"If it weren't for the fact that only the recipient themselves could open an Ashen Treasure Box that could produce Ash Source, Zhang Yanhang would have even considered buying several Ashen Treasure Boxes to store more Ash Source since he was in real need of it now, especially since just advancing his rank and practicing Alchemy together required nine points of Ash Source."

"But the matter of the Ash Source can't be forced, I can only take as much as the Ashen World gives, there's absolutely no way to obtain it additionally. To acquire more, I'd only have to clear more new areas."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but sigh. Although in theory his promotion to the Fourth Tier should be very fast, given the current situation, his later promotion to the Fifth Tier might really be problematic.

After all, once he gets promoted to the Fourth Tier, a whole bunch of skills would need to be upgraded, and the demand for Ash Source would instantly max out.

But that is after all a matter for the Fourth Tier, and Zhang Yanhang, who is merely at the Third Tier right now, felt that there was no need to worry about this for the time being. Compared to this, he felt that the growth of his Charm attributes was more important.

"The Purple Quality Crimson Iron Heart Necklace that I just equipped has again added two points to my Charm attribute bonus, taking my Charm from an overflow of fifteen points to seventeen points.

Moreover, since it's an equipment bonus, it has increased the Charm attribute value provided by my equipment bonus from twenty-nine points to thirty-one points.

But even though the equipment bonus has further been raised, the abnormal level of my current Charm attribute has drastically diminished, thanks to the twenty points added by previously consuming the Crimson Iron Queen Ant Hormone Gel and the Crimson Iron Prince Ant Solid Hormone, one could say it has miraculously revived.

Before, the equipment bonus's proportion in my Charm attribute value was forty-one percent, and now it has directly dropped to thirty-four percent, instantly dropping by seven percent.

Even saying that, if I removed the additional two points of Charm attribute bonus provided by the Purple Quality Crimson Iron Heart +3 I just put on, that would even bring the equipment bonus's proportion down to thirty-two percent, almost dropping below thirty percent, which is really healthy."

Zhang Yanhang originally thought, just considering how many fingers he currently had, that the proportion of equipment bonuses in his Charm attribute was sure to increase to over fifty percent, but unexpectedly, plan couldn't keep up with change, a wave of hormone assaults caused his Charm attribute to have a second spring and again dominate.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang felt that the increase in his Charm attribute was a dying flash of light, but now it seems that this was not just a flicker, but rather a direct resurrection on the spot.

"Following the current situation, my healthy degree in the Fourth Tier could probably directly recover due to the ineffectiveness of the Crimson Iron Three-piece Set, composed of Crimson Iron Ring, Crimson Iron Heart, and Crimson Iron Shark Teeth, which feels very bad, but after all, it's a Fourth Tier matter, currently unrelated to me at the Third Tier."

Zhang Yanhang had thought about fusing the Dark Purple Quality Crimson Iron Ring and Crimson Iron Heart because he wanted to use an additional rank, but now it seems, what a joke, he can't even complete the set.

After checking his Charm attribute value growth, Zhang Yanhang suddenly remembered that he hadn't yet checked the situation of the increase in the fixed damage limit of his Death Wave Skill after his Charm attribute had grown, so, he immediately began checking the skill effect of his Death Wave Skill.

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

"[Passive effect: Reduces enemy's defensive power by 20%]"

"[Active effect: After skill activation, it causes 500+10×75[Intelligence]+10×75(+5)[Charm] = 2000 points (+50 points) of Fixed Damage to everyone within the coverage area."

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

"[Additional Attribute: Proficient―You can now proficiently control the Death Wave Skill, and you have gained the ability to mark friendly targets, making them immune to the fixed damage from the Death Wave Skill.]"

"[Additional Attribute: Mastery―You have become more skilled in controlling the Death Wave Skill, gaining the ability to freely manipulate the coverage area of the Death Wave Skill (adjustable only downwards), reducing Physical Strength consumption accordingly as the coverage area decreases.]"

"[Additional Attribute: Specialization―After a considerable period of effort, your control of the Death Wave Skill has reached a specialized level. You have gained the ability to forcibly kill enemies whose Life Value falls below 10% after being attacked by the Death Wave Skill, without any additional Physical Strength consumption.]"

"[Additional Attribute: Expert―After an extended period of effort, your control of the Death Wave Skill has reached an expert level, and the intensity of your Death Wave has increased accordingly. The Life Value limit for forcibly killing enemies has increased by 10%, and the coverage area has also increased by 20%.]"

"Unless something unexpected happens, this should be my last time checking the Skill Effect of Death Wave before my promotion to Fourth Tier. Now, with both my Intelligence and Charm attributes having reached seventy-five points, my Fixed Damage has reached its actual maximum limit."

"In the future, unless I increase my Attribute values or elevate my Death Wave Skill after being promoted, my Fixed Damage Limit should now remain fixed at this level, unless I somehow obtain some equipment that can enhance the Fixed Damage Limit."

"Unfortunately, the chances of acquiring new equipment that can enhance the Fixed Damage Limit are extremely low, and definitely not obtainable in the short term. So, this two thousand point Fixed Damage will probably accompany me throughout the entire Third Tier."

"Zhang Yanhang remembers that each time he checked Death Wave in the past, he usually increased the Fixed Damage Limit by at least a hundred points."

"However, this time, because he reached the skill limit, he only increased the Fixed Damage Limit by fifty points solely through the incremental five points of Charm attributes, bringing the Fixed Damage Limit of Death Wave from the original nineteen hundred fifty points to two thousand points, still far from being able to instantly kill Fourth Tier Monsters."

"He's still only capable of instantly killing Third Tier monsters, even with a 20% execution boost, and can only defeat monsters with up to twenty-five hundred Life Value."

"I remember when I was at the Second Tier, reaching this Fixed Damage Limit was quite difficult because although it was easy to raise Intelligence attributes, increasing Charm attributes was more challenging."

"But after advancing to the Third Tier this time, not only did I immediately upgrade the previously late-improved Death Wave to Original LV.MAX at the start, but also just twelve hours after the promotion, I've increased the Fixed Damage to the highest possible limit, which is really outrageous."

Regarding this, Zhang Yanhang could only attribute it to the fact that his Stamina limit had increased significantly after his promotion to Third Tier, and the energy consumption of the Death Wave Skill had increased only slightly, so now he could freely use Death Wave, which led him to directly upgrade the Death Wave to Original LV.MAX at the beginning.

Otherwise, if he really couldn't afford it, he wouldn't upgrade it even when he couldn't instantly kill Third Tier monsters at the Permanent Teleportation Channel earlier. After all, if it's unaffordable, it's better not to upgrade at all, as he wouldn't use it many times anyway; it might be better to save the Soul points to upgrade other skills.

When Zhang Yanhang was at Second Tier, this was exactly his mindset; he always saved it for last because he knew he couldn't afford it after upgrading. In fact, his approach proved to be very correct.

After checking the Skill Effect of Death Wave·Original LV.MAX, Zhang Yanhang quickly shifted his focus back to equipment issues. After equipping the Crimson Iron Heart Necklace from the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, he immediately began searching his Waist Bag for useful equipment from the Goblin Plain Region.

Speaking of equipment from the Goblin Plain Region, Dragon Power Bracelets were the first thing that came to Zhang Yanhang's mind; he still had seventeen ordinary blue quality Dragon Power Bracelets in his Waist Bag.

Although these seventeen ordinary Dragon Power Bracelets definitely wouldn't suffice to merge into a dark purple quality Dragon Power Bracelet +5, merging them into a nearly purple quality, high-score Dragon Power Bracelet +4 was feasible; he only needed sixteen ordinary Dragon Power Bracelets for that, and he could even spare one after the fusion.

Thus, Zhang Yanhang quickly took out sixteen ordinary Dragon Power Bracelets from his Waist Bag and placed them into the Alchemy Array to begin the fusion. Due to the small quantity, a Dragon Power Bracelet +4, flashing with purple light, soon appeared in front of Zhang Yanhang.

Since it was a newly fused Dragon Power Bracelet +4, Zhang Yanhang opened the Attribute list of the Dragon Power Bracelet +4 to take a glance.

[Dragon Power Bracelet +4]

[Quality: Purple]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Crimson Iron Ore Vein, Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Durability: 55/55]

[Defensive Power: 37]

[Additional Attributes: Attack Speed +11%.]

[Usage Requirements: Agility 35 points.]

[Score: 148 (Purple items score range from 71 to 150.)]

[Introduction: As his business grew bigger, Red Dragon Salcano gradually realized that selling dragon blood, albeit highly profitable, had too narrow a revenue stream and needed supply side reform. Just recently, he captured a bishop who could summon angels to perform enlightenment, and he thought it might be a good opportunity to explore this area...]

"Just as I expected, almost max score for purple quality, just two points shy of one hundred fifty. Now with the 11% Attack Speed Bonus from this Dragon Power Bracelet +4, I should finally be able to achieve my mini goal of increasing the flying speed of the cannon bullets to Nine Mach."

After checking the Attribute list of Dragon Power Bracelet +4, Zhang Yanhang quickly equipped it to his newly grown pair of arms.

The 11% Attack Speed provided by the Dragon Power Bracelet +4 increased the firing rate of his Six Roots Pure Soul Gun's machine gun bullets from 298 bullets per second to 309 bullets per second, increasing the number of bullets fired per second by 11.

Moreover, as the firing rate of the machine gun bullets increased, Zhang Yanhang's rate of clearing the Six Pure Soul Gun Cannon Magazine also grew synchronously. He had now successfully reduced the time required to empty a magazine from 1.7 seconds to 1.6 seconds, saving 0.1 second.

"If I activate the Six Roots Pure Skill, I could empty the entire magazine of five hundred cannon bullets within 0.8 seconds and even use the remaining 0.2 seconds to fire another one hundred and eighteen bullets from the next magazine, directly delivering six hundred eighteen cannon bullets the size of soda bottles into the enemy's body in one second, causing them to instantly exceed heavy metal limits.

"But even though I can make the enemy exceed heavy metal limits, this firing speed of 1.6 seconds to clear a magazine is still far from my mini goal of reducing it to less than a second," Zhang Yanhang began to feel that the mini goal he had set earlier might have been a bit too high, not that easy to achieve. If he had set it at 1.5 seconds initially, he might have almost reached it by now, but no choice, once set, he had to push himself to reach it.

However, Zhang Yanhang had not yet obtained any new equipment related to Attack Speed Bonus at the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano.

Aside from improving the firing rate of the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun's cannon bullets, the 11% Attack Speed Bonus also enhanced the flying speed.

Zhang Yanhang's Six Roots Pure Soul Gun's machine gun bullets had now successfully increased their flying speed from the previous 8.9 Mach to 9.3 Mach, adding another 0.4 Mach.

This 0.4 Mach increase in flying speed, if converted into meters per second, equates to an increase of 136 meters per second in the bullets' flying speed.

"Although the 0.4 Mach increase in flying speed isn't much, it successfully allowed me to achieve my mini goal of reaching Nine Mach, set just yesterday, but unexpectedly achieved today."

Zhang Yanhang thought his next mini goal might be set at Twelve Mach; he believed that if the bullets could reach a flying speed of Twelve Mach, their Attack Power would surely increase significantly, perhaps even doubling, as such growth tends to be so fierce.

Regarding the machine gun bullets' flying speed, Zhang Yanhang remembered that the last time, his mini goal progress for Nine Mach had reached 98.9%, and this time, it finally made up for the last 1.1% and even exceeded it a little.

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