MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter - Chapter 990

Chapter 990: Chapter 990: The Language of Equipment Runes Chapter 990: Chapter 990: The Language of Equipment Runes Li Yao saw several special runes on a desktop, which differed from the inscription for skill enhancement and the runes for acquiring skills.

For instance, the Dragon Roar Skill that Li Yao acquired involved imprinting certain runes in his mind to create a specific effect, a mature rune language.

The physical manifestation of runes resembled small runes like gemstones.

Indeed, many gemstones that were embedded were cut into specific rune forms, and each rune had unique attributes and functions.

And if arranged in combination, they could exhibit very wondrous qualitative changes.

However, the rune language of equipment could only be realized on Gray Equipment.

Indeed, because the equipment itself had corresponding attributes and magic operation paths, the embedded gemstones could only obtain basic attributes, without the combined effects of the rune language.

The rune language of equipment also started to appear from level forty as a new way to acquire Epic Equipment.

Monsters of boss level or higher above level forty had a chance to drop Rune Stones, which were of many types.

Later, people even ranked them based on their rarity.

Furthermore, the combination of rune languages required players to explore and research on their own, or to learn fragmented layouts from ancient books or NPC’s.

This was also a method many players who couldn’t complete team dungeons used to upgrade their equipment.

The top players were particularly fond of the rune language, and after years of research and summary, players had deduced countless combinations, some even comparable to Divine Artifacts.

Of course, to combine effects akin to Divine Artifact equipment required very rare Rune Stones from later in the list and also appropriate Epic Equipment substrate, namely the Gray Junk Equipment.

Gray Junk Equipment before level forty wasn’t much use, mostly thrown into shops, but after level forty, depending on the number and arrangement of sockets, the price could even surpass that of Epic Grade Equipment.

There were even those who learned equipment crafting specifically for producing Gray Equipment, aiming to create multi-socket Gray Equipment.

In his previous life, Li Yao, as a lonely ranger constantly pursued, had relied on the rune language to obtain equipment not inferior to that of top players.

Especially in the later stages of his previous life, Li Yao’s archery improved along with his skill interruption, and he had become very adept at soloing some bosses, gaining quite a few Rune Stones.

Mingling personal experiments with experiences summarized by other players on forums, although he was not a grandmaster, he remembered many excellent combinations, and copying them posed no problems whatsoever.

On a nearby table were placed some damaged Gray Equipment and some cracked low-level Rune Stones.

Li Yao looked at a few runes and many excellent combinations already emerged in his mind. Then he walked directly to the table, picked up the last piece of Gray Equipment, and the few remaining Rune Stones.

The Gray Equipment was a helmet with three sockets. Li Yao thought for a moment and clicked three Rune Stones into the helmet, then used the Rune Pen to draw a sinister pattern directly on it.

Then the gray helmet flashed a dim gray light, and although it remained gray, it was vastly different from before.

Seeing Li Yao’s actions, everyone else was stunned, their faces dramatically changing.

“Holy shit, you’re crazy, you’re trying to kill us all,” Ling Feng shouted fiercely, and then immediately kicked Li Yao out of the team.

And that NPC also screamed shrilly, her voice incredibly sharp, constantly changing, “You, what have you done, how could this happen, how could this happen, impossible, impossible…”

Ling Feng hastily said, “Master, he has nothing to do with us, it’s not our fault.”

The others’ expressions changed; the last time they had encountered a disaster because a kitten got curious and tampered with a device, the Master had flown into a rage, and their mission had almost failed.

Now that Li Yao was tampering with things, he was certainly doomed. But for Ling Feng to kick Li Yao out of the team, that seemed too harsh.

“How can you do this? He didn’t mean to,” said the kitten, who although annoyed by Li Yao, was a really good person and bluntly the first to defend him.

“You’ve gone too far,” said the indifferent Xia, frowning at Ling Feng and directly inviting Li Yao to join the team.

Seeing that Li Yao had not accepted, the others also began to urge Li Yao to join the team.

“Have you all gone mad? Because of him, our mission may fail; can we not make a fuss, please?” Ling Feng argued with rightful indignation.

Just then, the Dwarf released the equipment and grabbed Li Yao.

Ling Feng sneered. This was a super boss; at this phase, players had no chance to resist. However, the next scene completely petrified him. The rest were also utterly dumbstruck.

“Quick, tell me how you did it, tell me!” the Dwarf said excitedly.

Li Yao breathed a sigh of relief and said lightly, “Master, can we calm down a bit?”

“Cough cough, I was too excited. Dear friend, could you please enlighten me? I would be eternally grateful,” the Dwarf said, still very excited.

Li Yao looked troubled and said, “You might not know of my fondness for engineering. Look at this, this…”

As he spoke, Li Yao continuously fiddled with the hat in his hands, unable to let go of his beloved clothes.

Immediately, the Dwarf waved his hand, “I’ll give you this hat in exchange for an explanation.”

The others could already see the attributes of this hat.

Actually, its attributes were average, but it had a special effect, boosting all vocational skill levels by +1 (effective only for those below master level).

This was practically a Divine Artifact for vocational players, and yet they had seen that it was just Gray Junk Equipment.

“You are too kind, Master,” Li Yao said slickly, stowing the hat in his own backpack. “Actually, you were not wrong in your research direction, Master. It’s just that you placed the wrong Rune Stone. Using Ael would be more suitable, and if you want to level up, you need a higher-grade Divine Ael Rune Stone. Also, the rune path is crucial, it should be done like this,”. Li Yao drew a simple sketch of the rune positions and connection pathways with a Rune Pen.

“I see, I see,” the Dwarf looked at the drawing as if it were a treasure, then carefully put it away and said earnestly, “Friend, how about you help me study the language of runes? I promise you won’t regret it.”

Li Yao hesitated, “I’m helping you complete the task for Tristram, I’m more interested in that.”

“So, that’s why they completed the second step so quickly. With you, I’m even more confident we’ll achieve our goal,” the Dwarf Master said excitedly, waving his hand and immediately assigning Li Yao the third step of the mission: “From here on, cooperate well with this Master. The rewards you deserve will naturally not be withheld.”

The Dwarf Master handed a fully intact key glowing with a dark golden light to Li Yao.

“Master, this is our task…” Ling Feng stammered, hurriedly speaking up.

The Dwarf Master’s expression changed. “You completed it, without this Master, you would be completing tasks for the Undead. I told you to cooperate with him on my assignment. Of course, if you do not wish to follow, you are free to leave. The reward for the second step was already given to you. Dear friend, the task is yours then.”

Li Yao took the key, nodding his head.

Ling Feng was completely dumbfounded; he had just kicked Li Yao out of the team…