Chapter 502 The Fourth Awakening

After some discussion, everyone finally decided to plant the [Crystal Energy Poison Tree] in an artificial lake not far from the research institute.

In fact, they originally wanted to plant it outside the Awakening School or the City Hall, but the Crystal Energy Poison Tree will excrete poisonous water, and ordinary people cannot get close to those poisonous waters, so it is better to plant it in an open and deserted place.

After the place was selected, Gu Yun began to send people to deal with the environment here. The water in the artificial lake had to be pumped away, and the residents living here had to be relocated. This would take time, but the [Crystal Energy Poison Tree] would take a few days to activate, and the time was enough.

After deciding on the [Crystal Energy Poison Tree], Gu Yun asked about building a nest for the golden eagle. Now it is icy and snowy outside, and many superpowers in the base have nothing to do. They can come to help. There is strength in numbers!

Wang Tao thought about it and felt that it was okay. As for what kind of nest to build for the golden eagle, Wang Tao asked the golden eagle for its opinion, and it said it didn't matter, it didn't have high requirements for the environment.

In this case, Wang Tao let Ding Yuqin and the others play to their heart's content. And Wang Tao himself... was preparing to start the fourth awakening.

After returning home, when everything was ready, Wang Tao merged four advanced awakening keys.

After a while, Wang Tao opened his eyes under the expectant eyes of everyone.

"It's done!"

Wang Tao's luck has always been good, and the 70% awakening probability has never failed.

Without time to elaborate, Wang Tao lay directly on the bed and soon fell into a deep sleep.

In his dream, Wang Tao appeared in a pure white space, where there was no fire, no darkness, and it seemed that there was nothing. But Wang Tao could clearly feel that his physical fitness was getting stronger.

"System awakening..."

This result was similar to what Wang Tao thought. After all, Wang Tao only had the last hidden attribute [Strengthening the body] left, which was to increase physical fitness, so his awakening was obviously related to physical fitness.

Quietly enjoying the feeling of physical enhancement, Wang Tao slowly lost consciousness.

When he woke up again, it was already a day later.

"Hu——"

Wang Tao opened his eyes. He had never felt so good before!

Whether it was his body or his spirit, his condition was extremely good!

Wang Tao clenched his fists and felt the increased strength, which made him a little fascinated.

It must be said that his three awakenings of the fire system, the spirit system, and the dark system were strong, but from his personal perception, they were not as comfortable as the system awakening. The feeling of physical fitness improvement was simply too good!

"Brother, you are awake!"

Hearing the voice, Wang Tao turned his head and saw Jiang Shixue sitting next to him.

"Xiaoxue, where are the others?"

Wang Tao was a little curious.

"They are all discussing building a nest for Xiao Jin. I don't understand those things, so I didn't participate...Do you need me to call them?"

Jiang Shixue asked.

"That's not necessary. Let them be busy. It's just an awakening. You can come and test it with me."

Wang Tao shook his head.

This time he awakened the passive system awakening, which was relatively simple to test.

"Okay!"

Jiang Shixue nodded immediately. She was obviously very interested in Wang Tao's fourth awakening.

Wang Tao looked at his health bar.

[Health: 110000/110000]

[Mana: 150000/150000]

[Advanced Special Energy: 180]

[Awakening Key: 10]

[Advanced Awakening Key: 0]

[Level: Level 5]

[Awakening: Sparks, Spiritual Development, Heart of Darkness, Body of Steel]

[Awakening Energy: 6500/6500]

[Power: Fireball, Explosive Flame, Burning Eye]

His power [Violent Amplification] is gone, replaced by the new awakening [Body of Steel]!

[Steel Body: All basic attributes and mental power are improved in all aspects, the recovery speed of blood and mana is greatly improved, all negative status effects are weakened, and all basic attributes are slowly enhanced]

Seeing this new awakening, even the knowledgeable Wang Tao couldn't help but grin.

Most system awakenings are passive awakenings that increase basic attributes. Some of the better ones will add some additional attributes, such as additional strength and defense.

Wang Tao's [Steel Body] belongs to the latter. In addition to the comprehensive improvement of basic attributes, there are also additional attributes.

However, his additional attributes are more than any system awakening he has seen - additional mental power, speed of blood and mana recovery, weakening of all negative status effects, and slow enhancement of all basic attributes!

The fusion ability of [Steel Body] is [Violent Amplification], which is formed by the fusion of multiple abilities. For example, slowly recovering mana in the sun and slowly recovering blood on the land.

But this attribute is not very strong, especially for Wang Tao's blood volume, it is basically useless. He mainly relies on Lan Yulian, Ding Yuqin and others to restore mana and health.

And now, the new awakening [Steel Body] has increased the health and mana recovery speed significantly!

One is "significantly" and the other is "slowly", which is obviously different, and the difference is probably not small.

Then there is the ability of "all negative status effects are reduced", which sounds very good. For example, those frozen zombies have a frozen aura, unless Wang Tao uses Sparks, he will be affected. But with this "negative status effect reduction" ability, the effect of the frozen aura can be reduced!

Maybe Wang Tao doesn't need to use Catching Fire and can directly resist the lord's freezing aura!

Moreover, this ability refers to "all negative states". Weakness, bleeding, poisoning, etc. are all negative states and can definitely be weakened.

Then this is equivalent to improving Wang Tao's defense ability by several levels at once!

Plus there is a "slow enhancement of all basic attributes"!

This attribute talks about slowly increasing, but in Wang Tao's view, regardless of whether it is slow or not, this is actually a passive ability that can grow infinitely! He loves it!

However, compared with the previous abilities, [Man of Steel] actually lacks one ability - the previous [Fury Amplification] has a [Frenzy] ability.

The [Rage] ability is to remove negative status when the blood volume is lower than 30%, restore all attributes to full value, increase the size, increase speed and attack, and reduce defense. Lasts for one hour and can be triggered no more than once per day.

This is a very good ability, and it also saved Wang Tao's life. But Wang Tao has always been very cautious, so he doesn't trigger berserk many times. Even if the rage is gone now, it doesn't matter to him. After all, he gained much more than he lost.

And Wang Tao feels that Berserk is not really gone, but has been integrated into Awakening, such as his "weakened negative status". This must have something to do with Berserk's removal of negative status. Normal system awakening should not have such additional Attributes……

Anyway, just looking at the introduction of "Man of Steel" and Wang Tao's current personal experience, Wang Tao is very satisfied.

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But how strong it is exactly needs to be tested.

So Wang Tao asked Jiang Shixue to attack him.

"No matter how hard you try, you can't hurt me."

"Okay~"

Although Jiang Shixue nodded, she still didn't use much force in her first attack on Wang Tao.

"so hard……"

Jiang Shixue touched her little fist. She felt as if she had just been hit on a steel plate.

"Come on, try harder."

Wang Tao said with a smile.

Jiang Shixue used her strength this time and punched Wang Tao in the abdomen.

But Wang Tao still acted like a normal person.

"Such a strong defense, and I feel that your body is too hard, and you don't look like a human at all..."

Jiang Shixue was a little surprised.

"Haha, come and touch me again."

Wang Tao stretched out his arm and Jiang Shixue squeezed it gently. This time there was no steely feeling.

"Huh? Can you control the softness and hardness of your body?"

Jiang Shixue was a little surprised.

The muscles of the human body can be soft or hard, but Wang Tao's skin has hardened, so it is obviously not as simple as controlling muscles.

"Actually, it's not controlled by me, but automatically..."

Wang Tao explained.

To put it simply, as long as someone attacks him, his skin will harden. If it is on a daily basis, his skin will be the same as that of a normal person.

Wang Tao thinks this feature is very good, it not only increases defense, but does not affect daily life.

And it's not just defense that's enhanced, Wang Tao's attack power has also increased a lot.

If he had this strength when fighting the Golden Eagle, he would have saved at least half the fighting time. It is estimated that the Golden Eagle would not even have a chance to surrender!

"So strong!"

Jiang Shixue looked at Wang Tao with bright eyes.

"Ha ha!"

Wang Tao smiled and rubbed Jiang Shixue's hair, his vanity greatly satisfied. But he quickly shook his head.

"But this is not my strongest state yet..."

Wang Tao's three abilities have not yet been upgraded, and are still in the primary stage of fifth level. The strongest state is definitely to use the sixth-level promotion crystal core to upgrade to the sixth level +1.

Of course, he currently does not have a sixth-order crystal core, so he can upgrade it to fifth-order +10.

Then there is the fact that Wang Tao only has three powers now, and he can learn one more! As for this superpower, Wang Tao already had a choice.

He turned his palm and an orange crystal core appeared.

[Level 5 Crystal Core·Almighty Shield]

[Quality: 100% (epic)]

[Purity: 30% (Side Effect: The upper limit of blood volume is reduced by 200,000)]

[Almighty Shield: Passive ability to condense an invisible shield outside your body. The shield can block any attack, but it has a limit. When the damage taken reaches the limit, the shield will break. After being broken, it can be re-condensed using awakening energy. (Only those with system awakening can use it)]

This was the trophy he got from killing the giant hammer zombie before. The omnipotent shield of the giant hammer zombie caused a lot of trouble for Wang Tao.

After Wang Tao exploded the crystal core at that time, he wanted to fuse it himself. But at that time, he was not at a high level and was not a system awakener, so he had no choice but to give up.

Now, Wang Tao has already reached the fifth level, and has successfully awakened a system awakening. He can finally fuse this crystal core!

But now there is still a problem, that is, the side effect of this crystal core is to reduce the upper limit of blood volume by 200,000.

Because this kind of crystal core is too precious, Wang Tao does not have time to synthesize it into a side-effect-free crystal core, but this reduction in the upper limit of blood volume can be made up for. So for Wang Tao, this side effect can be tolerated.

Wang Tao hunted a large number of mutated plants before and obtained a lot of [Advanced Tree Essence], which increased his upper limit of blood volume to 210,000.

Theoretically speaking, it is just enough.

But after he just awakened, he lost 100,000 HP, and now he only has 110,000 left...

Wang Tao didn't know what the effect of fusing the crystal core would be in this situation, and whether he would die suddenly, and Wang Tao was not interested in knowing. So Wang Tao prepared to go out and hunt zombies or mutant plants to replenish his upper limit.

When his blood volume returned to 210,000 again, he could fuse the crystal core he had always wanted!

At this time, Ding Yuqin and the others came.

They estimated that Wang Tao had woken up, so they put down their work and came to see.

Wang Tao put away the crystal core and briefly showed everyone his new awakening.

"Wow! Your defense has increased so much... That's great!"

Lan Yulian was a little amazed.

Wang Tao just asked them all to attack him. Without using weapons, others could still cause some damage to Wang Tao, although it was very little, but at least there was some. And Lan Yulian really couldn't cause any damage... Although she was a nanny, she was at least a fourth-level nanny, and her physical fitness was not weak!

Even if she had a weapon, Wang Tao would not be able to cut her if he stood there without fighting back and let her chop her...

When Wang Tao saw Lan Yulian in amazement, he suddenly remembered that his ability to restore mana and blood had not been tested yet.

So he put on the Elapse Bracelet and let his blood volume begin to decrease. At the same time, he threw a few attacks outside, consuming some mana.

After a while, Wang Tao took back the bracelet and looked at his blood bar.

[+500]

[+500]

[+500]

[……]

"Restore 500 blood and 500 mana per second? Strong!"

Seeing this result, Wang Tao smiled.

This number may not seem much, but you have to know that this is a passive ability that can be restored every second, and 30,000 blood can be restored in one minute!

From the perspective of this blood recovery effect, it is equivalent to having a relatively ordinary healing ability user who has been continuously adding blood to him!

Not to mention that this can restore mana! Currently, there are very few means to restore mana, and this ability alone is already very strong.

With this ability to restore health and mana, Wang Tao's endurance ability has been directly improved to a higher level. And as his strength increases in the future, this effect will definitely continue to improve.

If Wang Tao merges the ability of [All-round Shield], Wang Tao doesn't know how strong his endurance and defense are!

As for Wang Tao's current attack power... Wang Tao didn't plan to test it in the base. Because there is a high probability that no one can block his attack, someone will definitely get hurt in such a test, so it is better to test it outside.

So Wang Tao said to everyone:

"I'm going out tomorrow, what about you?"

"Together!"

Everyone said in unison.

In addition to wanting to see Wang Tao's current strength, they also wanted to experience the feeling of riding a golden eagle again.