Ashen God
Chapter 490 - 489: Swift Leggings +3

Chapter 490: Chapter 489: Swift Leggings +3

After pondering briefly, Zhang Yanhang suddenly realized a problem, "That Refined Crimson Iron Short Sword of mine seems to have been crafted by myself, and all I did was simply sharpen it. Could that be why it barely made it over the passing line?"

Zhang Yanhang felt, somewhat unexpectedly, that this reason had a high likelihood of being true. After all, he knew his own abilities best, and he often found the item descriptions brutally honest in grading his craftsmanship as ’trash.’

"Looking at it this way, the reason my Refined Crimson Iron Short Sword scored so low might really have something to do with me. If it were made by another blacksmith or an alchemist, it should at least be turned into a piece of equipment with a medium score of Dark Purple Quality, or even one with a high score of Dark Purple Quality."

Having understood the main reason, Zhang Yanhang sighed silently. However, improving his crafting skills was not something he could resolve at the moment.

After all, his lack of skill was purely due to a lack of experience. The solution was simple: practice makes perfect. But as simple as it was, it wasn’t attainable because he simply did not have the leisure time.

Fortunately, Zhang Yanhang didn’t need to craft his own weapons or equipment, so it wasn’t a big deal if his skills were subpar. After all, his fusion techniques ensured he was never short on equipment.

"Now that the Dragon Power Bracelet +5 has been upgraded to Dark Purple Quality, it has gained an additional 3% Attack Speed Bonus, bringing my total Attack Speed Bonus from 26% to 29%.

At the same time, this should increase the Fire Rate of the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun from 126 bullets per second to 129 bullets per second, which means the time it takes to clear a magazine should decrease from 4 seconds to 3.9 seconds, a reduction of about 0.1 second."

Moreover, in addition to that, the velocity of the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun’s Cannon Bullets has increased by another 0.1 mach, rising from 3.8 mach to 3.9 mach. It still falls short of Zhang Yanhang’s goal of six mach by 2.1 mach, and rounding off, the overall completion of his plan is roughly one-third done.

"The goal of six mach is still a long journey ahead, and I hope to continue getting Attack Speed Bonuses from other sources in the future, such as achievements or new equipment."

One thing that Zhang Yanhang had to mention was that Attack Speed, in a certain sense, could directly increase his Attack Power. As is commonly known, the kinetic energy of bullets depends on their mass and velocity; increasing either would vastly enhance the bullet’s power.

Hence, without changing the base damage of the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun’s Cannon Bullets, increasing their velocity would result in more damage being inflicted.

This is precisely why Zhang Yanhang placed so much importance on Attack Speed. Because Attack Speed could genuinely be converted directly into an alternative form of Attack Bonus at a proportional rate. If the velocity of the bullets could reach six mach, the overall damage would at the very least double, or even multiple times.

Only in such a way would the accuracy of the Cannon Bullets truly make sense. After all, what’s the point of accurate shots if they can’t penetrate defenses? That would be a joke of an attack.

Furthermore, aside from the Cannon Bullets benefitting in this regard, Zhang Yanhang himself could also gain from it. After all, the Attack Speed Bonus ultimately boosts his own attack speed, and the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun merely benefits from it as a weapon.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang’s melee damage would also see an increase due to the Attack Speed increase, albeit not dramatically. This is because even before the increase, he could easily obliterate a Dragon Vein Goblin.

So, it’s really the Dragon Vein Goblin’s fault for being too weak. If it were a Third Tier monster that Zhang Yanhang encountered, he would definitely feel a noticeable increase in melee damage, as those monsters could probably take a couple of punches before dying.

Upon reviewing the attributes of the Dragon Power Bracelet +5, Zhang Yanhang immediately put the Dark Purple Quality Equipment back on his wrist.

"Now that it has been upgraded to dark purple, these Dragon Power Bracelets will most likely stay with me until the Fourth Tier, and only be completely phased out by the Fifth Tier, of course, that’s assuming I don’t come across any better bracelet equipment along the way. If I do find something better, I’ll definitely switch them out earlier."

Zhang Yanhang had this thought mainly because he remembered that the Third Tier corresponded to dark purple and light gold quality. So, since he had now acquired Third Tier equipment at the Second Tier, there was a very high probability that these Dragon Power Bracelets +5 would continue to accompany him through the Second, Third, and Fourth Tiers.

After equipping the Dragon Power Bracelets +5, Zhang Yanhang started to take stock of his other equipment gains. Next were the Swift Leggings, and since this time he had only taken down fewer than two hundred of the Goblin Wolf Cavalry belonging to the Nu Dao Tribe, he had only looted ten pairs of Swift Leggings in total.

Although the number was small, it was more than enough to fuse into a pair of Swift Leggings +3, which would be perfect to replace the Swift Leggings +2 he currently had on his legs. Consequently, Zhang Yanhang immediately restarted the Alchemy process, selected eight pairs of Swift Leggings, and placed them into the Alchemy Array to begin the fusion.

After three rounds of fusion, a brand new pair of Swift Leggings +3 appeared before Zhang Yanhang, and he immediately began to examine the attribute list of the Swift Leggings +3.

[Swift Leggings +3]

[Quality: Purple]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Goblin Plain, Outer Zone, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Durability: 50/50]

[Defensive Power: 35]

[Additional Attributes: Movement Speed +9.5% (+1.5%).]

[Usage Requirements: Agility 35 points.]

[Score: 126 (Purple items are scored from 71 to 150.)]

[Introduction: Feeling that the source of income was too singular, Red Dragon Salcano, with the intention of supply-side reform, introduced Dragon Power Bracelets crafted from aged dragon scales and the keratin layer (Dragon Skin), and had them further enlightened by angels summoned by the bishop...]

"Sigh, I was hoping that I might be able to fuse the Swift Leggings directly to +4, but I didn’t expect to be short on the number of Swift Leggings..."

Zhang Yanhang would need sixteen pairs of Swift Leggings to fuse Swift Leggings +4, but the one pair of Swift Leggings +3, one pair of Swift Leggings +2, and two pairs of regular Swift Leggings he had on hand only equated to fourteen pairs of Swift Leggings. He was still two pairs of regular Swift Leggings short of fusing a pair of Swift Leggings +4.

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