Ashen God

Chapter 693: True Limbs


So, Zhang Yanhang quickly picked up a pair of newly forged Crimson Iron Shark Teeth and started to inspect its attribute list, because if there was indeed anything amiss, he could immediately find and correct the error with targeted adjustments.

[Crimson Iron Shark Teeth]

[Quality: Blue]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Main World, Qin Island City, Central Yellow Sea, Volcanic Rock Island, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Durability: 45/45]

[Defensive Power: 30]

[Additional Attributes: Flame Resistance +3.8%.]

[Additional Attributes: Acid Resistance +3.8%.]

[Additional Attributes: Charm +1.]

[Usage Requirements: Charm 10 points.]

[Score: 37 (Blue item score ranges from 31 to 70.)]

[Description: This was originally a pair of rather ordinary but well-crafted Crimson Iron Teeth. However, because the user, the novice alchemist Zhang Yanhang, had healthy teeth of his own, making it impossible to equip normally, after some modifications, the novice alchemist Zhang Yanhang remade it into a set of Crimson Iron Teeth Guards.]

"Hmm? This deserted island in the sea, clearly 350 kilometers away from Qin Island City, is still considered part of Qin Island City's territory? South Korea really is as lacking in influence as ever…"

Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but mutter to himself as he looked at the origin.

"Moreover, this deserted island really is so barren that it doesn't even deserve a name; it's just called Volcanic Rock Island. But that's exactly why I chose this place."

Those islands with names were never within Zhang Yanhang's consideration to begin with.

"Looking at this attribute list, besides the origin which is slightly different from the first batch of Crimson Iron Shark Teeth I forged, the other parts, especially the additional attributes, are indeed exactly the same, still providing a bonus to the Charm attribute value."

After confirming there was nothing wrong with the Crimson Iron Shark Teeth, Zhang Yanhang quickly put on the two sets of ordinary blue-quality Crimson Iron Shark Teeth on his left and right heads, in his mouth.

Feeling that the two sets of Crimson Iron Shark Teeth, modified according to his own teeth, still fit as perfectly as before, Zhang Yanhang had to admit something—the two additional heads that had regrown must indeed be identical to his original head, considering even the shape and spacing of the teeth were exactly the same.

Perhaps this was also why these extra limbs were considered real and could be equipped with items, because these limbs were essentially just directly copied and pasted from his body, thus successfully fooling the equipment determination mechanism of the Ashen World.

After successfully equipping the two new sets of Crimson Iron Shark Teeth, Zhang Yanhang quickly began to re-inspect his attribute list, wanting to know if the additional attributes of the Crimson Iron Shark Teeth had taken effect.

[Strength: 70 (+3)]

[Agility: 71 (+3)]

[Constitution: 70 (+3)]

[Intelligence: 67 (+3)]

[Charm: 59 (+26)]

"Two sets of Crimson Iron Shark Teeth, each set providing a one-point bonus to the Charm attribute, so, my Charm attribute has also increased by two points, from the original 57 points to 59 points. Compared to the original Charm value of 49 points, this round of equipment has provided me with a total increase of ten Charm attribute points, which is indeed very good.

But this, this should also be my current limit, as I have only obtained equipment that can increase Charm attribute value from the minor Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, and now all that equipment is already used up."

Although the Makarov Earring could also provide a bonus to the Charm attribute value, unfortunately, Zhang Yanhang did not have any spare Makarov Earrings; the two pairs of dark purple quality full-score Makarov Earrings he had obtained earlier had already been fused into a light gold quality Makarov Earring +1.

Moreover, although he slightly regretted fusing other equipment, this Makarov Earring was not too much of a loss, because as part of a set, according to Zhang Yanhang's past experience, the set effect of wearing multiple sets of the same kind can only activate one set effect at a time.

Therefore, even if he had not fused the dark purple quality Makarov Earrings at that time, he could only activate one set effect at most, and the Makarov Earring itself could only provide a six-point attribute bonus. After including the set effect, it would only reach a total attribute bonus of All Attributes +2, which is ten points.

In turn, even if he could wear two pairs at the same time, because the four-point attribute bonus of the set effect could not be activated, he could gain at most another six-point attribute bonus, totaling only sixteen points of attribute bonus.

After the fusion into the light gold quality Makarov Earring, he gained a total of a main attribute +3, Charm +2 effect, which is a total of fourteen points of attribute bonus—a mere two points less than wearing two pairs of dark purple quality Makarov Earrings.

Moreover, this fusion, even if not done now, would eventually be necessary.

After all, if he were to obtain other Makarov Earrings in the future, the relationship between the light gold quality and dark purple quality Makarov Earrings would probably be akin to the relationship between the previous white ten-piece set and the green ten-piece set, allowing the set effect to stack.

It would definitely provide higher attribute bonuses than wearing all dark purple quality Makarov Earrings, because with set equipment, the most important thing is always the set effect.

Though not gaining an additional two points of attribute bonus was a bit regrettable for Zhang Yanhang, indeed.

"Speaking of which, I just realized a problem, it seems that all three attribute bonuses of my main attributes are provided by the Light Golden Makarov Set. Besides the Makarov Earrings, I don't have a single other piece of equipment that can boost my main attributes."

Zhang Yanhang now felt a little uncomfortable because the bonuses were too low; after all, he was used to having an all attributes +6 bonus from both the White Ten-piece Set and Green Ten-piece Set. Now that he only had half of that, there was still some psychological adjustment he couldn't quite get over.

"But fortunately, my attribute values are increasing quite rapidly now, so I'm not so dependent on equipment that provides attribute bonuses."

Speaking of attribute values, Zhang Yanhang remembered something very important, which was that even if he really had twenty spare Blue quality Crimson Iron Rings +4, he still wouldn't be able to directly push his Charm attribute value to seventy points as he had initially thought.

Of course, it wasn't a math problem like 49+20=69

Although Zhang Yanhang had always placed a great importance on the Charm attribute, as a sub-attribute, it could never exceed the main attributes, which was its only and biggest limitation.

So, considering the current situation, since it has become so easy to increase the Charm attribute, what will limit him in the future is definitely not a problem with the methods of enhancement, but the important issue of being capped by the main attributes.

"But fortunately, my main attributes have always been increasing quickly, so even if I'm capped, it shouldn't last for too long.

However, the Charm attribute, which had been gradually developing towards a healthy condition, now seems completely beyond redemption in terms of its abnormality.

The proportion of equipment bonuses in the Charm attribute value was 32% before, but now due to an additional increase of ten points of Charm attribute bonus, it has worsened to 44%. I suppose it will soon return to the state of over 50% as with the further increase of attribute value bonuses."

Although the Charm attribute has deteriorated to this state, Zhang Yanhang actually felt okay, or perhaps, he had resigned himself to his fate.

After all, now that he had Three-Headed Six-Armed, he definitely wouldn't be so foolish as to use free attribute points to increase his Charm attribute value anymore. So, let it be, as long as it can provide a bonus to the Death Wave Skill, he doesn't care about the rest.

Speaking of the Death Wave issue, Zhang Yanhang suddenly remembered that he had not had a chance to check the skill effect of Death Wave·Original LV.6 after his promotion in rank.

He felt that even though he hadn't been able to increase the skill level after his promotion due to a lack of soul points, even just the increase in attribute values should ensure that Death Wave·Original LV.6 would cause significantly higher fixed damage compared to when he was Second Tier.

Thus, thinking of this, Zhang Yanhang quickly began to check the skill effect of Death Wave·Original LV.6.

[Death Wave·Original LV.6 (Passive/Active)]

[Passive effect: Weakens the enemy's defense power by 12%.]

[Active effect: Upon activation of the skill, causes 300+6×67 (Intelligence attribute bonus +17) +6×59 (Charm attribute bonus +9) = 1056 points (additional +156 points) of fixed damage to everyone within the coverage area.

Coverage area of 600 meters, can only cause damage to the same target once within 12 hours. No cooldown time, consumes a small amount of physical strength.]

[Additional Attribute: Skillful — You have now become skilled at controlling the Death Wave skill, and you have gained the ability to mark friendly targets who will be immune to the fixed damage from the Death Wave skill.]

[Additional Attribute: Mastery — You have now become quite adept at controlling the Death Wave skill. You have gained the ability to freely manipulate the coverage of the Death Wave skill (adjustable only downwards), and reducing the coverage will also lower the physical strength consumed accordingly.]

[Additional Attribute: Specialization — After a prolonged period of effort, you have come to specialize in the Death Wave skill. You have gained the ability to forcibly kill enemies who fall below 10% life value after being attacked by the Death Wave skill, without the need for additional physical strength consumption.]

"How to put it, although the fixed damage caused by the Death Wave has indeed increased compared to before, it hasn't increased by that much, it's only increased by 156 points of fixed damage, from the original 900 points to just 1056 points.

It's only about the same as the increase in fixed damage limit I got when I upgraded Death Wave from the original LV.5 to Original LV.6, which was like an increase of one hundred and fifty points, only six points less than this time. It seems that if I want to increase the fixed damage limit of Death Wave in the future, I should still try to increase the skill level of Death Wave.

Of course, it could also be because the attribute points I increased this time weren't actually that many. Even if I added together the 17 points of Intelligence and the 9 points of Charm, that's still only 26 points in total.

If I could raise Intelligence and Charm both to seventy-five points, then I would be able to get a three hundred points increase in the fixed damage limit directly, which would be double what it is now."

Although Zhang Yanhang also wanted to increase the attribute points and max out the fixed damage limit, alas, he didn't have enough free attribute points.

If Multiple Choice could suddenly give him a hundred free attribute points now, he would definitely immediately raise all four main attributes and Charm, the sub-attribute, to the limit of seventy-five points and then immediately start preparing for promotion. But unfortunately, that was just daydreaming and completely impossible to achieve.

"Although the increase in the fixed damage limit isn't much, only a 156 points increase to 1056 points, it is still very useful. All Second-tier monsters will be instantly killed by me as their life value limits are only a thousand points.

But it won't work for Third Tiers, even if it's just a Third Tier One-star, or a Third Tier monster with only 51 points in the Constitution attribute.

After all, the maximum life value conversion coefficient increased by ten points once promoted to Third Tier. The maximum life value conversion coefficient for normal monsters has increased from the original twenty points to thirty points.

So even the weakest Third Tier One-star monster with only 51 points in Constitution Attribute will have a life value limit of 1530 points. After my Death Wave hits, the monster would still have about five hundred points of life value left, which is about one-third of its life value.

Although Death Wave can forcibly kill enemies with less than 10% life value, there's no way if they still have one third left.

And if they still have one third of their life value, it's unlikely to make the monster fall into a state of lying on the ground waiting to die. There is a very good chance it still retains the ability to move, or even, if left unchecked, it could potentially recover slowly."

It is precisely for this reason that Zhang Yanhang felt the increase in the fixed damage limit was a bit inadequate. It really wasn't quite enough.

"It looks like I'll have to prioritize upgrading this Death Wave in the future. Not to mention anything else, but at least I should be able to instantly kill monsters in the early stages of Third Tier, such as Third Tier One-star and Third Tier Two-star, right? Otherwise, it would be too useless."

Of course, Zhang Yanhang was optimistic about the future of Death Wave. If he could upgrade it to Original LV.MAX, then not just the early Third Tier, but even Third Tier Four-star could be instantly killed.

However, accumulating millions of soul points might indeed be a bit difficult, but he believes that the efficiency of obtaining soul points at Third Tier isn't something he needs to worry about for now.

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