[Guild] Staeric: Oh.
[Guild] Staeric: Is that the staff you said you got back?
[Guild] Staeric: That's freakin' sick.
Once the guild members heard the full story from me, they started circling around and checking out the staff.
The blue gem sparkled brilliantly, and the staff's specs were way better than before it was taken. Given how things turned out, it really was like the Fever guys upgraded it for me for free—just like Yuchae said.
[Guild] MochaBread: No wonder.
[Guild] MochaBread: You had a crazy good weapon but kept using some trash one.
[Guild] MochaBread: I knew something was up 😨
[Guild] ThisIsDorahee: Exactly.
[Guild] ThisIsDorahee: It wasn't just bad, it was seriously awful, lol.
"..."
If even Dorahee's chiming in like that, then the staff I was using as a decoy must've really been garbage. I've lost count of how many people have said that now.
[Guild] SoSleepy: That weapon was the one used by a Fever guild sub-character who attacked me.
[Guild] SoSleepy: I used it on purpose to kill those Fever guys with their own weapon, lmao.
[Guild] TakeItForFreeBye: Damn.
[Guild] TakeItForFreeBye: That's badass as hell.
[Guild] ParkSeungjin99: But Sleepy, your control is just so good…
[Guild] ParkSeungjin99: …that no one really noticed your weapon was trash.
[Guild] ManaOutGuy: Yeah.
[Guild] ManaOutGuy: But as a fellow mage, it kinda hurt to see.
[Guild] ManaOutGuy: The damage difference was no joke.
[Guild] HuntCrazy: Took 3 hits instead of 1 to kill, lol.
[Guild] HuntCrazy: But if you're that good, I guess it doesn't matter.
[Guild] Staeric: Good thing the Fever newbie dropped the staff like we hoped.
[Guild] Staeric: If they hadn't dropped it before using their elementalist ult, we'd be screwed.
[Guild] Hwasoun: For real.
I didn't tell the guild members that the Fever newbie, MelodyCode, had handed over the staff on purpose.
The selection matches weren't over yet, and MelodyCode was still officially part of the Fever guild. I had to be careful not to let anything slip unnecessarily.
So only Yuchae, Muljom (Water Please), SeseSese, and Haerun—who were on Discord with me—knew that MelodyCode had worked with me, handed over the staff, and leaked info about the elementalist's ultimate.
[Guild] TheHunter: Wait, Sleepy, don't tell me…
[Guild] TheHunter: The reason you kept killing that Sharpshooter during the Hanmaeum guild prelims?
[Guild] SoSleepy: I was testing things out.
[Guild] SoSleepy: Before I went after the Fever newbie.
[Guild] TheHunter: Holy crap;
[Guild] ManaOutGuy: Wait, that's why you did it???
[Guild] ManaOutGuy: How many times was it? Like 10?
[Guild] SoSleepy: LOL it was 8 times.
[Guild] TheHunter: Man, after watching that, I thought Sleepy was like…
[Guild] TheHunter: …some kind of perv freak or something 😨
[Guild] ManaOutGuy: Same, I was like "okay… respect their kinks I guess"
"...?"
[Guild] SoSleepy: What the hell are you people talking about;;
[Guild] HuntCrazy: Like getting off on killing the same weak guy over and over?
[Guild] SoSleepy: That's not a freak, that's just trash, wtf 😤
[Guild] WaterPlease: 😂😂😂😂😂
[Guild] Hwasoun: LMAO 😂😂😂
[Guild] MochaBread: A highly evolved pervert...
[Guild] MochaBread: …is indistinguishable from pure garbage…
[Guild] Hwasoun: True.
[Guild] Hwasoun: Just look at our guild leader. Don't you feel it?
[Guild] Yuchae: ?
[Guild] ParkSeungjin99: LOLOLOLOLOL
[Guild] Haerun: LOLOLOLOL
The guild chat, which had been teasing me a moment ago, naturally shifted topics to the selection match against Fever.
[Guild] ManaOutGuy: Elementalists are scary like this…
[Guild] ManaOutGuy: ^El^
[Guild] ParkSeungjin99: They literally used the exact strategy from the arena
[Guild] ParkSeungjin99: In the selection match, like psychos lol
[Guild] Haerun: What's crazier is they almost pulled it off;
[Guild] WaterPlease: Fever bastards…
[Guild] WaterPlease: What cracks me up is they didn't realize we copied their plan
[Guild] SeSeSeLet'sGo: LMAO
[Guild] SeSeSeLet'sGo: If you don't know, you die, lol
Exactly. In any game, not knowing means you're dead. That's just the way it is.
[Guild] Yuchae: Hyung
[Guild] SoSleepy: ?
[Guild] Haerun: At this point, if Yuchae types "Hyung," Sleepy responds automatically lol
[Guild] CapitalBornMonster: Is there anyone besides Sleepy who calls the guild leader "Hyung"?
[Guild] Hwasoun: Nope~ Just Sleepy.
[Guild] Staeric: So when are you two getting married?
[Guild] LagLaggingHard: They said after the selection match.
These guys are spreading nonsense again.
[Guild] SoSleepy: We're not getting married, ffs ┐ㅡㅡ┌
[Guild] SoSleepy: What do you want?
[Guild] Yuchae: If you're not doing anything else today…
[Guild] Yuchae: Let's upgrade the staff ㅎㅡㅎ
Upgrade the staff? At her suggestion, I instinctively turned to look at it.
When Yuchae first gave it to me, it was a +4 weapon embedded with LUX2.0. But after passing through the hands of one of Fever's top members, it had returned as a +6.
Considering how drastically success rates drop after +5, that meant that top member really did invest some effort into this staff.
"With the Lux effect, each successful upgrade multiplies the stat scaling by 1.8, right?"
If that's the case, then upgrading isn't a bad idea…
[Guild] SoSleepy: But from +6 on…
[Guild] SoSleepy: Doesn't failing lower the enhancement level?
[Guild] WaterPlease: Yup
[Guild] Haerun: Yeah
[Guild] Haerun: It drops down, lol
[Guild] Staeric: That's why the weapon I'm using now…
[Guild] Staeric: I've gone back and forth between +5→+6→+5→+6 like 10 times, fml
[Guild] Hwasoun: 10 times? 😱
[Guild] TheHunter: Staeric's luck is really garbage though, lol
[Guild] Staeric: Yeah 😭😭
[Guild] Staeric: That +5↔+6 thing is actually merciful
[Guild] Staeric: When I tried going for +8, it dropped all the way back to +5 and I spent a ton of gold 😡
[Guild] WaterPlease: For real, starting from +7 it gets brutal
[Guild] WaterPlease: Trying to get a +9? Be prepared to burn through gold like crazy
Most of the guild members had been playing this game a long time, and it showed—they had plenty of horror stories about upgrade failures. Hearing all that made me even more hesitant to try now.
Sensing my hesitation, Yuchae quickly jumped in to persuade me.
[Guild] Yuchae: Hyung, hyung!
[Guild] Yuchae: You don't have to go all the way to +8.
[Guild] Yuchae: Just try for +7 today, something simple ㅜㅡㅜ
[Guild] Yuchae: You haven't tried enhancing even once yet.
[Guild] SoSleepy: Hm.
[Guild] WaterPlease: Oh, really?
[Guild] WaterPlease: You haven't tried it at all?
[Guild] TheHunter: Then let's gooo
[Guild] TheHunter: You should try it for yourself.
[Guild] LagLaggingHard: Fr, enhancement is pure pain but...
[Guild] LagLaggingHard: Honestly, it is fun lol
[Guild] SpicyMarinatedCrabYum: SO TRUE LOLLLLL
[Guild] SpicyMarinatedCrabYum: It's hilarious content for the one doing it and for spectators
[Guild] MochaBread: Sleepy, are you enhancing solo?!?!
[Guild] MochaBread: Can we watch?!?!
[Guild] Hwasoun: Let's gooo?!?
[Guild] HuntCrazy: Hands up~ ^^
[Guild] Staeric: Hands up~ ^^
Looks like the mood had shifted completely toward enhancement. Well, Yuchae had a point—it was about time I experienced it for myself. And honestly, enhancement is one of the core features of RPGs.
[Guild] SoSleepy: Yeah, sure.
[Guild] SoSleepy: Should I go buy materials now?
To enhance a weapon, you need a few things: enhancement stones, gold, and an enhancement altar.
The altars are usually near the crafting NPCs, but players can also craft and place their own, so there's no need to go hunting one down.
[Guild] Yuchae: Just come here directly.
[Guild] Yuchae: I've already prepared all the materials and the altar ㅎ.ㅎ
[Guild] Yuchae: I'm at the Feroco Lighthouse >ㅡ<
[Guild] Hwasoun: Damn
[Guild] SpicyMarinatedCrabYum: This is insane LOL
[Guild] Staeric: Is this that...
[Guild] Staeric: That "supportive spouse" kind of thing?
[Guild] MochaBread: The #1 player on the server doing wifely support ㄷㄷㄷㄷ
[Guild] WaterPlease: Jealous of Sleepy~ hehe
"..."
My head started to ache, and I rubbed my forehead. I was wondering why Yuchae had gone quiet in chat—and turns out, she was busy prepping for my staff enhancement?
I let out a helpless chuckle and replied:
[Guild] SoSleepy: Seriously…
[Guild] SoSleepy: You should've said something first before prepping.
[Guild] SoSleepy: What if I decided not to do it?
[Guild] Yuchae: Then I'll just wait ㅇㅅㅇ
[Guild] WaterPlease: Exactly.
[Guild] HuntCrazy: That's the mindset of true support LOL
[Guild] Hwasoun: Our guild leader is so supportive…
[Guild] Hwasoun: And Sleepy won't even marry her—how cruel 😭
[Guild] Yuchae: True that.
[Guild] SoSleepy: Please be quiet LOL ffs...
[Guild] WaterPlease: LOLOLOLOLOLOL
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