I'd never fought with this much at my disposal!

"Now all we're missing is a few skillbooks."

Thinking of Ye Xiu's talent, [All-Class Enhancement], Yi Tian couldn't help feeling tremendous anticipation for its ability to supercharge skill effects.

Just how powerful could a god-tier class's enhancements be?

However, the Freelancer class had no starting skills. For now, Ye Xiu could only learn skills through skillbooks.

Most skillbooks came from dungeons and secret realms, and their drop rates were extremely low. Still, some were sold on the trading platform established by Qingcheng's authorities.

The problem was that neither Yi Tian nor Ye Xiu had any money! One was a poor high school student, while the other had just left his guild without a penny to his name.

"No problem. Let's ask Elder Wei!"

Yi Tian thought of him without hesitation. With the nation's stockpiles, surely providing a few skillbooks would be easy. They were partners, after all.

With that thought, Yi Tian prepared to take Ye Xiu to Wei Yuan's office.

As the man in overall charge, Wei Yuan had originally worked in Xingcheng, the only large city in East China.

Ever since discovering Yi Tian, he had personally taken on the role of Yi Tian's guardian and moved to Qingcheng.

With the Medium Secret Realm about to open, he had set up his office in Qingcheng's City Lord's Mansion, only a few hundred meters from Green Mountain Apartments.

"You're here."

Noticing Yi Tian enter his office, Wei Yuan put down his pen and pushed over a large equipment case beside him.

This was the set of equipment Wei Yuan had promised Yi Tian so he could protect himself.

Yi Tian opened it curiously, and golden light blazed out!

A complete Legendary set!

Armor, bracers, greaves, boots, and a helmet-five pieces of equipment, their silver wolf-head motifs gleaming in the golden light, powerful yet elegant.

It was the [Heavenly Wolf Set], a set with exceptionally strong defenses.

Although he had expected anything provided by the nation to be extraordinary, he hadn't imagined they would give him an entire set of Legendary equipment!

After all, Great Xia was currently suffering from a shortage of resources.

It had to guard against Evil Demons while contending with the various Other Races, and wars broke out constantly. Even without knowing the specifics of the fighting, Yi Tian knew Great Xia had long been spending more than it brought in.

The secret realms plundered by the Other Races over the years alone were no small loss.

Fewer secret realms meant lower resource production for Great Xia, making high-quality equipment difficult to forge.

Even Wei Yuan probably couldn't put together a complete Legendary set for himself.

But Yi Tian didn't fuss over it. If it was something he should accept, he would accept it.

"Thank you."

He knew his own value.

It was only a set of Legendary equipment. Yi Tian was confident he could earn back a hundred times its worth.

-As an excellent boss, he wouldn't let his partners take a loss.

Wei Yuan then added, "By the way, Hidden Dragon Base in Central China and the East China military are forming two pioneering teams to tackle tomorrow's Medium Secret Realm."

"They want to recruit Bai Qiu Li and Wan Jiang for their respective teams... I thought I'd ask your opinion first."

Hidden Dragon Base!?

Yi Tian was certainly familiar with that name. It was Great Xia's renowned special squad division.

Hidden Dragon Base had three or four special squads on standby, all composed of elite class holders with Epic Quality classes or higher.

They specialized in carrying out special missions for Great Xia and responding to urgent or critical enemy threats.

They could be considered a special organization among government-affiliated class holders.

With this Medium Secret Realm appearing, they had presumably come to help prevent hostile forces from seizing it.

Yi Tian hadn't expected Bai Qiu Li's reputation to have reached Hidden Dragon Base already. But he had decided to form his own team, so he had no reason to agree.

"I've also decided to form a team to tackle the secret realm."

Yi Tian rejected both requests outright. "Bai Qiu Li, Wan Jiang, Jiang Che... they're all on my team."

"You lot?"

Wei Yuan froze for a moment. He hadn't expected that at all, because Yi Tian and the others were simply too low-level.

At their levels, probably not a single one of them could withstand the attacks of the secret realm's monsters.

But seeing how resolute Yi Tian looked, he didn't discourage him. Instead, he asked,

"Have you made up your mind?"

"Yes."

"It's good to be young..."

Wei Yuan sounded envious. Even he had never attempted to challenge a Medium Secret Realm with a difficulty approaching tier 3 from tier 2 when he was only in his teens level-wise.

Of course, that was also because, in his youth, he could never have gathered so many Legendary-class teammates to form a team.

"All right. I'll turn them down, then."

Wei Yuan respected Yi Tian's decision, even though he wasn't optimistic about it.

After all, the secret realm would open in just one day. The level gap would be far too difficult to make up.

At that point, Yi Tian brought up his main reason for coming: he wanted some low-tier skillbooks.

Both Great Xia's military treasury and East China's Logistics Department kept some skillbooks in stock, but they normally had to be exchanged for military merits or contribution points.

Wei Yuan, however, readily agreed.

"It's only a few low-tier skillbooks. No problem."

Soon, Wei Yuan brought Yi Tian and Ye Xiu to the Logistics Department.

The Logistics Department was East China's official logistics division. It handled supplies of equipment and materials for the government military, reward exchanges for class holders who had contributed to East China, and so on...

With Wei Yuan leading the way, Yi Tian and Ye Xiu followed a silver-white, futuristic corridor to the [Skillbook Repository].

"The tier 0 and tier 1 skillbooks are here. There just aren't many high-quality ones," Wei Yuan said, pointing.

High-quality skillbooks had an even lower drop rate than the odds of awakening a high-quality class, so the Logistics Department had very few of them.

Ye Xiu tactfully said in a calm voice, "The lowest-level skillbooks are all I need."

All his skills would be enhanced anyway. Even low-level skills would be powerful in his hands!

With that expectation, he soon found a basic skillbook on one of the Skillbook Repository's shelves.

[Basic Healing Spell: restores a small amount of health to a single ally; restricted to priests.]

Seeing Ye Xiu take a skillbook for what was practically the weakest skill available, Wei Yuan looked puzzled.

He thought Ye Xiu might be embarrassed to take anything better while he was watching... so he simply turned away.

Since he had promised Yi Tian, he naturally wouldn't be stingy.

But neither Ye Xiu nor Yi Tian was thinking about any of that. Right now, both were desperate to see...

Just how far could all-class enhancement boost a skill's effects?

Ye Xiu immediately used the skillbook. It dissolved into a faint grayish-white light that flowed into his body, and the next instant, the skill underwent a complete transformation.

[All-Class Enhancement-Healing Spell has been enhanced into: "Holy Oracle Awakening"!]

[Holy Healing Awakening: instantly restores an enormous amount of health to all nearby allies, removes all negative status effects, and grants a layer of 'Life Shield' and 'Divine Blessing'.]

(Life Shield: provides a shield equal to 50% of health. Health will not change until the shield breaks.)

(Divine Blessing: increases attack power and speed by 20% for 2 minutes.)

"Holy shit!?"

Yi Tian and Ye Xiu were both overwhelmed with excitement, barely able to contain themselves.

After all-class enhancement, an ordinary-quality, low-level skill seemed even stronger than a Legendary skill!

With this one skill alone, Ye Xiu could practically become Qingcheng's top healer.

Looking at the dozen or so rows of skillbook shelves before him, nearly every one packed with books, Ye Xiu froze, feeling almost dazed.

I'd never fought with this much at my disposal!