owlsbooks Chapter 50 Stay and Improvement
Chapter 50 Stay and Improvement
Seeing that the proficiency of Bengquan and Hardening had only increased by a dozen points, Huang Hong truly felt the difficulty of improving rare quality skills.
After such a long time, Huang Hong has gained a preliminary understanding of the Myriad Manifestations Enhancement.
Taking equipment and props as an example, both damaged and ordinary quality items are non-extraordinary creations and cannot be disassembled. However, Huang Hong can use source energy to enhance them. As long as the item's size is not too exaggerated, the source energy consumed will not exceed 10 points.
10~100 is the range of rare quality equipment and items. The most representative one is the [Old Gourd (Rare)]. This item comes with the 'Rare' affix and has some extraordinary qualities even when it is of common quality. It consumes 100 points of source energy to enhance.
In addition, there is an exception among rare quality equipment and items, where the enhancement will exceed 100 points. That is the combination item, such as the Iron Armor. When Huang Hong enhanced it to rare quality, it consumed a full 220 points of source energy.
Currently, 1000~10000 is considered a higher level of rare quality. The [Elemental Core (Earth)] consumed 1000 points, and although the [Old Gourd (Rare)] has not been enhanced yet, Huang Hong sensed that it would require 10000 points of source energy to enhance it to rare quality.
Huang Hong has quite a few items, but only a few are worth upgrading, and it doesn't cost much source energy.
The last major drain on energy comes from the talent tree.
After maxing out his Agility inclination, Huang Hong's understanding of the Talent Graph changed dramatically. The various talents there did indeed provide a significant boost to his strength, but correspondingly, maximizing them required a lot of Source Energy.
Huang Hong roughly calculated that to max out one inclination, he would need at least seven or eight thousand source energy points, and two would require fifteen or sixteen thousand, which didn't seem like much. Including rest time, he only needed to leave the game running for three or four days.
But things weren't calculated that way. Although the stone pillar looked huge, the total amount of source energy it actually contained was not as much as one might imagine; it was only about tens of thousands of units of source energy.
If it were at the bottom, Huang Hong could easily decompose the material by walking around the pillar. But once the energy source below was exhausted, he would have to climb onto the pillar to decompose the material, and he would have to keep moving around. This would not only increase his physical strength exponentially, but would also significantly reduce his work efficiency.
Now Huang Hong is facing a classic diamond problem: there is a diamond placed at intervals along this road, he can only move forward and cannot turn back, and he can only choose one diamond. How can he choose the largest one?
If Huang Hong were to encounter an area similar to Anyue City, with his current strength, obtaining several thousand units of source energy per hour would be a piece of cake. However, leaving the Giant Beast Plains might mean that his source energy harvest would be greatly reduced.
In the end, Huang Hong decided to stay a little longer to acquire source energy. This might take some time, but improving his strength would never be a bad thing.
In the following days, Huang Hong focused all his energy on breaking down the stone pillars to obtain source energy.
As the basic talents on the talent board were lit up one by one, Huang Hong also saw the advanced and core talents of the strength and intelligence tendencies.
The advanced talent for the strength-oriented build is "Charge," which generates a certain amount of charge value with each attack. When the charge value is full, a burst attack can be unleashed. The core talent is "Armor Shatter," which replaces the burst attack with an armor shatter attack. This not only ignores the target's defense and deals true damage, but also breaks through the target's defense to a certain extent.
The other advanced talents are all extensions of charging and armor breaking, such as increasing charging speed, increasing the additional charging limit, and causing the opponent to enter a weakened state after breaking the target's defense.
The advanced talent for the Intelligence-oriented class is 'Elemental Pull,' which allows you to randomly pull one elemental force (earth, water, fire, wind) when attacking, with corresponding elemental effects. The core talent is 'Elemental Convergence,' which allows you to pull two different elemental forces at the same time, causing them to produce a more intense elemental reaction.
Other advanced talents include "Elemental Mastery," which transforms "random pull" into "targeted pull," and "Elemental Enhancement," which allows attacks to inflict more elemental damage.
Ten days later.
Huang Hong completed a new round of upgrades, not only fully activating his talent grid but also enhancing several items to rare quality.
The [Cat Ear Headwear] remains at its Rare quality after being upgraded, retaining the attributes of Wild Perception and Feline Elegance, but with some enhancements.
After the [Mysterious Parchment Scroll] is upgraded to Rare quality, the released spell skill changes from a small fireball to a large fireball, and its power is also greatly increased.
Both of these items belong to the lowest level of enhancement, and each only cost 1000 source energy.
During this period, Huang Hong also killed some monsters, raising his race level to level 7. Under the baptism of energy, his basic attributes grew, which just allowed his power to break through the critical point.
[Attributes]: Strength: 8, Agility: 7, Constitution: 9, Intelligence: 8
After completing the new round of upgrades, Huang Hong set off in the direction from which the mechanical legion had come.
As Huang Hong continued on his journey, he remained focused and relied on the mechanical legion to reposition himself every so often.
Huang Hong used to find it hard to understand when he saw videos of people trapped in the mountains for days and nights. But after actually walking on the plains, he realized that without clear reference points, it was really difficult to walk in a straight line. More often than not, people would unknowingly deviate from their direction and go around in circles without even realizing it.
Several days later, Huang Hong was close to the edge of the Giant Beast Plains, a conclusion he reached by dismantling the stone pillars. Moreover, he was encountering more and more mechanical bee swarms.
Huang Hong originally intended to avoid these mechanical bees at all costs, but one time he failed to dodge in time and was directly confronted by a patrolling squad of mechanical bees. Just as he was about to take action to deal with these mechanical bees, they simply scanned him and left without any intention of attacking him.
In the following days, Huang Hong encountered mechanical bee swarms and mechanical miners collecting stone pillars many times. The former ignored him completely, while the latter ignored him after asking him to keep a distance.
This puzzled Huang Hong. He had been attacked by a swarm of mechanical rats in the Giant Beast Plains, and those mechanical rats were clearly products of this mechanical force.
However, the mechanical forces did not launch an attack, which was a good thing for Huang Hong. If he could make contact with them, it might answer many of his questions.
At least judging from the current situation, these mechanical forces shouldn't be any more difficult to deal with than those giant beasts, right?
With this in mind, Huang Hong arrived at a futuristic mechanical fortress.