Doomsday: I can see the health bar, kill monsters and drop treasure.

Chapter 712: Promotion to Level

Wang Tao quietly entered a residential building in an old neighborhood. After making sure that there were no zombies chasing him, he began to check the spoils.

As expected, the crystal core exploded from the sledgehammer zombie was a shock wave.

[First-order crystal core shock wave]

[Quality: Epic (100%)]

[Purity: 50% (Side effect: eyes are afraid of light)]

The properties of the shock wave crystal core are no different from the previous life, and it also has the side effect of causing the eyes to be afraid of light.

Wang Tao will definitely not be able to merge for the time being, but it’s not a big problem, he can just synthesize it later.

The reason why Wang Tao was so sure that he could get another shock wave crystal core was because there was a shock wave crystal core in the blue light ball exploded by the sledgehammer zombie.

[Obtain: First-order crystal core·Shock wave*1]

[Obtain: Strength Potion*1]

There are two things in the blue light ball, one is a shock wave crystal core, and the other is a bottle of strength potion.

The crystal core is of blue quality. Although the quality is not high, it is enough to be synthesized with the orange quality shock wave just now.

This bottle of strength potion is somewhat different from the strength potion Wang Tao had seen in his previous life.

[Strength Potion: Increases your own strength, lasts for 10 minutes, cools down for 1 hour]

Strength potions are no longer divided into "large, medium and small" and the introduction has become extremely simple. It does not say how much it can increase.

Most importantly, its duration has changed. Previously, Strength Potion only lasted for one minute, with a cooldown of 1 to 12 hours, with small Strength Potion having a longer cooldown and large Strength Potion having a shorter cooldown.

Now the duration of this strength potion has been extended to 10 minutes, and the cooldown time is only 1 hour.

In terms of duration and cooling speed, the current strength potion is better than the previous one. After all, 10 minutes has a higher tolerance rate.

As for the effect of the improvement... Wang Tao directly used the strength potion.

puff-

Wang Tao instantly felt full of strength all over his body, and he looked at his attribute panel.

[Strength +100%]

Wow, the strength has doubled!

"Not bad!"

Wang Tao was very satisfied with this strength potion. The strength potion in the previous life had a higher upper limit, but the increase was unstable and the duration was short. The current strength potion doubled the strength directly and lasted longer. Overall, the current potion was better.

At this time, Wang Tao put the two shockwave crystal cores in the space backpack and began to synthesize them. In the blink of an eye, a crystal core without any impurities and side effects appeared in Wang Tao's hand.

Without hesitation, Wang Tao put it directly into his mouth. A warm current instantly spread throughout his body, and then... it was gone.

"Ah? Where's my superpower?"

Wang Tao was a little confused.

In theory, after successfully fusing the shockwave crystal core, his mana would be 100, and he would also have an additional [Shockwave] ability.

But now, he doesn't have 100 mana and doesn't have the shock wave ability.

What is the effect of the crystal core?

If Wang Tao's level had not changed from level zero to level one, he would have thought that the crystal core fusion with a 100% success rate had failed!
Although Wang Tao doesn't need super powers at present, his talent is stronger than super powers. But the problem is that without super powers, he can't awaken, and without awakening, he can't comprehend the domain, and if he can't comprehend the domain, he can't be promoted to the seventh level...

wrong!

Wang Tao shook his head quickly again.

According to the experience of the previous life, humans cannot be promoted to the first level without learning superpowers, and can only be ordinary people of the zero level. But now he has been promoted to the first level, and can clearly feel that his strength has improved a lot!

Could it be that the experience from his previous life was useless? Or was it his own fault? After all, his talent and physique in this life were completely different from those in his previous life...

Wang Tao felt that it was most likely the latter. After all, the crystal core said it had supernatural powers, but Wang Tao didn't get it. It couldn't be that the crystal core was fake, right?

Since he didn't have superpowers, Wang Tao didn't force it. Anyway, with his current talent, he couldn't even have awakening, let alone superpowers. When he got stronger, it wouldn't be a problem to surpass the realm!
This is not because Wang Tao is arrogant, but because his "talent" and supernatural powers, awakening, and domain are completely not in the same system.

Take the Law Domain for example. The Law Domain is to control the elements within a certain range for your own use. If two fire domain users fight, the stronger one will control more fire elements, but the number of fire elements in a certain range is limited, so the weaker one can only control a small amount of fire elements. This will form a situation where the strong will always be strong and the weak will always be weak.

But Wang Tao’s talent is different. When he uses his talent, he neither consumes mana nor awakening energy, nor does he need to mobilize the elements between heaven and earth. He only consumes physical strength... So even if he encounters a domain master, he will not be restrained!
Thinking about it this way, it's actually a good thing that he doesn't have supernatural powers. The premise is that he can be promoted to the fourth and seventh levels.

Whether he can be promoted or not, we will know when we return to the third level. Wang Tao is still optimistic about this.

As for now, although Wang Tao does not have special powers, he can clearly feel that his strength has improved a lot!

The most intuitive ones are [Super Perception], [Steel Body] and [Flying].

At level zero, he could only sense movement in an old residential building, but he had no idea what was making the noise.

Now, he can tell by sound whether the noise in the building is coming from humans or zombies, because zombies can't breathe, but humans need to breathe.

In other words, as long as he wanted, he could hear the breathing of everyone in the entire residential building, not to mention conversations!
In addition to hearing, vision and smell have also been greatly improved. Including mental power, which was previously able to sense within a one-meter radius around itself, now it has expanded directly to ten meters!
In terms of perception, no psychic who specializes in perception can compare to Wang Tao.

Then there is [Body of Steel], which is a very simple improvement in physical strength, mental strength, physical fitness, etc.

Especially when combined with [Flying in the Sky], the effect is even more obvious. Before, Wang Tao felt very tired after flying for a while. But now, flying for three to five minutes continuously is no problem!
"This is what we call flying! Before, it was just jumping..."

Wang Tao was very satisfied with this.

He took out his phone and checked. It was still early, so Wang Tao looked at the densely packed zombies in the square in the distance. Although they were all ordinary first-level zombies, they would also explode crystal cores. If he didn't get some crystal cores since he was here, it would be a waste of time!
"It's a good opportunity to test my current strength..."

whoosh-

Wang Tao flew directly out of the residential building and then hovered over the square.

Since the effect of the invisibility potion he had injected earlier had not yet worn off, the zombies acted as if they didn't see it.

Wang Tao's eyes glowed red.

zizi——

Two heat energy rays instantly concentrated and penetrated several zombies, and then Wang Tao slowly turned his head, and the zombies fell down in groups! Just like mowing the grass, the rays were the sickle and the zombies were the grass!

In just a moment, there was no intact zombie left in the entire square. Minced meat, crystal cores, and trophies were scattered everywhere.

"Huh - using the heat ray and flying together for a long time is a bit tiring, but it feels so good!"

Seeing the destructive power of the thermal energy ray, Wang Tao grinned.

No matter whether it is a zombie with 500 health points or a zombie with 1,000 health points, it will be killed instantly if the head is hit by the ray!

The only pity is that there are no elite zombies here, and Wang Tao has no way to test the upper limit of his current attack power. After all, they can kill instantly.

thump—

Wang Tao landed on the ground and quickly searched for the spoils.

After making sure that nothing was missed, Wang Tao took off again and flew back to the residential building where he had just stopped.

He planned to eat something first to replenish his strength, fuse so many crystal cores, and then look for other elite zombies.

Wang Tao took out the fast food from his space backpack, ate until he was 70% full, and then began to synthesize the crystal core.

Wang Tao previously thought that these ordinary zombies would only drop [blood] crystal cores, but now that he has hunted more zombies, he discovered that this is not the case.

He had just killed thousands of ordinary first-level zombies. In addition to [health], the crystal cores that exploded from those zombies also contained [mana], [physique], [agility], and [spirit]!
This made Wang Tao very curious, so he immediately synthesized those crystal nuclei, and after removing any impurities, he began to fuse them.

Wang Tao first merged [Mana], but as expected, Wang Tao did not have a mana bar, nor did he feel that he had gained any improvement.

Obviously, this [Blue Energy] crystal core is completely useless to Wang Tao.

Then Wang Tao tried the [Physique] crystal core again. After the fusion, Wang Tao clearly felt that his physical fitness had improved a little bit.

The last one is [Agility] and [Spirit]. After the integration, Wang Tao also felt that his speed was a little faster, his flexibility increased a little, and his mental strength also increased a little.

"These five attributes may be the basic attributes of human beings. If humans want to become stronger, it is not enough to have superpowers. They must hunt more zombies and fuse these basic crystal cores!"

Wang Tao put the [Blue Energy] crystal core into the space backpack and began to fuse the other four crystal cores. There were a total of 500 crystal cores after these synthesis, and Wang Tao poured them into his mouth like eating beans.

It took some time for Wang Tao to finally fuse all the crystal cores.

Wang Tao felt it carefully and found that his overall strength had improved a little. He was very satisfied with it. In the previous life, humans could only fuse crystal cores related to their own abilities, which was very limited. In this life, they could fuse more crystal cores, and the upper limit would obviously be higher.

"Should we announce the news about the crystal core..."

Wang Tao frowned.

Although the world is in chaos now, the network signal is still there, and the survivors can still go online and make phone calls. So if Wang Tao wants to share some knowledge, other survivors should be able to see it soon.

The reason why Wang Tao hesitated was not because he was unwilling to share, but because he had a preliminary plan in this life - to madly improve his own strength and ignore other humans.

In his previous life, Wang Tao knew the rules that "the stronger the average strength of humans, the stronger the zombies and monsters will be" and "the strength of zombies and monsters will be much higher than that of humans."

If humans continue to develop step by step, their overall strength will never be stronger than zombie monsters, and they may end up following the same fate as in the previous life.

But this is not without a solution, which is the method the bishop used before - he improves his own strength by himself, ignores others, and even deliberately suppresses others to prevent other humans from becoming stronger.

In this case, although the bishop is very strong personally, the average strength of humans will not be too strong, and the strength of zombie monsters will not be too strong either, so the bishop can become the savior.

Unfortunately, the protagonist's method was destroyed by Wang Tao, because Wang Tao not only improved his own strength, but also helped the people around him and the entire Changhe base to improve their strength. As a result, the zombie monsters became stronger and stronger, and they could not defeat them...

In this life, Wang Tao is not going to care about other people. When humans are generally weak, he quickly improves his strength. Even if his strength is very strong, as long as it is divided equally among all humans, the average strength of humans will not be too strong. Only in this way can Wang Tao have a chance to solve the apocalyptic crisis!
So Wang Tao was a little hesitant about whether to announce some news about the end of the world. If all the survivors became stronger because of this, wouldn't it increase the difficulty for him?

But after thinking for a while, Wang Tao decided that he still had to announce some information, at least about how to save his life.

Wang Tao wants to solve the apocalyptic crisis, but he doesn’t just want to solve his own apocalypse, he wants to save all of humanity.

If all zombies and monsters died in the end, and the apocalypse crisis was completely resolved, but all other humans died, and he was the only one left... then for Wang Tao, this would still be the apocalypse, an apocalypse that belonged to him alone. Wang Tao definitely didn't want this to happen.

As the saying goes, the greater the power, the greater the responsibility. He has been reborn, if he still can't save all mankind, then what's the point of his rebirth? And the previous times he used [Time Travel] were suspected to be used by him. If he can't save all mankind, then he will be sorry for his past efforts!

So Wang Tao planned to announce some news after he returned at night. He would not take the initiative to help the human survivors improve their strength, but if it could save their lives, Wang Tao would lend a hand.

And the more humans survive, the lower the average strength will be. Just like in the Changhe base, when there is a relatively safe environment, most humans are unwilling to take risks to improve their strength, so they can lower the average strength of humans, which is also good for Wang Tao's plan to save humanity.

After figuring all this out, Wang Tao was almost ready to rest.

He went out again, ready to look for elite zombies.

Suddenly, a tall shadow flashed by on the distant street corner.

"Lord zombie? A lord zombie appears so soon?"

Wang Tao chased after him immediately.

(End of this chapter)