As for gathering more Soul points afterward, Zhang Yanhang would definitely continue to prioritize upgrading the Technique Immunity Skill, as it had always been the strongest Skill in his possession, even surpassing the recently acquired Three-Headed Six-Armed and Fatian Xiangdi in strength.

Although Technique Immunity provided him only defensive capabilities, the saying goes that one must stay alive to deal damage, and he had always preferred ensuring his own safety first.

"So, I choose option seven, to upgrade Death Wave·Original from LV.6 to LV.7."

After tentatively planning his Skill upgrade, Zhang Yanhang quickly made his final choice, and the Time Pause that had been in effect disappeared. However, because this time he needed to upgrade Death Wave directly to Original LV.MAX, he quickly triggered a new Time Pause.

...

After upgrading Death Wave from Original LV.6 to Original LV.MAX, Zhang Yanhang waited a moment, but unsurprisingly, he did not wait for any options related to Additional Attributes.

Without a doubt, the Additional Attribute he gained from Death Wave Original LV.MAX this time was likely another fixed reward; he just hoped that this time the reward would be as practical as possible.

But before examining the Skill Effects of Death Wave·Original LV.MAX, Zhang Yanhang chose to first check his Soul points balance.

[Soul points: 2,279,396 (-3,072,000)]

"Alas, in the end, it still cost three million Soul points to enhance Death Wave from Original LV.6 to Original LV.MAX..."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that advancing Death Wave to Original LV.7 had consumed 204,800 Soul points, Original LV.8 took 409,600 Soul points, and Original LV.9 doubled again, using up 819,200 Soul points.

And for Original LV.MAX, it was an even more terrifying consumption of 1,638,400 Soul points just for one level, which was more than half of the Soul points used this time.

"Even though it took 3,072,000 Soul points to raise the Skill level of Death Wave to Original LV.MAX, my Soul points balance still has 2,279,396 points remaining. It seems my previous estimate was quite accurate; I did indeed gain more than five million Soul points.

Now that I have over two million Soul points left after upgrading Death Wave·Original LV.MAX, if I can gain another million Soul points later, I'll be able to upgrade another new Skill."

When it came to upgrading Skills, Zhang Yanhang always liked to go straight to the top, as that was the only way to gain the additional Additional Attributes.

If he were to evenly distribute points, slowly leveling up one at a time, albeit eventually gaining Additional Attributes, the efficiency would be incredibly slow and genuinely torturous, far less satisfying than upgrading one by one, after all, the sooner used, the sooner enjoyed.

After checking his remaining Soul points, Zhang Yanhang quickly opened up the Skill Effects of Death Wave·Original LV.MAX to start his examination. He had been eagerly anticipating the effects of Death Wave·Original upgraded to LV.MAX, uh, for at least half an hour now.

[Death Wave·Original LV.MAX (Passive/Active)]

[Passive effect: Weaken the enemy's defensive power by 20% (+8%).]

[Active Effect: Once the Skill is activated, it inflicts 500 (+200) +10 (+4) x 67 [Intelligence] +10 (+4) x 65 [Charm] = 1820 points (+728 points) of Fixed Damage to all within the coverage area.

Coverage area 1000 x 120% = 1200 meters (+600 meters), can only cause damage once to the same target within 12 hours. No cooldown, consumes a small amount of Physical Strength.]

[Additional Attribute: Skillful - You are now skilful in controlling the Death Wave Skill, gaining the ability to mark friendly targets, who will become immune to the Fixed Damage from Death Wave Skill.]

[Additional Attribute: Mastery - Your control over Death Wave Skill has become more proficient, and you gain the ability to freely manipulate the Skill Coverage area (can only be reduced), which will also reduce Physical Strength consumption when the Skill Coverage is narrowed.]

[Additional Attribute: Specialization - After much effort over time, your control over Death Wave Skill can be called Specialization. You've gained the ability to forcibly kill enemies whose Life Value drops below 10% after being attacked by Death Wave Skill, without extra Physical Strength consumption.]

[Additional Attribute: Expert - After a long period of effort, your control over the Death Wave Skill has reached an Expert level; extensive research has increased the strength of your Death Wave, forcibly killing the enemy's Life Value Limit increased by 10%, and the coverage area increased by 20%.]

"Damn, LV.MAX really lives up to its name. Such an enhancement across the board, whether it's the Passive effect, Fixed Damage Limit, or coverage area.

The original Passive effect of Death Wave could only weaken the enemy's defensive power by 12%, roughly ten percent, and now it has increased by another 8%, able to reduce an enemy's defensive power by 20%, quite a remarkable improvement."

If you were to speak in proportions, previously the enemy's defensive strength and the weakened ratio were nine to one, but now it is four to one, very clear indeed. From now on, whenever Zhang Yanhang makes his move, even before touching the enemy, their defensive power will first decrease by 20%, allowing him to fight more smoothly.

"However, compared to the Passive effect, the most important part of Death Wave is the Active effect.

After this upgrade, with the increase in conversion coefficients for Intelligence Attribute and Charm Attribute, as well as the increase in the basic Fixed Damage Limit, my current Fixed Damage Limit has directly jumped from the original 1092 points to 1820 points. It's like trading a bird gun for a cannon, a qualitative leap indeed."

If previously Zhang Yanhang had been concerned about Third Tier enemies that have at least 1500 points of Life Value Limit, he can now say that there is essentially no need to worry.

Let alone facing a Third Tier One-star Monster with a maximum of 55 points in Constitution Attribute, even against a Third Tier Two-star Monster with up to 60 points, he can now instantly kill them. To be more specific, he can now instantly kill any monster with a Constitution Attribute below 61 points.

"Before my Promotion, I thought that surely I wouldn't be able to instantly kill monsters at the early stages of the Third Tier, but now it seems I have easily fulfilled this small wish of mine and far exceeded it."

Zhang Yanhang had previously gained the ability to forcefully execute enemies with Life Value below 10% when he raised his Death Wave to Original LV.6. This time, after elevating Death Wave to Original LV.MAX, he acquired a new Additional Attribute.

If he understood correctly, this new additional attribute further increased his execution threshold by 10%. In other words, he could now directly execute enemies with Life Value below 20%.

If having only a 10% execution effect was not considered substantial, being able to execute enemies with Life Value below 20% was significantly impactful.

At its most basic, it was akin to a disguised increase in Death Wave's Fixed Damage Limit. Any enemy with a Life Value Limit below 2275 points would be instantly killed by the Death Wave.

According to Zhang Yanhang's calculations, a Life Value Limit of 30×75 equals 2250 points. Thus, a typical Third Tier Monster, barring any additional Life Value enhancement abilities, would have a maximum Life Value Limit of 2250 points, 25 points lower than his current execution limit.

From this perspective, Zhang Yanhang realized that although he had just advanced to the Third Tier, he seemed to have already become invincible within this tier.

What once was a Death Wave that couldn't even kill the weakest Third Tier One-star Monster had, after merely four level-ups, become capable of instantly killing Peak Third Tier Monsters—a considerable transformation, proving that the three million Soul points were well spent.

In other words, Zhang Yanhang could now, with just a thought, remove Zhou Muxi's ally marker and immediately take her out with a single Death Wave, regardless of any defensive abilities she might have. After all, both physical and energy defenses are useless against Fixed Damage that entirely ignores defensive power.

However, Zhang Yanhang wasn't so deranged or insane to do such a thing—to a friend, at least.

Meanwhile, Zhou Muxi, who was engrossed in playing a mobile game, suddenly felt an inexplicable chill and shivered uncontrollably.

Besides the increase in execution threshold for Life Value, Zhang Yanhang also discovered a substantial improvement in Death Wave, with its coverage range doubling from six hundred meters to twelve hundred meters in one go.

Of course, this was mainly due to the 20% range enhancement provided by the additional attributes. Without this bonus, he estimated that upgrading Death Wave to LV.MAX would only yield a basic increase of 400 meters in coverage range.

Although the coverage range had only doubled on the surface, the actual coverage area had quadrupled—from approximately 0.28 square kilometers to 1.13 square kilometers.

Consequently, if Zhang Yanhang were to calculate his maximum efficiency for hunting monsters per square kilometer, he could disregard his previous slow records timed by minutes.

Instead, he could deploy a single Death Wave and instantly harvest all monsters in a square kilometer, propelling his records from being measured in minutes to milliseconds—although collecting Treasure Boxes would still require additional time.

"Before, I thought that if I upgraded Death Wave to Original LV.MAX, its cooldown for causing damage might be further reduced, but it appears to remain at twelve hours as before.

In that case, to continue reducing this cooldown, I'd have to wait until I can promote Death Wave further to a higher stage."

Aside from the cooldown, another aspect that Zhang Yanhang found concerning was the Skill consumption or rather, the Skill consumption was the most crucial.

Although the Skill Effect description still indicated a minor consumption of Physical Strength, unchanged from before, Zhang Yanhang knew that with an increase in Skill Level, the consumption of Death Wave would similarly rise. Now, he could only hope that it wouldn't increase too much.

After reviewing the Death Wave Skill Effect, Zhang Yanhang felt the need to actually test it to understand the specific power and Physical Strength consumption of the current Death Wave.

Incidentally, although Zhang Yanhang had been talking all this while, his words had been blocked by the double shields and didn't reach Zhou Muxi.

At that moment, Zhou Muxi suddenly looked at Zhang Yanhang, puzzled. "I just felt an unwarranted malice that made me shiver; do you have any idea why?"

"Really? Unfortunately, I have no clue."

Zhang Yanhang maintained a stance of denial. He figured it must be the Lord Monster across them that was eyeing Zhou Muxi and resolved to smash it into even smaller pieces later as revenge for her.

Zhou Muxi could unmistakably sense a terrifying power accumulating within Zhang Yanhang. She had gotten used to the previous intensity, but this time, the power was immensely beyond anything before, demanding her attention.

Initially, her intuition told her that this power could cause her serious injury, but now it warned her that it could potentially kill her outright.

Zhou Muxi had thought that perhaps Zhang Yanhang had reached his limit before but now realized he had been holding back some of his power.

In a way, she found this normal, as there was no need to go all out against low-level Second-tier Monsters—doing so was simply wasteful. Now, Zhang Yanhang was getting ready to face attacks from Third Tier Monsters and was finally taking things seriously.

If Zhang Yanhang knew of Zhou Muxi's thoughts, he would tell her that he was far from going all out, especially considering the Molten Flame Toads in question were just Third Tier One-star Monsters, and there was no need for full force.

As Zhang Yanhang prepared to activate Death Wave, he noticed that a new type of flame Monster had been transmitted from behind. This new flame Monster also possessed the Fire Jump ability, similar to the earlier Molten Flame Toads.

However, these more powerful new monsters could teleport significantly farther than the Third Tier One-star Molten Flame Toads using Fire Jump.

Previously, the Molten Flame Toads would teleport close to him from the edges of the Transmission Channel. The more powerful new creatures, on the other hand, began their teleportation from a distance farther than the Transmission Channel.

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