Chapter 199: Lord Amber Doesn't Want to Go Back, Meow!

"If it's only 50 points of health, there's no need to set up camp to rest."

After the two finished playing around, Yun Mu looked at her health and thought.

After all, she has the trait 【High-Speed Regeneration】, which restores thirty percent of her health every time she enters the next area.

Thirty percent of eighty is twenty-four; fifty points of health is just a matter of two areas.

Even if an accident happens, she has the active skill 【Mechanical Heart】 from the artwork 【Mechanical Heart】, which can provide her with thirty extra points of health and trigger an Energy Shield when her health is low.

There is absolutely nothing to worry about in terms of safety.

Compared to her health, what she cares about more at this moment is, indeed... Yun Mu raised her palm and gently stroked the place where Lucy had bitten her while drinking her blood just now.

The wound there had long since healed; in fact, she hadn't felt any pain even while being fed upon.

Of course, she wasn't concerned about that, but rather: 【Your blood has flowed into the spring water of the 【Wishing Well】, and the 【Wishing Well】 has temporarily remembered your aura.】 【When you are active in a Dungeon, there will be a higher probability of encountering the 【Wishing Well】 event.】 She didn't expect to complete Option 4 at that time; she didn't know whether to call this higher probability of encountering the Wishing Well event a good thing or a bad thing.

After all, this kind of gambling-natured thing is quite a pitfall.

Whether you can make a profit depends entirely on luck, and the amount required for each draw doubles; once the number of times increases, it leads to a large amount of Gold Coins becoming a sunk cost, though there is a probability of making a profit.

As long as you control your hands and invest a few Gold Coins to try your luck before the amount doubles to an exaggerated level, it is not a bad choice.

"Alright, the rest is enough, let's continue moving forward."

Yun Mu took a deep breath, stood up, and looked at Lucy and Eve as she spoke.

They had already stayed in this area for nearly forty minutes; even if time in the real world does not pass while in the Dungeon world, there is nothing else to do just by staying here.

Therefore, it is time to head to the next area!

The group walked toward the depths of the Goblin Camp, but less than two minutes later, a new fork in the road appeared before them.

【Suiji Shijian】

【Battle Area Lv18 (Elite)】

"Go to the Battle Area... oh no, let's go with the random event."

Yun Mu stood conflicted in front of the fork in the road; after pondering for a moment, she decided to head toward the left side of the fork.

Although she had the heart to replenish the Gold Coins she had just consumed through battle, to be honest.

If they were just ordinary mobs, she wouldn't get much loot even if she won the battle.

Having just experienced the sweetness of spending 1,300 Gold Coins to level up her character, she wanted to go to the new random event to take a look.

"Just consider it healing myself."

Yun Mu glanced at her current health and lifted her leg to walk toward the left.

And after she made her choice, just like before, the road on the right quickly turned into nothingness and dissipated.

"..."

Yun Mu's gaze lingered on the vanished road for a long time, and only after it was completely out of sight did she move her gaze away.

Actually, she had always wanted to know where those vanished areas went.

Are they like game data, fictional, and therefore can be called up anytime, anywhere? Or are those areas just temporarily hidden by the Game Panel?

Will they reappear when she goes there next time? After all, what is the essence of this Game Panel that has existed in her mind since she first transmigrated?

If it were before she transmigrated, she would definitely say it was just a game, computer code, a program presented in the form of binary by countless 0s and 1s of electrons.

But now... that's hard to say.

At present, Eve is probably the only one who can answer this question for her.

Recalling what the other party said earlier, Eve seems to have met the main body of the Game Panel, and her evaluation of the Game Panel is also very intriguing.

It was an attitude of equality, as if the Game Panel were an existence identical to Eve.

Linking this to what the other party said earlier, that the Game Panel is the only 【Software】 in this world and integrates information on Paths such as 【Code】 and 【Binary】—an existence identical to Eve, or an item representing the only Path in this world—the answer is already obvious, isn't it? So, is the Game Panel a god?

【You have encountered the building 【Smelting Furnace】; by consuming Gold Coins, you can recast equipment into the same type but with completely random quality. The higher the quality, the lower the probability of getting it; conversely, the lower the quality, the higher the probability of getting it.】 【You decide...】 【1. There's such a good thing? Start immediately! (Recast a piece of equipment)】 【2. Sorry, I never play the weapon banner in games. (Turn and leave)】 【3. There might be something valuable in the furnace, let's go down and take a look! (Attempt to go Swimming in the magma)】 A tall, trapezoidal metal building emitting a faint blue light appeared before the group. Climbing up the stairs on the building's wall, after a while, Yun Mu saw the pool filled with magma inside the building.

You call this thing a furnace?

Yun Mu twitched the corner of her mouth. It must be said that to be able to do this, even if the Game Panel is not a god, it should be an existence not much different from a deity.

After all, many functions of the game Dungeon, just thinking about them in detail, feel very absurd.

Aside from the great power of a deity, she could not think of any other more reasonable explanation.

"Lucy, give me that shield of yours."

Looking at the game options before her, Yun Mu thought for a moment, turned her head to look at Lucy, and asked for it.

Recasting equipment randomly modifies the quality of the equipment while keeping the type unchanged.

For such an opportunity, it is better to experiment with those low-tier pieces of equipment.

After all, they are already low-tier equipment; even if the quality is lowered further, there would be no huge loss other than the Gold Coins spent.

If it were high-quality equipment, it would have its own value and use; if it were damaged due to recasting, that would be a loss that outweighs the gain.

【You have chosen to recast the equipment 【Goblin Round Shield (White)】. This will cost you 100 Gold Coins. Yes/No to recast?】 "Yes." Seeing the message prompt pop up on the Game Panel, Yun Mu nodded without hesitation.

【Gold Coin -100!】

【Congratulations, you have obtained the equipment 【Damaged Mechanical Round Shield (Gray)】.】 【Defense +3】

【A Round Shield forged from metal, containing a mechanism capable of firing artillery, but it is now damaged.】

"..."

Fine, fine, fine, it's a reverse-recast right from the start, isn't it?

Yun Mu looked at the small mechanical Round Shield in her hand that could barely protect her palm and wrist, and immediately chose to recast it again!

【You have chosen to recast the equipment 【Damaged Mechanical Round Shield (Gray)】. This will cost you 180 Gold Coins. Yes/No to recast?】 Not bad.

The price for recasting again did not actually double; she was very satisfied with this! "Yes!"

【Gold Coin -180!】

【Congratulations, you have obtained the equipment 【Round Shield (White)】.】 【Defense +5】

【Passive Skill: Block】

【A simple round shield made by human craftsmen. A circle of iron is wrapped around the outer edge of the circular wood to reinforce the shield's hardness. Basically, anyone with a bit of skill can easily make one.】

"."

Aren't these stats exactly the same as the Goblin Round Shield!? What a rip-off! Reforge, she must reforge it immediately!

【Gold Coin -300!】 【Congratulations, you have obtained the equipment 【Brass Shield (Green)】】 【Brass Shield (Green)】

【Defense +8 / Toughness +1 / Displacement Resistance +20%】

【Active Skill: Defense Counterattack】

【After successfully using the shield to block an enemy's 【Melee】 attack, you can immediately trigger the 【Counterattack】 skill.】

【Base Accuracy 135 / Damage Modifier +35%】

【Passive Skill: Block】

【When successfully blocking a projectile, damage taken is -10; when successfully blocking melee damage, damage taken is -20.】

【A medium shield with a brass-covered face. Among the many medium shields, it appears slightly larger in volume. Engraved upon it is a pattern of people worshipping a central figure of the Sun, seemingly telling the origin of this shield.】

Finally got a good item. Although it is green-quality equipment, both the stats and the skill effects are unexpectedly good.

It's just that for some reason, this thing gives her an illusion of familiarity. Is it really just an illusion?

"Hmm, it's the same as before. Lucy, you use this shield." Yun Mu turned to look at Lucy and said.

The stats and panel of the Brass Shield are both good, so there is no need to continue reforging it.

After all, no one can guarantee whether they will be able to get better equipment than this next time they reforge.

Wasting more Gold Coins to gamble on such things is really meaningless.

Yun Mu intends to reforge another piece of equipment.

【You have chosen to reforge the equipment 【Standard Short Dagger (White)】. This will cost you 100 Gold Coins. Yes/No to reforge?】 Are the costs for reforging different equipment not shared?

Looking at the message prompt popping up on the Game Panel, Yun Mu raised her eyebrows in surprise.

She had just specifically checked that if she wanted to continue reforging the Brass Shield, it would cost 450 Gold Coins.

Yet after switching to the Standard Short Dagger, the price actually returned to 100 Gold Coins?

This is truly an unexpected joy.

【Gold Coin -100!】

【Congratulations, you have obtained the equipment 【Fixed Shadow Instrument Blade (Blue)】】 【Fixed Shadow Instrument Blade (Blue)】

【Attack +16 / Bleeding Probability +15%】

【Skill: Shadow-Fixing】

【Melee / Single-Target Damage / Attack & Spell Strength】

【Range 4】

【Base Accuracy 140 / Damage Modifier +35% / Spell Bonus 20% / Shadow-Fixing 80%】

【Shadow-Fixing: Stabs the blade into the target's shadow, rendering their body unable to make any movements for one turn!】

【Passive Skill: Shadow Ritual】

【After killing a target using the skill 【Shadow-Fixing】, recover 5% HP and simultaneously cause the wearer to immediately enter an action turn.】

【A silver-plated knife used for rituals, capable of sacrificing the shadows of the dead to the holder of the equipment, allowing them to quickly recover their state and enhance their mobility. At the same time, stabbing the dagger into a creature's shadow can fix the creature's body in place.】

"Got it on the first try?"

Yun Mu looked at the silver-plated knife appearing in her palm, as well as the stats of this knife, and was instantly stunned.

100 Gold Coins, white turned to blue, plus these stats, this skill... "Hiss."

Happiness came too suddenly, making her feel a bit unreal for a moment.

【Prompt: The building 【Smelting Furnace】 can reforge at most two pieces of equipment each time, but there is no limit to the number of times equipment can be reforged. Do you want to continue reforging equipment?】 "No, no, no, this is enough!" Yun Mu shook her head without hesitation, as if afraid the system would reforge the equipment she had just obtained.

"Let's go to the next area!"

She tucked the Fixed Shadow Instrument Blade back into the lining of her coat, then took Lucy, Dabai, the Scarlet Knight, and Eve, leaving the location of the building 【Smelting Furnace】 and heading toward the next area of the Dungeon.

Soon, a new path appeared before everyone, and a line of text slowly emerged from the air.

【Shouling Quyu lv25 (Elite)】

"Amber, that little guy, is in the area ahead. I can feel it, meow~" Before Yun Mu could see the content of the area text clearly, Eve spoke up first.

"We've reached the Shouling Quyu so soon?" Looking at the text before her with some surprise, Yun Mu opened her character panel to check her current HP stats.

【HP: 54/80】

It's alright, not too low.

When she enters the Shouling Quyu, she will recover another 30% of her HP, which is 78 points of health.

The two points remaining at the end shouldn't affect the outcome of the battle.

"Then that's that!"

She closed the Game Panel, lifted her right leg, and stepped into the final Shouling Quyu.

"Pitiful intruders, no matter what your purpose is, I, the Goblin Brave, will block you here!"

Just as everyone passed through the wall of the area, a Goblin Brave, standing a full three meters tall, wearing a leather coat and with a huge scimitar hanging at his waist, blocked them and said.

"Where is Amber?" Eve walked out from behind Yun Mu at this time. After scanning the surroundings, she said: "Let Amber come out to see me. Having played for so long, it's about time for it to go back, meow."

"To think it is Lady Eve who has come to find me personally, meow!"

Not long after Eve finished speaking, a slender leopard cat with amber-colored eyes poked its head out from behind the Goblin Brave.

"You little guy, you ran away just a month after arriving, so you wouldn't know."

"All cats that run away are eventually brought back by me, meow."

"Now that I have indulged you in playing outside for nearly half a year, if you are sensible, hurry up and come back with me."

"No!"

Hu Po nimbly jumped onto the shoulder of the Goblin Brave.

"Lord Hu Po hasn't had enough fun yet, meow; I don't want to go back just yet!"

"Then it can't be helped, meow." Eve licked her paw indifferently, and she looked at Yun Mu: "Then I'll leave it to you, meow~"

PS: Among the many cats that escaped from Cat Paradise.

Hu Po, who ran away after living in the Paradise for only a little over a month, could be considered one of a kind.

(End of this chapter)