After slaying the Diablo in his heart, Qin Jie sat in his room, savoring the previous battle.
Although the beginning was a bit turbulent when the opponent blinded him with Blood Fate, the rest had almost no impact.
At this moment, Qin Jie couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Back then, to defeat Diablo, he needed all sorts of calculations, even figuring out the opponent's mechanisms clearly, only then did he successfully counter-kill Diablo.
But now, his strength had grown several times. The once terrifying Diablo, with his original stats and mechanisms, now only had mechanisms left before the current him.
And he, with his pure stats, defeated the opponent.
The challenge was completed, and Qin Jie, still somewhat unsatisfied, wanted to continue challenging. But the Ghost Buddha in his hand only allowed one challenge per day, forcing him to abandon the idea.
What a pity.
To find suitable strong enemies, the only remaining option was probably to challenge Illusions.
However, among the Illusions, Intermediate Illusions were already difficult to match Qin Jie's current strength, while advanced Illusions were extremely expensive.
As for the actual combat mode, Qin Jie tried it before and found he didn't like it much. The robots in the actual combat mode made him feel like he was hitting a wooden dummy as a child, which was very boring.
He checked the time; challenging Diablo had taken him an hour. Although the perceived time might have only been a few minutes, time seemed to pass surprisingly quickly.
Qi Changwei had already transferred the money: Shu Zida's 20,000 and the Parasitic Vine Staff's 53,000.
After a moment of thought, Qin Jie sent Qi Changwei 3,000 paradise coins.
This was a gesture of 'pleasant cooperation.'
With 70,000 paradise coins added to his account, Qin Jie was in a good mood. He now had 83,000 paradise coins remaining, enough for the upcoming enhancements.
Five minutes later, Qin Jie arrived at the entrance of the Equipment Enhancement Hall.
The old crooked-neck tree at the entrance of the Enhancement Hall was still growing robustly, and the wails of Contractors who failed to enhance their equipment echoed throughout the hall.
In this Enhancement Hall, successful enhancements would bring a strong sense of schadenfreude.
It wasn't that there were no successful enhancements, but showing off a successful enhancement here was like a lucky player flaunting rare cards in front of an unlucky player who had a bad gacha pull—it was an extremely hatred-inducing act.
Therefore, most of what one saw here were people who had failed their enhancements.
The only winner was probably the guy offering hanging services.
Qin Jie walked towards the Equipment Enhancement Hall. The first item to enhance, naturally, was the devouring abyss.
In Sekiro, Qin Jie obtained three Divine Confetti. This item could upgrade blue equipment to +7 and purple equipment to +5.
If it were a simple enhancement, Qin Jie could force a successful enhancement by consuming Blood Luck. However, the Divine Confetti also provided the effect of increasing equipment durability by +3, and this had to be applied to the devouring abyss.
After advancing to purple quality, the devouring abyss dropped from +5 to +3. Now, Qin Jie intended to use the Divine Confetti to raise its Rank to +5.
Although it could only increase two Ranks, the Divine Confetti also provided the durability +3 effect.
[Enhancement successful. The devouring abyss has been elevated to +5.]
Just reaching +5 was, of course, not enough.
Qin Jie glanced at the enhancement cost and was momentarily stunned.
Upgrading one Rank actually required 12,000 paradise coins.
That was truly expensive.
But when it came to weapons, Qin Jie always had one attitude.
Buy what needs to be bought, spend what needs to be spent. Never let the 'child' suffer.
Upgrade!
He still had 410 Blood Luck. Since he didn't know how much Blood Luck a single upgrade would cost, Qin Jie decided to upgrade one Rank at a time.
[Enhancement successful. The devouring abyss has been elevated to +6]
Hmm. Qin Jie's Luck was good this time; no Blood Luck was consumed, meaning Qin Jie was destined to succeed this time.
The Blood Fate skill had been unlocked for some time, and Qin Jie had roughly figured out its nature.
It allowed Qin Jie to forcibly become lucky when he was unlucky, but if he was already lucky, it wouldn't consume Luck value.
So, continue.
[Enhancement successful. The devouring abyss has been elevated to +7]
This time, Blood Luck started to decrease. Qin Jie checked and saw that Blood Luck dropped from 410 to 357.
This was an acceptable range, 53 points.
Having confirmed the approximate range of Blood Luck consumption, Qin Jie no longer hesitated and directly enhanced it to +10.
From +5 to +10, it cost Qin Jie a total of 60,000 paradise coins and 190 points of Blood Luck.
The further the enhancement, the more Blood Luck was consumed, but no matter what, the devouring abyss was eventually enhanced to +10.
And the returns were, naturally, extremely impressive.
devouring abyss +10
Quality: Purple (Soul Value: 11%)
Origin: --- (Hunter Intelligence over 20 can view)
Durability: 70/70
Attack Power: 59-92 (+12-10)
Equipment Requirement: ??? or Unconditional
Effect 1, Soul Devour: Can convert items with Soul traits into Soul Value. Slaying enemies will also absorb their Soul and convert it into Soul Value. Soul Value can be used to modify the weapon (form, skills, attributes, quality) --- Specific enemies provide additional Soul Value.
Effect 2, Abyss Bottom: Gains an additional 28 (+8)% damage bonus when attacking. When attacking --- (Hunter 20 Intelligence can view) specific enemies, gains an additional 91% damage bonus.
Effect 3, Sword Shadow: Summons a Sword Clone by consuming health. The Clone's strength and duration depend on the health invested. When 18 (-2)% of maximum health is invested, the Clone's attributes will be identical to the main body, and its duration will increase to 8 (+2) hours.
Effect 4, Overlord Soul: After killing an Overlord-level creature, absorbs its Soul for personal use. Different Overlord Souls will possess different effects.
Description: I am gradually awakening, to be more useful than before. Let us slay the enemies from ***** (Hunter 20 Intelligence can view)!
Rating: 130
Price: 110,000 paradise coins
+5 Additional Effect: Soul Value acquisition efficiency +10%
+8 Additional Effect: Sharpness +3
+10 Additional Effect: Abyss Bottom additionally provides 36% healing reduction effect.
--- The attributes increased significantly. The attack power of the devouring abyss is outstanding among purple weapons of its type. Coupled with the Abyss Bottom passive, which provides an additional damage bonus, the output of the devouring abyss has reached a terrifying level.
Now with Sharpness +3 and 36% healing reduction, its assistance to Qin Jie will only be greater.
He still had 23,000 paradise coins left, and a portion needed to be saved for skill upgrades. Therefore, Qin Jie only planned to use the remaining two Divine Confetti.
Qin Jie's current equipment was:
Raiden (Scabbard, Purple)
tengu mask (Mask, Blue)
decayed emissary (Firearm, Blue)
Power Boots (Shoes, Blue)
butcher's coat (Clothing, Purple)
Eye of Insight (Scouting Equipment, Blue)
Headless Divine Descent (Blue, Accessory)
gluttony ring (Green, Ring)
Hol Horse's Dagger (Weapon, Green.)
These could be said to be Qin Jie's entire assets. After a moment of thought, Qin Jie decided to use the Divine Confetti to enhance Raiden and the decayed emissary.