424: Gear Change
“No... No... No,” Samantha sifted through sets of leather and scale mail armor, each cooler than the previous one, yet each of them Samantha discarded from thought and sight without the slightest hesitation.
“Ah! This one!” Samantha exclaimed as if she found a hidden gem, grabbed the metal stand of the armor with her right hand, lifted the entire thing like a paperweight and moved it to Beatrice. “Try it on!”
“Ehh...” while Beatrice was impressed with Samantha’s strength, she was less than impressed with her choice and hesitant to even touch it.
Upper body armor consisted of a gray plate mail that promised to cover little more than breasts and a few ribs, leaving the heart and the entire abdomen area open for attack. Thick leather gloves with woven leather reaching all the way to the elbows and two layers of leather and metal for shoulder pads, made the arms the most protected body part by far. While the lower armor part consisted of a leather skirt and two metal plates at the hips to protect against... something? Oh, and knee-high brown boots with high heels, of course.
Despite being more revealing than some and just as impractical as many other armor sets that Samantha passed, this one looked like the most generic and uninspired one.
“Did you cobble that up by looting corpses?” Ember asked, seemingly agreeing with Beatrice’s obvious disappointment. “I feel like I’ve seen twenty different variations of this just on my way here.”
“That’s the point,” Samantha said and moved the metal stand a foot further, all but shoving the armor’s plate mail into Beatrice’s tits.
“To fade into the background as much as possible while out on the streets,” Beatrice muttered and went on to change into the armor Samantha provided with a somewhat deflated spirit. Going into this, Beatrice did not really expect or even think of getting outfitted in some awesome armor that Samantha had plenty of. But after watching her go through so many only to pick the one that made her look like a background character...
Expected nothing, but somehow ended up disappointed, huh? Beatrice thought. Multiply this by a thousand and might just get a tiny taste of how Samantha felt about my [Taint Cleansing].
Item: Generic-looking Plate mail Top
Item Class: Rare
Health Points: +70
Physical Defense: +15
Magic Defense: +6
Speed: +4
Effects: Generic-looking set bonus (5/5) - Stealth Skills have increased effectiveness by +30%, +30% damage dealt on first strike if initiating combat, +60% damage dealt on back attack if initiating combat.
Minimum Requirements:
Character level: 25
Item: Generic-looking Plate mail Skirt and Leather Panties
Item Class: Rare
Health Points: +50
Physical Defense: +12
Magic Defense: +5
Speed: +4
Effects: Generic-looking set bonus (5/5) - Stealth Skills have increased effectiveness by +30%, +30% damage dealt on first strike if initiating combat, +60% damage dealt on back attack if initiating combat.
Minimum Requirements:
Character level: 25
Item: Generic-looking Plate mail Shoulder Pads
Item Class: Rare
Health Points: +60
Physical Defense: +12
Magic Defense: +5
Effects: Generic-looking set bonus (5/5) - Stealth Skills have increased effectiveness by +30%, +30% damage dealt on first strike if initiating combat, +60% damage dealt on back attack if initiating combat.
Minimum Requirements:
Character level: 25
Item: Generic-looking Leather Gloves
Item Class: Rare
Health Points: +30
Physical Attack: +10
Physical Defense: +10
Magic Defense: +5
Effects: Generic-looking set bonus (5/5) - Stealth Skills have increased effectiveness by +30%, +30% damage dealt on first strike if initiating combat, +60% damage dealt on back attack if initiating combat.
Minimum Requirements:
Character level: 25
Item: Generic-looking Leather High Heel Boots
Item Class: Rare
Health Points: +30
Physical Defense: +10
Magic Defense: +5
Speed: +8
Effects: Generic-looking set bonus (5/5) - Stealth Skills have increased effectiveness by +30%, +30% damage dealt on first strike if initiating combat, +60% damage dealt on back attack if initiating combat.
Minimum Requirements:
Character level: 25
Wait, those stats really add up! Beatrice thought, inspecting her new item description one by one as she put them on. Despite looking like nothing, her character received a substantial boost in raw power (not even counting the additional new effects from the items) and one look at her Character Information tab confirmed this.
Information
Name
Beatrice
Age
18
Class
Succubus
Level
27 (15%)
Health Points
640/860 (+1.24/sec)
Arousal Points
12/396 (+0.01/sec)
Stamina Points
280/280 (+0.7/sec)
Physical Attack
34
Physical Defense
73
Magic Attack
53
Magic Defense
20
Speed
34
Beatrice also noted that her Health Points were down by just the amount added by her new items, minus a few points from the per-second regeneration. Figures, otherwise, if it was instantly full, I’d be able to just heal myself by equipping and unequipping items with bonus Health Points.