Ashen God

If Executing wasn't triggered, with Zhang Yanhang's current Execution threshold of 30%, at least 30% of the Life Value would remain, which definitely wouldn't cause the monster to enter a severely wounded state. There's even a high probability the monster would still be alive and kicking after taking a hit from Death Wave.

It's precisely because of the importance placed on the Fixed Damage of Death Wave that Zhang Yanhang made an effort to enhance his Charm sub-attribute. After all, compared to the primary attributes that can directly and essentially improve his strength, the sub-attribute Charm's only function for him is to increase the Fixed Damage Limit of Death Wave.

So, after significantly increasing his Intelligence and Charm attribute values, Zhang Yanhang immediately began reviewing the skill effect of Death Wave.

[Death Wave·Origin LV.6 (Passive/Active)]

[Passive Effect: Weaken the enemy's Defensive Power by 24%.]

[Active Effect: Upon skill activation, inflict Fixed Damage of 600+12×122(+22)[Intelligence]+12×118(+18)[Charm]=3480 points(+480 points) to everyone within the coverage area.

Coverage range 1200×160%=1920 meters. Can inflict damage to the same target only once every 6 hours. No cooldown time, moderate Physical Strength consumption.]

......

"After promoting to the Fifth Tier, I increased my Intelligence Attribute by 22 points and my Charm Attribute by 18 points, totaling an increase of 40 Attribute values. Together with the current conversion factor of 12 points, it collectively increased my Fixed Damage by 480 points, raising my Fixed Damage limit from the original 3000 points to 3480 points.

What can I say, it does seem a bit far off from being able to insta-kill a Fifth Tier One-star monster."

According to Zhang Yanhang's experience, a Fifth Tier monster should normally have at least a Life Value Limit of 100×65, which is 6,500 points. However, his current Fixed Damage has just reached only half of that Life Value Limit.

"But fortunately, Death Wave still has a 30% Execution effect, so the insta-kill range is actually not as low as just 3480 points."

Based on Zhang Yanhang's calculations, counting the 30% Execution effect, his actual insta-kill range should have reached 4971 points, 1491 points higher than before.

"If I target a Fourth Tier monster, even one with a maximum of 100 points of Constitution Attribute would only have a Life Value Limit of 4,500 points, which can be said to be fully covered within the insta-kill range of Death Wave.

However, if using a Fifth Tier monster as a target, the current Death Wave still needs more than 1,500 additional points of Fixed Damage to insta-kill the weakest Fifth Tier monster."

Zhang Yanhang has somewhat gotten used to Death Wave entering this state of improvement but not improvement after each promotion. He could only say that purely relying on attribute value enhancements indeed didn't yield much Fixed Damage enhancement. It's necessary to enhance both the attribute values and the Skill Level of Death Wave simultaneously.

Zhang Yanhang's recent small goal was to raise the Fixed Damage Limit of Death Wave to be able to insta-kill a Fifth Tier One-star monster. He estimated that it wouldn't take too much leveling up, probably just an increase of one or two levels could achieve this directly.

"Although the growth of Death Wave is not quite satisfactory, I believe the growth of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil should be much better."

Zhang Yanhang said while opening and starting to review the skill effect of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil.

[Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Origin LV.6 (Passive/Active)]

[Passive Effect: Neural Reflex Speed +60.0%]

[Active Effect: Identify the position of enemies within the Perception Range and to some extent predict their next attack. The current Perception Range is 6000+100×122(+22)[Intelligence]=18200 meters (+1000 meters). No cooldown time, minimal Physical Strength consumption.]

[Additional Attribute: Skillful - You can now skillfully control Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, allowing you to freely adjust the Perception coverage and fully capture the contours of enemies within the Perception Range.]

[Additional Attribute: Mastery - Your control over Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil has now become quite proficient, enhancing Perception Penetration Power, and you can obtain colors within the Perception Range through concentration.]

[Additional Attribute: Specialization - After prolonged effort, your control over Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil can now be described as Specialized, enhancing Penetration power with improved Anti-interference ability, making your Perception of surrounding things more refined.]

[Additional Attribute: Expert - After a long period of effort, your mastery over Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil skill is akin to being an Expert. Long-time research has gradually granted you knowledge of vibration observation along with a new understanding of both the Perception of things' colors and Penetration Power.]

[Additional Attribute: Master - After a very long period of effort, your grasp of the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil skill is akin to being a Master. Prolonged research is further enhancing your Perception of things' colors and Penetration Ability. With a better understanding of how to release Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, the Perception Range of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil is further increased by 40%.]

"The basic Perception Range of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil originally was only 16000 meters, but it has now been further expanded by 2200 meters through the enhancement of the Intelligence Attribute, increasing the Perception Range to 18200 meters.

Yet, this is merely a basic Perception Range. Due to the 40% Perception Range increase from Additional Attributes, my current Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil skill itself can actually provide a Perception Range of 25480 meters, rising by 3080 meters compared to the 22400 meters Perception Range before the promotion."

Certainly, in a way, even this 25480-meter Perception Range can still be considered merely a basic Perception Range. After all, besides the Perception Range of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil itself, his current fifteen-piece set of Golden Quality Divination Tarot Cards provides him with a 90% Skill Coverage Range Bonus.

Therefore, factoring in this 90% Skill Coverage Range Bonus, his actual current Perception Range of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil has increased to 48412 meters, which is an increase of 5852 meters, or about one-seventh, from the previous 42560-meter peak coverage, which is quite a good increment.

In contrast, while the increase in Perception Range is substantial, Zhang Yanhang's increase in Perception Coverage Area was even more rapid; the original Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil covered only 1423 square kilometers, whereas now the coverage has grown to 1810 square kilometers, a rise of 418 square kilometers compared to before.

"Previously, my small goal was to surpass Laixi City under the jurisdiction of Qin Island City, with Laixi City having an area of 1568 square kilometers. This small goal was instantly achieved."

Zhang Yanhang's previously planned next small goal was Jimo District, also under Qin Island City, with an area of 1780 square kilometers, but that small goal was now naturally accomplished in passing as well.

"In this case, the next small target can be directly set in Huangdao District. The area of Huangdao District is 2096 square kilometers. Currently, I'm still 286 square kilometers short of covering this small target, which isn't actually too much. After upgrading the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil skill, it can be completed smoothly."

At the same time, another small target of Zhang Yanhang's was also completed in the process. The three districts within the city, plus Lao Mountain District and Chengyang District, total 1120 square kilometers. Adding in the 565 square kilometers of the Development Zone results in a total of 1685 square kilometers. Zhang Yanhang previously thought he could only achieve this small target through rank promotion, and now it seems that is indeed the case.

As for the subsequent development of this small target, Zhang Yanhang planned to incorporate the 1324 square kilometers of Jiaozhou City.

If you include Jiaozhou City, the area to be scanned increases to 3009 square kilometers. He still needs to cover 1199 square kilometers to reach this small target. It's a bit far-off for now, but completing it within the Fifth Tier is definitely no problem at all.

Because now, after all, he can still rely on the Divination Tarot Card Set to expand his perception range. Zhang Yanhang estimates that at the Fifth Tier, he might be able to cover half of Qin Island City in one go, although currently, even covering one-sixth of Qin Island City is a bit challenging.

But in any case, Zhang Yanhang can now simultaneously scan the entire three districts within the city, Lao Mountain District, Chengyang District, and the Development Zone—all six districts. Zhang Yanhang believes that sooner or later he will be able to scan all districts of Qin Island City, including Huangdao District, at the same time.

"If converted to the Ashen World, I can now simultaneously scan 45 Raccoon Cities, 45 small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu, 17 Goblin Plains, 4.5 Demonized Swamps, and 3 large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano."

Of course, for a monster area like the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, which has forty thousand square kilometers, with a total area of one hundred thousand square kilometers, Zhang Yanhang's current scanning range is certainly far from enough, so he still needs to continue working hard.

After gradually solving the issues of Death Wave and Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, Zhang Yanhang felt it was time to check the changes in Multiple Choice.

[Multiple Choice]

[Quality: ??? (F-EX)]

[Ability One: Single Choice (Please explore specific content on your own)]

[Ability Two: Autonomous Choice—If there are no multiple-choice questions, you have to create them yourself (Please explore specific content on your own).]

[Ability Three: Multiple Choice—Consume 1-100 energy value limit to make one multiple choice (Please explore specific content on your own).]

[Ability Four: ??? (Not Yet Unlocked)]

"As expected, although I've been promoted to the Fifth Tier, the talent effect of Multiple Choice is basically still the same as before, with no new abilities unlocked. It seems the new abilities can only be unlocked upon reaching the Sixth Tier."

As for why Zhang Yanhang places great hopes on the Sixth Tier, it's naturally because the Sixth Tier, like the Fourth Tier, represents a qualitative change stage.

In terms of rank, the Fourth Tier is a complete transcendence into the Legendary Stage, directly causing reproductive isolation with ordinary people, while the Sixth Tier is the Divine Stage, marking another qualitative change compared to the Legendary Stage. Therefore, Zhang Yanhang naturally finds it hard not to look forward to the Sixth Tier.

After all, logically speaking, Zhang Yanhang is very interested in the matter of ascending to godhood, although he currently has no clues about how to find believers.

However, since there are great differences among gods, he feels he should probably develop towards the direction of a god without followers.

Mainly because Zhang Yanhang thinks that unless he has the ability of Zhao Yalan, whereby just looking at her or knowing her name can forcibly develop believers, it's unlikely that with his reclusive nature he could develop a few useful followers in this lifetime.

"Even though Ability Four is still not unlocked, is there a possibility that Ability Three's dual-choice has evolved into a triple-choice?"

Upon thinking of this, Zhang Yanhang immediately tried an option. However, after trying, he found that Multiple Choice showed no reaction to him selecting three options simultaneously, meaning that although Multiple Choice has been promoted to the Fifth Tier this time, no new ability has indeed been unlocked.

Of course, it could also be because Zhang Yanhang's current energy value limit is relatively low, which is why he cannot unlock it. After all,, the talent strength of Multiple Choice is directly linked to the energy value limit.

He feels that if he fiercely increases the energy value limit in the future, it should still be possible to unlock some new abilities, at least unlocking some options previously impossible should not be a major issue.

For example, the ability Zhang Yanhang always thinks about speeding up treasure box opening. Zhang Yanhang had always been hoping for this, hoping it would be possible at the Fifth Tier. Unfortunately, because he's currently opened all the treasure boxes in hand, he cannot test if he can achieve this.

However, considering that during the Fourth Tier he was persistently hinting at Multiple Choice, he believes that this promotion to the Fifth Tier, Multiple Choice is most likely going to specialize in this aspect of the options. There's a great chance it can be done, but the specific results can only be known after testing.

"Because many new abilities related to Multiple Choice can only be tested under specific conditions, the only testable aspect for now is the concrete strength changes in Multiple Choice."

As for how to test the talent strength of Multiple Choice, it's naturally still using Zhang Yanhang's ancestral method, which is to randomly find a fool to transfer money to him. At that point, just by looking at the specific transaction amount, one can intuitively feel the strength increase of Multiple Choice.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang tested it immediately.

In the end, after expending two points of energy value, Zhang Yanhang's Qin Island Bank account had a new transaction record of forty million, accompanied by a bank's large-deposit financial advertisement.

Although logically speaking, such a transaction amount of forty million would usually be capped, the banking system was apparently easily handled by Multiple Choice.

Of course, if Zhang Yanhang had a fraud prevention app, perhaps fraud prevention information would also have appeared at this time, but luckily, he didn't have that kind of thing installed.