Ashen God
Chapter 985 984: Rank Reward! 100,000 Life Value Limit!
Though the normal usage method is to inject it into the blood vessels, Zhang Yanhang, ever since acquiring Heaven and Earth Devourer, has completely stopped using it in the conventional way. After all, no matter the method, as long as he swallows everything into the Stomach Space, it can function normally, or even unusually well under the influence of related bonuses.
Zhang Yanhang remembers the reaction was rather intense the first time he used the T Virus Enhancing Potion, as it illuminated his blood vessels with fluorescent blue, which could be described as physically exposing his blue veins, and he also felt a warm sensation in his body at that time.
But this time, because he directly swallowed it into the Stomach Space, he had absolutely no reaction at all, or perhaps it was because the quality was too low, and the T Virus Enhancing Potion was extremely easy to absorb. As soon as he swallowed it into the Stomach Space, the T Virus Enhancing Potion instantly vanished, and simultaneously, he automatically received an attribute enhancement.
After quietly reflecting for a moment, Zhang Yanhang immediately reopened his attribute list to check if the two bottles of T Virus Enhancing Potion had achieved any extraordinary effects.
[Strength: 123 (+3)]
[Agility: 123 (+3)]
[Constitution: 123 (+3)]
[Intelligence: 122 (+3)]
[Charm: 102 (+16)]
"Excellent, after drinking two bottles of T Virus Enhancing Potion, my Strength Attribute indeed increased from the original 119 points to 123 points, and the Intelligence Attribute also increased from the original 118 points to 122 points, both gaining 4 points in Attribute value, totaling an eight-point increase on both sides, which is quite significant."
As for why the T Virus Enhancing Potion, which originally should have strengthened a maximum of two points in Strength and two points in Intelligence, now provided him with four points in Strength and four points in Intelligence, it naturally was due to the Heaven and Earth Devourer.
Even though his current Heaven and Earth Devourer remains at Original LV.6, which only accounts for 60% of the artifact enhancement effect, it's widely known that Ashen World has always adhered to the concept of rounding up, so the T Virus Enhancing Potion, which originally could only strengthen one point in Strength and one point in Intelligence, was directly rounded up to two points.
After all, there's no such thing as decimal points for attribute values, so it's impossible to have 1.6 attribute points, thus naturally rounding up to a two-point Attribute value increase. Therefore, the two bottles of T Virus Enhancing Potion together provided Zhang Yanhang with an eight-point increase in Attribute value.
Zhang Yanhang figured out this absurd setting when he drank the first prize T Virus Original Liquid, which was initially supposed to increase one point in each of the Four main attributes, but upon enhancement, all Four main attributes suddenly increased by two points.
"The eight-point increase in Attribute value is truly delightful, since each time I level up, I can only earn six free attribute points..."
However, unfortunately, although this bug exploitation method is indeed very effective, Zhang Yanhang only has these two bottles of T Virus Enhancing Potion to exploit bugs, apart from which he no longer has any artifacts that can increase attribute value; all the other artifacts are for increasing the Energy value limit and Life Value limit.
But those are definitely normal numeric increases, even if they also round up, it's just an extra point of Life Value or one less, it doesn't really matter.
To give an example, it's roughly reducing 0.4 points from 100.4 to 100 points, or adding 0.5 points from 100.5 to 101 points. Honestly, this kind of situation really doesn't matter, it basically won't have any impact.
After all, this is the real world, and situations like an enemy punching right over him, just missing that last point of health to kill him, resulting in sudden death, simply won't occur.
Therefore, only attribute value, such a crucial thing even when only increasing by a point, would have a significant impact due to rounding.
"After drinking two bottles of T Virus Enhancing Potion, I've now increased the other three main attributes to 123 points, except for Intelligence Attribute which remains at 119 points, naked without any equipment."
It can be said that Zhang Yanhang is now just two points away from the tier limit, and if he were willing to use the sixteen free attribute points he currently holds, he could easily raise all Four main attributes to the tier limit.
But considering the Charm attribute still remains at 102 points, these sixteen free attribute points are naturally meant to be fully used to enhance Charm.
To prevent himself from regretting, Zhang Yanhang decided to immediately spend all sixteen free attribute points: "Choose! Increase Attribute value!"
Of course, Zhang Yanhang is unlikely to regret, as due to the Limitless Universe Skill hardly upgrading, the current Four main attributes have no stress in being upgraded to 125 points, naked without any equipment.
Under this major premise, Zhang Yanhang would allocate some free attribute points to enhance the sub-attribute Charm. If the Four main attributes were extremely difficult to upgrade to 125 points without any equipment, unless he was crazy, he wouldn't use free attribute points to enhance Charm.
Accompanied by Zhang Yanhang's choice, the familiar selection box that Zhang Yanhang had seen thirty-eight times before and was expected to see another sixteen times instantly emerged synchronously with the arrival of Time Pause, quietly waiting for him to make a choice.
[Would you like to perform Attribute point enhancement?]
[Option One: Strength +1 point.]
[Option Two: Agility +1 point.]
[Option Three: Constitution +1 point.]
[Option Four: Intelligence +1 point.]
[Option Five: Charm +1 point.]
"So, I choose Option Five, Charm +1 point."
Having made up his mind long ago, Zhang Yanhang promptly proceeded with the choice.
Speaking of which, in the previous tiers, he hadn't used free attribute points to enhance Charm at all, as the Charm attribute could be supported by equipment, but now the equipment can no longer sustain it, so from the Fourth Tier onwards, he needs to use free attribute points to enhance Charm.
For the Fourth Tier, he only used three surplus free attribute points to enhance Charm, whereas now in the Fifth Tier, it requires a full sixteen free attribute points to enhance Charm. It could be said that his investment in Charm can now directly match the highest standard on the main attributes side.
After all, he previously only used sixteen free attribute points to enhance the Agility attribute. Thinking of this enormous transformation, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but feel a bit emotional. He could only say that he was eventually changed by the environment (the strength of the Death Wave skill). At the beginning of the First Tier, he didn't care about the Charm attribute at all.
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November 2, Monday, the first day after Halloween, and also the first day Zhang Yanhang left the Ashen World, at 7:01 AM, Qin Island City, Xingfuli District, apartment 505, bedroom.
After he invested all of the remaining sixteen free attribute points into the Charm attribute, Zhang Yanhang naturally immediately began to review his attribute list as soon as he completed the upgrade.
[Strength: 123 (+3)]
[Agility: 123 (+3)]
[Constitution: 123 (+3)]
[Intelligence: 122 (+3)]
[Charm: 118 (+16)]
"After pumping in a full sixteen free attribute points at once, my Charm has indeed skyrocketed, directly rising from the original 102 points to 118 points, just seven points away from the Rank limit of one hundred twenty-five points."
It can be said that if Zhang Yanhang were to level up his Profession Level again and invest all six of the acquired free attribute points into Charm, then his Charm attribute could immediately surge to one hundred twenty-four points, just one point short of the newly unlocked Rank limit.
However, he certainly cannot do that, or rather, relying solely on free attribute points to enhance Charm is simply a bottomless pit. With his sixties points of free attribute points per Tier, it's entirely unsustainable.
Therefore, he still needs to find other channels to enhance the Charm attribute, such as achievements, which he remains enamored with. That achievement once boosted his Charm attribute by ten points at once. It could be said that without that achievement, his current Charm attribute wouldn't be even close to 118, not even 110.
"Now with 118 points in Charm attribute, at least the fixed damage of my Death Wave shouldn't be something I need to worry about temporarily."
Rather than worrying about the fixed damage of Death Wave, Zhang Yanhang thought it would be better to look forward to the upcoming growth extent of Death Wave, which certainly would give him quite a surprise.
After all, a new Rank has arrived, and the essence of a new Rank is 'a new beginning, all things renewed'. Every component of his power source would receive a massive enhancement and improvement from the version upgrade benefits brought by Rank promotion.
"Meanwhile, with the growth of my Charm attribute to 118 points, my Charm attribute has become healthier once again. When I only had 102 points in Charm, the sixteen points equipment bonus accounted for 15.7% of it, but now it has directly dropped to 13.6%, which is 2.1% less in equipment proportion again."
As to why the enhancement of sixteen points in Charm attribute resulted in such a low health improvement, it can only be said that the sixteen-point equipment bonuses are indeed too much, really hard to decrease. The only way to substantially reduce it would be to remove all the equipment providing these bonuses, thereby possibly reducing it drastically, for instance, below ten percent.
And if he continues to maintain a sixteen-point bonus, then never mind the 125 of the Fifth Tier; he wouldn't be able to lower the proportion below ten percent, even for 150 points of the Sixth Tier.
Of course, because the Fifth Tier requires phasing out blue and purple equipment due to outdated capacities, he's bound to eliminate a large batch of equipment contributing to Charm attribute bonuses from the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu. Naturally, it's impossible to maintain the current sixteen-point bonus.
In fact, if he could maintain it, that would instead be good because then Zhang Yanhang wouldn't need to work so hard to enhance the Charm attribute, but unfortunately, it's unsustainable.
Regarding this, Zhang Yanhang could only say that with the Rank upgrade, he really hasn't obtained equipment with bonus attribute values for quite a while.
He thought that maybe it was because he quickly elevated his attribute value to the Rank limit each time he leveled up, which made the Multiple Choice determine that he did not need equipment with attribute value bonuses. Therefore, he hadn't drawn any attribute value equipment for a long time, which is very normal.
After all, the Multiple Choice mostly provides reward options based on his needs and the comprehensive value of items. The things he doesn't need naturally aren't likely to be drawn.
Like last time in the Fourth Tier, he immediately maxed out the Rank limit of the four main attributes with free attribute points and Limitless Universe Skill right after leveling up, and even directly elevated Charm to ninety-six points, and subsequently easily made up to one hundred points.
Therefore, in this circumstance, Zhang Yanhang thought Multiple Choice should definitely have a hard time giving out equipment related to attribute values because he absolutely didn't need them.
But in the First and Second Tiers, things were different. At that time, his channels for attribute value enhancement were still relatively scarce, which further led to Multiple Choice arranging a large amount of attribute value equipment for him back then — at its peak, it even achieved All Attributes +7.
After all, just the combination of the White Ten-piece Set, Green Ten-piece Set, and now the Makarov Set are already All Attributes +6.
So, to some extent, he didn't change, but the Multiple Choice did, which in turn, caused him to change as well.
Additionally, due to the fact that Multiple Choice would respond to his needs, Zhang Yanhang continuously 'hinted' at his needs to Multiple Choice, like the Energy value limit enhancement he had been mentioning recently. He believed that Multiple Choice would accurately understand his needs and fulfill them.
"Now that the four main attributes and sub-attribute Charm are all fully enhanced, let's check the extent of Life Value Limit growth and the specific transformations next."
Zhang Yanhang was quite curious about what his Life Value would look like after gaining the Heavenly Mastery Dominator Body.
[Life Value: 29566/47563/65560/142689 (+99433) (Constitution ×108 (+20), the current body has officially been dataized, Life Value Recovery Speed, 119 (+48) points per hour.)]
"What the hell is this?! How did it inexplicably increase the Life Value Limit by nearly a hundred thousand points? This is freaking terrifying."
Zhang Yanhang initially anticipated that the increase might be tremendous under the quadruple effects of Rank upgrade bonuses, main attribute rewards, Life Value Limit bonus, and the Heavenly Mastery Dominator Body. But he never expected the growth could possibly be so extensive.