Chapter 51 : Chapter 51
Chapter 51: Forging a Spell Weapon! Exclusive Skill—Position Swap!
When he saw Ye Ze take the Cursed Statue, Wan Feipeng said nothing, nor did he ask what use it had. In any case, it was Ye Ze’s own choice.
When it came to the people under him, Wan Feipeng usually took a hands-off approach.
There were not many restraints, and not many rules...Of course, it was also possible that he simply could not be bothered to think about such things.
Ye Ze then turned his attention to the other items. He had enough merit to choose two items, so he could still pick one more.
His gaze soon landed on an unknown crystal etched with purple patterns...【Magic Spirit Stone: Contains exceptionally potent mana properties and can be used as forging material for spell weapons of Outstanding-grade or above.】
It could be used to forge weapons of Outstanding-grade or higher!
That made its value enormous...On the open market, the best equipment normally available was only Outstanding-grade. As for anything above Outstanding-grade, one might not see more than one or two pieces in an entire year!
And if it was a spell-type weapon, then it would suit the fox perfectly.
Among his Summoned Beasts, the panda fought with its fists and had no need for a weapon. The mantis’s pair of arm blades were weapons in themselves. The squirrel already had the Crimson Demon Blade...Only the fox was still lacking a weapon.
He immediately turned to Wan Feipeng and asked, "City Lord Wan..."
"Come on, why call me City Lord Wan? Call me Brother Wan!"
Wan Feipeng spoke with easy frankness. "As long as you slap Wei Zheng and Wu Ming hard in the face for me at the special training camp, I would not even mind calling you big brother!"
"..."
Ye Ze was utterly speechless.
Though, judging by Wan Feipeng’s personality, he might not have been joking at all.
It also reflected, from another angle, just how badly this sixth-rank powerhouse had been mocked by the two regional heads from Central China and East China before...Ye Ze brought the conversation back to business. "Brother Wan, does Linyuan City have a place where weapons can be forged?"
"I want to forge this stone into a weapon."
"So your second reward is this?" Wan Feipeng asked curiously. "This is actually forging material?"
After receiving Ye Ze’s confirmation, Wan Feipeng said without hesitation:
"You do not need to look for one. I will find someone to forge it for you!"
It seemed that in order for Ye Ze to help him recover some face at the special training camp, Wan Feipeng was being exceedingly generous.
That saved Ye Ze quite a bit of trouble.
Still, Ye Ze had no intention of making Wan Feipeng pay out of pocket for him. He took out the auxiliary materials and the Crystal Stones.
"Brother Wan, if I add these auxiliary materials as well, what kind of weapon could be forged?"
Two Epic-grade Storm Cores, plus a thousand Crystal Stones.
Even Wan Feipeng could not help clicking his tongue at such lavishness.
"As expected of someone who got the first clear of a Hell-difficulty group dungeon. Kid, you really are rich!"
If those materials were taken outside, they would easily be worth more than twenty million!
That was enough money to exchange for a luxurious house, yet Ye Ze took it out without the slightest hesitation just to make equipment. Wan Feipeng could not help thinking more highly of him.
Putting the materials away, he promised confidently:
"If the finished equipment comes out any lower than a five-star Epic, I will twist the smith’s head off myself!"
"Oh, right. Since it is a spell-type weapon, what kind do you want?"
"A staff, a spellbook, or...?"
Hearing that, Ye Ze thought for a moment about what weapon would suit the fox..."Mm, make it an orb."
"Good! The special training camp starts the day after tomorrow. I will rush someone to finish forging it before tomorrow night!"
...
By the time he came out of the City Lord’s Mansion, the sky was already dark.
Ye Ze simply went straight home to test the effect of the Cursed Statue.
Naturally, under such circumstances, Ye Ze decisively summoned out the squirrel that had been gnawing on a pinecone in the Summoned Beast Space and held it in his arms.
Only then did he use the statue.
The Cursed Statue was only about the size of a hand. Once activated, it turned into a forbidden purple radiance that shone onto Ye Ze’s body.
【You are affected by the Cursed Statue and gain the negative status—Sluggish (cannot be dispelled)!】
【Sluggish: Your Agility -30, Movement Speed -30%】
Fortunately, it only reduced Agility and speed, which was not too serious for him.
Having been fed back attributes many times over, he already had 132 points of Agility. Even after the deduction, the loss was only trivial.
Of course, for classes like Assassins or swordsmen, this would have been much harder to accept.
Ye Ze then looked at the exclusive skill he had obtained:
【You are affected by the Cursed Statue and gain the exclusive skill—Swap (Epic)!】
【Swap: Freely exchange the positions of the Summoner and a Summoned Beast. Cooldown: 1 minute. Skill Cost: 50 Mana per use.】
Good Lord!
An Epic-quality exclusive skill!
Freely switching positions was practically equivalent to instantaneous movement.
Ye Ze was stunned. In the hands of someone who truly knew how to use it, this skill was worth far more than merely Epic quality!
After all, what a Summoner feared most was being ambushed personally. But if an enemy Assassin lunged in to launch a sneak attack and he switched places instantly...the Summoner that the Assassin had originally come for would suddenly become a fierce Warrior instead!
Just thinking about it was amusing.
Moreover, the skill’s cooldown could be reduced through equipment and other means.
If he could reduce it to the limit later on, its upper potential would become even higher!
With that thought in mind, Ye Ze immediately prepared to test it out.
He wanted to see not only whether he could switch places with a Summoned Beast, but also whether two Summoned Beasts could switch places with each other.
He set the squirrel down and summoned out the little fox.
"Yip~"
The little fox’s soft snow-white body was like a great marshmallow. The moment it appeared, it rubbed itself against Ye Ze.
A sharp contrast to the squirrel beside them, which was wholeheartedly focused on gnawing its pinecone.
"Swap."
As Ye Ze activated the skill, the two figures switched places at blinding speed.
The little squirrel ended up in Ye Ze’s arms, while the little fox appeared beside the pinecone.
Fox, squirrel: "???"
Ye Ze nodded in satisfaction. As expected, he could switch two Summoned Beasts with each other.
That opened up many more tactical possibilities.
After waiting out another minute of cooldown...he instructed the squirrel to send its Shadow Clone running outside the door.
He wanted to test whether the Shadow Clone could also be switched with the Summoner and Summoned Beasts.
And the result... was still yes.
As Ye Ze activated the skill, he himself instantly appeared outside the door, while the squirrel’s Shadow Clone moved onto the bed.
That made Ye Ze overjoyed.
"So that means that in the future, when the squirrel’s Shadow Clone is scouting, the instant it finds a target, I can switch directly!"
"That gives me even more room to maneuver!"
As expected of an exclusive skill. Its effect truly was excellent!
At his current stage, with "Swap," the shield from the Spirit Pact Set, and his copied skills on top of that, Ye Ze’s survivability had practically reached its limit!
And who knew? Swap might even be used as an offensive skill...Quite satisfied, Ye Ze saw that the sky had already grown dim, so he did nothing more and went straight to sleep.
The fox, like a great marshmallow, took the opportunity to burrow into Ye Ze’s blankets...
...
The next day, Ye Ze woke from a full night’s sleep.
He first went to the War Academy to check on Teacher Liu.
Sure enough, after the Section Chief of the Investigation Division went missing, all the work of the Investigation Division had truly fallen onto Liu Boyan alone.
The current Liu Boyan had practically turned into a human office machine.
Perhaps, between going missing and working overtime, it was not necessarily clear which of the two was more torturous.
"Teacher, what do you think about me making a trip to No. 17 Contaminated Land?"
Ye Ze joked, "I could even help you look for the Section Chief while I am at it..."
"If you do not want to die, then do not go!"
Liu Boyan put down his pen, raised his head, and looked at Ye Ze. "According to Chang Zhengping’s people, in just one night, the degree of Fiend unrest increased by 500%!"
In other words, both the number and the overall strength of the Fiends there had risen to more than five times what they were before!
"It is that serious?"
"If you want to level up, then go to No. 19 instead. They happen to be short-handed there too."
Hearing Liu Boyan’s suggestion, Ye Ze nodded.
He had originally planned to choose between No. 17 and No. 19 Contaminated Land as today’s destination anyway.
At the very least, before the special training camp began, he wanted to gain another one or two levels!