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Chapter 820: Chapter 821 Hatching_1

“The Divine Aversion Bead, you just need to wear it or put it in your bag slot, and it can remove the curse effects of the gods—that’s even more convenient than the Divine Disgust Light Screen!” Song Jian looked at the blueprint in his hand, his face uncontrollably revealing a look of surprise and delight.

Originally Song Jian wanted to obtain the construction method for the Divine Disgust Light Screen, so he could build it in the Magic Crystal Mine to lift the curse of the gods, allowing the miners to safely extract the ore here;

But such a large defensive structure would definitely have an extremely complicated blueprint, and the materials needed for construction would be incredibly rare. Not to mention, the engineering skill level required to construct the Divine Disgust Light Screen would be very high.

Even if he could get his hands on such blueprints, it was likely that he wouldn’t be able to build it anytime soon. The mining project would have to be postponed indefinitely.

However, now that he had the blueprint for the Divine Aversion Bead, the production method was obviously much simpler in comparison to the Divine Disgust Light Screen; the materials were precious but nothing compared to the entire Light Screen;

As for crafting, the Divine Aversion Bead only required a player with an Engineering profession at level 8 in Divine Flame to make it, and many players specializing in the crafting profession in the City of Hope had already reached that level.

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Moreover, the Divine Aversion Bead is akin to an accessory. If employing NPC miners, they just need to wear the bead. If it’s a player, they can directly place it in their bag slot, which is very convenient.

Plus, since this item is tradable, there’s no need to craft too many. He just needs to make a batch, and when the miners need to take over shifts, they can just trade the beads, which is also very handy.

“It’s a pity there’s only one blueprint, better give it to Dr. Ebsiting to master first, then let him teach his disciples,” Song Jian thought for a moment and made a decision;

Dr. Ebsiting could impart his skills to his disciples, so once the doctor learned the manufacturing method for the Divine Aversion Bead, his apprentices would also be able to master it, which would greatly facilitate the production of the beads;

Putting the blueprint back into his bag slot, Song Jian’s gaze fell on the last item. The very reason this chest was of epic grade was because of this piece of equipment—it was an epic-grade item;

“Armageddon Iron Cape (Epic Grade), Cape, Item Level 50, Equipment Effects: Defense +210, Evasion +15, Stealth +30, All Attributes +10, Special Effect 1: Overall defense increased by 50%; Special Effect 2: 20% chance to be immune to the damage from an attack; Special Effect 3: When attacked from behind, defense increased by 500 points, resistance increased by 300 points; Equipment Requirements: Strength 100 points, Agility 80 points; Product Description: This item is a part of the Armageddon King Kruba’s set, and only by collecting all parts of the Armageddon King’s set, can one obtain the set’s properties; Set Collection: 1/6. Can it be taken out of the game: No.”

This piece of equipment was vastly different from the golden-quality Abyssal Shadow cape that Song Jian was currently wearing—practically the two extremes; where the Abyssal Shadow cape’s attributes mostly improved damage, the Iron Cape focused on defense;

The only thing was that the Abyssal Shadow cape’s active skill, Abyssal Phantom, overlapped somewhat with Song Jian’s skill, Solid Clone, and Song Jian’s damage was already high, so he now needed equipment to enhance his defense, hence he didn’t hesitate to equip the cape adorned with iron armor plates.

The Armageddon Iron Cape was no lightweight, almost equivalent to the weight of chainmail, but the defense it provided was even higher than that of a plate armor. Most importantly, if someone tried attacking Song Jian from behind, the cape would instantly provide an additional 500 points of defense and 300 points of resistance, which was even higher than what an epic-grade shield would offer in defense.

What’s more important is that it is a part of a level 50 epic-tier set, which is somewhat more powerful than his current golden-quality set, the Ancestral Ant King set;

The only issue now is that he only has one part of the set, and it looks like it’s going to take quite some time to collect the entire set;

Returning to Dr. Ebsiting’s lab, Song Jian handed over the engineering blueprint to Song Jian, and then assigned Wang Qi the task of collecting Magic Crystals from the Magic Crystal Mine. Just as Song Jian was about to turn around and leave to grind and level up, Wang Qi stopped him;

“Brother Song, I’m planning to hatch this angelic battle pet egg, do you want to come and see?” Wang Qi said with a smile;

“Do battle pet eggs need special hatching?” Song Jian was startled, curiously asking, as both of his battle pets had been hatched quite casually: “Isn’t it enough just to drop blood onto the battle pet egg?”

“Of course, you can’t be that careless. This pet egg you gave me hasn’t been identified yet. It has to be identified before it can be hatched, and using a hatching chamber might even increase the pet’s quality by a certain chance!” Wang Qi shook his head as he spoke;

“Increase the pet quality?” Song Jian was astounded; he had never heard of such a thing before.

“Yeah, but the chance is pretty small, and the higher the quality of the pet, the lower the chance of improving it. I reckon if this is really an angel battle pet egg, it might be quite difficult to increase its quality!” said Wang Qi;

“Then why bother?” Song Jian shook his head, when a sudden inspiration struck him. Grabbing Wang Qi, he asked, “Who came up with this pet hatching?”

“It started with a wandering NPC that came after the City of Hope was established. Rumor has it, he’s a pet master by profession and has opened a pet shop in the city square. Generally, you can buy any common battle pet from that store!” Wang Qi explained;

Since the establishment of the City of Hope, many wandering NPCs had been attracted to the game. These NPCs, most of whom had special talents, enriched the variety of professions in the city. Newly arrived players, if they didn’t like combat professions, could also find life skill professions they liked in the city and learn from the corresponding NPC;

Song Jian nodded his head and walked with Wang Qi towards the city square;

The center of City of Hope, hundreds of meters away from the Camel Square of Doomsday City, was designed by professional urban planners. Walking down the spacious streets, Song Jian felt there was hardly any difference from the real world;

The central square was bustling with noise, with many teams shouting to team up for monster hunting and dungeon raids, and quite a few players even set up street stands on the square with just a piece of black cloth;

Having not really visited since the establishment of the City of Hope, Song Jian found everything fresh and new as he arrived at the central square with Wang Qi, and just then, a familiar voice reached his ears;

“Looking for group for the Jackal Wolfman Cave, level 12 Dark Night Hunter, damage over a hundred!”

Song Jian looked toward the source of the voice, and a solitary figure appeared before his eyes. Seeing him, Song Jian’s heart suddenly sank;

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