CHAPTER 615: CHAPTER 614: ATTRIBUTE LIMIT

"This time, ’Ability Two Aerobic Exercise’ has again increased by 15% the bonus to Movement Speed in an aerobic environment, bringing the total bonus from the original 60% to 75%. Including the previous 15% improvement from Grade A, I have a total increase of 30% in Movement Speed. I think I should be able to easily achieve the small goal of one hundred and fifty meters per second that I set before."

In addition to ’Ability Two Aerobic Exercise,’ Zhang Yanhang also paid close attention to ’Ability Three Outdoor Sports.’

"This time, ’Ability Three Outdoor Sports’ has unexpectedly increased the reduction of negative effects by another 10%. Wasn’t 100% originally the limit? Could it be that after exceeding one hundred percent, there will be some new enhancements for the negative effects?"

For this question, Zhang Yanhang felt he could probably test it out while testing his Movement Speed later.

"Although I’m not sure if there will be any new enhancements in other areas, with an increase to 110%, my previous ’As Flat As A Pancake’ ability should definitely be further bolstered."

Although he hadn’t tested it in actual hunting, Zhang Yanhang was indeed very confident in that ’As Flat As A Pancake’ ability.

"This time, the S-ranked ’Earth Rhythm’ Talent, while the name has certainly changed, has still maintained the previous rate of increase. It seems that mutations like this are indeed not so easy to come by."

Although there was no mutation, Zhang Yanhang wasn’t very disappointed, as he never really expected one this time.

"However, although not being mutated is not so disappointing, the small wish I had before has all failed, which is still a bit upsetting. But fortunately, when I later upgrade ’Earth Rhythm’ Talent to SS rank, this Talent should definitely undergo new changes."

Zhang Yanhang was quite looking forward to the SS and even the SSS rank Rhythm Talents.

"After upgrading the A-ranked ’Life Pulse’ Talent to the S-ranked ’Earth Rhythm’ Talent, I then spent eighty-one ’Prehistoric Giant Beast’ Talents. After deducting this part, I now have only 180 ’Prehistoric Giant Beast’ Talents left in my hand.

To upgrade the S-ranked ’Earth Rhythm’ Talent to SS rank, I would need to consume 243 ’Prehistoric Giant Beast’ Talents. Hence, I am short of 63 ’Prehistoric Giant Beast’ Talents. If all goes well, I’d have to hunt down more than a thousand ’Demonized Prehistoric Creatures’ to gather enough.

But fortunately, after I wake up from sleep, I should go to execute the Second Tier Stage of the cleanup plan. With 130 square kilometers of the Eastern Forest, it should be easy enough to gather the sixty-three ’Prehistoric Giant Beast’ Talents, and after that, I might even have a few hundred extra ’Prehistoric Giant Beast’ Talents to prepare for upgrading to SSS rank."

Although Zhang Yanhang was not too confident in directly upgrading to SSS rank, it was still necessary to save up the required Talents. After all, even if he couldn’t upgrade now due to insufficient quantities, he should be able to accumulate enough Talents to upgrade to SSS rank after the Monsters respawn.

After checking the effects of the S-ranked ’Earth Rhythm’ Talent, Zhang Yanhang didn’t rush to test his current Movement Speed. Instead, he opened his Attribute list and took a quick look.

[Strength: 50 (+6[-7])]

[Agility: 50 (+6[-6])]

[Constitution: 50 (+6[-6])]

[Intelligence: 50 (+6[-11])]

[Charm: 50 (+19)]

"Due to the consecutive Talent level improvements just now, my Charm attribute has increased by another two points, progressing from the original 48 points to 50 points. After striving for so long, the Charm attribute has finally reached the Second Tier Limit.

As a result, all five of my Attributes are at the Second Tier Limit, and I must wait for a Rank promotion to continue improving them.

However, compared to the four Main Attributes which could reach fifty points even in my base state without Equipment, the Charm attribute is still at a comparatively lower state, requiring Equipment bonus to reach the fifty-point Second Tier Limit. But fortunately, there’s no real need to pursue a base state for the Charm attribute, as it doesn’t make much sense."

Zhang Yanhang felt quite pleased with the neat and uniform fifty points in his Attribute list. After all, he did think that improving the Charm attribute to fifty points would only be possible after advancing to Third Tier and using Free attribute points.

But who would have thought that during the cleanup of the ’Demonized Swamp,’ he would encounter a Charming Talent like ’Earth Rhythm’ that increased Movement Speed, allowing the Charm attribute to reach fifty points with the bonus from the Talent.

"After the Charm attribute reached fifty points, the Fixed Damage of my ’Death Wave Skill’ has once again increased by ten points, progressing from the original seven hundred and forty points to seven hundred and fifty points, completely reaching the limit of the ’Death Wave Skill.’

From now on, there are really only two ways to continue increasing it. One is to improve the Skill Level of ’Death Wave,’ and the other is to raise my own Rank Level and correspondingly increase my Intelligence and Charm attributes.

Moreover, while the Fixed Damage Limit for ’Death Wave Skill’ has indeed increased by ten points, I can still only instantly kill Monsters with Constitution Attribute at thirty-seven points and below."

Although the ’Death Wave Skill’ has indeed reached its true limit, Zhang Yanhang still planned not to deviate from his upgrade strategy. He still intended to first elevate ’Fighting Master LV.5’ to Level 6, and then upgrade ’Indestructible Golden Body LV.MAX’ to ’Indestructible Golden Body·Original LV.6.’

Only then would he upgrade ’Death Wave LV.MAX’ to ’Death Wave·Original LV.6,’ because the Stamina consumption of the ’Death Wave Skill’ leveled up too fiercely, and he really dared not directly increase the Skill Level of ’Death Wave Skill.’

Even now, when Zhang Yanhang looked back, he still remembered the painful lesson he learned when directly enhancing his Death Wave Skill Level had reduced his endurance time before advancing to the Second Tier from the original ten hours to just two hours.

He absolutely did not want to replicate that situation before advancing to the Third Tier, so although the Death Wave Skill was indeed very important, precisely because of its importance, the enhancement of the skill level had to be reserved for last.

"Now my Charm attribute has grown to the Second Tier Limit of fifty points, and since the increase was achieved through Talent, the proportion of Charm attribute provided by equipment bonuses has once again diminished.

Originally, the proportion of equipment bonuses was thirty-nine percent, but now it has decreased by one percent and lowered to thirty-eight percent."

Zhang Yanhang could only say that the proportion was indeed increasingly difficult to reduce as he moved forward, even though he had raised his Charm attribute by two points, which was consistent with the reduction achieved when he had increased it by only one point before.

However, whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, after advancing to the Third Tier, due to the expiration of the All Attributes +3 provided by both the White Ten-piece Set and the Green Ten-piece Set, his Charm attribute would decrease by three points, and correspondingly, the proportion of equipment bonuses in the Charm attribute would also decrease.

But the decrease that would occur in that situation was honestly something Zhang Yanhang really didn’t want, because there was no need to pursue a Charm attribute while unequipped, so the equipment bonus was truly useful to him.

After all, the sole effect of the Charm attribute was to amplify the fixed damage of the Death Wave Skill, so as long as it could normally increase the Fixed Damage Limit, then it was indeed a useful Charm attribute for him.

After checking the Attribute list, Zhang Yanhang immediately ran out through the window once more and went back to test his current Movement Speed on the straight highways of Raccoon City. The final result was quite satisfying to Zhang Yanhang, or rather, it was a bit beyond his expectations.

"Logically speaking, my Movement Speed should have only increased by 30%, but now it has directly gone from 131 meters per second to 160 meters per second, a rise of 29 meters per second. If it had been before, achieving such a Movement Speed would definitely have been impossible."

For this unexpected significant increase in Movement Speed, Zhang Yanhang suspected that the elimination of the 110% negative effect from Ability Three Outdoor Sports played a role. He believed that the extra 10% negative effect removal, unable to continue affecting him negatively, was converted into a boost to his own Movement Speed.

To put it simply, Zhang Yanhang believed that this extra 10% negative effect removal was effectively exchanged for a Movement Speed bonus, which meant that his Movement Speed had, in fact, increased by a total of 40% this time, allowing him to boost from the initial 131 meters to 160 meters per second all at once.

"If that’s the case, then haven’t my two little wishes already been fulfilled?"

Zhang Yanhang’s two previous small wishes were firstly for Ability Three Outdoor Sports to be enhanced or to develop a new power, and secondly for the Movement Speed bonus provided by his Talent to become higher.

Now, judging by the current situation, it seemed that they had all been inadvertently fulfilled, although the specifics of how they were achieved were slightly different from what he had expected.

The overflow of 10% negative effects that were supposed to be eliminated was indeed transformed into an enhancement to Movement Speed, but the conditions required to exploit its enhanced effects were much more stringent than those for Aerobic Exercise—it had to be in a solid-state environment.

Well, maybe that wasn’t exactly a restriction, after all. Whenever Zhang Yanhang chose to move, he basically did so in a solid-state environment, so it could be said there were effectively no restrictions.

"If the negative effects negated by the upgrade process of Ability Three Outdoor Sports are all counted toward Movement Speed enhancement, then the Movement Speed bonus provided by the Rhythm series of Talents should be much greater than my original expectations.

Speaking of expectations, it seems I need to set a new modest goal for myself. After all, the previous modest goal of one hundred and fifty meters per second has been easily achieved, and I’ve even exceeded it by an extra ten meters. Perhaps the next modest goal could be set at two hundred meters per second."

While two hundred meters per second might seem like a lot, the fact that the Rhythm Talent was still just S-rank gave Zhang Yanhang the confidence that at SS-rank, it would definitely help him easily surpass this modest goal.

"When the Rhythm Talent was at B-rank, my Movement Speed, even when augmented with Spiritual Energy, was merely 0.77 Mach. Now, it has surged to 0.94 Mach, an increase of 0.17 Mach compared to before, leaving me just 0.06 Mach shy of true sound speed movement."

Zhang Yanhang had been confident in achieving sound speed movement with his physical body before advancing to Third Tier, and now, having discovered that Ability Three Outdoor Sports of his Rhythm Talent could also enhance Movement Speed, he had become even more confident.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, he would easily accomplish a fleshly breakthrough of the sound barrier as long as he could upgrade his Rhythm Talent to SS-rank.

In terms of kilometers, Zhang Yanhang’s current Movement Speed had reached 576 kilometers per hour. The fastest S-97 armed helicopter, which used to be the only one he couldn’t outpace at 480 kilometers per hour, had been easily surpassed, and without even adding Spiritual Energy, his Movement Speed was already equivalent to twice the speed of high-speed trains.

Furthermore, if he augmented his Movement Speed with Spiritual Energy, it would immediately soar to 1152 kilometers per hour, effectively reaching the top cruising speed of mainstream commercial airliners, such as the Boeing 747.

As to why the example of the Boeing 747’s speed was used for both the increase from 943 to 1152 kilometers per hour, the 940 kilometers per hour referred to the normal cruising state of the Boeing 747. In fact, the Boeing 747’s maximum flight speed can exceed eleven hundred kilometers per hour.

For example, the difference between the two would be like driving a car on a highway at a normal speed versus flooring the accelerator in fourth gear to reach maximum speed. Although the ultimate speed is indeed faster, the consumption of fuel would be much higher than at normal speeds.

Thus, to save money, Boeing 747s usually cruise at around nine hundred kilometers per hour. After all, when at their speed limit, for a mere increase of less than one-fifth in speed, fuel consumption would rocket by half, making it a rather poor choice in terms of cost efficiency.

"Just having advanced to Second Tier and already reaching 0.94 Mach, it seems that after promoting to Third Tier, I should be able to easily match the level of fighter jets."

Although Zhang Yanhang could match the Movement Speed of some fighter jets, those were all old models from the last century, which really didn’t hold much value for comparison. He needed to compare himself to the most advanced.

However, even though the increase in Movement Speed thrilled Zhang Yanhang, what slightly disappointed him was that the ’As Flat As A Pancake’ ability, which had developed from the Earth Rhythm Ability Three Outdoor Sports upgrade to S-rank, didn’t seem to have undergone any significant changes.