Deep Sea Hunter, but Deep Sea Titan

"This item seems to be surprisingly useful for hero units with subtle strengths."

Loting read the description of [Endless Hatred]. This equipment that burns enemies is very effective against groups like Silver Spear Pegasus, but it is also very effective against enemies whose individual soldier quality is not outstanding among hero units.

Rushing into a crowd, you get burned but also feel refreshed; from a user experience perspective, it's already quite enjoyable.

“It was very rewarding.”

Lotin had been quite agitated since arriving in Kazimierz, encountering numerous unfortunate events along the way. It wasn't until he tallied his profits that his mood finally improved after a long time.

A golden shield, etched with the image of Mount Targon, provides bonuses to health, ability power, and base health regeneration, as well as a small amount of gold gained over time.

Most importantly, it provides a defensive function. Lotin used the plot information he had and the key vision provided by the defense to gain the upper hand in countless battles.

The reforged equipment can be given to teammates or remain effective as long as it has a direct connection to the host's shell or body.

The Mountain Barrier is a piece of equipment that you upgrade to the highest level by completing quests with small items. Reforging it only costs a few hundred gold coins, but it can definitely free up an extra equipment slot.

He has only just finished processing the financial gains from defeating Silver Spear Pegasus; the funds obtained from defeating the Unarmored Alliance, Tora, the Garrison Fleet, and the members of the Supervisory Council are still being calculated separately by Loting.

"Killed Xuan Tie Dawei, gained 275 funds."

After all, even the Silver Spear Pegasus was confident that six Silver Spear Pegasus warriors could defeat the Unarmored Alliance, including Xuan Tie. Including the other ordinary members of the Unarmored Alliance, the gold coin reward for defeating them was close to 700.

“Crushing members of the business alliance, one basically gets 200 gold coins.”

Luo Ting flipped through the records of kill bounties. People like directors of the Business Federation, whose individual strength was generally not strong but whose influence was great, were usually considered the lowest-level hero units by the system.

This portion of the earnings is approximately 600 gold coins.

The members of the Supervisory Council were all true warriors, whose bounties were based on their merits during their lifetimes. However, a large portion of them were old men who were not very strong or influential, as well as those who were just there to fill positions because of their noble families.

Therefore, the benefits of cleaning up the censors were only around 1800 gold coins, since it didn't take Loting too much effort to clean up these people.

For his next item, Loting plans to get [Jash the Thousand Shapeshifter], which will cost 3200 gold.

As Lotin hesitated about which piece of equipment to reforge next, the system gave him a little "Easter egg" about [Jia Xiu the Thousand Transformers].

The so-called "Easter egg" message that popped up in the system was actually a subtle warning to Lotin about the risk of this equipment devouring its owner.

"There are such dangerous equipment, but as long as it is not reforged and given a physical form, there should be no problem."

Loting therefore abandoned his plan to reforge [Thousand-Changer Jaxiu]. There was no need to take such a risk; reforging any piece of equipment was still reforging.

The Riftmaker and the Staff of Time are staves, which become very inconvenient to use after being reforged and materialized. The Endless Hatred is a shield, a terrifying ghost face shield.

【Winter's Chill】can be forcibly worn inside the enchanted armor on the main body.

The massive outer shell made the space inside the enchanted armor actually quite spacious, so Lotin was able to forcibly wear [Winter's Arrival] on himself. Therefore, he spent 1400 gold coins to reforge it and materialize it onto his own body.

Lotin thought that this piece of equipment must have excellent insulation properties.

With the remaining 3800+ gold coins, Loting can use them to buy another large piece of equipment.

During the battle against Silver Spear Pegasus, Loting discovered that he would experience a period of low burst damage after the shield from his W skill ended and the shockwave from his E skill ended. To fill this gap, Loting turned his attention to Nashor's Tooth.

With the theoretical limitless spell power achieved by [Rift Creator], [Heart Steel], and [Storm Gathering], [Nash's Tooth] can not only fill the gaps in burst damage during chaotic battles, but also slightly enhance the main body's combat capabilities.

[Icathian Bite: Attacks deal bonus magic damage equal to 15 + 20% of spell power.]

That's the key point.

Lotin wouldn't allow such an extreme situation to occur, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't make any preparations. In addition, the [Nash's Tooth] itself is a small dagger, forged from the [Baron Nash's] tooth, and is easy to carry and use after being reforged and materialized.

The 2500 points spent can be considered a preliminary digestion of the massive funds that Loting received this time.

Luo Ting let out a long, refreshing breath; he hadn't felt this comfortable in a long time.

You seem to be in a pretty good mood.

Laurentina sat leisurely on Lotin's shoulder, gazing at the other side of the city.

"It's ok."

The metal finger lightly brushed against the nun's cheek, while Skadi grabbed the finger with considerable displeasure.

Even at this point, Ms. Orca still seemed hesitant and stammering.

Lotin sighed softly and rubbed Skadi's face in the same way.

Then, Lotin conjured a heavy golden shield out of thin air. This was the [Mountain Barrier], which Lotin had recast and materialized. This auxiliary equipment had gloriously completed its historical mission.

"Sister, please help me secure it to my arm."

Lotin gestured for Laurentina to attach the Mountain Barrier to his arm as a bracer. This piece of equipment does not provide armor, but once it is crafted, it can probably be used to block certain damaging projectiles.

However, he only needs this equipment to provide basic stats and charge the scout ward.

【Endless Hatred】 and other shield-type equipment that can provide armor should have a better effect in hindering attacks. As divine weapons from Runeterra, their performance also differs.

After all, even if his armor is damaged, it will recover rapidly due to the restoration of his health. This is the characteristic of the data template. As long as he has a little health left, Lotin can be full of energy. This was proven by the brass diving suit, which is part of the template, when he was fighting the Patriot.

Sandwich cookies, red and blue potions—Skadi and Laurentina had already seen many of Lotin's wonderful gadgets before, so this time, his pulling out a deck of cards out of thin air no longer surprised them at all.

Chapter 98: Mountain Barrier? The Eye of Season!

Looking at the Mountain Barrier that was fixed to his arm by the shield's built-in clips, Lotin was a little curious. Besides the obvious physical effect of blocking projectiles, would the equipment, which had been forged into a physical object, have any other strange additional effects?

Loting observed the Colossus emblem engraved on the shield, and a warm sensation emanated from its surface.

After all, the system had subtly warned Loting about the Void dangers behind [Jashu the Thousand Transformers], so would [Mountain Barrier] also have some characteristics related to Mount Targon?

In the older version 8.2, it was called the "Protoss Remnant," a remnant of a powerful being, yet some incredible power still slumbered within it.

In terms of appearance, it is similar to a piece of equipment called "Steel Sun", but its overall appearance is simpler and the numerical bonus it provides is not as good as the latter.

In the lore of League of Legends, there exists a cult called the Church of the Sun in the Mount Targon region.

Unlike the typical gilded weapons of the Church of the Sun, which are simply gilded to reflect the sun's brilliance, the Mountain Barrier itself emits a soft light like the dawn.

"Furthermore, this equipment's active skill is related to reconnaissance and defense, so could it be...?"

With this question in mind, Lotin switched back to the default skin deep in the ruins, illuminating the enemy in the shadows, which was originally part of the exclusive passive skill of the [Light Knight] skin.

The Mountain Barrier, which remains as an arm guard on Lotin's arm, grants Lotin the same effect.

This reminded Loting of an even older name than [Protoss Remnant] – [Eye of the Seasons], both referring to the same piece of equipment.

The original name of this equipment was "Eye of the Season".

Although it has the shape of a shield and possesses the basic functions of a shield, it is more like a magical artifact.

Magical items related to "seeing through" and "eyes".

It even provides spell power.

The main shield position can be left to specialized shields like [Endless Hatred] and [Iron Sun].

Using the Mountain Barrier as the main shield gave Lotin a strange sense of incongruity.

Why is your gaze so intense?

After switching back to the [Light Knight] skin, Lotin noticed that Laurentina had an unusually uncomfortable expression on her face.

It was as if the deepest thoughts in one's heart had been exposed to the sunlight.

"Sister, what did you sense?"

The unique passive skill of the "Light Knight" skin is called "Steel Sun," which happens to be the same name as that equipment.

Lotin reasonably suspected that after reforging this equipment, it would produce some strange synergistic effect with the current skin.

"You don't need to resort to such a crude method to understand my heart!"

As Laurentina complained, a flood of emotions and thoughts rushed into Lotin's mind.

Laurentina's heart was being examined by him, Lotin confirmed this, and those whose hearts he examined would suffer intense burning pain.

"It's alright now, Sister."

"Feel sorry."

Lotin stopped the energy in his body from flowing into the [Mountain Barrier], and the burning pain that Laurentina was experiencing disappeared.

He lifted Laurentina back onto his shoulder, comforting the nun who was feeling unwell due to the accident.

He had just unconsciously poured mana into it.

The two similar effects have a cumulative effect: when the [Mountain Barrier] is reforged and materialized, Lotin can interrogate the target's inner thoughts by consuming very little mana.

As for why it's an interrogation... it seems that Lotin can control the intensity of the burning pain felt by the other party by adjusting the amount of mana injected into it.

It certainly has a hint of interrogation about it. This is the Eye of True Sight belonging to the Giant Knight.

What works best with this skin isn't its shield aspect, but rather its magical component.

The shield that truly complements this skin is probably the [Steel Sun].

However, Lotin doesn't currently have an urgent need for shields.

Even with a full tank build, passive resistance bonuses from his skin, and spell vamp, does he still need to cower behind a shield?

Lotin's fighting style has always relied on sacrificing his health to create extra charging and attack opportunities. He rarely takes the initiative to defend or parry, and this has never changed.

Now, his dual resistances and health have reached a fairly resilient level, with his health exceeding 5000.

Before the release of [Winter's Arrival] and [Endless Hatred], Lotin had already reduced the damage of Silver Spear Pegasus from being observable at the beginning of the battle to negligible simply by stacking the skin buff.

Now that there are more tanky items, it's pointless to have to raise a shield to defend, since the opponent can't scratch him no matter how much they try.

The shield provided by W skill is usually enough to meet most of Lotin's defensive needs.

Moreover, taking some damage can trigger the passive effect of the Staff of Time to restore mana.

The Mountain Barrier, as its origin, combined with the Eye of the Seasons, makes this skin even more meaningful as a judgment eye that identifies traitors.

What Lotin needs to figure out next is whether it's possible to carry more equipment without reforging the physical equipment.

Physically embodied equipment has a physical limit on the number of items that can be equipped at the same time. This means that there is a limit to the number of items with additional abilities that can be equipped at the same time after being materialized.

Of course, Lotin can also be flexibly combined by storing it in the system space.

Equipment that has been reforged and materialized in the system space appears to be able to be returned to the equipment slot, and materializing it again does not require any additional cost.

Once the host reaches level 16, additional equipment slots can be unlocked using gold coins.

The system provides the following explanation.

Although there is a limit to the number of physical equipment that can be used at the same time, theoretically there shouldn't be too many restrictions on the expansion of the equipment slots.

Given that the current experience gap is so large that it would take destroying a fleet that isn't particularly large to fill it, Lotin has no choice but to temporarily continue using the reforging method to manipulate the equipment slots.

After completing his second research project on the system, Lotin left the ruins of the Supervisory Council and arrived at the town hall of the Great Knight Territory.

After he destroyed the Business Federation, the National Assembly, and the Supervisory Council, this became the true temporary governing body of the Grand Knights Territory.

"Radiant Knight".

Have the local garrison in Kazimir considered my suggestion?

The staff, buried in their work at their stations, dared not look up at Loting directly; they all knew what had happened to the three original power centers of Kazimir.

"They agreed to each send a flagship to the Great Knight's Territory for discussions."

Margaret had prepared herself for immense pressure from both academic and martial arts aspects, but the appearance of Lotin reminded her once again that she didn't need to worry too much about the martial arts aspect.

"Then let them talk to their hearts' content."

After the combined effect of [Mountain Barrier] and the skin's passive ability, Loting said that he could tell at a glance what kind of mentality these people came with.

Chapter 99: Talks, but only one person can talk.

The fleets stationed in different regions of Kazimierz received a strange telegram from the Grand Knights.

"The garrison fleet that attempted to offend the Giant Knights has been destroyed, the Confederation of the Historical Watch and the Commercial Union that betrayed history have been wiped out, and a new path has opened up before Kazimierz."

“A true knight who keeps his oath shall now depart for the Great Knight’s Territory.”

Upon receiving this message, the local military units immediately tried to contact the Securities and Futures Commission, but naturally received no response.

If it weren't for photos of the wreckage of the garrison fleet leaking into the rest of Kazimierz, the generals stationed there would have simply assumed it was a coup attempt by the instigators to fool them with this kind of mystical charade.

No one refused to go to the Great Knight's Territory.

Some generals only wanted to preserve their existing power within the army, and they didn't care who actually held power in Kazimir.