Chapter 118 Paggett's Deceased Wife's Chain

Nie Yan checked the Weaver's Ring's stats.

Weaver's Ring (Silver): Special item.

Stats: Can shoot a strand of spider silk, adhering to an object. The silk has a maximum length of 10 yards and can withstand a pulling force of 300 pounds. Skill cooldown: 10 seconds.

Weight: 1 pound.

Restriction: Usable by all factions.

The Weaver's Ring's maximum length was increased from 5 yards to 10, the maximum pulling force from 200 pounds to 300, and the skill cooldown was halved. From the very beginning of the game, this Weaver's Ring had been with Nie Yan, saving him from danger countless times. He was indebted to this ring, or else he didn't know how many times he would have died.

The lower the level of a special item, the higher its upgrade potential. For example, a Bronze-grade item can be upgraded to Silver-grade. This Weaver's Ring could later be upgraded to Gold-grade and Darkgold-grade with Radiant Gems, with its stats increasing significantly. He wondered what it would be like when it was fully upgraded.

The longer the spider silk shot by the Weaver's Ring and the greater its pulling force, the more useful it was. However, for now, the Silver-grade Weaver's Ring was already good enough.

Following the same procedure, Nie Yan upgraded the other four special items and checked their stats after the upgrade.

Crawler's Ring (Silver): Special item.

Stats: After activating this skill, both hands become sticky, allowing you to cling to rock walls and trees for vertical climbing. Duration: 15 minutes. Skill cooldown: 30 minutes.

Weight: 1 pound.

Restriction: Usable by all factions.

The duration of the Crawler's Ring was extended by 5 minutes, and the skill cooldown was reduced from one hour to thirty minutes.

The stats of the other three items were also greatly improved. Among them, the Leaper's Ring's grade wasn't upgraded, but its stats were slightly increased. The maximum leap distance became 30 yards, usable in combat, and the skill cooldown was reduced to 5 minutes. The duration of the Disguise Orb became one hour, with the skill cooldown remaining one natural day. The stats of the Deceiver's Necklace also changed drastically, with the duration becoming 5 hours, and the skill cooldown remaining one natural day.

These three special items were all Darkgold-grade and could only be upgraded once, which was a pity. However, after these special items were upgraded, they were crucial to Nie Yan's future development.

Nie Yan put away these five special items. Next, Paggett was going to use Nie Yan's Pandora's Box to synthesize a necklace.

Paggett took out several items, namely three gems of different shapes, divided into red, blue, and green colors, as well as a silver chain that was somewhat dull and lusterless.

He put these four items into the Pandora's Box and started the synthesis.

A dazzling white light flashed, and a seven-colored chain appeared inside the Pandora's Box.

Nie Yan looked at the item's stats. Paggett's Deceased Wife's Chain was actually a powerful Legendary-grade item.

Its attribute was Gem Processing skill level +1. Sure enough, after the gem artisan Paggett put on this necklace, his gem artisan level immediately changed from Master to Grandmaster.

Nie Yan didn't expect the gem artisan Paggett to use his Pandora's Box to synthesize such a powerful necklace. If he had known, he would have synthesized this necklace first and then let him upgrade the special items. Fortunately, the upgrades were successful; otherwise, a Radiant Gem would have been wasted.

Paggett began to explain slowly, "Legend has it that as long as you collect the Mystical Azure Gem, the Flame Scarlet Gem, the Vitality Emerald Gem, and any Magic Silver Necklace, you can use the Pandora's Box to combine these items into a Vow Necklace. My wife, Alena, risked her life to collect these four items in order to help me upgrade from a Master-level gem artisan to Grandmaster-level, but unfortunately, she has already left me. May she rest in peace in heaven."

Hearing Paggett's words, Nie Yan's heart stirred. Paggett provided a piece of information, a synthesis recipe: as long as he found the four items above, he could synthesize a powerful Legendary-grade Vow Necklace, Production Profession skill level +1, which was like a divine artifact for any production profession. A Master-level player wearing this necklace could become a Grandmaster-level, and a Grandmaster-level player wearing this necklace could become a Great Grandmaster-level. It was known that the higher the level of a production profession skill, the harder it was to improve. For example, upgrading from Master to Grandmaster would take at least a year or two. After advancing to the Master level, synthesizing an item often wouldn't increase skill proficiency.

Comparatively speaking, collecting those three gems and a Magic Silver Necklace seemed much easier, although these four items were also quite rare. Nie Yan memorized this recipe in his heart.

"Thank you for your kindness! You have helped me fulfill my wish, and I have no more regrets," Paggett said gratefully.

Nie Yan responded with normal quest language. To his surprise, he didn't receive any quest rewards. Paggett said that Nie Yan could come to him in the future to upgrade any equipment with gems, and he wouldn't charge any fees.

Logically speaking, this was a good way to make money. Nie Yan could upgrade equipment for others and charge fees. However, as the guild leader of Nie Yan's Nirvana Flame, doing such a thing would seem a bit undignified. He didn't have that much time to manage these things.

Just as he was feeling disappointed for not receiving any quest rewards, Nie Yan glanced at his status and discovered that he had an additional attribute, "Benevolence."

Previously, Nie Yan had two character attributes, including "Justice" and "Courage." Now he had an additional "Benevolence." He didn't know what these character states were for, and they might require continued collection to take effect.

In his past life, he had never heard of anyone collecting such character attributes, nor had he seen anyone discussing it on the official website. Not understanding the effect of these character attributes, he could only slowly explore them later.

After upgrading all the special items, Nie Yan and Sun walked out of the shop together. Sun still had to do two quests and left first.

In Nie Yan's bag was still a broken Nadargo's Staff of Spellbinding. After he killed the undead mage Nadargo, he had obtained a subsequent quest progress, which was "Take the broken staff of the undead mage Nadargo to High Overlord Brexspire; he will give you some surprises."

Previously, Nie Yan didn't know where this High Overlord Brexspire was, so he asked the players of Nirvana Flame to look for him. Later, Guo Huai told him that High Overlord Brexspire was actually in the distant Hilton Fortress.

It wasn't too troublesome to get from Calore City to Hilton Fortress. First, he could spend one gold and sixty silver coins to teleport to Cryston Town in Emerald City, and then ride a horse for about an hour.

Outside Hilton Fortress was a barren land, where a large number of underground monsters often rushed out of the underground caves in the wilderness. Hilton Fortress was the front line of the Greenland Empire against the underground monsters. He didn't know what kind of reward he would receive for taking this broken staff, but he might as well take a trip. The quest reward for killing the Legendary undead mage Nadargo would definitely not be too bad.

Nie Yan gave the Life Winter Potion and Novice Vigor Potion recipes to Bird Plume, asking him to handle them. He also explained the guild matters. Seeing that there was little time left and it was almost time to log off, he set off.

Calore City was peaceful. Even if an emergency occurred, Nie Yan could teleport back in a short amount of time.

Nie Yan teleported to Cryston Town, mounted the Faulkner Warhorse, and galloped all the way north.

As time slowly passed and it was time to log off, Nie Yan found a relatively safe place and put away the Faulkner Warhorse.

Nie Yan came out of the game pod and glanced at his bed, discovering that Xie Yao was sleeping peacefully. At some point, Xie Yao had climbed into his bed.

Nie Yan walked towards Xie Yao. Xie Yao was covered with a thin blanket, her eyes closed, her face still carrying a trace of fear, appearing pitiful and worthy of love. The previous events had indeed had a great impact on her psychologically. She had almost been kidnapped and had witnessed Nie Yan kill a person with her own eyes. How could she not be afraid?

Her delicate face was flawless, her hair was slightly disheveled, her curved eyelashes were upturned, and her sensual, full lips gave endless reverie.

Xie Yao was wearing a lace nightgown. The collar was a bit low, revealing her delicate, rounded shoulders and some fair skin, like a sleeping sensual goddess, making Nie Yan feel a surge of heat. Did Xie Yao not know that she was practically seducing him into committing a crime by dressing like this?

In his past life, Nie Yan couldn't imagine a scene like this today, being able to watch Xie Yao sleep so peacefully. This was a plain kind of happiness, like a faint fragrance, refreshing the heart.

Nie Yan saw Xie Yao's eyebrows twitch slightly, and her lips curved into a small smile. Xie Yao was already awake, but she seemed a bit embarrassed to open her eyes.

Nie Yan bent down, moved closer to Xie Yao's face, and revealed a mischievous smile.

Xie Yao opened her eyes and looked at Nie Yan. Seeing Nie Yan so close, her cheeks flushed crimson.

"You're out?" Xie Yao asked softly, her clear, bright eyes flashing with lively brilliance.

"How did you end up sleeping here?"

"I was a little scared last night and didn't dare stay in the next room alone, so I came over," Xie Yao said. She always felt that being by Nie Yan's side gave her a sense of peace. Yesterday, Nie Yan's fierce decisiveness when he killed Blazing Ghost caused her some discomfort and had some impact on her mind, but it didn't affect Nie Yan's position in her heart. On the contrary, whenever she thought of Nie Yan at that time, a strange feeling arose in her heart, which she couldn't quite explain.

Looking at the bright-eyed and kind-hearted Xie Yao, Nie Yan suddenly felt an impulse and kissed Xie Yao's lips.

Xie Yao moaned softly, which further aroused the desires lurking in Nie Yan's heart.