Chapter 506: Chapter 506: Equipment Box

“Eh, you actually, actually know, know the name of the circus, circus, circus boss?” The stuttering player looked at Song Jian in astonishment.

Song Jian gave a faint smile, and after observing for a while, slowly exited the crowd.

The stuttering player glanced at Song Jian’s fading figure, appearing as if deep in thought. After hesitating for a moment, he gritted his teeth and followed Song Jian out of the crowd.

“Hacus, I can’t believe he actually possesses the blueprint for the Ant Emperor Ancestor Set…” Song Jian mumbled to himself as he walked.

After asking around, Song Jian arrived at Hacus’ tent; despite being the leader of the Shadow Circus Troupe, Hacus’ dwelling was far from conspicuous.

The tent was small and an unremarkable grey, its edges weather-worn, and a large patch of white cloth sewn into the left side. If Song Jian hadn’t triple-checked, he would never have thought that Hacus lived here.

There was no guard outside the tent, only a half-rolled curtain;

Song Jian approached, lifted the curtain and saw the old Beastman Hacus sitting at a wooden table, slowly sipping a thick, green liquid.

Seeing Hacus’ weary expression, it was obvious the green liquid was as unpleasant as the smell it gave off.

Hearing the curtain rustle, and sensing someone come in, Hacus eyed his visitor warily, his right hand quickly moving to his waist;

“Why, it’s you?” Recognizing Song Jian, Hacus immediately relaxed, then frowned and took another sip of the green liquid, coughing twice as he asked.

“Are you ill?” Song Jian sniffed the pungent smell in the air, recognizing one or two of the herbs.

However, with his basic knowledge of alchemy, Song Jian could only identify a few of the components;

“Cough, didn’t I tell you, a bit of a cold…” Hacus squinted at Song Jian and asked, “What brings you here?”

Song Jian smiled slightly. The excuse of a cold was absurd, and probably even Hacus didn’t believe it. Song Jian, however, didn’t call him out on it;

“I heard you know about the Ant Emperor Ancestor Set?” Song Jian asked straightforwardly.

By now, his favourability with the Shadow Circus Troupe had reached Reverence, so asking Hacus for information wouldn’t be rejected.

If it were any other player, without reaching a certain level of favourability, not only would they be unable to inquire from Hacus, but they would probably also face Hacus’ wrath just by entering his tent.

“…” Hacus was silent for a while, then asked Song Jian with a strange look, “Haven’t you looked at your task reward yet?”

“Too many people, haven’t had time to open it, plan to look at it when I get back!” Song Jian casually remarked with a shrug.

“Why not open it now?” Hacus suggested.

Song Jian paused, seemed to realize something, then took the epic-level chest from his inventory and placed it on the table.

“Open it now?” Song Jian rubbed his hands and glanced at Hacus.

Hacus smiled and nodded;

Song Jian placed his right hand on the epic-level chest.

The reward chest of the task doesn’t require time to open, it can be opened directly;

“Ka-chuck~”

The epic-level chest opened, a faint purplish-red light emanated from the chest, though the glow was very weak.

Song Jian opened the chest completely, and the epic-level chest disappeared. In its place on the wooden table was a square metal box with a handle. On the four sides of the metal box, there was a relief of a giant golden ant;

This metal box looked rather old, with rust stains at some corners, and numerous marks of cutting and hacking on its surface, as if it had been through many battles.

“Hacus’ Equipment Box (Special Item), Epic level, Item Description: This is Hacus’ former battle gear. It has accompanied him through countless battles and is his most intimate companion;”

“Equ, equipment box?” Song Jian looked at the attributes of this metal box and was stunned.

“Open it and see.” Looking at the metal box, a gentle smile surfaced on Hacus’ face.

Song Jian grabbed the round handle of the box and pulled hard;

Clatter~

The sound of gears grinding and turning came from within the box. The entire box opened completely to reveal a model of a golden ant regally roaring towards the sky;

“No, no, this isn’t a model, this, this is, this is equipment, this is a complete set of equipment!” Song Jian was dumbfounded. He didn’t expect that the reward for the epic-level task assigned by Hacus would be a full set of equipment;

“This, is the Golden Ant King Ancestor Set!” Hacus sighed softly as he touched the set.

“Golden quality, golden quality, it is, it is all golden quality…” Song Jian carefully examined each piece of equipment in the Golden Ant King Ancestor Set. Each individual piece was of golden quality, and the full set combined was of epic level;

“Level 30 equipment, but, this durability is a bit too low, isn’t it?” Song Jian scanned it carefully. Upon completion, he couldn’t help but frown.

The set was complete with a helmet, chest armor, shoulder guards, gloves, trousers, leg guards, hand guards, boots and a belt—nine items in total. And two pieces of equipment together added an extra attribute. Each extra piece added another attribute. With nine pieces, there were eight additional attributes in total. These eight additional attributes made the whole set of epic level.

What slightly upset Song Jian was the low durability of this set. All were below ten points, the chest armor durability was even reduced to three points.

Song Jian suspected that if he wore this set of equipment, roughly half the setup would be ruined after fighting for five or six hours.

“Although it’s epic level, if the durability is too low, the value will be much less…” Song Jian looked somewhat pained. Moreover, the most important thing was that, currently, the blacksmith shop could only repair silver quality equipment. Any equipment exceeding silver quality required a Master Level Forging Master for repairs.

Even in the City of Hymns, there had never been a Master Level Forging Master. Even high-level Forging Masters were extremely rare.

Therefore, there’s no way to repair this Golden Ant King Ancestor Set.

“Who said this set of equipment can’t be repaired?” Hacus looked up at Song Jian and said, “We have people in the Shadow Circus Troupe who can repair it…”

“What, really?” Song Jian’s eyes sparkled with glee, he asked in surprise.

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