Chapter 2662

She gave him a once-over, then chuckled lightly: "Are you Qiyue or my lord?"

She was also an old resident, having joined Zhao Chi's faction from the very beginning, belonging to the same batch as Yang Lu and the other team leaders.

Strictly speaking, her seniority was even older than Qiyue's, and her relationship with Zhao Chi was also very good.

Zhao Chi smiled: "Right now I'm both Qiyue and Zhao Chi."

Li Zhu and the other female carpenters immediately paid their respects, then said: "My lord has come to make wooden carts again?"

Zhao Chi smiled: "This time it's different. By the way, these Swift-Work Talismans are for you; you should start special training too."

"Eh?" Li Zhu said in surprise: "My lord wants us to start mass-producing wooden carts? Are you going to sell them?"

Zhao Chi said: "Selling wooden carts is also a pretty good business, but we don't need to yet. We do need to make more wooden carts though. But what we'll need most afterward is having you craft Holy Staves, and in the future you'll need to make Spirit Staves."

"Wow~ Isn't that very critical work?" Li Zhu's eyes changed.

Zhao Chi smiled: "Indeed very critical, so these Swift-Work Talismans are for you—200 each. First use ordinary wood to craft Holy Staves and raise your specialization a bit."

Li Zhu nodded: "Understood, but we don't have many people right now. Do we need to recruit more?"

Previously, all such matters were coordinated by Gu Qing.

But now Gu Qing wasn't here, so Li Zhu simply asked Zhao Chi directly.

Zhao Chi said: "No need for now. After all, the source of Tier-3 wood hasn't been resolved yet, and Xia Jing and Shen Lian's side also need to recruit more. You should focus on raising your own skills first."

Li Zhu said happily: "Understood. I feel like we're about to be valued."

Zhao Chi smiled: "We've always valued you."

Apart from making furniture, Li Zhu and her carpenters had also been making ordinary wooden carts all along.

They also coordinated with Fang Li's construction team, producing lumber for construction every day.

Actually, they were very busy too.

Li Zhu received the Swift-Work Talismans from Zhao Chi and quickly distributed them to the female carpenters.

Zhao Chi and Qiyue then began crafting Holy Staves.

As before, during his first craft, Zhao Chi had absolutely no specialization, so he made it very slowly.

By slowing down the crafting speed, he raised the crafting quality.

The crafting method for Holy Staves was completely different from other equipment.

The steps and techniques differed greatly.

Besides wood, a Spirit Energy Stone was also needed as an auxiliary material.

The Spirit Energy Stone didn't need to be large—just about the size of a grape would do, much smaller even than a small Spirit Energy Stone.

After previous battles, Zhao Chi had accumulated over a thousand small Spirit Energy Stones seized as spoils, which he could now put to use.

One small Spirit Energy Stone could supply five Spirit Staves.

The cost wasn't too high, all things considered.

But the crafting process needed to be slowed down.

Despite being very careful, Zhao Chi only produced rough-quality items.

After all, his specialization was 0.

No matter—there was still plenty of time.

On the third try, he finally produced a standard-quality Holy Staff.

【Name】Holy Staff

【Quality】Standard

【Durability】20

【Attributes】Spiritual Power +10, Healing and Protection spiritual technique effects +5%

【Description】A common standard Holy Staff that increases spiritual power and the might of healing and protection spiritual techniques—an indispensable piece of equipment for healing and defense users.

Zhao Chi looked at the wooden staff in his hand.

After crafting, it had changed from an ordinary wooden stick into a "walking stick."

It really looked like a walking stick.

The bottom roughly 50 centimeters was still a straight wooden rod, but the upper part grew thicker and thicker, then suddenly rounded off at the very top, where a sparkling miniature Spirit Energy Stone was set.

Besides looking like a walking stick, it also resembled a giant, elongated water droplet.

The Holy Staff had no attack power in its attributes, but it could increase spiritual power and spiritual technique effects.

Once equipped, it allowed two extra uses of basic spiritual techniques, and with greater might.

Truly worthy of a magic-type piece of equipment.

Then let's improve it right away.

【Please choose improvement direction】

【Holy Staff Improvement Points】20

【One, General Type】

「1, Spiritual Power 5」10 points

「2, Spirit Recovery 20%」5 points

「3, Durability 10」2 points

【Two, Healing Type】

「4, Effect 10%」10 points

「5, Spirit Cost -10%」5 points

「6, Range 10%」2 points

【Three, Protection Type】

"7. Effect +10%" 10 points

"8. Spiritual Power Cost -10%" 5 points

"9. Range +15%" 2 points

So many?

Improving staves is quite complicated.

But after Zhao Chi looked through it carefully, he found that although there were many options, most of them he had seen before.

When strengthening Mages and Healers, there was also an enhancement interface.

The options were very similar.

But the more of these things the better; being similar didn't matter, as long as they could be improved.

Right now Zhao Chi hadn't unlocked the Defense-type units yet, so the Defense category didn't need to be looked at at all.

Just look at the General category directly.

First is increasing spiritual power.

This Holy Staff didn't increase a percentage of spiritual power, but a specific numerical value.

Each level of enhancement could increase spiritual power by 5 points.

It seemed like a very low number, but this could be considered a base value, and could be affected by most spiritual power-type bonuses.

Moreover, an ordinary person's spiritual power was 100 points, so this 5-point value could already be compared to 5%.

Of course, the value added in the later stages might not be as much as a percentage bonus.

But this option was also very worth maxing out.

Next was spiritual power recovery speed.

This wasn't as important.

After all, with the Carefree Spring's existence, there was already a 275% spiritual power recovery speed bonus, and even if maxed out, spiritual power recovery speed still wouldn't be that fast.

Spiritual power recovery speed was related to Intelligence.

Generally speaking, recovering full spiritual power took about 1 day or so.

It had nothing to do with sleeping.

It was only related to time.

Even if all the Mystic Maiden Ruler fragments were reset to spiritual power recovery speed, plus the Carefree Spring's spiritual power recovery speed.

Squeezing all bonuses to the absolute limit.

Under these circumstances, to recover full spiritual power, it still took 1-2 hours.

This speed was actually already extremely fast.

But during combat, time was usually very urgent; there really wasn't time to slowly recover spiritual power, and it all relied on eating spiritual power medicines.