Chapter 1114: with translation of chapter title

Inside the cabin, watching the excited Zhang Tie who wanted to jump around, Lin An's mood also relaxed considerably.

The Immortal's set: the upper-body armor provides all-attribute resistance, plus reduces heat-weapon damage and grants a psionic damage-reduction shield.

The lower-body armor grants weightlessness, hyper-speed movement, and a tremendous-force skill.

The two-piece set effect grants an Immortal Body, increasing defense tenfold for a short time! During the duration, movement speed is greatly reduced.

Offense and defense combined, it can be called the most terrifying flesh-and-blood fortress on the battlefield.

After looking at the two pieces of equipment, Lin An also realized that the rules mastered by the Corpse Emperor were likely inspired by this set, or perhaps he simply turned them into his own rules.

As for the remaining three Epic-tier equipment given to Zhang Tie, the headband converts vitality into mental power, the cloak provides high-speed flight and generates flesh tendrils from the back to attack enemies, while the necklace stores blood and can quickly restore vitality after injury.

Under the Corpse Emperor's deliberate search for equipment, her entire set pursues ultimate physical strength.

After Xiong Hanzi put on these pieces of equipment, his combat power can be said to have jumped several tiers.

Purely in terms of strength, not counting psionic amplification, he's probably not much weaker than when he doesn't use his trump card.

After all, Zhang Tie is a reborn Indestructible Asura; aside from lacking in psionics, he has no shortcomings in other aspects, and his attributes are also high.

Getting hit makes him stronger; wanting to supplement his attributes is not too difficult for Zhang Tie.

As for the remaining equipment, there is a blood-eye mask; Lin An plans to keep it for Gao Tian.

Wide-range scouting plus target locking, with long-distance tracking—this is why the Corpse Emperor could spot him at a glance.

Lin An plans to replace the shoes and gloves himself.

His shoes are still the previous blue gear; he hasn't found a suitable replacement.

The glove's effect is bone embrittlement, equivalent to inflicting damage and weakening from within; this is also the main reason the Corpse Emperor can press down and beat the aberrant mutants copied from memes.

This equipment replaces the Soul-devouring Hand; anyway, he can't get the fragments for now, and even if he ran to find that little boy, wasting time aside, Lin An remains wary of such intelligent mutants. He tried the aberrant fragments in his hand, but they cannot activate the Soul-devouring Hand.

Therefore, he's also not sure whether the boy's fragments and the obsidian fragments are the same thing.

Looking at the Soul-devouring Hand he had replaced on the table, Lin An unconsciously rubbed it twice.

From his rebirth to now, this equipment has helped him a lot. But now it's no longer needed; Soul Shriek has been replaced by a better skill.

As for the shoes, they provide a single ultra-long-range blink skill, with a 24-hour cooldown; reusable, cooldown stacks, up to three uses.

Although it doesn't match his own blink ability, its advantage is the extreme distance—about three kilometers.

He plans to give the removed equipment to Wen Ya and Jing Tian; Wen Ya is very suited for the Soul-devouring Hand, and with the resentful skull he previously gave her, her combat power won't be weak either.

As for Mo Ling...

Thinking of Mo Ling, Lin An still hopes to help Mo Ling find life-saving equipment, since Mo Ling's combat power comes entirely from summoned beasts; expecting to turn little Mo Ling into a warrior like Zhang Tie... imagining that scene, he feels it's rather weird.

The pen tip scratched.

After distributing the equipment, Lin An re-planned what he would do next.

Regarding the satellite launch and food crisis, Chu An's meaning is to wait until he comes out before launching.

And since the Corpse Emperor is dead, the Savior mission only needs to establish a new Safe Zone and spread psionic technology; the former requires some time, the latter can be done now.

Regarding the spread of psionic technology constructions, Lin An's former idea was to sell them to various Safe Zones in exchange for the materials he needed. But if he wants to speed up progress now, some basic constructions can be freely spread, such as the Psionic Tower.

After this spreads, it can speed up the psionic reserves of each Safe Zone, which could be considered giving them some 'money'. Otherwise, when they want to trade, the Long An side often doesn't know what to ask for; one or two are as poor as dogs, and if they ask for more they fear the other side will starve people.

After the mission is completed, the system will give the Fourth Stage route; then he can, according to Chu An's preset rules, quickly advance to the Fourth Stage.

During this period, he only needs to lie around and wait for his attributes to slowly accumulate to the limit.

Although the system gave no hint, Lin An can also guess that the Third Stage limit should be 99 points.

Now he has completed two series of missions, gaining +10 to both Strength and Willpower; especially Willpower, it's actually not far from 99 points.

He focused his thoughts.

If he relied solely on Cataclysmic Power and Star Callers to raise attributes, it would take at least about a month, but Willpower cannot be increased by Cataclysmic Power, or rather, he currently cannot do it.

This means he will be stuck at the Willpower gate.

Should he try to perform a 'surgery' on his own brain like the Second Will?

Of course, theoretically, after the system gives the Fourth Stage route, he could also advance without waiting for the limit.

After all, he has the memories of his past life; Lin An absolutely doesn't believe that those Fourth Stages in his past life all advanced only after hitting the limit. He strongly suspects that most Fourth Stages rely on cards, while only a few rely on oneself.

99 points..

He swallowed almost all first-place rewards, plus plundered resources from multiple war zones, and added repeated ultra-high-difficulty dungeons—not even counting Cataclysmic Power... Under such harsh conditions, no one in his past life could have achieved it!

Considering the current situation, Lin An's brows furrowed slightly.

A dead loop.

"If you want to speed up progress, you still need to raise Willpower first; the higher the Willpower, the greater the control over Cataclysmic Power.."

"The key attribute for advancing to the Fourth Stage is also Willpower, but now there are almost no means to raise it."

Willpower attribute is arguably the most important of all attributes. Especially after this experience, he clearly realizes that whether it's the Fourth or Fifth Stage, the strength of Willpower determines life or death! Those with weak Willpower probably can't even support the condensation of rules.

From the fact that even a single mutant of the Corpse Emperor is half a Willpower system, it's clear that after the Third Stage, the contest is about thought and Willpower!

Just as Lin An was considering what to do, a sudden, abrupt system notification sounded.

Huh?

Again, the Savior System?

Only see, a pop-up light curtain suddenly appeared, and a mission information flashed out instantly:

"Complete the【Dead Silence Manor】dungeon."

"This mission is optional."

"Mission reward: raise Willpower attribute to the limit."

"Mission failure: deduct 20 Willpower points."

Lin An blinked slightly, looking at the suddenly appearing mission, feeling somewhat surprised.

Indeed, just like the limit value before, whenever this time comes, the Savior System will release the corresponding mission.

Just thinking about the previous secret realm mission, his heart sank sharply.

He was well aware of the difficulty of this extreme-value mission; it's a compulsory task where failure deducts 20 points, essentially forcing him to complete it.

He swiftly searched his memory and the intel Long An had gathered for a related dungeon secret realm; Lin An's eyes flashed, and he quickly found his target.

【Silent Death Mountain Villa】

One of the famously known supernatural dungeons from his past life, it could be called a forbidden zone for Awakened Ones. In his impression, many third-rank individuals had died there. Lin An wasn't sure if anyone could clear the dungeon alive; at least he had never heard of anyone doing so.

Although he had dealt with several supernatural incidents before, and now knew they were essentially a rule, he still found this task tricky.

He shook his head, his mood sinking slightly, and Lin An could only console himself.

If luck is on his side and he works quickly enough, he might even reach fourth stage before the warzone battle—after all, the only thing holding him back is his will attribute.

Thinking about it this way, it's not necessarily a bad thing.