Chapter 020: Madness

After tasting the sweetness, Wang Bo began to frantically duplicate enhancement stones.

Then, Wang Bo quickly discovered a fact.

Enhancing an item for the first time required one enhancement stone, but the second enhancement doubled it, requiring two enhancement stones, and the third enhancement doubled again, requiring four.

The fourth required eight, the fifth sixteen, the sixth thirty-two, the seventh sixty-four, the eighth one hundred twenty-eight, the ninth two hundred fifty-six, and so on.

Calculated this way, enhancing more than ten times would require an astronomically large number of enhancement stones.

And enhancing more than twenty times, even if Wang Bo did nothing but stay by the duplication mirror without eating or drinking, would take an extremely long time.

So in Wang Bo's view, it was simply impossible to endlessly enhance a weapon, equipment, or item.

Therefore, Wang Bo decided to enhance something about ten times and then stop enhancing online.

After all, enhancing something ten times was, in Wang Bo's opinion, already sufficient.

For example, Wang Bo spent several days enhancing the Divine Power Ring ten times.

This was no small feat.

After ten enhancements, the Divine Power Ring's power was earth-shattering, completely different from its original level, since each enhancement increased its power by twenty percent on the original base.

After ten enhancements, the power had at least multiplied several times.

Wang Bo had Bard wear the Divine Power Ring enhanced ten times and sparred with him, discovering that Bard's strength exceeded a hundred tons and his speed surpassed the speed of sound.

Even more terrifying, he could control earth, wind, fire, and water, summon flames with temperatures of at least several thousand degrees, and even stir up storms, create earthquakes, and cause heavy rain.

Given a little time, he alone could turn the entire River Valley Town into ruins.

More importantly, the Divine Power Ring granted Bard terrifying regenerative abilities; as long as his head wasn't cut off, even if his heart was pierced, he could recover in the blink of an eye.

It was equivalent to a weakened version of an immortal body.

Such strength, even in the Marvel world, would be considered mainstream-level superpower.

And all this was caused by just a Divine Power Ring enhanced to +10.

Wang Bo estimated that in terms of power, this ring had already surpassed the One Ring of Middle-earth.

As long as Bard wore this ring, even Gandalf might not be able to defeat him. If Bard also wore the Balrog Armor, he could even go one-on-one with Smaug.

Incredible!!!

Wang Bo now finally understood the function of enhancement stones; this thing was simply too terrifying.

Unfortunately, it couldn't be enhanced endlessly; otherwise, if he used enhancement stones to enhance the Divine Power Ring a hundred or several hundred times, Bard might even be able to go head-to-head with Wang Bo.

With the experience of enhancing the Divine Power Ring, Wang Bo began to try enhancing his own weapons, Gungnir and the Divine Garment.

These were Wang Bo's capital to challenge the gods.

However, when Wang Bo started enhancing, he quickly discovered a frustrating problem.

These two weapons, probably because of their high level, consumed a full one hundred enhancement stones for the first enhancement. For example, enhancing the Divine Power Ring was a hundred times less.

But if that were the case, Wang Bo could grit his teeth and spend some time to enhance the two weapons five, six, seven, or eight times.

But the problem was, for the second enhancement, it consumed a full one thousand enhancement stones.

If Wang Bo hadn't accumulated some enhancement stones, he would have almost failed.

So Wang Bo did not continue with a third enhancement.

What if the third enhancement required ten thousand enhancement stones? Besides, the two enhancements so far had already brought significant improvements to Gungnir and the Divine Garment.

Wang Bo was already satisfied.

Apart from these two items, Wang Bo spent a few more days enhancing other things he had on hand.

For example, the Balrog Armor. After ten enhancements, its power had undergone earth-shaking changes, and its defensive power when worn was astonishingly great.

None of the spells Wang Bo currently possessed could break through its defense.

That was how exaggerated it was.

Besides this magical defense, its physical defense was also terrifying. Not even thousands of tons of force, let alone tens of thousands of tons, could destroy the Balrog Armor.

Wang Bo even threw the Balrog Armor in front of Smaug. No matter what Smaug tried, he could not destroy it. Smaug even used magic to strengthen his claws and fangs, but still failed to destroy the Balrog Armor.

This left Smaug greatly astonished.

Wang Bo estimated that the reason the Balrog Armor was so formidable was, first, the quality of the materials used—whether it was mithril, vibranium, or other materials, they were all very high-end.

Second, the enhancement effect had multiplied the armor's capabilities several times over.

This was what caused such an exaggerated result.

Even if Wang Bo wanted to destroy the Balrog Armor that had been enhanced ten times, he would have to go all out, including using Ripple Qigong enhancement, magical enhancement, even Cosmo enhancement, Nine Yang True Qi enhancement, and so on.

Another method was to pick up Gungnir and directly punch a hole in the Balrog Armor.

With Gungnir's power, piercing the Balrog Armor would not be a problem.

Of course, Wang Bo would not do such a wasteful thing.

Although the enhancement of the Balrog Armor excited Wang Bo, the only thing that frustrated him was that the Replication Mirror could not fully replicate the Balrog Armor enhanced ten times.

The replicated Balrog Armor had greatly reduced power, equivalent only to being enhanced four or five times.

The same was true for the Ring of Divine Power.

This made Wang Bo sigh, thinking that nothing in the world is perfect.

But just then, Wang Bo thought of a wild idea.

He picked up an enhancement stone and slapped it directly onto the Replication Mirror. Then Wang Bo heard a crisp *ding* sound—the Replication Mirror was enhanced to +1!

Wang Bo: ...

To be honest, he was just trying it out, but he never expected it to actually succeed.

With that, Wang Bo became thoroughly excited.

He began frantically enhancing the Replication Mirror.

Over the next few days, Wang Bo used almost all the enhancement stones he had replicated to enhance the Replication Mirror.

Replication Mirror +2, +3, +4, +5, +6, +7, +8, +9, +10, +11, +12, +13, +14...

Wang Bo kept enhancing the Replication Mirror until it reached +15, then stopped. Each subsequent enhancement required tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of enhancement stones—Wang Bo couldn't handle that either.

The main issue was that further enhancements would take too much time.

Even though Wang Bo performed the enhancements inside the Time Villa, it still consumed a huge amount of his time, so he had to give up on continuing to enhance the Replication Mirror.