"Check status window."

[Name: Lumen, Asirante

Level: 0

Health: 100/100 Mana: 100/100

Strength: 1 Agility: 1 Stamina: 1

Willpower: 1 Intellect: 1

Remaining stat points: 0

Remaining skill points: 1]

Although I expected such a situation, I could not help but feel bitter when I actually confirmed it.

I felt even more frustrated because I still had some hopes to the contrary as well.

At that moment, I heard several people around me talking to each other.

"Ugh! My item lost its original capabilities. Disclose item!"

[+5 Enhancement Ancient Spirit Shield (Legendary)

- A shield imbued with the power of an ancient spirit that has excellent defense.

- Equip restrictions: None.

-Effect.

: Reduces damage by (20%) -> 10% with a (5%) -> 3% probability

: When you use the linked skill, Shield Slam, there is a (3%) -> 1% chance to inflict (150%) -> 30% damage and knock back the opponent.

: Stamina increases by (400) -> 20 .

: Strength increases by (300)->15

: All debuff resistance against curses increases by (5%) -> 1% .

-Physical defense increases by (1500) -> 100, magic defense increases by (1200) -> 70.

-Durability: Unlimited durability only during the quest.]

The +5 Enhancement Ancient Spirit Shield had almost all of its options reduced to one tenth of its original.

And if I examined each of its options one by one, it definitely went down more than that.

Of course, I could understand why.

Since we were all level 0 with all stats at 1, it would bring about a huge imbalance if the original options of the +5 Enhancement Ancient Spirit Shield are applied 100%.

So, the moment I saw this, I felt glad that I didn't select an item, for the item I selected would also undergo similar adjustments even if it was the +6 Enhancement Ice Emperor's guardian sword.

Of course, there were others who chose something other than items.

"Man, my skill has been adjusted."

"Mine too! Maybe it's down to ⅕ or more? Considering not only the damage but also the skills' range and cooldown, it might have dropped even more than that. But, at least, the mana cost has been reduced."

Obviously, not only their items but also their skills seemed to have undergone adjustments as well.

And there were some others who chose things other than items and skills, for they were not limited to just that. One such person was my mother.

She said, "I was told to choose the option of golden rings, so I picked it, but there is nothing around me to use them on."

As my mother said, there was nothing around her. Only the large hut was visible.

In other words, she was in a situation where she could not use golden rings.

Although it was grandly named as the Last Shelter, I thought that the hut was a nondescript building of little significance. But the door of the hut opened and several people came out.

At that moment, a message that all of us could see rang out.

[The Dwellers of Last Shelter offer a number of amenities for the warriors who have come to help them. However, you need some golden rings to use their amenities.

-You can obtain golden rings by selecting one item to use here in advance, or by exploring the monsters that appear here in the Jaya Plains.]

"Oh!"

"Is it something like a shop?"

Of course, I didn't make my mother choose golden rings without any good reason.

As a healer, she could inflict almost no damage to monsters other than undead monsters, but she was chosen as part of this team.

And since she knew this, she was happy to choose golden rings as her possession to carry into the quest.

And when things worked out as she expected, her mood lightened a bit.

Anyway, all the party members talked about what each of them chose.

What about my choice?

Of course, I also made a choice.

[Lumen, Asirante has chosen God of Enhancement.]

God of Enhancement was a trait that enhanced items with a 100% success rate by using only golden rings and EXP without any weapons, armor or accessory enhancement stones. Moreover, I possessed more golden rings than any other guild, and I did not have to care about EXP because of my title 'One Who Doesn't Fall,' so there was basically nothing that stood in my way.

But I had only one problem. It was the cooldown of this trait.

The higher the enhancement value and the higher the grade of the item, the longer the cooldown. So, a whopping 125 days of cooldown was generated when I upgraded the +5 Enhancement Ice Emperor's guardian sword to +6.

So, I just felt dizzy when I thought about the cooldown period for upgrading +6 Enhancement Ice Emperor's guardian sword to +7. Considering the previous enhancements, it was certain that the generated cooldown would at least be doubled.

In other words, if God of Enhancement's cooldown worked as usual, selecting it as my sole possession for this quest would be devastating for me. And if the remaining cooldown from my previous enhancement still applied here, it would be like I didn't choose anything.

Of course, I kept thinking about such a situation, so I ruled it out again and again.

I thought it was the best policy to play safe since the double rewards were only available on our first challenge.

Nonetheless, I could not stop coming back to it.

So, I chose it as if I was possessed by something.

"Whew!"

I let out a long breath.

Then I approached my mother to ask her for some golden rings. She gave me 2 billion golden rings without any reservation. Obviously, it was a huge amount.

But I did not refuse her hospitality, so I received the 2 billion golden rings and approached the residents of the Last Shelter.

"You are the warriors who have come here to help us! Just say anything. We've got almost everything you want!"

Even though they said they were residents of Last Shelter, I thought it was safe to call them NPCs. So, just like I did in 'Revival Legend', I naturally moved to the man dressed up with weapons and armor. Then, the items for sale appeared all over his body.

[Weapon list.

- Blunt dagger. (General)

- Long sword with a broken handle. (General)

- Broken cane. (General)

:

- Strong two-handed sword. (Rare)

- Cane with a fingernail sized red ruby. (Rare)

- Resilient bow decorated with Griffon's feathers. (Rare)

:

- Weapon enhancement stone.

- Armor enhancement stone.

- Accessory enhancement stone.]

There were only general and rare grade weapons, and it was the same for the defense armor as well.

So, I bought the resilient bow decorated with Griffon feathers. I had to pay an exorbitant price of 5 million golden rings despite its Rare grade, but it was not that expensive when the weapons in general grade, which were completely useless to me, cost as much as 1 million golden rings. Moreover, consumable items such as weapon and armor enhancement stones cost 3 million golden rings, and the accessory enhancement stone cost 5 million golden rings. In other words, it seemed that they set the item price assuming that we would bring a huge amount of golden rings here.

"Here you are."

After paying, I took the bow, then moved to the next NPC on the right.