Ashen God
Chapter 272 - 271 Charm Monster

Chapter 272: Chapter 271 Charm Monster

According to the cleaning experience that Zhang Yanhang had accumulated, if there was only an area of three square kilometers, then there might be at most six or seven hundred Crimson Iron Ants.

Calculating with the current drop rate of about one Treasure box per twenty Crimson Iron Ants, this group of ants might only drop thirty to forty boxes, still far from reaching three digits.

After tallying up his Talent, Zhang Yanhang proceeded to inventory the equipment he had acquired this time, a total of one hundred sixty-three Green quality Crimson Iron Rings and twenty-nine Blue quality Crimson Iron Heart Necklaces.

"Last time, when fusing the Blue quality Crimson Iron Rings +4, I was just one ordinary Crimson Iron Ring short of having ten Blue quality Crimson Iron Rings +4. This time, I can finally fulfill my little wish of wearing rings on all ten fingers."

Thinking this, Zhang Yanhang immediately took out the remaining Crimson Iron Rings +2, Crimson Iron Rings +1, and an ordinary Crimson Iron Ring from his Waist Bag. He also took off a Green, full-Score Crimson Iron Ring +3 from his hand and piled them together.

Last time, Zhang Yanhang first fused the higher-quality Crimson Iron Hearts, but this time he planned to fuse the Crimson Iron Rings first. He immediately activated his Alchemy, and the Alchemy Array completely enveloped the leftover rings. He added just one single Crimson Iron Ring and immediately started the fusion.

Soon, the Crimson Iron Rings fused together into Crimson Iron Rings +1. Then, the Crimson Iron Rings +1 began fusing with their corresponding rings, and after several continuous fusions, a brand-new Crimson Iron Ring +4 appeared before Zhang Yanhang.

Zhang Yanhang briefly checked the Attribute list of the new Crimson Iron Ring +4 and found everything was in order; he then happily slipped the ring onto his only vacant thumb.

After filling all ten fingers with rings, Zhang Yanhang nodded in satisfaction and then immediately opened his Attribute list to take a look.

[Strength: 47 (+3)]

[Agility: 47 (+3)]

[Constitution: 50 (+3)]

[Intelligence: 46 (+3)]

[Charm: 24 (+15)]

"The Charm attribute has risen to twenty-four points. Now I’m just two points shy of reaching the Second Tier for that attribute. But where should I get those two points from? Should I use Free attribute points to increase it? Forget it, I might as well wait a bit longer. After all, I can definitely get other equipment for a Charm bonus in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest."

However, Zhang Yanhang felt he perhaps should use the Free attribute points to raise some of his Charm attributes. After all, although Charm was a Sub-attribute, it was quite abnormal overall. With a total of twenty-four points in Charm, fifteen were from equipment bonuses, and he only possessed nine points of Charm value himself.

If ordinary Awakeners saw such a distortion in his Charm attributes, they would definitely be astonished. Of course, they might be shocked not only by the abnormality of the Charm attribute value but also by the methods he had used to raise his Charm to this distorted state.

Zhang Yanhang, possessing Alchemy and Multiple Choice, found it extremely difficult to amass ten blue-quality Crimson Iron Rings; for an Ordinary Awakened, it would likely be even more challenging, practically impossible to experience such an abnormal way of increasing attribute bonuses.

The main reason Zhang Yanhang mentioned using Free Attribute Points to increase his Charm attribute value was that the bonuses from Equipment were almost at their peak; after all, other parts of his body did not have the convenient condition like his fingers, which could directly provide ten equipment slots.

Zhang Yanhang estimated that even if he filled all the remaining equipment slots on his body with accessories that could normally provide a Charm attribute bonus, the probability of gathering a significant Charm attribute value was low; maybe he could push it to around thirty points at most.

However, the goal Zhang Yanhang had previously set was to raise the Charm, a Sub-attribute, to over forty points, or even better, to the same fifty points as his other Main Attributes.

Of course, this fifty points were certainly not the naked fifty points, but fifty points with Equipment bonuses, because Charm is only a Sub-attribute after all; even if he really did achieve fifty points in a naked state, it wouldn’t mean anything.

Because whether it’s naked fifty points or fifty points with Equipment bonuses, their effects are exactly the same; currently, the only use of Charm for Zhang Yanhang is to enhance the Fixed Damage bonus of the Death Wave Skill.

However, this situation is only temporary. Once Zhang Yanhang raises his Charm attribute value to over forty points or reaches the Second-tier Extreme State, then he will definitely start looking for ways to develop more functions of the Charm attribute through various channels.

After all, having increased attribute value means nothing if not utilized; a waste. Although at the moment he doesn’t have any idea what other functions he could develop for the Charm attribute, the direction he develops will definitely be one that can enhance his combat capability.

As for skills like seducing Humans and Monsters, typically controlled by Awakeners with Charm as a Main Attribute? He doesn’t like those kinds of seemingly useless abilities.

Because Zhang Yanhang believes that even if he could truly charm some Monsters to help with his hunting, the Monsters he could charm are certainly not going to be very strong, probably just some ordinary Monster soldiers.

It’s not that he underestimates himself; after all, even if he were to raise his Charm value to the Second-tier Limit, could he possibly charm Fourth-tier Monsters? Definitely not possible.

Therefore, if it’s just about simply charming some Second-tier Monsters and Third-tier Monsters, it would be virtually useless to him, probably not even able to improve his hunting efficiency, given that ordinary Monsters could not possibly catch up to Zhang Yanhang’s hunting pace.

So, following this typical charming route would be a pure waste of time for Zhang Yanhang; what he truly wants are abilities like Death Wave, related to Charm attribute yet brutally efficient in enhancing his Monster hunting efficiency.

Unfortunately, abilities like Death Wave are not easily obtained; after all, Death Wave alone is a genuinely Divine Level Skill from an Ancient Reaper.

Wouldn’t obtaining another ability that matches his Professional Skills be straightforward? Therefore, although Zhang Yanhang admits this is an excellent idea, it is not something that can be achieved in a short time.

But even though it may not be possible to immediately obtain a new ability that perfectly meets his requirements, the Charm attribute value must still be raised; he cannot slacken the advancement of his Charm attribute value just because only the Death Wave Skill yields a bonus.

So, for the difference between the final height reached by Equipment bonuses alone and his preset goal, Zhang Yanhang believes that he needs to use some Free Attribute Points to slightly bridge the gap.

After all, he still had a relatively ample supply of free attribute points, even if he allocated some to enhance his Charm sub-attribute, there would still be enough left to leave a sufficient amount for his main attributes.

"But even though I want to use free attribute points to increase my Charm attribute, I don’t have any free attribute points at hand. I can only obtain new free attribute points by continuing to increase my Profession Level..."

However, Zhang Yanhang was in no hurry to increase his Profession Level just yet. He planned to wait until he had sorted out his equipment before attempting to level up. Mainly because the soul points needed to raise his Profession Level were simply too many—casually leveling up a few times would cost him tens of thousands of soul points.

Compared to leveling up, Zhang Yanhang believed that the combat power he could gain by investing those soul points into skills would surely be much stronger than merely raising his Profession Level.

"Now that I’ve already gathered ten blue quality Crimson Iron Rings +4, should I pursue purple quality Crimson Iron Rings next? After all, I still have one hundred and sixty-two Crimson Iron Rings left, which serve no other purpose if not fused..."

It’s necessary to mention here a fairly important matter—Zhang Yanhang once tried wearing rings on his toes.

After all, to some degree, toes are quite similar to fingers. So, he decided to try wearing a ring on his toe, thinking that even if he failed, there would be no loss, but if it were successful, it would be a huge gain.

As for the final result, it naturally ended in failure. The equipment slot for toes was not interchangeable with that for fingers. Zhang Yanhang felt that unless he could get some specialized equipment like a foot ring, he wouldn’t be anticipating any toe equipment slot anytime soon.

"But if I were to fuse Crimson Iron Rings, I have no idea how many fusion attempts would be needed to obtain a purple quality Crimson Iron Ring. Just fusing it to blue quality already used up four fusion opportunities. I estimate that the remaining chances are definitely not enough to directly upgrade a Crimson Iron Ring to purple quality.

Therefore, if I want to elevate the Crimson Iron Ring to the same purple quality as the Crimson Iron Heart, I’d most likely have to use the breakthrough method I applied previously during the fusion of Refined Crimson Iron +7..."

But the prerequisite for using this method was that the Crimson Iron Ring, after reaching the fusion limit, was able to achieve a full score or nearly full score in blue quality. Otherwise, even with successful fusion, it was estimated that the Crimson Iron Ring would still not reach the blue full score quality.

So the current issue was that Zhang Yanhang was quite skeptical whether the Crimson Iron Ring, even at its fusion limit, could achieve a full blue score status. If that were the case, it would be rather embarrassing; he could simply declare beforehand that the new plan for the Crimson Iron Ring’s promotion to purple quality had failed in the early preparation stage.

However, while Zhang Yanhang’s expectations for the Crimson Iron Ring weren’t very high, in reality, the chances of the Crimson Iron Ring being upgraded to purple quality were actually quite high.

Although it only upgraded to blue quality after fusing +4, its score within the blue quality was not low—amounting to a solid forty-five points.

Considering that the upper limit for blue quality was only seventy points, the Crimson Iron Ring +4 was only twenty-five points short of reaching a full blue score.

And with the Crimson Iron Ring still having at least one or two chances away from its fusion limit, theoretically, it wouldn’t be difficult to push its score to above sixty points or even higher. But theory is, after all, just theory—the actual situation still needed to be validated through Zhang Yanhang’s practical experience.

Zhang Yanhang counted thirty-two Crimson Iron Rings from the large pile and placed them into the Alchemy Array, then immediately began the fusion. He decided to first fuse a Crimson Iron Ring +6 to see the actual score, as this would determine whether there was potential for the Crimson Iron Ring to reach the purple quality.

If the score of the Crimson Iron Ring +6 met the standard, then he would officially start planning the new project to upgrade the Crimson Iron Ring to purple quality. If it didn’t meet the standard, there was nothing he could do. At the very least, fusing the Crimson Iron Ring +6 could provide him with more Flame Resistance and Acid Resistance bonuses.

Because forging a Crimson Iron Ring +6 required the fusion of sixty-four Crimson Iron Rings, Zhang Yanhang had to complete two rounds of fusing at +1 to gather enough Crimson Iron Rings +1. But from now on, the process would be much easier, with each subsequent round completed in just one cycle.

The overall process of fusion was almost as Zhang Yanhang had predicted. Starting from the Crimson Iron Ring +5, the fusion speed became quite slow, and at the fusion of +6, not only was it slow, but there was also some resistance, indicating that the fusion count of the Crimson Iron Ring had reached its limit.

Fortunately, the fusion was ultimately successful. Zhang Yanhang successfully forged a Crimson Iron Ring +6, and immediately after its creation, he checked the attribute list of the newly formed ring.

[Crimson Iron Ring (Unnamed) +6]

[Quality: Blue]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Crimson Iron Ore Vein, Small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, Outer Zone, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Durability: 55/55]

[Defensive Power: 36]

[Additional Attributes: Flame Resistance +5.8% (+1.6%).]

[Additional Attributes: Acid Resistance +5.8% (+1.6%).]

[Additional Attributes: Charm +1.]

[Usage Requirements: Charm 10 points.]

[Score: 65 (Blue item score range is from 31 to 70.)]

[Description: I never reveal the origin of the Crimson Iron—to those delighted purchasers who wear the secretions of Crimson Iron Ants on their bodies while showering them with affection—coming from a Nameless Blacksmith who just wants to earn money in silence]

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