Regarding how to acquire two new dark purple quality weapons, Zhang Yanhang already had a rough idea. He felt that he could perhaps rely on refined crimson iron once again, which is to say, by forcibly fusing blue-quality refined crimson iron to raise it to dark purple quality.
Although it was difficult, the chances of success were still high, as long as Zhang Yanhang could obtain a large amount of refined crimson iron, he could turn quantity into quality.
But to complete this plan, the few hundred kilograms of refined crimson iron he carried were definitely not enough. He would need the large stockpile of refined crimson iron from the Crimson Iron Ant Nest to forcibly promote the original blue-quality refined crimson iron to dark purple quality.
"Furthermore, in addition to the refined crimson iron stockpiled in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, perhaps I could also upgrade my alchemy skill to increase the success rate of promoting refined crimson iron to dark purple quality.
Choose! Skill level upgrade!"
With this thought, Zhang Yanhang didn’t hesitate to start upgrading his skill level. Since the Ash Source was not needed for the time being, it would be better to use it to upgrade Alchemy, which would surely bring him considerable benefits if he could upgrade it.
After consuming a bit of the Ash Source to upgrade Alchemy, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened up the skill effect of Alchemy to take a look.
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"[Skill Effect: Transforms one thing into another, no cooldown time, each use will consume 1-??? Energy Value depending on the complexity of the transformation, quality volume, and other relevant factors.]"
"[Additional Attributes: Manufacturing]"
"[Additional Attributes: Fusion]"
"[Additional Attributes: Enchantment]"
"With another additional attribute added, Enchantment, it feels like it could be used to strengthen equipment and weapons." Although he was really pleased to have one more additional attribute, what made Zhang Yanhang somewhat uncomfortable was that even though Alchemy was in its complete state, there were absolutely no changes to its skill effect.
After the upgrade of Alchemy, Zhang Yanhang’s mind was immediately filled with many related alchemical knowledge, especially the part about enchantment, which was particularly abundant.
However, most of the knowledge about enchantment that appeared in Zhang Yanhang’s mind was concerning operational techniques, and specific enchantment arrays that he could apply in practice were not abundant.
Among these, the only enchantment arrays that Zhang Yanhang could meet the conditions to inscribe were the most basic ones, like sharpness, heaviness, fleet-footedness, and the like, which could only be inscribed on some low-quality equipment, and thus were not very useful to Zhang Yanhang.
The few enchantment arrays that would be useful to Zhang Yanhang required some special materials, the origins of which he had absolutely no idea.
Moreover, more crucially, the enchantment skill that Zhang Yanhang had acquired was actually primarily intended for adding magic to equipment and weapons, but he knew no spells at all.
Of course, the Enchantment Array wasn’t limited to just adding magic. If Zhang Yanhang knew some attack spells that consumed Spiritual Energy, he could also inscribe them onto equipment and weapons.
The problem was that he didn’t know any such spells either. He had only received the most basic Limitless Universe Skill from the relevant authorities, but had not been provided with any accompanying attack formulas.
Thus, for the current Zhang Yanhang, this new additional attribute ’Enchantment’ was utterly useless. He could only think about finding a way in the future, seeing if he could obtain any useful enchantment arrays or spells from the Ashen World. Only then would the function of enchantment truly be realized.
"Forget it. Enchantment is a bit too far-fetched for me. Let’s test how much my alchemy has improved after leveling up," Zhang Yanhang said as he removed all the Refined Crimson Iron from the Anti-riot Shield and piled it together.
Zhang Yanhang restarted his alchemy, and the golden Alchemy Array appeared instantaneously above the Refined Crimson Iron. As Zhang Yanhang’s Energy Value continued to pour in, the Refined Crimson Iron within the Alchemy Array quickly melted into pools of liquid that fused together.
After five consecutive fusions, Zhang Yanhang had turned three hundred and twenty kilograms of Refined Crimson Iron into a fist-sized Refined Crimson Iron +5.
After carefully checking the attribute list of Refined Crimson Iron +5, Zhang Yanhang found that its score was already quite high within Purple Quality materials. One more fusion, and he would be able to obtain a Purple Quality material with a full score.
"But the next fusion is also the last one." Though his alchemy had leveled up, Zhang Yanhang found that the effects of fusion didn’t seem to have improved. So, after five fusions, he felt that the next one would likely be the limit for Refined Crimson Iron.
What Zhang Yanhang needed was Dark Purple Quality Refined Crimson Iron +7. At best, Purple Quality full-score Refined Crimson Iron +6 would serve as a prerequisite material.
While Zhang Yanhang had not actually tried it, according to his knowledge of alchemy, the same fusion method as before would definitely not work for creating Dark Purple Quality Refined Crimson Iron +7.
If he only used two Refined Crimson Iron +6 for the fusion, the failure rate for creating Refined Crimson Iron +7 was virtually a hundred percent. Therefore, he believed that at least eight Purple Quality full-score Refined Crimson Iron +6 were needed to successfully transform quantity into quality and fuse them into a Dark Purple Quality Refined Crimson Iron +7.
"Just making Refined Crimson Iron +5 consumed three hundred and twenty kilograms of Refined Crimson Iron, and fusing Refined Crimson Iron +6 would require double that amount, meaning six hundred and forty kilograms of Refined Crimson Iron. Multiply that by eight, and that’s five thousand one hundred and twenty kilograms of Refined Crimson Iron.
Moreover, because I need two Dark Purple Quality weapons, my real requirement is actually ten tons of Refined Crimson Iron."
Although there was a considerable amount of Refined Crimson Iron in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, Zhang Yanhang estimated that using so much would significantly deplete the stockpile. After all, although the ordinary Crimson Iron produced by the Crimson Iron Worker Ants was abundant, the Blue Quality material produced by the Crimson Iron Flying Ants, the Refined Crimson Iron, was not so plentiful.
The main reason was the substantial difference in their numbers. According to Zhang Yanhang’s estimation, there were at least several thousand First Tier One Star Crimson Iron Worker Ants, but it was uncertain whether the Elite Quality Crimson Iron Flying Ants even numbered in the four digits. Thus, due to the large difference in quantity, Refined Crimson Iron was relatively scarce.
However, scarce as it was, there would certainly be enough for fusing two Dark Purple Quality materials.