Chapter 118: Mythic-Grade Staff!
"How do you master a rule-level skill?"
"It's simple. Once you comprehend it, you will master it."
"If your innate comprehension is lacking, you will remain estranged from it for the rest of your life."
Elder Mu stood up and opened the wooden door behind him. Before leaving, he paused, turned his head, and said, "If you wish to try, you can come find me at the City Lord's Mansion after the Talent Tournament ends."
With that, without waiting for Song Qi to ask further, he departed.
Thud!
As the wooden door shut, the entire consciousness space began to gradually dissipate before Song Qi's eyes.
He felt his vision go dark, and when he opened his eyes again, he was already back in the private booth of the Succubus Bar.
Turning his head, he saw Chu Shaojiang coming to his senses as well.
City Lord Fu was sitting on the sofa, drinking wine, while the succubus hostess had long since departed.
"Are you both back?"
"Let's go, time for the celebration feast!"
"Huh?"
Song Qi and Chu Shaojiang both showed reluctance.
"We're leaving already?"
"Since we're already here, why don't we just eat here..."
"Why don't we just order... you know, *that*..."
City Lord Fu shook his head helplessly.
"It's not that I'm being stingy."
"But before level 60, letting your extraordinary power be drained at will can easily destabilize your foundation."
"After level 60, if you're still interested, I can treat you all you want."
With that, he summoned a cloud of black mist and forcibly pulled the two out of the private booth.
***
The City Lord brought the two to a restaurant called Riverview Pavilion.
This was the most prestigious restaurant in the First District, and indeed, in all of humanity!
The signature dishes of this restaurant even included delicacies made from monsters as high as level 80!
They were prepared by the only level 90 chef in all of humanity!
As for the price, it was naturally astronomical.
To prove he wasn't lying earlier, City Lord Fu was not stingy at all. With a wave of his hand, he ordered five signature dishes in a row.
The three of them ate until evening. Only when their stomachs could literally hold no more did they leave, still wanting more.
On the way back...
*Belch~*
"That was delicious."
Song Qi rubbed his bloated, distended stomach. Even walking had become difficult.
If he weren't a class holder, he might have literally ruptured his stomach.
"Yeah, as expected of a level 90 chef. Those dishes were really... tsk tsk... so delicious I almost swallowed my own tongue." Chu Shaojiang also remarked with deep emotion.
"By the way, Brother Song, do you want me to help support your stomach?"
"Get lost."
"You got it!"
***
The two quickly returned to the entrance of their hotel.
As soon as they stepped inside, the receptionist called out to Song Qi and handed him a package.
At first, Song Qi wondered who had sent him mail.
But when he returned to his room and opened it, it was actually the storage ring sent by Elder Mu!
"Huh?"
Song Qi was instantly dumbfounded.
If he wasn't mistaken, this should be the resources Elder Mu had mentioned giving him in the consciousness space a few hours ago, right?
"Wait, are resources for top-tier geniuses that cheap? He just left it at the front desk?"
"It's like he didn't care at all."
Curiously, he slipped on the storage ring and guided his mental energy imprint deep into it.
There was a seal on the storage ring, but the moment it touched his mental energy, it dissolved instantly.
"Not bad, at least there's a bit of protection."
Song Qi scanned the space inside the storage ring.
There were three piles of items in total.
On the left was a pile of glass bottles. They were filled with some kind of transparent liquid, and he couldn't tell what it was.
On the right was a staff-type weapon.
In the middle was a pile of miscellaneous items.
Song Qi first took out the staff.
The moment he held it, he felt something unusual.
Holding this staff actually gave him a warm, comfortable sensation. Even legendary weapons had never given him such an experience.
He clicked to view its information...
[Weapon: Light of Dawn]
[Quality: Mythical]
[Required Level: None]
[Required Attribute: Spirit 1000]
[Applicable Classes: Mage, Summoner, Priest]
[Strength: +50]
[Agility: +50]
[Constitution: +500]
[Spirit: +1500]
[Effect 1: Grants the user an additional 100% Spirit.]
[Effect 2: Grants different effects based on the user's class. Current Effect: Increases all attributes of all summoned entities by 50%.]
[Effect 3: Designate a location to summon the Light of Dawn to strike the entire area from the sky, dealing devastating damage! The area is up to 1000 square meters, with a maximum range of 10 kilometers. Cooldown: 1 hour.]
[Description: Rumored to be a staff crafted by the Goddess of Dawn from one hundred days of morning sunlight, possessing incredible divine power!]
...
"Holy crap!!?"
"A Mythical-grade staff?!!"
"Directly increases Spirit by 1500 points?"
"My current base Spirit attribute is over 1000. With Effect 1 adding another 500 points, that means... an increase of at least 2000 Spirit out of thin air?!"
Song Qi was startled the moment he saw the quality. And when he saw the attribute bonuses that followed, he was even more pleasantly surprised!
One had to know that when he first encountered those level 65 members of the Demon Worship Sect, even fully geared, their main attributes had barely broken 2000 points.
Yet now, this single piece of equipment alone gave him a guaranteed boost of over 2000 Spirit?!
"With this staff, my Spirit attribute can be boosted to at least 3000 points right now?!"
He gasped.
Once he equipped this weapon, if he paired it with a few random legendary pieces, pushing his Spirit close to 4000 points wouldn't be a problem at all!
A level 40 class holder with a main attribute exceeding 4000?!
He didn't know what the standard was in the First District, but if this were the Seventh District, he would be a living legend!
"As expected of mythical equipment! The attribute bonuses alone have far exceeded my expectations!"
"And this Effect 2... a 50% bonus to all attributes for all summoned entities? Man, this bonus is practically equivalent to a full set of Hero-grade equipment."
Even a full set of the Heroic Spirit set only increased the attributes of summoned spirits by 50% in total. Furthermore, that bonus was restricted to humanoid summoned spirits.
This mythical weapon not only provided a larger boost, but it also came without any restrictions!
"As for Effect 3... it seems to be a large-scale destructive skill, though I don't know how powerful it is."
"But since it's an innate effect of a mythical weapon, the power definitely won't be lacking."
"As expected of resources meant for top-tier geniuses! This is incredible!!!"
Song Qi held the staff, unable to put it down!
Barring any accidents, he would have no problem using this staff until level 70 or even level 80!
"Geez, a weapon of this caliber was just mailed over like this? I don't know if Elder Mu is just incredibly careless or if he has absolute confidence in the security of the First District."
Without hesitation, Song Qi unequipped the Sword of Heroic Spirits and equipped the Light of Dawn.
Then, he turned his gaze to the pile of miscellaneous items in the middle.
"Since the weapon is mythical grade, this pile of things surely won't be simple either."
Rummaging through them, a robe caught his eye.
[Upper Body Armor: Robe of the Covenant of Forgiveness]
[Quality: Legendary]
[Required Level: Level 40 and above]
[Required Attribute: Spirit 500]
[Strength: +0]
[Agility: +20]
[Constitution: +10]
[Spirit: +300]
[Effect 1: Grants the user's summoned entities an additional 20% bonus to all attributes.]
[Effect 2: When the user is attacked, a shield is immediately generated. The shield's strength is determined by the wearer's Spirit attribute.]
[Description: Forgiving others is the duty of the gods. Our job is simply to send them to meet them.]