Even if it's not a ring that provides a main attribute bonus but one that gives a charm attribute boost, it would still be meaningless to Zhang Yanhang, since his charm attribute value is just five points shy of reaching the seventy-five-point tier limit.
High-level equipment typically doesn't need more than one or two rings to hit the cap, so he would still end up with more than ten unadorned fingers.
Moreover, although he currently only has thirty fingers, once he maxes out his Three-Headed Six-Armed skill to LV.MAX, he will have forty fingers and another ten ring slots to fill, so Zhang Yanhang believes the new ring should ideally be the kind that would still grant him the relevant bonuses even if he wore twenty or even forty of them simultaneously.
After dealing with the Crimson Iron Ring, Zhang Yanhang picked up the Blue quality Crimson Iron Heart Necklace that was beside him. This time he had once again acquired eight Crimson Iron Heart Necklaces, which he could use for fusing into a Purple Quality Crimson Iron Heart +3.
Though all of his three necks were already adorned, he would be able to grow new necks to wear this Purple Quality Crimson Iron Heart +3 once Three-Headed Six-Armed is upgraded to LV.MAX.
As for whether Zhang Yanhang still had other Crimson Iron Heart Necklaces in his Waist Bag, of course, he did. There was no ordinary Crimson Iron Heart Necklace, but there was a Blue quality Crimson Iron Heart +1. Updates are released by novｅlfire.net
However, since he can have at most four necks, this Crimson Iron Heart +1 was clearly now useless.
Under normal circumstances, this Crimson Iron Heart +1 might be kept for further fusions, but given the current abnormal circumstances, it's clearly unrealistic to hope to collect more Crimson Iron Heart Necklaces to continue increasing the fusion count of the other Purple Quality Crimson Iron Heart Necklaces.
So, this Crimson Iron Heart +1 will most likely just lie dormant in his Waist Bag, just like those ten Crimson Iron Rings before.
Zhang Yanhang quickly restarted his Alchemy and began fusing, but after the fusion, he put the newly fused Purple Quality Crimson Iron Heart +3 directly into his Waist Bag, as he has not yet grown a fourth neck and can't use it for the time being.
After fusing the Crimson Iron Heart +3, Zhang Yanhang reopened his Death Wave skill effects to take a look. After increasing his charm attribute value by three points just now, the upper limit of the fixed damage of Death Wave should have been raised again.
[Death Wave·Original LV.MAX (Passive/Active)]
[Passive Effect: Weakens enemy's defensive power by 20%.]
[Active Effect: Upon skill activation, inflict 500+10×75[Intelligence]+10×70(+3)[Charm]=1950 points(+500 points) of fixed damage on all individuals within range.
Coverage area is 1000×120%=1200 meters, can only inflict damage once every 12 hours on the same target. No cooldown time, consumes a small amount of Physical Strength.]
"No surprise, my fixed-damage cap has indeed increased by another 30 points, going from the original 1920 points to 1950 points, not bad. However, there's still a significant gap to overcome if I want to take down Fourth Tier monsters. A fixed damage of 1950 points, without considering any killing blows, isn't even enough to instantly kill a Third Tier monster, let alone a Fourth Tier one."
Of course, adding the 20% execution damage, Zhang Yanhang can easily one-shot all Third Tier monsters, and if execution damage is considered, he can now instant kill any monster with a Life Value Limit below 2438 points. That's 188 points higher compared to the maximum Life Value Limit of 2250 points for Same Tier monsters.
Previously, Zhang Yanhang's execution damage cap was at a Life Value Limit of 2400 points, and now it has increased to 2438 points, which is an increase of 38 points to his execution damage limit.
"Indeed, I really want an equipment piece that can raise the fixed damage cap. Although my current fixed damage cap is sufficient, I just can't help but want to continue improving it…"
Although greed is one of humanity's Seven Deadly Sins, Zhang Yanhang finds it hard to suppress such primitive desires. Of course, he has been very successful in curbing his lust, which Zhou Muxi can surely attest to; after all, greed is endless, and lust does get tiresome and is much easier to control.
"Now that I've opened just a few things from those sixty-five treasure boxes, I feel like there's nothing left to do?" After some consideration, Zhang Yanhang decided to open his data panel to take a look.
[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Third Tier)]
[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]
[Level: LV.30 (Legendary Essence[0/1], Ash Source[0/7])]
[Soul points: 1395774(+7530)]
[Shield Value: 24322/24322 (Life Value Limit×350%, Recovery Speed: 20% per second.)]
[Life Value: 6952/6952 (Constitution×34, current body has officially digitized, Life Value Recovery Speed, 30 points per hour.)]
[Energy Value: 5760/5760 (Intelligence×34, current body has officially digitized, Energy Value Recovery Speed, 93 points per hour.)]
[Strength: 75(+3[-3])]
[Agility: 75(+3[-3])]
[Constitution: 75(+3[-3])]
[Intelligence: 75(+3[-3])]
[Luck: ??? (This attribute is hidden)]
[Talent: 1. Multiple Choice (???). 2. Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea (SS-rank). 3. Bear Power (S-rank). 4. Mature Scroll Dragon [Bloodline Purification] (SS-rank). 5. Ocean Rhythm (SS-rank).]
[Skill: 1. Limitless Universe Skill [Third Tier] LV.MAX (Passive/Active). 2. Alchemy (Active skill). 3. Gun Mastery LV.6 (Passive skill). 4. Fighting Master LV.6 (Passive skill). 5. Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original LV.MAX (Passive/Active). 6. Technique Immunity·Original LV.MAX (Passive skill). 7. Death Wave·Original LV.MAX (Passive/Active). 8. Supreme Will LV.MAX (Passive skill). 9. Indestructible Golden Body·Original LV.6 (Passive/Active). 10. Fatian Xiangdi LV.6 (Active skill). 11. Three-Headed Six-Armed LV.6 (Active skill).]
"In killing for a profit of only 6,898 soul points, opening the treasure box also yielded few soul points, similarly not reaching five digits, with merely 7,530 soul points.
After adding these 7,530 soul points, my soul point balance simply increased from the original 1,388,244 to 1,395,774."
Although killing these two thousand Crimson Iron Ants allowed Zhang Yanhang to gain about fourteen thousand soul points, it's clear that this didn't satisfy him.
"The Bear Power, an S-rank indeed continues to be an eyesore, and I need to upgrade it as soon as possible."
Zhang Yanhang said this as he closed the data panel and activated the Teleportation Technique, arriving at the underground tunnel he had personally excavated over four days and nights.
Initially, Zhang Yanhang's goal for excavating this underground tunnel was seventy-seven kilometers, but due to time constraints, he ended up digging only seventy-four kilometers deep and had to return to the Main World before the Transmission Channel closed.
If he hadn't obtained the Scroll Dragon Bloodline, Zhang Yanhang might have needed to apply some Alchemy to continue digging the final three kilometers. But now things were different. He had acquired the Arbitrary gate from the spell list provided by the Scroll Dragon Bloodline.
Before Zhang Yanhang's promotion to Third Tier, the transmission distance of the Arbitrary gate was five kilometers, but now it had quadrupled to twenty kilometers. Even before his promotion, he could have easily passed through the three thousand meters thick Crimson Iron Ore, not to mention now.
Therefore, Zhang Yanhang did not hesitate and directly opened the Arbitrary gate into the new area below the three thousand meters thick Crimson Iron Ore. Although his Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil could not penetrate this three thousand meters thickness due to interference, it did not hinder him from opening the Arbitrary gate and observing the environment on the other side.
When the Arbitrary gate successfully opened, Zhang Yanhang finally saw the true appearance of that new area. Unexpectedly, it was very bright, or in other words, so red that it shone.
If I were to describe it in detail, the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalaguli was also quite red but had a dimmer hue, merely the faint brightness of a string of neon colored lights strung together.
The red in this new area, however, was like the red you'd find in nightclubs, as if there were people shining spotlights from all directions into the center nonstop.
To put it simply, one was barely tolerable, while the other was like a thick layer of heavy red filter, filled with light pollution.
Although the place across was indeed very red, thankfully it wasn't a solid ore vein but like the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalaguli, filled with various channels, representing a living condition certainly unfit for normal humans but only slightly uncomfortable for Awakeners, so Zhang Yanhang confidently stepped through the Arbitrary gate into this new area.
After closing the Arbitrary gate, Zhang Yanhang immediately began observing the surrounding environment. How to say it? The surroundings were still Crimson Iron Ore, but here the ore was denser and of higher quality, or to use a more professional term, the 'ore grade' was very high.
Although it was only three kilometers away, the quality of the crimson iron ore here had suddenly jumped a significant rank. The concentration of crimson iron was so high that even without refining, it could compare to the blue quality of the refined crimson iron.
From this situation, Zhang Yanhang believed that this new area must be a high-grade branch of the crimson iron vein.
This kind of scenario is very normal among various ore veins.
For example, most of the iron ore within the Empire's borders has only about 30% iron content, while the rich iron ore in Australia can easily have iron concentrations of 60% or even 70%.
When the iron content is high enough, even a simple melting process can produce a better result than refining lower-content iron ore; after the same processing steps, the performance of the finished steel is vastly different, leading to a big difference in their prices.
Specifically, iron ore with a 30% grade might sell for just two to three hundred at most, whereas those with a 60% grade could go for about eleven hundred, a multiple-fold difference.
If Zhang Yanhang were to assess the quality of the crimson iron ore, the ore from the small crimson iron ant nest Dalagu where he started because of its shallow depth, had the worst quality, being only white quality.
Later, as he dug deeper, the second half of the tunnel he was digging, especially the part approaching the new area, could reach green quality.
But upon reaching the new area, the quality of the crimson iron ore immediately rose to a new level, reaching blue quality. The biggest difference was that the content of crimson iron in the ore became even higher.
"Previously, the crimson iron worker ants from the small crimson iron ant nest Dalaguli had the habit of hoarding refined crimson iron, which is the habit of hoarding poop. This time, I don't know if the monsters in the new area will still have this habit.
If it still exists, maybe I can try to fuse higher-quality refined crimson iron to attempt making a golden quality weapon and upgrade the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist. Since I was promoted to the third tier, I haven't had the chance to upgrade it yet."
When Zhang Yanhang first came in, he casually scanned the nearby monsters and discovered they were also a kind of ant-like creature. However, compared to the crimson ants in the small crimson iron ant nest Dalaguli, the ants here were at least as big as a rhinoceros, meaning even the smallest was as big as the only three crimson iron ant kings in Dalaguli.
Since they were all ant-type monsters, Zhang Yanhang felt it was even more likely that they had the habit of hoarding poop.
By the way, Zhang Yanhang thought the surrounding environment was so bright mostly due to the high density and high content of red iron ore. After all, crimson iron ore was the only light source in the crimson iron vein, and now that the content of this only light source had increased, the brightness naturally became higher, which indeed caused quite a bit of light pollution.
"Since I've already made it to the new area, I should quickly investigate the specifics of this new area." Zhang Yanhang, adeptly deciding which step to take next, triggered a time pause and immediately began to survey his surroundings.
His current location was at the end of the left branch of a Y-shaped tunnel. It must be said that the multiple choice had given him a very accurate position; after digging straight down, he indeed successfully reached the outer zone of the new area.
After taking countless twists and turns, Zhang Yanhang had finally explored the entire new area. Overall, this new area was quite large, even larger than the demonized swamp by a fair amount, covering an area of about six hundred fifty square kilometers.
However, its structure was different from the small crimson iron ant nest Dalagu. The small crimson iron ant nest Dalagu was more fan-shaped, making it smaller the further inside you went, whereas the new area was more like a skewered candy with irregular circular and elliptical sections all strung on the same stick.