Published: February 5, 2025
This thing can be eaten.
Speaking of the ability of attribute stones to be consumed, the discovery in the previous life was completely accidental.
It started when a warrior used a weapon embedded with an attribute stone in battle. Due to the intensity of the fight, the weapon was ultimately destroyed, and the attribute stone shattered, ending up discarded on the battlefield.
Later, a survivor on the brink of starvation could not find anything to eat and, in a daze, mistook the shattered attribute stone, which had broken into grains, for food and ingested it. To his surprise, he survived and his body underwent changes.
His strength became immense.
This attribute was precisely the property of the attribute stone he had consumed.
This news gradually spread, and people learned that attribute stones could not only endow weapons with extra attributes but could also grant humans the abilities of the attribute stones themselves upon consumption.
In the previous life, this discovery caused a sensation. Originally, the price of attribute stones was stable and mainly circulated among craftsmen, but suddenly they became hot commodities, and prices soared. By the time Ye Zhongming was reborn, prices had reached an astonishing level, leaving even a six-star evolver like Ye Zhongming feeling hopeless about the price at that time.
However, presently, this alternative use of attribute stones had not yet been discovered. If everything went according to trajectory, attribute stones would remain obscure for at least another four or five years, with their true value unknown.
The more Ye Zhongming thought about it, the more excited he became. He felt this was another opportunity for him to stockpile a large quantity of attribute stones while others were still unaware of their effects.
Of course, this was just a concept. After all, even before the alternative use was discovered, the price of attribute stones was not low, and their quantity was limited. Although they occasionally appeared on the roulette, the odds of encountering them were still very small, and whether he would find them in the future would largely depend on luck.
Attribute stones were powerful, but they also had limitations, which involved the issue of evolutionary levels.
After the discovery that attribute stones could enhance human attributes, people conducted in-depth research on these stones. Survivors gradually found that attribute stones also had levels, which were related to the levels of the roulette they came from.
In other words, all the roulettes ranging from level one to nine produce attribute stones, but the difference lies in the fact that the level one roulette produces only level one attribute stones, while the level nine roulette produces the highest level nine attribute stones.
Consuming attribute stones has an effect on all humans, but undoubtedly, the effects are most noticeable for ordinary people. Since they are not evolvers and operate on a lower level in various aspects, any enhancement in a certain area is particularly significant.
For evolvers, survivors gradually discovered a theory known as "minus one."
This theory states that if the level of the attribute stone is subtracted from the star level of the evolver, and the result is not a negative number, then the attribute stone will have an effect. Moreover, the greater the result, the more significant the effect produced by the attribute stone.
For example, if a level one attribute stone produced from a level one roulette is consumed by a one-star evolver, since they are both level one, the result will be zero, and thus the attribute stone will take effect. However, if a two-star evolver consumes it, the difference becomes a negative number, meaning the attribute stone will not work.
On the other hand, if a level two attribute stone from a level two roulette is consumed by a one-star evolver, the result is one, which means the one-star evolver will benefit far more than from consuming a level one attribute stone.