Desolate World

[Master Thief's cloak]

Grade: A (special)

Block: pierce: B

blunt: B

slash: B

Physical Defense +200

Magic Defense +100

Effect:

Super Stealth: Made by offering the soul of a master thief that was about to die with his own will. Can enter level 10 stealth condition. The stealth condition will wear off if the user was successfully attacked or launched an attack. cooldown: 60 seconds. Mana consumption: 3 mana per second.

Durability: 3,000

Requirement: All Jobs, level: 30

[Four elements deck]

Grade: S

Magic +350

Throwing distance +20 meters 

Card's flying speed +200%

Requirement: Joker, level: 30

[Blueprint of tower of glory]

Grade: SS (construction wonder) (magical) (unique)

Description: A 100 meters high magical tower that can summon random monsters. It had 100 stages of challenge. Each stage would reward the challengers with an amount of experience. The defeated challengers will be ejected to the entrance of the tower at full HP.

Materials: 1,000,000 units of stone block, 100,000 units of iron ingot, 1,000,000 diracs, and this blueprint.

Note: The construction will be done automatically, if the materials were gathered on 20 x 20 meters of land inside of a settlement. The construction duration will be an hour. 

This blueprint can not be duplicated.

The three items in front of him were the final harvest of their previous plans. Ace wanted to ask his family about what they got. He was sure they also got good things. But, he couldn't take his eyes off the blueprint of the tower of glory. 

This was another wonder. Although it was a different kind of wonder with Crystal Garden that was a natural wonder, it was still one of the wonders of the world. A construction wonder to be exact. It was a unique construction that could only be built once, in one place. Even he couldn't assess its real value. 

And what made him excited was that the tower of glory could be used as a training ground for him, his family, his guild's members, and the townsmen. As his level increased, he couldn't rely on hunting monsters anymore. Even now, he felt that consuming resources for meditation and eating food with ingredients from the crystal garden were not enough.

But, before he sought for more advanced methods to gain experience, the system gave him such a good thing. Ace believed that this wonder would be his main capital to reach the peak of the pyramid. 

What he felt a headache about at the moment was the price that he had to pay to build it. 1,000,000 units of stone block and 100,000 units of iron ingot seemed not cheap. And 1,000,000 diracs was a lot of money for him at the moment.

Although he and his family were quite rich. They didn't have that much liquid money they could spend. As his new guild would need much more expenditure to maintain. At the moment, they could barely pay the wages of the townsmen who became their guild's personnel. 

He was optimistic that many products could be sold in the auction house to get fresh money. But, they had many plans that they needed to execute to not lose the momentum that they got at the beginning of the town's development with the money.

Finally, Ace could only give up to think about it. He was not good at this kind of thing. He would talk to Sofia about it later. 

He then averted his eyes to a piece of equipment and a weapon that he got. At first, he thought the master thief's cloak was his greatest gain today. As it would enable him to enter level 10 stealth. What was level ten? Many believed that it was the peak of a skill. In other words, it was the max level. 

He didn't know what was the difference between stealth level 1 and level 10, as they similarly made the user couldn't be seen by others. But it was definitely so overwhelming that it couldn't be compared. After all, it was a special piece of equipment, just like the vest that was given by Phil.

In other words, this cloak had a story just like Phil's vest. Although he didn't know what was the story of this cloak, he knew that a deep feeling of someone was bound to it.

As he had two special equipment, he realized that each of the special equipment seemed to have a powerful effect. He would look closely in the auction house later, if he could find another special item.

However, although the cloak was definitely a good piece of equipment for him, his eyes later were drawn by the deck of cards in front of him. After all, it was his main weapon as a joker. 

Joker was a powerful job. That was for sure. Maximizing speed and having somewhat above the average magic stats, while abandoning defense, making it a paper canon. He could deal really painful damage, but two or three powerful attacks could finish him off. It made him speculate that the name 'joker' came from this job's attributes. Yeah, it would definitely become a joke if you were knocked out after two or three attacks from a guardian at your level.

So, the right thing to do as a joker was to kill your enemy before his or her attack got you. Joker's attack's damage was really random. But he had a rapid attack speed, which was 2 attacks per second. It was definitely not a joke. Ace had proved it himself, with the combination of his agility and attack speed, according to his memory, few people or creatures could escape from him. 

And he did that by using a beginner deck. Something that only was used by newbies. It wasn't changed until he commissioned Dodo, a gnome earth mage that became his guild's personnel to do some upgrades. And the upgrades themselves in Ace's eyes didn't make the cards deck much stronger. They only added +30 magic to his stats. For a note, before it was upgraded, it was literally blank of any stats addition. So it was already 'great'. 

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