NOVEL NEXT Chapter 624 - 259 Night Demon Type 1_1
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The reason why Level 4 is so much stronger than Level 3 is the inclusion of an Awakening. Regarding this Awakening, Wang Tao doesn’t know much yet and can only understand it through snippets of introductions.
Without a doubt, the strength after an Awakening is immense, but the difficulty of Awakening is also substantial. Especially the requirement for the last Hidden Attribute, which probably stumps most people.
However, for Wang Tao, Hidden Abilities are not an issue, considering he has three!
All he lacks now is Ability. As long as he upgrades the remaining two Abilities +10, then uses an Ascension Crystal Core to advance to Level 4, that should do it.
The only problem now is how to get a Level 4 Crystal Core. After all... Level 4, Lord Zombie Lords are too strong! And yet, he hasn’t encountered any Fourth-order Elite Zombies...
When it comes to upgrading Ability... Wang Tao looks at the loot from this journey.
Although it was very dangerous and he almost lost everything there, danger coexists with opportunity—his gains were also plentiful!
Let’s not mention that one Level 3 Lord and one Level 4 Lord Night Demon Zombie; even the other zombies killed along the way, including those smashed to death by Rush, were numerous.
Everyone’s HP had risen to the upper limit of Level 3, a hundred thousand! Including Nie Siyan, who had the least HP, now at a hundred thousand blood.
Now only Lightning remains at 4999 HP, but it’s unclear how to increase that for now, so that’ll have to wait until later.
Then there are the Crystal Cores, plenty of Level 1, Level Two, and even Level 3 Crystal Cores were obtained. Many of them usable by the team.
And what surprised Wang Tao was that he obtained another [Extreme Speed] Crystal Core!
He already had two, and with this one, he could synthesize an Epic Crystal Core!
Wang Tao wanted to combine his [Iron Wall] and [Extreme Speed], and now he had the chance.
Without a second thought, Wang Tao starts the synthesis of the three Extreme Speed Crystal Cores.
He skillfully extracts [Integration] and fuses [Extreme Speed]. Then he begins synthesizing the two Abilities.
A moment later, the synthesis is successful!
[Level 3 Ability - Iron Wall]
[Iron Wall: Enhances defense, running speed, attack speed, spirit, physical constitution, and shooting for a duration, and slowly recovers from injuries (side effects: none)]
The name remains the same, but the list of effects has increased by one.
With this, Wang Tao’s Iron Wall Ability synthesis has reached its cap, meaning this Ability can now be upgraded!
He didn’t have enough Omnipotent Crystal Cores on hand, but he acquired a bunch of Crystal Cores this time, including several Omnipotent Crystal Cores.
Wang Tao immediately begins fusing the Omnipotent Crystal Cores.
After some time, Wang Tao’s Iron Wall Ability successfully reaches +10!
Now, the only one left for Wang Tao is [Integration], still at +1, while the other three Abilities are all at +10. Since he’s already synthesized [Air Bullet] once with [Integration], he still needs two more types of offensive attack Crystal Cores.
Once he gathers these two types of Crystal Cores, all four of Wang Tao’s Abilities could be at +10, and he could then attempt to fuse an Ascension Crystal Core.
This time, Wang Tao might not fuse a purity Level 4 Ascension Crystal Core. After all, the difficulty of obtaining Level 4 Crystal Cores is too high. If he wants purity, he would need to synthesize using three Crystal Cores. That’s 12 Ascension Crystal Cores for his four Abilities, how many Level 4 zombies would he have to kill to get that many!
In any case, Wang Tao still has the three Cleansing Potions left over from before, each capable of clearing up 1% of Internal Impurity; he’ll just cleanse the impurities later...
Wang Tao looks toward the biggest loot from this trip, the items dropped by that Level 4 Lord Night Demon!
The Special Energy granted 25,000, which was a bit more than what the Level 3 Lord Night Demon provided, but not by much. The main thing is the other loot—
This Level 4 Night Demon dropped a total of 5 Loot Packs, and it dropped 4 items from its body! Definitely a massive haul.
The first item is, of course, the Crystal Core from inside its head—yes, this Level 4 Lord Night Demon’s brain actually contains a Crystal Core! Other Night Demons, like the Level 3 Lord, do not have Crystal Cores... probably only Level 4.
[Level 4 Crystal Core - Strength]
[Quality: Excellent (60%)]
[Purity: 35% (side effect: Strength and body size are proportional, without sufficient body size, strength will see negative growth)]
[Strength: Passive Ability, significantly increases strength]
It turned out to be a Power Crystal Core, which surprised Wang Tao. Because the Crystal Cores that burst from Night Demons are typically one of the fixed three kinds: [Physical Enhancement], [Energy Boost], and [HP Enhancement]. This is the first time he has seen another type of Crystal Core.
But since there was already a Crystal Core inside the head of this Level 4 Lord Night Demon, the appearance of a different type of Crystal Core isn’t surprising... this might be one of the differences between Level 3 and Level 4.
Seeing this Strength Crystal Core, Wang Tao feels he might have gotten lucky. Because the side effect of this Crystal Core is "strength is proportional to body size." And the size of this Level 4 Lord Night Demon wasn’t particularly large, so the effect of this increase in strength was probably not that significant...
Wang Tao looks at the second item, the pair of claws from the Black Skin Night Demon.
[Received: Level 4 Night Demon’s Claws x2]
[Level 4 Night Demon’s Claw: Crafting material]
Compared to the previous Night Demon’s Claws, this one had the prefix "Level 4", its level wasn’t indicated before. This must be a rather precious material.
The third item is a glass bead-like thing that fell out of the Black Skin Night Demon’s head along with the Crystal Core.
[Received: Awakening Energy Pearl x1]
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