What can four thousand Mora buy?
In the game, buying a Mora Meat dish at a restaurant costs 430 Mora.
A portion of the famous specialty, "Central Plains Chop Suey," costs 6,600 Mora.
Even twenty years ago in Liyue, the prices wouldn't have changed much.
That is to say, four thousand Mora in Liyue wouldn't even buy a decent meal.
However, for a poor family like Ningguang's, four thousand Mora was several days' worth of living expenses, allowing the family to avoid going hungry.
"Thank you, big brother!" Ningguang smiled sweetly after receiving the Mora, her eyes curving like crescents, radiant as a flower.
It was the first time she had received so much Mora, so she carefully tucked the money pouch into her chest, hugging it tightly, afraid of dropping it or having it stolen.
Little Ningguang didn't know how to express her joy and gratitude to Fang Xun.
She thought for a long time, and finally bowed seriously to Fang Xun to express her thanks.
In Little Ningguang's eyes, Fang Xun had really helped her a lot.
"Big brother, then I'll go back first!" Ningguang waved goodbye to Fang Xun.
At this moment, a system voice rang in Fang Xun's mind.
"Ding! Detected that Ningguang's favorability towards the host has increased!"
Fang Xun's heart stirred, and he felt indescribable bitterness.
He had only helped Ningguang a little and had already gained her favor.
It could be seen how tough Ningguang's life had been before.
In endless darkness, even a tiny glimmer of light could shine brightly.
Fang Xun decided to continue helping Ningguang.
Not just to increase her favorability, and get a rich woman to support him, allowing him to avoid struggling for a few years...
More importantly, he felt that Ningguang had a lot in common with him.
This little girl was tenacious and had an indomitable spirit.
Those who believed in miracles were themselves as remarkable as miracles.
At this moment, the system's voice continued to ring in his mind.
"Ningguang's Favorability has increased from 0 to Level 1. Congratulations, Host, you have received 1 Intertwined Fate. Additional reward: a five-star artifact, Gladiator's Finale."
Receiving Intertwined Fate, Fang Xun wasn't surprised.
After all, the system had stated before that increasing a goddess's favorability would grant Intertwined Fate.
However, the additional reward was something Fang Xun hadn't anticipated.
You see, artifacts were a unique feature of this game.
After leveling up characters and maxing out skill talents, the only way to increase their strength was through artifacts.
An excellent artifact could raise a character's ceiling.
Fang Xun opened his inventory to check the artifact's stats.
He had thought he'd still need to collect dog food and Mora to slowly enhance this artifact,
but he hadn't expected the artifact to already be at max level when he received it.
And the artifact the system gave him was max level at twenty-eight!
This meant there was even more room for improvement!
Fang Xun couldn't wait to check the artifact's attributes, hoping for some double crit stats.
However, after seeing the artifact's attribute lines, he was completely dumbfounded.
Defense +35%
Defense +39
Critical Hit Damage +7.8%
Critical Hit Rate +3.2%
Fang Xun: "???"
This artifact of yours,
Why won't it enhance??
Truly a coward of a Gladiator!
All the stats are skewed towards defense!
What the hell,
So, they want me to stack defense, huh?
Fang Xun was speechless.
He couldn't help but recall the scene of all his artifact enhancements going sideways, and it felt like his liver was aching.
At this moment, Fang Xun's gaze fell upon the Intertwined Fate.
Since his artifacts were a bust, he'd try gacha.
When Fang Xun played games before, many times he went to draw after his artifacts went wrong.
This was a kind of metaphysics.
Maybe the luck from artifact enhancement would be added to the gacha?
Fang Xun opened the gacha pool.
The system's pool was quite unique.
The interface showed all released characters gathered together,
all of them up.
This type of draw didn't give characters, but instead granted all of their skills, enhancing the user.
That is to say, as long as Fang Xun drew enough times and obtained enough skills,
it wouldn't be impossible for him to wield all seven elemental powers with a single person.
He could use "Starfall," "Secret Art: Musou Shinsetsu," and "Anemo Secret Arts" – all of those nuking skills – in an instant.
Even Celestia would be confused seeing this scene.
Next, Fang Xun chose a single pull, hoping to draw a character skill to improve his ability to survive.
Well,
Blue sky, white clouds,
Not even a purple light appeared.
Wouldn't it be "reasoning with him" again?
He really didn't want that anymore, he was sick of seeing it.
Please, just give him a different weapon.
When the white light dissipated, what Fang Xun obtained wasn't a weapon, but a talisman.
[Enhancement Talisman. After use, it can reconfigure artifact attributes.] [Note: After using the Enhancement Talisman, artifact attributes can be freely chosen for enhancement.]
Can change artifact attributes??
Fang Xun stared at the Enhancement Talisman, completely stunned.
Wow,
He didn't expect that the system's gacha pool would have something so overpowered!
The most important thing was, this was only a three-star item??
Then the four-star and five-star items drawn from the lottery would naturally be even better!
Delicious!
Fang Xun didn't think too much further and directly used the enhancement rune to begin modifying the Gladiator's Finale's stats.
Defense +4.1%
Defense +16
Critical Hit Damage +30.2%
Critical Hit Rate +12.1%
Looking at the changes, Fang Xun nodded in satisfaction.
Hmm,
It's barely usable.
Fang Xun put on the flower. He didn't feel anything himself.
He figured it was because he couldn't use elemental power yet.
Once he drew a skill, he might be able to see the benefits the artifact provided.
Fang Xun closed the system panel, planning to take a good walk around Liyue Harbor and get a feel for things.
From his lottery to the artifact enhancement, time outside had been paused.
So, there were no safety hazards or negative effects whatsoever.
Fang Xun walked down the street, then stopped.
He saw little Ningguang again.
The girl had just climbed out of the river, clutching a fresh fish in her hand.
Fang Xun was a bit puzzled. Ningguang had just received four thousand Mora.
Logically, she should have more than enough money to eat a meal.
Why was she catching fish in the river?
But soon, Fang Xun understood.
Little Ningguang probably didn't want to spend the money. She wanted to take it back untouched.
I was really starving, so I had to fish by the river.
No wonder this little girl was so thin, looking like she could be blown over by the wind at any moment.
It was due to long-term malnutrition.
Since Fang Xun had seen this, he naturally couldn't just stand by and watch.
He turned and went to Wanmin Restaurant, buying a portion of Fresh Pepper Chicken and a portion of Four Corners of Peace from Chef Mao.
After buying the food, Fang Xun carried the dishes and walked in Ningguang's direction.