Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

"Let's go, everyone." Wu Zhan waved his hand triumphantly. "We've been poor for so long, it's time to upgrade our weapons!"

This statement immediately received a warm response from everyone.

They had indeed accumulated a considerable amount of gold coins from monsters and quest rewards. Moreover, the entire human player community on Earth was confined to leveling areas below level 50 and could only farm gold all day long.

So nowadays, every human player has quite a lot of gold coins, but they have nowhere to spend them because there are no high-level shops.

Nowadays, these shops all over the city are like gold mines radiating an alluring glow in their eyes.

Before Chen Suan was dragged into cyber hell, his family was in business.

He gazed at the dazzling array of shops lining both sides of the street, his eyes gleaming. He whispered to Wu Zhan, "Boss, this place... has endless business opportunities. Just the ordinary potions sold here are 30% more effective than the ones we bought from the NPC shops in Azure City, and the prices are about the same. If we could organize the guild's players to buy in bulk here and resell them back to Azure City, we'd definitely make a fortune! Besides, there's also high-level equipment; we could try to find a way to get that too..."

Upon hearing this, Wu Zhan smiled and patted Chen Suan on the shoulder: "That makes sense. I'll remember this. We'll discuss it in detail later."

Wu Zhan and Sun Yao entered a large equipment store, which was divided into several areas according to the type of equipment. It had everything from swords that gleamed with cold light to staves engraved with runes, from heavy plate armor to light leather armor.

The equipment displayed on the shelves is at least of excellent quality, with epic equipment being plentiful. In the deepest part of the shop, several crystal display cases contain a few pieces of equipment with a restrained radiance and an antique design, labeled with the words "Mythical Quality (Attributes Unknown)," which seems to be a kind of random blind box opening.

While browsing, Wu Zhan took screenshots of several epic shields and one-handed swords with excellent attributes and posted them to the guild channel.

"Holy crap! This shield's block value is higher than all my other items combined!"

"Boss! That [Dawnbreaker] longsword! Check the price for me! I'd sell everything I own for it!"

"Does the boss need a proxy buyer? I need one!"

Are there any banks in the city? Can I transfer money there?

"Guild leader, could you check what kinds of gems I have? I got a piece of equipment with sockets!"

……

The guild channel was instantly flooded with messages of envy and pleading. Wu Zhan looked at the lively channel and a smug smile appeared on his face.

Liu Nian didn't linger in these ready-made equipment shops. His equipment was considered relatively good among the group, with two Mythic items and six Epic items, although their levels were a bit low. However, they were usable and he didn't need to replace them for a while. His plan was to see if he could upgrade the two Mythic items.

The Unending Expedition is only level 10, but the attributes and modifiers it provides are quite good, making it very suitable for him. It would be a shame to replace it.

So he went straight to the artisan district in the city.

This place is a gathering place for masters of various life skills, such as blacksmiths, gem setters, and enchanters. After some inquiries, Liu Nian roughly figured out the path to upgrading and enhancing equipment:

The first is upgrading equipment level, which requires specific equipment quality. The minimum quality must be Mythic equipment, and the following items must be consumed:

1. [Equipment Body]

2. [Essence obtained from dismantling equipment of the same quality]: For example, Mythic Essence can only be obtained by dismantling Mythic equipment.

3. [Specific Level Enhancement Cores]: For example, to upgrade equipment to level 20, you need a [Level 20 Energy Core]. These cores are usually obtained from raid bosses of the corresponding level, world bosses, or have a very low chance of being dropped from high-level treasure chests.

4. [Large Amount of Gold Coins]: The master craftsman's fees are extremely high.

This hurdle made Liu Nian temporarily abandon the idea, mainly because the materials were too difficult to obtain, and it would be better to directly develop new equipment instead of going through that trouble.

The second is the [Inlay System].

Socketers can socket gems into equipment with [sockets] to enhance additional attributes, but most of Liu Nian's current equipment does not have sockets, so he needs to use a socketer and socketing stones, but this is a high-risk operation:

First, a Mythic quality item can have one hole punched in it, and for each tier increase in quality, one more hole can be punched in it.

The success rate of drilling the first hole is relatively high (e.g., 70%).

The success rate of drilling a second hole drops sharply (e.g., 30%).

The success rate of drilling a third or more holes is extremely low (e.g., 5%).

No matter which hole you drill, if you fail to drill a hole, the equipment will be permanently damaged, and at that point, the only solution is to dismantle it into materials.

This risk also made Liu Nian hesitate.

As for the sources of gems, they can generally be obtained through mining, dungeon drops, monster drops, quest rewards, etc. The shops only sell the most basic attribute gems (such as +5 Strength, +5 Agility, etc.), which have ordinary attributes and are quite expensive.

Finally, there's the [Enchanting System]. Enchanters can add permanent extra attribute effects to equipment. This doesn't require any materials, just money. Similarly, Mythic quality equipment can be enchanted with one attribute modifier, and each tier of quality increases the ability to enchant with one more attribute modifier.

Of course, this enchantment is different from the gnome engineering effect on Liu Nian's Earthshaker-X-type gauntlets.

Engineering effects are more powerful and do not conflict with enchantments.

So Liu Nian simply enchanted all his gauntlets, arm guards, and leg guards.

The fist gloves grant an additional 33 Agility, the shoulder pads grant 45 Block, and the leg guards grant 9% Life Steal.

Aside from the life steal effect of the leg guards, the other two effects are only passable.

However, there's no way around it; this is random unless you find a legendary NPC who can customize the attributes for you.

In addition, Liu Nian also discovered a pet equipment store in the city, which sells equipment specially designed for pets and mounts.

Liu Nian bought a pet necklace for Echo. The attributes were secondary; the main thing was that it increased the pet's inventory slots and pickup range, which was quite useful.

The mount has only one equipment slot, which is the saddle. Equipping it increases stability.

After wandering around for a while, he had almost spent all the gold coins he had. The main reason was that he had only been here for a short time (less than a day), unlike others who had saved up so many.

When he reunited with the others, he found that everyone was beaming, especially Sun Yao, whose face was full of excitement!

It turns out he had just opened a blind box and received a mythical necklace that shimmered with a fiery luster.

【Name: Heart of Inferno】

[Type: Jewelry (Necklace)]

[Quality: Myth]

[Equipment Requirements: Level 22, Intelligence 80]

[Attributes: Intelligence +50, Spirit +30, Spell Critical Strike Chance +10%, Spell Critical Strike Damage +25%]

[Special Effect 1, [Infusion of Flames]: Your fire spells have a 13% chance to inflict an additional fire damage equal to 50% of your spell power, and cause the target to suffer continuous burning damage over 4 seconds.]

[Special Effect 1, [Fire Aura]: A five-meter radius fire aura appears around you, increasing the fire damage and fire resistance of friendly units within the area by 15%.]

The equipment isn't particularly outstanding, but every attribute is very useful!

When Zhao Xinchun and Chen Suan saw that Sun Yao had opened a top-tier item, they were also tempted to look at those mythical blind boxes, but in the end, rationality prevailed.

Blind boxes are expensive and extremely risky. If you get equipment that's unsuitable for your class or a mythical item with mediocre stats, you're really in trouble.

They opted for a safer approach, purchasing suitable epic gear and a large amount of supplies, and also bought a significant amount for their guild members.

At this point, the five-person team had undergone a significant upgrade, greatly increasing their strength.

"That's about enough," Wu Zhan said contentedly. "It's time to go back and gather reinforcements, then head over to try and conquer that [Echo Chamber]!"

Using the [Azure Town Return Scroll], they left the dwarf city amidst a flash of white light.