A Surge in Power

For example, resources from a Type II infected can be used to craft rare armors and weapons. Henry was filled with anticipation about what resources could be extracted from the Behemoth.

Harvesting the Behemoth corpse!

Ding, successful Behemoth corpse harvest! Congratulations, you have obtained:

- Energy Cores *500 + 100 (energy evolution talent bonus)

- Rapid Fertilizer *5

- Rager's Blood *5

- Tough Leather *5

- Subjugation Potion *1!

Wow... It truly is a Type III mutated zombie. A Type II mutant provides 50 Energy Cores per specimen, but a Type III mutant provides a whopping 500 Energy Cores—ten times that of a Type II! Plus, it dropped a Subjugation Potion!

Subjugation Potion: Use on players of a lower tier to brainwash them into becoming the user's loyal servants, who can be commanded at will.

This item... seems a bit sinister. Command at will?!

Henry stored the **Subjugation Potion** in his storage space. This item would definitely have its use, but not now.

Henry checked his own status. Current upgrade progress 7736/800*2! The system detected that the player meets the upgrade requirements, asking if he would like to upgrade immediately.

Yes!

Ding! Congratulations, you have advanced to early stage 2 of the Awakened! Your physical attributes have significantly increased! The energy enveloping your body has become even stronger!

Since Henry has dual talents, each upgrade boosts the base attributes of both talents.

- Genetic Evolution Path gained 1 talent point!

- Energy Evolution Path gained 1 talent point!

...

Ding! Current upgrade progress 6136/1500*2! The system detected that the player meets the upgrade requirements, asking if he would like to upgrade immediately.

Yes!

Ding! Congratulations, you have advanced to early stage 3 of the Awakened! Your physical attributes have significantly increased!

The energy enveloping your body has become even stronger!

- Genetic Evolution Path gained 1 talent point!

- Energy Evolution Path gained 1 talent point!

...

Next level: Mid-stage 1 of the Awakened!

Current upgrade progress 3136/2500*2!

Henry has leveled up two stages in succession!

Henry didn't rush to allocate his talent points. Instead, he walked over to a level three golden supply crate.

There was still a level three supply crate here!

The talent points weren't going anywhere; he could allocate them slowly later. Opening the treasure chest was the priority now!

Henry gently raised his hand. The golden chest seemed to sense his presence, immediately emitting a soft golden glow.

"Level 3 Supply Crate detected, would you like to open it now?"

"Yes!"

The chest opened on its own!

Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained: Talent Crystal *1, Powerful Corrosive Bomb Blueprint *1, Premium Pet Food *2, Subjugation Potion Blueprint *1 (world unique), Special Core: Enhanced Harvesting!

Talent Crystal needs no explanation—a precious item that directly adds one talent point!

Powerful Corrosive Bomb Blueprint: Requires Corrosive Liquid *1, Corrosion-Resistant Leather *2, Steel *10 to craft a Powerful Corrosive Bomb!

Powerful Corrosive Bomb: Upon impact, creates a strong corrosive effect centered at the point of impact, causing intense corrosive damage within a two-meter diameter, doubling the damage effect on metals and biological entities!

Henry was reading the manual for the Powerful Corrosive Bomb. Just then, a prompt popped up:

Corrosive liquid can cause significant damage to enemies with strong resistance to physical damage, such as... the Behemoth...

Hmm?

Is the Powerful Corrosive Bomb the perfect counter for the Behemoth?

This definitely needs to be kept safely!

Subjugation Potion Blueprint (world unique): Requires Frozen Blossoms *10, Energy Cores *1000, Rager's Blood *5 to craft a Subjugation Potion!

World unique? Does this mean that among all players, only Henry has the ability to craft Subjugation Potions?!

This level 3 supply crate was totally worth it! Having this blueprint is like having an additional special ability!

While a thousand Energy Cores might seem a bit expensive at this stage, as zombies and monsters gradually break their suppression, the production of their cores will inevitably increase significantly. As the game progresses, the resources required for this blueprint will effectively become cheaper!

Enhanced Harvesting: A special core for embedding in the Dream-Nightmare organization's core offering. Once embedded, all members of the organization gain the ability to harvest with one click. This allows automatic collection of resources from the corpses of killed zombies and mutated creatures, eliminating the need for manual collection!

This ability is undoubtedly very practical! As the need for more cores increases with upgrades, and as the number of zombies to kill geometrically increases, manual collection would not only be time-consuming but also risky as other survivors could potentially steal some harvests during the chaos.

With this skill, Henry can fight and collect simultaneously, greatly improving both combat and harvesting efficiency!

Next is this red crystal. Henry gently crushed the Talent Crystal, gaining another talent point for each of his dual talents. Including the two levels he just advanced, gaining two talent points for each, he now has three points in each talent.

Henry checked his talent tree. Currently, only the first two layers of talents are active. The third layer remains locked, only unlockable upon reaching Mid-stage 1 of the Awakened. Henry is currently at early stage 3 of the Awakened, just one level away!

The first layer of the talent tree, Strengthened Physique and Enlightenment, has already been maxed out.

The second layer of the talent tree with Fury and Energy Strike has also been maxed out.

There are still Feline Reflexes and Wealth Magnate talents at 0/3.

Just the right amount—I need 3 genetic talent points!

Allocate all of them!

Ding!

Talent allocation successful!

Feline Reflexes 3/3: Increases evasion, speed, and reaction ability by 100%!

Wealth Magnate 3/3: Increases the yield of non-special item class resources collected by 60%, this effect can stack with the 20% increase in Energy Cores collection amount from

Enlightenment!

Now, the collection boost for Energy Cores has significantly increased. Originally, the energy evolution path already provided a 20% pickup bonus. Added to this is the 60% boost from Wealth Magnate, totaling an 80% increase. The benefits have substantially increased!

The only downside is that the zombie corpses I collected from earlier did not benefit from these boosts, resulting in some loss of cores. But that's okay.