CHAPTER 625: CHAPTER 624: PURPLE QUALITY [EMPEROR CROCODILE BELT]

Speaking of this matter, Zhang Yanhang sometimes even wondered if Zhao Yalan’s pink lace were some special equipment, like the Hulk’s underwear belonging to that rare category of innerwear. Otherwise, why would she wear them all the time?

Unfortunately, according to Zhang Yanhang’s scanning results over the years, they appeared to be just ordinary cotton underwear.

Later, when Zhang Yanhang was scanning Zhao Yalan’s wardrobe, he found the answer. It seemed she had likely taken advantage of a major discount sale to buy a bunch of the same style of cotton underwear, which was why every scan showed the same design.

This made Zhang Yanhang increasingly want to give her money. Although she might not accept it if he gave it to her directly, Zhang Yanhang could still provide indirect support by creating an option for Zhao Yalan to receive cash or transfer money directly.

Or even more directly, through an option that would allow her to win a related prize in an ordinary yet bizarrely magical way during her daily life, like a related underwear mystery box.

Unfortunately, he was currently opening a treasure box and couldn’t make such an option immediately. He planned to tailor some appropriate options based on Zhao Yalan’s specific situation once he returned to the Main World.

Of course, the premise was that Zhang Yanhang would remember this matter after returning to the Main World. The possibility of forgetting wasn’t large since he could instantly recall this matter the next time he scanned Zhao Yalan if he momentarily forgot.

"The Demonized Emperor Crocodile, being a Second Tier Two Star Ordinary Monster, predictably also has a D-grade Racial Talent. This means C-grade talents are indeed only seen on Second Tier Three Star monsters.

That implies although acquiring D-grade talents at the start is relatively easy, obtaining C-grade talents from the start might still be challenging.

After all, finding or even saying that Second Tier Three Star power-level monsters are common is one thing, but the weakest zone comprising solely these high-level monsters is probably hard to find."

Zhang Yanhang figured that even after he advanced to Third Tier, he might not be able to immediately find a relatively high-end area where the weakest monsters were of Second Tier Three Star level.

It might take some more time to find such a zone where the weakest are Second Tier Three Stars because, in that area, slightly stronger ones would start from Third Tier, and the Lord Monsters would most likely jump directly to Fourth Tier, so it indeed wouldn’t be that easy to encounter.

After reviewing the third item slot, Zhang Yanhang silently prayed, hoping to successfully unveil a new piece of equipment in the next option, and then he clicked on the fourth item.

[Item Four]

[Option One: Exotic Toothed Heavy Sword, Blue Quality, Weapon]

[Option Two: 375 Soul Points]

[Option Three: 700 Soul Points]

"Hmm? It’s not equipment again, but a soul points option?" Zhang Yanhang was quite surprised by this, as it seemed his intuition might not be very accurate.

From this deduction, the reason why he often guessed whether Zhao Yalan was home correctly might not be much related to the accuracy of his own intuition.

Perhaps it was simply because he hoped Zhao Yalan would be home, so he kept internally affirming that Zhao Yalan was at home, and it just so happened that Zhao Yalan preferred staying at home.

Regarding Zhao Yalan, an internet celebrity with several hundred thousand followers who preferred staying at home rather than going out randomly to shoot material, Zhang Yanhang initially couldn’t quite understand it, but everything became clear after realizing her identity as an Awakener.

After all, most Awakeners indeed prefer staying at home whether for cultivation or other matters, and if asked why, it might be because traveling far could lead to missing the transmission channels of the Ashen World.

Moreover, unlike Awakeners like Zhang Yanhang who are specialized in luck and also had hacks to encounter adventures daily, most Awakeners might not come across an adventure even once a year, naturally reducing their enthusiasm for going out.

After all, instead of hoping for unforeseen adventures, it indeed seems better to quietly cultivate at home and focus safely on breaking through rank bottlenecks to improve the efficiency of tier promotion.

In the initial stages of the Spiritual Qi Recovery, most Awakeners put more emphasis on enhancing their own strength because after the recovery, the external environment may not change daily, but changing monthly without much issue was expected; striving hard was indeed necessary to keep up with the times.

However, this effort was a healthy competition and not considered vicious competition. Compared to other Awakeners, surpassing oneself was the ultimate goal, and after the Permanent Teleportation Channels were opened continually, this trend was intensifying, with literal daily changes.

Even though Zhang Yanhang was not as sensitive to spiritual energy concentration as some Awakeners with related abilities, he could also genuinely feel that the spiritual energy concentration in Qin Island City had been visibly increasing every day since the Permanent Teleportation Channels were opened.

Although Qin Island City’s spiritual energy density still remained around 1.5 times, he speculated that if more Permanent Teleportation Channels around Qin Island City continued to be activated, perhaps next month the area’s spiritual energy density might reach around 2 times.

It was undoubtedly an astonishing pace, because after the Spiritual Qi Recovery, Qin Island City itself had an ordinary density of spiritual energy at twice the normal, and the subsequent 0.5 times increase had been the total accumulation over six months; now, it could potentially surpass that six months’ increase in just one month.

It could be said that the channels that were continuously open all the time were indeed far more efficient than those that were intermittently open before.

After all, normal transmission channels were open only for a few hours each time, and the waiting time until the next opening again consumed several hours, which could hardly compare to the Permanent Teleportation Channels, which transmitted spiritual energy non-stop 24 hours a day, all year round.

Even though the number of Permanent Teleportation Channels wasn’t many, they still caused such an astounding effect, as Permanent Transmission Channels were transformed from ordinary transmission channels; hence, the acceleration in spiritual density was always on the rise, never decreasing.

"By the way, does the ’mutant’ in this Exotic Toothed Heavy Sword refer to the ’mutant’ in ’demonized (mutant)’?"

Regarding the fact that materials from the Demonized Emperor Crocodile were used to make the Sawtooth Heavy Sword, Zhang Yanhang oddly felt it was quite fitting; after all, it would indeed be a waste if a dagger, for instance, was made from such a large creature like the Demonized Emperor Crocodile. Only by making it into a heavy weapon like a heavy sword could the greatest value of the Demonized Emperor Crocodile be utilized.

"Next is the last option, and finally, it’s related to equipment," Zhang Yanhang said as he opened the last option.

[Item Five]

[Option One: Emperor Crocodile Belt, Purple Quality, Equipment]

[Option Two: Alligator Tooth Belt, Blue Quality, Equipment]

[Option Three: Gulf Crocodile Waist Protector, Green Quality, Equipment]

"Sure enough, a purple quality equipment has appeared—the Emperor Crocodile Belt. I didn’t expect a new belt product to come out. Is it because Multiple Choice felt that my green ten-piece set was gradually becoming obsolete, so they provided me with belt-type equipment? Well, maybe it’s just a coincidence."

Zhang Yanhang felt that, compared to belts, the places occupied by the white ten-piece set on his body were more in need of replacement, such as the helmet, clothes, shoes, pants, and other more ordinary equipment. He had a much greater desire to replace these white-quality equipment than to replace the green ten-piece set.

After all, the green ten-piece set had been condensed into one belt, while the white ten-piece set was still genuinely occupying ten equipment slots, although some equipment slots were actually duplicated, like the head, which, in addition to belts, also had hoods and masks.

The waist area also took on several components of the white-quality ten-piece set, so practically speaking, while replacing the green ten-piece set, Zhang Yanhang’s white ten-piece set would also be rendered ineffective due to missing components on the belt.

Of course, only part of it would be ineffective. After all, the white ten-piece set has five set effects, and at least some of these could still be preserved.

Although the combined effect of the five set effects of the white ten-piece set was just all attributes +1, having enhancements is still better than none, and although other enhancement attributes might no longer be useful to Zhang Yanhang, the charm attribute is still quite useful for now, and he felt it was very worthwhile to keep.

"Besides the purple-quality Emperor Crocodile Belt, this time’s options also include the blue-quality Alligator Tooth Belt and the green-quality Gulf Crocodile Waist Protector. The Alligator Tooth Belt is quite normal, as it’s also made from materials from the Demonized Emperor Crocodile.

But this Gulf Crocodile Waist Protector is frankly absurd as it’s made from Demonized Bay Crocodile materials when there really is no kinship relation. Why would related items come out?" After complaining a bit about the Gulf Crocodile Waist Protector, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened the attribute list for the Emperor Crocodile Belt to start inspecting it.

[Emperor Crocodile Belt]

[Quality: Purple]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, High Elf Empire, Supreme Forest, Elf Court Avando.]

[Durability: 50/50]

[Defensive Power: 35]

[Additional Attributes: Attack Speed +10%.]

[Usage Requirements: Agility 30 points.]

[Score: 120 (Purple items are scored from 71 to 150.)]

[Introduction: My name is Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado, a war hero who is fairly ordinary yet not too ordinary. After achieving great merit in the war with the dwarves a thousand years ago, I have been collecting a special pension without any sense of guilt and started living a monotonous retirement life.

It has been ten years since the last joint petition, but every time I recall the celebration of the Queen’s two-thousandth anniversary, it feels as fresh as yesterday—especially since the last time I was injured was probably then, making it hard for an elf to forget that feeling of their guts churning as if they were about to leap out of their mouth.

What doubly makes me feel as if it was just yesterday is the Queen’s punishment that followed. Initially, as I was stuck in a daze, spread-eagled against the trunk of the World Tree, I couldn’t fathom why the Queen would attack me, a hero of the Empire.

Though I still haven’t figured it out, even suspecting that the Queen might have been possessed by a Heart Stealer to attack me, her subsequent forceful stomp packed with massive inertia, as she flew out of the royal palace, quickly shocked me into consciousness because my instinct told me that if I didn’t wake up then, I might never wake up again.

After coming to, I wanted to ask the Queen why she attacked me, but before I could speak, she gave me a strange glance with blushing cheeks, seemingly wanting me to understand on my own. But the minds of royals are the hardest to read; how could I possibly understand?

Thus, the reason why the Queen kicked me remained an unsolved mystery, despite my efforts to find answers or ask others. In the end, they always seemed to say something strange to brush me off, telling me to learn "how to read the air."

Even after ten years, I still couldn’t understand why I needed to read the air—is there some answer in the air? But the air surely only contains elemental molecules, right? However, I soon discovered I was wrong; there really seemed to be answers in the air.

Whether it was because I actually had Talent in understanding the air, it only took me five years to fully comprehend it, allowing me to smoothly combine and fuse with the elemental molecules in the air.

Thanks to this, the once not-so-abundant Magic Power started to increase continuously, and the recovery rate of my Magic Power improved by at least tenfold.

Moreover, aside from matters related to Magic Power, I also developed a brand-new Elemental Battle Body and large-scale strategic-level Celestial Phenomenon Magic, increasing my fighting power several times whenever there were elemental molecules in the surrounding air.

I even feel that, as long as there are enough surrounding elemental molecules, perhaps even the Queen isn’t an impossibility...

Confident that I could fully understand the air, I promptly went to communicate again with the Elf Minister, who initially brushed me off with strange comments, to know the real answer. His expression suddenly turned strange after learning about my process of understanding the air, but soon he praised me as a genius in comprehending air.

Although the Elf Minister’s expression seemed to mix with many complicated emotions, faced with the praise, I proudly lifted my head and gladly accepted it, because after all, I am the renowned Imperial War Hero, Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado—the one in the entire Elf Clan who understands how to read the air the best, haha!]