When Rozen and Kirito returned to the house again, they saw the NPC aunty cooking in the kitchen. "??????" The symbol above her head had changed to! The symbol had changed.
That was the status of the quest in progress.
Kirito stepped forward before Rozen, took out the "Small Cannibal Ovule" from his waist pouch and handed it to the aunty.
The aunty was very grateful and kept thanking Kirito with tears all over her face. She then walked into the room and took out a long sword with a red scabbard.
That was a one-handed sword. Although it looked old, it exuded a sense of existence that couldn't be compared to the initial stage equipment.
This was the quest reward that could be obtained after completing "Forest's Secret Medicine" quest, "Anneal Sword".
At this moment, Kirito received this high-performance one-handed sword that could be used up to the 3rd Floor without any problem. The quest completion window also appeared in the center of his vision, and he also received the exp reward.
Rozen also stepped forward and completed the quest using the exact same process, and obtained "Anneal Sword".
This could be said to solve Rozen's burning need.
After all, Bronze Sword's durability was already very high.
Therefore, after a frenzy of killing monsters, Rozen's Bronze Sword had become tattered, and it was almost at the end of its life. If he took it to repair, the repair fee alone would cost a lot of money. Now that he could get a better and more durable weapon, naturally, it was better than nothing.
At the same time, Rozen also received a lot of exp.
"Shhnnnnn!"
With a golden light surrounding his body, and the sound of music lingering in his ears, Rozen leveled up again, reaching level 4.
So Rozen once again distributed the exp according to the ratio of 2 points of strength to 1 point of agility, and he was ready to continue this way.
After that, Rozen and Kirito left the house together.
Standing in front of the house, Rozen and Kirito discussed again.
"What are you going to do next?"
Kirito was the first to ask this question.
After completing this quest, the two of them were far ahead of the other players in terms of levels and weapons. They must be standing at the top of the game.
Of the ten thousand players, more than ninety percent were definitely still in the Town of Beginnings and hadn't recovered from the chaos. The remaining ten percent definitely hadn't started to move yet. Rozen and Kirito were ahead of everyone else, so there was no reason for them not to take the lead.
However, this kind of lead could be surpassed.
"Our current level is still very low. If we need to reach level 5 before dawn, then we can hunt for the Giant Cannibal Grass in the forest. Although it's a level 5 monster, we already have Anneal Sword, so it shouldn't be a problem."
Kirito suggested.
However …
"You go ahead," Rozen replied. "I want to enhance my weapon first."
"Weapon enhancement?" Kirito was stunned at first, and then he said in surprise, "You're already preparing to enhance it?"
"Yeah." Rozen nodded and said, "I opened a lot of treasure chests before and got a lot of enhancement materials. If everything goes well, it should be enough to enhance Anneal Sword to + 2."
In SAO, weapons could also be enhanced.
However, in SAO, the enhancement system was relatively simple.
When Players enhanced a weapon, they could only choose one of the parameters to enhance it.
The five strengthening parameters were as follows …
"Sharpness."
"Quickness."
"Accuracy."
"Heaviness."
"Durability."
"Sharpness Enhancement can increase attack power."
"Speed Enhancement can increase attack speed."
"Accuracy Enhancement can increase critical hit rate."
"Weight Enhancement" didn't increase the weight of the weapon, but to reduce the weight of the weapon. It could allow Players who couldn't carry enough weight to equip the weapon in advance. Reducing the weight could also improve the flexibility and agility of the body, to achieve the purpose of expanding the capacity of the item bar.
"Durability Enhancement", as the name suggested, could increase the durability of the weapon, so that the weapon wouldn't be damaged too quickly.
As long as an NPC or a Player with Smithing skill was entrusted, they could try to enhance the weapon at will. According to the parameters they wanted to enhance, they had to submit different enhancement materials, but there was a certain failure rate.
And whenever the enhancement was successful, the name of the weapon would have suffixes such as "+ 1", "+ 2", "+ 3". However, that didn't mean the higher the enhancement number, the stronger the weapon. It still depended on the enhancement parameters of the weapon.
For example, a + 3 dagger obviously didn't carry much weight, but after three enhancements, the weight of the dagger was reduced to a negligible amount, which was simply a waste.
Therefore, the enhancement parameters of a weapon also had a great impact on the value of the weapon. Players also traded based on this.
By the way, in the trade between players, when a + 4 weapon's enhancement parameters were Sharpness + 2, Accuracy + 1, and Durability + 1, it would be referred to as "2S1A1D".
S was Sharpness, Q was Speed, A was Accuracy, H was Weight, and D was Durability. That was all there was to it.
Of course, a weapon couldn't be enhanced without limit.
Each weapon could be enhanced a number of times, some more, some less. And whether the enhancement was successful or failed, as long as the weapon was enhanced once, it would be considered consumed.
For example, Anneal Sword could only be enhanced eight times, which meant it could only be enhanced eight times. And in these eight times, regardless of success or failure, as long as the weapon was enhanced eight times, it couldn't be enhanced anymore.
For that reason, every Player needed to work hard to increase the success rate of enhancement by a little bit. This was the so-called game.
Rozen got a lot of enhancement materials because he kept opening treasure chests.
If he used them to strengthen Anneal Sword, it should be enough to upgrade Anneal Sword to + 2.
But …
"There's no NPC blacksmith here, I have to go to the next main block."
Rozen said to Kirito.
The meaning was obvious.
"You don't have to wait for me, go ahead and level up first." Rozen pretended to be relaxed and said: "Anyway, I'm a friend, I can contact you at any time."
This was the first time the two parted ways.
"… Is that so?"
Kirito suddenly became silent.
Rozen also sighed in his heart.
Of course, he knew how much pressure Kirito, who was just an ordinary person, had to stay in this death game alone.
But there was no other way, this was the path Kirito chose.
From the moment Kirito ran out of the Town of Beginnings alone and snatched the resources to become stronger, this young man was destined to become a Solo Player.
He shared resources with Rozen, on the one hand, because the two were family, and on the other hand, if there was only one person by his side, the competition for resources wouldn't be too serious.
But if Rozen asked Kirito to waste his precious early leveling time to accompany him to town, he wouldn't agree, right?
This was not selfish, but a choice that had to be made in order to survive.
Of course, the same was true for Rozen.
He also had his own plan, and he couldn't accompany Kirito all the time.
Therefore, even if they could still act together, they would have to separate sooner or later. Otherwise, the two wouldn't have just logged into each other's friend list at the beginning of the game.
But …
"You're in a dangerous situation right now."
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