Those who reincarnate must die.

This wasn't the first time Zhang Lang had seen this panel. When he first entered the mission world, Xu had explained to him that every person, or rather every animal, has the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth!

As explained, these five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—can be roughly viewed as self-healing ability, sensory ability, neural reflexes, strength, and physical resilience. And these combined determine a living being's overall physical qualities!

According to Xu, among the myriad worlds, there are differences in the physical qualities of humans, but in the vast majority of these worlds, the five elements attribute of ordinary humans is five points!

This is not an average, but a standard value!

Let's take the most easily quantifiable element, fire, which represents strength. Some might think that a muscular man over two meters tall is definitely stronger than a petite girl, perhaps even ten times stronger! Does that mean a muscular man's fire element is ten times stronger than a girl's?

Wrong. Normally, their fire attribute would probably be five points!

To put it simply, fire attribute doesn't represent a person's overall strength, but rather the strength provided by that person's muscles! As long as everyone is of the same species and has the same muscle composition, there won't be a significant difference in attributes. Therefore, the strongman's strength compared to the girl isn't because he has a higher fire attribute, but because he has more and larger muscles!

Other attributes are similar. For example, the wood attribute represents perception. However, if you blind your opponent or deafen them, it will certainly reduce their perception, but it will not reduce their wood attribute! This is because their original physical structure supports such a high attribute; it is only because of the injury that their ability is reduced.

Similarly, earth element represents physical strength. Rats and elephants have similar earth element, but killing a rat might only require a single kick, while an elephant requires a weapon. This is because elephants are larger, not because their earth element is higher. In terms of the strength per unit of flesh, both are composed of protein and are not significantly different.

However, upon closer inspection, Zhang Lang's attributes are clearly superior to those of an average human.

Needless to say, he has a metallic nature, and his innate self-healing ability is extremely strong, which is probably due to his supernatural power.

His wood and water attributes are both eight points, half again as strong as the average person, indicating that his senses are more acute and his reactions are faster. As for his fire and earth attributes, they are more than double that of the average person! This shows that he is naturally extremely strong.

The explanation given is that in Zhang Lang's hometown, people generally have stronger physical attributes, with a standard value of eight points in all five elements. This standard is quite high even by world standards.

As for Zhang Lang's higher fire and earth attributes, it should be an additional benefit brought by his regenerative ability.

In short, Zhang Lang was able to adapt to the pace of combat very quickly at the beginning of the mission and successfully hunt down the Reincarnators. In addition to his regenerative abilities, his naturally high attributes also helped a lot! After all, the Reincarnators are basically from the main world, and the main world is a standard world with all attributes at five points!

Take fire attribute for example. Compared to humans in the main world, even those with the same build and training level, Zhang Lang's strength is more than twice as strong. Not to mention, his body is taller and more robust than most people, and his strength is several times greater than that of ordinary people with the same attribute. All things considered, his strength is probably more than ten times that of an ordinary male in the main world!

Imagine a heavyweight boxing champion facing off against a middle school student; the power gap might be even greater! In terms of hand-to-hand combat, only those reincarnated beings with enhanced attributes can put up a fight against him.

Unfortunately, those who are reincarnated usually won't engage in hand-to-hand combat with you!

Worlds like this, where a fighting arena is set up and combat is primarily conducted with melee weapons, are rare. Most of the time, Zhang Lang faces fully armed reincarnators. They might not be as strong as him, but they're equipped with machine guns, sniper rifles, or even rocket launchers. Or they might possess various amazing skills and magic… all of which Zhang Lang cannot have!

Since that's the case, let's maximize the only enhancement he can obtain!

Faced with this intermediate-level attribute enhancement, Zhang Lang chose to accept it, and he opted for the second effect: randomly allocating twenty-four attribute points.

Soon, with a tingling sensation all over his body, his attributes changed!

Gold (healing, immune system): Unmeasurable

Wood (Perception Ability): 12 points

Water (reaction, calculation, memory): 13 points

Fire (Muscle Strength): 20 points

Earth (Body Strength, Energy Storage and Intake): 19 points

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Zhang Lang clenched his fist, feeling that his strength had indeed increased! This was the first time he had drawn an attribute-type enhancement, and it felt rather strange…

"My fire attribute has increased to twenty points..." Zhang Lang asked Xu, "So, even if I encounter a Reincarnator who looks just as strong as me, my strength will be four times his?"

"That's a fair assessment for now!" Xu replied.

"Currently?" Zhang Lang frowned. "What do you mean?"

"Because the effect of each attribute point isn't constant!" Xu explained. "For a single attribute, each point you add improves its effect by a tiny bit compared to the previous point... In other words, the higher your attribute level, the stronger each new attribute point you gain will be!"

"Let me give you an example!" Xu sensed that Zhang Lang hadn't quite understood. "Take fire, the easiest attribute to quantify. Your current fire attribute is twenty points. How heavy can you lift?"

"I haven't tried it yet..." Zhang Lang thought for a moment, "I once carried a small car in a mission world, and I found it very difficult..."

"A car weighs a little over a ton..." he calculated. "Back then, you had twelve points of fire attribute. Roughly speaking, one point of fire attribute now is equivalent to about one hundred kilograms of strength! But if you add another point of fire attribute, it might increase by one hundred and one kilograms, and the next point by one hundred and two kilograms..."

"Arithmetic progression?" Zhang Lang asked.

"No! In fact, the increase is even greater than that!" Xu denied. "I was just using an analogy. The altar has its own calculation method, and I don't know the specifics. I can only give you a reference... Some reincarnators, in order to more easily quantify the effect of attributes, call the fifth attribute the standard attribute! Used to compare the effects of other attributes!"

"It's said that powerful reincarnators have tested this: at around 100 points, adding one point of fire attribute increases power roughly equivalent to five standard attributes! And at 150 points, one point of attribute is roughly equivalent to ten standard attributes! So, the increase in attribute power accelerates faster and faster. While 100 points may seem like twice the power of 50 points, the actual effect could be three times greater, or even more!"

"The higher the level, the stronger..." Zhang Lang frowned. "In other words, if my attributes are high enough, one day I'll be able to gain enough power to resist weapons and magic with my bare body!"

"But this is difficult!" Xu seemed somewhat unsure. "You see, below this basic attribute enhancement, there's a rule that each adventurer can obtain this enhancement a maximum of two times, and we've already obtained 1/2. This means that the number of attribute enhancements each person can draw is limited. Moreover, the probability of drawing an attribute-related enhancement from among thousands of enhancements is not high; otherwise, there wouldn't be so many reincarnators whose attributes are inferior to yours, forcing them to rely solely on weapons and skills to fight..."

"Even if we take a step back and assume there really is a powerful enough reincarnator who has undergone countless enhancements, the more they draw, the more limited the attributes they can obtain. Once the attributes reach a certain level, they will most likely encounter a bottleneck!"

"At least for now, I'm still far from reaching the bottleneck!" Zhang Lang shook his head. "Alright, let's move on to the next one!"

"No problem, coming right away!" Xu Huan happily agreed, releasing that chattering noise again. Soon, the second enhancement appeared in front of Zhang Lang!

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