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

This equipment embedding was somewhat different from the Rush Suit that Wang Tao had before.

The Rush Suit came with a Rush Ability, but it required the embedding of Crystal Cores to provide energy, thus granting usage count. All equipment within the suit could be embedded with Crystal Cores, and the more and better quality the Cores embedded, the more usage counts were obtained.

However, with this equipment’s embedding, it did not have an ability on its own, but rather it would gain whatever ability of the Crystal Core that was embedded into it.

Of course, not all Crystal Cores could be embedded, for instance, special Crystal Cores like Omnipotent, Ascension, and Awakening ones could not be used for embedding.

The success rate of embedding was related to the quality of the Crystal Core. Using an Epic Crystal Core was a hundred percent successful, and an Excellent Crystal Core had an eighty percent success rate… similar to the situation with Ability Users fusing with Crystal Cores.

After a successful embedding, it still required Awakening Energy to activate, meaning if one was not a Fourth Order Awakened One, the ability embedded on this equipment could not be used…

The ability on the equipment also consumed its own Crystal Core Energy, and once the energy was depleted, the ability could no longer be used until a new core was embedded.

But this equipment could only have one Crystal Core embedded, so it was not known how many times the ability could be used with this one Crystal Core’s energy.

Moreover, Wang Tao was preparing to embed a Passive Ability. How would a Passive Ability consume energy?

Wang Tao’s Night Demon Set was an all-attributes enhancement Passive Ability, but this ability only consumed Awakening Energy, not Crystal Core Energy, and the Night Demon Set could not be embedded with Crystal Cores either…

With curious anticipation, Wang Tao went ahead and embedded the “Slow Healing.” It was a red crystal core with an 80% chance of success, and unsurprisingly, the embedding succeeded on the first try.

[Flame Gauze Dress]

[(Fourth-tier (Excellence))]

[Durability +50, Defensive Power +50, Fire Resistance, Ability: Slow Healing (Attribute not activated, activation requires Awakening Energy)]

The ability had been embedded, and Wang Tao immediately used Awakening Energy to activate it.

[Slow Healing: When HP falls below 50%, recover 10 HP per second until reaching 50% HP (Activated, consumes 1 Awakening Energy and 3% Crystal Core Energy daily. Once activated, binds to the user, rebinds after change of user)]

Seeing this attribute, Wang Tao immediately understood.

It was similar to the Night Demon Set, which also consumed 1 Awakening Energy daily. However, this equipment also consumed 3% Crystal Core Energy every day.

This meant the ability embedded in the equipment could be used for a month before the Crystal Core Energy would be exhausted.

This was far better than Wang Tao had imagined; after all, a month was not a short period.

The consumption was not a daily affair but only occurred when used. For example, only after Wang Tao put it on would it begin to consume today’s Awakening Energy and Crystal Core Energy. If Wang Tao did not wear it the next day, it would not consume any energy.

Wang Tao then activated the Corrosive Spear he had just crafted for comparison.

[Corrosive Spear]

[(Fourth-tier (Excellence))]

[Durability +100, Attack Power +80. When attacking, the user will be corroded, continuously losing HP. It will also generate a small area of poison gas, causing all living creatures within the area, except the user, to continuously lose HP (Activated, consumes 1 Awakening Energy daily. Once activated, binds to the user, rebinds after change of user)]

The attribute of Corrosive Spear after it was activated was different from that of the Flame Gauze Dress. It did not need to consume Crystal Core Energy, since it also had no Crystal Core embedded, only needing to consume 1 Awakening Energy every day.

Wang Tao began to understand the difference between these equipment—

Fourth-tier and above equipment, if it came with its own abilities, only required Awakening Energy upon activation, without the need for other consumptions.

If the abilities were not inherent to the equipment but were instead bestowed through embedded Crystal Cores, then besides consuming Awakening Energy, it would also consume Crystal Core Energy.

With that in mind, it appeared that equipment with inherent abilities might be better?

Not necessarily—because the inherent abilities of the equipment could not be changed. But with embedding, one could choose different Crystal Cores!

Even though embedded Crystal Cores couldn’t be removed, they could be over-written, which merely resulted in the loss of one Core.

So, both methods had their own advantages.

The only downside was that fourth-tier and above equipment with abilities would bind and consume Awakening Energy. Hence, only fourth-tier and above Ability Users were able to use them, and those below fourth-tier couldn’t utilize these abilities nor unleash the full potential of these equipment…

Then, Wang Tao called Jiang Shixue over to try on the Flame Gauze Dress.

Jiang Shixue was still a Level 3 Ability User and could not activate the abilities embedded in the equipment, so she couldn’t use them, but neither would she consume energy.

Wang Tao nodded to himself, feeling quite pleased with this. Since she couldn’t use the ability, no energy would be consumed. It was quite energy-efficient.

“This dress is so pretty…”

Jiang Shixue’s eyes shone as she looked at the Flame Gauze Dress.

“Then it’s yours,” Wang Tao said with a smile.

But Jiang Shixue shook her head.

“The dress is pretty indeed, but it’s not suitable for me. It’s too eye-catching. I prefer to attack stealthily…”

Jiang Shixue was very fast and agile. When she fought together with Wang Tao, she usually took the role of side-attacking, making it hard for zombies including other humans to defend against her.

But if she were to wear this dress that resembled flames, she would be spotted from afar.

“True… Alright. It really doesn’t quite suit you…”

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