The Golden Bells in the Sky

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'Wow... Those are some... Crazy specs...'

'Albeit this item seems to only shine in a situation where you are overwhelmingly stronger than your opponents, otherwise, you'll just tire to death in no time.'

'Hum… I'm looking at this wrong, if you use it on a very strong monster, then giving the difference between monsters and players, wouldn't I recover all of my health?'

'There is also a blocked function… Perhaps it holds the key to making this item truly overpowered?'

'In its base form, you lose 25 points for all basic stats, but gain 150 Primal Origin and a Skill of some sort, not quite what I would expect from a Fable tier item, so the rest is what makes it worth it.'

"I've just grabbed it, there's no point in evaluating it before even using it…"

'But there's a problem with that since even if I were to wear the other Accessories, I would still lack and not be able to wear these earrings...'

'Because of that extremely high Soul Power and Primal Origin requirements… I can make do with the Soul power since, in total, I have 35 Soul power at any given time.'

'But 150 Primal Origin is almost 5 times what I have…'

There was a single doubt on his mind right now though...

"Can I even get there?"

Dale scratched his chin in deep thought.

'Soul Power stays the same from the moment you are born all the way until you die, rarely increasing, the difference isn't big, so perhaps with some luck, I can gain something and shorten the gap.'

'Primal Origin on the other hand increases in value as you grow older, albeit it weakens in strength.'

'Like Tina told me, the fireplace can increase, but the flames slowly extinguish, only by rekindling it can you make use of your full potential and live longer.'

'Similar to what she and Testros did, even some of the other Elders managed to do something like that to some extent...'

'But that is a matter for another time.'

Dale stretched his arms and rubbed his eyes.

"Sigh, this item is quite perfect for a Berserk-type character..."

'It's an item made for going straight into battle, the more you kill, the stronger you get, then you use the Executioners Axe to slay an enemy and recover what you lost.'

'The passive stat gain alone is already incredible, even if it takes 1000 enemies to reach the max stack count, depending on where you are, that can be incredible...'

'Even so, it would take 250 enemies to offset the basic Stat decrease of the earings.'

'Still... There are things that irk me...'

'This is an accessory, and from what I learned during my time in the Beta over a year ago, Accessories are meant to raise your basic stats, not grant you Skills.'

'Those are the jobs of equipment...'

'Albeit the system classifies those as 'Effects' it's still pretty much a Skill, it works like one at least.'

'Is this a misunderstanding brought due to me only observing lower-class items? This is a Half-Fable item after all, the second highest rarity I saw apart from Legendary.'

'From Normal all the way to Unique, Relic, and Epic... But Fable seems to be directly above that unless there is a missing rarity here, a possibility I wouldn't turn a blind eye to considering the place I got this from.'

'Other rarities may not have such things... So I just have to take a look and see for myself...'

"Haa…"

Dale let out a dry laugh.

'It seems that I got this too early, doing things in reverse…'

'I'm getting higher rarity items and questioning about the functionalities of lower rarities...'

'But if I were to go over everything I did... Everything get's explained.'

"All goes down to my Stats and how starting with extra stats snowballed to this." Dale said with a smile

'From my achievements in the Tutorial, getting stronger than anyone, to evading the arrow from the guards and getting the chance to enter the village...'

'To meeting the boy in the Church, to defeating the monsters in the Southern Corps tombs...'

'Recovering the Holy relic, David, after defeating that strange monster and not being sucked into the dark abyss due to Miasma draining away...'

'I built some sort of agreement with David, and due to Rodi live-streaming videos on the web, people got curious about the village and they decided to join, and this led to God giving his power to me and in essence, allowing David to recover a portion of his original functions.'

'With this, we passed through the first barrier, and with the other key, the second barrier of the hidden tunnel beneath the city.'

'Finally, we arrived at the Commander's Office...'

'All of those achievements culminated in me gathering this insane assortment of high-Level items, it seems as if they came for free, but in a sense, they followed a pattern… Like a path… A Questiline.'

'If you were to consider this from the developers' perspective, none of this was supposed to be doable.'

'Normal players would start at villages with Level requirements of around 5 to 15, while the Big Guilds would stick to a broader 30 to 45 range, as only them can afford to work there.'

'All players would start with similar stats as the Tutorial forces you to stay at Level 5 at most, so only by gathering High-Level gear and other opportunities would they be able to succeed in those areas.'

'By the time a player arrived at Resko, the sealed monster would've likely been released already, or they wouldn't be strong enough to complete the questline and the same result would end up happening.'

'But it was all due to my boosted stats.'

'Was all of this just a very long quest? Or is it just me overthinking?'

Dale became silent.

"In any case, what about the others?"

'I need to check each to see if there is any chance of me being able to use these Earrings... At least the armor...'

Dale started to check each and every Accessory, and he realized that the lowest rarety item was Unique... And there was only one such item.

6 Relics, 2 Epic, and one Half-Fable.

But there were still 2 items to check... A pair of thin Silver rings with two tiny gems, one for each, one blue, and one red.

He started with the left ring, the one with the red gem.

"Urg..."

'What is this?...'

Yet, the moment he inspected it, his expression soured.

[Left Jian Ring (Unique)

Rating: 4.5-Stars

+25 Strength and Constitution.

+15 Mental Power and Mana.

+5 Soul Power.

Unique Effect -> Eternal Flight.

As long as the wearer of the Left Jian Ring is within 100M of the user of the Right Jian Ring, all previous effects are Doubled.

The users of the Left Jian and Right Jian rings are capable of feeling each other's presence and know their overall conditions at any moment as long as they are within 10Km of each other.

The base effects and requirements of the Jian Rings increase and decrease in proportion to your affection towards the other user, up to 3 times, this can stack with the previous unique effect for a total of 6-time increase.

Requirements: Strength: 99; Constitution: 99; Dexterity: 99; Mental Power: 99; Reflexes: 99; Mana: 99

Description: A marital ring made with the image of a mythical bird by an extremely skilled artisan, so the bond of their wearers may never end.

And so it lasted, even towards their deaths, they still held onto these rings as their Souls departed from their bodies.

Inside the ring, the text: "Bellow the arched pale tree, we…"

]

There was another ring just like on the side, its only difference was the text inscribed within it and the blue gem.

The text read as follows: "… held her for the first time."

"..."

'It's a lovers' ring?...'

Dale frowned, but those effects were too good to be ignored.

'It is indeed very good, but it didn't have what I truly wanted.'

'If I had a… Forget it.'

'It may be a Unique item, but its potential seems to be above Relic, the total stat increase is that large after all.'

'However, I wanted something to increase my Primal Origin… Guess that pair of earrings will have to wait…'

'It's not like I have nowhere to go, Tina's questline should resolve this issue for me.'

'But how long will it take?...'

"Sigh… I look ungrateful."

'I should be happy I even have such an item to use.'

Dale opened his character screen.

"Alright, time to build a basic loadout, and from that… Continue on with my day."

Thinking, he inspected the Accessories one by one, trying to see which would fit the best for his current needs…

[DING!]

[DING!]

[DING!]

Suddenly, he heard the sound of bells bellowing in the skies!

He frowned, walking to a nearby window.

But when he looked at the sky, he saw a massive Golden carriage being pulled by a pair of strange horses, behind them was a large piece of cloth with several words inscribed on it.

They read:

[Server-Wide Announcement]

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