Chapter 258

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[Raid Storyline Quest "War of Faith" Completed]

[All participating players shall receive '30,000' experience points, '5,000' contribution points, '30' resurrection coins, '01' lucky draw ticket, and the exclusive rare blue-class title 'Guardian of Faith'.]

As the sun rose once again, players who had participated in this unprecedented storyline war received several new system prompts.

The questline... was finally over.

Looking at the system messages passing before their eyes, as well as at the large rewards they've acquired, all the players that participated displayed looks of excitement...

Many couldn't wait to equip their new titles, and underneath the username's hovering above their heads, a new line of blue text appeared which states—

"Guardian of Faith!"

Surprisingly, having a title for themselves made a significant difference in their avatar's outward appearance, making everything appear more pleasing to the eye.

The war came so suddenly, but it also end just as swift.

Thirty thousand Orcish army, the most elite force of the Half-Orcs, nearly all perished in less than two days in the hills surrounding Black Dragon Castle and the grounds of Dark Mountain Range...

Then, the surviving Orcs army that somehow managed to escape experienced a day and night of being hunted down by the players.

In the end, only a few lucky Orcs managed to escape the players pursuit by hiding deep into the Dark Mountain Range, however, only a few lucky ones had such fortune.

The vast majority of the fleeing Orcs have turned into player experience points.

From the Black Dragon Castle to the south, the road was chock full of equipment left behind by the orcs who had perished, as well as players who were bustling around picking up all the abandoned equipment scattered about...

It's to the extent that they had picked up so much equipment that they had long since become numb to such monotonous actions.

At the end of the day, the players became more interested in killing the Orcs rather than their equipment.

It was solely because they had killed too many Orcs this time, saturating the supply, which also consequently reduced the demand for it, rendering the Orcs' equipment completely worthless.

On the contrary, the allure of gaining high experience points and lottery draw tickets was far more greater to the players.

Especially after the prize pool opened!

More than one lucky player managed to won a legendary golden-class equipment, which was envied by many non-whale players.

Of course, the poor quality of the Orcs' equipment was also one of the reasons players were uninterested in these items.

In fact, most players wouldn't bother in using such low-quality equipment unless they were low-level newbies.

Perhaps back when the server first opened, everyone treated them as treasures, alas now that better items could be exchanged in the store, these junk items were no longer quite as appealing.

Of course, offering all these junk items to the goddess was also a good option, which perhaps may even earn them some contribution points from their ever-so-generous elven goddess.

After the war, many players gathered in an inconspicuous corner near the Black Dragon Castle.

They avoided being totally seen by devoted NPCs like Alice, and happily carved out an offering circle on the ground.

They then immediately offered to the goddess all the unused Orcs equipment and damaged items they have looted, sneakily gaining some contribution points.

They only accumulated small amounts of CP by performing these offering rituals, but doing it several times eventually led to greater satisfaction.

So... after the war ended, Evé quickly discovered a sudden influx of junk items within her Celestial Domain.

Nevertheless, Evé still accepted all these offerings.

She then used some of her divine power to repair and modify the appearance of these junk items, while also adding some special properties at random, before marking the refurbished items with a higher price tag, and then promptly listing them all back in the system store.

However, it's not entirely accurate to categorize every piece of equipment plundered by the players as mere junk items.

In reality, among the items dropped by the Orcs, some were indeed can be labeled as rare treasures.

Notably, the most famous ones were the sacrificial robes dropped by the chief shaman of the Half-Orcs and the Lionheart Longsword of King Imsh.

Both of these items were identified by the system as silver-class equipment!

Yes, silver-class equipment.

Although both of these Orc leaders were golden-rank experts, their equipment still remained at the silver-class level.

After all...the Orcs were widely known for their scarcity of resources.

However, these two items were considered excellent even among silver-class equipment, much better than the plain robe that Li Mu acquired from the Orc priest of the Caverock Tribe.

Not to mention, the chief shaman's sacrificial robe inherently possessed the special properties of [Acceleration] [Meditation] and [Enhanced Perception.]

Even in terms of system evaluation, her equipment was a solid epic purple-class item.

As for the Lionheart Longsword, the system's evaluation even went even further and deemed Imsh sword as an—Artifact!

This was an inherited artifact of the orcs, the very symbol of royalty of the half-orcs—the Lionheart Longsword.

Although it was only at the silver level, the sword did contain some traces of Uller's divine power, with the special properties of [Sharpness] [Intimidation] and [Freezing.]

Three special properties!

To determine the class of an equipment, it's enough to look at how many special properties it inherently has.

Those without one are deemed common white, having one makes it a rare blue, whereas having two special properties make it an epic purple, and items imbued with three special properties make it a legendary golden-class...

As for having more properties than three, players still haven't seen them, so it's naturally assumed by them that items with three special properties is the pinnacle.

So in conclusion...the equipment of both Orc leaders was classified as legendary golden equipment!

Although the Lionheart Sword's appearance is slightly inferior to those gold legends in the exchange store... it is indeed a genuine golden legendary item.

Moreover...these items can still be used even after a player advances into silver-rank!

It can be said that, up to now, this is the most glorious equipment within the game.

However, one problem that arose was that the players were uncertain of its rightful ownership because the Orc Boss didn't really drop this item to a particular player, as well as the mere fact that hundreds of players banded together to hunt the Orc King.

With it being an equipment of a quest boss, naturally, everyone wanted it for themselves, and arguments of its ownership rang about one after another. But, in the end, after some final deliberation, everyone simply decided that the ownership of the Lionheart sword could be gained through an auction.

Of course, considering that this is a silver-class legendary equipment, almost unprecedented and far beyond the items listed off the exchange store, which makes it truly a limited edition item. As a result, accurately determining its true value becomes quite an arduous task.

So... after players further discussed it, they then decided to simply auction the Lionheart Sword at a specific time, and the highest bidder would get it.

Evé, upon learning about this, did not intervene and let the players decide for themselves.

In thr end, it's just a mere silver-class equipment, although formidable, it's still only a single item and doesn't affect the game's overall balance.

Moreover, high-level equipment such as this can only be effectively used by high-level individuals.

Players wielding this sword would be doing well to unleash even a fraction of its power.

In addition, it's just one piece of equipment, not a full set of golden-class armor.

Although the attack power of its owner would skyrocket, one could still overturn if they're not careful enough.

However, the appearance of the Lionheart Longsword did indeed gave Evé some new idea:

"As players grow, they will undoubtedly encounter more of these rare items. Perhaps... I should prepare an ownership binding function? Or... an exclusive recognition function?"

In the world of Saigües, only artifacts can be recognized as master-class weapons.

Moreover, it needs to be a semi-artifact or higher.

Weapons like the Lionheart Longsword, although considered to be an artifact, do not have any kind of recognition function.

And there are many of such similar artifacts are scattered about within Saigües.

"Hmm... this idea is quite good. I'm going to call it a binding function! Incorporate weapons into the game system and assign them an exclusive mark, which makes them personal items that couldn't be used besides its owner. This way, whenever a player dies, these exclusive items can also teleport alongside the deceased player!"

"Furthermore, besides the item owner, other players won't be able to unleash the full effects of the special properties imbued within a binded weapon, just like the recognition effect of an artifacts!"

"...However, by implementing such features, the maintenance cost of my game system will increase yet again, although not by much, but its still an added strain on my divine power reserves, sigh."

"Hmm... let's do this, we can create a maintenance buff for bound equipment. Players can bind equipment, but they need to deduct a certain amount of experience or contribution for binding maintenance. Yes indeed, this is the maintenance that binding must have!"

"However, this matter cannot be made public, and should be done secretly. hehe, I'll just inform a player after they successfully bind a weapon that binding will impose a certain mental burden unto them, possibly resulting in a slight decrease in experience and contribution points they will gain!"

"I truly am a genius~"

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[ QUEST COMPLETION & EQUIPMENT BINDING ]

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