My Misfortune Crushed Instances-Chapter 29: Defying Fate—The Administrator’s Coat

Chapter 29: Chapter 29: Defying Fate—The Administrator’s Coat

The president of the Baili Association in Donglin Province is named Song Yao, and he has a hobby of writing poetry. His level is very high, at least according to the evaluation of the subordinates in the provincial branches.

As the president of the Baili Association overseeing one province, he is very busy, but this afternoon he must make time, because the head of the Hee family from Wuyun Province and the current committee member has personally come to their Donglin Province.

"President Song, long time no see."

"Commissioner Hee, hello, hello."

The two shook hands and sat down at adjacent sides of the tea table. After the secretary poured water, he left.

"Recently, how’s the frequency of realm overlaps in your Donglin Province?"

Commissioners are not region-specific; they need to make decisions about local affairs and can also inquire and investigate.

Song Yao shook his head and said, "Not good, up by 3 percentage points year-on-year. It’s estimated the increase this year will still be 5%; this is already the third consecutive year of growth."

Commissioner Hee sighed, "Always feel like something big is about to happen."

"Indeed."

Song Yao said, "Recently, the department has been demanding reports quite frequently, right?"

"Yes."

Commissioner Hee said, "Newcomers are becoming more frequent. Even my grandson is level 9 now."

"Congratulations." Song Yao politely responded.

"Sigh, nothing really to congratulate about. For us, the imprint is both an opportunity and a curse. You never know when you might just die from it."

"No need to be so pessimistic."

"Hahaha, it’s just in my nature." Commissioner Hee laughed a bit, "But speaking of my grandson, he’s recently going into Gu Xuan Town. That secret realm is quite challenging."

"So it’s Gu Xuan Town," Song Yao echoed, clearly already knowing but waiting for the other party to bring it up first.

Commissioner Hee continued, "I’ve heard that troublemaker who shut down the Demon Wind Temple is going too?"

Song Yao chuckled and said, "Indeed."

"Well, my grandson is young and inexperienced, so I was hoping you could remind your people to have that person keep an eye out for him. What level is he?"

"Level 6," Song Yao responded without hesitation.

"Huh? Only level 6," Commissioner Hee was a bit disappointed.

"But a few days ago, he independently killed a dozen Illusion Spirits and Tree Demons in a level 10 realm overlap."

Hearing this, Commissioner Hee’s eyes lit up again, "Heh, Old Song, what do you think about this...?"

"Hahahaha, I’ve already mentioned it to them in advance. Don’t worry, that kid named Li Rui works differently; acting as a bodyguard in Gu Xuan Town is a piece of cake for him."

Song Yao, smiling, took a sip of tea, "I hope he can grow up quickly. We are seriously understaffed in several cities in the western part of Donglin."

Commissioner Hee got the message, "Ah, you should have reported it to the committee earlier. This is something I have to say; Lanhai Province had over a dozen newcomers last quarter, I can just call them to transfer a few experienced ones over."

"I didn’t think it through, should have reported it sooner."

Song Yao was very pleased but knew that it would be difficult to get people if the other party didn’t have any requests.

Meanwhile, he silently credited the unfamiliar Li Rui in his heart.

...

Huangliang City.

Li Rui has memorized all known strategies for Gu Xuan Town, which has several main lines, and not everyone who enters will receive the same tasks.

Originally, he wouldn’t have looked so closely, because under normal circumstances, once he enters, things would take a turn for the worse. Whether he read it or not wouldn’t matter, but he had no choice; Wang Ba promised a high-rarity piece of equipment, something very scarce for him. He must take good care of that He Chengli.

Li Rui is someone with principles. Since he agreed to protect that rich second generation, he has to ensure everything is foolproof. He felt he had to find ways to further enhance his combat capability, so he went to the technology-filled support group.

"Sister Yan, you mentioned explaining what those whiteboard materials are useful for, haven’t had time in the last few days, do you now?"

Wen Yan, who was in a corner eating instant noodles, nodded. She shoveled the remaining noodles into her mouth with a fork, drank some soup, wiped her mouth with a tissue, and got up to smile, "Come, I’ll take you to the materials section."

Wen Yan, a woman with significant influence in the Huangliang branch, after all, is the head of the support group, which includes the equipment section, materials section, analysis section, etc. But her gentle voice and face make it hard to associate her with her "high status."

After multiple identity verifications, she led Li Rui to the materials section. Several metal cabinets displayed humidity and temperature, but their target wasn’t these cabinets but a machine resembling an old-school large desktop computer.

"This machine is very important; each municipal branch only has one. It can be used to enhance equipment and raise equipment levels."

"Really? Enhance equipment from the Secret Realm in the real world?" Li Rui found it unbelievable, curious about the principle behind it.

"Yes."

Wen Yan didn’t explain, "Although, we usually only enhance high-rarity items or equipment already possessing excellent entries."

Li Rui nodded, "Can I enhance the administrator’s coat?"

"It’s possible, but that’s only a level 1 item, and isn’t it a whiteboard too?"

Wen Yan referred to the game logic; an item is considered for enhancement only if it possesses entries needed by the owner, and that administrator’s coat only adds defense, lacking special effects and entries, making it useless, so no one would waste materials on enhancing such things.

However, Li Rui didn’t quite agree, given the various performances of the Big Baira, like its ability to merge other skills. He had reasons to suspect this coat also held something unusual, so he wanted to at least try enhancing it.

After some debate, Wen Yan still disagreed, but he provided the killer reason, "I have plenty of materials."

"....."

Indeed, non-eternal materials obtained in dungeons cannot be brought back to reality, hence can’t be submitted, and are meant for enhancing personal equipment anyway. It’s just that enhancement materials have always been scarce and enhancing equipment consumes a lot, so no one uses them frivolously.

Wen Yan helplessly shook her head, "Alright, I’ll start the machine. Act fast; this machine consumes Demon Crystals found in realm overlaps, which are assembled using the abilities of those in the mechanic profession."

Li Rui suddenly understood why it could process Secret Realm products in reality, as it was made using the power of the Secret Realm itself.

Once the machine started, the screen lit up, and he followed instructions by inserting his hand into the reader’s interface.

The imprint felt a burning sensation, and then, an item bar automatically popped up before his eyes. At the center was the coat, still the same panel.

[Administrator’s Coat.]

[Item Level: 1.]

[Quality: Unique]

[Description: Employees are encouraged to keep it well.]

[Attribute: Defense +6]

[Special Effect: Wearing it with the Big Baira should make you look pretty cool.]

[Eternal: Yes.]

Earlier, Wen Yan explained the rules that different types of equipment could only be enhanced with compatible materials.

For instance, Li Rui had an item called Ice Cold Silk Thread which theoretically couldn’t be used to enhance equipment with flame effects.

However, this administrator’s coat is a whiteboard, so its attribute preference had to be tested first.

Hence, he placed an ordinary-quality Ice Cold Silk Thread into the enhancement slot.

[Enhancement Success! Progress Value +3, Current 3/50]

At this moment, Wen Yan, seeing the progress synced on the machine screen, was surprised, "A level 1 item requires 50 enhancement points; it’s unbelievable, better give up?"

Li Rui said, "It’s fine, I have a lot of Ice Cold Silk Threads, let’s raise it one level first."

Saying that, he inserted 17 materials under Wen Yan’s pained gaze.

[Equipment Upgrade!]

[Administrator’s Coat.]

[Item Level: 2.]

[Quality: Unique]

[Description: Employees are encouraged to keep it well.]

[Attribute: Defense +8]

[Special Effect 1: Wearing it with the Big Baira should make you look pretty cool.]

[Special Effect 2: Ice Resistance +2%]

[Eternal: Yes.]

Ignoring her image, Wen Yan lunged at the screen, eyes wide with shock staring at the data.

"Holy crap, simply enhancing it actually created special effects out of thin air!"

The gentle big sister has moments when she’s not so gentle.