"Now, everything is ready, I just need to go fetch the treasure box and then I can advance to the Second Tier. After two weeks of hard work, a reward is finally at hand.
Moreover, the four skills I received when appointed as the Heavenly Destiny Master have now all been enhanced to their LV.MAX limits, or rather, except for the un-upgradable Alchemy skill, all other skills have been pushed to their limits.
The only slight regret is that the Agility attribute is still a bit short of the twenty-five points, the First Tier Limit, but it wouldn’t be difficult to solve if I’m willing to use my free attribute points."
Zhang Yanhang then planned to first clear the scattered zombies in Raccoon City, and after completely clearing them, he would go to fetch the Ashen Treasure Box. By doing so, maybe the completion percentage over there could also be increased.
Although, logically speaking, Zhang Yanhang’s completion percentage should already be full, it didn’t matter. After all, enhancing the completion was just a side effort, what he truly wanted was the Slow Corrosion Talent E-grade found in the zombies’ Drop Treasure Box.
But before officially starting to clear the monsters, Zhang Yanhang needed to take care of something first; deep within this underground passage, he found something similar to a vending machine in a vertical shaft, resembling that of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest.
"Although I still don’t know what use this thing serves, anything related to the Ashen World surely brings benefits," Zhang Yanhang stood up and sauntered towards the depths of the underground passage.
The underground passage wasn’t very long, so even at a walking pace, Zhang Yanhang quickly arrived at the vertical shaft, but there was a locked cover at the top of the shaft preventing direct entry.
Despite not having extensive experience with locks, Zhang Yanhang was quite proficient in it.
Thus, he skillfully used Alchemy to quickly dissolve a large hole in the cover, and the lock? He simply ignored it.
Following the large hole in the cover, Zhang Yanhang jumped directly into the interior of the vertical shaft, which was about several meters wide, and its depth was around ten or so meters, feeling like a super-enhanced version of the pit he had dug under Dulda Apartment.
There was no light inside the vertical shaft, which was rather dark, but fortunately, Zhang Yanhang’s Energy Shield served as a light source and could illuminate on its own.
After carefully examining the strange machine inside the vertical shaft, Zhang Yanhang discovered that this seemed to be an Achievement Vending Machine.
"I never would have imagined, in the Ashen World, achievements could also be obtained..." Zhang Yanhang carefully examined and found that the Achievement Vending Machine in Raccoon City currently had three achievements available for purchase.
Just now, when he was staring at the Achievement Vending Machine, he suddenly discovered that achievements also had an attribute list. Although it was much simpler compared to the attribute list of Equipment and Artifacts, it was indeed a genuine attribute list.
"Acquisition condition: Slay Zombies 100/100."
"Description of content: Normally fond of zombie films and games, when you suddenly arrived in zombie-infested Raccoon City, you couldn’t help starting a massacre on the innocent zombies, skillfully using various techniques learned from zombie movies and taking pleasure from continuously killing zombies."
"Achievement reward: Strength +1."
"Just killing a hundred zombies to gain one point in Strength Attribute, isn’t that too easy?"
Although he had already met the acquisition conditions, Zhang Yanhang wasn’t planning to exchange for this Blue Achievement right now since his Strength had already reached the twenty-five points, the First Tier Limit.
Zhang Yanhang worried that exchanging for the achievement now would be wasteful, so he decided to wait until he advanced to Second Tier before exchanging for this achievement. Besides this Blue Achievement, there actually were a Purple Achievement and a Dark Purple Achievement in the machine. Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on nοvelfire.net
But after viewing the attribute list of the Purple Achievement, Zhang Yanhang found that he also did not want to exchange this Purple Achievement because his attribute value had reached the limit.
Zhang Yanhang then continued to look at the attribute list of the highest Quality, the Dark Purple Achievement.
"Quality: Dark Purple"
"Acquirement Condition: Killed zombies 5000/5000, Killed humans 0/0."
"Description: Although you have crazily slaughtered all the zombies in Raccoon City, you have only killed zombies and did not harm any humans in the process. Confronting such principled behavior, everyone became friendlier toward you after hearing your story."
"Achievement Reward: Agility +1, Charm +1, Initial Affinity with humans and humanoid creatures +20%."
"Initial Affinity with humans and humanoid creatures +20%? Won’t I be loved by everyone I meet and make every flower bloom, but it would be nice if this reward could be slightly altered, like adding a bit more initial affinity by specifying a gender."
If it were possible to specify the gender as female or female-only, Zhang Yanhang estimated that the initial affinity bonus could at least increase to over 30%.
Mainly, Zhang Yanhang felt that when facing mother monsters in the Ashen World, he still had a little desire to communicate, whereas if it were father monsters, he probably would have been killed the moment they appeared in front of him.
Yes, Zhang Yanhang was actually contemplating communication with mother monsters, not with women from the real world, since communicating with real-world women couldn’t bring him much benefit.
Unless it involved types of Awakeners like the group leader who helped him, but her help was not a charity and buying things from her required resources.
Compared to that, Zhang Yanhang still felt that exploiting mother monsters in the Ashen World, a profit without investment, suited him better.
After reviewing the attribute list of the Dark Purple Quality Achievement, Zhang Yanhang immediately chose to exchange it; he pressed the corresponding button on the Achievement Vending Machine.
After pressing it, before Zhang Yanhang could react, a dark purple glow shot from the vending machine’s delivery slot and entered his body.
"You have attained the Dark Purple Achievement ’Friend of Mankind’."
"Is it acquired in this manner? I originally thought the Achievement Vending Machine would pop out something like an egg, or maybe a small light ball similar to Talent."
But the form of the achievement didn’t really matter; what Zhang Yanhang cared most about were the effects of the achievement. He immediately opened the attribute list to check if the just-received attribute bonuses were effective.
"Strength: 25 (+3[-3])"
"Agility: 25 (+3[-3])"
"Constitution: 25 (+3[-4])"
"Intelligence: 25 (+3[-3])"
"After all this effort, I have finally raised all four main attributes to the First Tier Limit; this will allow me to receive all the rewards when I promote to Second Tier later. Moreover, the Charm attribute also got a boost due to the Dark Purple Achievement, but although it increased, if I subtract the bonuses from equipment, the bare state is still only nine points, not even reaching double digits."
Having resolved the issue with the Agility attribute, Zhang Yanhang prepared to clear the remaining ordinary zombies in Raccoon City, aiming to gather enough Slow Corrosion to further upgrade the Chunling Endless Talent.