Chapter 421: Chapter 257: Comprehensive Upgrade (Part 3)

Fang Zhen found it rather interesting after reading the description.

When he had faced Tarrenno, he hadn’t sensed that the item had such a high star rating. In actual combat, the battle-axe’s performance didn’t even feel as formidable as Balenzuo’s Alien Snake Sword.

Yet the star rating of the material alone was this high.

An idea formed in Fang Zhen’s mind. ’Perhaps Tarrenno didn’t recognize its true value. He had obtained an excellent casting material, but probably couldn’t find a good Caster. The resulting product was garbage, which in turn lowered the battle-axe’s overall star rating.’

’Truly a pearl gathering dust.’ 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Fang Zhen decided he would have the Pultu’s Iron smelted back into ingots, take them to the Curse Seal World, and forge an Extraordinary Long Spear of his own.

After some time spent preparing, Fang Zhen completed most of his self-enhancement and upgrades.

Perhaps because his increase in power had unlocked new information, he could now see the basic requirements for the next level of the Power Mountain Seal.

Currently, Power Mountain Seal Level 5 required his Constitution to reach 19. The merit points needed for a direct upgrade were frighteningly high: 2,456 points.

Fang Zhen couldn’t help but shake his head.

’It seems high-level techniques require a certain base attribute for support.’ His strategy remained the same: he had to raise one attribute to 20 first and see what would happen.

Beyond that, Fang Zhen was also very interested in the shaping crystal that held the blonde girl, which he’d found in Balenzuo’s subspace.

However, he had no clues about the blonde girl’s origins. He didn’t know how to interpret the situation, and had no leads for an investigation.

He felt that this blonde girl might be an important figure.

For a demon like Balenzuo to have kept the girl in the crystal in his subspace for so long, he must have had a special reason.

And he knew Balenzuo hadn’t told him the whole truth.

Since Fang Zhen knew his true name, Balenzuo couldn’t lie. However, that didn’t mean he couldn’t conceal things.

Logically, every word Balenzuo spoke could be the truth. But if Fang Zhen failed to ask the right questions, Balenzuo could simply conceal crucial information by not mentioning it.

In that sense, his encounter with Balenzuo had given Fang Zhen more experience in dealing with demons.

’This means that when facing these demons, even if I can learn their true names, I still have to be extremely careful. They can hide critical information by simply omitting it.’

’When I enter the Zambein Kingdom in the future, I can take some time to investigate this matter thoroughly.’

At the same time, Fang Zhen felt that once he completed the Hell-difficulty mission in the Nameless World, the Zambein World might fully open up to him. When that happened, there would be fewer restrictions on entering the Kingdom.

He guessed that after completely clearing a world, special scenarios or hidden content might become available to him. Judging by the characteristics the "dungeon life game" had shown so far, this seemed like a very plausible theory.

But for now, it was better for Fang Zhen to concentrate on conquering the nightmare scenario in the Curse Seal World.

The day after his upgrades, Fang Zhen made a trip to the factory he was renting in the suburbs.

There, he received a large shipment of goods, as well as the equipment brought by Hao Lei and his men.

Before entering this scenario, Fang Zhen had made extensive material and equipment preparations.

He had once again purchased several DJI agricultural drones.

After his experience in the Zambein World, Fang Zhen had discovered just how incredibly useful drones were.

They could be used not only for reconnaissance, but also for dropping incendiaries like gasoline. They even worked well as relay stations for his walkie-talkies.

And if he didn’t care about the cost, the DJI drones could even be used as suicide bombs.

Fang Zhen considered his entry into the Curse Seal World. This time, he would likely be facing a large-scale battle.

He expected to encounter numerous aberrations. Based on his knowledge of biology, he couldn’t think of any aberration that didn’t need to breathe. Therefore, he could use drones to carry a blood-explosion potion—made with potassium permanganate—atomize it, and spray it over a wide area.

This would be extremely lethal to any concentrated groups of aberrations.

He had never tried this method before, but he felt it should be quite effective.

The only thing he needed to be careful about was that the blood-explosion potion was highly corrosive, so he had to ensure the drones were properly sealed against oxidation.

In addition, Fang Zhen also purchased a large quantity of gasoline.

The blood-explosion potion was effective against concentrated groups of aberrations, but he might face other situations. After all, the members of the Eternal Night Council were intelligent. He didn’t know what countermeasures they might employ that could render the potion less effective.

In that case, he could just burn everything with gasoline.

’He’d never seen a creature that couldn’t be burned to death—or one that got more energetic the more you set it on fire.’

Besides gasoline and the blood-explosion potion, Fang Zhen also prepared a large number of Molotov Cocktails—a special, enhanced recipe.

Previously, he made Molotov Cocktails by the bottle. Now, he was making them by the case.

He planned to store all of this in his subspace. Times like this really proved how useful it was.

In fact, Fang Zhen had also considered another idea: driving a pickup truck or some other kind of off-road vehicle into his subspace.

However, he abandoned the idea after taking a practical look at the space.

The subspace was just over thirty cubic meters, with dimensions of roughly 3x3x3 meters. Most larger vehicles wouldn’t fit, and it seemed pointless to put something like a small, low-speed electric vehicle in there.