Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot

Chapter 544: Chapter 232: How Did You Shrink?_2

Wang Tao’s HP of 30,000 was undisputed, but nearly 25,000 mana was quite impressive. He had been consuming Tree Essence Liquid continuously, and because he merged more Crystal Cores than others, he also had more mana.

More mana meant greater endurance, which was an indirect way to increase combat ability.

Moreover, Wang Tao had just reached Level 3 and still had a significant room for improvement.

He now planned to first synthesize a few Crystal Cores to try it out. His four Abilities, up till now, had not been synthesized, but after reaching Level 3, they could continue to be.

First was the status class Ability [Iron Wall], status class Abilities actually weren’t too rare, but many were of no use to Wang Tao, so he couldn’t synthesize this Ability now.

Then came the active attack class Ability [Integration], this type of Crystal Core was relatively scarce, and Wang Tao hadn’t found any suitable ones, so he couldn’t synthesize one for the time being either.

As for the psychic class Ability [Yin Yang Harmony], Wang Tao had some ideas—he planned to synthesize [Mental Shock], [Mental Defense], and [Perception].

All three Abilities were of the Psychic System, so the chance of a successful synthesis should be quite high, but unfortunately, Wang Tao didn’t have enough Crystal Cores.

These Crystal Cores all had side effects, and Wang Tao needed three of the same Crystal Core to remove the side effects and impurities.

So, he could only wait and see if he could save up a few more later.

Last was the Passive Ability [Berserk].

Of the Crystal Cores Wang Tao currently held, those of passive Abilities were the most numerous, so this Ability could be synthesized with other Abilities.

Wang Tao took out two Crystal Cores.

[Photosynthesis: Passive Ability, standing under the sunlight, can absorb the sun’s energy, slowly regenerating mana]

[Nutrient Absorbtion: Passive Ability, standing on the ground, can absorb the nutrients from the land, slowly regenerating HP]

Both of these Crystal Cores were loot dropped from killing Level 3 Plant Monsters.

Originally, Wang Tao only had one of each, but in the past few days, as he hunted zombies outside, he encountered several Level 3 Plant Monsters. Although they were only of Elite Level and didn’t drop anything good, they did drop a few Crystal Cores, which were exactly what he needed to synthesize these two Crystal Cores to Epic.

These two Abilities provided passive mana and HP regeneration, and although it was described as slow, it didn’t consume energy. When there was nothing else to do, just standing on the ground and soaking up the sun could regenerate mana and HP—how wonderful is that!

Wang Tao had always wanted to synthesize these two Crystal Cores, and now he finally had the chance.

He first extracted his [Iron Wall] Ability and then merged it with a [Photosynthesis] Core.

Wang Tao checked the synthesis probability of his Passive Abilities [Extraordinary Rage] and [Energy Boost].

“92%… that’s a pretty high chance!”

Without a second thought, Wang Tao began the synthesis.

And, as expected, it was successful instantly.

Wang Tao then merged [Nutrient Absorbtion] into himself.

The chance of this synthesis was 94%; he went ahead and did it. After this Crystal Core was also synthesized, Wang Tao took out another Crystal Core.

[Physical Enhancement: The physical constitution receives an all-around enhancement]

This was looted from a Night Demon Zombie.

The Night Demon possessed no Superpower and relied solely on its formidable physical strength. If Wang Tao did not use Entangling Roots, his physical fitness was no match for the Night Demon’s.

And the reason why the Night Demon’s physical constitution was so strong was probably because of this Physical Enhancement Crystal Core.

So Wang Tao treated it as the last Passive Ability to be synthesized for himself.

However, in the Night Demon’s Loot Pack, there were three types of Crystal Cores, [HP Enhancement], [Energy Enhancement], and [Physical Enhancement].

[HP Enhancement: Increases the HP limit by 1000]

[Energy Enhancement: Increases the mana limit by 1000]

Wang Tao actually liked these “HP Enhancement” and “Energy Enhancement” Abilities as well.

No need to mention mana—obviously, that’s good stuff, merging 10 of those is 10,000 mana. In the absence of ways to regenerate mana, this Ability clearly was very impressive.

About HP, the increase is to the extra HP limit!

That means, for example, if Wang Tao is now Level 3, then his HP limit should be 99,999 HP, but if he merged a [HP Enhancement] Crystal Core, then his HP limit would break the original limit, reaching 100,999 HP!

If he maxed out [HP Enhancement] to +10, then he would have 109,999 HP, while still remaining at Level 3!

This is the extra HP limit!

Wang Tao knew about this because, during this period, he had seen many Crystal Cores and discovered many peculiar and interesting ones, including those that increase HP and mana. Among them were Crystal Cores that increased HP limits.

Wang Tao specifically conducted an experiment to find out that these HP-increasing Crystal Cores provided an extra HP limit.

But these HP-increasing Crystal Cores were not common, and the increase they provided was very small. A Level 1 Core added 10 HP, a Level Two Core added 100 HP, and even collecting 10 Level Two Cores only amounted to an additional 1000 HP.

[HP Enhancement], which added 1000 HP, was a big jump if you accumulated 10 for a total of 10,000 HP.

Wang Tao had previously thought that merging such HP limit-increasing Crystal Cores would be wasteful since killing zombies also increased the HP limit, but now he realized there was no need to worry.

However, it was a shame that Wang Tao had [Photosynthesis] and [Nutrient Absorbtion].n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Although undecided to some extent, Wang Tao eventually did not choose [HP Enhancement] or [Energy Enhancement].

But regarding these two Cores, Wang Tao had an idea, which he planned to try out in a bit…

After Wang Tao synthesized the [Physical Enhancement] Core, his New Superpower emerged.