Armor Upgrade
Currently, there are four items listed in the crafting section. The brookborn shards, the River Chuul Shell, the Water Serpent King Armor, and the Essence of Abyssal Guardian.
He clicked on the Essence of Abyssal Guardian to check what could be done with it.
Abyssal Serpent Tideplate
Price: 5000 System Coins + Water Serpent King Armor*1 + River Chuul Shell*1 + Essence of the Abyssal Guardian*1
Description: Enhanced Water Serpent King Armor with the River Chuul Shell and Abyssal Guardian Essence.
The armor retains its serpentine flexibility but is reinforced with the Chuul Shell's hardened structure. Gains the passive ability Abyssal Fortitude – defense increases when submerged, and attacks against aquatic creatures deal bonus damage. Can collapse into a lighter form when needed, allowing for quick mobility.
Brookborn Abyss Chakrams
Price: 2400 System coins + Brookborn Shards*120 + Essence of the Abyssal Guardian*1
Description: The projectile weapons created from the Brookborn shards combined with the essence of the Abyssal Guardian
The shards fuse with abyssal energy, forming sleek, glowing chakrams. Gains the Tidepiercer effect – projectiles can slice through water resistance, making them just as fast underwater as on land. If thrown in a circular motion, they create a Whirlpool Strike, pulling enemies toward the center before striking them.
Even though the first two items appear intriguing, Ayaan's gaze is purely locked on the third and last option shown.
Abyssal Guardian Armor
Price: 12000 System Coins + Water Serpent King Armor*1 + River Chuul Shell*1 + Brookborn Shards*120 + Essence of the Abyssal Guardian
Description:
A deep abyssal-black armor crafted from the essence of an Abyssal Guardian, reinforced with the hard scales of a Water Serpent King and the adaptability of the River Chuul Shell. This armor seamlessly blends offense and defense, making the wearer a force to be reckoned with both in water and on land.
🛡 Collapsible Abyssal Forearm Guards (River Chuul Shell Enhancement)
These guards expand from the forearms, forming an organic-like armor plating. Offensive Mode: One side can extend into a sharp piercing spike, perfect for quick stabs and close-quarters combat.Defensive Mode: The guards can retract to keep movements unrestricted or expand to form a protective shield against incoming attacks.
🎯 Abyssal Shard Launcher (Brookborn Shard Integration)
The other side of the forearm guard houses a compact Launcher that fires Abyssborn Chakrams or sharp Brookborn projectiles. If ran out the chakrams, can be reloaded by the Chakrams forged in the same design as the Brookborn Chakrams. Hydro-Charge: When used underwater, the launcher gains extra velocity, making the shards strike with even more force.
🌊 Abyssal Flow
The armor passively increases movement speed when submerged. While underwater, the wearer can briefly activate Hydro Veil, making them harder to detect by bending surrounding light.
It has everything he needs. The Abyssal Guardian Essence also seemed to have ha igher effect on this. In this, he can also use the Brookborn Shards in one fell swoop, sharing the guardian essence with them as well along with the Chuul Shell and the Serpent King Armor.
The extra abilities are also attractive. Particularly the hydro-charge. All his current quests were underwater. Even the upcoming quest, the Bloodied Reef indicated the water involvement.
The water bullet despite being extremely effective on land, is not as effective when underwater or when he is facing a creature like the Abyssal guardian.
The chakram launcher will give him a proper projectile attack underwater. Particularly, with his guns quickly becoming useless.
The cherry on top is that all of this is a single entity. So, he can just store it in the inventory in just a single slot.
He bought it.
Within two minutes a new armor appeared in his hands.
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ITEM DETAILS
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Name: Abyssal Guardian Armor
**Type:** Armor
**Grade:** Rare
Description:
A deep abyssal-black armor crafted from the essence of an Abyssal Guardian, reinforced with the hard scales of a Water Serpent King and the adaptability of the River Chuul Shell. This armor seamlessly blends offense and defense, making the wearer a force to be reckoned with both in water and on land.
🛡 Collapsible Abyssal Forearm Guards (River Chuul Shell Enhancement)
These guards expand from the forearms, forming an organic-like armor plating.Offensive Mode: One side can extend into a sharp piercing spike, perfect for quick stabs and close-quarters combat.Defensive Mode: The guards can retract to keep movements unrestricted or expand to form a protective shield against incoming attacks.
🎯 Abyssal Shard Launcher (Brookborn Shard Integration)
The other side of the forearm guard houses a compact Launcher that fires Abyssborn Chakrams or sharp Brookborn projectiles. If ran out the chakrams, can be reloaded by the Chakrams forged in the same design as the Brookborn Chakrams. (120/120)Hydro-Charge: When used underwater, the launcher gains extra velocity, making the shards strike with even more force.
🌊 Abyssal Flow
The armor passively increases movement speed when submerged. While underwater, the wearer can briefly activate Hydro Veil, making them harder to detect by bending surrounding light.
Equip:
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The armor is very similar to the Water Serpent King armor. With it being the base of it all. But there are some obvious changes. The are two forearm guards that are made of the Chuul Shell. They are the darkest grey one could possibly see, maybe because of the effect of Abyssal guardian essence on its originally white structure.
Ayaan tried to check how the collapsable enhancement had been added, but he couldn't make sense of it.
He just shrugged and threw it in the inventory.
He still has 1000+ system coins with him. But he really couldn't think of anything else to buy. So, he didn't even sell the Black Iron swords.
He wanted to see how they would fare against the monsters in the next quest. After that, he will make a decision.
Maybe he just liked having some extra weapons in hand.
After the purchase was done, Ayaan checked the Inventory again.
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INVENTORY
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Slots: 4/15
-Black Iron Alloy Sword*1
- Black Iron Sword*24
- Black Iron Combat Knife*1
- Abyssal Guardian Armor*1
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His inventory has been settled. He checked the Exp and the Stats as well, but there is nothing much to see there. He still followed the same route as before for the Stat points. Whatever he needed in the next quest, he will add it there.
The Exp… that brought some delight to him.
He was a bit worried that the system would ask him to get a million points for the next level up.
But right now, it only asked for 250,000. He already has 89000. So, that wasn't all too bad. He noticed that with every quest, the hidden conditions he is triggering are really helping him move forward.
He is sure that his strength is far more than a normal Level 4, because of the extra stat points he got from both places. In fact, he doubted that other players would be on Level 4 if they hadn't triggered the hidden conditions.
But all of those are useless thoughts that he got rid of immediately.
He just sat with Maya after sorting out the inventory, awaiting the results and the arrival of the Black Dog employees.
Meanwhile, the Black Dog situation has created a situation far away from Vashora.
Rajmira. The capital of Bhavara nation.
The Prime Minister's Office.
In the lobby of the office building, a central minister is sitting with a cold face. He had a bald head with a pot belly that put a pig to shame. He couldn't even sit in his chair comfortably. The suit he wore, looked like it was enduring some sort of punishment for being on him.
On top of all that, he was sweating and getting irritated with every passing second.
He has been waiting for the past two hours. He came early in the morning to get a meeting with the Prime Minister, but he was kept waiting there. He was also a minister, a central one. So, he is obviously a bit irritated by the disregard, the prime minister has shown him.
After twenty more minutes, the attendant finally called him.
"Minister Bran. Please come."
The attendant led Bran to the office, where the Prime minister was busily looking through a while with a fountain pen in hand. A complete contrast to Bran, the prime minister has a head full of hair, despite its slight greys here and there, it still showed off the youth of the youngest prime minister.
The prime minister who is currently in his forties is doing his second term in office. With the first term in his hands being so successful, he won the elections with an overwhelming margin.
And that confidence is apparent even in his sitting posture. His body fit as a fiddle, with broad shoulders, and that shirt so crisp that it endured the past four hours of working without so much as a wrinkle.
The central minister Brad is green with envy.
He walked to the table and took a seat unceremoniously.
"Prime Minister Mourya. Your little pet project is acting up again."
Mourya looked at Bran with a blank expression. As if he didn't understand what he was saying.
"Don't play dumb. The pet project of yours, the special teams of the intelligence department that you created… they caused a massive shitstorm in the mining industry. Because of them operations scaling up to dozens of millions are halted.
They are acting more and more lawlessly.
Whenever our department is trying to get an explanation, they are threatening us."
"Threatening you with what?"
Mourya asked ignoring the first few sentences.
"What?"
"Minister Bran, if everything is proper and if you have no fault on your side, what can that team even threaten you with? Submit me a proper request and I will act on it immediately. That is if the special team really did have a mistake on their side.
You do know me. The last time a special team made a mistake, they paid the price dearly. I will ensure they do the same this time.
So, please tell me what exactly did they do."
Mourya even closed the file and placed his full attention on him.
Minister Bran was at a loss of words. After some gap, he finally said.
"You are playing dumb."
"Dumb? Minister Bran, is it really the way you should be addressing the Prime Minister of a nation? Your immediate superior?" Mourya's face turned cold and Bran shivered in fright.
The prime minister continued.
"If you have an appeal against the special team. Submit it through the formal procedure and it will be taken care of with prompt attention.
There is no point in this meeting otherwise."
"You… It seems like being ignorant and impulsive comes with Youth. You are still the minister decided by the cabinet and you should know when to hold and when to let go.
If you don't stop with these radical ideas and stupid teams, you will fall into a pit that you cannot climb out of."
Minister Bran left after that.
Mourya looked at the large receding figure and said.
"Is this about the Black Dog Incident?" He asked his assistant.
The assistant a young man in his late twenties, standing beside the minister spoke.
"Yes, sir. Minister Bran's cousins and nephews are apparently involved in the mining after he was put in charge of the Ministry of Mining and Natural Resources."
"How convenient." Mourya sneered.
The assistant ignored the comment and continued.
"The Black Dog seemed to be closely working with these people. However, their involvement is not direct. But this caused them to lose a fair amount of money."
"Good. Let them bleed. Which team took action against this?"
"Team Rakshit"
Mourya was surprised.
"Aren't they mostly focused on the overseas missions? Why did they turn their guns towards internal matters?"
"I don't know sir. Rear Admiral Rakshit, has apparently cashed in his golden ticket to take one year off his Naval duties.
We assumed that it was due to the personal tragedy suffered by his family. But…."
"Personal Tragedy?" Mourya interrupted with a frown.
The assistant scrolled through a couple of things on his tablet and spoke.
"His family has been involved in an accident. His parents died and his sister is comatose."
Mourya looked at him with his frown deepened.
"And why wasn't I ever informed about this?"
"Sir, it was a minor issue."
"Rear Admiral Rakshit is a decorated soldier. He has done more to this country in one year than Bran has done in his whole life.
You arranged a meeting with Bran just because he was whining a bit. Isn't it a given that you at least tell me that the leader of a special team is going through such a thing?
Keep an eye on his activities."