"Even though my next small goal is indeed set at forty times the Shield Value Limit, I have to admit, achieving this small goal might prove quite challenging for me at the moment."
Zhang Yanhang now, although he has already completed 0.7 times the Shield Value Limit, has no clue about the remaining 4.3 times the Shield Value Limit. After all, the channels he currently has to increase the Life Value Limit are indeed quite limited, especially those that could increase the Shield Value Limit by 4.3 times in one go, which he likely can only dream about.
After checking the Life Value Limit and the Shield Value Limit, Zhang Yanhang feels like he indeed has nothing left to do, as all the rewards from the drop treasure box have already been accounted for, and all the soul points have been used up.
Therefore, feeling like he indeed has nothing left to do, Zhang Yanhang quickly opened the data panel to check.
[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Fourth Tier)]
[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]
[Level: LV.40 (Legendary Essence [0/4], Ash Source [0/10])]
[Soul points: 6211557]
[Shield Value: 160784/160784 (Life Value Limit × 470%, Recovery Speed: 20% per second.)]
[Life Value: 34029/34209 (Constitution × 79, Current body has been fully datafied, Life Value Recovery Speed, 71 points per hour.)]
[Energy Value: 14290/14290 (Intelligence × 58, Current body has been fully datafied, Energy Value Recovery Speed, 222 points per hour.)]
[Strength: 100 (+5[-9])]
[Agility: 100 (+5[-6])]
[Constitution: 100 (+5[-14])]
[Intelligence: 100 (+5[-10])]
[Luck: ???[+2] (This attribute is a hidden attribute)]
[Talent: 1. Multiple Choice (???). 2. Sea House Addition (XX level). 3. Longbo's Power (XX level). 4. Mature Scroll Dragon [Bloodline Purification] (SS Level). 5. Ocean Rhythm (SS Level).]
[Skill: 1. Limitless Universe Skill [Fourth Tier] LV.MAX (Passive/Active). 2. Alchemy·Original (Active Skill). 3. Gun Mastery LV.MAX (Passive Skill). 4. Fighting Master LV.MAX (Passive Skill). 5. Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Origin LV.6 (Passive/Active). 6. Technique Immunity·Origin LV.6 (Passive Skill). 7. Death Wave·Origin LV.6 (Passive/Active). 8. Supreme Will LV.MAX (Passive Skill). 9. Indestructible Golden Body·Origin LV.6 (Passive/Active). 10. Heavenly Earth Form · Original Scripture LV.6 (Active Skill). 11. Three-Headed Six-Armed LV.MAX (Active Skill). 12. Heaven and Earth Devourer·Original LV.6 (Passive/Active). 13. No Taboos LV.MAX (Passive Skill).]
"I have to say, whenever there is a Talent upgrade, the changes in the data panel are usually quite significant..."
This time, one could say that virtually everything from the soul points to the skills has changed, or rather enhanced, as even the soul points balance has increased compared to last time, from just over three million to now over six million, indeed a notable progress.
"However, compared to soul points, Life Value Limit and Shield Value Limit are more important. However, there's never too much Shield Value Limit, but my current Life Value Limit indeed is beginning to significantly surpass the Energy Value Limit, with the imbalance between the two becoming increasingly severe.
My Life Value Limit is skyrocketing, while the Energy Value Limit has remained stagnant. My Life Value Limit initially was only about 2.2 times the Energy Value Limit but has now grown to 2.4 times the Energy Value Limit, increasing the gap by 0.2 times. This is getting increasingly frustrating."
With this trend, Zhang Yanhang estimates that it might not be long before the Life Value Limit surpasses the First Tier period's triple ratio, reaching an unprecedented imbalance.
Yet, even though Zhang Yanhang is eager to resolve this, he finds himself completely unable to stop it, after all, the growth of the Life Value Limit is a good thing, and he can't forcibly suppress its increase.
Hence, he can only attempt to increase the Energy Value Limit, which is the correct approach, but, as it turns out, there really is nothing at the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field that can increase the Energy Value Limit.
This further reinforces Zhang Yanhang's resolve to work hard on enhancing the Scroll Dragon Bloodline once he advances to the Fifth Tier, because as it stands, not advancing is not an option.
However, honestly speaking, he feels that no matter how hard he tries, he might not succeed in the end, since the difference between the Life Value Limit and the Energy Value Limit is indeed too big, with a gap of over twenty thousand points.
This terrifying gap is far larger than that of the First Tier period, where there were only a few hundred points that were easy to catch up on, definitely requiring multiple channels working together to stand a chance at bridging this terrifying gap.
"So, could there possibly be a new skill that can increase the Energy Value Limit once I advance to the Fifth Tier?"
No matter what, overall, Zhang Yanhang indeed feels there is still some hope of catching up, for instance, hoping for a miraculous benevolence from the Multiple Choice Talent, which might allow him to acquire some objects inclined towards enhancing the Energy Value Limit. He thinks there is a pretty good chance of this happening, given that the Multiple Choice usually prioritizes his own needs.
"This time, the Attribute value was increased by six points through upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill, but unsurprisingly, the next opportunity to enhance the Attribute value will be upgrading the XX level Sea House Addition Talent to XXX level before advancing to a new tier.
After all, currently, due to Attribute overflow, neither artifacts nor free attribute points can be used anymore; only the Talent bonus which ignores the overflow limitation can continue to help me improve my Attribute value."
Given the overflow of Attribute values in the Fourth Tier, Zhang Yanhang feels he should have quite a few free attribute points left after advancing to the Fifth Tier, and he thinks maybe he could try using these excess free attribute points to enhance the Charm attribute.
After all, relying solely on equipment bonus for the Charm attribute is indeed not a solution. It's necessary to slightly upgrade it, but the premise is to first fully upgrade the main attribute, so that one can safely enhance the sub-attribute.
"Speaking of which, since my original attribute value reached the tier limit, and combined with a profession level of LV.40, it already counts as Peak Fourth Tier. Now that I've upgraded the Limitless Universe Skill to LV.MAX, what should I count as now? Peak Fourth Tier with half-step Great Perfection? No, such nonsense shouldn't exist."
Honestly speaking, Zhang Yanhang feels that even just calling it Peak Fourth Tier is quite vague, let alone something like Peak Fourth Tier with half-step Great Perfection. Although such terms sound impressive when stacked infinitely upwards, unfortunately, he's not really interested.
"In terms of skills, after just upgrading the Undamaged Golden Body·Origin to LV.6, I only have Gun Mastery and Fighting Master left to upgrade. It's expected to be completed once the third stage clearing plan is fulfilled.
And since that's the case, it's time to quickly start hunting monsters."
Zhang Yanhang really has been waiting too long to fully upgrade all skills; he's waited three days — yes, really a long time.
But first, before monster hunting, Zhang Yanhang tidied up the remaining items on the ground and stored them all in the waist bag, then glanced at the time to find it was already ten eighteen. Earlier, he'd finished clearing the second stage of monsters by eight.
"Cleaning the monsters took only half an hour, but post-processing the loot took two hours — honestly feels ridiculous when you think about it."
Zhang Yanhang feels that the clearing progress, which had just started making headway, is now surely lagging again.
Therefore, to save time, Zhang Yanhang immediately soared into the sky heading towards a monster gathering spot long since scanned in the distance.
November 1st, Sunday, Halloween, meanwhile also Zhang Yanhang's first day entering the Ashen World. At ten twenty-three p.m., at the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, in an empty rural-urban intersection filled with corpses.
[Successfully killed Third Tier Three-star Monster 'T-011 Type Talos Tyrant·War Form (Elite)' ×1, Soul points +1500.]
[Successfully killed Third Tier Three-star Monster 'T-011 Type Talos Tyrant·War Form (Elite)' ×1, Soul points +1500.]
[Successfully killed Third Tier Three-star Monster 'T-011 Type Talos Tyrant·War Form (Elite)' ×1, Soul points +1500.]
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And if asked why it's devoid of any monsters, naturally, it's because Zhang Yanhang just thoroughly swept it with Death Wave, leaving nothing but corpses everywhere.
Of course, the rural-urban intersection is just a colloquial term, and if Zhang Yanhang had to find the name of this place, he thinks it should be York Town as written on a large ad billboard adjacent to here.
It's just to say, it's indeed a very common name, akin to something like Red Flag Town, easily search and find dozens if not hundreds of identical names yet entirely different locations. Generally speaking, there are always several called Red Flag Town in every province.
Only, compared to the name York Town, perhaps New York is more well-known, as very few people aren't aware of the name New York.
But overall, the name 'York' is indeed quite prevalent, commonly found in countries where Anglo-Saxons are distributed.
Rather than something like York Town, what Zhang Yanhang mainly wants to mention is that due to the increase in Physical Recovery Speed, he can clearly feel that endurance has indeed increased during the clearing process.
Only, limited by the excessive speed of stamina consumption, this growth in endurance is indeed somewhat easy to overlook, far less direct and obvious than directly increasing the stamina limit.
Even so, due to a substantial increase in Physical Recovery Speed, he reckons that as long as he maintains a relatively constant speed, like the current speed continuously releasing Death Wave, overall endurance should increase by several hundred times without major issues.
Hmm, Zhang Yanhang can only roughly estimate, as Physical Recovery Speed Bonus isn't as obvious or easily observable as stamina limit.
Therefore, unless he can have Zhang Yanhang continuously use Death Wave at a constant speed to completely drain a gauge of stamina without any rest in between, he can only possibly test precise numbers.
And in situations like now, fighting monsters for half an hour and enhancing for two hours, his stamina consumed within half an hour before has long fully recovered during the two-hour 'rest' period, hence making it difficult to test related specifics of endurance growth.
Yet perhaps precisely because of this, if he uses Death Wave alone, he's now indeed free from concerns over stamina consumption, as his overall time for loot is indeed too lengthy.
"During the previous five-minute clearing process, I've already cleaned another area of 1500 square kilometers, and the entire planned third stage clearing for Terra City and Gelijia City's surrounding rural-urban intersection totals roughly 3,300 square kilometers."
During initial reconnaissance, due to undisclosed reasons, Zhang Yanhang estimated an area here between 3,000 to 4,000 square kilometers.
Now, upon actually coming to clean, he finds the prior estimate of 4,000 square kilometers somewhat high, partly because Umbrella City's outer ring areas were also included. After excluding this part, only 3,300 square kilometers remain.
Upon ascertaining the specific area of the rural-urban region for the third stage, Zhang Yanhang further determined Umbrella City's overall area, slightly smaller than Terra City, roughly 3,600 square kilometers. However, despite a smaller total area, it's densely populated, economically prosperous, with a higher per capita GDP.
In other words, Umbrella City's monsters are stronger, denser, and when killed, they drop more coins (Soul points).
"If calculating solely using the scope of the third stage within the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field clearing plan, excluding the 1500 square kilometers already cleared, the entire third stage rural-urban intersection still needs further clearing of 1800 square kilometers, expected to take about six minutes to fully clear."
In terms of progress, Zhang Yanhang's current third stage clearing has achieved 45.5% completion; 54.5% remains to accomplish the third stage clearing plan.
From an overall progress standpoint, considering the prior 3,800 square kilometers of Terra City plus 4,300 square kilometers of Gelijia City, Zhang Yanhang has cleaned a total of 9,600 square kilometers, nearly breaking through 10,000 square kilometers.
But sadly, the entire Umbrella Biochemical Test Field encompasses 40,000 square kilometers, thus, the 9,600 square kilometers clearance only barely achieves a 24% progress rate, still short by 1% to reach a quarter of the total area.