"The six Divination Tarot Cards transformed from two Blue quality three-piece sets into one Purple quality six-piece set has not only merged all the set effects but also the upgrade conditions. They integrated the unsatisfied conditions from the original two Tarot Card sets into the new upgrade conditions.

Now, if I want to continue to improve the quality of the Purple quality Divination Tarot Card six-piece set, I need to collect the Divination Tarot Cards of Strength, Justice, The Hanged Man, or the Pope, Judgement, and Wheel of Destiny—any of these two new sets of three Tarot Cards.

Given that I just opened the Divination Tarot Card - Pope from the Ashen Treasure Box obtained from the Crimson Iron Queen Ant, so, without any unexpected circumstances, I should prioritize collecting the Divination Tarot Card - Judgement and the Divination Tarot Card - Wheel of Fortune next."

Zhang Yanhang felt that these two Divination Tarot Cards should be relatively easy to collect, especially since he could claim an Ashen Treasure Box later.

From Zhang Yanhang's past experience, as long as he made the related choices, most likely he would be able to open the corresponding Divination Tarot Cards from this Ashen Treasure Box.

Moreover, judging by the performance of the Lord's Treasure Box, it's very likely that he could directly open both of these Divination Tarot Cards, thus gathering a new set of three Tarot Cards again.

After inspecting the newly upgraded Purple quality Divination Tarot Card six-piece set, Zhang Yanhang quickly put all six Purple quality Tarot Cards back into his Waist Bag and smoothly enjoyed the corresponding bonus effects.

Because he had just gained quite a few bonuses, Zhang Yanhang promptly started to test his strength again, lifting the piece of Crimson Iron Ore he had earlier taken out of his Waist Bag but hadn't yet put back.

But because this time the added bonus to the strength effect was only a mere 15%, at first, Zhang Yanhang started by placing only nine hundred eighty tons of Crimson Iron Ore on his right hand, only to find that his margin for comfort had become very small, at most, a margin of one or two tons was left.

After gradually adding about two tons more of Crimson Iron Ore, Zhang Yanhang felt the margin on his right hand completely vanish, reaching the limit he could currently bear.

"So, my single-hand strength has increased from 965 tons to 982 tons, gaining nearly 17 tons of strength, almost another portion of my entire strength during my Second Tier Period, but I am still 18 tons shy of my small goal of one thousand tons that needs to be filled..."

After a brief test of strength, Zhang Yanhang quickly shifted his focus to the other bonus effects that the upgrade had brought.

"Previously, my total Critical Strike Rate was 161%, and now with the additional 15% Critical Strike Rate bonus from the Tarot Cards, it has risen to a total of 176%. This effectively gives me an extra 76% Critical Strike Damage Bonus.

A Golden quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Claw+6 provides a 50% Critical Strike Damage Bonus, so the excess portion from my Critical Strike Rate bonus is equivalent to 1.5 Crimson Marrow Ghost Claws+6, which is quite significant."

In addition to the excess Critical Strike Damage bonus provided by the Critical Strike Rate, the Purple quality Tarot Card set that Zhang Yanhang upgraded also gave him an additional 30% Critical Strike Damage bonus.

His original Critical Strike Damage Attack Multiplier was 430%, which has now increased to 460%, gradually widening the gap from the extra attack with a 425% Attack Multiplier.

In fact, if one also accounts for the additional Critical Strike Damage bonus derived from the Critical Strike Rate, Zhang Yanhang's Critical Strike Damage Attack Multiplier has reached 536%. This means that every normal attack he makes is equivalent to a fivefold Critical Strike Damage.

In such a state, if he could also trigger the 425% extra attack, the damage could instantly reach twenty-three times more, and this is after all the bonuses for Remote Attack Power, Melee Attack Power, Energy Attack Power, and Physical Attack Power are counted as base damages.

Therefore, in practical terms, if that portion of Attack Power Bonus was also calculated separately, even a hundred times the standard damage would not be a problem. However, such hundredfold damage is indeed too abstract.

Compared to this, it's more reliable to consider all the bonuses as part of one's own single damage multiplier, or in other words, that hundredfold damage should only be regarded as the hundredfold damage of a Same Tier Awakened. Whereas Zhang Yanhang has always far exceeded that of a Same Tier Awakened.

If he couldn't reach this level, it would have been impossible for him to defeat Peak Fourth Tier Monsters like the Crimson Iron Queen Ant and high-level enemies like the God of Sun, Crotena, who have entered Fifth Tier strength. After all, the physical differences between each Rank alone are at least ten or twenty times apart, and the strength gap is needless to say even more exaggerated.

"With the upgrade of the Divination Tarot Card Set, I've obtained an additional 15% Skill Coverage Range Bonus. Consequently, the range of my Death Wave Skill will grow by another 180 meters, increasing from the original 1380 meters to 1560 meters."

Furthermore, the coverage area for Zhang Yanhang's Death Wave Skill has grown from the original 1.5 square kilometers to 1.91 square kilometers, adding an extra 0.41 square kilometers.

Although the last bonus Zhang Yanhang received was also 15% and the increase in coverage diameter was also 180 meters, the difference in base numbers allowed this time to have a larger increase in coverage area than last time. Previously, Zhang Yanhang's coverage area grew by 0.37 square kilometers, but this time it was 0.41 square kilometers, an increase of 0.04 square kilometers more than before.

"I used to think the Death Wave's coverage area would definitely fix at about one square kilometer before promoting in Rank, but now it's nearly reaching two square kilometers. Having specialized bonuses is indeed beneficial."

If Zhang Yanhang could increase the Death Wave's coverage area to two square kilometers before clearing the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano, his clearing efficiency would definitely see a huge boost. At the very least, it should be possible to reduce the clearing time from twenty seconds per square kilometer to fifteen seconds per square kilometer.

After all, the area that previously required two releases of Death Wave can now be covered in one go, and with the same stamina consumption as before.

Accordingly, there is no need to worry about the stamina consumption from Death Wave at all. He simply can keep releasing Death Wave non-stop, with no need to use the Six Roots Pure Soul Spear to clean up the more remote edges, naturally increasing his hunting efficiency greatly.

But unfortunately, since the entire Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano had been cleared, Zhang Yanhang could only wait until the next time a new area was being cleaned to use the Death Wave Skill to efficiently hunt monsters.

"And besides the Death Wave, my other skill 'Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil' also enjoyed the same 15% bonus this time, which increased the coverage of my 'Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill' from the original 10,063 meters to 11,375 meters, an increase of 1,312 meters in perception range."

According to Zhang Yanhang's test results, in addition to the normal increase in the coverage of 'Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil' to 11,375 meters, his perception range in the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano had also increased by another five hundred meters, extending from the original three thousand meters to around three thousand five hundred meters.

"Originally, the coverage area of my 'Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil' under normal circumstances was eighty square kilometers, but now it has increased to one hundred and two square kilometers, an increase of twenty-two square kilometers compared to before.

I previously said that my little wish to scan both the Southern City District and the North City District of Qin Island City at the same time could be realized very soon, and now it has indeed been fulfilled quite quickly.

The Southern City District and the North City District combined are only ninety-three square kilometers, and my 'Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil' can still cover an extra nine square kilometers, casually scanning the Licang District, which is also one of the three urban districts.

However, Licang District is quite large, at ninety-nine square kilometers, and I am currently still unable to scan all three urban districts at once; I have to choose between scanning Licang District or scanning both Southern City District and North City District."

But Zhang Yanhang believed that after his promotion in rank, he should definitely be able to scan all three urban districts simultaneously, as the urban districts weren't actually that large, totaling only one hundred and ninety-two square kilometers, which was merely equivalent to not even two Goblin Plains.

His current 'Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil' coverage area is one hundred and two square kilometers, and he would only need to increase the coverage area by another ninety square kilometers to achieve his goal. Well, perhaps it was still somewhat challenging, as this was almost doubling it.

"Besides the bonuses to Attack Power, Strength Effect, Critical Strike Rate, Critical Strike Damage, and Skill Coverage Range, this time the Purple Quality Tarot Card Set also provided me an extra 15% Attack Speed Bonus, which I feel like I haven't received in a long time.

No, perhaps it isn't that long since after upgrading my 'Three-Headed Six-Armed LV.MAX,' I did get some Attack Speed Bonus thanks to the addition from the Dragon Power Bracelet +4.

So, to be precise, it's been a long time since I've gotten a proper Attack Speed Bonus from new equipment."

This time, the 15% Attack Speed Bonus Zhang Yanhang received from the Six-Piece Purple Quality Divination Tarot Card Set increased the firing speed of the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun Cannon Bullets from an original 309 bullets per second to 324 bullets per second, with the number of machine gun bullets fired per second increasing by another 15 bullets.

Moreover, with the increase in the firing speed of the machine gun bullets, Zhang Yanhang's speed in emptying a machine gun magazine of the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun also increased correspondingly, from requiring 1.6 seconds to empty a magazine to now only needing 1.5 seconds, further reducing the time by 0.1 second.

"Now, if I activate the Six Roots Pure Skill, I could instantly empty an entire magazine of five hundred bullets in 0.75 seconds, and in the remaining 0.25 seconds, I could also fire 125 bullets from the next magazine, equating to 625 bullets being inserted into the enemy's body every second.

Facing a target with a similar size to an average adult human, those 625 machine gun bullets, about the size of soda bottles, could probably bury him alive."

Even if Zhang Yanhang's 625 machine gun bullets were to be compared to soda bottles, assuming 500ml per bottle, those 625 bottles would add up to a weight of 312.5 kilograms, and considering the average adult human weight of 65KG, the total weight of the soda would be equivalent to the weight of five adults.

Since the density of humans is approximately equal to that of water, which is also roughly equivalent to soda, essentially the volume of 625 bottles of soda is equivalent to being pressed by five adults at once -- indeed, it is almost like being buried alive.

"My initial small goal was to reduce the time needed to empty a machine gun magazine to under one second, and now I have only just reached 1.5 seconds, still with a huge gap of 0.5 seconds to compress. The previous goal I set now seems to be too far-reaching."

Zhang Yanhang even doubted that he would still be unable to achieve this small goal of reducing the emptying time of a machine gun magazine to one second after promotion unless he greatly increased his Attack Speed Bonus.

"Besides improving the firing speed of machine gun bullets, the 15% Attack Speed Bonus provided by the Purple Quality Tarot Card Six-Piece Set also increased the flight speed of the bullets.

The flight speed of the Six Roots Pure Soul Gun machine gun bullets has now increased from the original 9.3 Mach to approximately 9.7 Mach, a further increase of 0.4 Mach in flight speed."

If Zhang Yanhang were to convert this increase of 0.4 Mach to the flight speed in meters per second, it would be equivalent to the machine gun bullets gaining an additional speed of 136 meters per second.

"My intended small goal was twelve Mach, and the current 9.7 Mach flight speed of the machine gun bullets still falls short of this goal by 2.3 Mach – still quite a distance away; only by amassing a considerable amount of Attack Speed Bonus can I force this goal to be achieved."

Regrettably, Zhang Yanhang did not have any way to gain a large amount of Attack Speed Bonus at the moment, as such Additional Attributes like Attack Speed weren't really related to the Large Crimson Iron Ants in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano; what was more relevant to them were Additional Attributes related to Strength.

That is why, in this visit to the Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano, Zhang Yanhang continuously received new equipment like the Crimson Marrow Flame Demon Armor and the Flame God's Crown that could provide a significant amount of Strength Effect Bonus.

"If I calculate the rate of progress, my current small goal of elevating the speed of machine gun bullets to twelve Mach has only reached a mere 23.3% completion, not even a quarter, meaning I indeed must persevere."

However, the next area Zhang Yanhang intended to clean was the abandoned transportation channels across from the sewers of Raccoon City, which were associated with Zombies. Those areas really didn't have much to do with Additional Attributes like Attack Speed...

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