Chapter 39: Am I Actually the Child of Destiny?

Chapter 39: Chapter 39: Am I Actually the Child of Destiny?

Inside the top-tier Enhancement Room, Yu Zhun kept his eyes tightly shut, his handsome face scrunched up in tension.

After taking several deep breaths, as if he had made an extremely important decision, Yu Zhun rapidly tapped the empty air in front of him.

"It has to succeed. It has to succeed!"

After chanting this silently several times, he finally opened his eyes with trepidation, looking at the golden prompt that popped up in front of him.

[Enhancement Success]

"Yes!" Yu Zhun leaped up and punched the air forcefully, veins bulging slightly on his forehead from sheer excitement.

How could he not be excited?

The last set of Three Divine Talismans had successfully raised [Nether’s Deep Embrace] to a +14 Enhancement level!

Looking back at the previous nine Enhancements, it was a tragic tale that would bring tears to anyone’s eyes. Going from +10 to +11 had gone smoothly, succeeding on the first try. However, the step from +11 to +12, with its further reduced probability, had failed twice before he finally succeeded. Going from +12 to +13 had been even worse, failing a staggering four times.

By the time he successfully reached +13, Yu Zhun only had this final set of Three Divine Talismans left in his hands.

He had originally planned to give up and wait until he earned enough money to gather a few more sets before trying again. But he couldn’t reconcile with leaving it as it was. After agonizing over the decision, he chose to proceed with the Enhancement right then and there.

And then, for once, he finally got lucky.

[Nether’s Deep Embrace]

[Enhancement Level: +14 → +15]

[Equipment Stats:

Physical Defense +1252 → Physical Defense +1400

Magic Defense +1252 → Magic Defense +1400]

[Enhancement Cost: Equipment Enhancement Stone x48]

[Enhancement Success Rate: 3.5%] [Luck +72.8%]

[Auxiliary Item: None]

[Begin Enhancement]

Glancing at the success rate, Yu Zhun’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch.

Used to the ultra-high success rates backed by the Lucky Talismans, he found that the success rate boosted merely by his own Luck—now that he had used up all ten Lucky Talismans—was abysmally low.

Across these ten Enhancements, aside from the massive improvements to his Equipment, Yu Zhun’s Life Profession Level had also skyrocketed. Previously only at Lv8, his Life Profession Level had now caught up to his Combat Professional Level, reaching Lv16.

Relying solely on the experience provided by consuming Equipment Enhancement Stones naturally couldn’t have raised him to such a high level. In fact, across all ten Enhancements combined, the Equipment Enhancement Stones had only yielded 4,160 experience points. However, the experience provided by the Three Divine Talismans reached a staggering 95,000 points.

[Character Name: Yu Zhun]

[Level: Lv16 (15,690/35,800)]

[Profession: Enhancer]

[Luck: 28 → 72.8] [Environment +40%]

[Profession Skill 1: Enhancement]

[Profession Skill 2: Enhancement Transfer]

"I wonder when I’ll be able to achieve the effect of a Lucky Talisman relying purely on my own Luck," he mused.

Yu Zhun smacked his lips and looked at the timer on the wall. The ten Enhancements hadn’t even taken an hour. He had only used the top-tier Enhancement Room for about twenty minutes. If it hadn’t been for the time he spent agonizing over his choices during the process, it would have been even faster.

However, there was no need to worry about the time going to waste. Yu Zhun had asked when he rented the Enhancement Room, and any unused time could be saved for later. The next time he visited the top-tier Enhancement Room, he wouldn’t need to pay additional rent until his remaining time ran out.

After finishing the checkout procedures, Yu Zhun walked out of the Divine Revelation Hall without looking back, ignoring the female staff member’s enthusiastic sales pitch.

Don’t ask. The answer was simply that he was broke!

At the entrance of the Divine Revelation Hall, Yu Zhun suddenly stopped in his tracks. The new Sub-Hall Master, Zhu Zhe, whom he had briefly met once before, was currently standing in front of the building, conversing with a man whose entire body was covered except for his eyes.

One look was enough to tell that the latter was an incredibly formidable Assassin.

Sensing Yu Zhun’s arrival, the two men simultaneously cast their gazes toward him.

"Uh... I’m just passing by." Yu Zhun gave an awkward smile, carefully edging his way out the door. "Please, continue your conversation."

"Halt," the Assassin who only had his eyes exposed said in a muffled voice. After looking Yu Zhun up and down a couple of times, he casually tossed an object to him. "Fate has brought us together. Take this as a gift."

With that, the Assassin nodded at Zhu Zhe, seemingly having finished discussing their important matters. He instantly transformed into a cloud of black mist and vanished from the spot.

"Wow, what a badass exit," Yu Zhun thought.

With a sigh of admiration, Yu Zhun looked down at the item the man had given him. It was a bottle of potion. The bottle itself was perfectly ordinary, and the liquid inside was colorless and transparent like water, looking completely unremarkable.

However, its effects were anything but unremarkable.

[Plain Potion: Apply a single drop to any Equipment. No matter how rare or powerful the Equipment may be, it will appear as worthless, common-grade Equipment to outsiders.]

Yu Zhun’s head snapped up as he stared in the direction the mysterious Assassin had vanished. "Senior?!"

"Stop shouting; he’s already gone," Zhu Zhe said calmly, glancing at the potion in Yu Zhun’s hand out of the corner of his eye. "This friend of mine is very fond of guiding the younger generation, especially fellow Assassins.

"He gifted it to you likely because he felt a sense of affinity.

"Just consider yourself lucky and accept it without worry."

Hearing Hall Master Zhu say this, Yu Zhun put the potion away, feeling a mix of apprehension and pleasant surprise. This item was an enormous help to him.

Under normal circumstances, the exact details of the Equipment worn on one’s body couldn’t be seen by other players. At most, others would just think your Equipment looked cool. However, a small number of special Talents could see through an Equipment’s details. He Guangtao, whom Yu Zhun had encountered in the Newbie Area, was exactly like this.

If he encountered another similar Talent, Yu Zhun’s secrets would be at risk of being exposed.

Back in the Newbie Area, Yu Zhun had heard a vendor selling Skill Books mention an item called [Concealing Jade], which was said to be able to hide an Equipment’s status. But upon looking into it later, he discovered that the [Concealing Jade]’s effects were extremely limited. It was basically just for show. After all, what good items could possibly be sold in the Newbie Area?

And now, he had unexpectedly acquired the perfect solution.

"Thank you, Hall Master Zhu. May I ask what that Senior’s name is?" Yu Zhun asked sincerely. "I should at least know who helped me."

Zhu Zhe paused slightly. "What did you just call me?"

"Hall Master Zhu?" Yu Zhun blinked. "Is there something wrong with that title?"

Wasn’t the man in front of him the Sub-Hall Master of Divine Strategy City? There shouldn’t be any problem addressing him like that, right?

"...It’s nothing. Keep calling me that." A faint, almost imperceptible smile flashed through Zhu Zhe’s eyes. "That friend of mine has always kept a low profile. But since you are an Assassin, you will naturally learn his identity once you grow stronger in the future."

"Well, alright," Yu Zhun nodded.

It made sense. If he didn’t grow stronger, he probably wouldn’t have any opportunity to repay that mysterious, powerful Assassin anyway.

It was just that... why did something feel a bit off?

He had just chosen to become an Enhancer, and resources related to Enhancers immediately went on sale. His full set of Red Equipment made him an easy target to be exposed, and right on cue, a powerful, mysterious Assassin casually gifted him a bottle of potion that could conceal his Red Equipment...

Could it be...

Yu Zhun stroked his chin. "Am I the legendary child of destiny?!" he thought.