CHAPTER 173: CHAPTER 70: THE THRILLING ENHANCEMENT

[Ding, strengthening the Hero’s Heart requires 50,000 Realm Coins, 50,000 fresh meat, 50,000 iron ore, 500 gems. Do you wish to strengthen?]

"Strengthen." Lin Rui took a deep breath and agreed.

The first enhancement fee already makes one’s heart tremble. Starting at 50,000 of each resource, even with Lin Rui’s wealth, it’s hard not to feel a little lacking in confidence.

[Ding, the second strengthening of the Hero’s Heart requires 100,000 Realm Coins, 100,000 fresh meat, 100,000 iron ore, 1,000 gems. Success rate 50%. Do you wish to strengthen?]

Lin Rui held his breath and continued to strengthen.

[Ding, item Hero’s Heart successfully received the second Divine Blessing, quality enhanced.]

[Ding, the third strengthening of the Hero’s Heart requires 500,000 Realm Coins, 500,000 fresh meat, 500,000 iron ore, 3,000 gems. Success rate 10%. Do you wish to strengthen?]

"Strengthen!"

Five hundred thousand of each resource, Lin Rui felt like he was playing with his heartbeat. If the enhancement failed, a massive amount of resources would be wasted.

This is really betting life on mysticism. If not chosen by the Goddess of Fortune, who would dare to play like this?

[Ding, item Hero’s Heart successfully received the third Divine Blessing, quality enhanced.]

[Ding, the fourth strengthening of the Hero’s Heart requires 10,000 Spirit Crystal Coins, 10,000 crystals, 10,000 gems. Success rate 1%. If enhancement fails, you will lose the Hero’s Heart. Do you wish to strengthen?]

"Strengthen!" Lin Rui closed his eyes, betting everything! Just gambling that the Goddess of Fortune is a virtuous woman and won’t greedily take away his enhanced +4 Hero’s Heart.

Brilliant Holy Light descended from the sky, even with Lin Rui’s eyes closed, he could feel a brightness ahead.

When he opened his eyes, the entire territory was shrouded in a hazy Holy Light, as if it were a celestial kingdom.

Lin Rui’s heart beat wildly; this Krypton Gold was way too thrilling.

[Ding, the fifth strengthening of the Hero’s Heart requires 50,000 Spirit Crystal Coins, 50,000 crystals, 50,000 Mithril, 50,000 Vibranium, 50,000 gems. Success rate 0.1%. If enhancement fails, you will lose the Hero’s Heart. Do you wish to strengthen?]

0.1% versus 1% success rate doesn’t make much difference to Lin Rui because he has the Goddess of Fortune’s Trait, which increases any probability by 5%.

So during enhancement, it’s just a difference between 5.01% and 6%.

But the problem is, Lin Rui already has no resources; he can’t even gather a fraction of the fifty thousand units of various rare resources.

So Lin Rui wasn’t nervous anymore and directly chose "Strengthen."

At the same time, he consumed a "Merit Medal."

[Sacrifice material Merit Medal: Your resistance to the Lovecraftian incursion has received rewards from the gods. When sacrificing, you can replace all sacrifice materials with a medal and will definitely receive divine feedback from the gods.]

This was the reward Lin Rui earned after leading the fanatics to purge the invading Demon Legion coming through the space rift.

Even with only a 0.1% success rate, the sacrifice is bound to succeed, and it saves a large amount of sacrifice materials.

Speaking of which, without this Merit Medal, even if given a month, Lin Rui might not be able to gather such a massive amount of resources.

The subsequent sacrifice conditions don’t even need to be looked at, all are staggering numbers. Without robbing some giant dragon’s treasure troves, don’t even think about sacrificing.

Lin Rui properly put away this enhanced +5 Hero’s Heart and planned to wait for the next cycle when demons invade through the space rift again, clean it up once more, and then think about strengthening.

After securing the Hero’s Heart, Lin Rui began strengthening other items that could quickly enhance his strength.

First, the Special Building Plan "Black Banner Army Camp."

[Ding, strengthening the building plan "Black Banner Army Camp" requires 1,000 Realm Coins, 1,000 fresh meat, 1,000 iron ore, 1,000 wood, 1,000 stone, 100 gems. Do you wish to strengthen?]

After seeing the breathtaking Hero’s Heart strengthening cost of nearly a million, this cost seemed extraordinarily reasonable.

Lin Rui directly ignored the conditions and continuously strengthened until he reached the fourth time when the system notified him that he had reached the strengthening limit and could no longer continue.

This was the first time Lin Rui encountered such a situation; he speculated that it might be because the resource library of the Goddess of Fortune didn’t contain subsequent branch content in this regard.

After four enhancements, the name of "Black Banner Army Camp" had been changed to "Black Banner Guard Camp."

[Black Banner Guard Camp: Construction requires 5 people, 2,000 Realm Coins, 2,000 iron ore, 2,000 wood, 2,000 stone, 200 Tier Two Spiritual Gems, taking 12 hours.]

[You can consume 100 Spirit Crystal Coins, 1 Tier Three Spiritual Gem to transform a Tier Two unit into a Black Banner Guard]

This effect was very powerful; Black Banner Guards possess Tier Two Elite-level strength.

This means as long as Lin Rui could invest Tier Two units, he could endlessly obtain powerful Tier Two Elite-level Guards.

As for the source of a large number of Tier Two units, Lin Rui indeed had a way.

Lin Rui took out the special building plan "Ogre Slave Garden" from his backpack.

This was a plan that exploded from the Ogre Hero Lord, and he hadn’t had time to build it yet.

Lin Rui directly placed it under the Goddess Pendulum for enhancement.

This blueprint unexpectedly showed potential; Lin Rui consumed more than 100,000 units of resources before exhausting its potential and was unable to continue enhancement.

By now, the name of the blueprint had been changed to "Ogre Kingdom Prisoner Camp": This is the finest prisoner camp in the Ogre Kingdom, with valuable prisoners sent by Ogre Lords from various lands to their tyrant. A greedy and daring guard decided to sell some of these dying goods to you. Purchase limit per cycle 0/14.

After reading the introduction, Lin Rui was truly stunned; this world is terrifying and filled with dark humor. This crazy operation simply refreshes one’s views but somehow seems strangely reasonable.