Chapter 88

[You have completed the quest].
[Helioca’s notoriety increased by 100,000].
[Gain an additional 10% Merit for being recognized by Canon].
[Helioca’s notoriety increased by 10000].
“Goodbye.”
Ming Hu greeted Cannon as he always did, then began walking to the forge. As he walked to the forge, Ming Hu opened his character window to see his Accomplishments to date.
Nationality : Helioca [Empire]
Age: 22 Occupation: Blood Knight/Strong Smith
Reputation: 105000 Achievements: 4010410
Level: 230
Life: 1548950
Mana: 6420
Blood power: 759
Strength : 75930 [7593(+1090)] Dexterity : 165 Constitution : 607(+500) Intelligence : 10 Wisdom : 311
Dexterity: 249
Bonus stats: 710
“Finally. You’ve reached your goal.”
The merit points have surpassed the target of 4 million. Ming Hu smiled slightly as he looked at the over 4 million achievements. Thinking about all the hard work he’d put in over the past week to reach this level of achievement filled him with pride. Ming Hu muttered to himself as he closed the character window.
“It’s time to go shopping.”
It’s time to put your accumulated merits to use. Arriving at the forge, Ming Hu immediately exited the forge and made his way through the entrance to the city walls to the exchange.
“We also sell merits. I have 6500!”
“Looking for a dealer to go hunting with a brown orc tribe, buff scroll support!”
The crowd in front of the exchange was still swarming with users. Ming Hu pushed past them and entered the exchange.
“Give me a permanent access card.”
“Here it is.”
[Buying a 2F pass reduces your merit by 50,000].
After purchasing the second floor pass at the counter, Ming Hu went straight up to the second floor. Of course, there was nothing to buy on the second floor either, so Ming Hu walked up to the counter as soon as he reached the second floor.
“Give me a permanent access card.”
“Here it is.”
[Buying a 3F pass reduces your merit by 500,000].
After purchasing the pass to the third floor, Ming Hu turned away from the counter and headed for the stairs to the third floor. Once he reached the stairs, he turned to his right. A display case with various elixirs appeared in his line of sight. Ming Hu opened his character window and checked his remaining merit points.
“Hmm.”
Ming Hu let out a short sigh. A total of 550,000 merit points had been spent to purchase the pass, dropping his merit from over 4 million to 3.46 million. After checking his merit, Ming Hu looked at the elixir and calculated how many elixirs he could buy.
“865…”
After doing the math, Ming Hu smiled broadly as he realized that he could purchase the elixir for 865 if he spent all of his merit points. Although it costs 865, each elixir raises 10 stats, which means it can raise 8650 stats, and if you spend all of it on strength, it will raise 86500 strength.
Of course, I didn’t intend to invest all my merit points in increasing my strength. There was equipment to buy and other stats to raise. Ming Hu opened his character window to check his meager stats.
“You’re weak in everything but strength.”
Was it because his strength was too high? All of his stats felt anemic except for his strength. Ming Hu frowned slightly and closed the character window.
“Let’s buy a temp first.”
Ming Hu walked over to purchase the items he had seen on his previous visit. The first item was the Hammer of Production, which had a 1 in 10 chance of producing 1 more piece of equipment. After picking up the hammer, Ming Hu started walking again. He soon arrived at a display of rings, necklaces, and other trinkets, and began to look through them.
“Here it is!”

Restrictions: Blacksmith
Physical Defense: 10
5% chance to produce 2 additional items when crafting.
A ring of mysterious power.
Merit required: 90000
Finding the second item he had been meaning to purchase, the Ring of Production, Ming Hu walked straight to the counter and purchased the hammer and ring.
[You have purchased the hammer of production].
[Your merit will be reduced by 70000].
[You have purchased a ring of production].
[Your merit will be reduced by 90000].
After checking the message, Ming Hu opened his character window to see how much merit he had left.
“3.3 million…”
He had 3.3 million merit points left. Ming Hu walked straight to the elixir display.
“825… ”
When Ming Hu reached the shelves, he looked at the elixirs and muttered to himself. With his current merit, he could purchase 825 elixirs.
“We’ll have to split it evenly, because intellect is useless.”
Ming Hu had four weak stats: Agility, Strength, Constitution, Wisdom, and Wisdom, but Wisdom was completely useless to him. Ming Hu decided to take the elixirs of the other three stats evenly, except for Wisdom.
“I’ll buy 275 of each.”
Ming Hu picked up a basket next to the display of elixirs and began placing elixirs in the basket. After about 50 elixirs, the basket was full.
“I’ll have to go back and forth a few times.”
With his basket full, Ming Hu walked up to the counter to make his purchase. But the payment message that appeared next left him a bit flustered.
[You have purchased 10 Elixirs of Agility].
[Merit is reduced by 40000].
“…?”
Ming Hu looked back and forth between the NPC and the Agility Elixir in the basket with a puzzled expression.
“Is there a limit of 10 payments at a time?
Once Ming Hu had 10 Agility Elixirs in his inventory, he spoke to the NPC again to express his intention to purchase them, but the NPC’s next words left Ming Hu unable to say anything.
“You can only purchase a maximum of 10 supplements of each type per day.”
“…”
To his dismay, there was a purchase limit of ten elixirs per day per type. Ming Hu stared at the NPC for a moment, then looked at the elixirs in the basket.
“…Sure.”
No wonder there was a limit. Ming Hu walked over to the elixir display, put the Agility Elixir in its place in the basket, and began to gather the remaining elixirs in ten-piece batches. Even with all the elixirs, the basket was still not full. Ming Hu looked at the basket with a bitter smile, then walked over to the counter and purchased the elixirs.
[You have purchased 10 Elixirs of Strength].
[Merit is reduced by 40000].
.
.
[Merit is reduced by 40000].
Ming Hu put all the elixirs in the basket into his inventory. He opened his character window to see how much merit he had left.
“3.1 million…”
There were still more than 3 million public notations left.
Sigh
After a moment of contemplation, Ming Hu began to wander around the third floor, looking for items, but he didn’t see anything worth buying. Ming Hu turned his attention to the stairs to the fourth floor.
“Should I go for the disposable?
There were no items to buy on the third floor anyway. Ming Hu approached the counter NPC to purchase a pass to the fourth floor.
“How much for a one-time pass to the fourth floor?”
“Fourth floor access passes are not single-use.”
“…”
Ming Hu was silent for a moment when he heard that it was not disposable. The NPC’s next words caused Ming Hu to turn away bitterly.
“For a permanent passport, you need 7 million merit points.”
Jumbled
After exiting the exchange, Ming Hu walked straight to the forge and opened his inventory. Pulling out the Emperor’s Mark, Ming Hu looked at it and thought.
‘When are they calling.
It’s already been a week since you received the token. The Emperor, who said he would contact me if anything happened, hasn’t heard from me in a week.
‘It’ll come someday…’
After passing through the entrance to the city walls and arriving in front of the forge, Ming Hu put the Emperor’s Mark back into his inventory and entered the forge.
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The lush greenery was home to Red Kobolds, which you had to be at least level 100 to hunt. It was not far from Nexus, the capital of the Helioca Empire, and it was here that many new players would enter unaware and die.
-Crack! Krrrr!
-Crunch!
“Heels!”
“Great Hill!”
There were currently five players here hunting two Red Kobolds. Their hunt was very steady, with a fairly standard party of warrior, rogue, archer, mage, and priest.
-Crrrr…
-Crack!!!
As one of the Red Kobolds fell, the skin of the remaining Red Kobolds turned even redder.
“Uh, it’s about to self-destruct! Get the deal in!”
“Power Double Shot!”
“Rush!”
“Wind Cutter!”
At the shout of the warrior, the party leader and tank, the rogue, archer, and mage, the dps, all used their skills to attack the kobolds.
-k..luk
In the end, the self-destructing kobold didn’t accomplish its goal and died.
“I’ll service it.”
When the kobold fell, the party leader, the warrior, turned to the party and said, “I’m sorry. At his words, they all sat down and rested, drinking potions.
“Looks like we’re in deep, is the boss coming out?”
“I know, I want to catch the boss.”
“I think it’s going to come out if I go in a little further.”
As they chatted and relaxed, they were soon interrupted by the party leader, a warrior, who stood up. That’s when it happened.
Squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak
A circle of magic appeared behind each user’s back. The user at the back saw it and opened his mouth to speak.
“What? Behind you…”
But the user was left speechless.
Fluffy Fluffy Fluffy Fluffy
A black awl shot out of the magic circle and pierced through their bodies, and that was the end of it. The party that thought they could defeat the boss of this place died in vain.