Chapter One: The Beginning Unfolds

  Looking at the girl tightly hugging herself, she seemed to relax a lot, and soon fell asleep due to mental and physical exhaustion. The perfectly delicate palm-sized face occasionally wrinkled her lovely willow-leaf eyebrows, making people feel pity...

  Looking at this heavenly beauty, Liang Jing was overjoyed, this is his own, his own woman, something he had coveted before the apocalypse but couldn't get; no wonder he's excited and happy. However, Liang Jing quickly came back to reality, now is not the time to indulge in this, everything he has obtained so far is because of his strength, no matter what time it is, only with strength can one gain more, now that he has obtained the key to unlocking greater strength, he mustn't relax, make good use of it and work hard...

  At this time, Liang Jing's mind was extremely clear. He knew he had to go home, but he still needed to improve his strength to a certain extent. For now, he had to face the forces led by Tu Gongzi, whom he had provoked several times and would eventually have to confront. His current strength was still a bit weak against Tu Gongzi's forces, so he needed to work harder to boost his power. In short, everything was about strength, and all things were measured by it.

  Thinking of this, Liang Jing took out the item that Huang Ge exploded with his physical enhancement defense awakening. With it, Liang Jing was certain he could quickly increase his strength by a segment...

  "Curse of the Shell Shield"

  Life Skill: Tanning; Sub-Skill: Enchantment. Allows you to craft equipment from monster hides, and use the enchantment inside for a surprise.

  Looking at this blue skill book, Liang Jing was overjoyed. With this book, no matter what, he could use the monster's hide to create various styles of armor equipment. Not to mention anything else, just the toughness of these variant monsters' hides, the defensive ability of the leather armor made from them is very high. It's worth noting that Liang Jing had been keeping the Steel Spine Beast (Elite Monster) and the Powdered Rare Monster (Steel Violent Mouse)'s fur, which was so tough that even a rifle could hardly penetrate it...

  A little reluctant to leave the warmth, he gently opened his arms that were wrapped around him, relaxed his hands and covered himself with the quilt, couldn't help but kiss those pink and tender lips, turned around and left, he still had things he needed to do.

  With a clap of his hands, the blue life skill book "Leather Armor Secret Art: Enchantment" transformed into a stream of light that entered Liang Jing's head and turned into a symbol in the depths of his mind.

  【Leather Armor Enchantment】: Adds an enchantment to the Leather Armor skill, with a low success rate. The crafted equipment has a 1% chance of becoming a higher-grade item, starting from Novice (0%).

  In an instant, Liang Jing's brain received a large amount of information, and even with his current spiritual power value being more than 20 times that of ordinary people, he felt a bit dizzy. His mind was filled with various styles of equipment, product specifications and sizes, as well as materials such as leather, fur, and skin processing and manufacturing methods.

  "To use 【Leather Armor Enchantment】, you need three basic materials: monster hide, beast tendon, and crystal core."

  "With just three basic materials, you can use the activation skill 【Leather Armor Secret Art: Enchantment】, directly crafting equipment items."

  Liang Jing constantly summarized and analyzed various information, this skill provided too much information, even a single material had many different clothing styles, just like now giving a designer a piece of fabric, he can create many different styles of clothing according to demand; among them, there were separate headgear, armor, leg guards, gloves, shoes, etc.; more importantly, some of them had avoidance and precautions, such as the requirements for matching materials, the most stable was of course using the same monster's skin, beast tendon, crystal core together; of course, other matches also had many possibilities, even possibly manufacturing equipment with stronger and special properties, only here without introduction explanation, need to summarize by oneself; inside it said that fire attribute skin and water attribute crystal core were difficult to use together, success rate was very low, manufactured out may also be poor property, of course, there was a small probability of extreme equipment; this was like cooking, salt oil sauce vinegar sugar various seasonings and various meats, vegetables, etc. matching and processing, may be delicious dishes, but also may be inedible 'poison'...

  "【Leather Armor Enchantment】The skill is at a beginner level, and using the skill has a certain success rate, but it won't be very high, or even quite low; At the beginning, you can only make white-level ordinary equipment, with a 1% chance of making higher-level equipment, that is to say, now the primary skill has a very low probability of making higher-level blue-attribute equipment, but it requires luck."

  "While intermediate can produce blue attribute equipment, it's only possible and the probability is not very high; advanced can produce green excellent level equipment, but the probability is also low. Producing 100 pieces of green equipment may result in a golden heritage equipment; its attributes are as powerful as [Baroque's Sorrow], with various equipment attributes and an additional special skill ability..."

  "However, if high-level materials are used, the probability of manufacturing higher-level items at lower levels will also increase significantly. On the other hand, using high-level materials with low-level skills will definitely be a waste, because low-level skills have a lower success rate in processing high-level materials compared to ordinary materials."

  The more Liang Jing looked at this information, the more excited he became. He was finally going to get rid of the trashy white equipment, the Warrior Leather Armor Set. It had been a long and difficult journey for him since he first exploded with a set of Warrior Leather Armor in Qing Shui Bay, but after that, he hadn't been able to explode any new equipment. The Warrior Leather Armor Set was originally designed for beginners, just like newbie equipment in games, which is why the explosion rate was so high. Its defensive capabilities were only enough to withstand ordinary handgun bullets, and it didn't even have any attribute enhancements. Even decent white-level equipment would have at least 1 or 2 points of attribute enhancement.

  Now that he has this skill, he doesn't have to wait for the monsters to drop equipment after killing them. Although the success rate is not as high as the orthodox method due to its unconventional nature, having a controllable method means he no longer has to rely on luck and chance, making it much more feasible...

  Liang Jing's eyes lit up when he saw this, and he saw hope!

  As long as he crafts an equipment that increases his strength value by a bit and wears it, he can wield the Golden Greatsword 【Baroque's Sorrow】, at which point his actual strength will increase nearly twofold, at which point humans in close combat will almost have no opponents...

  【Baroque's Sorrow】Quality: Gold, Attributes: Sharpness 33, Durability 64, Weight 90KG, Strength +10, Agility +10, Vitality +15, Life Drain 10%, Critical Hit Rate Increase 10%, Skills: Thunderbolt Slash, Summon Baroque, Equipment Requirements: Strength 15.

  Just after successfully evolving into a golden BOSS, Baroque is filled with sorrow about everything and transforms into a powerful force.

  Thunderclap Slash: Gather power in the weapon, jump up suddenly, and release the power onto the ground using gravity acceleration, dealing damage to surrounding enemies, reducing movement speed by 50%, cooldown time 2 minutes.

  Summon Baroque: Summon the fighting spirit of Baroque to assist in combat for 60 seconds. Cooldown time is 24 hours.

  The sorrow of the Golden BOSS Baroque, who did not die in a fierce battle, but was killed by a treacherous sneak attack. This is the desire for life, this is the hatred for the enemy, and it is the eternal resting place of the war soul.

  Think about it, if Liang Jing's strength increases by 10 points and his physique increases by 15 points, how much will his strength increase? If he has a certain resistance ability, he would even dare to fight against that Jiaolong monster. Of course, he must have the resistance ability himself, after all, the monster's physical strength is unparalleled, you might not be able to hurt it much with one hit, but it could take your life with just one hit, what's the point of fighting?

  Liang Jing currently has four monster cores: Baroque (Golden BOSS), Steel Spine Beast (Green Elite), Red Hair Stinger (Blue BOSS), and Steel Brutal Mouse (Pink Rare). Among them, the fur of Steel Spine Beast and Steel Brutal Mouse can be used. There is also a variant bull, but Liang Jing doesn't consider using it for now. As for beast tendons, there are three types: Steel Spine Beast, Steel Brutal Mouse, and Variant Bull. These are all the materials Liang Jing currently has, even the lowest-level Variant Bull's materials are high-grade ordinary monsters.

  Liang Jing believed that as long as he made equipment, the attributes attached to it would definitely not be low, at least it wouldn't appear like the Warrior Leather Armor Set which didn't even have attribute bonuses, a complete piece of trash. Liang Jing always thought that this Warrior Leather Armor Set could only be used by his lowest-level subordinates or sold to others at a high price...

  More importantly, Liang Jing's awakening talent 'Copy', he can copy these crystal nucleus beast tendons, and he is very confident that he can manufacture equipment to greatly increase his strength...

  What level of equipment can Baroque's crystal core produce?

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  It's time to change equipment... Please give me some red tickets for collection...