After receiving the main attribute bonuses three times in a row, it was no surprise that the next prompt arrived soon after and immediately triggered another Time Pause.
With the arrival of Time Pause, a new set of text options quickly appeared in front of Zhang Yanhang, but this time, it likely was the last, given that he had only four main attributes and all had already been triggered.
[Detected that the main attribute 'Intelligence' of the 'Heavenly Destiny Dominator' profession has reached the attribute value limit of 75 points during promotion, main attribute bonus awarded...]
[Option One: Storage (Energy Value Limit +950)]
[Option Two: Overload (Energy Attack +70%)]
[Option Three: Charging (Energy Value Recovery Speed +130%)]
"Hmm? No options concerning attribute values this time? This is a first..."
Even though Zhang Yanhang would have probably not chosen a five-point Intelligence attribute value, the absence of an attribute value option subtly made him feel like something was missing.
"Option Three, Charging, can increase the energy value recovery speed by 130%. Although the recovery speed is high and somewhat useful, the problem is, my energy value recovery speed is abysmal. Even if multiplied by thirteen, it's still pathetic and can't match the convenience of direct medication recovery."
Originally, Zhang Yanhang's energy value limit totaled 8280 points, but his basic energy value recovery speed was only 93 points per hour, averaging about 1.5 energy points per minute.
Thus, practically speaking, if Zhang Yanhang allowed his energy to recover naturally without actively using Limitless Universe Skill, he would need eighty-nine hours to fully recover all his energy.
Even if the eighty-nine hours were divided by thirteen, it would still take seven hours to fully recover, and although there was a difference for Zhang Yanhang, it really wasn't as significant as imagined, given that both eighty-nine hours and seven hours were considerably long durations. Compared to that, medication was exceedingly convenient.
Of course, it's worth mentioning that Zhang Yanhang did have bonuses to his energy value recovery speed; the Lightning Totem Pole and Magic Totem Pole together provided him with a 160% recovery speed bonus.
So, in reality, it wouldn't actually take as extreme as eighty-nine hours, but even with the bonuses, it would still take thirty-five hours to fully recover all his energy.
However, if things went as expected, Zhang Yanhang speculated that along with the increase in his energy value limit, the issue of energy value recovery speed would become more severe at Fourth Tier, potentially leading to situations where automatic recovery could take eighty-nine to one hundred hours to fill the energy value.
After all, his energy value limit had always increased much faster than his energy value recovery speed.
"So, there's really no need to choose Option Three, Charging, now, as it isn't very valuable. As for Option Two, given that my Three-Headed Six-Armed Skill already provides an 800% energy attack bonus, Option One, Storage, which offers an energy value limit increase of 950 points, is definitely more useful.
Nine hundred and fifty points of energy value limit is equivalent to that provided by a Red Quality artifact."
Zhang Yanhang had just consumed a Red Quality, fully-rated Microscopic Artificial Star which directly provided only 840 points to the energy value limit, the rest being slowly assimilated over six days through nuclear fusion.
"So, I choose Option One, Storage, Energy Value Limit +950."
Zhang Yanhang was so keen on increasing his energy value limit mainly because it was directly linked to the potency of Multiple Choice. The higher his energy value limit, the stronger the options Multiple Choice could offer, something that he had already deeply experienced.
After choosing the main attribute bonus for his Intelligence attribute, no more promotion-related prompts appeared before Zhang Yanhang, though he still felt a bit reluctant, as more prompts meant more rewards.
Regarding his focus on Profession Level, after being promoted to Fourth Tier, Zhang Yanhang didn't rush to do other things but first opened his level panel, wanting to know what the soul point requirement was like for leveling up at Fourth Tier.
[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Fourth Tier)]
[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Dominator]
[Level: LV.31 (0/400000)]
[Soul Points: 18,305,317]
"It's funny that I just realized my soul point balance increased by three hundred soul points due to killing a Third Tier One-star Bloody Reindeer previously, bringing my soul point balance from 18,305,017 to 18,305,317. Well, not much difference.
The most important thing is my upgrade requirement has risen to four hundred thousand soul points."
Zhang Yanhang remembered that his upgrade from LV.29 to LV.30 had consumed two hundred and seventy thousand soul points, now only increased by one hundred and thirty thousand, which was still manageable.
"Though four hundred thousand soul points indeed aren't too bad, according to past experiences, this four hundred thousand is just the basic soul point requirement, and it will continue to accumulate upwards. With my current eighteen million three hundred and fifty thousand soul point balance, it is really questionable whether I can afford future upgrades or not.
But fortunately, although I don't know about future upgrades, I definitely can afford the current one, so let's level up my profession since I have enough soul points."
While speaking, Zhang Yanhang clicked to upgrade on the level panel.
[Would you like to consume 400,000 soul points to raise the Profession Level to LV.32?]
"Yes, raise the Profession Level to LV.32."
Although he had only eighteen million three hundred and fifty thousand soul points, which definitely wasn't enough to max out the profession level, Zhang Yanhang hadn't planned on maxing it out anyway. He felt that his balance of soul points would be enough to cover the initial few levels.
[Profession Level successfully raised to LV.32, Free Attribute Points +6.]
"I'm already Fourth Tier, so why are the free attribute points still only six? It would be great if I could get seven free attribute points per level, then I could gain ten extra free attribute points to enhance some sub-attributes like charm."
Unfortunately, considering the deactivation of the Crimson Iron Ring and Crimson Iron Heart Necklace, to ensure that the Fixed Damage Limit of Death Wave wasn't too poor, Zhang Yanhang really felt he might need to use free attribute points to enhance his Charm attribute.
Well, that's if he had a sufficient amount of free attribute points.
If we were talking about his other four main attributes still being in the 80s or 90s, he definitely wouldn't consider moving free attribute points to increase his Charm attribute. He felt that he should at least wait until his four main attributes were over 95 points before having the leeway to allocate some free attribute points to Charm.
"It's really frustrating to think that I didn't get that bottle of Dark Gold Quality Crimson Iron Queen Ant Hormone Gel from the Lord's Treasure Chest earlier, especially since that one bottle is worth eight points of Charm attribute value, almost equivalent to one and a half levels of my free attribute points."
Although Zhang Yanhang had originally understood keeping the same rate of increase for free attribute points upon advancing in ranks, he now genuinely wanted an increase in the rate at which free attribute points were growing.
After briefly considering the matter of Charm attributes, Zhang Yanhang quickly reopened his level panel to check it again.
[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Fourth Tier)]
[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]
[Level: LV.32 (0/800,000)]
[Soul Points: 17,905,317 (-400,000)]
"I just upgraded from LV.31 to LV.32 for my Heavenly Destiny Master profession, which cost me four hundred thousand soul points, reducing my soul points balance from eighteen million three hundred thousand to seventeen million nine hundred thousand. Thankfully, it still seems sufficient compared to the current soul point upgrade requirement." The rightful source is novèlfire.net
"Upgrading from LV.31 to LV.32, the soul point requirement to advance to LV.33 grew from four hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand, doubling by four hundred thousand soul points. But luckily, it's not a big problem."
According to past experience, Zhang Yanhang figured that subsequent increases would probably aim towards 1.2 million, 1.6 million, and 2 million soul points. Hence, if it's just to this extent, he felt it should still be relatively easy to level up the initial stages of his profession level.
"It seems I should still have plenty of soul points left for upgrading new professional skills."
Although he didn't know the exact soul point requirement for new professional skills, Zhang Yanhang thought that he should at least upgrade the new professional skills to LV.6 and check out the additional attributes.
And if there were extra soul points left, he felt he might try promoting his original skills, though the colossal amount of soul points needed for advancement was likely beyond his capacity.
"Eight hundred thousand soul points required for the upgrade with my current balance of seventeen million nine hundred thousand says I can easily continue upgrading the Heavenly Destiny Master profession level."
Zhang Yanhang immediately clicked on the level-up option in the level panel.
[Would you like to use 800,000 soul points to raise the profession level to LV.33?]
"Yes, raise the profession level to LV.33."
Zhang Yanhang recalled that the last time he advanced a tier, he initially raised the Heavenly Destiny Master profession level to LV.23, but this time, he definitely needed to raise it to at least LV.34, or perhaps even LV.35 wouldn't be bad.
[Profession level successfully raised to LV.33, free attribute points +6.]
"This profession level upgraded so quickly, I suddenly have this feeling that maybe the speed of advancing from fourth to fifth tier will also be quick."
Of course, by 'quick' Zhang Yanhang did not mean advancing in just one day time, but felt that maybe within a week he could reach the fifth tier.
While he really wished to advance to the fifth tier in just one day again, the problem was that the teleportation channel to Raccoon City wouldn't open until November 1, and today was October 30, with October having thirty-one days.
So, he had about two more days before he could head to clear the area opposite the abandoned teleportation channel in the sewers of Raccoon City. From this perspective, it's impossible for him to advance in just one day again, as just waiting for the teleportation channel to open would take two days.
But a week might be just right, as in one week, the teleportation channel would open twice, and if he could seize the opportunity to clear two areas, he might indeed be close to advancing to the fifth tier.
Hmm, mainly because Zhang Yanhang plans to find a permanent teleportation channel to clear some while he's idle later, he could accumulate some soul points in advance.
So, in this case, even though advancing to the fifth tier might require more Legendary Essence and Ash Source, he felt that probably only two new areas might be needed to gather the essentials for promoting a tier.
"Hope that in such cases, the Heavenly Destiny Master doesn't slap my face with a situation where even two areas are still not enough to gather sufficient Ash Source, forcing a third area cleanup."
Considering that the Heavenly Destiny Master or Multiple Choice has always been quite favorable to him, Zhang Yanhang really believes the likelihood of such a situation occurring is almost zero and he doesn't need to worry too much, as the demand for Ash Source logically shouldn't just skyrocket.
[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Fourth Tier)]
[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]
[Level: LV.33 (0/1,200,000)]
[Soul Points: 17,105,317 (-800,000)]
"I just upgraded my Heavenly Destiny Master profession level from LV.32 to LV.33 by using eight hundred thousand soul points, bringing my soul points balance down from seventeen million nine hundred thousand to seventeen million one hundred thousand.
But fortunately, with my current balance of soul points, meeting the upgrade requirement for LV.34 should definitely still be no problem.
This time, the soul points needed for the Heavenly Destiny Master profession level to reach LV.34 was just as I had anticipated, only increasing by another four hundred thousand from eight hundred thousand soul points needed previously to one million two hundred thousand."
If it's only to this extent, Zhang Yanhang really had great confidence in leveling up new professional skills.
Since he could still meet the current upgrade requirements, Zhang Yanhang quickly clicked to upgrade again on the level panel.
[Would you like to use 1,200,000 soul points to raise the profession level to LV.34?]
"Yes, raise the profession level to LV.34." Zhang Yanhang decisively chose to confirm, as he has always been very proactive in upgrading his profession level.