But fortunately, getting rid of the ant acid was easy to handle, Zhang Yanhang simply controlled the Energy Shield to expand and contract briefly, which directly propelled the dense layer of ant acid covering the Energy Shield away.
To prevent the freshly-cleaned Energy Shield from being covered again by the ant acid from the Crimson Iron Ants, Zhang Yanhang immediately activated the Death Wave Skill.
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A transparent wave of distortion spread rapidly around Zhang Yanhang’s body, and in the blink of an eye, it had completely enveloped the surrounding Crimson Iron Worker Ants and Crimson Iron Flying Ants.
Even before the upgrade, the Death Wave Skill was something that neither the Crimson Iron Worker Ants nor the Crimson Iron Flying Ants, as First Tier One Star Monsters, could defend against, let alone now that Zhang Yanhang had elevated the skill level to LV.MAX, significantly increasing the Fixed Damage.
Faced with this circumstance, the only outcome for the Crimson Iron Worker Ants and the Crimson Iron Flying Ants caught in the Death Wave was instant death.
Of course, to say that the Crimson Iron Ants had absolutely no way to resist Zhang Yanhang would be an exaggeration—after a hundred consecutive Crimson Iron Ant deaths, the frequent alert tones were somewhat annoying to Zhang Yanhang.
[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster ’Crimson Iron Worker Ant (Ordinary)’ ×1, Soul points +3.]
[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster ’Crimson Iron Worker Ant (Ordinary)’ ×1, Soul points +3.]
[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster ’Crimson Iron Worker Ant (Ordinary)’ ×1, Soul points +3.]
After releasing the Death Wave Skill, Zhang Yanhang did not rush to collect the treasure boxes but instead began to carefully consider his recent consumption, realizing, albeit indeed reduced, that the reduction wasn’t as significant as expected, roughly only by about half.
This means, if Zhang Yanhang always used the Death Wave Skill within a fifty-meter range, then the total number of times he could deploy the skill would double.
Zhang Yanhang had initially thought that using only one-tenth of the coverage area would reduce the stamina consumption to one-tenth as well, but it was clearly wishful thinking; he had never actually felt this was achievable.
Incidentally, the reduction by half that Zhang Yanhang referred to was not compared to the previous consumption at LV.6, but that of when the skill was at LV.MAX; he had already tested the Death Wave Skill at maximum scope once before for comparison.
Due to his four-level rise, though the Death Wave Skill still showed as consuming only a small amount of stamina, the actual stamina consumption had increased significantly.
When the Death Wave Skill was still at LV.6, after maximizing his Constitution Attribute, Zhang Yanhang could activate the skill around seventy or eighty times, but now it was reduced to only about fifty or sixty times; overall, consumption had increased by roughly half.
After the upgrade, the stamina consumption increased by fifty percent, but reducing the coverage also brought down consumption by half, didn’t this make no net change?" Upon realizing this shocking fact, Zhang Yanhang felt quite speechless.
He then discovered a possible miscalculation as he noted that if the consumption had increased only by fifty percent, it essentially reduced the usage times by one third.
When reducing the coverage scope to one-tenth, the stamina consumption actually decreased by half, so there was roughly a small profit margin of about one-sixth left to gain.
"Well, at least reducing the coverage range doesn’t decrease the power of the Death Wave, so, overall, the upgrade seems quite worthwhile." As his Constitution Attribute had increased to fifty points, Zhang Yanhang’s physical stamina limit was pretty much fixed.
Unless he could continue upgrading the SS-grade Talent [Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea] or acquire some other talent, skill, or artifact that could increase his stamina limit, it was unlikely Zhang Yanhang could further enhance his stamina limit while in the Second Tier stage.
But continuing to upgrade the SS-grade Talent [Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea] was now impossible, as the zombies in Raccoon City had already been eradicated.
Relying solely on the slot machine’s daily hundred zombies and Raccoon City’s automatic refresh for gathering the Slow Corrotion required to upgrade the SS-grade talent would take an eternity, especially since upgrading required 2187 E-grade talents of Slow Corrotion.
Based on Zhang Yanhang’s current rate of obtaining a treasure box every twenty kills of a First Tier Monster, it would approximately take killing over forty thousand zombies to gather enough.
But where could he find so many zombies to kill, especially since the total number of zombies in Raccoon City was only about six thousand? The forty thousand needed was more than seven times the total zombie population of Raccoon City.
Thus, unless Zhang Yanhang could find another new map with a similar supply of zombies, and the zombie count there must be at least forty thousand, only then he might have a chance to further upgrade the SS-grade Talent [Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea].
But for now, solving this issue seemed utterly without direction; maybe only when his Energy Value limit reached new heights would there be a chance to resolve this by his choice.
So, since there was no hope in upgrading the SS-grade Talent [Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea], Zhang Yanhang could only rely on obtaining other related talents, skills, or artifacts to boost his stamina limit, yet none of these were currently accessible to him.
Of course, when Zhang Yanhang mentioned related items, he referred to those that could significantly increase his Stamina limit; if it was just a minor increase, Zhang Yanhang did have a way by continuously triggering adventures in the Main World.
Because compared to those Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that could elevate physical qualities and Spiritual Energy limits, those that increased Stamina limits were relatively low-end, hence less difficult to obtain.
So far,, the most abundant Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures Zhang Yanhang had acquired were related to Stamina limits; therefore, if he was willing to push himself, he should still be able to gain quite a few related Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures through selective effort.