Ashen God
Chapter 320 - 319: Relaxing Restrictions

Chapter 320: Chapter 319: Relaxing Restrictions

Zhang Yanhang remembered that he had acquired the Indestructible Golden Body Skill on the 13th, while today was the 15th. So, although he had only waited for two days in total, it truly felt like a long time for him.

"I just realized how fast my strength has progressed after advancing to the Second Tier, barely two days have passed and I’m about to become a Second Tier Peak Awakened. Even my skills have been upgraded by quite a bit."

Zhang Yanhang felt that the reason he had been able to increase his strength so quickly this time was not only due to the increased hunting efficiency after advancing to the Second Tier, but mainly because the Crimson Iron Ant Queen had been quite cooperative, gathering most of the Crimson Iron Ants in the nest, which saved him a lot of time.

"After advancing to LV.MAX, the defense bonus and the attack power bonus of the Indestructible Golden Body Skill increased by 50% and 10%, respectively, bringing the defense bonus of the Indestructible Golden Body Skill to 250%, while the attack power bonus increased to 50%."

Zhang Yanhang did a quick calculation; his Energy Shield naturally inherited 150% of the body’s defensive power, and with the additional 250% defensive power bonus, his Energy Shield now possessed 400% defensive power.

That is to say, the defensive power of the Energy Shield enhanced by the Golden Body effect was three times higher than his body’s normal defensive power.

"Not bad at all, being three times higher than my own defensive power. If I could upgrade the Technique Immunity Skill to LV.MAX and accordingly increase the Shield Value limit to three times the Life Value Limit, then I could hunt whatever monster I want in the Ashen World without worrying about the possibility of not being able to overcome and being killed in retaliation."

Of course, what Zhang Yanhang referred to here were only monsters that were one Rank higher than himself. If it were monsters two Ranks higher, due to several orders of magnitude difference in body constitution, even if he were to upgrade the Technique Immunity to LV.MAX, it likely wouldn’t provide much security for his life.

"Moreover, in addition to improvements in defensive power and attack power, the Life Value Limit also increased by another 10% after leveling up to LV.MAX."

Since Zhang Yanhang’s Constitution Attribute had already reached the Second Tier Limit of fifty points, if he wanted to continue increasing his Life Value Limit and Shield Value Limit, he would mainly rely on various additional Life Value bonuses and Artifacts that could permanently increase the Life Value Limit.

Speaking of Artifacts that can permanently increase the Life Value Limit, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but start to yearn for the Yellow Medicine Grass in Raccoon City.

"Now that my Constitution Attribute is about to reach a level where I can no longer use Yellow Medicine Grass, my next trip to Raccoon City might be the last time I have the chance to use it. After all, it would be rather absurd to deliberately refrain from increasing my Constitution Attribute just to continue using the Yellow Medicine Grass."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that the usage requirements for Yellow Medicine Grass dictated that the Constitution Attribute must not exceed fifty points, which means the highest limit for using it was forty-nine points. His Constitution Attribute had already reached forty-seven points when without equipment.

So, Zhang Yanhang was just three points shy of being disqualified from further use of Yellow Medicine Grass due to his Constitution Attribute reaching the Limit. These last three points of Constitution would be raised soon with the level advancement of the Limitless Universe Skill and consequently, would cause Zhang Yanhang to lose the only stable channel he had for permanently increasing his Life Value Limit.

Nevertheless, Zhang Yanhang was, after all, an Awakener with Alchemy, and he believed that he might try to use Fusion to relax the usage constraints of Yellow Medicine Grass.

For instance, he could try to relax the usage condition from being effective only if the Constitution Attribute is maintained below fifty points to a new threshold of fifty-five or even sixty points.

In this way, although he would likely lose some of the increase in Life Value Limit, it could ensure that Zhang Yanhang would still enjoy the permanent increase effect of the Yellow Medicine Grass’s Life Value Limit before he advanced to the Third Tier.

"The problem is, even if it’s possible to relax the usage requirements of Yellow Medicine Grass through Fusion, with the slow monster respawn rate in Raccoon City, I’ll not be able to get too much Yellow Medicine Grass. Even considering the slot machine, the Yellow Medicine Grass could probably only increase my Life Value Limit by an additional hundred points at most."

Zhang Yanhang felt that if he wanted to continue to raise his Life Value Limit and accordingly his Shield Value Limit, it would be best to look for other Artifacts that can increase the Life Value Limit, or Equipment that can provide a Life Value Limit bonus.

But considering that even the Professional skills of a Heavenly Destiny Master like the Indestructible Golden Body Skill only increase the Life Value Limit by 50%, he estimated that even if he found Equipment that could increase the Life Value Limit, it would likely only offer an increase of a few percent.

Unless it was some sort of high-Quality Equipment, like Golden quality, Zhang Yanhang believed that only Equipment of that quality might be able to offer more than a ten percent Life Value Limit increase.

Because of the increased Life Value Limit provided by the Indestructible Golden Body, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but open his status screen to take a look at his Life Value Limit.

[Shield Value: 3317/3317 (150% of Life Value Limit, recovery speed: 20% per second.)]

[Life Value: 2211/2211 (Constitution × 20, the body has now officially been dataized, Life Value recovery speed, 15 points per hour.)]

[Energy Value: 885/885 (Intelligence × 15, the body has now officially been dataized, Energy Value recovery speed, 42 points per hour.)]

"The Energy Value limit increased by 30 points from the original 855 points to the current 885 points, due to an increase of two Intelligence Attribute points. My Intelligence Attribute has now reached forty-nine points, just one point away from the Second Tier Limit of fifty. This means that unless I can obtain other Artifacts or Equipment that increase the Energy Value Limit, the most I could raise my Energy Value Limit within the Second Tier is by fifteen points, bringing it up to nine hundred points."

Although he intended to check the changes in the Life Value Limit, Zhang Yanhang first looked at the Energy Value limit. Because compared to the thriving growth of the Life Value Limit, the Energy Value limit often remains stagnant. A minor increment and then it would be at a standstill for a long period, thus it becomes particularly noticeable during its occasional modest advancement.