Chapter 4: Proof of a Strong One (Pending Claim)
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[Prompt: The Hunter has passed the Demon Castle game. The Game Winner Badge has been reclaimed. The Hunter can claim the Proof of a Strong One at any time. Yes/No to claim.]
Su Xiao chose to claim.
[Proof of a Strong One is being constructed...]
[Prompt: After the Hunter uses the Proof of a Strong One, the world settlement rewards will change. Normal attribute points will no longer be obtainable. Attribute points will be upgraded to True Attribute Points.]
[True Attribute Point: Can only be used to enhance body attributes above 80 points. Body attributes enhanced by True Attribute Points will not be suppressed under any circumstances. The effect of enhancing physical fitness is 5 times that of normal attribute points.]
[Prompt: After using the Proof of a Strong One, the Hunter's four main attributes, such as Strength and Stamina, will be converted to True Attributes. True Attributes can adapt to various environments, such as: immune to attribute suppression in high-intensity war worlds, immune to attribute suppression in special derivative worlds, immune to attribute suppression in dangerous areas of the Void (Black Abyss, Void Nest, and other regions).]
[If normal attributes enter dangerous areas like the Black Abyss, physical values will be suppressed by 50% to 60%. True Attributes ignore this suppression.]
[Prompt: Using special methods, True Attribute Points can be converted to normal attribute points at a conversion ratio of 1:12.]
[Prompt: After the Hunter uses the Proof of a Strong One, Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Intelligence attributes will be changed to Main Attributes. The Charm attribute will be changed to a Secondary Attribute. Luck and Willpower are Special Attributes, with no changes.]
[If the Hunter's Secondary Attribute reaches 80 points and intends to break through 80 points, they must undergo a second 80-point attribute barrier assessment. The difficulty of the second assessment is 20 times that of the first assessment. Please carefully choose your Main Attributes and Secondary Attributes.]
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A badge shimmering with a faint light appeared in Su Xiao's hand. The badge was pitch black, with mysterious patterns engraved on its surface. It felt heavy in his hand, giving a sense of depth and solemnity.
This was the Proof of a Strong One. To obtain this item, Su Xiao had nearly lost his life many times. Now, he had finally gotten it.
The Reincarnation Paradise provided a large amount of information. After reading it, Su Xiao's heart pounded. He learned several new concepts: True Attributes and Secondary Attributes.
Based on the information Su Xiao had obtained before, there were two methods to break through the 80-point attribute barrier. The first was to spend 500,000 Paradise Coins + Soul Crystal (Large) to purchase an "O-Type Energy Body Protein Injection." After injecting that, to raise an attribute above 80 points, each increase of 1 point in a body attribute required consuming 9 attribute points. The growth rate was extremely slow, and it was not a True Attribute.
The second method was to obtain the Proof of a Strong One, which was the method Su Xiao was using now.
Su Xiao had previously guessed that after obtaining the Proof of a Strong One, the attribute points needed to enhance attributes above 80 points would decrease, perhaps a 3:1 ratio, meaning 3 attribute points to increase 1 point of physical fitness. Now, it seemed that was not the case at all. Instead, it was the opposite, a 1:5 ratio. The physical value enhanced by 1 True Attribute Point was equivalent to 5 times the enhancement effect of a previous normal attribute point.
This analogy wasn't very clear. If you compared Su Xiao to a contractor using the "O-Type Injector," the enhancement effect of Su Xiao using 1 True Attribute Point was equivalent to the effect the other person achieved using 45 normal attribute points.
That's right, it was that exaggerated. The enhancement effect of 1 True Attribute Point equaled 5 normal attribute points. And after using the "O-Type Injector," to increase an attribute above 80 points by 1 point required consuming 9 normal attribute points. 5 × 9 = 45. The effect obtained from these 45 normal attribute points equaled the effect of 1 True Attribute Point. No, this statement was somewhat inaccurate. Even if the "O-Type Injector" user consumed 45 normal attribute points, the effect achieved was not as good as 1 True Attribute Point. The magnitude of the increase was indeed the same, but the rank was vastly different. In terms of judgment, True Attributes completely crushed normal attributes.
Contractors who could obtain the Proof of a Strong One and those who couldn't were simply two different kinds of people. The former could adapt to almost any environment, dangerous areas of the Void, high-intensity battlefields, etc. As for the latter, if they entered certain areas of the Void, their physical fitness would be suppressed by about 50% to 60%, which was a halving of their abilities.
Su Xiao had guessed correctly on one point. Whether one could obtain the Proof of a Strong One was the biggest difference between a strong person and a salted fish. The strong get stronger, the weak get weaker. This was the Reincarnation Paradise. There was no fairness or mercy.
The Reincarnation Paradise gave everyone a similar starting point. The faster one moved forward, the more resources they could obtain, like the current True Attribute Points.
Now, every time Su Xiao gained a 1-point increase in physical value from a True Attribute Point, it was equivalent to the effect of 5 previous normal attribute points. The difference was obvious.
After an attribute reached 80 points, increasing it by even 1 point was very difficult, but the effect of becoming stronger was more pronounced. If Su Xiao could now obtain 10 True Attribute Points in a derivative world, that would be equivalent to the income of obtaining 50 normal attribute points in the past.
Su Xiao let out a long breath. The 80-point barrier would "eliminate" a large number of salted fish. It was easy to imagine that True Attributes of the same value would completely crush normal attributes. This crushing wasn't too obvious when attributes were around 80 points. Even if Su Xiao's current 80 points were converted to True Attributes, it didn't mean the effect of these 80 points would be multiplied by 5. The so-called 5x effect referred to the enhancement effect Su Xiao would get from using True Attribute Points from now on. That is, his 81 Strength attribute would be equivalent to a salted fish's 85 Strength attribute. The doubling wasn't for the period before 80 points, but for the period after 80 points.
Su Xiao understood the detailed situation. When he received world settlement rewards in the future, he would no longer be able to obtain normal attribute points. Instead, he would directly obtain True Attribute Points.
Su Xiao had once thought that various body attributes would be several hundred points in the later stages. Now, it seemed that scenario was unlikely. With his current pace of becoming stronger, obtaining 5 to 8 True Attribute Points per derivative world was already considered a very good harvest. That was equivalent to obtaining 25 to 40 normal attribute points.
This didn't mean the pace of becoming stronger had slowed down. On the contrary, it had accelerated. As for attributes reaching several hundred points, that was a matter for who knows when. With Su Xiao's pace of developing four attributes simultaneously, for his four main attributes to reach 100 points, he would need to go through a large number of derivative worlds or war worlds.