NOVEL NEXT Chapter 741: Ascension Without Shackles
In the previous life, ascending to Level 4 required several conditions, the most important being the possession of four abilities, a hidden attribute, and at least one awakening key.
Having four abilities was purely dependent on luck, as some people are unable to merge four different crystal cores, making it impossible to possess four abilities in their lifetime. Not even Wang Tao could solve this issue.
Having a hidden attribute was also a matter of luck, though there were things that could grant hidden attributes, they were hard to obtain and extremely rare.
As for the final awakening key, it was relatively simple; one just needed to personally kill a Level 4 Lord. But the problem was, there was a chance of failure, and if luck was bad and one kept failing, it could mean never awakening... This was indeed up to luck.
So, overall, in the previous life, ascending to Level 4 relied heavily on luck. If the luck was bad, no amount of effort would be helpful.
But in this life, things are different—
Wang Tao previously discovered that everyone in this life seems capable of learning four abilities, at least Wang Tao hasn't seen anyone with less than four abilities so far. So the issue of ability quantity isn't a concern, as long as one has a superpower crystal core.
Moreover, Wang Tao just sensed that everyone receives a hidden attribute after ascending to Level 3. It's no longer purely based on luck like in the previous life.
Finally, there's a difference in the awakening key.
In this life, to awaken and ascend to Level 4, one still needs an awakening key, obtained by hunting creatures at or above the Level 4 Lord Rank, and using the awakening key also carries the risk of failure...
But the difference is, in the previous life, if you failed, more awakening keys would be consumed, and the success rate of awakening would decrease, dropping as low as 10%... If luck was too poor, one might never successfully awaken.
In this life, although failure still consumes more awakening keys, the success rate can gradually increase until it reaches 100%!
The success rate of the first awakening is 50%, the second is 60%... By the sixth time, it would be 100%, effectively a guarantee that even the unluckiest person would definitely succeed on their sixth awakening.
So overall, it seems that awakening in this life is somewhat easier than in the previous life!
Of course, this "easier" is relative to the previous life; compared to actual conditions, the difficulty is still high. Not to mention other things, just the fact that one must personally kill a Level 4 Lord to get an awakening key is not something the majority of people can achieve...
These are the situations of ordinary people, but Wang Tao is different from them—after Wang Tao ascended to Level 3, he didn't have a hidden attribute!
But this doesn't mean Wang Tao can't ascend to Level 4; on the contrary, not having a hidden attribute makes it easier for him to ascend to Level 4!
Because for others to ascend to Level 4, they must awaken, and if they fail to awaken, they can't ascend. But since Wang Tao has no hidden attribute, he doesn't need to awaken; he can directly ascend to Level 4!
In other words, Wang Tao has no threshold for ascending to Level 4! He just needs to accumulate enough crystal cores!
This situation caught Wang Tao completely by surprise; he knew it might be easier for him to ascend in this life, but he didn't expect it to be this easy. For others to ascend to Level 4 might require significant effort, but for Wang Tao, ascending to Level 4 is just like ascending to Level 1, 2, or 3—as long as he accumulates enough crystal cores and boosts his basic attributes to max Level 3, he can ascend to Level 4!
This smooth ascension rate made Wang Tao feel somewhat unreal. But after carefully sensing it, he found his feeling was correct; this is his method for ascending to Level 4!
Moreover, it's not that after ascending to Level 4 without awakening, his strength would be weaker than those who have awakened; on the contrary, his strength would be even greater.
Because each of his current talents is almost equivalent to awakening, and when he reaches Level 4, his talents will be even stronger than awakening!
More importantly, he can clearly sense that after ascending to Level 4, even without awakening, a new talent will randomly emerge!
Wang Tao currently possesses six talents; upon ascending to Level 4, he will have seven talents!
Each of his talents is stronger than awakening, and with seven talents combined, no awakener can compare. After all, awakeners can only have up to four awakenings at most.
Then Wang Tao thought of a question: since he hasn't awakened, he naturally can't comprehend a law domain. So perhaps when he ascends to the seventh level, just like now, he won't encounter any barriers. As long as he enhances his basic attributes to the max level, he can ascend; maybe he'll even obtain another talent!
Wang Tao shook his head; he decided not to think about the future too much and focus on the present.
Now that he understands the method to ascend to Level 4 and realizes there are no thresholds for him to do so, just basic attributes are enough; the following steps become simple—hunt Level 3 zombies, accumulate Level 3 crystal cores!
But this brings another problem for Wang Tao; he hasn't encountered a Level 3 zombie yet, with the highest being Level 2. So hunting Level 3 zombies seems a bit difficult at the moment; it's not that easy for now... Wang Tao didn't expect that one day he would be troubled by his rapid level advancement.
Of course, Wang Tao isn't complacent. He knows that the ascension speed of zombies is quite fast, and since he's ascended to Level 3, Level 3 zombies will appear soon, not keeping him waiting for long.