99: Chapter 98 Enhanced System Architecture

While the entire Magic Sea was busy with the Yanhuang Civilization faction's actions, either actively or passively preparing for the next day's Sequence Battle, Yang Hang's Divided Soul glanced over these developments without intervening.

Most of his attention remained on researching the cauldron of entropy increase.

After this period of research, he discovered some characteristics of the cauldron of entropy increase.

The cauldron of entropy increase has the strongest strengthening effect on physical items, such as iron swords and tools.

For specific items like Ability Crystals and Houseboat tokens, the strengthening effect is weaker, but they can still be strengthened. It just requires more energy and time.

As for purely text-based items, skill books are fine, but for items that are just books recording information, no matter how long they are strengthened inside, it only improves the quality of the book as a carrier. The text content does not change.

These are its limitations. But there are also things that excite him.

The cauldron of entropy increase allows for the addition of auxiliary Materials during strengthening, and the strengthened item can randomly acquire some of their characteristics.

In other words, an ordinary iron sword can become a frost longsword or a lightning longsword through Fusion and strengthening in the cauldron of entropy increase.

The same applies to skill books that can be used directly; the skills can even change based on the changed auxiliary Materials.

For example, with a giant axe slash skill book, if you add some poisonous, fire-attribute, or electric-attribute Materials, the final upgraded skill book will have a chance to carry these attributes. It can be said that its power is greatly enhanced.

While pondering, Yang Hang threw in the twenty-seventh Rotten Wood Class iron sword, added a piece of a poisonous Bronze Grade sea beast carcass as a medium, closed the lid, mobilized the Power of Causality, and shook it three times.

A faint humming sound came from inside the cauldron, and the pale golden light spots accelerated their rotation. Open.

A purple boutique longsword with a faint purple luster lay quietly in the groove, with a mysterious, flickering black pattern added to the blade. Rotten Wood Class → Bronze Grade.

Yang Hang used it to slash his palm. He deliberately lowered the defense of his Physical Body, actively allowing it to cut a wound. The blade, tinged with a faint purple, touched his flesh and blood.

For a moment, his flesh was stained purple-black, but it was immediately eliminated by his body's powerful self-cleansing function. It worked.

Yang Hang picked it up, weighed it, and checked the consumption record. The loss of Karma energy was about 30% lower than he had estimated—because the goal was clear, there was no probability fluctuation.

His pulling of the Karma line was extremely precise; the iron sword, which should have randomly absorbed attributes, successfully attached the poison attribute he wanted on the first try.

"The weapon has met expectations; let's try a skill book again."

He casually picked up a Rotten Wood Class "Flying Dagger Technique" and threw it in. The medium was changed to a bottle of frost-attribute Bronze Grade sea beast blood. Cover the lid. Shake. The Power of Causality pulled. Hum— Open.

The cover color of the "Flying Dagger Technique" changed from a dusty earthy yellow to a metallic bronze. Opening the first page, the content changed from "Ordinary Flying Dagger Technique" to "Ice Flying Dagger Technique with Frost Slowing Effect." Rotten Wood → Bronze.

Although the strengthening ability of the cauldron of entropy increase is very strong, the final result is uncertain due to the diverse characteristics of the auxiliary Materials. For example, if you put in a poison sac, it might absorb its toughness characteristic because it is extremely tough, rather than the poison attribute you initially expected.

But now... combined with his Power of Causality, it's a kill shot. True! Targeted strengthening characteristic. Basically, whatever type of skill book you want, you can stably produce that type of skill book. Yang Hang's mouth curled up slightly.

Finally, there are the Ability Crystals. After his understanding over these past few days, Ability Awakening Crystals are roughly divided into two types: one is randomly awakened based on one's own talent, and the second is forced Awakening of a targeted talent.

His initial treasure chest contained an ordinary Diamond Grade random Ability Crystal. He rummaged through the pile of supplies and found a Rotten Wood Class targeted Ability Crystal—Night Vision. Its effect is to be able to see 400-500 meters in the Magic Sea at night.

So he prepared a Silver Grade sea beast with extremely powerful sonic perception ability as an auxiliary material. Then, he coordinated with the Power of Causality to anchor the result. The Ability Crystal advancing to Silver Grade is an inevitable result!

But most importantly, he saw that the targeted talent ability displayed inside had also changed. Night Vision → Ripple Perception

Without the slightest hesitation, he used it on the bionic female crew member he had already prepared beside him. Then he turned off the lights. The feedback received was that both night vision and sonic detection capabilities were present.

Yang Hang nodded slightly, but it wasn't over yet; the next and more important thing was the strengthening result of the random crystal.

He rummaged through the supply pile again and found a Rotten Wood Class random Ability Crystal—the talents opened from this thing are basically useless things like "mild night vision" or "weak stamina recovery." He threw it into the cauldron.

This time the medium was quite special, using an entire Silver Grade sea beast, the Wave-Splitting Dragon-Fin Shark. It is 12-15 meters long, weighs about 8-12 tons, looks like a hybrid of a shark and a sea dragon, is slender but muscular, and has great strength.

But that's not the point; the point is its speed. In sprint mode, it can reach a speed of more than one-tenth of the speed of sound. Extremely fast. Cover the lid. Shake. The Power of Causality pulled again. This time he increased the intensity. The humming sound was clearly stronger, lasting for nearly ten seconds. Open.

The color of the Ability Crystal changed from a cloudy off-white to a warm, translucent silver, and the speed of the light spots flowing inside was more than twice as fast. Bronze → Silver. This point isn't worth celebrating; the point is—

Yang Hang gently picked up this Ability Crystal in his hand, and saw a line of text inside: Wave-Splitting Sprint.

A Rotten Wood Class random Ability Crystal was directly targeted and strengthened by him into a Silver Grade targeted Ability Crystal. Although Yang Hang mobilized more Karma energy than when strengthening that targeted Ability Crystal, the goal was achieved. A satisfied smile finally appeared on Yang Hang's face.

Then he stably upgraded a Silver Grade Houseboat token and some daily life items. It took nearly two hours, and all categories of treasure chest items, except for the text-based ones that could not be changed, passed the strengthening tests he wanted. He achieved his desired goal.

This also meant that his Cause and Effect Fate Platform strengthening System finally had the foundation of an architecture. With the help of the strengthening and absorption characteristics of the cauldron of entropy increase, supplemented by the future anchoring of the Power of Causality, a Divine-Grade function capable of consuming karma points to targetedly strengthen items and supplies was formed.

Moreover, because the principle of the Power of Causality involved is just connecting two already determined objects or events together, a large number of unknown factors that would be realized out of thin air are excluded, causing the consumption of karma points to be reduced to a very low level.

Furthermore, because this function is mainly for him to expand the upper limit of his energy acquisition sources, he did not intend to charge much of a service fee. The final set price is naturally extremely low.

He estimated that the consumption for upgrading from Rotten Wood to Bronze, depending on the quality, would incur a 10% service fee—10 to 100 points. This is a deposit of karma points that the vast majority of ordinary Yanhuang Survivors have at this stage, and they can definitely afford the strengthening.

Coupled with the large number of Rotten Wood Class Houseboat tokens currently gathering dust on the market, it will definitely enable most Yanhuang Survivors to use Bronze Grade Houseboats, greatly improving safety. Most people will also be able to use Bronze Grade weapons.

Afterward, everyone who opens a Rotten Wood Class Ability Crystal will almost be able to strengthen it into the Bronze Grade Ability Crystal they want before using it. And the use of Ability Crystals generally drives the growth of corresponding parts of one's personal Physique. The overall strength of Yanhuang Survivors will leap from Rotten Wood Class to Bronze Grade.

Upgrading from Bronze to Silver will incur a 20% service fee—100 to 100,000 points. Bronze Grade Survivors have more ways to obtain karma points, and low-quality Silver Grade items do not consume much, unless they are top-tier, which may not be affordable for the average person to strengthen.

Upgrading from Silver to Gold will incur a 40% service fee—100,000 to no upper limit. For example, upgrading a Silver Grade water purifier to a Gold Tier one would likely only cost around 100,000; a Silver Grade harpoon advancing to a Gold Tier one without any special abilities, only strengthening its original attributes, would also be about 100,000.

Of course, if it is a super luxury Houseboat, like Yang Hang's own vehicle and Renaissance-level Gold Tier items, the consumption is probably around 500,000 to start. If you want to additionally target some powerful functions, such as forcibly fusing the ability characteristics of those hundred-meter-level super high-ranking overlords, then it will depend on the situation.

And for something like a Silver Grade radiation absorption targeted Ability Crystal, strengthening it into a Gold Tier Stellar Body level ability would likely require at least one million karma points to be possible, and that is only if the talent ability of radiation absorption itself already has a capability connection with the Stellar Body. Of course, if you are lucky enough to obtain a piece of Yang Hang's flesh, hair, skin, or other auxiliary Materials with genetic sequences to assist, the required karma points would be greatly reduced. But the difficulty of the latter is likely to be even higher.