"Don't worry, I've started it over a thousand times in a row and never seen it overheat or malfunction... It'll be fine once I replace the casing someday!" Jiu Ming said with a beaming smile. Seeing the word Success appear on the small screen, he unhesitatingly pressed the start button again!
The music shifted between cheerful and somber. As long as there was no sound of parts being crushed to pieces, there was nothing to worry about!
"Mm-hmm! It's already +1. Want to try again? The improvement from +1 to +11 is the sum of all the increases from +1 to +10!" Rubbing his hands together, Jiu Ming said to Watatsuki no Toyohime with a gentle smile. He had never seen what happened when a high-grade item enhancement failed. Anyway, when trash-tier goods failed and shattered, they simply became a heap of useless scrap metal—there was not even any possibility of recycling them.
"What about +12?" After testing the pistol's power, Watatsuki no Toyohime found that at the same cost, the spirit bullets it fired were indeed stronger than before. Moreover, the additional power seemed to possess a peculiar lethality that could ignore an object's defensive capabilities. What an impressive machine... even if it was rather battered.
"Mm, it still increases based on the total from +1 to +11. The same goes for +13. As for +14, I've never had a successful example, so I don't know."
"I see. Not bad. This time, I'll do it!" Watatsuki no Yorihime stuffed the pistol back into the enhancement slot and, copying Jiu Ming, pressed the start button. As she listened to the machine's humming, she continued, "And if it fails? Does it still drop the enhancement level you mentioned?" She certainly would not mention that there was an emergency stop button on