Brilliant Backpack Level: 10 Quality: brilliant Slots: 99 Stack limit: 99
With 99 slots and a stack limit of 99 per slot, it could hold 9,801 units of resources.
This result far exceeded Zhou Heng's expectations.
Originally, Zhou Heng had thought a backpack with 20 slots and a stack limit of 20 would be the best he could get.
He had never imagined that simply handing over a Yellow Crane cigarette would get him a brilliant-quality backpack with 99 slots and a stack limit of 99.
"I thought I was quite a gambler, but it seems there's always someone who takes it further~" Zhou Heng couldn't help chuckling.
Now that this thing was in his hands, there was no way he was giving it back.
This backpack would serve him for a long time in the Boundless Endless World.
"Next, I just need to hide and wait until two in the morning."
As he considered this, Zhou Heng glanced at his stats panel.
Over the two hours he had spent going back and forth, he had recovered only 2 mana.
Without enough mana-restoring supplies, who knew how long it would take him to refill his 60 mana.
Zhou Heng found a relatively comfortable place to hide, and soon it was around two in the morning.
"It's almost time. How many resources I get this time will depend on how capable the people attacking the Black Bear Guild are!" Timing his departure, Zhou Heng headed toward the Black Bear Guild's resource outpost.
According to Fate Hint Two, he had only half an hour. Subtracting the travel time there and back, he might actually have only fifteen to twenty minutes left. As long as he moved quickly, he would definitely be able to harvest plenty of resources.
At 1:58 a.m., Zhou Heng arrived at the Black Bear Guild's resource outpost and found it brightly lit. He could faintly hear hearty laughter from inside, as though they had discovered something incredible.
Zhou Heng made no move. He hid in a small patch of grass in the distance, holding his breath and focusing as he waited.
Just then, deep in the darkness beyond Zhou Heng's sight, three figures in pitch-black mage robes appeared on the branches of a tree.
"They used an overt operation to conceal their real one. There's a reason the Black Bear Guild managed to spread across most of the Sakas Empire in just a hundred years."
"Unfortunately, for all their calculations, they never realized that everything was within our grasp."
"Let's move. We only have half an hour. We must take the items before the Black Bear Guild's powerful players arrive."
As the leader of the three black-robed figures spoke, he glanced sidelong at Zhou Heng hiding in the grass and chuckled.
"To think there's even a reserve member of our organization here. He's certainly bold, but... never mind~"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~
Suddenly, fierce winds howled through the Black Bear Guild's resource outpost.
"Who's there?"
"Damn it, we're under attack! Under attack~"
"Who are you? Why are you attacking our Black Bear Guild? Aren't you afraid of enraging our guild's higher-ups?"
Zhou Heng didn't know what had happened at the Black Bear Guild's resource outpost, but from far away, he heard Black Bear Ba's furious, flustered shouts.
Then firelight, watery blue light, and howling winds erupted everywhere.
Here's my chance!
A sharp gleam flashed in Zhou Heng's eyes. Keeping to the edge of the Black Bear Guild's resource outpost, he slipped inside under cover of night while the guild members were too occupied with the fierce fighting to notice.
[You have entered the Black Bear Guild's Resource Vault] [Verifying identity...] [You are a Black Bear Guild member. You have received a temporary guild quest] [Protect the Black Bear Guild's resources from infringement. Transfer as many resources from the Black Bear Guild's resource point as possible] [Quest reward: for every 1 silver coin's worth of resources saved, receive 1 copper coin (funds credited instantly; takes effect upon placing resources in your backpack)]
Zhou Heng was dumbfounded.
He had seen people give money away, but never like this.
If putting things into his backpack made it take effect immediately, how much could he rake in on this trip with the Brilliant Backpack in hand?
Zhou Heng didn't know, but he knew that every extra second he spent thinking now was money slipping away!
Zhou Heng scanned the Black Bear Guild's Resource Vault. His gaze first settled on the innermost area, where three items sat on raised displays.
Zhou Heng couldn't spare the time to look, nor did he have time to examine them. He rushed forward and swept all three items into the Brilliant Backpack.
[You have stored the skill "Raging Waves"] [You have stored the weapon "Great Sun Divine Bow (fake)"] [You have stored the unknown item "Ceramic Shard"] [You have stored resources worth 3 gold coins. Reward: 3 silver coins]
Seeing the 3 silver coins credited instantly, Zhou Heng suppressed his delight and continued looting resources useful to him.
[You have stored the resource "Small Mana Bottle" x1,000] [You have stored the resource "Small Mana Potion" x5,000] [You have stored resources worth over 150,000 copper coins. Reward: 150 copper coins]
1,000 copper coins equaled 1 silver coin, and 1,000 silver coins equaled 1 gold coin.
Although he didn't know why the two rewards differed, Zhou Heng didn't care. All that mattered was getting the resources. That little bit of money was a pittance compared with the resources he had harvested.
Zhou Heng's backpack had 9,801 slots. After subtracting the 6,000 slots occupied by the mana-restoring potions he had harvested and the three initial items, he could still harvest another 3,798 slots' worth of resources.
But just as Zhou Heng was about to continue harvesting, he instinctively checked the time and discovered he had already been inside for over twenty minutes. If he kept harvesting, he definitely wouldn't have time to escape.
Without hesitating, Zhou Heng decisively abandoned filling the remaining 3,798 slots and fled out of the Black Bear Guild's resource outpost.
Shortly after Zhou Heng left, Black Bear Ba charged into the resource outpost. Seeing the three missing items in the innermost area, he roared in uncontrollable fury.
"Damn it! Damn it!"
"The resources I worked so hard to farm! Who was it... who..."
"Sword of Light, one day I'll kill you all~"
Zhou Heng jogged all the way to the Blazing Flame Spring. Only after confirming that no one had followed him did he relax and examine the spoils in his backpack.
Raging Waves Quality: complex Consumes 50 mana to summon water elementals and unleash "Raging Waves," launching a wave attack directly ahead that deals damage at a multiplier of magic x2.0. Wave: 2 meters high, 5 meters wide Cooldown: 15s Learning requirement one: water mage Learning requirement two (ordinary grade): Water Attribute Reduction 100 Learning requirement three (complex grade): read the Water Ripple Codex in full 3 times
The higher a skill's quality, the harder it was to learn. Zhou Heng had learned that from his textbooks long ago.
But he had never imagined that even a mere complex-quality skill book would be this difficult.
Leaving aside the 100 Water Attribute Reduction, Zhou Heng remembered that the Water Ripple Codex alone was in Radiant City, one of the Sakas Empire's nine major cities, and also required a certain number of contribution points.
In other words, to learn this skill, he would not only have to meet the Water Attribute Reduction requirement, but also go to Radiant City to grind stats.
For Zhou Heng as he was now, this skill was as good as nothing. His gaze naturally shifted to the second item.
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