Volume 7, Chapter 14 – Ascension Scroll

“First, the quest difficulty can’t be too high.”

“Second, the quest completion conditions have to be fairly simple…”

“Mm, and with the example of Xiaomengyao finishing that quest just now, I pretty much understand how I should set up the next quests.”

After thinking for a moment, Tianyin began setting the quest again.

════════♡════════ ❀ Tianyin’s Commission ❀ ────────♡──────── Tianyin has a new commission and wants you, as a player, to help. Because she can’t go out, Tianyin hasn’t eaten sweets for a long time. Tianyin hopes you, as a player, will go to Eden’s Food Street and buy some desserts to hand to Tianyin. ────────♡──────── ✿ Requirements: Ten desserts in total, type of dessert not limited. ✿ Rank: EX ✿ Reward: A super massive amount of EXP, one Throne-tier item. ════════♡════════

“Mm-mhm, so above SSS is an EX difficulty rank. And to adjust it to EX difficulty, you need to complete an SSS-rank quest.”

After discovering the quest could be adjusted to EX rank, Tianyin very decisively adjusted the quest to EX rank.

And after adjusting the quest rank to EX, Tianyin saw the words Throne-tier weapon in the quest rewards.

“No way. You can actually get a Throne-tier item too?”

Even though she didn’t understand why it wasn’t a weapon, Tianyin had a faint feeling that the Throne-tier item in this quest would be very useful to her.

“Master? Isn’t there another quest for me? Then what quest is next?”

After the Xiaomengyao at the side finished excitedly reading the attributes of Breath of Roses, she looked at Tianyin with an expression full of anticipation.

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After all, she’d already tasted the sweetness. Xiaomengyao had gone from initial shock to anticipation.

“Here, a quest for you-“

Facing Xiaomengyao’s gaze filled with expectation, Tianyin also posted the quest she’d just set.

“Eh… Eeh, eh, eh!? An EX-rank quest?!”

Actually, just a moment ago, Xiaomengyao had already prepared herself mentally to accept an SSS-rank quest. But… At this moment, after seeing the word EX in the quest Tianyin handed her, she let out a shocked voice again.

“What’s going on? M-Master. Why is it an EX-rank quest?”

“D-Did something go wrong, Master? An EX-rank quest shouldn’t exist, right?”

Even with Xiaomengyao raising doubts like that, Tianyin still shook her head.

“This really is an EX-rank quest, Xiaomengyao. You’re not seeing it wrong.”

“B-But, Master… isn’t this quest content way too ridiculous? At this rank, it should be extremely difficult… So why is it just buying desserts for you, Master…”

“Isn’t that good?”

Xiaomengyao’s jumpy reactions made Tianyin feel very satisfied. Back then, Xiaomengyao had been the loli by her side who liked “bullying” her the most. And now, being able to rely on the quest system to make Xiaomengyao keep doubting her own life, Tianyin felt a huge sense of accomplishment about it.

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‘Hmph hmph, dumbfounded, right? But as your Master, I can tell you with absolute certainty-’

Secretly delighted inside, Tianyin shook her head with a calm expression.

“Xiaomengyao, you’re really disgracing the identity of my disciple. It’s just an EX-rank quest. As long as I want to, I can casually take out countless quests like this for you to do.”

“Eh… Master is actually that amazing?”

After hearing what Tianyin said, Xiaomengyao looked worshipful.

“Alright, alright, go finish the quest already. I’ve still got all kinds of high-difficulty quests here waiting for you to do.”

Tianyin actually really liked the feeling of Xiaomengyao looking at her with that kind of worshipful gaze. But considering she still had things to do next, Tianyin ultimately waved her hand, signaling Xiaomengyao to hurry and complete this quest.

Watching Xiaomengyao leave the City Lord’s Mansion to do the quest she gave her, Tianyin started thinking about the next quest content again.

“Mmhmm… so what should I do next~”

“Set the content like this, go out into the wild and kill a small monster.”

“Or go gather some low-level medicinal herbs you can find everywhere.”

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“Or else…”

With two successful quest examples already, Tianyin quickly began her quest-setting path with great enthusiasm.

Dozens of minutes later, just as Tianyin had expected, Xiaomengyao successfully brought back ten portions of delicious desserts.

Very quickly, Xiaomengyao’s EX-rank quest was declared complete.

════════♡════════ ❀ Quest Complete ❀ ────────♡──────── Quest complete, beginning reward distribution. EXP has been issued. Throne-tier item, Ascension Scroll issued successfully. ════════♡════════

As she watched Xiaomengyao get covered by a pillar of light again, Tianyin turned her gaze to the Throne-tier item in the system reward called “Ascension Scroll”.

════════♡════════ ❀ Ascension Scroll ❀ ────────♡──────── This scroll possesses powerful rule power. Using this scroll can forcibly raise the tier of weapons and equipment, up to Throne-tier at most. ────────♡──────── ✿ Tier: Throne-tier Item ════════♡════════

In Tianyin’s hand, the Ascension Scroll itself looked very plain.

But it was precisely this scroll that looked ordinary and unremarkable that possessed a power ordinary people couldn’t even imagine.

It could ascend any weapon or piece of equipment.

In a certain sense, the use of the Ascension Scroll was extremely powerful. If there were enough Ascension Scrolls, then even a completely ordinary, inconspicuous rusty weapon could, with the help of an Ascension Scroll, be promoted into a Throne-tier weapon that only Throne-tiers could use.

From that, it was clear that compared to weapons and equipment themselves, the Ascension Scroll was even more tempting.

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“If I have this scroll, then maybe my sword that I’ve enhanced a hundred times can be promoted into a Throne-tier sword that’s been enhanced a hundred times!”

Thinking of how wonderful the Ascension Scroll was, Tianyin began to have the idea of using it to improve her knight’s sword.

After all… a Throne-tier weapon enhanced a hundred times… just imagining it was enough to understand what kind of existence such a weapon would be…

Powerful. So powerful that even those Throne-tiers couldn’t ignore the sword in Tianyin’s hand.

“Master, Master, this EX-rank quest gave way more EXP than the SSS-rank quest. I leveled up five times in a row again!”

The pillar of light vanished. After accepting the reward of massive EXP from the EX-rank quest, Xiaomengyao couldn’t wait to announce to Tianyin the benefits she’d gotten.

Five levels in a row.

It could be said that aside from Tianyin, that bug-like existence who got ten times the EXP for killing players and would casually wipe out huge groups of enemies, Xiaomengyao, who was crazily farming EXP by relying on Tianyin’s quests, was also something players wouldn’t even dare to imagine.

In the late game, leveling became harder and harder, and even now, players needed to spend several days just to gain a single level.

From that, it was obvious just how monstrous someone like Xiaomengyao was, someone who would casually jump five levels at a time.