Chapter 1278: Target

The shoes require 100,000 exchange points, and I happen to have 110,000.

Actually, when you calculate it, the attributes of this pair of shoes aren't that great; among orange epic items, they're mid‑low tier.

Not to mention anything else, even the base stats of my level‑80 orange epic Guardian Leg Armor on my legs aren't much different from this shoe.

You should know this shoe is level 85, while the Guardian Leg Armor is still level 80, and the Guardian Leg Armor's quality is considered superior.

However, this pair of shoes counts as part of a set.

And the six‑piece Rock Guardian set can all be exchanged in the Demon‑Suppressing Army's treasury, each piece costing 100,000 points.

Besides the helmet, armor, gauntlets, greaves and shoes—the five‑piece set—there is also a shield.

An 85‑level orange epic set!

If you can exchange the whole set, it would definitely be one of the top‑tier gear pieces usable up to level 100.

This is also the best item currently exchangeable in the Demon‑Suppressing Office treasury with Centurion Su Sheng's permission.

Of course, for a full set, Su Sheng definitely can't use it.

After all, I already have a set of strong scattered pieces, plus a Divine Artifact.

However, if I really have enough points to exchange a whole set and give it to Wu Zhaodi, it should be a strong boost for the Yan army side.

After all, in many assaults, the T position is one of the most crucial spots; you can figure out damage output, but you first have to stay alive.

You must be alive to deal damage!

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Now, for the whole six‑piece Rock Guardian set, I can only exchange one piece; comparatively, swapping the shoes gives me the biggest improvement.

Although the shoes themselves are only mid‑low tier, the passive is truly appealing: 20% defense and 20% shield, which for Su Sheng is definitely a big boost.

Even with its limitations, at certain times it can certainly produce extraordinary effects.

But Su Sheng is still wondering whether to save a bit more and wait until the permission is raised to a senior officer before deciding.

So, between swapping and not swapping, Huan Jie sent me a message.

She told me to go run a dungeon…

So Su Sheng simply stopped agonizing and headed to the dungeon to meet Huan Jie.

After breezing through a dungeon once, Su Sheng told Huan Jie about the dilemma.

"I recommend you swap."

Lin Huan, after listening to Su Sheng's statement and comparing the screenshot of the Rock shoes Su Sheng sent, said.

Compared to Su Sheng's current Plague‑Step shoes.

The Rock shoes give Su Sheng 300 base physical defense, 2,000 HP, 400 constitution, and 500 strength.

Conversely, they lack 300 agility and 100 magic defense.

Overall, besides the 500 strength increase, the added stats are all essential for Su Sheng, while the reduced ones are relatively insignificant.

In calculation, it's equivalent to adding 700 attack/defense and 6,000 HP for Su Sheng.

To some extent, it's a fairly sizable upgrade.

"Now it's the final stage of the first season; competition will definitely be fierce. Although we have maintained an advantage, no one knows what changes may come later."

"And after swapping, you can give your Plague‑Step shoes to other guild members, which is a double boost."

"At this critical moment, grab any improvement you can."

Lin Huan said analytically.

"Alright, I'm listening to you."

Su Sheng immediately nodded in agreement.

He was tempted; Su Sheng was definitely tempted, after all the shoes are indeed good, and advantages are built up piece by piece.

The main reason is simply that he can't bear to part with the Demon‑Suppression points he painstakingly saved for so long; Su Sheng just needs a reason to make a decision.

As for Demon‑Suppression points, he can just earn more after using them; conveniently, the National War map expansion also yields Demon‑Suppression points.

…

So Su Sheng took off the Plague‑Step shoes, handed them to Huan Jie, let her decide who gets them, then clicked Return to City, went straight to Huangcheng's Demon‑Suppressing Office, and exchanged the shoes.

After equipping the shoes, attack and defense rose by 700, reaching 25,562.

HP increased by 6,000, reaching 223,450.

With the gear swapped, Su Sheng satisfied himself and entered the National War map.

…

After re‑entering the National War map,

Su Sheng continued his previous push strategy, and luck was good; he even encountered a Normal BOSS.

Although when Su Sheng looked, a team from another server was already fighting it.

For Su Sheng, as long as they're not from Beibang or the Mao Xiong players he knows, everyone else just yields merit points, right?

So Su Sheng took all of it.

After finishing that BOSS, Su Sheng's National War merit jumped to over 800.

It seems he has a chance to exchange one piece of the Commander‑exclusive treasury gear before the season ends.

He's still 2,000,000 points short of 10,000,000 points; prioritize exchanging fragments.

Although Su Sheng also covets another piece—the Skeleton Divine Dragon set armor.

But merit, merit—this National War merit is really hard to accumulate; Su Sheng has toiled for over two months to get this eight‑million‑plus merit.

It's not easy to gather; assuming one player equals one point, that's over 8 million players, though Su Sheng certainly hasn't killed that many.

The big single‑time gains came from two Demon Race BOSSes: one gave 100,000, the other over 400,000, close to 500,000.

Then there were a few later city‑steal events; the rest accumulated bit by bit. Of course, Su Sheng likely killed many high‑status players from other servers, and each such kill contributed more than a single merit point.

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Just like that, the Demon Race descent update for the National Battle Map has been open for a week.

At this moment, the atmosphere of the National Battle Map became subtle again.

Before, because Huaxia had an absolute advantage, the other servers vaguely had the intention to besiege Huaxia.

But later, the Demon Race content update caused some impact.

But now the DLC side has stabilized, and the situation seems to be gradually returning to how it was before.

Even more obvious than before.

When players from individual servers meet, if they see someone not from Huaxia, they silently pretend not to see them and then go farm the Demon Race.

Unless it's something like fighting over a boss, otherwise most of the other servers seem to have tacitly avoided any friction for now.

But as soon as they see a Huaxia squad, they almost all gang up and attack...

This situation already had signs before, and now it's directly escalating.

No way!

Huaxia's advantage is too great!

At this moment, on the National Fortune Ranking, Huaxia's National Fortune Value reaches over 2.5 billion!

At its peak!!

Second place Ying Jiang only has 1.3 billion, the National Fortune Value leads by a gap of nearly double!

And now there are only about twenty days left until the end of the first season!