Pirate’s Booty Completed
20 minutes later and the crab monster fell down with a boom.
The group made sure to not be in its way as it fell down, and almost immediately the notifications started ringing out.
Ding!
[You have defeated a Giant Mutated Crab]
[+5,000 Exp]
[+10,000 Boss Monster Bonus Exp]
Ding!
[Your party has completed the wave challenge]
[+1 Gold Loot Box]
Ding!
[Kular Kingdom Announcement:]
[Your party is the first to complete the Summer Event Dungeon. Your names will be forever etched on the leaderboard]
[+100 Gold Coins]
[+1 Platinum Loot Box]
[+1 Pirate's Booty Armor Skin Set]
[+10,000 Exp]
Ding!
[Your party will be teleported out of the dungeon in 1 hour]
"What are these loot boxes?" Vincent asked.
"Not sure, let's check." Hephaestus said.
Everyone in the group took out a loot box from their inventories.
"Let's start with the gold." Enzo said.
Enzo looked at the box in his hands.
[Gold Loot box]
[This loot box will give the opener a random item of varying rarities.]
[Gold Loot Box Rates: 80% 1-3 Star, 10% 4 Star, 8% 5 Star , 1.98% 6 Star, .02% 7 Star]
The Gold Loot Box was a normal wooden box with gold around the edges and with a gold design on the top.
He slowly opened up the box.
A golden light started pouring out of the box as it was opened.
Ding!
[You have received a 1 Star Used Left Sock from your Gold Loot Box!]
"..."
Enzo tossed the box over his shoulder in anger.
He looked up at his friends to see happy expressions on all of their faces.
He could only shake his head at his own terrible luck, but at least his friends seemed to have it better than him.
Bella walked up to Enzo and tapped him on the shoulder.
"What's wrong?" She asked with a frown on her face.
"Sigh. Just bad luck with the loot box." Enzo grumbled.
"What'd you get?"
"A 'Used Left Sock'. Sigh."
"Pffffftttt."
Bella luckily got her laughter under control before she could let it fully out.
Enzo gave her a stare as she held her hand on her mouth with tears threatening to come out of her eyes.
"You can just let it out. I can see your shoulders shaking…" Enzo said.
"Hehe. I'm sorry, but you've got to admit it's kind of funny."
"Yeah, I'll probably laugh tomorrow, but it's more annoying than funny right now."
"Sorry, hopefully the platinum box is better." Bella said.
"Yeah."
"What'd you get from yours?" Enzo asked.
"It was something really good, so are you sure you want to know?" She asked out of consideration for Enzo's feelings.
"Yeah, I want to know."
Enzo may have been mad at his own reward, but he wasn't going to get overly jealous at someone else's good fortune.
"Okay.
I got a 7 star recipe."
"Really? For what?"
"Something called Zinc Oxide."
Enzo's eyes went wide.
"Eevie, that's a recipe for something us Vampire's could use. Zinc Oxide is one of the substances that absorb UV rays, so that could potentially help us use weapons when we become Vampires."
"Really??"
"Yeah."
"Well then here. You can have it, since I am not an Alchemist or anything anyway."
"Thanks."
Bella opened up a trade window and gave the recipe to Enzo.
[Zinc Oxide]
[This substance is made through the high temperature oxidation of Zinc. The properties of Zinc Oxide make it absorb UV rays at an extremely high rate, allowing it to be used for things like sunscreen.]
"Phaestus come here."
Enzo took a screenshot of the description of Zinc Oxide and sent it in a message to the blacksmith.
"Take a look at what I just sent you. Eevie got the recipe in her loot box."
Hephaestus took a few seconds to read the recipe before he turned to Bella, "Your luck must be amazing, because Enzo and I were just talking about this recently.", he said.
He then turned back to Enzo.
"Do you know how to oxidize things?"
"Yeah, I learned it in chemistry. All I have to do is take away the electrons."
"Good, because I think I know where to find some Zinc ore."
"For real?"
"Yup, and I already have some ideas about how we can apply it onto your symbiotes and other weapons in the future. We can make a mixture with the Zinc Oxide and some other substances that will act as a coating for the weapons and bathe them in it."
"Are you sure that would work? What if the substance comes off like paint?" Enzo asked.
"That's a good question and no I am not sure. We would have to find something that is extremely binding to make sure it doesn't fall off like paint I guess." Hephaestus said with a shrug.
"Okay, that makes sense. How long do I have to cook up something like that before you get working on the symbiotes?"
"Actually, you should probably hand those to me now, as I don't think I'll need longer than a month to get started on them."
"Alright, I'll do that."
Enzo took the 5 symbiote rings and the 5 necklaces from his inventory and gave them to Hephaestus.
"I'll be in contact with you constantly about the forms you want for your symbiotes."
"Actually, I have something better in mind than using all of those for me. Could you make one necklace and one ring for each Vampire chaser?" Enzo asked.
Hephaestus' eyes widened slightly at this request.
"Are you sure? You do know just how rare these things are, right? It's a miracle you found even one, much less 10 in total."
"Yeah, I know.
But, I think it would be much better in the long run for all of the future Vampire leaders to have something so special instead of just one."
"Alright, just inform all of them of your decision and tell them I will message them during the process about the specifics." Hephaestus said.
"Let's open up these platinum boxes now. We still have about 50 minutes before we get teleported out of here." Enzo said to the rest of the group.
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Just as a reminder to anyone who forgot about the properties of symbiotes, they have three forms: Jewelry form, animal form, and weapon form. So, that's why Hephaestus was asking about forms.
I am sorry for my absence recently, I was extremely busy every single day for about a week so I didn't have time to write. I will try to write as much as I can today to put out some bonus chapters for both of my novels as payback for the time lost.
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