Having returned to Chaos City Outer City, Hanks would never have imagined that An Kai could see his every move clearly.
He had planned to pocket all the protection money from Chaos City Outer City while An Kai was away.
Little did he know that An Kai had already classified his actions as helping him gather resources...
An Kai had also made up his mind to head straight to Chaos City Outer City once he left the Mage Tower and demand his share from Hanks.
After all, they had agreed on an eighty-twenty split: eighty percent for An Kai, twenty percent for Hanks.
As for Hanks refusing to pay, going back on his word, or doing anything else that harmed An Kai's interests...
An Kai was not worried. Surely Hanks's bones could not be harder than his [Brute Force Staff]?
Once he finished reading the side story, the forging [Enhancement] had finished as well.
[Enhancement failed]
That was the fifty-third time An Kai had seen this system notification in a single night.
Over the course of the night, An Kai had enhanced the [Water-Breathing Pearl] to [+5]. His [Storage Ring No. 1] and [Storage Ring No. 2] had also been enhanced to [+5]...
But once he reached that point, no matter how hard he tried, he could not reach the [+6] required by the Mage Tower...
Although [Enhancement failed] did not result in anything as infuriating as [Enhancement -1], the Lower-grade Magic Stones were still gone for good.
That night, An Kai had been just like an enhancement-addicted player from his previous life.
He kept enhancing... and enhancing...
Unfortunately, he had wasted fifty-three Lower-grade Magic Stones without a single success.
Glancing at his remaining 4,710 Lower-grade Magic Stones, An Kai muttered, "No more upgrades. I'm running low on