Thousand Mechanism Umbrella

Where is the humor in Jun Mo Xiao's choice of skills?

Firstly, the low-level stage passes quickly, and it's unnecessary to meticulously match skills at this stage. Many people simply leave it blank, letting others carry them to level 20 before considering a job change.

Secondly, although levels below 20 are meant for players to experience all classes, most players already have a general direction in mind from the start of the game—mage, swordsman, or gunner? There is a general direction. But what about Ye Kai's skill combination? It spans across all classes. True, learning skills below level 20 is unrestricted, but usage is limited because of weapons.

For example, the Gunner's Aerial Bullet cannot be used when you're holding a swordsman's blade. So, with a skill addition like Jun Mo Xiao's, you'd have to carry all kinds of weapons for different classes in your bag, which is quite troublesome. Just at the nascent stage of level 20, why bother with such trouble unless you're a once-popular solo player?

What is a solo player? A player without a class is a solo player, but that was a thing of the past at level 50. After the level cap was raised and job awakening quests were introduced, the solo player gameplay disappeared. Today's players, seeing Jun Mo Xiao's set of skills, wouldn't think of solo players; they'd just laugh.

Yet, Ye Kai seemed not to have considered this. Jun Mo Xiao now only had a plain bronze sword, and when he passed by the grocery store after learning his skills, Ye Kai even had him sell this only weapon.

Then he went straight to the storage box in the warehouse, opened it, and there lay a piece of equipment.

An account that can transfer regions should be empty, meaning no experience, money, backpack, storage box, including the mailbox, should contain anything.

However, this account of Jun Mo Xiao, which had just transferred to District Ten, had a piece of equipment stashed in the storage box.

No one knew how this happened, but it all seemed to be within Ye Kai's expectations. He knew he would find this equipment here, but at the moment of discovery, there was no joy on Ye Kai's face, only sorrow. His right hand, moving the mouse, trembled again. The last time this happened was when he lost Autumn Leaf; this time, it was when he was about to retrieve this piece of equipment.

The mouse hovered over.

Thousand Mechanism Umbrella, level 5.

Weight 2.3 kilograms, attack speed 5.

Physical attack 180; magical attack 180.

That's it, so simple it doesn't even have additional attributes, just like a plain weapon.

But the color of the text for the Thousand Mechanism Umbrella is not plain at all, but silver.

The ranks of Glory equipment are known by their color: orange, purple, blue, green, white. White gear has no additional attributes, green gear is mostly transitional equipment given by quests, blue gear is guaranteed to drop from dungeon bosses, and some quests also provide it, making it the mainstream equipment. Purple and orange gear are high-end, and you need either luck or money to get them.

The silver text color of the Thousand Mechanism Umbrella doesn't belong to these five colors. If Chen Guo were awake and saw it, she would be surprised. Silver is the unique color of custom-made equipment. Custom-made equipment is a major feature of Glory, not made through in-game crafting skills but through an equipment editor, a high-end feature.

In Glory, there's a widely known saying: Custom-made equipment may not be the strongest, but the strongest equipment is definitely custom-made.

Custom-made equipment can surpass even epic orange gear. In the professional league, clubs have teams dedicated to researching custom-made equipment, investing money into it. The God of Battle, Autumn Leaf, held a custom silver weapon, the Battle Lance Xie! It's a famous weapon in Glory, unique and unparalleled.

The nature of custom-made equipment makes it hard to replicate; each piece is one-of-a-kind.

However, it could be a unique piece surpassing epic gear, or it could be a unique piece of junk.

What about the Thousand Mechanism Umbrella? Is it trash or a masterpiece?

If Chen Guo were awake and understood the properties of the weapon, she would immediately be able to judge.

A masterpiece, the Thousand Mechanism Umbrella is a true gem, like Xie, surpassing orange weapons of the same level. An attack of 180 for both physical and magical is equivalent to a level 10 orange weapon, and it's almost the highest attack weapon for all classes. But the highest attack weapons are often heavy and slow. The Thousand Mechanism Umbrella, however, is not heavy and has a normal attack speed of 5, which is enough to beat a level 10 orange weapon.

However, its drawbacks are also obvious: the Thousand Mechanism Umbrella only has basic attributes and no additional ones. Moreover, level 5 is a fleeting level that will soon become obsolete.

Ye Kai didn't care about these because he knew this Thousand Mechanism Umbrella was a work of genius. After countless experiments and failures, being able to make this level 5 Thousand Mechanism Umbrella was a great success. The feature of custom weapons is that once you have the idea and plan, you can keep improving them. So, custom weapons never become outdated; the equipment editor allows them to be continuously upgraded.

Ye Kai gently took out the Thousand Mechanism Umbrella and placed it in Jun Mo Xiao's hands. "Let's start!" he whispered, then controlled Jun Mo Xiao to walk towards the novice village's dungeon, Green Forest, looking as if Jun Mo Xiao had heard him.

Green Forest is a 5-person dungeon, with a level 5 entry requirement and no valid scores above level 10, meaning it can't be included in various leaderboards. Since new players are distributed randomly, many players call friends to explore together, but they can't gather immediately. Most teams outside the dungeon are formed spontaneously. As soon as Ye Kai arrived with Jun Mo Xiao, he received several invitations. Without being too picky, he joined a team that was only missing one person.

"We're all here, we're all here," Ye Kai saw the team leader named Moon in the Middle of Sleep shouting in the team chat as soon as he joined.

"How will we distribute the hidden BOSS?" Ye Kai asked.

"Uh, quite ambitious!" It was clear from Moon in the Middle of Sleep's casual sigh that he wasn't a real newbie; at least he didn't ask what a hidden BOSS was.

A hidden BOSS is a chance encounter in team mode dungeons, and the system gives players a prompt at the moment they enter the dungeon. The hidden BOSS is generally stronger than the final BOSS of the dungeon and drops equipment or items that normal BOSSes can't.

With Ye Kai's top professional level, he could actually solo this small dungeon. He formed a team aiming for the hidden BOSS that only appears in team mode. Because he needed the materials dropped by the hidden BOSS, which would definitely be used to upgrade the Thousand Mechanism Umbrella. Ye Kai was clear that, compared to leveling up Jun Mo Xiao, upgrading the Thousand Mechanism Umbrella was a more difficult task. He decided to start now, working on both fronts.

For a low-end dungeon like Green Forest, even the best equipment will soon be outdated, so it's not very valuable. Apart from experience, the most tempting thing here is the materials dropped by the hidden BOSS, which are always relevant, even in old districts. High-level players come to Green Forest to lead newbies and bump into hidden BOSSes for these materials.

Moon in the Middle of Sleep obviously knew this, so he quickly announced the distribution plan for the hidden BOSS: "That thing drops money, so let's roll dice for it!"

"Okay." That was the only way. Claiming good items for oneself? This was just a pick-up group, with no reason to do so.

"Alright, if everyone's ready, let's go in," Moon in the Middle of Sleep typed, and after receiving affirmative responses from everyone, entered the dungeon.

Ye Kai had been talking to Chen Guo sitting beside him, so he hadn't used the headset. Now he put it on, and as soon as he entered the dungeon, he heard someone shout, "Damn, what luck, a hidden BOSS right away?"