AWB Chapter 20 The World's Number One Scepter: The Scepter of Eternity
Chapter 20 The World's Number One Scepter: The Scepter of Eternity
Huang Shaotian vanished in a flash of white light, and the system carried out a forced expulsion.
Several pieces of dark gold armor were scattered on the floor tiles.
Lu Yan did not linger and signaled Ling Shuang's team to clean up the battlefield.
Within half an hour, the five people swept through the remaining crystal cluster nests and broken bridge area, packing the materials into storage boxes and rings.
Armored transport vehicles drove into the underground bunker of the Longwei base.
"Thank you for your help." Lu Yan took the heavy storage box from Ling Shuang.
Ling Shuang planted her spear on the ground and nodded simply. "This is what we should do. The materials have been handed over." With that, she led her team to the quartermaster to report back.
Lu Yan hooked his arm around the handle of the box and strode towards the dedicated equipment workshop. The alloy door behind him was completely locked, cutting off any external noise.
Thirteen blank scepter bases, which have been quenched under high pressure, are arranged on the worktable.
In the existing ecosystem of awakened beings, the scepter has always been at the very end of the weapon sequence.
The staff controls elemental explosions, while the greatsword determines physical damage.
The fact that Aura Masters depend on others for survival makes high-end craftsmen reluctant to invest in high-level materials for this type of "assistance".
The screening process, which lasted forty minutes, resulted in only forty-two qualified raw stones being output from the discharge chute.
Team-boosting affixes possess a natural energy exclusivity.
The amount of raw stone extracted from the two hundred pieces of finished specialized equipment was pitifully small.
The six core affixes targeted in this blueprint are extremely broad: increased friendly damage, increased friendly critical hit rate, increased friendly critical hit damage, increased friendly shield regeneration speed, increased maximum shield, and increased movement speed.
Forcibly embedding six distinct aura attributes into the short-axis staff tests the forger's skill in cutting energy frequency bands.
The first scepter was pushed into the hydraulic mold.
The first engraving stone was pushed in.
[Movement speed increased]
The second stone was cut into the groove, and the mold emitted a low-frequency humming sound as the system's transmission was obstructed. Lu Yan increased the downward pressure to force it into place.
A crisp sound rang out, and the white bone staff cracked from its core.
failure.
They failed so early!
Without pausing, Lu Yan continued to clear away the remaining fragments.
The second one is pushed in.
After entering four attributes, it crashed when entering the fifth attribute.
Three hours passed in the blink of an eye.
The damaged equipment is worth approximately 20 million RMB in cash.
Lu Yan stopped what he was doing and checked the logs exported from the backend.
The oven exploded eight times in a row.
"Damn it, keep going!"
The ninth scepter was locked in place. Lu Yan redeployed the engraving stones to arrange their sequence.
The first engraving stone.
[Allied units' maximum shield strength increased by +130%.]
The second one.
[Friendly unit shield regeneration speed increased by +95%.]
Continue pressing.
Friendly units' movement speed increased by 150%.
The fourth one.
[Friendly critical hit damage increased by +200%.]
The last two engraving stones were the most uncertain factors, so Lu Yan took a gamble and simultaneously entered [Increased Critical Hit Rate] and [Increased Damage].
The working surface of the worktable caused a slight high-pulse flicker, which was then quickly bound by a strong gravitational force, drawing all the leaking light deep into the shaft.
The system's announcement echoed throughout the workshop.
[Successfully completed]
[Eternal Scepter (Legendary)]
[Affix 1: Friendly units' movement speed increased by 150%]
[Entry 2: Allied shield regeneration speed increased by +95%]
[Entry 3: Increases the maximum shield of nearby friendly units by +130%]
[Entry 4: Increases the critical hit damage of nearby friendly units by +200%]
[Entry 5: Increases friendly unit critical hit rate by 75%]
[Entry 6: Damage of nearby friendly units greatly increased by +220%]
The dust fell.
Pull out the finished scepter, which is covered in a dark gold color. The scepter is made of high-density obsidian and has an extremely stable physical center of gravity.
The various data displayed in the attribute interface purely showcase the beauty of numerical values.
The world rankings have been quietly updated, with weapons taking the top spot.
[NO.1: The Scepter of Eternity]
[Country/Region of Origin: China]
Owner: Lu Yan
[Job Requirements: Aura/Cleric System]
"Everyone, refresh the overall weapon rankings, quick!"
On the public forum of the Global Awakeners Forum, a bold red post suddenly appeared.
The hundreds of thousands of online users who were originally arguing heatedly about the protest announcement from the White Eagle Empire all clicked on the leaderboard.
The page loaded and then scrolled twice.
Immediately afterwards, the main server of the entire forum almost crashed due to the sudden overload of concurrent access.
The top spot has changed.
"Am I blind or is the ranking list malfunctioning? The world's number one weapon, the required class is listed as Aura Master?"
The replies to the post were scrolling up at a rate of nearly a hundred per second.
The wild boar, displaying the Chinese region's logo, sent three exclamation marks: "Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! Support weapons have reached the top! Is this even possible?!"
"If you look at the attribute details, you'll find it even more unreasonable," a player from the Chinese region replied, casually posting the six gold affixes from the details page.
"Friendly unit movement speed increased by 150%? Friendly unit shield regeneration increased by 95%?"
A player from the White Eagle Empire posted a complaint: "Wait, everyone, look below! Critical hit rate increased by 75%! Critical hit damage increased by 200%! Damage increased by 220%! Are these even meant for human use? I could give this to my grandma, and she could go to the front lines and wreak havoc while leaning on her scepter!"
"This weapon doesn't have even the slightest bit of basic physical or magical attack power; it's just a huge lump of iron! Putting all the equipment's stats into buffing teammates—this person is such a team player!"
A data stream tester who frequents the forum directly posted a screenshot of the formula calculation interface.
"Imagine this: if this support character named Lu Yan, wielding the Eternal Scepter, stood within half a meter of Lin Chuxue, the mage wielding the second-ranked Duel Staff, and with all the aura damage boosts and basic equipment bonuses stacked on top of that, even if Lin Chuxue threw a basic fireball, the estimated damage would skyrocket to over 300,000. Do you think anyone could withstand that?"
The exaggerated starting price of 300,000 was blatantly highlighted at the top.
The foreign players who were analyzing and researching just a few seconds ago have completely fallen silent.
About five or six minutes later, a sarcastic reply appeared, bearing the official guild logo of the White Eagle Empire.
"This is impossible! How could anyone waste massive amounts of early-game core resources to create such a piece of scrap metal with no individual attack or self-defense capabilities? It must be a mistake, a bug!"
Chinese players immediately launched a barrage of mockery.
"Oh, getting impatient, another bug? You can't beat them, so you nitpick and say it's a bug? Do you think this real-life Star Gate Realm is a game where you can just change the data as you please?"
"Stop complaining that the support doesn't have the ability to self-destruct and turn the tables. With this top-tier scepter, he can just stand on the main street of the city and shout to recruit people, and a level 50 top-tier warrior will buy a standing ticket overnight to queue up and become his personal bodyguard. What are you all worrying about?"
"As a seasoned Shield Guardian with eight years of full proficiency, I was moved to tears after seeing these six outrageous affixes. What does it mean to have your maximum shield increased by 130% out of thin air? If I'm ordered to tank a level 50 boss, I'd do it even without pants, just by holding hands with this great Lu Yan!"
"The name 'Eternal Scepter' is too catchy. Does Gabriel from the White Eagle Empire next door still have the nerve to sigh? Forget sighing, just pick it up and use it to power the boiler outside the city."
While everyone on the forum was getting more and more excited, Lu Yan was drooling over the scepter in the equipment room, shaking his head at the staff.