103: Chapter 103 Helm's Equipment

Time flows back to the day when The Seven Legends gathered at Fu Hao's territory—

After Fu Hao finished his stream, he was racking his brain over how to deal with Leonhardt.

"The problem is that information on Leonhardt after he became Loki's disciple is completely blank."

For the current Fu Hao, the phrase "know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated" was the most appropriate description:

- Diverse combinations of +10 enhancement stats and Enhancement Master skills

- The synergy between Fates Luck and thousands of Mimics

As long as he fully combined these elements and completely grasped the enemy's information, he could customize a targeted combat setup in advance. However, it was a pity that Leonhardt's current combat style was highly likely to be completely different from when he killed the Mimics in the Training Tower.

To exaggerate, the gap between the Leonhardt of that time and the current one was comparable to the gap between Fu Hao before he became Helm's disciple and his current self. After all, like the early Fu Hao, Leonhardt had once insisted on a "no skills used" combat style.

What made it even harder for Fu Hao to predict was that, since Loki was an existence possessing two legendary titles (Legendary Artifact Craftsman + Legendary Great Archmage), how much of his abilities had Leonhardt inherited?

Fu Hao's knowledge of Loki was limited to the few artifacts he had crafted; there was simply no way to guess how these abilities would manifest in Leonhardt.

"Let's start with what I can do."

Fu Hao ultimately gave up on formulating a specific countermeasure and instead chose a more practical strategy—prioritizing the improvement of his own stats.

It had been over a week since he used Fates Luck for the Enhancement Master's second awakening, and the cooldown for his own Fates Luck had ended. Considering the duel with Leonhardt in a week, it was crucial to use Fates Luck as soon as possible so that the cooldown would reset before the duel—but it must not be wasted recklessly.

Although he could mass-produce the Fates Luck skill using Mimics, Fu Hao's Fates Luck had an essential difference from the Mimics':

- Regular equipment enhancement, Item Enhancement, etc., could completely rely on thousands of Mimics

- But Summon Enhancement, Soul Enhancement, etc., which relied on one's own materials, were limited to player operation and could not utilize Mimics

Therefore, Fu Hao's Fates Luck had to be used in areas that Mimics could not cover.

"Should I enhance Xiaojin, or should I enhance the Emperor?"

Currently, there were two rational directions for using Fates Luck: enhancing Xiaojin or the Emperor. According to his wishes, he wanted to first enhance Xiaojin, whose stats were clearer, to +10, but the duel in a week urgently required immediate combat power.

Xiaojin was almost useless if not enhanced to +10, but if he could restore the Emperor's magic power through Soul Enhancement, even if the Emperor was in a low-enhanced state, he could provide huge help.

Fu Hao decided to first use the newly obtained Pablo's soul as material to try and enhance Emperor Endel's soul to +1.

[Myth-grade soul "Emperor Luo Ender's soul" has been designated as the enhancement target.]

"What, what are you trying to do!"

The Emperor, who had been traumatized since the failure of the "sword of sealing" enhancement, saw himself becoming the enhancement target and jumped out of the backpack, roaring.

"This is a lossless enhancement, don't worry."

[Myth-grade soul "Pablo's soul" has been designated as the enhancement material.]

[Soul Enhancement started.]

[Soul Enhancement successful. "Emperor Luo Ender's soul" enhancement level increased from 0 to 1.]

"How is it? Any changes? Has the magic power recovered?"

After using the Soul Enhancement skill, the soul information that was previously unviewable became visible. However, perhaps because it was only enhanced by 1 level, there was no change in the info bar other than the addition of "+1" after the name, so Fu Hao had to ask directly.

"Hmm... I really can feel it."

"Feel what?"

"My magic power is recovering, and so is my spiritual power."

"Has it fully recovered?"

"No, only a little."

"How much is 'a little'?"

"In terms of magic power... it's probably enough to cast the 'Light Sword' magic I used before three more times."

"Then how does that compare to your original maximum magic power?"

"About one percent."

As expected of the values for a +1 enhancement; Fu Hao had nothing to say.

"Alright, continue enhancing."

Before using Fates Luck, Fu Hao put on the "ring of the sage," but his gaze was not as expectant as before—the problem lay in the ring's enhancement stats:

<ring of the sage (+10)>

Grade: Myth

Usage Condition: Level 300

* When casting a skill, 40% chance to reset that skill's cooldown (cooldown 1 hour).

* When overlapping with other cooldown reset effects, take the higher value.

* When the attribute triggers, 30% chance not to consume cooldown.

* When the attribute triggers, 30% chance not to consume cooldown.

* When the attribute triggers, 30% chance not to consume cooldown.

* Generates active skill "Magic Storage".

When enhancing the "ring of the sage," Fu Hao had been full of anticipation—he had coveted an increase in the cooldown reset probability.

A 40% probability was not low, but without the blessing of luck, using Fates Luck consecutively was still very difficult. Although the Mimics caused the number of Fates Luck to surge, the usage scenarios were limited, and he desperately hoped to increase the ring's probability.

Perhaps because things had been too smooth recently, the "ring of the sage" failed to live up to expectations, only unlocking the unexpected attribute of "no cooldown consumption upon trigger."

As this was his first time enhancing a Myth-grade accessory, he had expected the +10 attribute to change, but in the end, it was still just the "Magic Storage" skill of an ordinary accessory. Fu Hao could not help but feel disappointed; this regret had yet to fade.

He could have easily enhanced the Emperor or even Xiaojin to +10, but now it was just wishful thinking.

However, that was not necessarily the case.

Just like when he hit the jackpot in the account lottery and drew Xiaojin, perhaps extreme luck would erupt, triggering the 40% probability consecutively, completing the +10 enhancement of both the Emperor and Xiaojin in one go. Fu Hao did not give up hope and activated Fates Luck.

[Using Fates Luck skill, fixing the Soul Enhancement success rate at 100%.]

However, after waiting for a long time, the notification for the "ring of the sage" attribute trigger never appeared.

"As expected, it wasn't that smooth."

Fu Hao continued the Soul Enhancement with a sense of frustration.

"Ooh, not bad."

The Emperor, who had originally resisted enhancement, was now actually starting to enjoy the enhancement process.

After enhancing the Emperor to +2, Fu Hao reorganized his thoughts and began to sort out the remaining points for stat improvement—the first thing that came to mind was the Legendary Knight's second awakening quest.

Besides the +10 for Xiaojin and the Emperor, this was the fastest way to improve his stats, but completing the quest within a week was absolutely impossible—not because of the difficulty, but because the quest conditions included a certain amount of time for "meditation training."

Excluding the second awakening, what was the biggest point for stat improvement? Clearing the trial dungeon after level 300? Challenging higher levels of the Training Tower? These were indeed the extreme stat improvement points that should be pushed within a week, but there was something even more critical.

Fu Hao re-examined the information of the equipment he "borrowed" from Helm:

<guardian spear (+10)>

Grade: Legendary+

Usage Condition: Level 500, Strength 3000, Knight-type class

Attack Power: 15,990 ~ 40,281 Durability: 180 / 180 Weight: 330

<Guardian Shield (+10)>

Grade: Legendary+

Usage Condition: Level 500, Strength 3000, Knight-type class

Defense Power: 11,670 ~ 17,350 Durability: 400 / 400 Weight: 290

<Guardian Armor · Top (+10)>

Grade: Legendary

Usage Condition: Level 500, Strength 3000

Defense Power: 9,850 ~ 16,111 Durability: 210 / 210 Weight: 150

<Guardian Armor · Bottom (+10)>

Grade: Legendary

Usage Condition: Level 500, Strength 3000

Defense Power: 8,613 ~ 14,559 Durability: 200 / 200 Weight: 120

Helm's equipment, which was staggering just by looking at its base stats, was not difficult to borrow because Fu Hao was a "trusted disciple" and the equipment was already fully +10.

The problem lay in the usage conditions—the Strength stat was fine, but for Fu Hao, who had just reached level 300, level 500 was an unreachable threshold. Even if he added a usage condition reduction, 500-level equipment could only be reduced to level 350 (reduced by 30%), which he currently could not reach.

The only way was to roll two usage condition reduction stats.

"One should eventually pop up."

The probability of two stats overlapping was extremely low, but Fu Hao had calculated it: if he let the Mimics perform enhancement effect conversions around the clock, he could at least finish one piece within a week.