World-saving Plan: The Only Savior
Chapter 327 - 211 Starry Stone: Fourth-tier

Chapter 327: Chapter 211 Starry Stone: Fourth-tier

"So, I can still upgrade four more times..."

Zhang Xiaoman’s gaze returned to the system interface and lingered on the upgrade option for quite a while before he let out a long sigh and then pressed his finger on it.

"Random upgrade drawing in progress, please wait..."

"Upgrade complete, Green Prop Five Fragrant Grass, has successfully upgraded to Green Prop—Six Sunflower."

When Zhang Xiaoman saw the result of the upgrade, he paused and then looked directly at a small bottle next to him. The plant, which had looked like a small grass, was undergoing changes, swiftly growing a six-petaled red flower from its apex.

"Wow, another recovery item upgraded, so this is the Six Sunflower, it looks pretty ordinary though, wonder how its attributes are..."

Zhang Xiaoman kept his gaze fixed as he opened its attribute panel.

[Six Sunflower]

Effect: Restores 120 Life Value.

——A magical flower that grows under the Golden Crow Tree, legend has it that it blooms only once every sixty years; consuming it can restore a large amount of Life Value.

Zhang Xiaoman wasn’t sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt like the temperature around him had also risen significantly.

"This flower is indeed not bad, 120 Life Value, it should be able to heal a normal person from a critically injured state."

He was quite interested in the upgrade of the Six Sunflower. Although it served the same recovery purpose as the Baozi, the latter obviously wasn’t feasible to consume during combat.

On the contrary, even though the Six Sunflower restored less than the Baozi, it could be swallowed in one gulp, convenient for use during battle.

After all, for the current Zhang Xiaoman, restoring 120 or 300, both could heal his injuries directly.

Moreover, the Six Sunflower itself was not his primary interest; what intrigued him most was the newly granted purchase permissions in the mall, namely the Five Fragrant Grass.

After all, he would not easily use the Six Sunflower as he needed to save it for further upgrades, so his sights had to be set on the purchasable Five Fragrant Grass.

He opened the mall listings and saw the appearance of the Five Fragrant Grass on the shelf, priced at 18 points.

Zhang Xiaoman then glanced at the Baozi on the side; the prices for Jade Treasure Exquisite Bun and Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea were 10 and 15 respectively, but he felt he would not have the chance to buy these two items anytime soon.

"18 points for 80 Life recovery, not bad. The same recovery effect but it costs 2 points less than two Four-leaf Flowers combined."

At this point, Zhang Xiaoman suddenly noticed something intriguing; the system upgrade cost was 10 points, but for some items, the price difference after upgrading exceeded this amount.

For example, the Star Guardian·First Rank, priced at 200 points, had a Second Rank price that soared to 300, a whole 100 points difference.

Some items, however, were the opposite, just like the recently upgraded Baozi. Regular Baozi cost 5 points, while Jade Treasure Exquisite Bun was 10 points, only a 5-point difference, which was less than the 10 points spent for the system upgrade.

Although still not quite clear about the reason, Zhang Xiaoman suddenly had the idea of making a profit through arbitrage.

Maybe in the future, he could buy several items whose profits increased after upgrades to keep in stock, then wait for the system to randomly select them for upgrade, allowing him to gain the maximum benefit at the smallest cost.

However, he was not sure if this method would work as he did not have spare points to experiment with; everything had to wait until later.

After several draws, Zhang Xiaoman now had only 36 points left, a somewhat disappointing result as none had randomly provided him with skills to directly enhance his combat power.

Shaking his head, his fingers reached for the upgrade option once more; he decided to go all in and continue upgrading.

"Random upgrade drawing in progress, please wait..."

"Upgrade complete! Green Prop—Starry Stone·Third Tier, has successfully upgraded to Green Prop—Starry Stone·Fourth Tier."

[Starry Stone]〖Fourth-tier〗

Bound

Usage restores Dark Energy to 100% and increases Dark Energy recovery speed by 100%, duration: 1 hour.

Cooling time: 1 hour

——Use Dark Energy to successfully trace the pattern on it, and you can teleport back to the Original Realm Boundary Stone.

Seeing the attributes change, Zhang Xiaoman was immediately filled with doubt; he didn’t know whether this new recovery effect was good or bad and was unsure how to handle it.

After all, he did have equipment that increased Dark Energy recovery, such as his often-worn Polar Star Robe.

By the natural recovery rate of Dark Energy, it would take roughly 10 hours to fully recover energy, but after putting on the robe, that time was reduced to 5 hours.

This attribute seemed rather useless. If it were Brother Hero and the others, it might save some time, but with the Third-tier Starry Stone, a 5-hour recovery time didn’t mean much.

He estimated that with his current Dark Energy limit of 183 points, he could recover about 0.3 per minute naturally, and with the Polar Star Robe, that figure would rise to 0.6.

Only recovering 0.6 per minute was indeed suboptimal; it couldn’t be useful in combat, and outside of combat, he could just use the Starry Stone to fully recharge, so he never considered this attribute important.

Now that he had obtained another item with the same attribute, he couldn’t help but reevaluate this ability.

Zhang Xiaoman decided to stop upgrading for the moment. He waited a while until the cooldown of the Starry Stone in his hand ended, then used it to return to Rebirth Island, refreshing a buff that increased Dark Energy recovery speed.

Without trying, you wouldn’t know; after trying, it was quite a shock. Zhang Xiaoman was astonished to find that, with the mana recovery buff and wearing the Polar Star Robe, his Dark Energy recovery rate had skyrocketed from 0.3 per minute to 1.2 per minute.

This result was totally unexpected; he had thought that boosting it to 0.6 per minute would be quite good, but it had increased by so much more.

Only now did he realize that increasing the Dark Energy recovery rate wasn’t simply a matter of stacking effects, the boosts were calculated based on time!

In other words, the more he possessed items that increased Dark Energy recovery speed, the more linearly his recovery effects would improve, and now, if he wanted to fully recharge, it would take him only 2.5 hours instead of 5.

Zhang Xiaoman was quite satisfied with this outcome; not to mention the future, but with his current Dark Energy limit, a recovery of 1.2 per minute was quite efficient.

After all, in some prolonged battles where he couldn’t afford to be distracted, a recovery of 1.2 per minute meant he could use quite a few more skills.

This increase was somewhat good news, slightly enhancing his long-term battle potential; mainly, the potential of this attribute was immense and worth looking forward to.