Closed Beta That Only I Played

“Activate the God of Enhancement.”

[The God of Enhancement has been activated.

-100% chance to succeed.

-Enhancement Target: +0 Scorpion King’s Ring.

-Additional requirements when attempting enhancement: 45,000 gold rings.

-Cooldown time generated upon successful enhancement: None.]

As expected, there was no cooldown time. At that moment, I got goosebumps because I was so happy.

“Attempt Enhancement.”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Soon the hammering screen only visible to me appeared, followed by the Scorpion King’s ring. Of course, there was a message that indicated that enhancement 1 was successful.

“…”

I sometimes doubted the God of Enhancement because the effects of ‘Iceman’ and ‘Mutual Growth’ were so good, even if it made the enhancement 100% successful up to 12+.

I felt that way because only I earned the trait of the God of Enhancement in the 3rd closed beta that I found was the most difficult.

But I think I now know why the “God of Enhancement’ was given to me last. However, my excitement had to wait until later because I needed to put the +1 Scorpion King’s ring back into the enhancement window quickly. And I opened my mouth, hoping I would not have cooldown time.

“Activate the God of Enhancement.”

[The God of Enhancement has been activated.

-100% success chance.

-Enhancement Target: +1 Scorpion King’s Ring.

-Additional requirements when attempting enhancement: 75,000 golden rings.

-Cooldown time generated upon successful enhancement: None.]

‘Lol.’

At that moment I was going to burst into a smile, but I held it back and went ahead with enhancement.

[Scorpion King’s ring succeeded in enhancement 2] f𝑟𝑒ewe𝚋𝚗૦𝐯e𝘭.c𝗼𝓂

As soon as I checked the message, I put it back into the enhancement window and whispered, “Activate the God of Enhancement.”

[The God of Enhancement has been activated.

-100% success chance.

-Enhancement Target: +2 Scorpion King’s Ring.

-Additional requirements when attempting enhancement: 175,000 golden rings.

-Cooldown time generated upon successful enhancement: None.]

It didn’t matter how many golden rings were required because I had more than over 100 million golden rings in the inventory. Given that the golden rings consumed at the moment were a substitute for the accessory enhancement stone, which was not even released on the market, I didn’t have to save the golden rings at all. Holding back an uncontrollable smile on my face, I continued the enhancement.

“Attempt enhancement.”

[Scorpion King’s ring succeeded in enhancement 3.]

I succeeded in enhancement 3, also called the safety enhancement. I put it back in right away. But this time, it included not only the golden rings, but also other things.

[The God of Enhancement has been activated.

-100% success chance.

-Enhancement target: +3 Scorpion King’s ring.

-Additional requirement when attempting enhancement: 515,000 golden rings.

-Cooldown time generated upon successful enhancement: 37 hours.]

Unlike before, the required number of golden rings increased significantly. Besides, the cooldown time was as much as 37 hours. Was it because I exceeded safety enhancement 3? I could not think about any other reason. So, I took out the Scorpion King’s enhancement +3 ring and put the Scorpion King’s earrings there. Then I attempted to enhance it until I reached enhancement 3. Since I had already experienced it, I did it very quickly.

“Check the item.”

[+3 Scorpion King’s ring (Precious)

-This is a ring you obtained in the regular Level 400 ‘Stop the Scorpion King’ quest.’

-Effects: f𝔯ee𝘸𝘦𝚋𝒏oѵ𝐞l.c𝒐𝓂

: Increases combat power (3%) ->4% in desert terrain.

: Damage by all sand-type skills (5%) -> 7% reduction.

: Damage by all poison-type skills (10%) ->13% reduction.

: Strength increase (30)->40

: Agility increase (30)->40

-Physical defense increase: (50)->100 Magic defense increase: (50)->100.

-Durability: 775,000/775,000]

[+3 Scorpion King’s Earring (Precious)

:

:

: Intellectual Power increase (60)->80.

-Physical defense increase (50)->100 Magic defense increase (50)->100

-Durability: 775,000/775,000]

Honestly, there was no big increase. However, I knew from experience that each of these differences would make a big difference later. As it goes up, it is very difficult to get stronger even by 1.

Anyway, this time I put the Ice Emperor’s Guardian Sword on the enhancement window as originally planned. The Scorpion King’s earrings with Intellectual Power that I could use immediately were much more useful than the sword that I could not use immediately, but I chose the sword because it was a myth-grade weapon I would use all my life.

On the other hand, the Scorpion King’s accessory was good, but it was a Level 400 precious-grade item. It’s an item that I would immediately exchange if I had a better item.

Of course, I thought of enhancing the Scorpion King’s accessory to 4 or 5 or more if I had a chance to do so because everyone knew that the higher the enhancement went up beyond the safety enhancement, the number of options would increase.

Anyway, I activated the God of Enhancement and tried to enhance the Ice Emperor’s Guardian Sword.

Bang! Bang! Thump!

[Ice Emperor’s Guardian Sword has succeeded in enhancement 1]

It’s only a 1+ enhancement, but I felt elated because it was a myth-grade safety enhancement 0.

“Check the item.”

[+1 Ice Emperor’s Guardian Sword (Myth)

-A sword that reflects the final will of Emperor Asirante as well as the master of ice against the God of Sun Morotu, who burned and evaporated everything in the world.

: Available to at least Level 700.

: Use at least 7,000 pure Intellectual Power.

: Available to 10 ice-type skill holders.

-Effect.

: Increases the performance of all ice-type skills by 10%.

: Cooldown of all ice-type skills reduced by 10%.

: Inflict 10 times as much damage to the opponent hit by the ice-type skills with 1% probability.

: Level 3 Ice Weapon will always be applied to the guardian sword. (It overlaps the user’s Ice Weapon magic. For example, if the user has a Level 1 Ice Weapon, the power of a Level 4 Ice Weapon will be applied when they use it.)

: Inflict frostbite with 20% probability on the opponent hit by the guardian sword (If the user possesses a frostbite-related skill, an additional 20% will be added. However, the 20% frostbite is applied only when directly hit by the guardian sword, not skills.)

: Reduce damages of all fire-type skills by 20% due to the determination of the Ice Emperor that the God of Sun could not melt.

: Strength increases by 1000.

: Agility increases by 500.

-Safety enhancement: 0

-Physical attack increase: (8,999) ->9,550

-Magic Attack increase: (899) -> 955.

-Durability: 8,900,000/8,900,000]

***

“…”

Obviously there was a big increase in the Ice Emperor’s Guardian Sword, which turned into enhancement 1 now, but it only increased in physical attack power. Compared to the physical attack power that increased by as much as 551, the magical attack power only increased by 56.

The lettering of the ‘Guardian Sword’ caught my eyes. I regretfully wished that it was a cane, not a sword. But my regrets didn’t last long because the enhancement of the Ice Emperor’s Guardian Sword would not end at 1 only. Exactly 14 days later, it will change to enhancement 2, and at that time, the magical attack power may increase more than expected.

Tramp, tramp.

With expectations like that, I stepped outside the blacksmith because I was done with all the enhancements including the Scorpion King’s ring and earrings and the Ice Emperor’s Guardian Sword.

So I moved to the Teleport Zone outside Kotum Castle without any hesitation.

‘I got out faster than I thought, but it’s time to leave Kotum Castle.’

Originally, I was going to keep hunting until I reached at least Level 300 with Kotum Castle as my base, so I chose the hunting ground near Kotum Castle because I could quickly move there.

But, I changed my mind.

“Move to Pioneer’s City.”

I’m going to make Pioneer’s City my new base. Of course, the level of difficulty has not surged compared to Kotum Castle. I know from experience that it’s better for one level up via hunting easily and quickly even though it’s below one’s level, instead of hunting laboriously at one’s level. In this regard, the Pioneer’s City here was considered quite suitable for me.

Besides, the ant caves and the desert scorpion forest that led to Kotum Castle were not connected to Pioneer’s City through the Teleport Zone. In other words, those who were looking for me didn’t seem to think that far.