The Only Enhancer - Chapter 8

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Episode 8
Episode 8 – Item Farming (3)
I masquerade as a healer, but that is not my true nature.
The one and only Enhancement Artisan in the entire world.
The sole ability to perform enhancement.
Its value cannot even be measured.
Even looking at only a fraction of that value made it clear.
First, I can definitively transform an unenhanced item into a Grade 1 enhanced item.
This is my most fundamental ability.
Yet its power was truly extraordinary.
Unenhanced items typically cost between 200,000 to 300,000 won.
At most, they max out around 500,000 won.
Meanwhile, Grade 1 enhanced items start at a minimum of 10 million won.
There’s no massive range, but they typically hover between 10 and 15 million won.
To transform such unenhanced items definitively into Grade 1 enhanced items?
Already at this point, money becomes meaningless to me.
Money simply duplicates itself.
Yet the true value of this ability is far more than mere money.
The genuine value emerges in the later stages.
‘With luck, even at Level 1, I can achieve Grade 3 enhancement!’
In games, Grade 3 might seem trivial, but here its significance was entirely different.
First, Grade 3 enhanced items completely ignore the defensive barriers of Disaster Level 3 creatures.
However, these Disaster Level 3 creatures are the first to truly deserve the name “monster.”
Only from Disaster Level 3 onward are they called true disasters.
They possess the power to annihilate an entire undefended city.
To penetrate and strike through such a creature’s defensive barrier?
This alone held immense value.
Yet the true value of Grade 3 enhanced items did not lie there.
The genuine value came from something else entirely—special abilities.
‘A skill attaches to the item.’
Except in extraordinarily rare cases, items below Grade 3 enhancement never gain special abilities.
One must raise the level to obtain skills.
Yet such skills could additionally attach to items.
Its value exceeded imagination.
Consequently, prices started from 500 million won and upward.
Of course, most skills came with conditions to use them, but what did that matter?
In other words, even useless skills commanded 500 million won.
But what of me?
With luck, I could create Grade 3 enhanced items right now.
Such was the nature of my skill.
[Item Enhancement]
-Enhances an item to increase its enhancement level.
-Success rate increases with each level.
*0→1 Enhancement = 100% success rate
*1→2 Enhancement = 50% success rate, 50% failure rate
*2→3 Enhancement = 10% success rate, 85% failure rate, 5% destruction rate
*3→4 Enhancement = 0.1% success rate, 69.9% failure rate, 30% destruction rate.
*Your level is insufficient to perform 5 Enhancement.
A 10% probability.
It was low, certainly, but I possessed a skill to supplement it as well.
[Enchanter’s Blessing]
-When activated, increases enhancement success rate by 10% for 1 hour.
-Can be used once every 24 hours.
‘This is insane. Absolutely insane.’
Even if I could only enhance items, it would be the ultimate skill.
But to increase that probability as well.
In other words, with good fortune, I could create a +3 item.
And if I was truly fortunate?
‘Perhaps even +4….’
With Enchanter’s Blessing raising it by 10%.
The +4 probability would become 10.1%.
If I was truly, genuinely blessed with fortune, +4 might even be possible.
But I immediately shook my head.
That would be greed.
+3 alone would be more than enough.
More than enough, in fact.
Excessive desire invites calamity, after all.
Remembering this, I took a deep breath.
‘In moments like this, mindset is everything.’
I relaxed my body as much as possible and activated Enchanter’s Blessing first.
After all, beneficial effects are what matter most.
“Enchanter’s Blessing.”
There was no need to speak the skill aloud, but these things were all matters of sincerity.
I had to rely on such superstitions, didn’t I?
As I spoke the skill, a brilliant light flashed across my entire body.
It was a subtle effect, but somehow that made it feel more trustworthy.
Opening the Item Enhancement skill description again.
There it was—a message confirming the buff had increased the enhancement probability, and the rates had indeed risen by exactly 10%.
Naturally, the already 100% rate for +1 Enhancement remained unchanged.
‘Now then, first….’
I obtained three Grade 1 items from this raid.
One was a black robe identical to the Black Claw Beast’s coloring, another was a dagger with a blade darkened like obsidian—true to the Black Claw Beast’s name—and the last was a wand adorned with a yellow gem that resembled the creature’s eye.
It didn’t matter which I enhanced first, but perhaps because I was playing the role of a healer, the wand called to me.
[Black Claw Beast’s Wand]
-A wand that resembles the Black Claw Beast’s iris.
Truly, there was nothing particularly special about this Grade 1 item.
Still, it was a wand.
Typically, magic-type damage dealers favored staves, while wands—far smaller than staves—were usually wielded by healers.
It seemed that from +3 enhancement onward, wands naturally acquired skills that assisted healers.
My idle thoughts had dragged on too long.
I took a moment to steady myself with a deep breath.
Then I opened my eyes and called out.
“Item Enhancement.”
A deep, resonant hum.
The sensation was entirely different from when I used other skills.
Something drained from my body, and a radiant light—almost sacred in appearance—erupted from my hands.
I watched the spectacle unfold, transfixed.
The light circled once around the wand.
Like a sprite playing a mischievous game.
Then the light infused the wand itself, and it blazed forth brilliantly.
A brilliant flash!
The entire room flooded with luminescence.
Yet strangely, my eyes did not sting.
Mesmerized by this wondrous phenomenon, I stood motionless.
As the light faded, a soft, ethereal glow began to dance around the wand.
I swallowed hard.
This was the proof of +1 enhancement.
That subtle radiance circling the wand was unmistakable.
Enchanted by the glow, I opened the Item Information.
[Black Claw Beast’s Wand]+1
-A wand that resembles the Black Claw Beast’s iris.
-When skills are used with this wand, the skills ignore the defensive barrier of Disaster Level 1 Zone creatures.
Gazing at the wand now bearing the full effect of +1 enhancement, I clenched my fist softly.
Intellectually, I had known it would succeed.
It was a guaranteed success, after all.
But seeing it with my own eyes made it real at last.
I truly had acquired an extraordinary power.
Now that I had experienced enhancement firsthand, I understood it even more deeply.
This was genuinely impossible.
Still, I grimaced slightly and examined my body.
‘I feel a bit drained.’
Is this what it feels like when mana gets consumed?
I muttered this to myself and scratched my head.
It was a sensation I’d never experienced when using buffs during raids.
The same went for when I used the Enchanter’s Blessing.
In other words.
‘Strengthening must consume that much mana.’
Though it was admittedly strange.
Even though healers typically had large mana pools and I’d used buffs quite frequently, I hadn’t felt my mana depleting at all.
So I’d wondered if there was some discrepancy between what I’d read online and reality, but that wasn’t it.
‘My mana pool must be absolutely enormous.’
To the point where buffs didn’t even register as a drain.
Conversely, this meant that item strengthening consumed mana at a proportionally massive rate.
At this rate, I might not be able to strengthen many items in a single day at Level 1.
I’d only intended to strengthen items.
Yet here I was, discovering truths about my own abilities.
The gains were substantial.
If I hadn’t learned this, it could have been dangerous.
‘I need to test exactly how much I can strengthen.’
Ah, but I don’t have time for that.
I should strengthen as much as possible before the Enchanter’s Blessing expires.
Even if it means depleting all my mana.
“Item Strengthening.”
I activated Item Strengthening again, and this time a far greater sensation of mana draining from my body overwhelmed me.
It was so taxing that I couldn’t help but let out a slight groan.
“Ugh.”
So strengthening to +2 consumed even more mana.
Another valuable lesson learned.
But whether this would succeed was still unknown.
Unlike before, a sphere of light tinged with blue emerged from my hand.
Just as before, it danced around the wand like a fairy before coming to a halt.
It appeared to be contemplating something.
But soon the light settled into the wand.
Whoooooosh―――!
A brighter light than before illuminated the room.
A soft blue radiance now dwelled within the wand.
It was proof of a +2 strengthened item.
But there was something different from before.
Unlike its original appearance, the wand had become noticeably more refined.
Most notably, the yellow gemstone that had been affixed to the front now resembled a cat’s eye, gleaming like a cat’s eye stone.
Mesmerized, I pulled up the wand’s information and couldn’t help but gasp in astonishment.
[Wand of Mystical Stone]+2
-A wand that resembles eyes of mysterious brilliance.
-When skills are used through this wand, the skill ignores the defensive barriers of Disaster Level 2 monsters.
└When used against Disaster Level 1 Zone monsters or lower, the barrier is ignored and additional damage is inflicted.
“Wow.”
Once it became a +2 reinforced item, even its appearance had changed.
The options themselves weren’t fundamentally different from other +2 reinforced items.
But unlike the +1 version, I hadn’t expected both the appearance and description to transform.
‘If the Black Claw Wand had gone to +3, it would have raised suspicions anyway.’
Actually, this was better.
I could conceal my identity far more effectively until I grew stronger.
As I reached out to reinforce it further, a slight dizziness washed over me.
“Phew.”
It seemed to be the aftereffect of consuming mana so rapidly.
I wished the status window would display my mana pool, but it didn’t have that function.
Still, I could sense it roughly through intuition.
I felt like I’d used just under half of it.
Around 40% perhaps?
I thought I could manage reinforcing to +3.
Though considering the mana consumption increased more at +2, it might be close.
I wasn’t certain, but that’s what my instinct told me.
‘I think I can try once.’
I didn’t expect success.
After all, the blessing applied was only at 20%.
Far better than 10%, but the success rate was still quite low.
Unless I could attempt twice, once wouldn’t be easy.
I abandoned grand expectations.
I would only learn how much mana +3 would consume.
Yes, let’s think of it as discovering just that.
With such thoughts in mind, I attempted what might be my final reinforcement.
“Item Reinforcement.”
As I activated the skill, unlike before when mana had been drained rapidly, it remained quiet at first.
Then, as if an aftershock were erupting, my entire body began draining of energy.
A sudden, overwhelming exhaustion.
But that wasn’t all.
It felt as though every ounce of vitality was being torn away—even my organs themselves were being sucked out.
“Ugh…”
A groan escaped my lips.
Pain beyond endurance.
It was undoubtedly mana depletion.
I didn’t know the details, but I had a vague memory of seeing it before.
Yet having that memory didn’t help me now.
My soul had been drained, every last shred of energy devoured, as it slipped from my body.
A luminous orb shimmering with brilliant blue light.
Depleted as I was, it would have been natural to collapse at any moment—so why couldn’t I?
‘I… I can’t fall.’
An obsessive need to witness this pulled me forward.
I kept my eyes open, clinging to the gossamer thread of consciousness that threatened to snap.
The luminous blue orb of light danced through the empty air without a care.
Rather than circling the wand, it flew freely between Min-jun and the wand, gliding with abandon.
The luminous blue orb soared through the air, scattering light in its wake, its traces weaving patterns across the void.
Blue luminescent dust scattered throughout the room, drifting like pollen on the breeze.
The luminous blue orb danced between them, playing with evident delight.
The sight was so mystical and beautiful that I could have sworn I heard laughter echoing from somewhere.
[Kyahahaha!]
The fairy tapped my nose playfully before gliding back to the wand with unhurried grace.
And it settled into the wand.
With a brilliant flash, radiant light filled the room, scattering refreshing blue luminescence everywhere.
When all the light faded, the only pure light remaining in the room was the glow enveloping the wand.
Unlike the second tier, this wand was wrapped in a clear, refreshing blue light.
Though I had no strength left, I somehow drew upon reserves that shouldn’t exist to open the wand’s information.
[Spirit’s Eye]+3
-A wand containing a gem that resembles the eye of a spirit.
-It holds mysterious power, evoking an almost sacred feeling.
-If you possess any buff-type skills, you can use the skill ‘Heal’.
-When using skills through this wand, the skill ignores the defensive barriers of Disaster Level 3 monsters.
└When used against Disaster Level 2 or lower monsters, it bypasses their barriers and deals additional damage.
‘Insane.’
I’d farmed the perfect item to pose as a healer.
That was my last memory before I collapsed.

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