"The Crimson Iron Heart did indeed upgrade smoothly to Purple Quality after reaching +4, and even within the range of Purple Quality items, it held a middle-level score, astonishingly at 102 points. Unfortunately, if I want to upgrade the Crimson Iron Heart to Dark Purple Quality by fusion, it seems like there’s little hope for now."
During the recent fusion process, Zhang Yanhang found it quite difficult to fuse the Crimson Iron Heart +4, leading him to estimate that there were probably only one or two more chances for fusion left for the item, which clearly wasn’t enough to promote it to Dark Purple Quality.
"Besides, if the Crimson Iron Heart were to upgrade to Dark Purple Quality, I reckon I would be even less likely to meet the usage requirements. Even now, the Purple Quality Crimson Iron Heart +4 requires twenty Charm points, but after removing the Crimson Iron Heart +1, I’m left with a mere fifteen Charm value points, not even enough to meet the usage requirements for the Crimson Iron Heart +4."
This was the first time Zhang Yanhang encountered such a situation, but fortunately, it wasn’t difficult to resolve. Next, he planned to continue fusing the Crimson Iron Rings +3. As long as he could fuse a few Blue quality Crimson Iron Rings and fill all ten fingers, Zhang Yanhang would be able to gather the twenty Charm attribute points needed.
"After the Crimson Iron Heart upgraded to Purple Quality, in addition to the increase of one Charm attribute value, the item also gained a 3.9% enhancement in both Flame Resistance and Acid Resistance. Now, even just a single Crimson Iron Heart Necklace provides me with a 9.2% resistance to both acid and flames."
Zhang Yanhang remembered that previously his total resistance enhancement in these areas was only about twenty-some percent. However, he believed that with the recent fusion of the Crimson Iron Heart and the Crimson Iron Rings, his resistance to both flames and acid would significantly increase.
Although Zhang Yanhang couldn’t figure out why equipment from the Crimson Iron series provided Flame Resistance in addition to Acid Resistance, he had thus far only witnessed the Crimson Iron Ants’ acid attack capabilities and had seen no sign of fire-based attacks.
It might be because the Crimson Iron Ants he had encountered so far were too low level, and there were few varieties. He had only come across First Tier One Star ordinary Crimson Iron Worker Ants and Elite Crimson Iron Flying Ants, but he suspected that higher-level Crimson Iron Ants might possess fire-based attack capabilities.
After all, it would be unreasonable for the Crimson Iron series equipment to possess Flame Resistance without cause. The primary reason probably lay in the stronger digestive abilities of the acid from higher-level Crimson Iron Ants, which would inevitably draw more potent forces from the Crimson Iron ore, perhaps even fire-related powers.
After fusing the Crimson Iron Heart +4, due to failing to meet the usage requirements, Zhang Yanhang could not immediately wear it around his neck and had to set it aside temporarily.
Keen to fulfill the usage requirements for the Crimson Iron Heart +4, Zhang Yanhang immediately grabbed a handful of Crimson Iron Rings and threw them into the Alchemy Array. There were about thirty or so rings in his hand, this time ready to test his own limits.
With the continuous input of his Energy Value, the thirty-plus Crimson Iron Rings smoothly melted and fused under the influence of the Alchemy Array.
"As I had predicted, I can now manipulate and fuse over thirty targets at the same time. The completion of my Alchemy skills has indeed improved the efficiency in this regard by a lot, although it’s still of no use in combat," Zhang Yanhang muttered as he grabbed another handful of Crimson Iron Rings, placed them into the Alchemy Array, and commenced a new round of fusion.
After wasting some time, Zhang Yanhang ended up with six Blue quality Crimson Iron Rings +4 and one Green quality Crimson Iron Ring +3.
Confirming that the newly fused Crimson Iron Rings +4 provided the same one-point Charm value bonus as before, Zhang Yanhang immediately removed three lower quality Crimson Iron Rings from his fingers and gleefully adorned himself with the six Blue quality Crimson Iron Rings +4.
Unlike before, Zhang Yanhang had no clue how to switch his equipment to a hidden state and had to remove his gloves first to wear the rings.
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After equipping the six Crimson Iron Rings +4, Zhang Yanhang reopened the Attribute list for a quick review.
[Constitution: 47 (+3)]
[Intelligence: 42 (+3)]
"As my Main Attributes are nearing the Second Tier Limit, the Sub-attribute of Charm value hasn’t even reached the First Tier Limit, but fortunately, after two weeks, I’ve just barely managed to raise my Charm attribute points over twenty thanks to the equipment bonus."
Even though twenty-one Charm attribute points were still low compared to the Main Attributes, at least now Zhang Yanhang met the usage requirements for the Purple quality Crimson Iron Heart.
"With a total of only twenty-one Charm attribute points, half of which are achieved through equipment bonuses, it does feel somewhat unbalanced, but that’s how it is, and I suppose it doesn’t matter since it’s just a Sub-attribute anyway. Even if I enhance it to the Second Tier Limit without any equipment, there would be no reward, so it’s fine to maintain it as it is.
As long as it allows me to meet the usage requirements for the Purple quality Crimson Iron Heart and provides the Charm attribute bonus to damage for the Death Wave Skill, that’s all I need from Charm. Or to be more precise, there’s really just one primary requirement: to offer the fixed damage bonus for the Death Wave Skill. Fulfilling that is sufficient; the rest doesn’t really matter much."
Zhang Yanhang’s requirement for the Charm attribute value was genuinely modest because aside from the Death Wave Skill, all other abilities and Skills he possessed were unrelated to the Charm attribute. Boosting the Charm value would benefit only the Death Wave Skill.
Fortunately, that wasn’t a big issue. Although only the Death Wave Skill would benefit from the boost, the Skill was a high priority for Zhang Yanhang because it significantly accelerated his efficiency in hunting monsters in the Ashen World.