Chapter 1141: Chapter 464: Third Awakening Chapter 1141: Chapter 464: Third Awakening Li Qiuyu’s summoning of the Stone Golem has a one-hour cooldown, which is quite a long time, but since the cooldown time starts after the golem is summoned, there’s a bug or rather a trick–
Before the start of a battle, one can summon a Stone Golem in advance and wait an hour before joining the fight. If the Stone Golem falls in battle, Li Qiuyu can instantly summon another full-HP Stone Golem.

This plan is feasible because it’s been inadvertently tested before–when the Stone Golem fought Xiang Hongbin for over an hour, Wang Tao asked Li Qiuyu to recall the golem and then summon another full-HP one.

So, in future battles, Li Qiuyu could use this trick by summoning the Stone Golem in advance, and if the golem indeed perishes, another can be seamlessly called forth.

Then there’s the fact that the Stone Golem has a duration limit; once summoned it can last a maximum of 24 hours. After 24 hours, even if it’s at full HP and Li Qiuyu hasn’t actively recalled it, it will vanish. It won’t exist permanently.

However, 24 hours is not a short time and is enough to do quite a lot. This duration isn’t considered a drawback.

Although the Stone Golem doesn’t have any Abilities, it does have some inherent talents–when Li Qiuyu controls it, she can use it to sense the earth, which allows her to detect the presence of living creatures nearby. Li Qiuyu herself can also perceive this, but through the Stone Golem, the range of perception can be much larger. This is also considered a very practical Ability.

At the same time, when Li Qiuyu controls the Stone Golem, she can see through the golem’s vision. This Ability is quite good; she can observe the battle from two perspectives simultaneously. It’s a pity that Li Qiuyu lacks experience in this area and can’t fully exploit the golem’s potential yet, but she can always practice more in the future.

As for whether the Stone Golem’s strength can be enhanced… Wang Tao thought it should be possible. After all, it isn’t a Weapon but an Awakening Ability, and other people’s Awakenings can increase in power, so Li Qiuyu’s Awakening should definitely be upgradable.

So Wang Tao took out a large number of Awakening Crystal Cores for Li Qiuyu to integrate, and incidentally tested it.

Then Wang Tao found that, as Li Qiuyu’s Awakening energy cap increased, the HP and size of the Stone Golem also improved–perhaps its Attack and Defense had increased as well, only to a lesser extent, less apparent than the gains in HP and size.

But simultaneously, the Awakening Energy required by Li Qiuyu to summon the golem also increased.

When Li Qiuyu increased her Awakening energy limit to 1000, her Stone Golem had exactly 150,000 HP. Compared to the original, its size had increased by about thirty percent, now standing four meters tall.

Naturally, its Strength and Defense had increased, but not by much. Its Speed remained the same, still slow… Overall, the Stone Golem had become tougher.

Initially, it only needed 100 units of Awakening Energy to summon, but now it required 200 units. While the consumption had doubled, it was still bearable for Li Qiuyu’s 1000 Awakening Energy limit.

And then Wang Tao stopped the tests, as he was running low on Awakening Crystal Cores.

With so many people awakening all at once, Wang Tao had distributed a large number of Awakening Crystal Cores to raise their Awakening energy limits, now everyone’s Awakening Energy was above 1000, and Wang Tao’s own was at 3000, but he had almost used up his stock of Awakening Crystal Cores and Energy Pearls. After all, consumption increases later on; now Wang Tao needed to use thirty crystal cores or energy beads to increase his limit by 100… Wang Tao had to keep some in reserve for emergencies.

Of course, this was already sufficient; if one couldn’t defeat zombies even after exhausting so much Awakening Energy, then it was better to run as soon as possible. Such a zombie would be out of his league…

…

After testing Li Qiuyu’s Awakening, dawn had already broken.

Since there was nothing urgent at hand, everyone had breakfast and went back to sleep.

Wang Tao contacted Gu Yun, who informed him that registration for the Awakeners School was in full swing. They were currently at the preliminary filtering stage, and after a few more rounds of selection, the remaining applicants would be passed to Wang Tao for the final decision of who would be accepted and who would be rejected.

As for now, Wang Tao needn’t worry. Of course, if Wang Tao wished to pick candidates now, they would welcome that as well.

Understandably, Wang Tao preferred not to bother; deciding the final outcome was enough for him.

Now that the school and City Hall didn’t require his immediate attention, and his teammates had successfully awakened, Wang Tao could prepare for his own matters–he was about to attempt his third Awakening!

The third Awakening requires three Awakening Keys, with only a 30% chance of success.

Wang Tao had over three hundred ordinary keys, which could be fused into three Solid Advanced Awakening Keys, raising his success rate to 70%!

For Wang Tao, this 70% success rate was already sufficient; his luck had always been good.

Although Ding Yuqin and the others had awakened using ordinary keys, which tempted Wang Tao, he thought it better to be safe than sorry. After all, there were Sixth-Rank Lord Zombies outside. It wouldn’t be too late to take a gamble on his luck for the fourth Awakening.

Wang Tao fused all three hundred Awakening Keys, and soon three Solid Advanced Awakening Keys appeared before him.

He fused the three Advanced Keys with a slight excitement and could feel three bright Light Points quickly emerging inside him.