CHAPTER 611: CHAPTER 610: PURPLE QUALITY [GRAY MANED ARM GUARD +4]

"Therefore, compared with the former method where the requirement of Ash Source quadrupled with each advancement in rank, Zhang Yanhang found the latter method—where the advancement only required a simple increase of three points in Ash Source—to be more reliable.

If it were the latter case, advancing to the fourth tier would only require the clearing of three areas. His current advancement to the third tier, including the Demonized Swamp, just happened to involve the clearing of three areas, so clearing three areas was something he could accept.

Although he hadn’t even started advancing to the third tier yet, Zhang Yanhang was already worrying about advancing to the fourth tier. After all, if it was as per the former method, that would truly be terrifying and require early planning.

"After raising the profession level of Heavenly Destiny Master from LV.19 to LV.20 just now, I spent 18,000 soul points, leaving me with only 79,909 soul points," he thought to himself. "Although that’s a small amount, and I can no longer raise any skill levels with it, it should still be enough for a simple advancement.

Then the question arises, should I promote either Indestructible Golden Body or Death Wave Skill to Original LV.5?"

After careful deliberation, Zhang Yanhang eventually discarded this idea. He felt it would be better to save those 79,909 soul points for increasing the profession level of Fighting Master Skill. After all, if he used those soul points to promote a skill now, what if next time he still couldn’t gather enough soul points to raise Fighting Master Skill to LV.6?

So, it was better to hold onto them for now. After all, while a straightforward advancement would indeed yield some benefits, they usually weren’t that high.

"Since the remaining soul points can’t be spent, let’s tally up the gains from the drop treasure box I just opened." Zhang Yanhang now had a pile of items on his bed, and after roughly categorizing them, he first began to tally the artifacts he had obtained.

The total number of artifacts he got wasn’t much, but there was a variety of them. This time he obtained three Green Medicine Grasses, three Red Medicine Herbs, one Emergency Spray, three Medium Magic Recovery Potions, and most importantly, three Yellow Medicine Grasses.

Green Medicine Grass, Red Medicine Herb, and Emergency Spray, since he already had four-figure quantities of them in his Waist Bag, Zhang Yanhang directly put these into his Waist Bag, and for the same reason, the three Medium Magic Recovery Potions too, since there were already three thousand bottles left in his Waist Bag. Only the Yellow Medicine Grass was more significant.

"I remember I got one Yellow Medicine Grass from clearing the Raccoon City prize pool yesterday, but I didn’t use it right away. Now, with the three more I got this time, I have a total of four Yellow Medicine Grasses in my possession."

Counting this way, Zhang Yanhang felt that it wouldn’t be difficult to gather twenty Yellow Medicine Grasses in three days before leaving the Ashen World, especially since, aside from the prize pool gains, clearing the automatically spawned monsters in Raccoon City would also yield some Yellow Medicine Grass—surely at least ten or more.

After tallying the number of Yellow Medicine Grasses, Zhang Yanhang immediately put them into his Waist Bag as well, just like the other items he had opened, as he had already decided to fuse them together later.

"All I can say is, I really hope the fusion doesn’t fail later on. I’m not asking for usage restrictions of sixty or seventy points; I’d be satisfied if the Yellow Medicine Grass could be used with a Constitution Attribute of fifty-one points or less after fusion."

Zhang Yanhang only wanted to use one last wave of red and yellow pills after advancing to Third Tier. As for advancing to Third Tier? That was definitely out of the question. After reaching Third Tier, he planned to find a way to develop a new method to stably increase his Life Value Limit.

After counting the profits from the Artifacts, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to inventory the profits from the Weapons. It could only be said that there were no weapons in the strict sense, only one part of the standard police Equipment from the Raccoon City Police Department, which was obtained from a Drop treasure box left behind by a Police Zombie and had an attack function—well, that could barely be considered a weapon.

After taking inventory of this only piece of Equipment that somewhat resembled a weapon, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to count the profits from the Equipment. First was a classic fashionable Waist Bag that was opened from a treasure box left behind by a Police Zombie.

"I currently have five Waist Bags +4 and one Waist Bag +3 on me. In addition, there are no other plain Waist Bags, not even one to try for a fusion of Waist Bag +1, so I’ll wait to fuse this Waist Bag when I have the other Waist Bags all together," Zhang Yanhang mused.

He estimated that before leaving Ashen World, he should be able to fuse another Waist Bag +4.

Besides the Waist Bags, Zhang Yanhang also obtained from the Police Zombie’s Drop treasure box two Set parts of the standard police Equipment from the Raccoon City Police Department, including the part that previously could be classified as a weapon with attack function. Including the Waist Bag, these three pieces of Equipment were all the Equipment he had acquired from the slot machine prize pool in Raccoon City.

The next pieces of Equipment were from the Goblin Plain’s slot machine third prize pool. First, there was a Dragon Power Bracelet from a Goblin Spear Thrower and Swift Leggings from a Goblin Wolf Cavalry. Zhang Yanhang had already pushed these two pieces of Equipment to Dark Purple Quality +5 by pushing the limits of fusion. Therefore, both the Dragon Power Bracelet and the Swift Leggings were now useless to him.

"I had twenty-one pairs of Dragon Power Bracelets left in my Waist Bag before, and with this pair, it makes twenty-two pairs in total."

Since Zhang Yanhang was not in a hurry, he started an Alchemy fusion for the bracelets. Eventually, he managed to fuse a pair of Dragon Power Bracelets +4, a pair of Dragon Power Bracelets +2, and a pair of Dragon Power Bracelets +1.

But even though he could fuse the Dragon Power Bracelets a little, the Swift Leggings could not be fused anymore. After all, yesterday, to fuse the Dark Purple Quality Swift Leggings +5, he had used up all the one hundred and twenty-eight pairs of Swift Leggings he had, leaving him with only one pair of Swift Leggings +5 worn on his legs and the ordinary pair of Swift Leggings he had just opened.

Besides the Dragon Power Bracelets and the Swift Leggings, this time, Zhang Yanhang had also obtained three Barbaric Stone Bandages and three Lightning Totem Poles. These two pieces of Equipment were very useful for Zhang Yanhang.

"I need thirty-two Barbaric Stone Bandages to fuse to +5, and currently, I have one Barbaric Stone Bandage +4 and one Barbaric Stone Bandage +3, which is equivalent to twenty-four Barbaric Stone Bandages total. So, I’m short of eight Barbaric Stone Bandages, or one Barbaric Stone Bandage +3.

This time I’ve obtained three new Barbaric Stone Bandages; thus, I’m only five Barbaric Stone Bandages away from being able to fuse a Barbaric Stone Bandage +5.

The Goblin Plain prize pool usually yields about three Barbaric Stone Bandages each time. By this calculation, I should be able to gather enough Barbaric Stone Bandages to fuse a +5 in two days."

Zhang Yanhang planned to wait until he had eight Barbaric Stone Bandages and then fuse them all together, so he put the three newly acquired Barbaric Stone Bandages directly into his Waist Bag.

"Compared to the Barbaric Stone Bandage, my Lightning Totem Pole only needs sixteen Lightning Totem Poles to fuse into the Light Golden Quality Lightning Totem Pole +4.

I already had one Lightning Totem Pole +3 and three regular Lightning Totem Poles, which is equivalent to eleven Lightning Totem Poles. If I add the three Lightning Totem Poles I obtained this time, that makes a total of fourteen. I only need the final two Lightning Totem Poles to fuse a Light Golden Quality Lightning Totem Pole +4.

Although in the last two times I cleared the Goblin Plain slot machine, I gained three Lightning Totem Poles each time. Even if I get one less tomorrow, only two, I will definitely be able to fuse the Light Golden Quality Lightning Totem Pole tomorrow."

If it weren’t for the fact that I was about to receive a promotion in rank soon, Zhang Yanhang even felt that just relying on the Goblin Plain’s slot machine’s third prize, he could directly fuse the Lightning Totem Pole to +5.

But unfortunately, after the promotion, the drop rate of Second-tier Monsters will no longer be the same seven monsters per Treasure Box. It is very likely that it will take killing twenty to drop one Treasure Box.

By then, given the number of slot machines in the Goblin Plain, at most, only one Treasure Box could drop each time, and it would take me sixteen days to gather sixteen Lightning Totem Poles. There’s no way I could stay in the Ashen World that long.

So, unless the Goblin Plain suddenly refreshes a large number of Goblin Shamans, it is unlikely that I could fuse to +5 without any accidents.

After counting the Barbaric Stone Bandages and Lightning Totem Poles, the only Equipment items left from this opening are the last two. The second-to-last piece of Equipment is the Gray Maned Arm Guard, which came from the Treasure Box dropped by the Demonized Maned Beast, and I opened a total of five Gray Maned Arm Guards this time.

"Before, my Gray Maned Arm Guard had already fused to +3, and to continue to fuse to +4, I would need sixteen pieces of Gray Maned Arm Guard. I only had one Gray Maned Arm Guard +3 and six regular Gray Maned Arm Guards, which is equivalent to fourteen pieces."

So, actually, Zhang Yanhang was only two pieces short of fusing a +4 last time. And this time, he obtained another five Gray Maned Arm Guards. Counting the original ones, that’s a total equivalent to nineteen pieces. After fusing the Gray Maned Arm Guard +4, there would still be three Arm Guards left.

Zhang Yanhang immediately took out three regular Gray Maned Arm Guards from his Waist Bag and dismounted the one he was wearing, the Gray Maned Arm Guard +3. After piling it up with the five he just opened, he immediately initiated Alchemy.

Since the fusion limit of the Gray Maned Arm Guard was +5 or possibly +6, simply fusing to Gray Maned Arm Guard +4 was not too difficult. Zhang Yanhang quickly fused the Gray Maned Arm Guard to +4.

Looking at the freshly created Purple Quality Gray Maned Arm Guard +4 in front of him, which had practically no difference from the original, Zhang Yanhang immediately started to check the Attribute list.

[Gray Maned Arm Guard +4]

[Quality: Purple]

[Type: Equipment]

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

[Durability: 55/55]

[Defensive Power: 37]

[Additional Attributes: Physical Recovery Speed +20% (+2.5%).]

[Usage Requirements: Constitution 38 points.]

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

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After fusing to +4, the Gray Maned Arm Guard gained another twenty points in Score, maintaining consistency with the increase for each previous fusion. From a score of one hundred and ten, it increased to one hundred and thirty marks, turning the Gray Maned Arm Guard from a medium-score Purple Quality Equipment to a high-score one.

Looking at the current situation, it seems that fusing the Gray Maned Arm Guard to +5 would make it a full-score Purple Quality Equipment."

However, Zhang Yanhang guessed that the Gray Maned Arm Guard’s limit would likely be a full-score Purple Quality Equipment. Before the +4 fusion, he originally thought there was a good chance the Gray Maned Arm Guard could directly reach Dark Purple Quality by fusing to +6, but in actuality, he found the difficulty of fusing at +4 increased by a large amount.

Therefore, he estimated that +5 was probably the limit for the Gray Maned Arm Guard. According to his experience, to fuse to +6 would definitely not be possible through normal fusion; it would need to rely on forced fusion.

But forced fusion would require him to gather eight Gray Maned Arm Guards +5, and he hasn’t even obtained one Gray Maned Arm Guard +5, so that matter would have to wait until the large-scale hunting of Demonized Maned Beasts.

"Just one Gray Maned Arm Guard +5 would require thirty-two Gray Maned Arm Guards, and right now, I have a total equivalent to nineteen. However, it’s not a big problem. After all, I should undertake the second stage of the Demonized Swamp clearing plan after I wake up."

According to Zhang Yanhang’s previous scans, the second stage of the clearing area, the Eastern Forest of the Demonized Swamp, is predominantly home to the Demonized Maned Beast that provides the Gray Maned Arm Guards. So, after he clears the Eastern Forest, the Gray Maned Arm Guard should be able to break through its limit and achieve Dark Purple Quality by forced fusion right away.