Chapter 150: Variant Appraisal Art

Li Min was stunned when she heard Xu Feng’s words. She thought Xu Feng was unhappy with her recent work and became even more nervous.

“B… Boss, actually…” Li Min stammered for a moment, looking like she was about to cry.

Xu Feng quickly waved his hand and said, “A single blacksmith shop couldn’t show your ability. I decided to increase your workload. Maybe you didn’t know, in Nuwa Town, oh, it might soon be upgraded to a district, I have ten pieces of property here. I’m going to let you manage all of them.”

Li Min was stunned, then a look of pleasant surprise appeared on her face. She repeatedly promised, “Boss, don’t worry, I definitely won’t let you down.”

“Mm, that’s good.” Xu Feng nodded and said, “By the way, what’s your talent?”

Li Min looked a bit downcast and said, “SR-level Trade Art.”

After saying that, Li Min showed her talent to Xu Feng.

Character Name: Li Min.

Gender: Female.

Age: 28

Strength: Ordinary.

Potential: SR level.

Occupation: Earth’s Chosen.

Health Points: 200

Energy Value: 100

Strength: G

Agility: G

Constitution: G

Spirit: G

Perception: G

Talent: Absolute Trade Constitution (SR level). Talent Description: 1. When trading, can generate 10% extra profit; 2. When appraising an item, there is a certain chance to cause that item to mutate.

“Your, your talent is pretty good.” Xu Feng said in surprise.

Not to mention the extra 10% profit from each trade, just the second ability to appraise an item and have a chance to cause it to mutate was already incredibly powerful.

In Zheng Yi’s SSR talent, there was a chance to cause forged items to mutate during forging. Each mutation would cause a qualitative change in the forged item. Of course, the mutation chance was definitely very small, but no matter how small, it still existed.

Moreover, Zheng Yi needed to forge to cause mutations, while Li Min could cause items to mutate just by simple appraisal. In a way, Li Min’s talent was even better than an SSR-level talent.

“Have you appraised any items and caused them to mutate? Have you estimated what the chance is?” Xu Feng asked.

Li Min shook her head and said, “At first, I couldn’t even touch items. After the boss hired me, although I could touch many items, that appraisal skill in my talent just wouldn’t work, let alone cause mutations.”

Xu Feng thought deeply. Li Min’s skill was too powerful. Paired with many blacksmiths, there would always be a few items that mutated. Bronze and Silver items were one thing, but if a Golden or Dark Gold quality item mutated, its value would be simply immeasurable.

“Did you find out why you can’t use it?” Xu Feng asked.

Li Min shook her head dejectedly. It wasn’t a combat talent to begin with, and now she found out it might be a fake talent. It was too depressing.

“Maybe it’s because you don’t know Appraisal Art?” Xu Feng guessed.

“Appraisal Art?” Li Min’s eyes widened. “I, I always thought the talent came with Appraisal Art. No wonder no matter what I tried, there was no response…”

“This is just my guess.” Xu Feng scratched his head and said, “Go to the Fate Store and buy an Appraisal Art skill card first.”

There were many low-level skill cards in the Fate Store, including combat skill cards, life skill cards, and auxiliary skill cards, but they were very expensive. The cheapest cost ten thousand Fate Points.

Appraisal Art was a relatively practical skill card. It cost fifteen thousand Fate Points in the Fate Store.

Even if Li Min had known she needed Appraisal Art before, she couldn’t have done anything about it. She didn’t have that much money. But with Xu Feng’s support, it was different.

Soon after Li Min learned Appraisal Art, Xu Feng actively offered a Golden quality weapon for Li Min to appraise.

Li Min directly cast Appraisal Art on the weapon. A white light flashed, but the weapon didn’t change at all.

Appraisal Art was generally used to identify items whose true properties and values were hidden by magic and couldn’t be detected. Xu Feng’s weapon wasn’t like that, so using Appraisal Art on it wouldn’t produce any reaction.

“It seems no different from ordinary Appraisal Art?” Xu Feng scratched his head and said.

A look of disappointment appeared on Li Min’s face, but a moment later, she suddenly became excited.

“There was, there was a reaction. My talent took effect.” Li Min said excitedly.

“What happened?” Xu Feng quickly asked.

“Ordinary Appraisal Art only consumes 10 Energy Value, but the Appraisal Art I just cast consumed 50 Energy Value. Also, my talent now has a cooldown time. The next time I use it, it will take five minutes for the talent to take effect.” Li Min said excitedly.

Although no mutation occurred, figuring out how to use the talent wasn’t a wasted effort.

As long as Li Min had Energy Value, she could cast Appraisal Art on items. And the most frightening thing was that she could keep casting it on the same item. If it didn’t mutate after ten times, then a hundred times. If a hundred times didn’t work, then a thousand times. If a thousand times didn’t work, then ten thousand times. No matter how small the chance, it would eventually take effect. The thought was terrifying.

“Alright, I also have these properties in Nüwa Village. I’ll hand them all over to you. Whether it’s opening another blacksmith shop, an alchemy pharmacy, or even an inn, tavern, auction house, etc., I have no objections.” Xu Feng transferred the management rights of all his properties in Nuwa Town to Li Min.

Li Min very seriously looked at the locations of each property on the virtual map.

“Boss, is this empty land outside the town yours?” Li Min asked in surprise.

“Yes, the area is quite large. However, this land can only be used for planting, nothing else.” Xu Feng rubbed his nose and said.

This was agreed upon earlier with Nüwa, that is, a wisp of the Earth’s Will’s soul in Nuwa Town. That land could only be used as a plantation, but what to plant was up to Xu Feng.

“Food and water can be bought in the Fate Store. If that land can only be used for planting, I suggest planting herbs. Coincidentally, these past few days I met someone whose life profession is Planter. We can hire him to manage the plantation.” Li Min said.

“You decide.” Xu Feng nodded.

“By the way, boss, didn’t you say you were going to take us away from Nuwa Town?” Li Min suddenly asked.

“Yes, Nuwa Town will have a monster siege in three days. It’s still too dangerous here. I’ll take you to another place these few days. You can come back after the monster siege ends.” Xu Feng said.

“Boss, are you so sure that we will definitely hold against this monster siege?” Li Min asked curiously.

Xu Feng showed a mysterious smile and said in a low voice, “The true owner of Nuwa Town is the Earth’s Will.”

Li Min suddenly understood. Then, after hesitating for a moment, she said, “In that case, I want to gamble too. Boss, I’m not leaving.”