Chapter 112 – Blood Pact +7 (1/2)
Chapter 112 – Blood Pact +7
Nie Yan was far from being satisfied with just a single upgrade.
He placed Blood Pact back into Pandora’s Box along with another Fortune Gem and tried to upgrade it again. If the game time was on an even cycle, then his success rate would be increased to around eighty percent.
「System: Upgrade successful! Blood Pact +1 → Blood Pact +2」
Nie Yan examined Blood Pact’s new properties.
Blood Pact +2 (Dark Gold)
Requirements: Level 2
Properties: Attack 43–46, Dexterity +11, Critical +12, Lifesteal 3%
Attack Speed: 2.3
Weight: 3lb
Restrictions: Thief, can be equipped by all factions.
Even with this, Nie Yan still wasn’t completely satisfied. He retrieved another Fortune Gem, placed it inside Pandora’s Box, and continued upgrading. After clicking confirm, the gem began radiating brighter and brighter until…「Poof!」The gem burst into ashes. He felt his heart sink. The probability of failing was only twenty percent, yet he had just failed on only his second attempt. It seemed even Pandora’s Box couldn’t help him with his innately poor luck.
「System: Upgrade failed! Blood Pact +2 → Blood Pact +1」
However, he wouldn’t allow this setback to discourage him. The price of a Fortune Gem alone might be enough to frighten most players, but Nie Yan wasn’t most players. Such a trivial sum wouldn’t be able to affect him. Failing this time meant losing ten silver, a loss he was entirely willing to bear.
「System: Upgrade successful! Blood Pact +1 → Blood Pact +2」
「System: Upgrade successful! Blood Pact +2 → Blood Pact +3」
「System: Upgrade successful! Blood Pact +3 → Blood Pact +4」
「System: Upgrade failed! Blood Pact +4 → Blood Pact +3」
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Even with an eighty percent success rate, he still ended up failing two times before finally reaching his initial target. Lady Luck just didn’t seem to be on his side.
In total, it took him nine gems to advance Blood Pact to the fifth stage. As he took it out of the box to examine, he noticed a slight change in its appearance. It seemed to shine more brilliantly than before.
Blood Pact +5 (Dark Gold)
Requirements: Level 5
Properties: Attack 73–76, Dexterity +11, Critical +12, Lifesteal 3%
Attack Speed: 2.3
Weight: 3lb
Restrictions: Thief, can be equipped by all factions.
Blood Pact at its fifth stage already possessed an attack that was far beyond the vast majority of weapons in the game, even surpassing Level 10 Dark Gold weapons by a good margin. He still had eight Fortune Gems remaining in his inventory, so getting Blood Pact to the sixth stage probably wouldn’t be too much of a problem. According to how the upgrade system worked, getting the dagger to the seventh stage would be worthwhile. It was only when upgrading to the eighth or ninth stage that the stakes began to rise, as a single failure from stage six and onwards would drop the weapon back to the fifth stage. As for getting a piece of equipment to stage ten or higher, only those who possessed incredibly good luck or were filthy rich would dare to make the attempt.
Nie Yan placed Blood Pact back into Pandora’s Box along with another Fortune Gem. His chances of upgrading the dagger to the sixth stage was seventy percent. This could already be considered fairly high, since, without the aid of the box, it was usually fifty percent. In the game’s current state, a stage seven piece of equipment was as rare as a qilin horn or phoenix feather.
As Blood Pact emitted a bright red aura from inside Pandora’s Box, Nie Yan found it difficult to calm his nerves. After all, this might be the creation of the game’s first stage six or seven weapon. He couldn’t help but be nervous.
With a seventy percent success rate, I might as well give it a shot!
Nie Yan clenched his teeth and hit confirm.
The gem began shining brilliantly. Then, with a final flash of light, its essence was transferred to the dagger. Nie Yan felt as if an explosion had gone off in his mind as he watched this occur before his very eyes. The upgrade was a success!
After the golden radiance slowly dispersed, only the dagger remained in Pandora’s Box. A bedeviling crimson aura spread out as if to bask the world in its glorious presence.
A stage six dagger… Awesome!
The next step was to get the dagger to stage seven, a task which made even Nie Yan quiver under the pressure. A seventy percent chance of success was indeed quite high, but that still meant there was a thirty percent chance of failure. It was precisely this fact that made him extremely tense.
After careful deliberation, he decided to give it a shot and placed another Fortune Gem inside Pandora’s Box.
He clenched his teeth and hit upgrade. It has to succeed!
Although it wouldn’t be too much of a loss to him if he failed, he was still losing money!
「System: Do you wish to upgrade Blood Pact +6?」
Yes!
He steeled himself and hit confirm on the system prompt. The visual effects started playing, ending once more with a flash of golden light. It was a success! A wave of relief and happiness washed over Nie Yan. Apparently all of his bad luck had been used up in the previous two failures, as the dagger was successfully upgraded to the seventh stage without a hitch.
My luck’s pretty good! He examined the properties of the improved Blood Pact.