Chapter 964 963: Epic-grade [Dawn (Bright Praise)] - Ashen God - NovelsTime

Ashen God

Chapter 964 963: Epic-grade [Dawn (Bright Praise)]

Author: Just call the polar bear
updatedAt: 2025-11-02

"In terms of the kinetic energy formula, the attack power of the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun's cannon bullets has increased from the original 54.4 times at 24 Mach to 57.5 times, equivalent to another 3.1 times increase in cannon bullet attack power."

After inventorying the equipment in the Demonized Swamp, Zhang Yanhang proceeded to inventory the equipment at the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field.

However, because only the third-prize pool of the Lucky Slot Machine was cleared at the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, the dropped equipment was quite sparse, not only in quantity but also in variety, with only two types, the first being coin fragments.

Since he had already accumulated nineteen Speed Coin Fragments, Zhang Yanhang specifically chose only one Speed Coin Fragment this time, opting for Attack Speed Coin Fragments for the rest, totaling eleven Attack Speed Coin Fragments and one Speed Coin Fragment.

In this way, he could just synthesize a new Movement Speed Coin.

But the Attack Speed Coin situation was quite challenging. Having previously accumulated only five Attack Speed Coin Fragments, even with the newly acquired ones, he only had sixteen, falling short by four fragments needed to synthesize a new Attack Speed Coin.

Zhang Yanhang had anticipated this scenario. Had he previously selected Attack Speed Coin Fragments and Speed Coin Fragments equally, neither could have been synthesized. However, by previously choosing more Speed Coin Fragments, he could at least synthesize a Movement Speed Coin now.

After completing the inventory, Zhang Yanhang immediately synthesized the twenty Speed Coin Fragments into a complete Movement Speed Coin and placed it in the Waist Bag. He then teleported back to the deserted island he had visited before to test his current movement speed.

According to the test results, Zhang Yanhang's current Movement Speed had increased from the previous 8,923 meters per second to 9,523 meters per second, precisely a 600-meter per second increase. It must be said that a 57.5% Movement Speed bonus was indeed quite significant.

When converted to Mach speed, Zhang Yanhang's current Movement Speed had increased from the previous 26.2 Mach to 28 Mach, representing another 1.8 Mach increase in movement speed.

"I was hoping this Movement Speed Coin would help boost my speed significantly, but it seems it's still not enough. There's still a 2 Mach gap from the 30 Mach target in normal state unless I get another Movement Speed Coin. Otherwise, it's impossible to reach the target."

However, getting another Movement Speed Coin was more of a pipe dream. The Divination Tarot Card Set also couldn't enhance movement speed, so Zhang Yanhang could essentially declare that 28 Mach would be his fastest Fourth Tier speed, with no further possibility of improvement.

Nonetheless, Zhang Yanhang was quite satisfied that his movement speed finally exceeded nine thousand meters.

"If I could apply Spiritual Energy to my current movement speed, I could reach 56 Mach, only 6 Mach away from the 62 Mach New Horizons Space Probe."

Unfortunately, completing the final 6 Mach can only be achieved by promoting in Rank, something beyond Zhang Yanhang's current capabilities.

"Converting my elevated movement speed with Spiritual Energy into meters would result in a current speed of 19,046 meters per second, rounded off to 19 kilometers, still 101 kilometers shy of the 120 kilometers per second Fourth Cosmic Speed target."

Zhang Yanhang was generally not in a hurry regarding the progress toward this long-term goal.

If Zhang Yanhang's movement speed with Spiritual Energy were converted into kilometers per hour, it would reach 68,566 kilometers per hour, meaning he could circle the equator at 40,000 kilometers 1.7 times every hour, getting closer to a round trip per hour.

As for reaching the Moon, 400,000 kilometers away, the speed was also significantly reduced, requiring only six hours to reach the Moon and twelve hours for a round trip, becoming increasingly convenient.

Zhang Yanhang even felt that if his speed increased further, he could forego testing on the deserted island and fly directly to the Moon for data testing, reducing the round trip time to less than an hour.

"Now, the classic question returns: If I set off at 56 Mach, how long would it take to catch up with The Voyager 1, located 24 billion kilometers away and continuously advancing at 49 Mach with the Golden Record?"

Zhang Yanhang calculated that his daily flying distance would be 164,5584 kilometers, reaching an annual flying distance of 6,0063,8160 kilometers, approximately 600 million kilometers.

Doing the math, Zhang Yanhang realized it would take him thirty years just to equal that distance, not considering The Voyager 1's continuous movement.

Realistically, Zhang Yanhang could only chase at the differential speed of 7 Mach, requiring 320 years to catch up to the 24 billion kilometers. If he had started in the 18th century of the 1700s, he might have caught up, which was incredibly fast.

After testing his movement speed, Zhang Yanhang teleported back home from the deserted island.

Following this was the final piece of equipment from the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field—Human Potential Activation Devices from the Ancestor Virus Infected, yielding a total of three devices this time.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang had four Human Potential Activation Devices +1 and one regular device, so after adding this batch of devices, he now possessed four Human Potential Activation Devices +1 and four regular devices in total.

"Since I have extra Human Potential Activation Devices, let's fuse one into a Human Potential Activation Device +2 to replace one of the +1 devices."

Zhang Yanhang immediately placed the four regular Human Potential Activation Devices into the Alchemy Array, and after two rounds of fusion, created a Human Potential Activation Device +2.

Looking at the newly crafted Human Potential Activation Device +2, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to check its Attribute list.

[Human Potential Activation Device (Magnetic Energy Embedding) +2]

[Quality: Red]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Main World, Qin Island City, Xingfuli District, Room 505, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Durability: 86/86]

[Defensive Power: 69]

[Additional Attributes: Strength +65% (+5%).]

[Usage Requirements: Strength 125 points.]

[Score: 775 (Red item score is between 681 and 830.)]

[Description: Although I want to create a super weapon, I chose to continue to root myself in the Energy Department as the first step. Only by continuing to optimize the miniature nuclear reactor and ensuring stable energy transmission can I truly create the super weapon I desire. For me, the creator of the miniature nuclear reactor...]

"The original Human Potential Activation Device only had a score of 725 points, and this time, just like before, it increased by 50 points again, raising its total score to 775 points, equivalent to a promotion from low scores of Red Quality to medium scores of Red Quality.

It's a pity, if it could increase by five more points to reach a score of 780 points, then it would be considered a high score of Red Quality."

Of course, even now, it's already quite good. Zhang Yanhang thinks the Human Potential Activation Device has the potential to advance to Legendary Quality just through normal fusion. The regret, however, is that the quantity of Human Potential Activation Devices is too small to support him in verifying this matter.

"And compared to the equipment score, the more important aspect is the growth of Additional Attributes. This time, the Additional Attributes once again grew by 5%, increasing the Strength Effect Bonus provided by the Human Potential Activation Device from the original 60% to 65%, which is quite good."

After examining the attribute list of the Human Potential Activation Device+2, Zhang Yanhang immediately removed the Human Potential Activation Device+1 from his hand and replaced it with the new one.

However, even though he did replace it, testing for Strength and such, since a 5% Strength Effect Bonus is relatively small, Zhang Yanhang plans to do it later altogether.

After counting the equipment from Raccoon City, Goblin Plain, Demonized Swamp, and Umbrella Biochemical Test Field zone, next is finally the equipment gains from the Ashen Treasure Box.

First is that piece of epic-grade equipment [Dawn (Bright Praise)], Zhang Yanhang held it in his hand and briefly observed the appearance, discovering that the appearance of Dawn is actually quite ordinary, just a badge or medal with a sun pattern on it.

However, this sun badge is entirely shimmering with golden light, still very beautiful, and on its back, the statue of the dawn goddess is engraved using concave technology.

Although her face is not visible due to the veil, judging by her well-defined figure, this dawn goddess certainly isn't ugly.

As for why Zhang Yanhang can feel the well-defined figure, that is a question for the craftsman to ask what intention led them to adopt concave technology.

After observing its appearance, Zhang Yanhang initially determined that this thing likely truly is a badge, so Zhang Yanhang tried placing it on his chest, and it unexpectedly automatically attached to his chest upon nearing it. Perhaps it's infused with some small magic or divine art.

After Dawn automatically attached to the chest, Zhang Yanhang immediately felt the enhancement from the equipment.

"It seems this really is a badge-type equipment. Speaking of which, this should still be the first badge I've obtained."

Zhang Yanhang estimates that this kind of badge-type equipment should allow multiple wearing, even if it can't be repeated, at least new types of badges can be worn.

However, the fact that it's almost the Fifth Tier but only the first badge-type equipment is pulled shows the rarity of this equipment type, so it's unlikely he can reach Su Xunzong's degree; assembling even one row may be hard.

"This epic-grade Dawn Badge will provide me a full 220% Physical Recovery Speed Bonus."

With this degree of Physical Recovery Speed Bonus, the time required for Zhang Yanhang to recover a bar of physical strength naturally is greatly reduced. Originally, he needed twelve hours and fifteen minutes to recover a bar of physical strength. Now, it only takes ten hours to recover a bar, practically cutting two and a half hours.

"Previously I said there was no hope of completion, but who knew the Dawn Badge was indeed strong enough to directly compress the time required to recover a bar of physical strength to under ten hours. Unexpectedly, this small goal indeed still has hope of being completed again."

As for why 11% growth previously can compress fifteen minutes while this time 220% growth only compresses two and a half hours:

That's because Physical Recovery Speed, like the speed of clearing magazines, becomes more challenging to compress the further it goes, with ten hours being practically the extreme range. Compressing further would be too costly and almost impossible to complete. This is also why Zhang Yanhang set this small goal here for himself.

An example might be assuming physical strength has 1.5 million points, recovering in three minutes requires only fifty thousand per minute, but two minutes recovery seems to reduce by a third yet demands half more, increasing to seventy-five thousand.

Recovering in one minute compared to two minutes only reduces by one minute, which is a reduction by one-half, but the total demand compared to two minutes' seventy-five increases by double, necessitating complete recovery of one and a half million points in one minute, the difference here is quite substantial.

This is the reason why Zhang Yanhang, this time, has a 220% Physical Recovery Speed Bonus but can only compress two and a half hours.

Moreover, the previous 11% growth couldn't truly cut fifteen minutes, Zhang Yanhang rounded up just for convenient calculation, like now, it actually only takes him 9.8 hours to restore a bar of physical strength, but he's rounded it to ten hours.

After equipping the Dawn Badge, Zhang Yanhang finally began to count the last type of equipment obtained from the treasure box this time, namely the Divination Tarot Cards obtained from the Ashen Treasure Box.

This time, Zhang Yanhang obtained two Divination Tarot Cards from the Ashen Treasure Box, namely Divination Tarot Card·Death and Divination Tarot Card·Demon.

Although fewer than two cards obtained from the Lord's Treasure Chest, Divination Tarot Card·Death and Divination Tarot Card·Demon exactly pair with Divination Tarot Card·Hermit opened before, forming a new set of three Divination Tarot Cards, representing Zhang Yanhang can once again upgrade the overall quality of the Divination Tarot Card Set.

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