BXBX NOVEL Chapter 238 - 131: Ascension of the Highest
Translator: 549690339 I
However, on the way home, Wang Tao suddenly heard a rumbling noise.
“It’s a gorilla zombie!”
The two of them hurriedly left the car and hid in a building.
Before long, they saw the gorilla zombie pass by their location, still as fond of causing destruction as ever. Wang Tao was worried it would throw his car away. Thankfully, the gorilla zombie walked down the next street over, sparing his vehicle from harm.
“Let’s go, let’s go! Hurry back.”
After the gorilla zombie left, Wang Tao drove away.
It seemed that the appearance of the gorilla zombie had some benefits, as it had not only scattered various obstacles but cleared out the zombies as well.
Their car journey was smooth and fast.
However, Han Rui in the car was frowning somewhat, looking uncertainly at Wang Tao and saying,
“Looking at the path that gorilla zombie took, it seems like it might pass by Li Qiuyu’s house…”
Wang Tao pondered for a moment, then shook his head.
“There’s nothing we can do about that, we can only hope she’s lucky.”
If it were a trivial effort, Wang Tao wouldn’t mind going for a rescue. But this was a Level 2 Zombie with tens of thousands of HP; with his current strength, going there was no different from seeking death. He couldn’t risk his and Han Rui’s lives on a gamble.
“Hmm…”
Han Rui felt somewhat regretful. She tried contacting Li Qiuyu with the walkie-talkie but couldn’t get through. She could only hope that Li Qiuyu was fortunate.
Two hours later, the pair returned to Shuize Base.
They had been outside for three days, and during those three days, something significant had happened at the base—the first batch of 20 selected survivors had all become ability users!
Since they had been chosen as ability users, it was natural that they wouldn’t just be given a Crystal Core and be done with it. If it was a success, all well and good, but if not, they would continue getting Crystal Cores until they succeeded.
Hence, all twenty people became ability users.
The overall strength of the base had gained a relatively big enhancement.
Ren Jie and the others were originally quite excited, but when Wang Tao expressed that he temporarily had no way to achieve Level 2 Ascension, everyone’s excitement diminished considerably.
They hadn’t expected that achieving Second Level Ascension would be so troublesome. Especially with the gorilla zombie showing up again today, it would be difficult to deal with it if Wang Tao couldn’t ascend to Level Two…
“Next, you all need to seize the time to kill zombies, elevate your strength a bit more, and collect more Crystal Cores. If you encounter zombies that seem to be Level Two, contact me immediately. As for me… I’ll think of another way.”
Wang Tao told the others.
“Okay!”
After all, enhancing one’s strength was the most basic requirement. If the five or six hundred people in the base were all Level 1 ability users, couldn’t they defeat a Level 2 Zombie?
After returning home, Wang Tao furrowed his brows in thought.
He did have a Level 2 Ascension Crystal Core in his possession, and it was red. But this Crystal Core was impure… He hesitated over whether to use it or not.
If he continued as before to synthesize a core with no impurities, he would need three Crystal Cores to do so!
In the unluckiest scenario—if he needed to upgrade all four of his abilities to Level Two for the ascension—then he would need 12 Ascension Crystal Cores!
That would mean killing twelve Level 2 Zombies… Where could he find so many Level 2 Zombies!
“Maybe I should try using one first…”
Wang Tao struggled for a moment, then with determination, decided to use the Ascension Crystal Core!
So what if some impurities accumulated inside his body? As long as he kept it within a manageable limit, it was still safe.
The primary concern was the gorilla zombie that posed a great threat—it might arrive at the base anytime, not giving him the chance to slowly collect Crystal Cores…
Wang Tao took out the Ascension Crystal Core.
Inside the Ascension Crystal Core, there was a faint”+” shadow, which probably signified the meaning of ascension.
[Level 2 Crystal Core – Ascension]
[Quality: Excellent (80%)]
[Impurities: 45% (no side effects)]
[Ascension: After merging, it can randomly upgrade an already fully merged Level 1 Special Ability to Level Two]
Wang Tao currently had two abilities at +10, Shockwave and Toughness.
One for offense and one for defense, he would accept whichever one was upgraded to Level Two!
Wang Tao directly placed the Ascension Crystal Core of outstanding quality in his mouth.
Upon entering his mouth, Wang Tao felt the Crystal Core turn into a gas, filling his limbs in a very short time.
Wang Tao felt warmly comfortable all over, and the 80% success rate meant no mishaps occurred.
“Comfortable-”
After a short while, the warm sensation disappeared.
All sense of fatigue that Wang Tao had before vanished instantly.
He quickly checked his Attributes.
There were no changes to his HP bar, still at 4999, but his Mana was different; it had increased from 2500 to 2700!
So, one Level 2 Crystal Core added 200 Mana?
Then, as expected, Wang Tao noticed an additional attribute.
[Internal Impurity: O%]
Seeing this impurity, Wang Tao was somewhat resigned, hoping that there would be fewer impurities in the future.
And whether it was psychological or not, Wang Tao always felt somewhat uncomfortable having impurities inside his body…
As for the highlight of this Ascension— the upgraded ability, Wang Tao had a sensation of Shockwave even before checking the attributes.
Looking at his attributes, the +10 on the icon of Shockwave was gone, but the bottom left now showed a “Two,” presumably denoting Level Two.
There weren’t any other changes.
Wang Tao prepared to go out and test this Level Two ability, while also looking for an Elite Zombie, to see if he could achieve Level 2 Ascension..