Chapter 12: Chapter 12 [Blood Recovery Speed]
Translator: 549690339
Xia Zhou was complaining about the stinginess of the hacker when a flood of unexpected information arrived in his mind.
"Detecting that the host has the first attribute exceeding five points, character template is updating... update completed, a new entry has been added [Blood Recovery Speed]."
The character template's interface blurred momentarily, and a subtle electric feeling brushed over his limbs.
Within less than a second, the character template became clear again.
..
Several lines of data had been added below [Health]:
[Blood Recovery Speed] (which can be switched by the host's thought)
[Basic Blood Recovery Speed]
1.11 points/hour.
This data, determined by vitality, indicates the host's blood recovery speed without being affected by other factors.
[Real-time Blood Recovery Speed]
1.11 points/hour.
This data indicates the host's real-time blood recovery speed which is influenced by items, skills, special abilities, and environment.
[Average Health Recovery Speed]
1.11 points/hour.
This data is the moving average of the Real-Time Blood Recovery Speed over the past 60 time units.
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So the "Blood Recovery Speed" was hidden content. No wonder the hacker kept silent.
1.11 points/hour is higher than the previously estimated 0.98 points/hour, providing an extra gain of 0.13 points per hour.
This indicates that the relationship between vitality and blood recovery speed is not simply proportional.
Performing with the fire-breathing potion mixed with five drops of Flame Enhancer Solution is not a problem at all.
With a smooth and gradual flow, like when spraying sparks, it can easily maintain a flame length of more than half a meter.
Now that "Blood Recovery Speed" can be directly seen on the character template..
Should he experiment with a higher level of fire-breathing potion?
Xia Zhou's eyes gleamed.
In fact, he had always wanted to test the power of the lesser potion.
However, he was worried about not being able to recover the lost blood, and that the wound in his mouth wouldn't heal completely in a short period, which would cause trouble eating and drinking, so he never steped out this step.
He decided to do it and see. He returned to his room, opened the leather box, and mixed the fire breathing potion following Audrey's instructions.
The potions ranged in power from weak to perfect: weak, lesser, intermediate, powerful and perfect.
In the leather box there were two kinds of potions, weak and lesser.
The higher ones were kept by Audrey to prevent Xia Zhou from taking the wrong potion and causing an accident during his fire-breathing training.
Five minutes later, a bottle of lesser mixed fire-breathing potion appeared on the table.
It, too, had a fireproof function, just like the weak mixed potion; the only difference was the blood deduction speed.
"Audrey's lesser mixed fire-breathing potion takes away 5 health points per hour when held."
As the display showed a decrease of five points per hour, the actual decrease during the fire-breathing performance would surely be lower than this number.
Xia Zhou picked up the freshly made potion and a torch, locked the cash box and the room and went to a deserted place in the motel backyard.
The dark red potion entered his mouth, the spicy taste was significantly more intense than the weak one, it tasted bitter, and his tongue and gums became dry. He really wanted to spit out the potion, rinse his mouth with water, then have a big gulp of water to soothe his throat.
The information on the character template immediately changed.
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[Real-time Blood Recovery Speed]
1.11-5→-3.89 points/hour
[Average Health Recovery Speed]
1.11-0.08→1.03 points/hour
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Xia Zhou ignored the discomfort in his mouth, picked up the torch, and slowly spat out the fluids.
The flame length was slightly over 0.5 meters, but didn't reach the distance of one meter.
He instantly increased the speed of spit, and emptied the contents of his mouth in two or three seconds.
The flame abruptly surged to a distance of two meters, then rapidly diminished until it dissipated into the air.
As soon as the potion was completely spat out, the blood recovery data was refreshed again.
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[Actual Blood Recovery Speed]
-3.89+5→1.11 points/hour
[Average Health Recovery Speed]
1.08+0.028→1.108 points/hour
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Xia Zhou tried several times and his train of thought gradually cleared.
With the aid of real-time blood recovery data, he could preset various strengths of fire breathing potions and alternate using them on the performance stage to display a rich and colorful performance, instead of merely spurting massive flames.
When he wants to breathe out big fireballs, he will use the potent fire-breathing potion. Highly toxic with a rapid 'blood deduction' speed, and thus a very low "Real-Time Blood Recovery Speed".
When breathing out sparks or small flames, he will use the less toxic fire-breathing potion as transition. Faster "blood deduction" speed results in a negative "Real-Time Blood Recovery Speed", but it's still higher than when breathing out large fireballs.
When he has no toxic potions in his mouth, the "Real-Time Blood Recovery Speed" is positive.
In this way, the different "Real-Time Blood Recovery Speeds" will balance each other out, can maintain the "Average Health Recovery Speed" above zero points per hour at all times!
Farns's fire-breathing performance is quite intense, but can only last for around five minutes.
After all, the big bald guy does not have high vitality for high blood recovery speed. He can't hold toxic potions in his mouth for a long time, or he would faint on the spot from poisoning.
But it's different for Xia Zhou!
He has both high blood recovery speed and the "Immortal Body", and he can monitor the dynamic changes of "Health" and "Blood Recovery Speed"!
While ensuring safety, as long as the "Average Health Recovery Speed" isn't lower than -1 points per hour, and his health stays above the safety line - 90%, he can make the duration of the fire-breathing performance very long!
Don't forget, the hacker determines experience based on the duration and size of the flame during a fire breathing performance.
If performing can yield experience, and it's also calculated by duration...
Hee hee hee...
He could extend the duration of the fire-breathing performance to ten minutes, even half an hour!
Throw in a few vitality attributes, raising the [Basic Blood Recovery Rate], no matter how intense the Fire-Breathing Potion held in his mouth, the [Real-time Blood Recovery Speed] would always be positive.
If big sister doesn't come to chase people away, he wouldn't leave the stage.
Not to mention roasting one chicken, rotating and roasting three or five chickens is no problem, he could make a big plate of roasted chicken.
Ha ha ha, 200 experience points required to upgrade from level 5 to level 6, is that high?
Not high, is it~
Xia Zhou was secretly pleased in the backyard, and with a twinkle in his eye, he decided on the next plan.
Whilst earning big chunks of experience with this method, there's an important prerequisite: performances can earn experience.
So he needs to find an opportunity to perform and see the hacker's response.
Previously, he had the backing of big sister, but his skills were lacking and he dared not confront Farns directly.
Now...
Humph, with the dynamic data support of [Blood Recovery Speed], sustained fire breathing is no longer a difficult task.
"Those who like to steal should leave my cradle of wealth and experience sooner!"
Struck with this thought, Xia Zhou quickened his pace back to his room, picked up his money box and accounting book and headed to the square.
Big sister and their troupe are rehearsing there.
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Backstage at the performance venue.
Audrey counted the money in the cash box again, and the account book had been circulated among the members.
She decided to stick to the old rules and settle each person's pay after dinner every day.
Everyone agreed with this.
The square performance is for civilians, the ticket money is covered by the city commander, so Xia Zhou doesn't need to keep watch on the ticket cabin.
The performance for the army a week later will be arranged by the sergeants for the soldiers, and there's no ticket selling to do.
Audrey, as the leader of the circus, had thought of this in advance.
She let the other members rehearse themselves, and pulled Xia Zhou to the outside of the short tent, "Young man, you don't have to sell tickets this month. Do you want to assist us, or read books in the inn?"
"Big sister, I want to perform. I just tried the secondary Fire-Breathing Potion in the back yard, and it went smoothly. I can breathe fire for a long time without feeling pain in my mouth."
Xia Zhou's words and expressions were equally firm.
Audrey frowned slightly, her face gained an austere look.
She didn't expect the boy to have practiced fire breathing alone without her accompaniment. That's too dangerous.
She planned to firmly warn him, but seeing the gleam of anticipation in the boy's eyes, her harsh words softened:
"Open your mouth, let me check it."
"Ah~"
Xia Zhou tilted his head back and opened his mouth.
Now in a full-blood state, the mouth is definitely intact.
Audrey took a careful look without noticing any trace of potion corrosion:
"Huh? Why don't your gums bleed? Did you use the wrong potion?"
"I didn't make a mistake, big sister."
Xia Zhou hugged Audrey's arm, "Let's go to the backyard of the inn and try it again."
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Backyard of the inn.
Xia Zhou, under Audrey's gaze, performed a few minutes with the secondary mixed Fire-Breathing Potion.
When he opened his mouth again, there was only a slight hint of gum damage.
Having a faster blood recovery speed, if Audrey had checked his mouth a few seconds later, even the leftover damaged spot would have healed...
Audrey looked at the boy with a complicated expression:
"Xia Zhou, do you know that your body's recovery ability is much faster than a normal person's?"
In fact, she had noticed this when teaching Fire-Breathing Potion of Weak Effect.
At that time, Audrey attributed this phenomenon to Xia Zhou still growing, with a better recovery ability than a regular adult, and the toxicity of the weak effect potion was not enough to damage the gums and tongue.
Now, even the secondary Fire-Breathing Potion couldn't leave permanent scars, the boy standing before her definitely had some kind of special physique.
Audrey had heard of such people before, she didn't expect one to be standing in front of her, and he was her own fire-breathing apprentice.
Xia Zhou knew that he couldn't hide this from big sister, so he was well prepared.
"I wasn't like this when I was born. It wasn't until I was given a lot of potions by the evil alchemist in that hole that my recovery ability became so strong."
Xia Zhou blinked his eyes, his expression incredibly sincere as he spoke, transferring the blame to the Evil Old Man's head, perfectly filling the blame's size. Perfectly fitting.
His response was fine, he did indeed receive the experience points bonus after the trial of the potion.
The key things were just not mentioned, that's all.
Audrey thought for a moment, gradually relaxing her eyebrows.
In her impression, indeed there were some very precious and rare potions that could greatly enhance the body's recovery ability.
The Evil Old Man hiding in the underground alchemy room studying potions must have obtained the formula for this potion by some illegal means.
Otherwise, why would he hide in the hole like a timid mouse?
"So that's it. Kid, you're very lucky."
Audrey built up the whole story and said it with a light laugh.
There was an inexplicable sense of regret in her voice, as if regretting that the formula of the potion burned by the fire was gone.
After seeing big sister's smile, Xia Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked expectantly, "Then can I perform on stage?"
"Of course. You start learning from the warm-up act."
Audrey's face changes, abruptly radiating a cold aura:
"When the opportunity is right, we'll kick Farns out. A guy addicted to potions. Humph, if it wasn't for me keeping an eye on him, he would have become a scourge for the circus."
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone