Ashen God
Chapter 602 - 601 B-level Talent [Life Pulse]

Chapter 602: Chapter 601 B-level Talent [Life Pulse]

"After my Profession Level increased to LV.19, I once again gained six free attribute points. With the previous twenty-four saved up, I now have a total of thirty free attribute points in hand.

If I evenly distribute these thirty attribute points among the four main attributes, each main attribute would get seven points and I would still have two points left to enhance my Charm attribute. Even if distributed among five attributes, each could be improved by six attribute points, which is really nice."

After successfully increasing his Profession Level, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened his Level panel for a look.

[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Second Tier)]

[Race: Human]

[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]

[Level: LV.19 (0/18000)]

[Soul points: 5577 (-16000)]

"My Profession Level has finally risen to LV.19, and now I’m just one level away from officially becoming a Second Tier Peak and advancing to the Third Tier...

To upgrade the Heavenly Destiny Master’s Profession Level from LV.19 to the Second Tier Limit of LV.20 will require 18000 Soul points. Currently, I have only 5577 Soul points left, so I am short by 12423 Soul points to upgrade again. But fortunately, gathering just over ten thousand Soul points is quite easy."

Based on Zhang Yanhang’s previous experience, he estimated that it would take him about an hour of monster hunting at most to gather the required Soul points.

Of course, this was just incidental, as his next target was to clear the entire Southern Forest in one go, so he would surely wait until after clearing the Southern Forest before he found time to upgrade his Profession Level.

"Now that my Profession Level has been upgraded, it’s time to check the other gains in the treasure box."

Due to the absence of Artifact or Weapon gains, Zhang Yanhang started by counting the gear he had gained—this time he had harvested ten Gray Maned Arm Guards and twenty-three Demon Ape Leg Armors.

"Previously my Gray Maned Arm Guards were successfully fused to +2, equivalent to four plain Gray Maned Arm Guards. With the ten acquired this time, that makes a total of fourteen. Ah, it’s frustrating, just two short of being able to directly fuse a Gray Maned Arm Guard +4. For now, I can only fuse a Gray Maned Arm Guard +3 to make do."

While speaking, Zhang Yanhang activated Alchemy and picked eight Gray Maned Arm Guards from the small pile beside him and placed them into the Alchemy Array to begin the +3 fusion. This fusion was slightly different from the previous ones; although the first two fusions were still smooth, Zhang Yanhang felt some resistance when fusing to +3.

Based on Zhang Yanhang’s experience with fusion, this meant that the fusion limit of the Gray Maned Arm Guards was not very high, probably only capable of two or three more fusions.

But the issue was not significant, as the number of Demonized Maned Beasts in the Demonized Swamp was only in the four figures; he didn’t have so many Gray Maned Arm Guards for fusion anyway, so having fewer was actually better for attempting to break through limits sooner.

As Zhang Yanhang looked at the Gray Maned Arm Guard +3 still flickering with purple light in the Alchemy Array, he immediately began to inspect its attribute list.

[Gray Maned Arm Guard +3]

[Quality: Purple]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Raccoon City, Dulda Apartment, Unit 301, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Durability: 52/52]

[Defensive power: 35]

[Additional Attributes: Physical Recovery Speed +17.5% (+2.5%).]

[Usage Requirements: Constitution 38 points.]

[Score: 110 (Purple Items score from 71 to 150.)]

[Introduction: My name is Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado, an exceptionally ordinary war hero who, since achieving great merits in the war with the dwarves a thousand years ago, has been living off my pension without any psychological burden. Perhaps because I retired shortly after reaching adulthood, my life has been somewhat dull...]

"After the fusion of the Gray Maned Arm Guard to +3, its score rose from 90 to 110, an increase of 20 points, thus evolving from a low-score Purple Quality equipment to a Medium-score Purple Quality equipment."

Zhang Yanhang recalled that during the previous two fusions, each one seemed to increase the score by 20 points, suggesting that the Gray Maned Arm Guard was quite stable in this regard, as stable as the craftsmanship of its maker.

"By this calculation, if the Gray Maned Arm Guard could be fused three more times to +6, wouldn’t that directly raise it to a score of 170, reaching Dark Purple Quality? However, the possibility is not great. The actual situation will depend on subsequent fusion processes."

In the previous fusions, the items that could jump two qualities through standard fusion were almost always those with either a full score from the start or close to a full score, only such items were more likely to easily upgrade two qualities through fusion.

However, the Gray Maned Arm Guard clearly did not fit this category as its initial state had only a score of fifty, barely categorizable as a medium-score item even within the Blue quality.

Speaking of this, Zhang Yanhang suddenly remembered his Barbaric Stone Bandage +4 and the Lightning Totem Pole +3; he had forgotten to clear the Lucky Slot Machines in Raccoon City and on Goblin Plain when he had gotten up this morning, and the prize pools at that point should certainly have refreshed to third prize.

But no problem, since both prize pools refreshed during the day, he would have plenty of time to clear them after cleaning up the Southern Forest of the Demonized Swamp in the evening, as it was still only one-thirty in the afternoon, and no need to rush.

"After the fusion of the Gray Maned Arm Guard to +3, the Additional Attributes gained another 2.5% enhancement to Physical Recovery Speed, increasing the bonus from 15% to 17.5%.

Well, although it’s not bad, it’s still 2.5% short of the 20% I initially wanted. I think it needs one more fusion to reach the 20% Physical Recovery Speed Bonus."

After checking the properties of the Gray Maned Arm Guard +3, Zhang Yanhang immediately replaced the elbow’s previously equipped Gray Maned Arm Guard +2 with it, and he placed the Gray Maned Arm Guard +2 along with the other two ordinary Gray Maned Arm Guards back into the Waist Bag.

"This way, if originally I needed to rest for ten hours after working for eleven and a half hours, now I need to rest for ten hours after working eleven hours and forty-five minutes, allowing me to spare an extra fifteen minutes to hunt monsters."

Zhang Yanhang felt that his current physical recovery speed bonus was still far from enough, and he needed to continue acquiring more physical recovery speed bonuses.

After fusing the Gray Maned Arm Guard +3, Zhang Yanhang picked up a pair of Demon Ape Leg Armor from the side. The Demon Ape Leg Armor obtained from the Drop Treasure Box of the demonized dogtooth giant ape did not match the name well, just like the previous Gray Maned Arm Guard. It was called leg armor, but it actually resembled a mere knee guard more.

It only protected the knee and then extended slightly to the calf and thigh on top of that, and the material was still that metal-like silver-gray color, only engraved with a demon ape’s beast head using a special technique on the surface.

"To directly fuse the Demon Ape Leg Armor to +5 needs 32 pieces of Demon Ape Leg Armor, and right now I only have twenty-three, so I’m still nine short for fusing to +5. Therefore, for now, I can only fuse to Demon Ape Leg Armor +4 first."

Zhang Yanhang picked sixteen pieces from the large pile of Demon Ape Leg Armor beside him, placed them into the Alchemy Array, and immediately began the fusion. Perhaps because the forger was the same person, the feeling of fusing was very similar, and since it was only fusing to +4, Zhang Yanhang completed the process quite smoothly.

However, though the fusion process did go smoothly, he did indeed feel quite a resistance. Previously, when Zhang Yanhang was fusing the Gray Maned Arm Guard +3, he was optimistically thinking that this batch of equipment might go directly to +6, but during this fusion process, when it was only fusing to +4, the difficulty of fusion suddenly increased significantly.

Based on this situation, it seems there really isn’t much potential for fusing to +6; it should ideally only be possible to fuse to around +5. Thus, Zhang Yanhang’s little dream of reaching dark purple quality by direct fusion of Gray Maned Arm Guard and Demon Ape Leg Armor ended before it even started.

Looking at the Demon Ape Leg Armor +4 in the Alchemy Array that looked exactly the same as before but was now beginning to emit a purple glow, Zhang Yanhang immediately began checking its attributes list.

[Demon Ape Leg Armor +4]

[Quality: Purple]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Raccoon City, Dulda Apartment, Unit 301, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Durability: 55/55]

[Defensive Power: 37]

[Additional Attributes: Defense +11%（+6%）.]

[Usage Requirements: Constitution 38 points.]

[Score: 130 (Purple items score range from 71 to 150.)]

[Introduction: My name is Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado, just a mundane war hero. Since I earned great merit during the war with the Dwarves a thousand years ago, I have been living off my pension without any psychological burden, and thus began my dull retired life...]

"Hmm? After fusing the Demon Ape Leg Armor to +4, the defense bonus increased by 6%, moving from the original 5% to 11%. It’s even 1% higher than my previous estimate of 10%. Now, the Goblin Shaman really shouldn’t be able to inflict any harm on me.

With four fusions resulting in a 6% bonus increase, the average increase per fusion is about 1.5% in defensive power, which is slightly less. It would have been better if each fusion could have increased by 2.5% like the increased physical recovery speed bonus of the Grey Maned Armor."

Apart from the increased additional attributes, Zhang Yanhang also noticed that the usage requirements of the Demon Ape Leg Armor +4 had increased by ten points, going from needing 28 constitution points to needing 38 points. Still, this growth was similar to that of the Grey Maned Armor.

"After ascending to purple quality by fusing the Demon Ape Armor to +4, its score jumped directly from 50 points to 130 points, an overall increase of 80 points—just like the previous Grey Maned Armor, with each fusion increasing the score by 20 points.

After reaching +4, the Demon Ape Armor has effectively gone from a medium-score blue quality equipment to a high-score purple quality equipment. Moreover, by fusing it once more, it could become a full-score purple quality equipment. However, it’s just unfortunate that the direct fusion to +6 to reach the dark purple quality is not possible."

After inspecting the attribute list of the Demon Ape Armor +4, Zhang Yanhang immediately equipped it on his knees. However, just like the previous elbow piece, there was a common white ten-piece set knee guard present, designed to prevent impacts. Therefore, Zhang Yanhang did not hesitate and immediately replaced it.

After confirming that the additional attributes of Demon Ape Armor +4 were effectively applied, Zhang Yanhang placed the remaining seven Demon Ape Armors into his waist bag, as he still needed nine more to fuse a full-score purple quality Demon Ape Armor +5.

"Soul points are all used up, and the equipment has been checked. Now, it’s time to review the most important talent gains."

Due to the relatively small number of talents gained this time, Zhang Yanhang quickly finished tallying; he had obtained 33 D-tier Prehistoric Giant Beast talents. Since there were no leftover Prehistoric Giant Beast talents from before, these 33 were all the Prehistoric Giant Beast talents that Zhang Yanhang had.

Although 33 D-tier Prehistoric Giant Beast talents might seem not too many in quantity, fortunately, Zhang Yanhang’s current talent quality was quite low, so it was definitely sufficient for upgrading.

"I remember that if I only want to boost Biological Rhythm from C-tier to B-tier, I only need nine D-tier Prehistoric Giant Beast talents. Since I have enough talents, let’s go ahead and upgrade the talent level," Zhang Yanhang said as he picked up nine dark green small light balls and crushed them all at once.

[Detection: A subordinate talent ’Biological Rhythm’ exists in your talent list. Would you like to merge talents?]

"Yes, merge."

If possible, Zhang Yanhang hoped that the moving speed bonus provided by Aerobic Exercise could become even higher.

His second small wish was to have Ability Three Outdoor Sports reduce the negative effects even more, or at least by more than 5%.

Otherwise, if it initially reduces by a generous 80% but each upgrade can only reduce it further by 1% or 3%, that might be slightly awkward. It could even be that by the time it reaches SS-tier, it would not achieve 100% immunity to negative effects.

[Merge complete.]

[You have obtained B-tier Talent ’Life Pulse.’]

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