Ashen God
Chapter 437 - 436 C-Class Talent [Scroll Dragon Bloodline (Young Dragon)]

Chapter 437: Chapter 436 C-Class Talent [Scroll Dragon Bloodline (Young Dragon)]

"Speaking of which," Talent eventually mused, "this Dragon Power Bracelet is also an item blessed by angels, so why doesn’t the name include the ’Holy Spirit Blessing’ like the Scroll Dragon Essence Blood did before? Could it be because the blessing wasn’t up to par this time?"

Zhang Yanhang felt it was very likely, considering the blue-quality Dragon Power Bracelet was clearly the mass-produced type of equipment, nowhere near the same league as the light golden-quality Essence Blood Potion.

The latter was about going all out without considering cost-effectiveness, while the former—a product of mass production and low-quality equipment—was very likely to have reduced the intensity of the angelic enlightenment due to cost control for a more favorable cost-effective degree.

After all, angels can get tired, too. What if they were pushed to continuously perform enlightenment at full force, and under such high-intensity strain, they decided to rebel or even attempt a mutually assured destruction with the Red Dragon Salcano?

"So, I choose ’100 Soul points,’ ’100 Soul points,’ ’Thin Dragon Vein (Mixed),’ ’100 Soul points,’ ’Dragon Power Bracelet.’"

After making his selection, time seemed to pause momentarily. Zhang Yanhang stacked the items he had just opened to one side, then proceeded to pick up a new green-quality treasure box.

However, this time he didn’t care whether it was a Big Saber Goblin’s treasure box or a Goblin Spear Thrower’s treasure box. It didn’t matter anymore, since he planned to open them all regardless; there was no difference between sooner or later.

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After spending several minutes to finish opening the treasure boxes, a strange thought suddenly occurred to Zhang Yanhang, "Although my Attribute values have increased, the time it takes to open a treasure box, despite being somewhat reduced due to the set time required to open the treasure box itself, hasn’t decreased by much.

And considering it now only takes me five minutes to clear a square kilometer, if this trend continues, might there come a time when opening treasure boxes takes longer than acquiring them?"

While it seemed far-fetched and fantastical at the moment, Zhang Yanhang thought it was quite possible as his Movement Speed continued to increase.

However, even though that was the case, Zhang Yanhang had no clue how to shorten the time needed to open treasure boxes. Hence, it was a matter of crossing the bridge when he got to it, taking it one step at a time.

Incidentally, the Lucky Slot Machine was another nuisance for Zhang Yanhang, where the time taken for drawing and dispensing prizes was also fixed, meaning despite being able to harvest an entire prize pool of monsters with one use of Death Wave, it still took him several minutes to clear the entire pool.

It wasn’t much of an issue before, but now things were different. He could clear a square kilometer of the Goblin Plain in just five minutes, netting over two hundred Dragon Vein Goblins, but clearing the third-level prize pool of the slot machine took longer, and yielded even fewer monsters.

Of course, despite these drawbacks, the Lucky Slot Machine was still highly desirable overall, for the quantity of monsters in the Goblin Plain was limited, and the slot machine’s once-a-day refresh rate significantly increased the total number of monsters Zhang Yanhang could hunt.

After opening all one hundred and twenty-seven treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang wasn’t in a hurry to tally his loot. Instead, he first checked his Soul points balance.

[Soul points: 43103 (+24180)]

"My Soul point balance has increased from the original 18923 points to 43103, a total rise of 24180 Soul points—not bad. I remember that upgrading the Supreme Will Skill to LV.MAX only needs a total of just over twenty thousand Soul points.

Looking at it that way, maybe after upgrading Supreme Will Skill to LV.MAX, I could even consider giving Limitless Universe Skill an upgrade too."

Currently, Zhang Yanhang had a total of nine Skills, and except for Technique Immunity at its Original Stage and the second-tier Limitless Universe Skill, all Skills had been raised to LV.MAX. Only Supreme Will Skill remained at a ’nascent status.’

So Zhang Yanhang was definitely set on leveling up the Supreme Will Skill to LV.MAX, after which he would be able to comfortably use most of his Soul points for enhancing Technique Immunity·Original to LV.6 and Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original Scripture to LV.6.

After briefly reviewing his Soul points balance, Zhang Yanhang began to inventory the items he had just obtained from the treasure boxes, starting with the Artifacts. He had opened up a total of three hundred and forty-eight bottles of Medium Magic Recovery Potion.

Since he hadn’t used any of the fifteen Medium Magic Recovery Potions he opened last time, Zhang Yanhang now had a total of three hundred and sixty-three bottles.

Based on his current Energy value limit of 1610 points, these could roughly allow him to fully recover his Energy about twenty-two times.

However, once he upgraded his Talent, the increase to his Energy value limit would likely decrease this number, but that wasn’t a significant issue as Zhang Yanhang was far from lacking in Energy points at the moment.

After tallying his Artifacts, Zhang Yanhang began to count the Talents he had acquired. He had opened a total of one hundred and twenty-seven E-grade Talents, "Thin Dragon Vein (Mixed)."

Counting the Thin Dragon Vein (Mixed) he had left from before, he now had one hundred and twenty-eight in total.

"One hundred and twenty-eight Thin Dragon Veins? Based on previous upgrade requirements, doesn’t that mean I could upgrade the Scroll Dragon Bloodline directly from D-grade to A-grade? Three levels at once? This is an experience I’ve never had before and likely won’t have again..."

Zhang Yanhang initially thought that after completing the first phase of the cleaning plan, he might at most have enough to upgrade the Scroll Dragon Bloodline to B-grade.

But to his surprise, the drop rate from the Big Saber Goblins and Goblin Spear Throwers was such that every nineteen would drop a treasure box, allowing him to gather enough to raise the Scroll Dragon Bloodline to A-grade ahead of schedule.

"Hopefully, I’ll get some useful Spells during this upgrade." After counting the Dragon Vein Talents, Zhang Yanhang quietly selected nine and crushed all the blue-purple little light balls in quick succession.

[Detected presence of D-grade Talent ’Scroll Dragon Bloodline (Chu Long)’ inferior Talent in your list, would you like to merge Talents?]

"Yes, merge," Zhang Yanhang didn’t hesitate and chose to merge outright.

[Merging complete.]

[You have obtained C-grade Talent ’Scroll Dragon Bloodline (Young Dragon)’].