Quantum Leap - Vol. 10 Overpowered Awesomeness

C019 Cutting Costs Back In The Realm Of Mind. CHEATER...!!!

"Yes, it's true, my fine lady. It's growing like a shrub and their regrowth rate is tremendously fast. However, no humans would be able to see them even when they are walking pass through it."

"My kind friend, we were wondering if you would be able to harvest these for us since our human eyes are unable to see them at all. These precious stones would be meaningful to us."

"Heh...these are not precious stones to us, it's merely an ornamental stone for us. But to you humans, it's sure is a BIG opportunity if you would be able to socket these and improve your stats. These stones are one of the reasons that we are able to mine in those shafts with little light and air. "

"Would you like some so you would be able to grow then yourself and harvest as and when it's needed? They are like stalactites but they grow from the ground up. They are fast growers, it takes them 4 hours to grow again back to their original form once they are being harvested."

"Could we really see them once we had grown them on the ground? I thought that it was invisible to the human eye?" asked Stef as she wondered how we could see the gems that we had grown on the ground since it was naked to the human eyes at all.

"Oh...its the same as us. We allow ourselves to be seen by you young adventurers but would be invisible to other adventurers in other bands. Same goes to Stanspar, if it belongs to you, then you could easily see them."

"The shards are much easier to fuse into poor, fair, food and perfect gems than rubies or emeralds and the fusion attributes would tick your sapphires and diamond fusion percentages as well."

"I don't get what you mean, my dear friend. Maybe you could explain this in simpler terms?" by this time Matilda and Jean Lethal had scooted over to listen to the new attributes for fusing these gems alone.

"Oh...allright. Since making these rubies and emerald only yields you a 0.25% increment each time in the poor gem process, making these Stanspar would increase it to 0.5% or even 1% for ruby, emerald, sapphire and diamonds respectively. I understand that you had not surpassed the 100% requirement for the good quality gems yet."

"Infusing these Stanspar, your ruby and emerald during would increase to 1% each time, sapphires would be automatically raised to 0.75% while diamonds would be 0.5%. Just by fusing the shards for Stanspar, your success rates for all 4 gems increases automatically."

"Wow...!!! That's perfect news Boss...it means just by fusing Stanspar alone would increase all 4 of the attributes automatically. Perfect and sweet news for our Gem Crafter here, my fine friend."

"Hii Hii Hii...Yes, it does seem so if Stanspar would be able to help increase the chances without going through the painstaking process of fusing ruby and emerald to become perfect 100% before he is able to fuse the sapphires and months later for diamonds."

" Yes, young lady. That would seem so. Furthermore, these shards if grown on the ground and harvested, you could multiply them by harvesting and planting them first before you mine them into shards."

"Will, do you hear that? This would be your task and Stef too, harvest and replant and repeat until we have a substantial amount to begin harvesting them every 4 hours, would that be alright for the both of you two?"

"Yes, Sir...it seems alright to me."

"Yes, Robyn, fine with me too...at least I could improve my mining skills slowly."

"My fine friend, how will the arrangement like for the Stanspar gems?"

"My fine adventurers, we will pass you 7 shards for you to grow early morning and you can plant them, out from the 7 when it grows 4 hours later, you could harvest and replant them. Each stalactite would yield a shard and it would grow up to 7 stalactites per cluster."

"Oh, my dear friend...we thank you so much for your kind assistance. You had been our good companion for so long and we appreciate what you had given us so far."

"The pleasure is ours, young adventurers. We can see through your heart that you are sincere and honest and have no means to manipulate others for your own benefits. Even I could say, your meals are a bit manipulative and tempting for us...Heh Heh...!!!"

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"Alright, here's the plan now. We need to have 7 rows of mounds ready next to these Ginseng plantations here. We would be getting just 7 shards first tomorrow morning. We will plant them accordingly and then we would be harvesting in 4 hours time and transplant them to the next row of the mound."

"Will, you're getting this right? You and Stef would be harvesting them using these picks and since they'd grow 7 stalactites each, replant them accordingly so that we would have 49 rows of Stanspar stalactites, just like growing plants."

"Stef would be in charge of collecting these shards every 4 hours once they had grown and we would be having 343 shards every 4 hours that would make 2058 shards over a 24 hours period."

"I would be fusing them since there will be no indication of them being categorised into poor, fair, good and perfect qualities, right? Once we had made them into gems, we might be able to sell them as accessories."

"Stef and JL, you may proceed to check on the prices for the accessories for rings, earrings, amulets, bracelets and anklets from wood, bone, stone and iron and return to me for the costs of those. Check how many sockets they have and we might make ourselves some steel ones after i fuse them accordingly."

"Yes, Boss..."

"Sure thing, Robyn..."

"Matilda, Will and I would be making the mounds later and we would start sowing those Stanspar from tomorrow morning onwards. Plans may change as and when it deems dit and at least we have a direction of where we might be heading."

"Alight, Matilda and I need to make some complicated calculation on the findings and we will let you know the results of the calculations later."

"Yes, ring leader...i'd get some materials to write first since it's very complicating."

"Sir, I alone can attend to the mounds, you go right ahead and do the complicated calculation while I perform the manual job of preparing those mounds."

Soon, everyone had turned to their tasks as Stef and Jean Lethal proceeds to Byram to ask about these accessories while Will proceeded to measure out and loosened the soils for the 7 mounds next to the Ginseng plants.

C060

'Phew...! This multiplier thingy really makes a big headache right now. Luckily I've gotten everything ready first beforehand or else i would be lost kn calculations and finding out your true stats after the weapon refinement, the armour upgrades as well as the Stanspar accessories."

"I get what you mean, Robyn. At least we all have our own tasks to do and we keep records on what our stats and attributes so far. Only left is Stef who hadn't tell us about her stats, but she told you she's Level 3 Cheng 5 or something?"

"According to Level 3, she would have allocated have a base of +36 and 67 points to allocate if she did a cavity press. As a Mage, she may not need to have so many points kn Strength, but she may need to beef up kn the rest 4. With her enhanced weapons and armour, even at Rare and Epic level respectively, her points in strength would be a lot of plusses already."

"So, Robyn, what did you find out about the Stanspar gems so far?"

"Well, right now I need about 47 and 49 Stanspar gems for ruby and emerald to hit 100% for the fair quality success rate, 140 and 200 for sapphire and diamond poor quality success rate. I didn't know that the Stanspar gem can be formidable and a single fuse could be raised all the 4 success rate simultaneously."

"It's a good thing that those dwarves trusted to much in you, Robyn. I wonder what would happen if they fell into the wrongs hands and they wrongly trusted those adventurers."

"Well, once they discover it, they would disappear and make their mineshaft disappear as well. It's not easy to actually chanced them, maybe it's fate since they allow themselves to be seen by us in the first place."

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"Boss, here the report for the accessories that you wanted." Jean Lethal passed the report that they had made and had gathered from the smithy in the trading area.

Classes

Common Attributes Multiplier 1.5

Rare Attribute and Cost Multiplier 2.0

Epic Attribute and Cost Multiplier 2.5

Legendary Attribute and Cost Multiplier 3.0

Common Earrings made of wood, bone, stone and iron costs 1, 2, 4 and 8 shillings and have 1 socket each

Common Rings made of wood, bone, stone and iron costs 2, 4, 8 and 16 shillings and have 1 socket each

Common Amulets made of wood, bone, stone and iron costs 3, 6, 12 and 24 shillings and has 3 sockets each

Common bracelets and anklets made of wood, bone, stone and iron costs 3, 6, 12, 24 shillings and have 5 sockets each.

"That's all Boss, these are the ones that were told by the smithy and there are no other materials after iron. We have steel right, Boss and you could forge them using the steel plates as mentioned by you in the fusion chamber."

"You're quite observant JL, yes...I could forge these in the Fusion Chamber provided I had made them before and frankly I had not made these items before in my life. However, could you kindly get for us a wood one each of the common classes tomorrow after breakfast?"

"It would cost 12 shillings for all the wood ones and from there I think I would be and to forge them once the things are in my hands. Tomorrow, JL...both you and Stef are free to do what you need to do. Our hearth would be ready in about 1-2 days time and we can shift all our equipment inside it. These 3 gold coins to replenish our rice, flour and oatmeal, my dear friend."

"I would like to go fishing with Stef if Boss won't mind us doing so? Stef would you like to join me for fishing or if you have any better suggestions?"

"Fishing is fine, Jay...we could fish on the floating platform like the one that Robyn and Matilda had done the other day. Heh Heh..."

Matilda glared at Stef for telling a girls' secret openly in front of the rest while Will.I.Am who was loosening the soil with a hoe on a moonlit night was chuckling to himself.

"Come and observe Will at him building the 7 mounds for the Stanspar, at least he got someone to talk to rather than being left alone on most days and nights."

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"Hiya, Will...hows the mounds going so far? It looks like sooner we would harvest them for our own minerals then. Too bad rubies and emeralds don't grow from the grounds like these Stanspar would."

"I'm fine, alright Sir, Ma'am. Never been happier in my life with my own job to do and lots of free time to do whatever I wish to. The harvest is doing just fine too, Sir. It would be another day to be able to harvest this Ginseng. By the way, I need to show you something later once I'm done with these mounds over here."

"What is it, Will...?" I asked as every time he opened up his mouth and idea, it would be yet something that we could eat or something that could be turned to gold.