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Chapter 645 - 644 [Barbaric Stone Bandage +5]
Chapter 645: Chapter 644 [Barbaric Stone Bandage +5]
After putting the Lightning Totem Pole he took out from his waist bag into the Alchemy Array together with the one he acquired this time, Zhang Yanhang quickly fused them into a Lightning Totem Pole +1 using the Alchemy Array. Unfortunately, the Totem Poles could not be equipped simultaneously, so he quickly put it back into his waist bag.
Next were the Barbaric Stone Bandages he had obtained from the Big Goblin, which Zhang Yanhang had finally gathered enough of to further fuse.
Previously, Zhang Yanhang had one Barbaric Stone Bandage +4, one Barbaric Stone Bandage +3, one Barbaric Stone Bandage +2, and one Barbaric Stone Bandage +1, which together equated to thirty ordinary Barbaric Stone Bandages. He only lacked two more, or rather, just one Barbaric Stone Bandage +1 to gradually progress and fuse into a Barbaric Stone Bandage +5.
This time, he had once again acquired three Barbaric Stone Bandages. After completing the fusion to Barbaric Stone Bandage +5, he should still have one ordinary Barbaric Stone Bandage left.
After gathering enough to fuse the Barbaric Stone Bandage to +5, Zhang Yanhang quickly took down his Barbaric Stone Bandage +4 from his hands, then took out the other bandages—Barbaric Stone Bandage +3, +2, and +1—from his waist bag along with the newly acquired ordinary bandages and placed them all in the Alchemy Array.
First, Zhang Yanhang fused two ordinary Barbaric Stone Bandages into a Barbaric Stone Bandage +1, and then progressively fused it with the others. Finally, after undergoing five fusions, only a single Barbaric Stone Bandage +5 remained in front of Zhang Yanhang.
It was a bit regrettable, however, that even after reaching +5, the bandage still glowed with a dark purple light. Judging by the current situation, Zhang Yanhang felt that the Barbaric Stone Bandage probably needed to reach +6 before it could potentially enhance the Quality to Light Golden.
Unfortunately, gathering so many Barbaric Stone Bandages was out of the question; after all, just to reach +5, he had needed 32 bandages, which had taken him many days to collect. Where could he possibly find another thirty-two? Hence, reaching Light Golden Quality was definitely not going to happen.
After fusing the Dark Purple Quality Barbaric Stone Bandage +5, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to review the attribute list of the Barbaric Stone Bandage +5.
[Barbaric Stone Bandage +5]
[Quality: Dark Purple]
[Type: Equipment]
[Origin: Ashen World, Raccoon City, Dulda Apartment, Unit 301, Zhang Yanhang.]
[Durability: 73/73]
[Defensive Power: 51]
[Additional Attributes: Strength Effect +18.5% (+1.5%).]
[Usage Requirements: Strength 45 points.]
[Score: 258 (Dark Purple Items range from 151 to 260 points.)]
[Introduction: After successively launching the Dragon Power Bracelet and the Swift Leggings, Red Dragon Salcano did not rest on its laurels. Instead, aiming to continue the supply-side reforms, it sought to capitalize on its victories, develop new products, and throw them into the market to capture more market share...]
"The Barbaric Stone Bandage’s equipment score increased by 22 points after reaching +5, going from 236 to 258 points, making it almost a full-score Dark Purple item. Ah, just two points short. If only the Barbaric Stone Bandage could tremble a little further upward, then the Barbaric Stone Bandage +5 could have become a Light Golden Equipment."
It’s not that Zhang Yanhang cared too much about the score; he was more concerned with additional attributes. However, he felt that if the Barbaric Stone Bandage could reach Light Golden Quality, even if just barely passing, the additional attributes would significantly increase.
This time, after reaching +5, the Strength Effect increased by an additional 1.5%, consistent with the previous four fusions.
According to Zhang Yanhang’s experience, if the Barbaric Stone Bandage could achieve Light Golden Quality, the additional attributes gained this time would at least double, such as increasing by 3% or even 4.5% in Strength Effect.
However, unfortunately, the Barbaric Stone Bandage did not defy expectations and just trembled those two additional points, maintaining the same score increase as the previous four fusions, only increasing by twenty-two points.
During the previous fusion process, Zhang Yanhang felt that although the Barbaric Stone Bandage had reached +5, it had not yet fused to its limit. From the fusion difficulty perspective, there was still room to advance to a Light Golden Quality Barbaric Stone Bandage +6.
Unfortunately, as previously mentioned, he couldn’t possibly gather another thirty-two Barbaric Stone Bandages, so, unless something unexpected occurs, the Barbaric Stone Bandage +5 would probably be the ultimate limit for this item. It might even remain that way until the day Zhang Yanhang phased it out entirely.
Thus, after reviewing the attribute list of the Dark Purple Quality Barbaric Stone Bandage +5, Zhang Yanhang promptly re-equipped the Barbaric Stone Bandage +5 to his hand.
"It feels like it’s been quite a long time since I last improved my Strength, probably about a week, or since I cleared the Goblin Plain.
Four days of buffering time in the transmission channel plus the three days spent clearing the Demonized Swamp Zone, it’s indeed been a week. I wonder how much this 1.5% increase in Strength Effect will actually boost my Strength."
Although Zhang Yanhang hoped that this increase in Strength Effect would directly elevate his strength from fifteen and a half tons to sixteen tons, considering that the increase was only 1.5%, it indeed seemed a bit too optimistic.
After successfully equipping the Barbaric Stone Bandage +5, Zhang Yanhang skillfully took out fifteen and a half tons of reinforced concrete from his waist bag and began testing his strength.
First, he stacked an additional two hundred kilograms of reinforced concrete, which was approximately his limit during his last test, but compared to before, this time when he lifted the concrete, he could indeed feel a slight ease.
Therefore, Zhang Yan moved approximately another hundred kilograms of reinforced concrete. Because the ease was minimal, or perhaps because the power effect bonus was too small, he only added a hundred kilograms more, and Zhang Yanhang immediately felt that slight ease disappear.
So, this was about the current limit he could lift with one hand, still not quite sixteen tons. Although rounding off could somewhat account for sixteen tons, he still felt it only amounted to fifteen and a half tons.
Although 15.8 tons was indeed very close to sixteen tons, only about two hundred kilograms away, he still felt a need to be a bit stricter in this regard.
"15.8 tons, how I wish I could quickly reach sixteen tons, but unfortunately, I can no longer continue fusing the Barbaric Stone Bandages due to a limited quantity. Now, I have to think of other ways to increase strength, such as new equipment and achievements.
But the new equipment from the Demonized Swamp doesn’t seem to have much to do with the strength attribute, and moreover, getting a power effect bonus from achievements isn’t very reliable..."
Although later on, he could instantly increase his strength multiple times through rank promotion, Zhang Yanhang still wanted to maximize the increase in power effect bonuses before the rank promotion as much as possible. After all, there was no conflict between the two. The power effect bonuses gained now would still be useful after the promotion and wouldn’t go invalid; they would only help him increase more strength.
"Now, whether it’s the Lightning Totem Pole or the Barbaric Stone Bandages, they’re all fused to their limits. After this, the value of the prize pool from the Goblin Plain Lucky Slot Machine’s third prize reduces a bit for me.
Fortunately, although the equipment that comes out is useless to me now, the soul points yield is still very valuable. With a brush of ten thousand soul points at a time, and it only taking five minutes, who would refuse such a convenient and quick way to acquire soul points?"
At least Zhang Yanhang himself definitely couldn’t resist such a temptation.
After dealing with the equipment drops from the Goblin Plain Lucky Slot Machine, Zhang Yanhang began counting the equipment from the Raccoon City Lucky Slot Machine third prize pool.
However, despite that, none of the drop treasure boxes from ordinary zombies, zombie dogs, lickers, and Beta-type hunters contained any equipment. Thus, the equipment Zhang Yanhang got this time all came from the police zombie’s drop treasure box.
First, there were the classic stylish waist bags dropped by police zombies, and Zhang Yanhang ended up with two waist bags this time.
Previously, he had a total of five waist bags +4, one waist bag +3, and one ordinary waist bag. He was still seven ordinary waist bags away from re-fusing another waist bag +4, but with the two ordinary waist bags he acquired this time, he was only five ordinary waist bags short.
Although the Lucky Slot Machine at Raccoon City offered third prize pools which made acquiring waist bags quite slow, and it was definitely impossible for Zhang Yanhang to collect all five incomplete waist bags before leaving the Ashen World if he solely relied on the Lucky Slot Machine, he still planned to clean up Raccoon City afterwards.
Therefore, perhaps fusing more waist bags +4 again might be difficult, but at the very least, completing the number of incomplete ones and fusing another waist bag +4 were still not too problematic, since a three-digit number of police zombies must have respawned in Raccoon City by now.
With so many police zombies, even with the frustrating drop rate where dropping a treasure box every twenty kills, it was absolutely easy to collect enough of the incomplete waist bags. Not to mention, Zhang Yanhang could also replenish some of the numbers from the police zombies in the Raccoon City Lucky Slot Machine’s third prize pool, so fusing another waist bag +4 was indeed not a big issue.
Zhang Yanhang picked up the two waist bags and placed them into the Alchemy Array next to him to start the fusion process. Since this was the first fusion, it took just a few seconds to generate a brand new waist bag +1, resulting in him now having a total of five waist bags, one waist bag +3, one waist bag +1, and one ordinary waist bag.
Aside from the waist bags, Zhang Yanhang also found four set parts of standard police equipment from the Raccoon City Police Department in the treasure boxes dropped by police zombies.
However, it was a bit regrettable that Zhang Yanhang had already removed even the Green Ten-piece Set, and he was about to also abandon the White Ten-piece Set, so these four set parts of standard Raccoon City Police Department police equipment, still in their initial state, could not really be said to be useful at all, but they could at least be described as having no use whatsoever.
Thus, Zhang Yanhang immediately put these four pieces of the standard police equipment set parts along with the waist bag +1 into a waist bag.
After tallying the equipment from Raccoon City and Goblin Plain, Zhang Yanhang then began to count the most numerous set of equipment from the Demonized Swamp.
The first were the Gray Maned Arm Guards from the Demonized Maned Beast. Since Zhang Yanhang had not killed any extra Demonized Maned Beasts in the Demonized Swamp this time, he had only acquired two Gray Maned Arm Guards from the Demonized Maned Beasts in the Lucky Slot Machine’s third prize pool at the Demonized Swamp.
However, since Zhang Yanhang had previously fused a Dark Purple Quality Gray Maned Arm Guard +6, these two newly obtained Gray Maned Arm Guards were not very useful to him.
Before, Zhang Yanhang had one replaced Gray Maned Arm Guard +4 and ninety-one ordinary Gray Maned Arm Guards left in his waist bag, adding up to a total of one hundred and seven Gray Maned Arm Guards, and with these two newly obtained pieces, it made a total of one hundred and nine Gray Maned Arm Guards.
Although one hundred and nine Gray Maned Arm Guards seemed quite numerous, for Zhang Yanhang it was somewhat mediocre, as these one hundred and nine Gray Maned Arm Guards could only produce three Gray Maned Arm Guards +5, and the remaining thirteen Gray Maned Arm Guards couldn’t even produce a single Gray Maned Arm Guard +4, barely managing to fuse a Gray Maned Arm Guard +3.
Hence, Zhang Yanhang decided not to continue fusing the surplus Gray Maned Arm Guards. Instead, he immediately placed these two newly obtained Gray Maned Arm Guards into his waist bag and quickly started counting the other pieces of equipment—namely, the Demon Ape Leg Armors from the Demonized Canine Giant Ape.
Similarly, Zhang Yanhang had not managed to kill any additional Demonized Canine Giant Apes in the process of cleaning up the Demonized Swamp, so only the prize pool’s Demonized Canine Giant Apes had provided Zhang Yanhang with two Demon Ape Leg Armors.
Moreover, since Zhang Yanhang had already fused a Dark Purple Quality Demon Ape Leg Armor +6, these two freshly opened Demon Ape Leg Armors also held little value for him.
After he had produced a Dark Purple Quality Demon Ape Leg Armor +6, Zhang Yanhang still had one Demon Ape Leg Armor +5 and one ordinary Demon Ape Leg Armor left in his waist bag, which equaled a total of thirty-three Demon Ape Leg Armors.
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