CHAPTER 608: CHAPTER 607 ELF QUEEN

"Can the little story in the introduction actually be connected? If I can’t draw this bottle of World Tree Juice, I’d never get to see the rest of the story. But fortunately, winning a first prize isn’t that hard for me.

However, the subsequent development of the plot is somewhat unexpected. It’s completely different from what I anticipated, and it’s taken a brand new path.

But since Azikasa was beaten by the Elf Queen and even hit the World Tree, the High Elf Blood I drank earlier and the bottle of World Tree Juice I now hold in my hand couldn’t possibly all have been arranged by him, could they?"

Zhang Yanhang carefully thought about it and felt it was very likely, considering this was the only part mentioning the World Tree, and naturally, getting beaten by the Elf Queen could also mean spilling some blood.

"That means the blood I just drank might indeed be Azikasa’s blood, alas, High Elves are truly superior; just drawing some blood from them can increase my Life Value Limit. If I could capture a High Elf and suck her blood directly from the neck, wouldn’t that massively increase my Life Value Limit?"

As he thought about this, Zhang Yanhang suddenly realized that being a vampire might also have its prospects. However, his profession had already been set as Heavenly Destiny Master, and it definitely wasn’t possible for him to change into something like that now.

"This bottle of World Tree Juice, as an artifact with a score of 350 and light gold quality can increase the Life Value Limit by 180 points, which is 60 points more than the dark purple quality High Elf Blood I just had. Even though it’s only one grade higher, it’s indeed much stronger."

After checking the attribute list for the World Tree Juice, Zhang Yanhang quickly chugged it down. Although he didn’t really get a chance to taste it properly as the juice swiftly transformed into a warm current and melded into his body, he still detected a citrus fragrance.

Because of the excessively abrupt nature of the citrus flavor, Zhang Yanhang was almost 100 percent certain that this taste was synthesized later, and deduced the green apple flavor in the High Elf Blood earlier was also added using additives.

The method used to produce these doesn’t seem very impressive; it feels somewhat amateurish. Otherwise, the flavor wouldn’t have been handled so abruptly.

Zhang Yanhang wondered if Azikasa had employed some inept apprentice to process his blood and the World Tree Juice. However, this apprentice was definitely not the same one as the previous forging apprentice.

He thought that other related items’ descriptions might mention this in the future, like the new equipment that might drop from the treasure boxes of other creatures in the Demonized Swamp.

"But compared to these, the most important thing right now is my current situation regarding the Life Value Limit," Zhang Yanhang said, opening his Life Value Limit to take a look.

[Shield Value: 6808/6808 (210% of Life Value Limit, Recovery Speed: 20% per second.)]

[Life Value: 3242/3242 (Constitution × 21, current body has been officially datafied, Life Value Recovery Speed, 15 points per hour.)]

[Energy Value: 2720/2720 (Intelligence × 21, current body has been officially datafied, Energy Value Recovery Speed, 48 points per hour.)]

"After drinking the two bottles of High Elf Blood and the World Tree Juice, my Life Value Limit has increased from the original 2612 points to 3242 points, a total increase of 630 Life Value Limit points, successfully achieving the previous small goal of reaching 3000 points. The next small goal should be set at 4000 Life Value Limit points.

However, reaching 4000 points in the Second Order is probably impractical.

Even though there should be some increase later on, I am still 758 points short from 4000 Life Value Limit points. Unless I get four more bottles of High Elf Blood or two more bottles of World Tree Juice, there is absolutely no hope, not even with the Indestructible Golden Body enhancement."

"The increase in Life Value Limit by 630 points this time, actually only 420 points were provided by the combination of High Elf Blood and World Tree Juice," he begin. "The remaining 210 points came from the 50% Life Value Limit boost provided by Indestructible Golden Body LV.MAX."

Despite the fact that Zhang Yanhang would next upgrade the Skill Level of his Indestructible Golden Body from its current LV.MAX to Indestructible Golden Body·Original LV.6, in practical terms, it was equivalent to just one Skill Level upgrade.

Merely one Skill Level upgrade, even with the additional attributes of LV.6, would definitely not be able to close such a large gap in Life Value Limit, especially since the Additional Attributes of Indestructible Golden Body·Original LV.6 most likely wouldn’t increase Life Value Limit.

"Along with the growth of my Life Value Limit, my Shield Value Limit also increased from the original 5485 points to 6808 points, totaling an increase of 1323 points—nearly catching up with the Shield Value Limit gained when I upgraded Technique Immunity to Original LV.6.

Moreover, although it wasn’t as much as when I upgraded the Technique Immunity Skill Level, it was significantly higher than the increase during my previous Tier Promotion, which had only increased my Shield Value Limit by 1200 points through Constitution Attribute growth; now, merely with two bottles of High Elf Blood and one bottle of World Tree Juice, it has already increased by an additional 123 points."

Of course, the main reason Zhang Yanhang was able to increase his Shield Value Limit so much was still due to the Shield Value enhancement provided by Technique Immunity·Original LV.6, which directly translates to 2.1 times the Life Value Limit—truly terrifying.

"My previous small goal was to reach six thousand Shield Value points. I thought it would take a long time to achieve, but surprisingly, I’ve already met it.

Moreover, looking at it, I’m very close to the next small goal of seven thousand Shield Value points, just missing 192 points. I should be able to directly meet this small goal with just a little upgrade in the Skill Level of Indestructible Golden Body."

Moreover, in addition to this small goal, Zhang Yanhang realized he had also incidentally achieved another small goal.

"Before drinking the potions, I had mentioned that combining Shield Value Limit and Life Value Limit to reach ten times that of a Same Tier Awakened at Third Tier was a small goal only possible at Third Tier, but unexpectedly, it’s now directly achieved.

An Ordinary Second Tier Awakened’s Life Value Limit is a thousand points, whereas now, my combined Shield Value Limit and Life Value Limit is 10050 points, truly ten times that of a Second Tier Awakened.

However, although it is indeed achieved, it’s actually just a weakened version of the small goal. My original complete goal was to make the Shield Value alone reach ten times the Life Value Limit of a Same Tier Awakened.

But at that time, I thought this complete goal was somewhat too hard to achieve, so I reduced it to the current downgraded version. But now that the simplified version of the goal is met, naturally, I should go further to accomplish the complete version of the goal. Despite that, completing the complete version is indeed too difficult."

Even though the complete version of the small goal is indeed difficult, Zhang Yanhang felt that as long as he could continue to upgrade the Skill Level of Technique Immunity, it should definitely be feasible, though when exactly it could be achieved remains unknown.

"I remember my Energy Value Limit had finally surpassed my Life Value Limit on the 22nd, but just three days later, the Life Value Limit immediately surpassed it again, and by a considerable margin at that. It seems, compared to Energy Value Limit, Life Value Limit indeed grows more easily."

Zhang Yanhang had anticipated this surpassing of Life Value Limit again, so he wasn’t surprised; it was just that the speed of this surpassing was a bit faster than he had expected.

"Well then, the question arises, since I’ve already finished the High Elf Blood and World Tree Juice, what should I do next?"

After briefly considering, Zhang Yanhang decided to immediately go and clear the Fourth Prize pools of the Lucky Slot Machine in Raccoon City and Goblin Plain, and after cleaning these two pools, he would formally begin opening treasure boxes.

Having made up his mind, Zhang Yanhang immediately teleported to the Lucky Slot Machine in Goblin Plain and skillfully pulled the metal lever on the side of the machine.

"[Please select the specific content of the Lucky Slot Machine prize this time]"

"[Option One: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Big Saber Goblin, First Tier One Star, Elite Monster.)]"

"[Option Two: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Goblin Spear Thrower, First Tier Two Stars, Elite Monster.)]"

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"[Option Thirty-Seven: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Goblin Chief Shaman Maka Bagga, Second Tier Two Stars, Elite Monster.)]"

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"[Option Eighty-Six: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Goblin Shaman, Second Tier One Star, Elite Monster.)]"

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"[Option One Hundred Thirty-Nine: ✫☆✫ (Fourth Prize, Thank You for Participating, No Physical Prize.)]"

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Since it was only the third time clearing the tier three prize pool from the slot machine, Zhang Yanhang habitually checked the prize list of the Goblin Plain Lucky Slot Machine again, hoping for some changes, such as suddenly having twenty Maka Baggas replacing the original Big Saber Goblins.

Unfortunately, no such luck occurred. The Lucky Slot Machine still contained twenty each of Big Saber Goblins, Goblin Spear Throwers, Goblin Wolf Cavalries, and Big Goblins, with nineteen Goblin Shamans and one Maka Bagga.

"I was previously five Maka Baggas short of dropping a new treasure box, and killing this one will leave me still four Maka Baggas short. With only three days left in Ashen World, I’m starting to feel somewhat hopeless."

Although Zhang Yanhang was indeed lucky, he didn’t believe he could kill just six Maka Baggas and obtain a drop treasure box again. Such an event, indeed, seemed slightly beyond his lucky streak—all possible but with a very small probability, even for someone as fortunate as him.

"But although the hope is dim, dim is still not none, and I need to keep clearing the prize pool. After all, compared to the other ninety-nine Dragon Vein Goblins in the prize pool, Maka Bagga is just an extra. It would be better to get a drop treasure box, but not getting one wouldn’t be too disappointing."

Zhang Yanhang was actually more concerned about the drop treasure boxes from the two other second tier Dragon Vein Goblins, namely the Big Goblin and the Goblin Shaman. His Barbaric Stone Bandages and Lightning Totem Poles were still available for fusion, and as long as the prize pool’s drop treasure boxes kept up, he could proceed with the fusions immediately.

"So, I choose Option One, First Tier One Star Elite Monster, Big Saber Goblin." After quickly reviewing the unchanged prize list except for the prize sequence, Zhang Yanhang immediately made his choice, and Time Pause likewise vanished in an instant.

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"[Successfully killed First Tier Three Star Monster ’Goblin Wolf Cavalry (Ordinary)’ ×1, Soul Points +10.]"

"[Successfully killed First Tier Three Star Monster ’Goblin Wolf Cavalry (Ordinary)’ ×1, Soul Points +10.]"

"[Successfully killed First Tier Three Star Monster ’Goblin Wolf Cavalry (Ordinary)’ ×1, Soul Points +10.]"

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About five minutes later, Zhang Yanhang, using a single Death Wave, managed to kill the hundred Dragon Vein Goblins drawn from the prize pool. Like the last time, to reduce the chance of these Dragon Vein Goblins escaping, he had mechanically only moved his arm to operate the metal joystick throughout, then directly taking them all down together after gathering a hundred Dragon Vein Goblins.

Just after killing a hundred Dragon Vein Goblins, Zhang Yanhang stood still for a few seconds. Due to the high number of same tier monsters in the prize pool, the number of drop treasure boxes here was much higher than in Raccoon City and the just-visited Demonized Swamp. Zhang Yanhang counted, and there were nine drop treasure boxes in total—three of Green Quality and six of Blue Quality.

After picking up the nine drop treasure boxes and skillfully placing them into his Waist Bag, Zhang Yanhang immediately teleported back to Raccoon City.

Looking at the familiar Lucky Slot Machine downstairs at Dulda Apartment, Zhang Yanhang again expertly pulled the metal lever on the side of the slot machine. If he remembered correctly, he must have pulled this lever over a thousand times, nearly two thousand times—utterly familiar.

And with the pulling of the lever, Time Pause once again descended over Raccoon City, and the familiar text option box also appeared before his eyes.

"[Please select the specific content of the Lucky Slot Machine prize this time]"

"[Option One: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Beta-type Hunter, First Tier Three Stars, Ordinary Monster.)]"

"[Option Two: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Driver Zombie, First Tier Zero Star, Ordinary Monster.)]"

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"[Option Sixty-Nine: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Labrador Zombie, First Tier One Star, Ordinary Monster.)]"

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"[Option Eighty-Two: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, T-001 Prototype Tyrant, Second Tier One Star, Ordinary Monster.)]"

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"[Option One Hundred Ninety-Two: ✫✫✫ (Fourth Prize, Thank You for Participating, No Physical Prize.)]"

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Since this was already the umpteenth time reviewing this complete option list, Zhang Yanhang merely glanced briefly at it and immediately knew that his earlier hope had yet again gone unfulfilled. The Lucky Slot Machine in Raccoon City still hadn’t refreshed the first or second prizes.