CHAPTER 626: CHAPTER 625 LIGHT GOLDEN QUALITY [LIGHTNING TOTEM POLE +4]

"Wow, this Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado is truly a genius at reading the air. In just five short years, he managed to not only develop the Elemental Battle Body but also strategic-level Celestial Phenomenon Magic. If given another five years, he might even develop elementalization."

Facing such a character as Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado, even Zhang Yanhang had to praise him as a ’genius at reading the air’; perhaps he truly is the best among the High Elves at understanding the unspoken. No wonder he became a war hero soon after coming of age and went on to lead a retired life that Zhang Yanhang deeply envied.

Behind this, indeed, lay sufficient strength and talent for support. However, even though Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado’s strength and talent were very powerful, his emotional intelligence was really a matter of concern. If it could be quantified like the Intelligence Attribute Value, perhaps even scoring 2 would be considered high.

"I originally thought that the equipment summary of the Demonized Emperor Crocodile would cover the follow-up to the last incident, perhaps explaining a bit about how those two bottles of High Elf Blood and World Tree Juice came about, but unfortunately, it only mentioned a little about the previous incident."

Zhang Yanhang also wanted to find out what eventually happened to that new tailor in the palace chaos, whether he was killed outright or forgiven by the Elf Queen. If he was killed outright, then the High Elf Blood Zhang Yanhang drank last time might not have come from Azikasa’s blood but could have possibly been the blood of this new tailor.

"Since the equipment from the Drop Treasure Box of the Demonized Emperor Crocodile didn’t tell the follow-up story of that two-thousand-year coronation anniversary, it seems I’ll have to look forward to the equipment dropped by other monsters."

There are several types of monsters in the Demonized Swamp that Zhang Yanhang still hadn’t slain, and he feels it’s quite likely that he could learn the sequel story from the equipment inside their Drop Treasure Boxes.

"However, I truly didn’t expect that the equipment from the Drop Treasure Box of the Demonized Emperor Crocodile, an Emperor Crocodile Belt, would be an item that adds to Attack Speed? The Demonized Emperor Crocodile is not fast at all."

Initially, Zhang Yanhang was very confident that the additional attributes of the Demonized Emperor Crocodile’s equipment would likely enhance Physical Recovery Speed, considering the creature’s greatest strengths are its Strength and Constitution Attributes. Unexpectedly though, the enhanced attributes turned out to be related to Agility, which the Demonized Emperor Crocodile is not particularly good at.

"But fortunately, although it’s not the Physical Recovery Speed enhancement I wanted the most, the Attack Speed enhancement is still very desirable. After all, with my Rhythm Talent having increased so much Movement Speed, there has indeed been some imbalance between Attack Speed and Movement Speed. This Emperor Crocodile Belt can help rebalance them."

A 10% enhancement in Attack Speed is quite good for Zhang Yanhang. With this 10% enhancement in Attack Speed, his goal of reaching six mach with his cannon bullets should be able to advance further.

But it’s somewhat regrettable that Zhang Yanhang only obtained one Drop Treasure Box of the Demonized Emperor Crocodile this time. He cannot fuse the Emperor Crocodile Belt to gain more Attack Speed bonuses, as a mere 10% enhancement still leaves the goal of reaching six mach quite distant.

"The Emperor Crocodile Belt only has a score of 120 points, which is only mid to upper-tier even among Purple Quality items. If the Emperor Crocodile Belt, like the previously mentioned Grey Maned Arm Guard and Demon Ape Leg Armor, only increases by 20 points per fusion, then it seems it would need two fusions just to advance from Purple Quality to Dark Purple Quality.

And advancing from Dark Purple Quality to Light Golden Quality would require an unknown number of fusions."

Although fusing the Emperor Crocodile Belt is a task to deal with after clearing the lake district, Zhang Yanhang still couldn’t help starting to pray from now. He prayed that each fusion of the Emperor Crocodile Belt could increase the score as much as possible.

Otherwise, considering the score span from Dark Purple Quality to Light Gold Quality which could be hundreds of points, the Emperor Crocodile Belt might only barely reach an upper-middle score in Dark Purple Quality after being fused to the limit.

"So, I choose ’100 Soul Points,’ ’100 Soul Points,’ ’Prehistoric Giant Beast,’ ’100 Soul Points,’ ’Emperor Crocodile Belt.’"

After checking all five item slots in the Drop Treasure Box of the Demonized Emperor Crocodile, Zhang Yanhang quickly made his final choice, and the Time Pause also disappeared. However, Zhang Yanhang quickly picked up another Drop Treasure Box.

He still had three hundred and fifty-nine Drop Treasure Boxes to open, and he really couldn’t delay even a second, after all, delaying one second per box, when added up for three hundred and sixty boxes, meant a total of three hundred and sixty seconds, which translated to six minutes, so he indeed needed to hurry.

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October 27, Tuesday, the day after the Double Ninth Festival and also Zhang Yanhang’s third day in the Ashen World, at 00:38 AM, Raccoon City, Dulda Apartment, unit 301, the old wooden bed.

Zhang Yanhang, having spent nearly twenty minutes opening all the treasure boxes, was truly glad that he had last reinforced the old wooden bed with Refined Crimson Iron, otherwise it would certainly have completely collapsed this time.

Last time, when there were more than two hundred Demon Ape Leg Armors, the old wooden bed was already struggling and creaking under the weight. If he hadn’t reinforced it with Refined Crimson Iron before, the boards of the bed would probably have collapsed this time.

After all, the original boards of the old wooden bed were just ordinary wood, and indeed, one couldn’t have too many expectations for such ordinary wood, especially since it was aged wood from Raccoon City.

After opening all the Drop Treasure Boxes, Zhang Yanhang didn’t rush to check his Soul Points balance but started to tally up the items obtained from the three hundred and sixty Drop Treasure Boxes, starting with the artifacts.

Because the demonized creatures in the Demonized Swamp don’t drop artifacts, the artifacts he gained this time were nearly the same as last time, all obtained from the bodies of monsters from the third prize pool of the Goblin Plain’s Lucky Slot Machine and Raccoon City.

These included three Green Medicine Grasses, three Red Medicine Herbs, one Emergency Spray, three Medium Magic Recovery Potions, and most importantly, the Yellow Medicine Grass.

However, last time, because he also got a Drop Treasure Box from a Beta-type Hunter, he ended up with three Yellow Medicine Grasses, but this time it didn’t go too well, only one Yellow Medicine Grass contributed from the Licker’s Drop Treasure Box.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang had four Yellow Medicine Grasses in his waist bag, and with this newly obtained one, there were a total of five Yellow Medicine Grasses, which wasn’t really much, or rather, quite little. Even if combined with Red Medicine Herb to make Red and Yellow Pills, it would still only increase the Life Value Limit by thirty points.

Moreover, that would be the increase gained under normal circumstances. If he wanted to use them now, he would definitely need to fuse the Red and Yellow Pills, which would inevitably reduce some of the Life Value Limit that could be gained. Therefore, these five Yellow Medicine Grasses were indeed pitifully few.

Since he didn’t need to use any artifacts immediately or proceed with any fusion, Zhang Yanhang quickly sorted all these Green Medicine Grasses, Red Medicine Herbs, Yellow Medicine Grasses, Emergency Sprays, and Medium Magic Recovery Potions into categories and placed them in his waist bag.

After counting the profit from artifacts, Zhang Yanhang immediately started counting the profits from weapons.

Unlike last time, last time he had barely managed to get a weapon because he obtained an attack-equipped artifact from a Treasure box dropped by a Police Zombie.

But this time, even though he killed ten Police Zombies using the third prize pool of the Lucky Slot Machine in Raccoon City, he didn’t manage to get any related Drop treasure box. Therefore, this time he didn’t even get something that could barely be considered a weapon; ultimately, the profit from weapons was nonexistent.

But fortunately, compared to weapons, Zhang Yanhang was more concerned about equipment, so after counting both artifact and weapon profits, he immediately started reviewing the profits from equipment.

First off was a Dragon Power Bracelet from the Goblin Spear Thrower and a pair of Swift Leggings from the Goblin Wolf Cavalry.

Regarding the Dragon Power Bracelet, Zhang Yanhang previously had one Dragon Power Bracelet +4, one Dragon Power Bracelet +2, and one Dragon Power Bracelet +1, which together were equivalent to twenty-two Dragon Power Bracelets. Including this new one, it equated to twenty-three.

Since odd numbers couldn’t be fused, Zhang Yanhang immediately placed the newly found ordinary Dragon Power Bracelet into his Waist Bag, waiting for the next time he acquired one so he could fuse together a pair of Dragon Power Bracelet +3.

Then there were the Swift Leggings. Zhang Yanhang had just one pair before, which could be fused with this newly obtained pair into Swift Leggings +1.

But since a mere +1 fusion wasn’t meaningful, Zhang Yanhang passed on fusing them. Instead, like the Dragon Power Bracelet, he placed the Swift Leggings into his Waist Bag. If he managed to gather more pairs in the future, he might consider fusing them. For now, he decided it was better to just place them in the Waist Bag.

Apart from the Dragon Power Bracelet and Swift Leggings, Zhang Yanhang also got three Barbaric Stone Bandages from the Big Goblin this time.

If Zhang Yanhang wanted to fuse his Barbaric Stone Bandages to +5, he would need thirty-two Barbaric Stone Bandages in total, while he currently had one Barbaric Stone Bandage +4, one Barbaric Stone Bandage +3, and three ordinary Barbaric Stone Bandages, amounting to twenty-seven.

Including the three obtained this time, that totaled thirty Barbaric Stone Bandages, leaving him just two Barbaric Stone Bandages short of beginning the fusion to +5.

"The last two Barbaric Stone Bandages should be gathered by the Lucky Slot Machine refresh in Goblin Plain this morning. For now, I should also casually proceed with some fusion."

Zhang Yanhang took out the previously remaining three ordinary Barbaric Stone Bandages along with the three new ones from his Waist Bag and started the Alchemy alignment to fuse them.

Since he only had six Barbaric Stone Bandages, the fusion was completed quickly, resulting in a Barbaric Stone Bandage +2 and a Barbaric Stone Bandage +1. Now, he had a complete set of Barbaric Stone Bandages +4, +3, +2, +1; he was just one Barbaric Stone Bandage +1 short from upgrading to +5.

After placing the newly fused Barbaric Stone Bandage +2 and +1 into his Waist Bag, Zhang Yanhang turned his attention to the Lightning Totem Pole, which he once again managed to obtain three of this time.

To upgrade the Lightning Totem Pole from Dark Purple quality +3 to Light golden quality +4, he would need sixteen Lightning Totem Poles. Previously, he had one Lightning Totem Pole +3 and six ordinary Lightning Totem Poles, totaling fourteen.

Now, with these three newly obtained Lightning Totem Poles, he had seventeen in total, enough not only to successfully fuse a Lightning Totem Pole +4 but also one extra. Unfortunately, unlike Magic Totem Poles, only one Lightning Totem Pole could be used simultaneously.

Zhang Yanhang took off the Lightning Totem Pole +3 from his belt and took out five Lightning Totem Poles from his Waist Bag along with the three newly acquired ones, then immediately restarted the Alchemy Array.

Watching the Lightning Totem Poles slowly melt into liquid in the Alchemy Array, Zhang Yanhang skillfully managed the fusion between them.

Since +4 wasn’t the fusion limit for Lightning Totem Poles, Zhang Yanhang didn’t exert too much effort and completed this fusion quickly, and seeing the fresh out of the oven Lightning Totem Pole +4 shimmer with its Light golden light, he nodded in satisfaction and immediately began checking the Attribute list of the Light Golden Quality Lightning Totem Pole +4.

[Lightning Totem Pole +4]

[Quality: Light Gold]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Raccoon City, Dulda Apartment, Unit 301, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Durability: 75/75]

[Defensive power: 55]

[Additional Attributes: Energy Value Recovery Speed +70% (+10%).]

[Usage requirements: Intelligence 55 points.]

[Score: 270 (+32) (Light Golden items score from 261 to 350).]

[Introduction: The newly developed Barbaric Stone Bandages immediately became highly acclaimed once it hit the market, with most customers praising it. Only a few found the price of Barbaric Stone Bandages slightly high. However, due to it being a new product, Red Dragon Salcano will definitely not start adjusting the prices immediately...]