Heavenburn · Flamefire Saint Ring!

Lin Mo had just finished killing three hundred goblins and returned to Cloudside Town.

He was about to head to the Class Advancement Hall to turn in his quest and advance his class.

As he passed the smithy, he happened to witness the scene that had just unfolded.

He had thought Ling Xiao would strike a deal with Wang Junjie.

Instead, Ling Xiao's response surprised him a little.

Not bad, kid. You've got backbone!

Looks like I underestimated you!

Without quite realizing it, Lin Mo had begun to take a liking to Ling Xiao.

Meanwhile, the conversation between the two seemed to have given Lin Mo a few clues.

They seem to have some sort of bet going, and the condition for winning is reaching level 10 first?

How did two people from completely different social circles end up making a bet?

Interesting. Very interesting!

Lin Mo was starting to get curious!

He quietly opened his flashing mailbox and retrieved the equipment Ling Xiao had sent him.

When he saw that the crafted Flame Ring was blue quality, his eyes lit up.

This kid's pretty lucky!

Yet the higher its quality, the more regret Lin Mo felt.

Because...

A level 10, tier 2 blue-quality ring is worth quite a bit on the market right now! Using it as a base for evolution is such a waste!

With his SSS-rank talent, Soulfire, Lin Mo actually preferred his base equipment to be as worthless as possible.

After all, it could all be evolved to gold quality in the end, and it would become bound.

If it started out as a worthless piece of white-quality trash, he would have no qualms about it.

But right now, he had no other choice.

Lin Mo needed this tier 2 ring to take on Cloudside Town's boss, the Spider Queen!

So, as he headed toward the Class Advancement Hall, Lin Mo began evolving the Flame Ring.

[Ding! Evolving the level 10, tier 2 blue-quality equipment, Flame Ring, requires 80 Equipment Evolution Points. Proceed?]

"Tsk, evolving tier 2 equipment really costs a lot!" Looking at his remaining hundred-odd evolution points, Lin Mo frowned slightly.

Still, this was hardly an obstacle for him.

He opened the regional chat channel and typed-

[Mo Shou Cheng Gui] (male, level 10, No. 1 on the Heaven Ranking): "Buying beginner equipment for 10 yuan apiece. No limit. Mail it directly!"

For ordinary players, beginner equipment ultimately ended up being sold to the shop for a buyback price of one copper coin.

At the official 1:1 exchange rate, that was worth just one yuan.

With Lin Mo offering ten yuan, plenty of people were willing to sell, even though it was only a tenth of his initial offer of a hundred yuan!

After all, six or seven hours had passed since the servers opened, and equipment prices were dropping all the time!

And so, shortly after he sent the message, Lin Mo's mailbox began flashing like crazy!

At ten yuan per piece, Lin Mo rapidly retrieved the equipment.

In no time at all, he had collected over two thousand pieces!

Although he had spent over twenty thousand yuan.

What he got in return after incinerating them was a total of 2,145 Equipment Evolution Points!

"Mm, that'll definitely be enough to evolve the Flame Ring to gold!" Lin Mo nodded in satisfaction.

Then he began evolving the Flame Ring.

[Ding! 80 evolution points consumed. Congratulations, your equipment, Flame Ring, has evolved to purple quality!]

[Ding! 160 evolution points consumed. Congratulations, your equipment, Flame Ring, has evolved to orange quality!]

[Ding...]

[Ding! 640 evolution points consumed. Congratulations, your equipment, Flame Ring, has evolved to gold quality! Your equipment has reached the highest quality and cannot evolve further!]

He had poured a full 1,200 evolution points into it altogether-the equivalent of 12,000 yuan!

Lin Mo felt the sting.

But the moment he saw the evolved ring's stats.

All his reluctance vanished in an instant-

[Heavenburn · Flamefire Saint Ring] (Lv10):

Quality: tier 2 · gold

Attack: 360

Bonus stats: strength +70, agility +70

Special effect: Soulburn (the wearer's attacks burn the enemy's soul, dealing 200 burn damage per second for 3 seconds)

Description: Your butt's on fire...

"Look at that attack!"

"Those bonus stats!!"

"That special effect!!!"

"Whoa..." Lin Mo could not help drawing in a sharp breath. "Tier 2 gold equipment is seriously insane!!"

Thrilled.

Lin Mo eagerly replaced the level 5, tier 1 gold-quality [Demonized · Holy Light Ring] on his hand with this level 10, tier 2 gold-quality [Heavenburn · Flamefire Saint Ring].

He opened his status window.

His attack had instantly skyrocketed from 386 to a terrifying 758!

"Once I finish my class advancement and improve my stat growth, my attack should reach around 800."

Compared against the Spider Queen's 480 defense again.

He was far ahead!

"Looks like keeping my weapon at orange quality will be enough. I don't even need to evolve it to gold. With my current attack, I can go kill the Spider Queen!"

He incinerated the bound [Demonized · Holy Light Ring] he had removed, gaining 158 Equipment Evolution Points.

Meanwhile, Lin Mo's mailbox was still flashing.

He happily accepted everything.

Since evolving equipment later would require a steady supply of evolution points, he naturally had to buy more while players had yet to dump their beginner equipment into the shop, building up a reserve for when he needed it.

Next, Lin Mo arrived at the Class Advancement Hall.

He found the beautiful archer instructor, Silina, and initiated a conversation.

"Instructor, I've completed the quest!"

Silina's deep, clear, elfin eyes rested quietly on Lin Mo, and she gave a slight nod of approval.

But when she saw the combat record Lin Mo submitted, a trace of shock appeared in her eyes.

"You... actually killed so many monsters whose strength was on par with yours?"

"It seems you'll become an outstanding archer!"

Lin Mo smiled. "Thank you for the praise, Instructor!"

As soon as Silina finished speaking.

A pleasant system notification sounded in Lin Mo's ears:

[Ding! Congratulations on completing the class advancement quest, Archery Assessment. You have officially advanced to-Apprentice Archer! Rewards: skill slots +1, Silina's affinity +1! Because you exceeded the class advancement quest requirements, Silina greatly acknowledges your strength, granting an additional +9 affinity!]

[Ding! Congratulations, your affinity level with archer instructor Silina has risen to level 1. As the first player across all servers to reach affinity level 1 with an archer instructor, you receive a special reward: skill slots +3!]

[Ding! Level cap raised to 30. Stat growth improved: 1 strength = 1.3 attack! 1 endurance = 1.1 physical defense + 1 magic defense! 1 constitution = 15 HP! 1 spirit = 7 MP!]

The next second, a loud system announcement descended from above, resounding throughout Cloudside Town-

[System announcement] (Cloudside Town): "Ding! Congratulations to player Mo Shou Cheng Gui on completing his class advancement. As the first player in Cloudside Town, Beginner Village No. 116 on the Great Xia server, to reach level 10 and complete class advancement, he receives the first-place rewards on the Leveling Leaderboard: 100,000 yuan in cash! Lottery draws +3! Reputation +100! Title acquired: [Leveling Maniac]!"

As expected.

The moment that announcement went out.

Cloudside Town erupted yet again!