Chapter 12

After spending the night in the cemetery and expending a great deal of energy to create a magic ring, Gaodeng was utterly exhausted. He climbed into bed and fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up, it was already 10 PM.

Without bothering to eat, Gaodeng hurriedly washed up, picked up the enchanted ring, and ran out of the house.

That night, no spirits appeared in the cemetery. Gaodeng maintained the magic array and patrolled the cemetery, completing his tasks methodically.

After handing over to Father Jack in the morning, Gaodeng went to the Riverside District and walked into the Ogre Scalp, a place he knew well.

The boss, Duro, was enjoying his morning tea as usual. His thick fingers held the delicate cup handle, sipping the fragrant milk tea gently. The breakfast on the plate had changed from yesterday's cream cakes to today's sesame cookies.

"Good morning, Boss Duro, you are as leisurely as ever."

Duro smiled and stood up. As his bulky body moved, the chair beneath him let out a long creak, as if relieved to finally escape the harsh oppression.

"Mr. Gaodeng, could it be that Lady Dawn guided you to meet me on this beautiful morning?"

"I respect Lady Dawn," Gaodeng bowed slightly, "but today, it is the Goddess Wujin who has brought me here."

Wujin is the goddess of wealth, money, and trade. As soon as Gaodeng said this, Duro understood the meaning behind his words.

"Have you completed your magic item?"

Gaodeng didn't speak but slowly took out the ring, building up the suspense.

Duro didn't look down on the ring because of its simple appearance. He put on a single-lens magnifying glass and began to examine the item carefully.

This single-lens magnifying glass had a zero-level spell, Detect Magic, attached to it. This spell could, when the wearer focused, determine the strength of the magical aura on an item and provide a preliminary appraisal.

"Oh, the aura of this ring! It's actually a first-level magic item!" Duro was both excited and surprised.

He had thought that a beginner like Gaodeng, if he could create a magic item with a zero-level spell, would be considered competent—like a light ring enchanted with Light or a whisper earring enchanted with Message.

"What is its effect?" Duro asked eagerly.

"You'll know once you put it on and try it yourself," Gaodeng said, a mischievous smile on his lips.

Duro slipped the ring onto his left middle finger and asked, "What is the activation command?"

"I want a big root."

These four words were spoken in pure Chinese, and Duro, hearing this unfamiliar pronunciation, thought it was some ancient language and didn't pay much attention.

Gaodeng admitted that when designing the ring's activation command, he had indulged in his own mischief. He had no other intention; he just wanted to reminisce about the carefree and hilarious times he had spent with his guild friends in the game.

Besides, a穿越者 (穿越者 means "穿越者" in Chinese, which can be translated as "穿越者" in English, but in this context, it means "a person who has traveled through time or space") who had come to a different world should leave some unique mark, otherwise, wouldn't such a magical experience be wasted?

After pronouncing the four words in broken Chinese, the ring glowed with a pale green light, which flashed over Duro and then disappeared. Then, the plump shop owner was surprised to find that his private part was growing, growing...

"This is..." Duro, with a bulging crotch, looked at Gaodeng. It was awkward to display his male attributes in front of another man, but his intense curiosity overcame other feelings. Even though he felt as if he had two iron balls and a large ham hanging between his legs, he was eager to get an answer from Gaodeng.

"This ring, I named it 'Mighty Wind.' It means to revitalize a man's vigor. I enchanted it with a first-level Transmutation spell, Enlarge, and used an array and runes to constrain the spell's energy so that it only affects the male organ," Gaodeng explained.

"This idea is truly..." Duro's thoughts raced, and his expression changed constantly.

In the end, the quick-witted Duro had to admit that this ring would be a miraculous item that would change the lives of many men and his own life.

"Perhaps the dream of buying a beach villa on the sunny island of Mingtan and growing old happily surrounded by blonde maids will be realized thanks to this ring," Duro thought.

Apart from being cuckolded, perhaps the greatest fear for men is being mocked by women in bed for having a small size that can't satisfy them.

In any world, "a small bamboo raft floating in the river" is a sad story.

But Gaodeng's ring could almost perfectly solve this problem.

Duro could already imagine how the noble men, who had exhausted their vitality through indulgence in wine and women, would go crazy over this ring. It would be their hope to regain their male vigor and enjoy the pleasures of the flesh again!

"This ring contains the most ingenious idea I have ever seen," Duro had to give Gaodeng a thumbs up, "Mr. Gaodeng, you are a genius!"

"It was just a flash of inspiration," Gaodeng was very humble.

The idea of using magic to enlarge a man's organ and enhance his performance in bed was not unique to Gaodeng. However, the ability to create a constrained array that limited the spell's effect to a specific organ was not something that could be achieved with just a flash of inspiration. It required extremely advanced enchanting skills.

Although the part below his waist was still in an aroused state due to the Enlarge spell, Duro's mind had already cooled down.

What he was most concerned about now was whether this ring was a one-of-a-kind item created by chance or a product that could be mass-produced and had significant commercial value.

"So, what price do you plan to set for this ring?" Duro was first concerned about the price of the ring. This would determine how much profit he could make if he bought the ring from Gaodeng and resold it.

"This ring stores the Enlarge spell, which can be used once every three days. The enchantment effect will last for at least a year before it disappears. According to my understanding, the vitality potions sold on the market, which have similar effects, cost 20 silver coins per bottle. These potions temporarily enhance a man's abilities by overextending his life potential, with significant side effects. However, this ring uses arcane energy to strengthen the body, with no health risks. Therefore, I believe my ring is worth at least 25 gold coins. When you resell it, you can mark it up by 30% to 50% depending on the situation."

Gaodeng's words were reasonable and convincing.

"A very reasonable price," Duro agreed to Gaodeng's price and added, "Can you make more of these rings?"

"If I have enough materials, I can make four Mighty Wind rings in a week."

In this world, a week consists of ten days, a month of four weeks, and a year of twelve months. Gaodeng spent about eight hours making the first ring, and even with the system's assistance, he could only reduce the production time to five hours. Gaodeng was not a Foxconn assembly line worker; he couldn't spend more than a dozen hours a day at his workbench. He was a mage who needed to spend a lot of time on theoretical research, spell practice, and meditation. Besides, he had a job at the cemetery.

Four rings a week was the limit.

"Looking forward to your next masterpiece."

Duro readily took out 25 gold coins and gave them to Gaodeng, then put the ring in his pocket. Whether the ring could be sold or not, he planned to try it out at the highest-end entertainment venue in Bluewater City, the Amber Mask, with a woman.

Gaodeng's wealth had skyrocketed from 3 gold coins to 25 gold coins overnight. However, this income was still far from enough.

He was now able to learn second-level spells, but he had no corresponding magic book at home. The most common magic book in the bookstore, which recorded five second-level spells, cost 50 gold coins.

Compared to the enormous expenses a mage needed, Gaodeng's current wealth was insignificant. If he was a beggar before, now he was at most a middle-class beggar with a tattered mat.

He had to invest all his funds into enchanting work and expand production.

Spending 5 gold coins, he bought a pile of magic materials from Duro, then left the Ogre Scalp and hurried to the nearest jewelry store.

Here, they sold decorative items without enchanting effects, purely for aesthetic purposes.

Due to a lack of money, Gaodeng had made the first Mighty Wind ring himself. However, without any training in jewelry making, the result was quite rough. The target customers for the Mighty Wind ring were wealthy nobles and merchants, so the appearance of the product could not be as shabby as the prototype.

Gaodeng was lucky; the jewelry store had a series of six green gemstone rings, three gold and three silver, on display for customers to buy. This set of rings was said to be crafted by a famous jeweler and artist, with high artistic value, depicting the story of the Three Holy Alliance's battle against the three demon lords of the Inferno during turbulent times.

Gaodeng didn't care about the artistic, historical, or religious connotations; he bought them directly.

Without this batch of rings, he would have had to custom-order them from the store, wasting a lot of time.

The three silver rings cost 6 gold coins, and the three gold rings cost 12 gold coins. Gaodeng bought them all at once. Thus, the 25 gold coins he had just earned were reduced to just 2 gold coins.

With his mind occupied by "enchanting" and "gold coins," Gaodeng immediately focused on making the Mighty Wind rings when he got home.

The last time he made a ring, he succeeded in drawing the rune array and enchanting it in one go. However, this time, he wasn't so lucky.

Although the system assisted him, Gaodeng made a mistake while drawing the rune array, wasting a sheet of vellum and half a bottle of magic ink, which pained him greatly.

However, he eventually succeeded in making another Mighty Wind ring.