Because Zhang Yanhang anticipated acquiring more Crimson Iron Rings, he estimated that by the end of the day, the proportion of this equipment bonus would undoubtedly decrease to a dismal below 30%, signifying a significant milestone in the improvement of his health, though it didn't make him happy at all.
"That means I still have fifteen fingers wearing Crimson Iron Rings, which feels a bit excessive."
Regarding this, Zhang Yanhang thought he might allocate the three extra free attribute points to slightly enhance his Charm attribute, considering that although he had long expressed the intent to improve his charm with free attribute points, he hadn't actually done so all this time.
"In that case, I might as well enhance my Charm attribute. Once I improve these three Charm points, I can remove three more Crimson Iron Rings."
"Select! Attribute enhancement."
Zhang Yanhang quickly and skillfully triggered the relevant option. Although he mostly did this immediately after advancing a tier, since each activation required doing it dozens of times, he was quite familiar with the attribute option.
Time Pause soon descended again upon the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, and simultaneously, the attribute options appeared before him.
[Strengthen attribute points?]
[Option One: Strength +1 point.]
[Option Two: Agility +1 point.]
[Option Three: Constitution +1 point.]
[Option Four: Intelligence +1 point.]
[Option Five: Charm +1 point.]
"Naturally, there's nothing much to say this time. Out of my remaining thirty-nine free attribute points, thirty-six should be reserved for Fifth Tier usage, leaving only the three extra free attribute points to be assigned to my Charm attribute.
So, I choose Option Five, Charm +1 point."
Zhang Yanhang unhesitatingly chose the option to enhance his Charm attribute value.
...
After using the three free attribute points to boost the Charm attribute, Zhang Yanhang swiftly removed three rings and once again opened his attribute list to review.
[Strength: 100 (+3[-5])]
[Agility: 100 (+3[-3])]
[Constitution: 100 (+3[-4])]
[Intelligence: 100 (+3[-5])]
[Charm: 100 (+28)]
"Originally, my Charm attribute was sixty-nine points without any equipment, but with the three free attribute points, it increased to seventy-two points. Coupled with the twenty-eight points provided by equipment bonuses, my Charm attribute value is still at one hundred points.
However, due to the decreased equipment bonus, the health state of my Charm attribute inevitably increased again. Currently, the equipment bonus in Charm has reduced from the original 31% to 28%, decreasing by another 3%, unmistakably breaking the 30% barrier and creating a new milestone."
But Zhang Yanhang has already come to terms with it. He anticipated this outcome long ago, so it doesn't matter, he can just proceed as is!
"Before, I had fifteen fingers adorned with Crimson Iron Rings, and now that I've removed three more, I'm left with only twelve fingers still wearing them."
Nonetheless, Zhang Yanhang still felt twelve rings were too many; ideally, he would prefer to reduce it to about ten fingers.
"So, the question is, how should these remaining two Charm attribute points be enhanced? Should I continue using free attribute points? No, continuing with free attribute points is definitely not an option."
Zhang Yanhang thought carefully and from past experience realized that if he could maximize the Cultivation Method Level of the Limitless Universe Skill, it would generally add one point to his Charm attribute, but that still leaves one point short.
After thinking it over thoroughly, Zhang Yanhang suddenly recalled that he might equip the White Ten-piece Set again, which offers +1 to all attributes, naturally including Charm.
Previously, due to tier limitations, he had given up equipping the White Ten-piece Set, but with the Hundred Taboos Skill now, he can fully equip it again.
Considering he currently has no new equipment for slots like shoes, clothes, and pants, he can completely reassemble the White Ten-piece Set, even compensating for any missing pieces with additional components like a miscellaneous bag if necessary.
"No, that's not right. Although I can't use the Green Ten-piece Set because I've equipped the Emperor Crocodile Belt on my waist, why don't I try fusing parts of the original White Ten-piece Set to create a Green Quality Ten-piece Set? That way, I could achieve a +2 to all attributes and obtain those two Charm points."
Zhang Yanhang found his idea quite excellent, and it also utilized waste efficiently since he had previously opened treasure boxes that brought him a heap of related components stored in his waist bag. This was the perfect opportunity to put them to good use.
As for whether the number of components was sufficient for fusion, that was definitely not a concern. Having diligently cleared Raccoon City for years, accumulating related set components, he wouldn't just manage to fuse one set; even fusing several more wouldn't be a problem.
However, this is only limited to the fusion of the Green Ten-piece Set; if one wished to complete eight sets of Green Ten-piece Sets to break through and create a Blue Ten-piece Set, that would be completely impossible.
After all, the small city of Raccoon, with only six thousand regular zombies, certainly has limited production capability. Moreover, only Treasure Boxes dropped by Police Zombies can yield related set components, and Police Zombies make up only a small portion of the city.
If Police Zombies had been evenly matched with regular Zombies in numbers, Zhang Yanhang might have completed it by now. Unfortunately, no matter how high the crime rate, a city couldn't possibly staff three thousand police officers.
Having decided to re-fuse the Green Ten-piece Set, Zhang Yanhang quickly poured out a heap of related components from his waist bag. First, he conducted tests to see what specific components would form a complete Ten-piece Set when equipped.
Once the tests were completed, Zhang Yanhang selected identical parts from the pile like a small mountain of set pieces and proceeded with the fusion.
Although there were ten pieces of equipment requiring fusion, after all, it was simply an upgrade from White equipment to Green equipment.
For this kind of low-quality equipment, with Zhang Yanhang's current level of Alchemy combined with his past skillful fusion experience, it is completely a large-scale rapid fusion process in batches. Therefore, it only took a short while to complete this fusion.
After the fusion was completed, Zhang Yanhang quickly picked one up and glanced at the attribute list, wanting to see if there were any discrepancies.
[Raccoon City Police Department Special Weapons Tactical Team Standard Police Combat Boots +2]
[Quality: Green]
[Type: Equipment]
[Origin: Ashen World, Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, Terra City, Zhang Yanhang]
[Durability: 24/24]
[Defensive Power: 17]
[Usage Requirements: None]
[Score: 11 (Green items score between 11 to 30)]
[Set Effect One: Brutality—Strength +2, Critical Strike Rate +3.5%]
[Set Effect Two: Oppression—Constitution +2, Defensive Power +3.5%]
[Set Effect Three: Sin—Intelligence +2, Attack Power +3.5%]
[Set Effect Four: Slaughter—Agility +2, Movement Speed +3.5%]
[Set Effect Five: Faith—Charm +2, Critical Strike Damage +3.5%]
[Description: The Special Weapons Tactical Team (SWAT) originally named 'Special Weapons Attack Team', is an advanced technology- and tactics-equipped special law enforcement unit against violence and terrorism, skilled in firepower suppression and hostage execution.]
"I really haven't looked at the set effects of the Green Ten-piece Set for a long time. After all, this thing was already eliminated at the Second Tier, and now I've been promoted to the Fourth Tier. But for the sake of charm attribute bonuses, I've picked it up again. Truly, things are ever-changing."
But because Hundred Taboos only allows Zhang Yanhang to use items that are three tiers below his own, although he can still use the Green Ten-piece Set at the Fourth Tier and enjoy its attribute value bonuses, it will be eliminated again upon promotion to the Fifth Tier, just like other green-quality equipment belonging to the First Tier.
Moreover, this time it will truly be permanently eliminated, never to be picked up and worn for the third time. To be honest, Zhang Yanhang doesn't really need these attribute value-boosting equipment much now, except for the charm attribute value; other attribute values are almost negligible.
After all, his attribute values increase rapidly upon tier promotion, easily reaching the tier limit with just a bit of enhancement, so he doesn't need these attribute-boosting equipment much anymore. But it was indeed quite useful back in the First and Second Tier when he hadn't achieved freedom of attribute points yet, which cannot be denied.
"Speaking of it, this Green Ten-piece Set not only has a two-point all-attribute bonus but also a bonus of 3.5% to Critical Strike Rate, Defensive Power, Attack Power, Critical Strike Damage, and Movement Speed.
A mere 3.5% bonus means little for Critical Strike Rate, Critical Strike Damage, Defensive Power, and Attack Power, almost offering no improvement. Due to the high associated bonuses I already have, once diluted, it's as if there's barely anything left.
But the 3.5% Movement Speed bonus is still quite noticeable, potentially feeling a slight difference."
Zhang Yanhang plans to test the movement speed after he wears the Green Ten-piece Set to see how much this 3.5% bonus can improve his current speed.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yanhang quickly equipped the entire set and then immediately took off the two Crimson Iron Rings to reevaluate his attribute list.
[Strength: 100 (+5[-7])]
[Agility: 100 (+5[-5])]
[Constitution: 100 (+5[-6])]
[Intelligence: 100 (+5[-7])]
[Charm: 100 (+28)]
"Although the Charm attribute value lost two points from the blue-quality Crimson Iron Ring bonus, fortunately, those two points were supplemented by the Green Ten-piece Set, so I still have 100 points in the Charm attribute, of which twenty-eight points come from equipment bonuses.
Furthermore, my four main attributes—Strength, Agility, Constitution, and Intelligence—all saw an increase due to the two-point all-attribute bonus provided by the Green Ten-piece Set, causing the equipment-provided attribute value bonus to rise.
Previous equipment bonuses for Strength, Agility, Constitution, and Intelligence were all only three points, but now they have all risen to five points, which also proportionally led to more severe overflow of attribute values that were already exceeding the limit." Follow current novᴇls on n0velfire.net
Zhang Yanhang's previous strength overflowed by five attribute points, but now it's seven, almost reaching double digits with just three more points. Agility, previously overflowing by three, now overflows by five due to the fact that its base value was exactly 100 in the nude state, so these five overflow points are entirely due to equipment bonuses.
Constitution overflowed from four points to six points, based on its current performance, it's become inevitable that its overflow will exceed double digits.
Intelligence overflowed similarly to Strength, transitioning from five to seven points, and considering that Zhang Yanhang will continue to increase his Limitless Universe Skill level, receiving unavoidable intelligence enhancements, he figures his Intelligence could potentially overflow into double digits.
"Previously, only Strength associated with Longbo's power overflowed into double digits at the Third Tier, marking my first attribute overflow beyond ten points. Unexpectedly, this time there might be two main attributes exceeding double digits, and given that I only have four main attributes in total, that's like half overflowing into double digits."
Following this trend, Zhang Yanhang even wonders if upon promoting to the Fifth Tier, three attribute values will overflow into double digits even before the promotion.
Well, that might be unlikely, because the Green Ten-piece Set offering two points of all-attribute boost would definitely be eliminated at the Fifth Tier, making it nearly impossible to replicate this situation.
Additionally, the main reason there's a chance of this occurrence now is because the Green Ten-piece Set is exceptionally powerful, even for the now Fourth-Tier Zhang Yanhang. Ten attribute points remain significant.
Therefore, Zhang Yanhang might comprehend the group leader's feeling when he saw, as a Fourth Tier Awakener, Zhang Yanhang, a First Tier Awakener, produce such outrageous gear providing ten attribute points from a single waist belt.