%
Success Rate for Enhancement +1: 100%]
[Spend 1000 for Enhancement Amplification?]
Enhance!
[Amplification +1 Ten Thousand Souls Banner successful]
Enhance!
[Amplification +2 Ten Thousand Souls Banner successful]
Ye Chuan enhanced it all the way, finally getting the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to a +7 level.
[Equipment: Ten Thousand Souls Banner Gold
Enhancement Level: 7
Attribute Bonus: 55%
Success Rate for Enhancement +8: 50%]
[Spend 720,000 for Enhancement Amplification?]
The success rate suddenly dropped to fifty percent.
And the price... was actually 720,000.
"Now this is the real money-burning thing, right?" Ye Chuan twitched the corner of his mouth, but he still took out his Ten Thousand Souls Banner to get a slight feel. The power of the treasure had indeed increased by fifty percent.
"Good stuff. You get what you pay for."
However, Ye Chuan wasn't sure what the penalty for failure would be. After thinking for a moment, he continued enhancing the earlier Nameless Spirit Sword all the way, finally bringing it to the same level as the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
[Equipment: Nameless Spirit Sword
Enhancement Level: 7
Attribute Bonus: 55%
Success Rate for Enhancement +8: 50%]
[Spend 720,000 for Enhancement Amplification?]
Enhance!
Accompanied by an animation of the furnace shaking continuously, the surrounding light suddenly dimmed, and the Nameless Spirit Sword failed its amplification, directly dropping to a +4 level.
"So, the penalty for failure is just dropping levels?"
This was acceptable to Ye Chuan. After all, the one thing he wasn't short of now was money. Whether it was the sunflowers at home or the pharmaceutical company he opened, it was completely equivalent to running a money-printing press.
"Come on." Ye Chuan began enhancing his Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
[Amplification +8 Ten Thousand Souls Banner successful]
Ye Chuan's eyes lit up slightly, "Succeeded on the first try?"
Not only that, the amplification level of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner also reached 70%. This was a solid improvement. A few more enhancements, and the power of the treasure could even double directly!
[Spend 1,440,000 for Enhancement Amplification?]
"Isn't this a bit expensive?" Seeing the price of over a million, Ye Chuan immediately began to question his life. Could it be that the price doubles for each level of enhancement?
"Forget it, let's give it a try."
"Money's no object!"
The furnace began to shake again. Accompanied by a pleasant melody, a new pop-up appeared—
[Amplification +9 Ten Thousand Souls Banner successful]
[Spend 3,000,000 for Enhancement Amplification?]
Spend!
[Amplification +10 Ten Thousand Souls Banner failed]
Ye Chuan glanced at his backpack and found that the enhancement level of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner had actually reset to 0!
"Huh? That can't be right." Thinking about the millions he had spent ending up with a reset, Ye Chuan seemed to understand that enhancing high-level equipment wasn't an easy task.
At the very least, several million had already gone down the drain now, even more outrageous than the previous pools for drawing innate constitutions and spiritual roots.
"As expected, once a person starts having money, the system starts finding ways to fleece them."
Ye Chuan crossed his arms and thought for a while, then finally decided to get himself a +10 Ten Thousand Souls Banner to see.
[Amplification +1 Ten Thousand Souls Banner successful]
[Amplification +2 Ten Thousand Souls Banner successful]
...
[Amplification +9 Ten Thousand Souls Banner successful]
"What the...?" Ye Chuan looked at the +9 Ten Thousand Souls Banner in his backpack and was so angry he laughed.
Just now, it cycled through +4, +5, +6, +7, +8, not even reaching +8 once, directly costing Ye Chuan over twenty million!
[Spend 3,000,000 for Enhancement Amplification?]
Come on, spend!
[Amplification +10 Ten Thousand Souls Banner successful!]
Finally, accompanied by a pleasant sound, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner finally reached the +10 level.
Ye Chuan took a look and found that the amplification attribute of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner had reached 120%. This was a quite exaggerated value. Although the Ten Thousand Souls Banner itself possessed a growth attribute, this percentage amplification attribute seemed to be independent.
In other words, every time the Ten Thousand Souls Banner absorbed a soul in the future, it would receive this 120% amplification!
"If you want to get stronger, you really have to spend money after all."
Looking at the Ten Thousand Souls Banner in his backpack, Ye Chuan suddenly felt a bit restless. He glanced at the next stage; it seemed +11 could amplify the attribute to 150%.
But the success rate was only 22%.
"Whatever, let's try." Ye Chuan once again placed his Ten Thousand Souls Banner into the furnace, but a new prompt appeared.
[Equipment will be destroyed upon failure of Amplification +11. Continue?]
Ye Chuan: "..."
He silently put the Ten Thousand Souls Banner back into his backpack.
No way.
If it gets destroyed, all the souls he had collected for so long would be completely wasted, wouldn't they?
"If only it wouldn't break." Just as Ye Chuan was thinking that, a new window appeared—
[Equipment Protection Vouchers now on hot sale!
Countdown: 23 hours 59 minutes]
[Item: Equipment Protection Voucher
Protects a +10 or above equipment once from being destroyed upon amplification failure.]
"..." Ye Chuan silently glanced at the price and found the protection voucher cost one million each.
What to do, it feels like a familiar flavor.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
