Chapter 200: Tribute to Glory, Blacksmith Upgrade!
A sacred breath fell on Assam.

Cao Xing felt that the knight's aura was growing rapidly.

After a while, a powerful aura burst out from him!

A system prompt appears.

[Your territory member: Assam received the blessing of the Lake Lady and successfully advanced to a third-level leader-level creature. All attributes increased by 30%, and learned a new skill: Glory Praise]

[Glory Tribute: After activating this skill, in the next 100 seconds, all attacks will be accompanied by 50% light attribute attacks, and each attack will cause five negative states to the enemy in sequence: Armor -20%, Attack Power -20%, Movement Speed ​​-20%, Attack Speed ​​-20%, Hit Rate -20%.

When a single enemy has 5 negative states at the same time, all negative states will be detonated, causing 150% light attribute damage to the enemy. Skill cooldown time: 10 minutes.

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"Fuck!"

Upon seeing the attributes of [Glory Tribute], Cao Xing exclaimed.

He was shocked on the spot.

Every five attacks, it causes 150% explosion damage, plus 50% light attribute attack.

This is equivalent to directly increasing Assam's output capacity several times!
The most important thing is that this skill is still in a continuous state.

In other words, it will most likely receive the bonus of [Eternal Power] and become permanent!
"Isn't it too fierce?" Cao Xing sighed.

With this skill, Assam's output ability is likely to be on par with Andrew, or even surpass him!
At this moment, the goddess of the lake continued: "You have passed three of the five trials."

"The last two are generosity and bravery."

"But these two virtues cannot be demonstrated through words, only through actions."

"So next, please help five people who really need help and prove that you have a generous character."

"Then kill a beast one level stronger than you by yourself to prove your heroic character."

The goddess in the lake looked at Cao Xing.

"As the lord of this knight, you can assist him in completing this task."

"Of course, you can also choose to end it here."

The next moment, a system prompt appeared.

[Do you accept the trial mission of the goddess of the lake? ]

Seeing the system prompt, Cao Xing sighed.

"This trial of the goddess of the lake is really troublesome..."

It took a lot of effort to complete the first three trials.

In the last two trials, he was asked to complete tasks.

However, Cao Xing also knew that this was normal.

After all, this involves a complete legendary weapon, which is more powerful than the broken Magdel in his hand.

Speaking of which——

The difficulty of the prerequisite tasks to start this knight trial is off the charts.

The first thing is that you need a snow demon tongue of at least leader level.

This item alone has stumped countless people!
Then comes the second difficulty.

To catch king salmon.

You need a fishing rod of at least gold quality, and it must be strong enough.

After all, the king salmon's strength in the water is terrifying, and it can also spray out a very lethal water column.

If it weren't for Qinong, a powerful man whose exact strength was unknown, who was standing by, they could only watch the King Salmon break free, and they might even be wiped out.

The third difficulty is releasing the king salmon.

This is also a test that tests one’s heart extremely.

Under normal circumstances, if Cao Xing didn't know about it in advance, he would never let the king salmon go.

And Cao Xing, after a series of coincidences, successfully started this knight trial.

Now, after Assam's efforts, he has passed the first three tests.

It has come to this point, Cao Xing will definitely not give up.

So, he just clicked accept.

At the same time, a system prompt appears.

[Successfully accepted the mission: The Five Virtues Trial of the Lake Goddess]

[The trials of mercy, honor, and wisdom have been completed. The remaining trials of generosity and bravery have not been completed.]

[Generosity Trial: Help 5 people who really need help, current progress: 0/5]

[Heroic Trial: Let the Assam Knight kill a creature of the same level with a strength of more than 10 levels alone. Current progress: 0/1]

...

Seeing the task prompt, Cao Xing thought for a moment.

"Help 5 people in need and kill a boss creature that is 10 levels higher than Assam?"

These two trial tasks are both difficult and simple.

After all, with Cao Xing's various blessings, Assam should have the strength to fight against opponents of higher levels.

The difficulty lies in how to find the right opponent.

There is also this [Trial of Generosity], which helps 5 people who really need help.

How would Cao Xing know who the hell is the person who really needs help?
But now that it has come to this, we can only take it one step at a time.

at the same time.

The enchanting goddess of the lake whispered, "After you complete the remaining two trials, you can come to Snowfall Lake and call me again. I will then grant you the legendary weapon: Alondigit."

"Wish ya'll good luck……"

After saying this, she sank into the lake again.

Everyone was left looking at each other.

After becoming the leader, Assam also walked back and stood respectfully beside Cao Xing.

Cao Xing praised: "Assam, you did a good job."

Others also expressed encouragement to Assam.

Asam said modestly: "It was the encouragement from the Lord that gave me strong confidence, so I was able to pass these two trials."

At this moment, Qinong said on the side: "Lord Cao Xing, the knights chosen by the goddess of the lake in the past generations will become famous throughout the Ice Crystal Kingdom in the near future."

"And as you are the lord of this knight, I have a feeling that it won't be long before I will hear your name again."

With a slightly emotional look on his face, he looked at Cao Xing.

Cao Xing smiled and said, "Mr. Qinong, you are joking."

"It's getting late now. You should go back and take care of your wife as soon as possible."

It took them more than seven hours from the time they set out to fish at Luoxue Lake in the morning to the end of the trial.

There was only one hour left until dark.

Qinong nodded and said, "You are right, Lord Cao Xing. I will go back to take care of my wife next."

"With this golden salmon you gave me today, my wife should be able to regain her strength."

"Next, I will take her to the main city of Yongshuang, and I think we will settle there later."

"One day in the future, if Lord Cao Xing comes to Yongshuang Main City, you can come find me. I will definitely drink a few cups with you."

Hearing this, Cao Xing nodded and said, "Okay, I also look forward to the day when I can meet Mr. Qinong again."

After saying that, both parties left.

Looking at Qinong's aging back.

Cao Xing always had a premonition that one day in the future they might meet again.

When Qinong disappeared from everyone's sight.

Cao Xing glanced at the temperature and countdown above his head.

[Current temperature: -53℃]

[Countdown to nightfall: 1:13...]

Cao Xing chuckled and said, "Let's go, it's getting dark, we should go back."

"As you command! Lord Lord!"

The group marched towards the territory in a mighty manner.

As for the wild beasts on Luoxue Lake, they had all been scared away by the noise of the goddess appearing in the lake.

This made Cao Xing's idea of ​​slaughtering some wild animals for an extra meal tonight go awry.

However, what he gained today was already quite amazing!

On the way, Cao Xing was also summarizing today.

First of all, the biggest gain is naturally the [Crazy King Fishing Rod] in his hand.

As an epic item, its value is almost limitless!
This is also the third epic item obtained by Cao Xing.

Then, the nearly 12-kilogram [Golden Salmon] had been slaughtered by Cao Xing and cut into fish meat.

A total of 11 pieces of [Golden Salmon Meat] were obtained.

It sounds like a small amount, but if it is sold at 100g, a total of 110 copies can be sold.

But the price of this thing is too high.

It is estimated that there are few survivors in the entire 174th area who can afford it.

After that, there were 11 silver salmon, almost 92 kilograms.

In total, 87 pieces of [Silver Salmon Meat] were decomposed, which is a total of 870 portions.

Worth at least 17 Ice Dragon Marks!
The remaining blue quality fish and green quality fish are both pretty good.

All together, it can be sold for tens of thousands of Ice Dragon Marks.

In other words, these fish catches alone are worth at least two gold treasure chests.

Liu Muxue behind them also knew how much they had gained this time.

She was a little excited and asked, "Ah Xing, are we going to the market to trade this time when we go back?"

After thinking for a moment, Cao Xing smiled and said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow."

"There are only over 174 people in District right now, so they probably don't have many good things."

"After the merger tomorrow, people from all 10 districts will be together."

"At least hundreds of thousands of people. The goods I have may be able to sell for a higher price."

After listening to Cao Xing's analysis, Liu Muxue also felt that it made sense.

Then he nodded and said, "Yeah!"

During their conversation, everyone had returned to the territory.

As night falls, the citizens who were collecting resources are coming back one after another.

The chieftain Cao Yi had been waiting here long ago and reported, "Lord."

"Today we have collected 8764 pieces of wood, 6122 pieces of stone, 1754 pieces of coal, 1024 pieces of iron, and 433 pieces of copper." Cao Xing nodded and said, "Yes, are the resources in these mining sites around our territory sufficient?"

"My Lord, we have already mined a medium-sized iron mine and a small copper mine near the territory. We only have one medium-sized coal mine left that can be mined for another two days."

"In the near future, we may need to look for new resource sites or suspend mining work."

After hearing this, Cao Xing thought for a moment.

I didn’t expect that several resource points near the territory would be mined so quickly.

Before new resource points are refreshed, you can only look for them in farther places.

He did know the location of a resource point.

It's the Mole Man mine that we discovered before.

There are rich precious minerals there, [Mithril], [Magic Crystal], etc.

However, it is a bit far from the territory, about seven kilometers away.

It is definitely impossible to lay railroad tracks over such a long distance.

"However, tomorrow is the seventh day of the official period, and a new batch of resource points will be refreshed."

"First take a look at the refreshed resource points, and then decide whether to mine that mine."

So Cao Xing nodded and said, "Okay, I understand."

"Tomorrow a new batch of resource points will appear near our territory. Let Kantel and Kandar explore them first."

"Then I will decide where to arrange for you to collect resources."

Hearing this, Leader Cao nodded respectfully.

"As you command, Lord."

Although refreshing resource points was a little beyond their understanding.

But I have experienced it once at the end of the novice protection period.

So Cao Yi was not that surprised.

At the same time, Kantel and Kandar also came over.

They were on their horses, each carrying a cloth bag.

After seeing Cao Xing, they were excited.

"My strong lord, you are back!"

"This is what we got from killing the Ice Nest Monsters these past two days. Please take a look."

After the two centaurs finished speaking, they dropped the bags on their backs onto the ground.

Cao Xing immediately saw a large pile of ice dragon marks and other materials on it.

[Obtain: Ice Dragon Mark*8921]

[Obtain: Glacier Fragment*4723]

[Obtain: Ice Dragon Horn (Small) * 4]

[Obtain: Ice Dragon Horn (Medium) *1]

……

"Well done, Cantel, Candal."

A smile appeared on Cao Xing's lips.

Today’s harvest is not bad.

His Ice Dragon Mark reserves once again exceeded 70,000.

Cao Xing thought to himself, "If I trade again tomorrow, my Ice Dragon Mark might be worth over 30, and then I can exchange it for the remaining two gold treasure chests!"

"Next, I need to save up another 30 Ice Dragon Marks so that Mu Xue can also open three gold treasure chests, haha!"

Cao Xing thought happily.

Then he asked the two centaurs to continue patrolling.

At this time, a system prompt appears.

[Your territory member: Harold Iceberg has devoted himself to forging. Through unremitting efforts, he has finally realized more advanced forging techniques and has learned a new skill: Advanced Forging Mastery]

...

At this moment, a look of surprise appeared in Cao Xing's eyes!
"Oh my god, Harold became a senior blacksmith so quickly?"

"It's been less than a week since he joined my territory. I've really found a treasure this time!"

Cao Xing was extremely excited and rushed into the [Blacksmith Shop] impatiently.

at the same time.

Harold seemed to have a premonition that Cao Xing would come. With a happy smile on his face, he waited silently beside the forging table.

"My Lord, you are here."

Cao Xing smiled and said, "Yes."

"Congratulations, Harold."

"You have an amazing talent for forging."

Harold quickly shook his head and said modestly: "Harold is stupid. Thanks to the help of the Lord, I was able to comprehend new forging techniques so quickly."

Cao Xing laughed and patted his shoulder.

Then start looking at Harold's properties.

【Knowledge Seeker: Harold Iceberg】

[Race: Dwarf]

[Level: Level 15 (Second-order common creature)]

[HP: 4140/4140]

[Attack power: 252~277]

[Skills: Frost Hammer, Iceberg Smash

Advanced Forging Mastery (with rich forging experience, you can create equipment of rare quality, and increase the forging speed by 30% and the forging success rate by 10%)]

[Talent: Craftsman (When forging equipment, the success rate increases by 10%)]

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"Great, great! The forging speed has been increased by 10% and the forging success rate has been increased by 10%!"

Cao Xing sighed deeply.

Because in this way, Harold can also ensure a higher success rate when creating purple equipment.

Moreover, Cao Xing still remembered Assam's golden weapon, [King's Blade], and there was a note on it.

You can ask a senior blacksmith to remove the [Glittering Gold Gem] and [Earth Gem] and inlay them into new weapons.

Although the specific qualities of these two gems are unknown, their properties must be strong.

"Very good, Assam is already level 25 and will soon reach level 30."

"Then he can equip the broken legendary weapon, Magdel, and the King's Glaive will be eliminated."

"As for those two gems, Harold can take them down and use them again!"

Cao Xing thought with satisfaction.

At this time, Harold continued to report: "My Lord, I have basically been forging that large sickle these two days."

"You gave me 8 sets of materials, 5 were successful, and the remaining 3 failed."

"terribly sorry!"

He said apologetically.

After all, three failures meant the loss of three rare quality materials.

It is also mixed with a large amount of refined iron and a small amount of mithril.

The loss is still relatively large.

If it were an ordinary blacksmith, these three materials alone would be enough to bankrupt them.

Fortunately, Cao Xing was wealthy and could allow Harold to squander his money.

Cao Xing didn't care, "Don't mind it, Harold."

"It's worth paying a little bit of materials to accelerate your breakthrough to a higher level."

"Besides, didn't you succeed in getting 5 pairs?"

Encouraged by Cao Xing, a gentle smile appeared on Harold's face.

Then he said gratefully: "Thank you for your support, Lord."

"Shall I give you these five sickles first?"

"I am personally quite satisfied with these sickles."

Hearing this, Cao Xing also became interested.

Then he followed Harold to the storage box.

As the storage box opened, Cao Xing saw five pitch-black sickles emitting a faint black aura lying inside!

Including the handle and the large hook at the front, the length is over 1.7 meters.

Especially the sharp claws at the tip, which faintly flashed with cold light, and the shape looked very ferocious.

Cao Xing directly put away the five sickles.

[Obtain: Soul Eater Scythe (Purple)*5]

Look at the properties.

[Soul Eater Scythe (Purple)]

[Quality: Rare]

[Level: 30 and above]

[Attack power: 542~594]

[Additional special effects ①: Strength +80, Agility +50]

[Additional Effect ②: Cutting Blade (When attacking, increases attack power and disability effect by 20%)]

[Additional effect ③: Soul Suppression (When attacking spirit enemies, an additional 50% damage is caused)]

(Equipment introduction: A sickle made from the large hook of the Soul Eater, with a little mithril added to it, which has a significant suppressive effect on spirit enemies.)
...

After reading the properties of the sickle, Cao Xing's face showed joy.

"Not bad!"

“No wonder Harold is also satisfied with these sickles.”

The attributes of [Soul Eater Scythe] are strong enough and the level is high enough.

The most important thing is that this sickle has a special feature that can suppress spiritual enemies!
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