NOVEL SIMPLE Wanzu Atlas: Do you call this an F-level talent?
Chapter 160
Today's second change: Chapter 160, ask for a change, ask for a monthly pass, kneel for the kind, you lords are not stingy!
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The things on paper are not the auxiliary equipment and materials that Qian Manlou imagined to clear the seventh, eighth and ninth floors!
An S-Class Ice/Water Race Biological Power Core!
Ten pieces of A-tier equipment with fire attribute attack bonuses!
Thirteen S-Class materials with wind properties!
Three A-grade metal moon stones!
"How do I look like a material for advanced equipment?"
"This kid... Are there so many pieces of equipment that can be advanced? "
......
Is that much? This is not much, the power core is used to advance [Ice Heart Grip], the fire attribute A-level equipment is used to advance [Incineration], of the thirteen S-grade wind attribute materials, ten of them are used to advance [Purgatory Wind Demon Boots], three are used to advance [Wind Breath Bracer], and the A-level Moon Stone is used to advance [Moon Spirit Bracelet]!
Xu Kun's whole body, except for [Flowing Fire Red Sparrow], there are no advanced conditions, [Lingzheng Seal Remnant] needs to piece together fragments, and other equipment above Grade A has the number of advances!
The advanced condition required for [Chengying] is to kill one boss from F rank to S level respectively!
【Inheritance】
Advanced condition progress: F√E
√D×C×B×A√S√ In addition to B, C, and D, the boss Xu Kun of all grades has been killed.
The rest is not in a hurry, because if [Chengying] advances again, the equipment level will come to level 10 and 0, and it does not have the [Beginner Easy] feature similar to the [Ultimate Yanling Suit] and the [No Level] feature of [Qiankun Belt]!
Advancing early is of no use to Xu Kun!
Moreover, when he officially stepped into the tenth layer, there was just an opportunity to kill the bosses of the remaining three grades for Xu Kun!
[Goldwind] automatically advanced once because of the level when it dropped, and like [Chengying], it was directly adapted to a higher level!
But as an SS-level intermediate artifact, its first advance was actually level 5 and 0, instead of being level 10 and level 0 like [Chengying]!
"I remember the molten gold sunset sword, the sword of the god of law, and the supper in my backpack, the first level of advancement is level 10 and 0, so it seems that there is also a difference between SS-level artifacts, although the golden wind can be advanced more times than the sword of the god of law, but after all the levels, it is not necessarily who is stronger and who is weak!"
In terms of attributes, the current [Golden Wind] naturally surpasses all the equipment on Xu Kun's body except for the [Seal of the Valley]!
But there is a truth, the 30th level wearable F-level equipment, in terms of attribute bonus, will be higher than the 0-level S-level equipment!
Grade is the key to affecting equipment, and under the same grade, it is naturally more than level!
In terms of value, [Golden Wind] is the ring part of a middle-level artifact, and [Sword of the God of Law] is a weapon part of a low-level artifact!
In equal circumstances, weapons are worth more than other parts!
The two pieces of equipment have their own merits, but if one person is allowed to choose, there is a high probability that he will choose the [Sword of the God of Law]!
The condition for the advancement of [Guardian of Rock] is the energy of ten S-grade ores, this equipment is advanced, it will not bother to fill the building, when Xu Kun got this equipment, he had already left the ore needed for its advancement!
Put ten S-grade ores on [Guardian of Rock], and a thick light lights up on this heavy armor, enveloping the ore, and then ten pieces of ore are turned into powder, and all the energy in them has been absorbed by [Guardian of Rock]!
[Ding, currently meet the advanced conditions of equipment-Guardian of Rock, do you choose to advance now? "
Select Advanced Now!"
[Ding, Equipment-Guardian of Rock has been successfully advanced, and the current equipment level is level 5 and level 0]
Xu Kun couldn't wait to look at the brand new panel of [Guardian of Rock].
【Guardian of the Rock】
Grade: S
Level: 5th Level: Level 0
Stamina: +200 Concentration: +100 Health: +10000 Strength: +2500 Physical Defense: +2500 Magic Defense: +1200
All Attributes: +15
Soil Resistance:
+
250
Other special attribute resistance: +70
Introduction: Thick armor generated by the power of the earth, with extremely strong defense, non-powerful people, cannot be worn!
Equipment requirements: Strength> 300
stunts: [Rock Armor] -5S does not take damage, generates a 10% health point, and the shield with its own defense
can be advanced: 2
Advanced conditions: Absorb the energy of ten S-level spirit stones, and advance to level 10 and 0!
After reading it, Xu Kun's excited mood suddenly calmed down, and after advancing once, [Guardian of Rock], there was no explosive growth in attributes, but it disappointed him a little!
"However, 10% rock armor with defense value is still more practical!"
Barely acceptable, for Xu Kun~
Among the remaining equipment, [Flowing Fire Red Sparrow], as an A-level equipment, is one of the few that has not advanced the number of times, which is also a nature of equipment!
Whether the equipment has the number of advancements depends on luck, the higher the level, the lower the level, the greater the possibility of the number of advances!
As mentioned earlier, progression is actually releasing the original attributes of equipment and returning to its heyday!
"The rest of the equipment needs advanced materials, and since Brother Qian has promised me that I will be ready when my sixth layer trial is over, then I don't have to bother much!"
Standing on the fifth floor, in front of the portal on top of the Heavenly Gobi, Xu Kun said to himself.
Wearing the [Guardian of Rock] after the advanced, Xu Kun looked at those F-level skills that accompanied the [Ten Thousand Races Guide] for the first time!
[Quick Attack]
Grade: E-level physics skill
effect: 20% increase in movement speed within 2S, +10% physical attack power for the next general attack!
Consumption: 10
cooldown: 5S
The first F-level skill obtained from the Cave Giant Rat, after advancing to the E level, the general attack has added 5% more physical attack, and the consumption is five more points!
【Grass Spirit】
Grade: E-level passive auxiliary skill
effect: recovery +10% (including medicine, skills...) To
be honest, this passive skill obtained from Rourou Rabbit, Xu Kun has not used it much at present!
Just like the recovery effect of [Spark Immortal], the so-called strongest defense is attack, Xu Kun suddenly focused on attacking, facing the target that would cause his life to be dangerous, his concept is only one - kill first!
So far, the only person who can cause good damage to Xu Kun is the [Emperor Ghost Slash] of the Asura Clan SS-level talent yesterday!
At that time, Xu Kun praised his high damage, and others thought that he was in Versailles, in fact, in addition to him, even Ling Feng, even an SS-level boss like Hell Demon Dog Shadow, had never caused damage to Xu Kun!
But it has not come in handy before, does not mean that this passive auxiliary skill is wasted, especially after obtaining the [Seal of the Valley], 1% of the blood volume per second is restored, naturally it becomes 1.1%, the current Xu Kun's 380,000 blood volume, 0.1% more, that is 0.1% more!
[Paralyzing Poison] Grade: E-level control skill
effect: Each attack will superimpose a layer of [Paralyzing Poison]
on the target, movement speed -5%, duration: 20S!
Maximum number of overlays for the same target: 10 layers!
This passive soft control skill obtained from the mandala snake did not increase the slowdown effect after progressing, but doubled the duration!
Well, it's quite practical too!
【Trampling】
Grade: E-level group control
skill effect: releasing the skill will cause the terrain within 6㎡ around to crack, and the hostile target within the range will fall into a 2S rigid state!
Consumption of energy: 100
cooldown: 30S
This control skill obtained from the brute bull, the range has increased from 3㎡ to 6㎡, as a mathematically qualified person, Xu Kun certainly knows that the radiation range has suddenly expanded by 4 times!
The stiffness has also doubled!
It can be said that it has improved significantly!
That double the energy consumption was nothing at all for Xu Kun!
"The only thing that can be considered a drawback is that the CD of this E-level skill is too long!"
30 seconds, that's enough for Xu Kun to do a lot of things!
[Blue Silver Winding]
Grade: E-level single control skill
effect: urge the blue silver grass around the target, wind it and bind it, and control the time until the number of blue silver grass is destroyed.
Consumption of energy: 20/plant can control the number of
blue silver grass: 10 cooldown time: 10S
This skill that cannot be used without blue silver grass, other things have not changed, but the number of control blue silver grass has increased!
The blue silver parasite after the upgrade of the blue silver spores, Xu Kun is still in the backpack, but no matter how you look at it, this skill can't be on the table, even if you can control a thousand plants, ten thousand blue silver grasses, it can't change the fact that the blue silver grass body is only an F-grade race creature!
The higher the level, it is too simple to break through the defense of the Blue Silver Grass!
"If only there were more powerful blue silver grass seeds~" Xu Kun touched his chin.
For example, ten S-grade Blue Silver Grasses, that Shi exhibited a [Blue Silver Winding], I am afraid that even SSS-level talents need Muggles!
"I don't know if the biologists in the clan have cultivated the ability of a more powerful blue silver grass, otherwise this skill will be considered wasted!"
Of course, Xu Kun is also thinking that for the blue silver grass this kind of wildfire is inexhaustible, the spring breeze blows and grows, there is no value, it will only plunder the habitat of others, and the ten thousand races have always adhered to the principle of burning it to burn it and burn it clean!
Who has enough to study the advanced level of blue silver grass!
......
At this moment, an underground research room in the imperial capital is conducting a terrible experiment!
Bang!
The laboratory exploded, and the entire surface was exploded by the flame wave!
Just when passers-by thought that some catastrophe had occurred, from the fire, an old man who looked like a mad demon ran out without cover!
When passers-by saw it, they were immediately shocked!
What kind of stuff is constantly twisting on this man!
"Haha, I succeeded, I used my blood to cultivate an S-grade blue silver grass, hahaha, I finally succeeded!"
As the old man's hearty voice sounded, the blue silver grass that spread out from his body began to rise wildly, different from the blue silver grass that Xu Kun had seen, it was an ordinary green grass, this blue silver grass with strong coercion was accompanied by noble golden patterns, and it was absolutely extraordinary at a glance!
The old man cried with joy and stroked the blue silver grass that grew from his body: "From today onwards, you will be reborn, you are my son, in order to cultivate you, I lost three apprentices, my name is Tang Hao, then you will be called Tang San in the future!"
"You are no longer the Blue Silver Grass that is disgusted by ten thousand races, but the emperor in the Blue Silver Grass, the real Blue Silver Emperor!"
The newly cultivated Blue Silver Emperor Tang San, as if he had thoughts, affectionately stroked the old man's thin face, like a child stroking an old father!
It is also not like ordinary blue silver grass that spreads wantonly and plunders the habitat of others!
In the sky, a pair of giant eyes emerged.
"Donald, you have finally succeeded in cultivating!" There was a hint of complexity in his eyes, for the old man's experiment watered with his own blood, the high-level of the Terran race had always been repulsed!
In addition to the fact that the research process was too brutal, more importantly, what he studied was the blue silver grass that made the ten thousand races disgusted!
What's the use of researching this thing?
And the old man's status in the Terran scientific research community is not low, after he submitted this proposal, he was opposed by everyone, only Lord Tianyan, the lord of the era of the Terrans, after carefully reading his research direction, he tried his best to agree to his research!
Of course, agreeing to agree, funds, personnel can not be matched at all, the old man had to take his three apprentices to hide in the dark underground research, once researched, it was a full thirty years!
During this period, because he could not control the blue silver grass that became stronger by absorbing the old man's blood, the rioting blue silver grass sucked all three of his disciples into dry corpses, but the old man still did not give up this experiment!
"Yes, it finally worked, and I... It's also come to the end of life!
"I..."
"I sacrificed my last life to my child, rest assured, he will not be as uncontrolled as the other blue silver grasses, and when I die, I hope you can transfer him to someone who can control him!"
"There is the Blue Silver Emperor Tang San, and the blue silver grass in the sky, all obey his orders!"
"His seed can also give birth to an A-grade race creature second only to him, the Blue Silver King!"
"Go, follow him, in the future on the battlefield of the Terrans, with you, it is equivalent to a big help!"
The old man held the main vein of the Blue Silver Emperor and abruptly pulled him out of his body.
"Remember his name, he is my Tang Hao's son, and he also inherited the legacy of my three apprentices... Tang San! With
the last strength of his strength, the old man threw the entire Blue Silver Emperor into the air, his huge eyes blinked slightly, and the Blue Silver Emperor, who wanted to fight to separate, disappeared in place.
"Elder Tang, go all the way, rest assured, in this world, there are just people who can control this Blue Silver Emperor that you have cultivated with painstaking efforts!"
Xu Kun didn't know anything about this, he was continuing to check the newly advanced skills!
【Flying Sand Walking Stone】Grade
: E grade
....
......
The things on paper are not the auxiliary equipment and materials that Qian Manlou imagined to clear the seventh, eighth and ninth floors!
An S-Class Ice/Water Race Biological Power Core!
Ten pieces of A-tier equipment with fire attribute attack bonuses!
Thirteen S-Class materials with wind properties!
Three A-grade metal moon stones!
"How do I look like a material for advanced equipment?"
"This kid... Are there so many pieces of equipment that can be advanced? "
......
Is that much? This is not much, the power core is used to advance [Ice Heart Grip], the fire attribute A-level equipment is used to advance [Incineration], of the thirteen S-grade wind attribute materials, ten of them are used to advance [Purgatory Wind Demon Boots], three are used to advance [Wind Breath Bracer], and the A-level Moon Stone is used to advance [Moon Spirit Bracelet]!
Xu Kun's whole body, except for [Flowing Fire Red Sparrow], there are no advanced conditions, [Lingzheng Seal Remnant] needs to piece together fragments, and other equipment above Grade A has the number of advances!
The advanced condition required for [Chengying] is to kill one boss from F rank to S level respectively!
【Inheritance】
Advanced condition progress: F√E
√D×C×B×A√S√ In addition to B, C, and D, the boss Xu Kun of all grades has been killed.
The rest is not in a hurry, because if [Chengying] advances again, the equipment level will come to level 10 and 0, and it does not have the [Beginner Easy] feature similar to the [Ultimate Yanling Suit] and the [No Level] feature of [Qiankun Belt]!
Advancing early is of no use to Xu Kun!
Moreover, when he officially stepped into the tenth layer, there was just an opportunity to kill the bosses of the remaining three grades for Xu Kun!
[Goldwind] automatically advanced once because of the level when it dropped, and like [Chengying], it was directly adapted to a higher level!
But as an SS-level intermediate artifact, its first advance was actually level 5 and 0, instead of being level 10 and level 0 like [Chengying]!
"I remember the molten gold sunset sword, the sword of the god of law, and the supper in my backpack, the first level of advancement is level 10 and 0, so it seems that there is also a difference between SS-level artifacts, although the golden wind can be advanced more times than the sword of the god of law, but after all the levels, it is not necessarily who is stronger and who is weak!"
In terms of attributes, the current [Golden Wind] naturally surpasses all the equipment on Xu Kun's body except for the [Seal of the Valley]!
But there is a truth, the 30th level wearable F-level equipment, in terms of attribute bonus, will be higher than the 0-level S-level equipment!
Grade is the key to affecting equipment, and under the same grade, it is naturally more than level!
In terms of value, [Golden Wind] is the ring part of a middle-level artifact, and [Sword of the God of Law] is a weapon part of a low-level artifact!
In equal circumstances, weapons are worth more than other parts!
The two pieces of equipment have their own merits, but if one person is allowed to choose, there is a high probability that he will choose the [Sword of the God of Law]!
The condition for the advancement of [Guardian of Rock] is the energy of ten S-grade ores, this equipment is advanced, it will not bother to fill the building, when Xu Kun got this equipment, he had already left the ore needed for its advancement!
Put ten S-grade ores on [Guardian of Rock], and a thick light lights up on this heavy armor, enveloping the ore, and then ten pieces of ore are turned into powder, and all the energy in them has been absorbed by [Guardian of Rock]!
[Ding, currently meet the advanced conditions of equipment-Guardian of Rock, do you choose to advance now? "
Select Advanced Now!"
[Ding, Equipment-Guardian of Rock has been successfully advanced, and the current equipment level is level 5 and level 0]
Xu Kun couldn't wait to look at the brand new panel of [Guardian of Rock].
【Guardian of the Rock】
Grade: S
Level: 5th Level: Level 0
Stamina: +200 Concentration: +100 Health: +10000 Strength: +2500 Physical Defense: +2500 Magic Defense: +1200
All Attributes: +15
Soil Resistance:
+
250
Other special attribute resistance: +70
Introduction: Thick armor generated by the power of the earth, with extremely strong defense, non-powerful people, cannot be worn!
Equipment requirements: Strength> 300
stunts: [Rock Armor] -5S does not take damage, generates a 10% health point, and the shield with its own defense
can be advanced: 2
Advanced conditions: Absorb the energy of ten S-level spirit stones, and advance to level 10 and 0!
After reading it, Xu Kun's excited mood suddenly calmed down, and after advancing once, [Guardian of Rock], there was no explosive growth in attributes, but it disappointed him a little!
"However, 10% rock armor with defense value is still more practical!"
Barely acceptable, for Xu Kun~
Among the remaining equipment, [Flowing Fire Red Sparrow], as an A-level equipment, is one of the few that has not advanced the number of times, which is also a nature of equipment!
Whether the equipment has the number of advancements depends on luck, the higher the level, the lower the level, the greater the possibility of the number of advances!
As mentioned earlier, progression is actually releasing the original attributes of equipment and returning to its heyday!
"The rest of the equipment needs advanced materials, and since Brother Qian has promised me that I will be ready when my sixth layer trial is over, then I don't have to bother much!"
Standing on the fifth floor, in front of the portal on top of the Heavenly Gobi, Xu Kun said to himself.
Wearing the [Guardian of Rock] after the advanced, Xu Kun looked at those F-level skills that accompanied the [Ten Thousand Races Guide] for the first time!
[Quick Attack]
Grade: E-level physics skill
effect: 20% increase in movement speed within 2S, +10% physical attack power for the next general attack!
Consumption: 10
cooldown: 5S
The first F-level skill obtained from the Cave Giant Rat, after advancing to the E level, the general attack has added 5% more physical attack, and the consumption is five more points!
【Grass Spirit】
Grade: E-level passive auxiliary skill
effect: recovery +10% (including medicine, skills...) To
be honest, this passive skill obtained from Rourou Rabbit, Xu Kun has not used it much at present!
Just like the recovery effect of [Spark Immortal], the so-called strongest defense is attack, Xu Kun suddenly focused on attacking, facing the target that would cause his life to be dangerous, his concept is only one - kill first!
So far, the only person who can cause good damage to Xu Kun is the [Emperor Ghost Slash] of the Asura Clan SS-level talent yesterday!
At that time, Xu Kun praised his high damage, and others thought that he was in Versailles, in fact, in addition to him, even Ling Feng, even an SS-level boss like Hell Demon Dog Shadow, had never caused damage to Xu Kun!
But it has not come in handy before, does not mean that this passive auxiliary skill is wasted, especially after obtaining the [Seal of the Valley], 1% of the blood volume per second is restored, naturally it becomes 1.1%, the current Xu Kun's 380,000 blood volume, 0.1% more, that is 0.1% more!
[Paralyzing Poison] Grade: E-level control skill
effect: Each attack will superimpose a layer of [Paralyzing Poison]
on the target, movement speed -5%, duration: 20S!
Maximum number of overlays for the same target: 10 layers!
This passive soft control skill obtained from the mandala snake did not increase the slowdown effect after progressing, but doubled the duration!
Well, it's quite practical too!
【Trampling】
Grade: E-level group control
skill effect: releasing the skill will cause the terrain within 6㎡ around to crack, and the hostile target within the range will fall into a 2S rigid state!
Consumption of energy: 100
cooldown: 30S
This control skill obtained from the brute bull, the range has increased from 3㎡ to 6㎡, as a mathematically qualified person, Xu Kun certainly knows that the radiation range has suddenly expanded by 4 times!
The stiffness has also doubled!
It can be said that it has improved significantly!
That double the energy consumption was nothing at all for Xu Kun!
"The only thing that can be considered a drawback is that the CD of this E-level skill is too long!"
30 seconds, that's enough for Xu Kun to do a lot of things!
[Blue Silver Winding]
Grade: E-level single control skill
effect: urge the blue silver grass around the target, wind it and bind it, and control the time until the number of blue silver grass is destroyed.
Consumption of energy: 20/plant can control the number of
blue silver grass: 10 cooldown time: 10S
This skill that cannot be used without blue silver grass, other things have not changed, but the number of control blue silver grass has increased!
The blue silver parasite after the upgrade of the blue silver spores, Xu Kun is still in the backpack, but no matter how you look at it, this skill can't be on the table, even if you can control a thousand plants, ten thousand blue silver grasses, it can't change the fact that the blue silver grass body is only an F-grade race creature!
The higher the level, it is too simple to break through the defense of the Blue Silver Grass!
"If only there were more powerful blue silver grass seeds~" Xu Kun touched his chin.
For example, ten S-grade Blue Silver Grasses, that Shi exhibited a [Blue Silver Winding], I am afraid that even SSS-level talents need Muggles!
"I don't know if the biologists in the clan have cultivated the ability of a more powerful blue silver grass, otherwise this skill will be considered wasted!"
Of course, Xu Kun is also thinking that for the blue silver grass this kind of wildfire is inexhaustible, the spring breeze blows and grows, there is no value, it will only plunder the habitat of others, and the ten thousand races have always adhered to the principle of burning it to burn it and burn it clean!
Who has enough to study the advanced level of blue silver grass!
......
At this moment, an underground research room in the imperial capital is conducting a terrible experiment!
Bang!
The laboratory exploded, and the entire surface was exploded by the flame wave!
Just when passers-by thought that some catastrophe had occurred, from the fire, an old man who looked like a mad demon ran out without cover!
When passers-by saw it, they were immediately shocked!
What kind of stuff is constantly twisting on this man!
"Haha, I succeeded, I used my blood to cultivate an S-grade blue silver grass, hahaha, I finally succeeded!"
As the old man's hearty voice sounded, the blue silver grass that spread out from his body began to rise wildly, different from the blue silver grass that Xu Kun had seen, it was an ordinary green grass, this blue silver grass with strong coercion was accompanied by noble golden patterns, and it was absolutely extraordinary at a glance!
The old man cried with joy and stroked the blue silver grass that grew from his body: "From today onwards, you will be reborn, you are my son, in order to cultivate you, I lost three apprentices, my name is Tang Hao, then you will be called Tang San in the future!"
"You are no longer the Blue Silver Grass that is disgusted by ten thousand races, but the emperor in the Blue Silver Grass, the real Blue Silver Emperor!"
The newly cultivated Blue Silver Emperor Tang San, as if he had thoughts, affectionately stroked the old man's thin face, like a child stroking an old father!
It is also not like ordinary blue silver grass that spreads wantonly and plunders the habitat of others!
In the sky, a pair of giant eyes emerged.
"Donald, you have finally succeeded in cultivating!" There was a hint of complexity in his eyes, for the old man's experiment watered with his own blood, the high-level of the Terran race had always been repulsed!
In addition to the fact that the research process was too brutal, more importantly, what he studied was the blue silver grass that made the ten thousand races disgusted!
What's the use of researching this thing?
And the old man's status in the Terran scientific research community is not low, after he submitted this proposal, he was opposed by everyone, only Lord Tianyan, the lord of the era of the Terrans, after carefully reading his research direction, he tried his best to agree to his research!
Of course, agreeing to agree, funds, personnel can not be matched at all, the old man had to take his three apprentices to hide in the dark underground research, once researched, it was a full thirty years!
During this period, because he could not control the blue silver grass that became stronger by absorbing the old man's blood, the rioting blue silver grass sucked all three of his disciples into dry corpses, but the old man still did not give up this experiment!
"Yes, it finally worked, and I... It's also come to the end of life!
"I..."
"I sacrificed my last life to my child, rest assured, he will not be as uncontrolled as the other blue silver grasses, and when I die, I hope you can transfer him to someone who can control him!"
"There is the Blue Silver Emperor Tang San, and the blue silver grass in the sky, all obey his orders!"
"His seed can also give birth to an A-grade race creature second only to him, the Blue Silver King!"
"Go, follow him, in the future on the battlefield of the Terrans, with you, it is equivalent to a big help!"
The old man held the main vein of the Blue Silver Emperor and abruptly pulled him out of his body.
"Remember his name, he is my Tang Hao's son, and he also inherited the legacy of my three apprentices... Tang San! With
the last strength of his strength, the old man threw the entire Blue Silver Emperor into the air, his huge eyes blinked slightly, and the Blue Silver Emperor, who wanted to fight to separate, disappeared in place.
"Elder Tang, go all the way, rest assured, in this world, there are just people who can control this Blue Silver Emperor that you have cultivated with painstaking efforts!"
Xu Kun didn't know anything about this, he was continuing to check the newly advanced skills!
【Flying Sand Walking Stone】Grade
: E grade
....
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