I gently guided the blushing Irene toward our tent. So Ice Cross Knights had done their jobs regardless of late arrivals or Goddess Faith visitors.
They'd properly set up our tent in this chaos.
Thanks to the Ice Cross Knights who efficiently handled things while appearing lazy, we escaped the overwhelming crowd. A few troublemakers tried following us to the tent, but those who'd participated in hunting the mid-boss took care of them.
"Please, just one prayer..."
"Hey! The Saint needs proper rest!"
"You bastards... don't know the tower's unwritten rules? Want to learn them the hard way?"
"Ah, understood. I'll leave quietly, just put down those weapons."
How to describe it - they surrounded our tent with threatening glares like they'd kill anyone disturbing the Saint's rest after her miracle, drunk on a mix of exclusivity and chosen people consciousness.
Thanks to them, Irene could sit heavily in a small folding chair before the tent, cooling her flushed face. I'd thought we only had sleeping bags, tents and utensils, but miscellaneous items were gradually increasing. Had the knights bought things?
Looking around from my chair, I saw various snacks without any consistency lined up, apparently offered like tributes rather than purchased - from premium jerky ant for rcenaries' drinking to desserts popular with female adventurers.
Since the Ice Cross Knights blocked indiscriminate approaches while surrounding us, people had apparently desperately pushed these into their hands asking them to deliver them.
"Ugh, this is crazier than expected."
"Well, we saw a saint being appointed right before our eyes."
"True, I'd heard about saints but never thought I'd see one appointed in person. Don't they usually do it at the Grand Temple?"
Our party spoke while buried in all sorts of items offered to the saint, from chairs to snacks and food.
The conversation naturally flowed from Saint Irene to the firmly closed fortress.
"By the way, that fortress remained intact even after the Empress hit it with that incredible aura. Doesn't that an diocre magic won't open it?"
"We probably need large-scale magic using magic formations together rather than individual spells."
Our party mbers were now veteran adventurers with accumulated experience. All had reached high rank and were undeniably top-tier adventurers, so they accurately understood the power of the Empress's recklessly swung greatsword. 𐍂Å𝐍Ó฿ÊṠ
Each swing caused damage equivalent to a high-rank magic explosion. The walls that withstood dozens of these terrifying strikes made no sense.
Basically, Han Se-ah couldn't even scratch it going all out, even if she risked fainting from mana exhaustion. Her AoE CC skill Summon Snow Storm only increased range with more mana, so she'd need to drop Call Lightning repeatedly... and that might just add so soot to the door at most.
A door that players who killed the floor 55 mid-boss and reached floor 60 couldn't even scratch... it clearly wasn't ant to be broken but was a gimmick object.
"Ah! Speaking of which, we need to enhance equipnt with the ogre stones first!"
"You seem more excited than anyone else?"
Saint Irene, the fortress's iron wall, the Empress and Heavenly Kings... while we slowly discussed various topics until Irene's face returned to its normal color, Katie brought up special enhancent stones.
It was a natural flow, like "if damage is lacking, enhance equipnt." Though Irene and Grace didn't seem particularly interested.
Katie had gotten high from enhancing her sword with an ice attribute stone. So her sparkling eyes were full of anticipation about what synergies different attributes would create with different weapons.
Naturally, the viewers were also as full of anticipation as Katie.
-So what attribute for the staff stand? Earth? Water? Personally think road paver would be good
-Road paver performance fine but what about electric enhancent for multi-tool feel? Or light attribute for floor 61 gimmick?
-But Mom's a saint now, do attributes matter?
-PleasethunderhamrThorPleasethunderhamrThorPleasethunderhamrThorPleasethunderhamrThor
-lol Isn't lightning standard for holy knights please Teacher Roland put lightning enchant on hamr
"But can we choose attributes freely? We need to check what's available downstairs. No no no, I'm not saying no to enhancent so don't spam fire icons you bastards."
[Greatsword Needs Fire donated 10,000 won!]
Tank's good enough so show us Fla Knight Roland
[Want Tingly Lightning Holy Knight donated 50,000 won!]
Holy sword won't take attributes anyway so let's just put lightning on the hamr
[Wanna Be Snow Girl's Quiver donated 30,000 won!]
Take care of Grace's lacking damage first you noob, this is natural discrimination
We really needed to go down since the fortress gates weren't opening anyway.
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After resting briefly at the Harpy Archipelago mansion, when we went down to the dwarves' underground city, contrary to Han Se-ah's premature worries, there really were special enhancent stones available by attribute.
More precisely, rather than being prepared, it seed the nobles were being careful due to the complex political situation - the hero party capturing ogres and trading their stones for special enhancent stones, their nun becoming a saint, and the Imperial Empress showing interest.
No matter how much nobles collected rare mana stones and enhancent stones for luxury and honor, none would dare intercept materials gathered by a hero party supported by the princess, noticed by the Empress, and recognized with a saint.
"Wow, they really have different attributes. Got any thoughts?"
"Hmm, I think fire or lightning would be good for ."
And so we had four types of enhancent stones before us - fire, earth, wind and lightning. Seeing the chat's jokes, I suddenly felt disappointed there was no water attribute special enhancent stone for enhancing the plumbing.
"Umm... I think earth attribute would be good for . It seems to match my sacred law best."
"That makes sense. Then I'll take wind. It should help with accurate arrow shots more than other attributes."
While I was having silly thoughts and going along with viewers to slander Han Se-ah, Grace and Irene naturally chose their enhancent stones.
Though we didn't know how these unfamiliar special enhancent stones would enhance equipnt, their reasoning made sense so there were no objections. There were so whispers about putting destructive fire or lightning on Grace's bow instead of wind, but they were drowned out by the loud voices of the fla greatsword and lightning hamr factions.
[Special Enhancent Stone - Silent Storm]
[A mana crystal containing massive flows that blow away even sound]
[Special Enhancent Stone - Starfish]
[A mana crystal that can only be refined with special flas]
So while Han Se-ah and I were lost in thought, the two naturally started enhancing. Grace enhanced her bow of course, while Irene enhanced the rosary that Scribe Gita had given her.
The earth attribute rosary showed no visible changes, but when green energy began flowing through the wind attribute bow, Katie's excitent peaked.
She clung close to Grace as if telling her to hurry and draw it, then quickly backed away worried she might interfere with drawing the bowstring. Grace smiled softly at Katie's fidgeting inability to stay close or far, and tested drawing the empty bowstring as if checking it.
"The feel hasn't changed but... oh my?!"
"Oh, ohh! Wind arrow!"
Though Grace had carelessly plucked the bowstring with a twang, the result was unexpected. The pale green energy lingering on the bow condensed into an arrow shape and shot forward like lightning.
Well, more like an arrow since it was an arrow.
"H-hey! You squishies! What are you doing in the city!"
"We're sorry!"
She almost beca a terrorist shooting arrows at buildings in the stone dwarves' underground city, but thanks to so dwarves who rembered our faces, we got through without incident.
If Katie's ice attribute stone had synergized with her personally, Grace's wind attribute stone created an economical synergy by saving inventory space. She wouldn't need to carry normal arrows for mob clearing anymore, just special alchemical arrowheads for specific purposes.
So after so commotion, fire and lightning special enhancent stones remained before Han Se-ah and . Since Han Se-ah had lightning in her high-rank magic, should I take fire and she take lightning?
"Um, Roland."
"Hmm? Decided?"
"I want to use the fire attribute, what do you think about using the lightning enhancent stone?"
But Han Se-ah had the opposite thought.
Glancing at the broadcast to see what was happening, I saw the lightning hamr faction had finally achieved victory over the fla greatsword faction in the donation war.
Still collecting money even now, she was really a money expert...
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