"The second-prize Purple Quality artifact, Crimson Iron Ant King Concentrated Hormone, can enhance my Charm attribute by two points, but with the bonus from the Heaven and Earth Devourer, it can achieve a four-point enhancement.

So, here's the problem. I'm currently just four Charm attribute points short. Once I consume one bottle, the other would become ineffective since the attribute value would max out. Originally, I could wait until after leveling up to use it, but now that's not possible; once I advance to the Sixth Tier, it will become unusable due to tier restrictions..."

For this issue, Zhang Yanhang definitely has a solution. The obvious answer is to use alchemy to fuse them, merging two bottles of Crimson Iron Ant King Concentrated Hormone into one Crimson Iron Ant King Concentrated Hormone +1. Although this might seem a bit wasteful, it's better than having an unusable bottle, which would be the greatest waste.

With this thought in mind, Zhang Yanhang immediately activated alchemy and placed both bottles of Crimson Iron Ant King Concentrated Hormone into it, beginning the fusion. For such low-tier Purple Quality items, Zhang Yanhang completed the fusion in just a few seconds. Despite the quick time, the process was as perfect as ever.

Looking at the Crimson Iron Ant King Concentrated Hormone +1, now glowing with a dark purple light, Zhang Yanhang promptly checked its attribute list.

[Crimson Iron Ant King Concentrated Hormone +1]

[Quality: Dark Purple]

[Type: Artifact]

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

[Usage effect: Charm +4.]

[Usage requirements: Charm below 50 points.]

[Score: 260 (Dark Purple Quality items score from 151 to 260.)]

[Description: An unnamed blacksmith who frequented the Crimson Iron Ore Vein discovered that the Crimson Iron Ant King secretes a special hormone during its mating behavior with the Crimson Iron Ant Queen. This hormone seems to have some benefits for the human body...]

"Is it because my technique is just too perfect? To achieve perfect fusion, I originally expected maybe only three points of Charm attribute enhancement, but couldn't believe all four points were retained. That's really great."

Of course, Zhang Yanhang knows this likely has little to do with his own technique, as his soul technique is quite well-known. Therefore, Zhang Yanhang attributes it more to the special effect of Truth Alchemy; after all, it's a Fifth Tier Alchemy, using it for a perfect fusion of such Second Tier artifacts is equivalent to using a Star Annihilation Cannon to kill a mosquito.

"Although it's already fused to Dark Purple, I could actually wait until advancing to the Sixth Tier before using it, but since I'm currently lacking four points of Charm attribute, it's better to use it now."

Zhang Yanhang plans to reserve the bottle of Crimson Iron Ant Queen Hormone Essence for use after advancing to the Sixth Tier.

After making his plan, Zhang Yanhang immediately ingested the newly produced Crimson Iron Ant King Concentrated Hormone into his Stomach Space. After a brief absorption, Zhang Yanhang quickly resumed checking his attribute list.

Incidentally, he has been checking the attribute list quite frequently today, mainly because the Charm attribute is increasing rapidly at a speed he never anticipated before.

[Strength: 125 (+3[-2])]

[Agility: 125 (+3[-1])]

[Constitution: 125 (+3[-2])]

[Intelligence: 125 (+3[-3])]

[Charm: 125 (+4[-8])]

"A Dark Purple Quality Crimson Iron Ant King Concentrated Hormone could originally provide a four-point Charm attribute enhancement, but due to the complete bonus from Heaven and Earth Devourer, it directly increased to an eight-point Charm attribute enhancement. However, these eight points currently overflow due to tier limitations and can only be converted upon reaching the Sixth Tier."

Regarding this eight-point Charm attribute overflow, Zhang Yanhang certainly plans to reduce it, so he immediately removed all items that could increase his Charm attribute, except the Makarov Set.

Next, Zhang Yanhang again checked his attribute list.

[Strength: 125 (+3[-2])]

[Agility: 125 (+3[-1])]

[Constitution: 125 (+3[-2])]

[Intelligence: 125 (+3[-3])]

[Charm: 125 (+2[-6])]

"The Makarov Earring provides a two-point Charm attribute bonus, which I am destined not to reduce in the short term, so I'll have to keep this bonus until the Sixth Tier.

Originally, my base Charm attribute was only 121 points, but now due to an additional eight-point Charm attribute enhancement, my base Charm attribute has risen to 129 points, making it the second attribute to reach the tier limit after my Intelligence attribute."

Initially, Zhang Yanhang expected that there wouldn't be further means to increase Charm, so he anticipated that Strength might become the second attribute to reach the tier limit, but he was surprised when the Charm attribute beat it with a forced refresh through the Lucky Slot Machine.

"Counting the equipment bonus of two points, I now have a total of 131 points in Charm attribute, while the equipment bonus ratio has decreased from the previous 3% to just 1.5%, which is another reduction by half, successfully achieving my previous small goal of 2%."

Zhang Yanhang planned to set the next small target at below 1%, or even completely zero out, but that really can only be completed when he eliminates the Makarov Set at the Sixth Tier, but for now, temporarily it's not quite feasible.

Therefore, instead of calling this a small goal, it's more appropriate to say it's a mid-term goal that requires crossing tiers to achieve, and can only be accomplished by crossing tiers.

After checking the Dark Purple Quality Crimson Iron Ant King Concentrated Hormone +1, Zhang Yanhang put away the first prize Crimson Iron Ant Queen Hormone Essence to be used later at Sixth Tier.

Because with this bottle of Crimson Iron Ant Queen Concentrated Hormone Essence, Zhang Yanhang felt he certainly wouldn't lack Charm attribute at Sixth Tier, and estimated he'd max out the Charm attribute shortly after promotion or even right at promotion.

Besides the most important first prize and second prize, Zhang Yanhang had just defeated a hundred Crimson Iron Worker Ants and Crimson Iron Flying Ants, which dropped two Treasure boxes, but all were Crimson Iron Worker Ants' Drop Treasure boxes.

Thus, Zhang Yanhang now has a total of eighty Crimson Iron Worker Ant Drop Treasure boxes, plus eleven Crimson Iron Flying Ant Drop Treasure boxes, making a total of ninety-one drop treasure boxes, still not reaching one hundred.

"By the way, what was the bad thing mentioned in the previous option?"

Zhang Yanhang felt he didn't seem to have anything bad happening, and even felt happy for just having boosted his Charm attribute to the tier limit.

So, Zhang Yanhang shifted his focus to the Lucky Slot Machine nearby. He felt if something bad was really going to happen, it should be with this Lucky Slot Machine rather than happening to him; otherwise, Multiple Choice would certainly give him a more detailed hint, instead of casually reminding him in a vague manner.

After trying to pull the lever of the Lucky Slot Machine, Zhang Yanhang found out that this thing actually couldn't move. Initially, even when the prize pool was cleared, as long as he wanted to play the fool and spend money, the lever could always be pulled as one pleased. But after clearing now, the lever wouldn't move.

Zhang Yanhang suspected maybe Multiple Choice bugged the Lucky Slot Machine, causing it to get stuck, or possibly it's simply broken.

But trying to figure things out by himself was really tedious, so Zhang Yanhang directly made a choice on the spot to ask Multiple Choice for details again, only to discover the Lucky Slot Machine was indeed completely broken, never to refresh again, the last refresh just now was its final one.

Zhang Yanhang felt okay about this result; after all, he already couldn't return to the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, so now it completely squeezed out its remaining value.

"But I wonder if Multiple Choice can also force the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box and Achievement Vending Machine to refresh?"

Thinking about this, Zhang Yanhang immediately teleported over to try, but unfortunately found that currently, it's not feasible; Multiple Choice had no response, perhaps its strength wasn't sufficient yet and would need upgrading to a higher tier like Sixth Tier to force a refresh.

If that side could also forcibly refresh, Zhang Yanhang felt his good days would really arrive. Of course, adhering to the principle of the best days are yet to come, he understood truly achieving such days would be filled with challenges and difficulties, requiring a long time and possibly turning out to be false promises.

"So, here's the issue: having finished up all affairs in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, what should I do next?"

Zhang Yanhang pondered carefully and felt there weren't really any remaining matters needing attention at the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, so next, he should directly go to the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano and continue clearing monsters.

Having made up his mind, Zhang Yanhang immediately teleported to the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano.

Due to previously clearing monsters in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu at quite a rapid pace, plus the swift emptying of the prize pool, Zhang Yanhang could be said to have spent less than half a minute to clear the entire small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu.

This was precisely why Zhang Yanhang found five minutes to be excessively long; after all, clearing such a Low-level Area was genuinely quick. If he didn't care about the Drop Treasure boxes, he could have punched and shattered the entire small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu with just one blow, clearing it in merely a second.

Though Zhang Yanhang did take less than half a minute to clear the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, he figured the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano wouldn't be as easy; at least needing a minute to clear.

The large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano spans over six hundred square kilometers, but with Zhang Yanhang's current Perception Range of 1800 square kilometers, he could still scan the whole large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano at once.

Although the Crimson Iron Ore itself presents some obstacles, Zhang Yanhang's Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil's penetration by now is incomparable to before, making scanning the entire range effortless.

Still, although scanning with Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil through the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano is easy, Death Wave can't be as light as previously, because its maximum coverage is only sixty-five square kilometers, requiring at least ten Death Waves to cover the whole large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano.

Based on Zhang Yanhang's scan results, he found that the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano has already refreshed to around 22,000 monsters; this rate is quite fast, at least twice the normal speed.

But Zhang Yanhang also didn't care much about why the refresh speed there was so fast since not only did the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu become useless for him, the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano was really quite dispensable too.

It's not just the equipment being less useful; more crucially, since he can't re-enter the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, returning to the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano will also become quite difficult, only possible through Greenland's Transmission Channel.

But he can't keep an eye on Greenland all the time, and besides, he's nearing Sixth Tier; naturally, the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano's Fourth Tier Region is less significant for him.

Thus, this time Zhang Yanhang planned to forcibly refresh and initialize the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano's Lucky Slot Machine too and then never return.

Of course, if later he wants to continue improving the XX Level Talent Longbo's power, he'd surely have to come here to try to find higher tier new areas, though it's evident he currently has no demand for this since his current goal is to enhance the SS Level Scroll Dragon Bloodline.

Plus, he's considering leveling up the SSS Level Talent Sky Rhythm, so he reckoned even if he indeed desires boosting the XX Level Talent Longbo's power, it certainly wouldn't be before Sixth Tier; he utterly doesn't need to make any early plans now.

And presently, what's most essential for him is to hurriedly clear the refreshed monsters in the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano; among them, no high-level monsters like the Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ant existed, only 14,000 Crimson Iron Destruction Ants and 8,000 Crimson Iron Flame Ants were present.