Chapter 1287: A Cheap Idea
Translator: Nomyummi Editor: Nomyummi
The winter break for the Spring Festival passed by quickly. Guan Rongfei, who had missed his train due to being too absorbed in his research, decided to just forgo going ho altogether, spending the Lunar New Year with Chen Guo, Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng. It was because of his presence that Chen Guo didn’t manage to experience much of a celebratory air during their Lunar New Year’s Eve feast.
Guan Rongfei focused on devouring his al when he wasn’t speaking, and when he spoke, he never deviated from business. Don’t look at how Happy now had a full set of Silver Cleric equipnt; their overall Silver equipnt developnt was rather lacking. This topic was definitely a heavy one, especially when Guan Rongfei ran right back to his lab and retrieved a stack of docunts to show Ye Xiu the materials they were in dire lack of. The entire atmosphere of their dinner simply sank.
With what Ye Xiu had accumulated through his efforts this past year and a half, plus Guan Rongfei’s wealth of experience, Happy had already been able to take many shortcuts in developing Silver equipnt. Apart from the upgrade of the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella, the developnt of their other equipnt had cost them extrely few materials. Otherwise, it would’ve been impossible for them to develop so much Silver equipnt with their foundations - or lack thereof - as a new team.
However, after this half a season, their stocks had been depleted. They were good with low level materials since Wu Chen, now in charge of the Guild Departnt, had brought them to a standing a club guild should have. Throughout the servers as well as the Heavenly Domain, they were continuously accumulating materials. Their profits from dungeons were very stable.
However, the rare materials only a wild boss could provide, faced with a battle of guilds, wasn’t so easy to gain. Wu Chen clearly didn’t have Ye Xiu’s ability to subrge everything into chaos and benefit from it. Plus, with Happy’s current standing, it wasn’t the sa as back then when Ye Xiu could charge into the fray on his own and create an uproar. Balance was sothing Happy had to research and attain.
What Happy had as an advantage was the passion in their guild.
As a new team with a new fanbase, they had achieved so outstanding results and the passion for helping their guild and playing a part in their team’s improvent swelled amongst their fans. Their efforts and dedication allowed Happy to maintain their competitiveness.
However, the rare materials from wild bosses were, at their core, very different from what could be obtained through dungeoning. There were only so many each week, you’d have to see if you could manage to win them first, and even if you did win them, would those materials be what you needed? With that, Happy was at a disadvantage.
Happy was, after all, a new team. Their need for these materials was far greater than that of the other teams.
Seeing the materials on the list Guan Rongfei handed over, Ye Xiu knew that it would be impossible to suit everyone up like they had Little Cold Hands. Next, they had to have a plan, and decide which character to focus on first.
Among these, the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was a huge burden. Its materials were very demanding in the first place, then, as a project in developnt, it incurred huge material costs. After looking over the materials Guan Rongfei had used on the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella’s developnt, Ye Xiu’s heartbeat had quickened. If it weren’t for the necessity of the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella, how many pieces of Silver equipnt could they have created from these materials?
"The Myriad Manifestations Umbrella..." Ye Xiu was a little hesitant. Since Guan Rongfei wanted to boost the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella directly to Level 80, there were many added variables to the research of this weapon. More variables ant a higher expense, and more importantly, this expense would continue.
"Should we give up on it for now..." Ye Xiu couldn’t help but wonder, but... giving up now would an wasting everything they had already poured into this. The research they had done on the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella had gotten to a point where it was difficult to stop. Even so, they couldn’t just charge recklessly like this. When push ca to shove, they’d have to make small scale sacrifices!
Ye Xiu took a deep breath, trying to force himself to calm down and consider this rationally. On the other hand, Guan Rongfei didn’t consider so much. Seeing Ye Xiu looking over the materials required for the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella, he instead beca rather exultant. "It’s almost done. Right now, we just need one more part. Once we confirm this one material, I’m pretty sure we’ll be good."
"Can this part be modified on its own?" Ye Xiu’s heart thumped again. Whether the part could be modified in isolation or not made a huge difference. If it couldn’t, then this situation would be rather terrible. As a piece of equipnt, if a single part had anything wrong with it, the equipnt would fail; they might lose all the materials put into the equipnt’s conception and have to start anew. If they could modify and test it in isolation, then just redoing the part would cost far less materials.
"It can’t..." Guan Rongfei gave him a most disappointing answer.
Ye Xiu sighed heavily. The next step of the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was made entirely out of Level 75 rare materials. The consequences of these materials going to waste was sothing happy couldn’t afford. If these materials were used on other equipnt, then it could greatly improve Happy’s overall strength. Seeing the materials required for other pieces of equipnt, Ye Xiu made a decision. The Myriad Manifestations Umbrella would have to be set aside for the mont!
Yet, he hadn’t even made his decision known when Guan Rongfei continued, "We can only modify it locally, at a cost of about three rare materials."
"..." The solemn decision Ye Xiu had made imdiately dispersed. Though the expense of three Level 75 rare materials was rather painful, it was far more acceptable than all the materials the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella would be using!
"Good luck!" He quickly swept away the heavy heart of having to abandon the progress of his weapon and changed to encouragent.
"When the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella is finished, should we push all the other equipnt to Level 80?" Guan Rongfei said in a smug tone. His passion seed to have extended from researching the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella to whether it was possible to upgrade the rest of their equipnt to Level 80 under the current level limit.
"That’s... a little too taxing on our materials. no?" Ye Xiu said.
"I’ll do my best to get out a list," Guan Rongfei replied.
"Don’t rush it," Ye Xiu hurriedly reminded him. "Let’s go step by step according to the plan we had decided on!"
"But how cool would that be. All Level 80 equipnt!" Chen Guo suddenly called out.
"Calm down!" Ye Xiu yelled. He hadn’t expected this at all. Didn’t they know what Level 80 ant? Didn’t they know that Happy couldn’t afford to undertake such a wide scale high level project like this? It was too irrational to push Guan Rongfei’s passion in that direction at a ti like this. Ye Xiu noticed Chen Guo’s wine cup; was the boss drunk?
"The base stats of a piece of level 70 Silver equipnt is equal to Level 75 Orange equipnt. That ans Level 75 Silver equipnt is Level 80 Orange equipnt. Conversely, doesn’t that an that Level 80 Orange equipnt is equal to Level 75 Silver equipnt? If we can find a way to improve our Level 75 Orange equipnt and upgrade them to Level 80, then wouldn’t they be like Level 75 Silver equipnt? Though they won’t be Level 80 Silver equipnt, but being able to completely arm ourselves with Level 75 Silver equipnt, that’ll still make us very powerful at this stage!" Chen Guo exclaid.
The room imdiately quieted down. Ye Xiu glanced at Guan Rongfei and Guan Rongfei glanced at Ye Xiu. The two were already in deep contemplation. As for Su Mucheng, she was staring at Chen Guo in surprise. Though equipnt editing wasn’t her forte, she knew far more than Chen Guo would just through sheer exposure, and she definitely had a clearer understanding of the value of Chen Guo’s sudden idea.
"Although this idea is a little cheap, but from a cost-efficiency perspective, this is a good idea," Guan Rongfei decided.
"Cheap!" Chen Guo’s focus was always on the negative adjectives.
"Isn’t that the basis of your idea? Using cheap equipnt and resources to imitate more high-end equipnt?" Ye Xiu retorted.
"How co it sounds so... bad coming from your mouth?" Chen Guo couldn’t find any sort of rebuttal and simply sulked.
"Can Orange equipnt be modified directly under the equipnt editor....? This is sothing that’s currently being researched, but I doubt anyone has figured it out completely. What the equipnt editor can do is take equipnt apart into parts, but there are too many unknowns regarding the variables and formulae that decide how the combined product of these parts is created. We aren’t even all that clear on what materials make up so of the parts of dismantled Orange equipnt. Currently, only the ga developers can increase the stats and level of Orange equipnt in their updates," Guan Rongfei mused.
"Orange equipnt is just an example she brought up. In reality, we don’t need to use the Orange equipnt produced by the system, but create the Orange equipnt from scratch using the equipnt editor," Ye Xiu suggested.
"Using the equipnt editor to create Orange equipnt..." Guan Rongfei furrowed his brows.
"Then upgrade them to Level 80," Ye Xiu continued his train of thought.
"This idea is like, in a test, everyone is working hard to get that 100 percent. We can easily get a 90 percent, then do a bonus question that no one else knows of, thus boosting our score to 100, too," Su Mucheng drew an analogy.
"Of course, in the long term, getting 110 percent or a solid 100 percent would be best. However, in the short term, this is the quickest, most effective way to increase our strength," Ye Xiu concluded.
"Let’s try it!" Guan Rongfei finally nodded. Ye Xiu was delighted because he knew that this guy didn’t care much about things like team results or cost-efficiency or saving up. What really incited his passion and interest was the process of developing equipnt itself. Thus, the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was a very interesting project, as was creating Level 80 equipnt. Crafting the highest intelligence and critical Cleric equipnt was alright, too. Working on sothing you were interested in, passionate about would make you more dedicated and efficient; you’d do better. Currently, making Orange equipnt instead of Silver equipnt with the equipnt editor was an entirely new idea that seed to have motivated Guan Rongfei.
Of course, anything that ca out of the equipnt editor would have silver nas, and was "Silver equipnt" from this perspective.
However, if you didn’t try to reach the high stat possibilities that Silver equipnt would give you, but sothing only on the level of orange equipnt, then the standards for materials would definitely be lowered. The only awkward thing was that they couldn’t aim for the best for their Silver equipnt, but had to make it a level below on purpose, that... was sothing Guan Rongfei really didn’t have any leads in.
The chopsticks in his hands suspended in the air above the dishes, the gears in Guan Rongfei’s head were already beginning to turn.
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