Chapter 21 Attribute Explosion

Your reward for exceeding 50 points of Strength is as follows. Please select two of the following three options as your reward.

As the Nightmare Imprint's words rang out, a series of choices quickly appeared before Fang Senyan's eyes.

a: Power of Protection: Reduces the chance of enemies inflicting critical hits by 30% (this attribute has priority), and reduces damage taken from critical hits by 30% (this attribute has domain priority).

b: Power of Truth: Strength increased by 15 points.

c: Power of Savagery: When you make a crushing attack against an enemy, an additional +25 modifier will appear in the judgment (meaning that if Fang Senyan has only 50 points of actual strength, he will be calculated as 75 points of strength when judging the crush), and the critical hit chance of crushing damage is increased by 33%.

Among these three options, Fang Senyan carefully weighed his choices. Obviously, if he was momentarily blinded by temptation, choosing option b would never be wrong, with a full 15 points of Strength increase. Option a focused on defense, while option c focused on offense.

Fang Senyan considered that his team was already taking shape, and Reef, as the MT (main tank), would definitely not leave. Therefore, option a was best suited to deal with situations involving high single-instance damage, and Reef’s performance was impeccable.

His own positioning, however, was more suitable for dealing with situations like a horde of Xenomorphs—low single-instance damage, large numbers, and a high attack frequency. It would be difficult for these ordinary creatures to inflict critical hits on him in the first place, so choosing option a would be somewhat redundant.

More importantly, Fang Senyan had once seen a damage reflection scroll in the space... but the seller was purely showing off his wealth, so he set a price that he had no intention of selling it for.

Although Fang Senyan did not buy it, he had a general goal for evolution. The point of damage reflection was that the harder you hit me, the more miserable the damage reflected back would be. In such a situation, Fang Senyan might even wish for the enemy to score a critical hit.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Fang Senyan chose options b and c. At this time, the power of the +7 West was gradually falling behind, but Fang Senyan would make finding a weapon his top priority when he returned to this world.

His current Strength was 72 points. After choosing options b and c, his Strength for crushing judgments would reach 112 points. Even the weakest of the Zenith would be crushed by him!

Even if all the Zenith had the base attribute x2 bonus, there probably wouldn't be many who could raise their Strength to 27 points when breaking through the limit, except for Strength specialists and some Agility specialists. What's more, there was also the weakening effect of Fang Senyan's vicious bottle smash?

After selecting the reward for exceeding 50 points of Strength, Fang Senyan's current bare Strength reached 67 points, so there was also an additional reward to draw for exceeding 50 points of bare Strength. A series of options appeared as follows:

a: Basic Attribute Ability Reward II: Thorns Power: Each of your attacks adds 1/3 of the total damage the enemy inflicted on you in the previous 5 seconds. Thorns Power has an activation interval of at least five seconds, and the additional damage from each Thorns Power will not exceed 600/1200 points (corresponding to Contractors/Story Characters respectively).

b: Basic Attribute Ability Reward III: Zeal Power: Every time your health decreases by 10%, your attack power will increase by 3%, and your attack speed will increase by 5%. Even when you are not injured, you will gain a 5% attack power and 10% attack speed bonus.

c: Basic Attribute Ability Reward III: Sky Power: Each successful hit on the opponent triggers a Strength judgment. If successful, there is a 25% chance to interrupt a random beneficial attribute on the opponent (including but not limited to attribute amplification, shield addition, aura effects), lasting for 30 seconds. This effect can occur repeatedly, but only one attribute is interrupted and cannot be stacked. This effect has domain priority.

d: Basic Attribute Ability Reward III: Earth Power: In situations requiring Strength judgment (including but not limited to attribute judgment, dressing judgment, skill judgment), Strength requirements are reduced by 25%. This effect has domain priority.

Among the four options, Fang Senyan still considered the problem from the perspective of the team.

With Zi newly joined and Black Bro successfully promoted to Zenith, the team's weak output situation would definitely be greatly alleviated.

It wasn't that Fang Senyan was being arrogant, but if a top-tier team wanted to recruit a powerful firepower output, someone like Aziz, a natural killer, might still be difficult to get, but those a level below him were plentiful.

Therefore, Fang Senyan chose the unpopular ability, Sky Power. This ability was extremely vicious in removing the opponent's beneficial states. Just imagine the subordinates of Skull being protected by his steel armor. If Fang Senyan hit him and the steel armor suddenly disappeared, or if the guys from the Radiance Team suddenly and strangely escaped from Zeus's gravity field protection, or even more viciously, directly broke the magic shield of a magic-type Contractor, lasting for a full thirty seconds, the consequences... could be said to be unimaginable and deeply abhorrent.

In terms of secondary attributes, Fang Senyan directly specified Perception and simply chose the Perception +15 option.

At this time, Fang Senyan realized that his Charm, Intelligence, and Spirit attributes had all reached 20 points, but there was no prompt to draw a reward. After inquiring, he learned that drawing rewards for bare 20 points was only limited to Contractors and probationary Zenith.

Once you become a Zenith, that setting no longer applies. This is like a primary school student being able to solve a university student's problem—that's a genius, a prodigy, unbelievably awesome. But for a university student to solve a university student's problem, that's only to be expected.

After hearing this explanation, Fang Senyan also felt it was quite reasonable. He chewed over his previous experiences and couldn't help but sigh quietly:

"If I had known sooner... sigh."

Fang Senyan's implication was still somewhat regretful. Although he had guessed all of this would happen and recognized the importance of building a good foundation, guessing was still guessing. Before seeing the facts, he was still very uneasy.

If Fang Senyan could have been certain that the base attributes would be x2, then he expected that he could have insisted on at least three more worlds. It would have been possible to break through fifty points for two attributes with bare attributes as a Contractor.

However, there is no regret medicine for sale in this world.

Of course, there was also a reasonable explanation for why Reef stayed a probationary Zenith for so long, his accumulated strength erupting after successfully breaking through, making him incomparably powerful.

Fang Senyan stood there in a daze, past events flowing through his mind like water. For a long time, he sighed deeply.

Suddenly, Fang Senyan felt a shake under his feet. He looked into the distance and immediately realized that the barrier at the edge of the space had disappeared. Amidst the churning black clouds, vague and terrifying powers were lurking, and a large number of blood-red flashes of lightning were striking and devouring the edge of the space he was in. Then, a blood-red flash of lightning illuminated a corner of the darkness!

In the light, Fang Senyan saw countless thick and thin, intertwined, and intricate pipelines in the void, resembling the human vascular network. The pipelines looked as if they were made of metal, but they also had the flexibility of soft tissue. Fang Lin clearly felt that a large number of concentrated electron streams were constantly surging and pulsing within the pipelines.

The lifespan of this training ground that he was in... was coming to an end.

Fang Senyan immediately requested to leave the training ground, but his request was not immediately granted. Instead, a prompt appeared:

"Probationary Zenith 1018, given your rank, you have received a prompt: You have three unassigned free attribute points. Unless there are special circumstances, it is recommended to allocate them before leaving the training space."

Fang Senyan was stunned. First, he noticed that the space was still calling him a probationary Zenith. Second, he realized that this was information that could only be obtained with military rank, so he immediately allocated the three free attribute points to Physique.

At this time, the collapse of the entire training ground had fully arrived. Blood-red lightning and black clouds greedily tore at the defenseless land. Fang Senyan issued another request to return, and immediately his whole person disappeared from the training ground, returning to the abandoned alien base beneath the Statue of Liberty.

After returning, Fang Senyan immediately felt that the Nightmare Imprint on his chest burst into a bright light, and a burning, stinging sensation spread out. Immediately afterwards, the Nightmare Imprint's prompt rang out once again:

"Contractor 1018, congratulations on officially passing the trial for breaking through the limit and becoming a powerful Zenith. Next, you need to further refine your path of growth! Zenith only represents that you have successfully transitioned from a commoner to an early warrior!"

"Prompt: From the moment you become a Zenith, your main attributes are Strength and Physique. You need to spend 3 free base attribute points to increase 1 point of your related base attribute."

"Prompt: From the moment you become a Zenith, your secondary attribute is Perception. You need to spend 5 free base attribute points to increase 1 point of your related base attribute."

"Prompt: From the moment you become a Zenith, you need to spend 7 free base attribute points to increase 1 point of your remaining base attributes."

By the way, when entering the Lord of the Rings world, someone shouted that it was unreasonable, and a group of people surrounded and killed the magic-type Contractor Ilena without killing her. Do you understand now? So sometimes I really feel very aggrieved, I have suffering but can't speak it out, alas…