[Heavenly Appraisal — Item Result]
Sovereign’s Blood Crystal (Cataclysmic Rank):
Type: Attribute Enhancent — Permanent Assimilation
A crystal ford from the condensed blood energy of a high level entity, preserved within a dinsional container until assimilation. Upon assimilation, permanently increases all four primary attributes by a flat value that scales with the crystal’s grade. At Cataclysmic rank, the flat increase per attribute is 1,200. This enhancent applies directly to the user’s base attribute values before any skill scaling calculations, aning the 1,200 per attribute multiplies through every scaling formula in the user’s skill frawork.
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He looked at this one for a longer mont.
Plus twelve hundred to all four attributes. Directly to base values, before scaling. His Strength was currently 5,924. Post-assimilation it would be 7,124. His Agility, Constitution, and Spirit would receive the sa absolute increase. Every skill that scaled with those attributes would recalculate from the new base.
And every skill scaling formula in his possession multiplied through from there.
"That is very much not crap," he said.
He moved to the third.
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[Heavenly Appraisal — Item Result]
Void Step Compression Stone (Cataclysmic Rank):
Type: Movent Technique Enhancent — Permanent Integration
A stone ford from compressed void spatial energy, crystallized within the deepest atmospheric layers of a high-tier dinsional space. When integrated, permanently enhances all spatial movent techniques in the user’s possession. Effective range per step increased by sixty percent across all spatial techniques. Activation energy cost reduced by forty percent across all spatial techniques. Chain usage window for techniques with chain components extended from five seconds to twelve seconds. Additionally, spatial distortion residue from technique activation is reduced to levels undetectable by standard hunter perception, including passive perception up to level 220.
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He looked at this one and the specific thought that arrived was precise.
The Buddha Step had arrived in front of him during the pursuit because Cang Yutian had observed the destination. Void Step Compression Stone’s final property, spatial distortion residue reduction to levels undetectable by standard perception up to level 220, was not relevant against a level 240 Deity class. But the sixty percent range increase and the twelve-second chain window changed his operational movent profile in every context where Buddha Step was not the relevant threat.
And the forty percent energy cost reduction, applied to Boundless Step’s layered technique combination, changed the sustainability of his maximum movent output significantly.
"Useful," he said. He had moved beyond the crap and not-crap comnt and into the mode of genuine evaluation.
He moved to the fourth.
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[Heavenly Appraisal — Item Result]
Guardian’s Undying Core (Cataclysmic Rank)
Type: Vitality Fortification — Permanent Integration
A core ford from the accumulated survival essence of a guardian-tier entity that existed for an extraordinary duration, its vitality compressed and crystallized upon its eventual dissolution. When integrated, permanently increases the user’s effective HP pool by a multiplier of 2.5 applied to the Constitution-derived HP calculation. Additionally, Second Wind’s restoration increases from thirty percent to sixty percent of maximum HP, and Soul Anchor’s invulnerability window increases from three seconds to eight seconds. The regeneration rate from Eternal Spirit Core is enhanced by a factor of 1.8 during and imdiately following combat engagents.
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He read this one slowly.
HP pool multiplied by 2.5 based on Constitution. His Constitution was currently 5,242, and the Guardian’s Undying Core’s multiplier applied to the Constitution-derived HP calculation ant the effective HP pool nearly tripled from the base value. Second Wind restoring sixty percent instead of thirty percent. Soul Anchor’s invulnerability window becoming eight seconds instead of three. Eternal Spirit Core running at 1.8 tis its regeneration rate during combat.
He thought about the engagent with Cang Yutian. About the point where the accumulated damage across all the cuts had reduced his functional capacity to a level where the decision to enter the storage token was the only remaining option. About Second Wind activating once and the thirty percent restoration being the finite resource it was.
If he had possessed the Guardian’s Undying Core during that engagent, the effective HP pool would have been 2.5 tis larger. Second Wind would have restored sixty percent of a 2.5 tis larger pool. Soul Anchor’s window would have been eight seconds.
He could not calculate whether those changes would have been sufficient to change the outco of the engagent with the watcher. The margin was not sothing he could reverse-engineer precisely. But the direction of the change was not ambiguous.
He held all four Cataclysmic items in his awareness simultaneously and looked at what they represented collectively.
Dragon God’s Eye. Sovereign’s Blood Crystal. Void Step Compression Stone. Guardian’s Undying Core.
Four items that Long Tianyu had been carrying, acquired through years of active hunting and the specific access to high-tier dungeon that the Heavenfall Guild’s operations provided.
He looked at the cave wall for a mont.
"You had no idea what you were carrying for ," he said.
He did not say it with satisfaction. He said it with the honest observation quality of soone noting a perfect coincidence.
He began the assimilation process.
The Dragon God’s Eye first. Then the Sovereign’s Blood Crystal. Then the Void Step Compression Stone. Then the Guardian’s Undying Core. Each one in sequence, the assimilation ti brief for the first and third, slightly longer for the second and fourth as the permanent attribute changes and the HP pool increase settled.
The Sovereign’s Blood Crystal’s attribute increase registered last, the 1,200 per attribute arriving in the system panel with the quality of a large permanent change expressing itself across every skill’s scaling simultaneously.
He opened his panel to confirm the update.
Level 230. The EXP field still showed zero accumulation because the slave mark was routing everything. But the attributes had changed.
Strength: 7,124. Agility: 6,408. Constitution: 6,564. Spirit: 6,131.
And the effective HP pool from Constitution, now multiplied by 2.5 from the Guardian’s Undying Core’s integration, was a number that the engagent with Cang Yutian’s attack would have to work significantly harder to deplete.
He closed the panel.
Outside the cave, sowhere in the cluster zones to the east, the Dragon Knight Guardian was still moving through monster populations and generating experience for a level 248 watcher who needed two more levels to release a slave mark.
Eleven days.
Lin Yi put Long Tianyu’s now-considerably-less-significant storage token in his inventory, stood up, and walked toward the cave exit.
The Abyssal Celestial Lord Blade was at his waist. The four Cataclysmic integrations were complete. The slave mark was on his forehead. The watcher was two levels from the condition that released it.
He activated Heaven Step and went back to work.
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