After opening all the treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang first checked his balance of soul points.
[Soul Points: 10389 (+10310)]
"After only a short interval, my balance of soul points rose back to five figures from two, but unfortunately, 10389 soul points are still too few. If used to upgrade the Indestructible Golden Body Skill, at most it could only reach LV.8.
And if used to upgrade the Limitless Universe Skill, it couldn’t even raise it by one level."
For the former Zhang Yanhang, ten thousand soul points was a lot, equivalent to more than twice the soul points he had used to increase his profession level during the first-tier period.
But for the current Zhang Yanhang, ten thousand soul points really don’t last long, only enough to slightly improve the lower levels of Indestructible Golden Body and Supreme Will, unable to enhance anything else.
After checking his soul points, Zhang Yanhang proceeded to tally up the contents of the treasure boxes, starting with the equipment. From these twenty treasure boxes, he had altogether obtained four green-quality Crimson Iron Rings, one blue-quality Crimson Iron Heart Necklace, and sixteen pairs of blue-quality Crimson Iron Teeth.
Zhang Yanhang was in no hurry to deal with the Crimson Iron Teeth, so after tallying his equipment, he immediately began to account for the talents he had gained, obtaining a total of twenty E-grade talents named "Ant Power."
Zhang Yanhang set aside the equipment that he had just opened and immediately opened his waist bag to take out a large box of E-grade talents "Ant Power."
In his waist bag, Zhang Yanhang had a total of 233 E-grade talents named "Ant Power," plus the 20 "Ant Power" talents he had just obtained, making a total of 253 "Ant Power" talents. After upgrading the A-grade talent "Power of Bull Demon," he would still have ten "Ant Power" talents left for the next upgrade.
After taking the "Ant Power" talents out of his waist bag, Zhang Yanhang began to burst these crimson spheres by the handful. 243 was not a small number, far beyond what could be handled in one go, so bursting these crimson spheres consumed quite a bit of his time.
When only ten "Ant Power" talents were left, Zhang Yanhang finally heard that familiar notification sound.
[Detected an A-grade Talent ’Power of Bull Demon’ in your talent list, containing subordinate talents. Do you want to merge the talents?]
Since he had previously upgraded the SS-grade talent "Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea," Zhang Yanhang knew that a qualitative change in talents only occurred upon reaching SS-grade. As for the upgrade of the Power of Bull Demon to S-grade this time, Zhang Yanhang only hoped that the enhancement wouldn’t decrease and could maintain the previous state.
If the previous enhancement could be maintained, then according to his estimation, the newly upgraded S-grade talent "Power of Bear" should finally allow the extra attack’s strength to exceed the attack itself, something he had awaited eagerly, and it was now on the verge of realization.
Of course, if possible, apart from the enhancement degree, he also hoped the name of the S-grade talent after upgrading could become a bit more domineering. After all, having reached S-grade, it should indeed look like an S-grade talent, and having strange names like Devil or Drive Tiger Swallow Sheep would make it feel a bit awkward.
[You have gained the S-grade Talent ’Bear Power’.]
"Bear Power? It finally sounds like a relatively normal name, and it feels very domineering, much better than the previous Devil or Drive Tiger Swallow Sheep."
Zhang Yanhang always prayed that the names of the talents would be somewhat conventional whenever he upgraded in the series of "Ant Power" talents. It seems this small wish had finally been realized.
"It seems, ’Bear Power’ is actually a common idiom, often referring to a strong force and also used in expressions such as ’myriad troops and generals of Bear Power,’ but it can also be used to metaphorically describe someone brave and strong."
Because there was no way to use a mobile phone in the Ashen World, Zhang Yanhang could not look up the tales related to "Bear Power" online like in the Main World, but that was okay as long as it was domineering enough. He really did not like the previous name, "Devil," as it felt like a downgrade to demons and ghosts.
"Since the wish about the name could be realized, then the wish regarding the enhancement degree should probably not be a problem either," Zhang Yanhang muttered as he opened up the talent effect of the S-grade Talent "Bear Power."
[Ability One: Robust and Powerful—Strength +5 (+1).] Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs novel-fire.ɴet
[Ability Two: Double Strike—When launching an attack, there is a 6.0% (+1.2%) chance to trigger an extra attack effect of 125% (+25%) attack power.]
[Ability Three: Powerful—Strength Effect Bonus +85% (+15%).]
"After upgrading to S-grade, the ’Bear Power’ talent has again increased a bit in strength attribute and 15% in strength effect bonus..." Zhang Yanhang quickly estimated that given the strength effect bonus, his single-handed strength must now definitely exceed ten tons.
"But this estimation still seems a bit imprecise, it feels like a real test is needed to get a more accurate figure."
Zhang Yanhang said this while taking out about ten tons of reinforced concrete from his waist bag and lifting it with one hand. He found that he could now lift the previously immovable reinforced concrete quite easily.
After a moment of thought, he took out another ton of reinforced concrete from his waist bag and stacked it together. This time, he truly felt the strain, "So it seems that eleven tons is likely the limit of my current strength."
Zhang Yanhang had also tested his strength the last time after enhancing his Limitless Universe Skill to LV.5, which had improved his strength attribute value, but the result then was roughly nine tons.
"Percentage enhancements indeed grow stronger the further they progress, just a slight increase in strength attribute and 15% in effect bonus has increased my strength by two tons."
Zhang Yanhang remembered he had mentioned not long ago wanting to increase his strength to above ten tons, but now he had unexpectedly reached eleven tons, even one ton more than his anticipated target.