Chapter 88: Universal Potion

Su You: Do you even hear yourself right now?

With a speechless expression, Su You tossed the Fire Demon Armor—which was now as shredded as a curtain clawed by a cat—into her backpack.

It might be in tatters, but that’s fine. She had a repair specialist at home.

If nothing else, the Fire Demon Armor’s stats were actually pretty decent. When intact, it offered 20 defense, plus resistance and fire resistance. She didn’t know what the original numbers were, but since it was blue-grade gear, it couldn’t be too far off.

After checking the stats on the broken armor, Su You pinned her hopes on another piece of equipment that was still perfectly intact.

【Fire Demon Leggings】

Category: Equipment

Quality: Blue

Durability: 100/100

Stats: Defense (10), Resistance (1.5%), Fire Resistance (3%)

Description: A complete pair of Fire Demon Leggings with decent defensive capabilities and some fire resistance, reducing fire damage taken. When equipped together with the Fire Demon Armor, grants additional stats.

If the ruined Fire Demon Armor was like getting hit with a stick, then these Fire Demon Leggings were definitely a sweet date.

And not just any date—a big, juicy, seedless one.

Not because the stats on the Fire Demon Leggings were particularly good—on the contrary, for blue-grade gear, they were actually on the lower end, maybe even worse than some high-quality green gear.

What really made them blue-grade was that they were part of a set.

The line “When equipped together with the Fire Demon Armor, grants additional stats” was proof that this was a set item.

A set means equipment from the same series; when you wear multiple pieces from the set, you unlock “set bonuses”—the “additional stats” mentioned in the description.

Sets like the Fire Demon set, which only require two pieces to activate the bonus, aren’t super powerful, but in the early game, they’re already considered a rare treasure.

Later on, there are sets that require three, four, or even eight pieces to activate the set bonus!

Hat, chestpiece, leggings (pants), shoes, gloves (count as armor and don’t conflict with fist-type weapons), cloak, bracelet, necklace… On Sunset Continent, these are the eight main armor slots by equipment type.

Since we’re talking about armor, let’s mention weapons too. Weapons are divided into main weapon and off-hand, and further split into one-handed and two-handed weapons.

You can only equip an off-hand weapon if your main weapon is one-handed. If you’re using a two-handed weapon, the off-hand slot is occupied.

…

After opening the first chest, thanks to the set bonus, what would’ve been a 59-point chest shot up to 80 points.

Next was the second chest—the one awarded for upgrading her territory.

The 【Territory Upgrade Chest】 looked wooden, with some simple patterns carved on it. When Su You opened it, she saw several cards inside that looked familiar, though their contents were not.

【Received: Residential House Building Card ×1】

【Received: Tailor Shop Building Card ×1】

【Received: Post Station Building Card ×1】

【Received: Tavern Building Card ×1】

…

The territory upgrade reward was four building cards in total, which fit the territory upgrade theme—every reward was territory-related.

Normally, getting this many building cards would be a good thing, but unfortunately, three out of the four were buildings Su You already had.

The Residential House card was fine—after all, as the population grows, you always need more houses, so having an extra card saves on materials.

But the Post Station and Tavern cards were different. The functions of these two buildings don’t stack.

In other words, even if Su You built Tavern 2, its recruitment list would be the same as Tavern 1’s. If Tavern 1 was on cooldown, Tavern 2 would be too.

That’s because these types of buildings share a cooldown; there’s no such thing as building more taverns to get more recruitment chances… That just doesn’t happen.

Same goes for the Post Station—you don’t get more or faster merchants just because you build more of them.

So these two building cards were basically useless. Su You could still build them, but aside from increasing prosperity, they wouldn’t give her anything else.

As for the last Tailor Shop card, it was neither good nor bad.

On the downside… well, her territory did happen to have someone with a decent tailoring talent—Dolly.

On the upside… compared to other shops, the Tailor Shop was a bit less useful in the early game.

But compared to the Tavern and Post Station cards, Su You was actually quite satisfied with the Tailor Shop card—at least it wasn’t another “Quest Hall Card.”

If she really got a Quest Hall Card, Su You felt she might just lose it.

After opening the first two chests, Su You’s initial excitement had now turned into utter calm… no, dead calm.

Not even a ripple of emotion.

As for the last chest, unless something unexpected happened, it should contain the rewards she bargained for with the execution system yesterday.

Inside would be a magic pattern book, a recruitment card, and a random building card… Just thinking about the building card gave Su You a bad feeling.

Even though the execution system promised to give her a card for a building she didn’t already have, she’d just gotten a Tailor Shop card, and her territory didn’t have a tailor shop yet. If she got another Tailor Shop card…

Su You: No way, no way, no way!!!

Resigned to her fate, Su You didn’t bother praying for luck anymore. She just flipped open the chest, revealing a book and two cards. Besides those three items, she also noticed a potion bottle next to the cards.

But she was sure she hadn’t asked for any kind of potion yesterday.

So what was this?

Su You blinked, then picked up the potion first.

【Universal Potion】 (Bound): A potion that can remove any negative status.

Su You glanced at her current “Moderate Fatigue” status, then at the Universal Potion in her hand, her expression utterly deadpan.

She’d thought it was something good, but it turned out to be just the execution system’s compensation for randomly slapping her with negative buffs!

And this compensation was completely useless!

Because it was bound, only Su You could use it. After carefully reading the potion’s info, she also noticed it had an expiration timer—one that matched her fatigue debuff’s countdown exactly.

In other words, she couldn’t give the Universal Potion to anyone else, nor could she save it for later. She could only use it now, to clear her own fatigue buff.

Su You: Heh.

(End of chapter)"