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

Chapter 402: Chapter 185 Zombie Fish_1

Yang Changhong originally didn’t want to travel at night, but there was no choice—the Night Demon had appeared.

Even though Wang Tao had shown great power, eliminating one Night Demon, everyone knew that Night Demons are social, zombie-like creatures. The appearance of one Night Demon meant that others were likely to follow.

Although Wang Tao had seemed to deal with the Night Demon easily, since he had said to move on, naturally, she couldn’t suggest that he should take on the others. She guessed that Wang Tao’s Transformation Ability must have its limits, and it probably wasn’t as effortless as it looked…

“Wang Tao, are you all okay?”

Yang Changhong’s voice carried concern over the vehicle’s intercom.

“We’re fine.”

“Good to hear…”

Since it was a flight for life, Yang Changhong didn’t talk much, even though she had questions.

The convoy quickly left town and headed towards the next destination.

Inside the vehicle, Wang Tao looked at the Entangling Roots on his wrist and smirked.

This was his first time using Entangling Roots in combat, and all he could say was that this Level 3 Weapon was truly awesome!

Because both Wang Tao’s Mana and Ability had not improved much, his current power hadn’t reached his personal peak, but his overall strength among Level Two should be considered top-notch. Thus, he felt that, with his own power, he should be capable of confronting a Level 3 Night Demon. But definitely not as easily as with the use of Entangling Roots!

Without the Entangling Roots, he would be at most a peak Level Two strength, perhaps capable of single-handedly taking on a Level 3 Elite Night Demon.

But with Entangling Roots wielded, he was straight up at Level 3 strength! He could completely dominate a Night Demon in battle!

No wonder Entangling Roots is classified as a Level 3 Weapon—it can really unleash Level 3 power!

However, it’s not just Entangling Roots; the person who wears it needs to be powerful too. If the wearer isn’t up to snuff, then they definitely won’t be able to display Level 3 power. After all, the Entangling Roots has a limited HP, and if it keeps being depleted, it will be destroyed.

Speaking of defense, Entangling Roots indeed performed impressively. When hit by a Night Demon’s Attack, it only lost a little over a hundred HP. To its ten thousand HP, this was trivial.

And the Attack bonus doesn’t even need saying. Against a Level 3 Elite Night Demon, it could deal over three thousand damage with one punch! Less than ten punches were enough to kill a Night Demon! This was definitely the moment of Wang Tao’s highest damage output!

Moreover, Wang Tao knew very well that this wasn’t the upper limit of Entangling Roots; it could grow to a hundred thousand HP!

Back then, when Wang Tao attacked the hundred-thousand HP Entangling Roots, he couldn’t even make a dent…

Now, Entangling Roots had regained its full HP.

But this wasn’t self Blood Regeneration; rather, Wang Tao transferred his own HP to it.

It seemed Entangling Roots didn’t have much self Blood Regeneration ability, or at least it was very slow. When Wang Tao saw that its HP bar hardly increased, he nourished it a bit with his own HP.

It had only lost over two hundred HP in total; with a slight nourishment, Wang Tao filled it up again. As for the cost, it meant Wang Tao expended an equal amount of his own HP. But this wasn’t a problem; he used his Barrier Ability to fully regain his HP.

So, it amounted to this: after a battle, he expended only some of his Physical strength and Mana—oh, no, he had forgotten to count something.

Wang Tao glanced at Entangling Roots’ Compatibility; the Compatibility had decreased from 100% to 90% after a not-so-intense fight!

This meant, the price for killing that Night Demon was a Level 2 Crystal Core? After all, a Level 2 Crystal Core can increase Compatibility by 10%…

That cost was acceptable to Wang Tao; although Night Demons didn’t have Crystal Cores in their brains, they did have Loot Packs, so Wang Tao would not be at a loss.

Wang Tao studied Entangling Roots further, trying to restore Compatibility with his own blood. He found that using his blood took a while and was not low on blood consumption—a 10% increase consumed a thousand of his HP. That was more than what he had spent killing the Night Demon…

But this also gave Wang Tao a rough idea about the details of Entangling Roots—

Currently, Entangling Roots had 10,000 HP, and if Wang Tao used his own HP for replenishment, the ratio was 1:1. Whatever HP the Entangling Roots lost, Wang Tao could replace with an equal amount of his own blood.

This Blood Replenishing could be replaced by a Crystal Core; Wang Tao had tried it out. A Level 1 Crystal Core could replenish 100 HP, a Level 2 should replenish 1,000 HP, and a Level 3 Core 10,000 HP.

Then there was Compatibility; 100% Compatibility, if raised by Crystal Cores, required one Level 3 Crystal Core or ten Level 2 Crystal Cores or a hundred Level 1 Crystal Cores.

Of course, this could also be replaced by his own HP. Wang Tao had tried, and each percent of Compatibility increased required him to expend 100 of his HP. So, raising it back to 100% Compatibility would cost 10,000 HP…

All of a sudden, Wang Tao felt like using Crystal Cores to increase Compatibility might be a loss, considering he could regenerate blood…

But after careful thought, it wasn’t so bad.

Because using his own HP for Compatibility restoration was slow and needed a safe environment. Crystal Cores, on the other hand, could provide a quick recovery.

Plus, HP was his lifeline; Wang Tao had nearly thirty thousand HP, but if he lost ten thousand, even without a wound, he would definitely feel terrible…

So, the conclusion he reached was—

if Entangling Roots lost a lot of HP and Compatibility dropped significantly, then it’s appropriate to use Crystal Cores for replenishing.

If Entangling Roots lost only a little HP and Compatibility dropped slightly, it could be replaced with his own Blood, granted he had the Blood Regeneration ability. If someone didn’t have this ability, they’d better stick to using Crystal Cores…