Chapter 48: Custom-Made
Lu Renjia surmised that a freshman would be concerned about cost and value. He quickly replied. “Enchantnt is a very advanced course and there’s a wide variety of types, involving many other related courses such as Alchemy and Elentology. Not even graduate students would dare claim that they’ve mastered all kinds of enchantnts. At most, they’d choose several specific areas for in-depth study.”
“In other words, these are the only enchantnts you have?”
“You could put it that way! Higher-ranked enchantnts are available too, but higher-ranked enchantnts cannot be applied to lower-ranked weapons,” Lu Renjia continued to explain. “In fact, the practical value of these enchantnts is really good. Your monthly exam is coming and a good weapon can definitely help out a lot.”
“But I noticed that none of the wands you sell have any skills attached? Don’t they have enchantnts for those?” Xiao Lin was still not satisfied. He had Slashing as his physical attack, but nothing when it ca to spells. The admissions test had clearly demonstrated to him the difference in damage between brute force and actual skill.
“...”
“What’s wrong?”
Lu Renjia smiled bitterly. “Well, let briefly explain that there’s a fundantal difference between enchantnt and enhancent. I won’t speak about it in too much depth because you’ll know soon enough when you take these courses in the future. Simply put, enchantnt is when you carry out fine-tuning and upgrading without changing the structure of the equipnt itself. Enhancent is when you adjust the equipnt’s structure in order to achieve a higher strength.”
“In other words, weapons with skills attached to them must undergo enhancent?”
“Bingo!”
“Then make an enhanced magic wand that cos with skills attached!”
“...” Lu Renjia once again used a series of ellipsis to express his speechlessness.
“What’s the matter now?”
“I’ve taken the courses related to weapon enhancent, but I haven’t completed any weapons yet. I must admit that having skills is very important for freshn in the early stages, especially when it cos to the monthly exam. But frankly speaking, it’s not worth enhancing the skills of a novice weapon! There are a lot of materials needed for enhancent, and many of them don’t co cheap. Therefore, the price of a finished product is so high that it’s practically unaffordable for freshn!”
Xiao Lin understood. Lu Renjia explained at length, but he only had one main point: weapons with skills were so expensive that Xiao Lin could not afford them.
Xiao Lin felt disheartened and asked hesitantly, “How expensive are they?”
“It depends on the customization requirents. A novice magic wand is not valuable itself, but its value lies in the embedded skill stone. The price will double if you want to enhance it, on top of the existing enchantnt.” After all that explaining, Lu Renjia casually stated a figure. “It’ll be at least three or four hundred.”
Xiao Lin beca suspicious. “But the novice magic wand randomly assigned to us in the admissions test also cos with an energy bomb. It can’t be that expensive!”
“You’re so naïve, kid! Do you think the academy is so charitable to give freshn weapons worth hundreds of dollars for free? Haha, don’t think for on second that Dawn Academy is a welfare institution!”
After a pause, Lu Renjia continued, “The energy bomb is the most amateur of hand spells. It’s not even Black Iron-rank. The damage is limited, and a novice magic wand with the energy bomb is both flimsy and cannot be repaired. Hehe, you understand now, don’t you? That thing is actually an expendable item. It’s probably only barely enough for you to pass the admissions test.”
Xiao Lin started to believe it a little bit. As Lu Renjia ntioned earlier, freshn who were given the novice wand would have blatantly taken advantage of it. In addition, he also noticed that the sophomores who sold outdated equipnt in the trading zone did not sell any novice magic wands.
Magic damage, which caused more harm than physical damage, ca at the cost of being an expendable item. Whether it was worth it was besides the point. After all, the casting of a spell was not completely dependent on a magic wand.
Xiao Lin thought for a while and decided to call Gu Xiaoyue. She had just finished lunch and was on the way to the ditation room. After hearing Xiao Lin’s question, she pushed her glasses and said naturally, “I found out when I checked the equipnt’s attributes after the test. Not to worry, you can learn energy bombs when your Basic ditation reaches level three.”
“Huh? You can learn spells at level three? I didn’t know that.”
“Oh, you weren’t in that particular ditation lesson.”
Xiao Lin wiped his sweat after rembering the ditation lesson. It was the sa lesson he was forced to skip after eating Departnt Head Song’s iron comb chicken and falling unconscious. He hurriedly asked, “What about other skills? What’s the minimum ditation level requirent for learning skills? That little Loli—ahem, I an, did the teacher bring it up?”
Gu Xiaoyue was a good student who paid lots of attention in class. She thought about it for a mont and replied, “Level three in Basic ditation is the minimum requirent, but you can only learn a few low-powered spells with it. This is considered entry level. Real Black Iron-rank spells require at least level five.”
In-depth discussions about all things magic brought out the talkative side of Gu Xiaoyue, but when Xiao Lin switched the topic to other areas—such as why her life span was only two years—Gu Xiaoyue imdiately reverted back to her cold and aloof persona. Xiao Lin snickered and had no other option but to end the call.
Xiao Lin desperately needed a skill-attached magic wand and was already making preparations for the monthly exam in three weeks. Many factors would be considered in the final exam after three months–including his physical fitness, results of each subject, and the most importantly: the results of the monthly exams!
In the short term, his physical fitness paled in comparison to the others. If Xiao Lin wanted his official appointnt to go smoothly after three months, he had to pay special attention to his monthly exam results.
“Even if I replicate Senior Sister Wu Qin’s level 10 Basic ditation every week, my own ditation level still wouldn’t reach level five in three weeks.”
After making that consideration, Xiao Lin made up his mind too.
Before returning to the computer, Xiao Lin replied Lu Renjia with determination, “If the skill-attached novice magic wand is only three or four hundred redemption points, I’ll buy it!”
“... ” Lu Renjia was speechless again.
“What spells can I choose?”
“...”
“Black Iron-rank spells should be fine. What about higher levels, like Bronze-rank spells?”
“Wait! Are you really going to buy it!”
“I’m serious.” Xiao Lin actually felt rather disheartened. It was very expensive, especially when so of the ubiquitous Black Iron-rank wands were slightly cheaper than that.
Xiao Lin had to spend his redemption points one way or another. The true value of a skill-attached weapon was that it could be used by freshn right away. The enchantnt and skill enhancent of the weapon did not change the usage requirents of the weapon itself. The cost of it was still acceptable, given that he would be getting a novice weapon that was on par with one of Black Iron-rank.
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