Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot
Chapter 1313 - 542 Zombies Become Offerings_2

Chapter 1313: Chapter 542 Zombies Become Offerings_2

Wang Tao had long been accustomed to such environmental changes, so he reacted minimally and adjusted quickly. Then he hastily looked towards the leopard.

The leopard closed its eyes, obviously a bit uncomfortable with this level of brightness, but there were no negative statuses on it, and its HP hadn’t changed.

"It should be fine now..."

Wang Tao muttered, stroking his chin.

After waiting for a while, the leopard slowly opened its eyes and looked around at the bright, snowy-white world, clearly very excited and curious.

"Adjusted?"

"Meow~"

"Alright, let’s go then."

After all, the leopard was a Level 5 Lord, and its constitution was completely different from that of ordinary people. If an ordinary person had been in the dark for so long and suddenly saw light, there might have been problems, but the leopard adapted quickly.

Wang Tao whistled. Moments later, the Golden Eagle flew over.

Both the Golden Eagle and the leopard were curious about each other. Wang Tao briefly explained the situation and then had the Golden Eagle carry him to the factory they were at before.

It had been almost 24 hours since Wang Tao had put the zombies in the summoning altar, and he wanted to know if the zombies could indeed be used as sacrificial offerings.

The toxic gas inside the factory had dispersed long ago, many zombies had turned into pools of blood, and some shiny Crystal Cores appeared in Wang Tao’s sight.

With a little time left before the 24 hours were up, and having nothing better to do, Wang Tao had them collect these Crystal Cores. Although they were of low level, it was still something.

After collecting all the Crystal Cores on the ground, the 24 hours were finally up.

Wang Tao immediately went to the factory where he had placed the summoning altar.

Upon entering, he saw that the zombies, whose limbs he had broken and who had no ability to move, were still there.

"Zombies can’t be used as offerings, huh... No, wait!"

Wang Tao was initially disappointed, but then he suddenly remembered that after becoming offerings, they weren’t immediately sacrificed. They would only be sacrificed when he decided to start the ritual. If he didn’t initiate it, the offerings would remain intact.

So Wang Tao silently thought: Sacrifice.

Swoosh—

He saw black blood begin to flow from the bodies of the zombies in the summoning altar, seeping into the patterns on the ground. The bodies of the zombies began to shrivel and, in the blink of an eye, turned into skin, and then even the skin turned into ashes, falling onto the patterns of the altar.

"It works!"

Wang Tao was overjoyed.

Zombies could indeed be sacrificed!

In the future, when his strength increased, he could summon that so-called Stone God!

If sacrifices had to be human, Wang Tao could never do such a conscience-less act. But zombies were different; there would be no psychological burden.

However, after all the zombies in the summoning altar had been sacrificed, Wang Tao’s facial expression suddenly stiffened.

[Seventh-tier·Summoning Altar]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Usable Times: 1/3]

[Sacrificial Offering: 0.3%]

[Function: Consume all offerings, randomly summon one Seventh Order Creature]

Isn’t it so, after sacrificing so many zombies, they only accounted for 0.3% of the offerings? To activate the summon, at least 1% of offerings is necessary. Meaning, this time his sacrifice didn’t even meet the minimum standard.

Although the zombies in the summoning altar were indeed of low level, since Wang Tao had killed all the high-level ones, but there were hundreds of zombies, yet only 0.3%...

If this was the case, Wang Tao wondered how many zombies he would need to sacrifice to reach 100% of the offerings.

Besides, the range of this altar was limited; it probably couldn’t hold too many zombies at once, and each sacrifice required 24 hours... To get to 100% of the offerings, the task was arduous!

"I just wonder if the amount of offerings increased by sacrificing humans and zombies is the same..."

Wang Tao furrowed his brow.

The Summoning Altar clearly wasn’t exclusive to him; others must have also received a Summoning Altar.

To use the Summoning Altar for summoning, at least 1% of sacrifices were needed.

Others couldn’t see the specific attributes of the Summoning Altar, but they could see the patterns on the altar. The patterns would appear only when the sacrifice exceeded 1%, and all the patterns would light up when the sacrifice reached 100%.

Wang Tao had gathered hundreds of zombies, yet still hadn’t reached 1% of the necessary sacrifices, so he was unable to initiate summoning. The patterns on the Summoning Altar showed nothing.

If others possessing a Summoning Altar also chose to start by experimenting with zombies, they probably wouldn’t gather hundreds of zombies for a test, maybe just a few.

After trying and discovering that the patterns wouldn’t show up and they couldn’t summon, would they conclude that zombies couldn’t be used as sacrifices?

And if they used humans for experiments and discovered that just a few humans would make the patterns appear and enable summoning, then they’d definitely believe that only humans could be used as sacrifices!

If things really turned out that way, it would be a huge problem.

After all, human nature is difficult to withstand testing. In the face of gaining power, people would surely choose to sacrifice their fellow beings...

Wang Tao shook his head.

Thinking about this now was pointless. If such a situation really occurred, he would definitely stop it, but he couldn’t prevent it...

Wang Tao looked at the Leopard beside him.

"Can you still sense that terrifying presence from before?"

"Wuu~"

The Leopard indicated it could sense it, but only a little. It was far less intense than what it had felt before.

"So it seems that it wasn’t the Summoning Altar itself, but the Stone God..."

Wang Tao stroked his chin.

He guessed it must be that Tian Hua borrowed a lot of power from the Stone God. Both his and his subordinates’ strength had been enhanced by the Stone God, so they must have been imbued with the aura of the Stone God. Given that the Stone God was probably a Seventh Rank of Destruction, it made sense for the Leopard, a Level 5, Lord Rank, to feel despair.

"Alright, let’s continue back to the Rift, clean up the mutated plants, and then see."

Once it was confirmed that zombies could be used as sacrifices, Wang Tao had achieved his goal and could go back to hunting mutated plants.

As for using zombies as sacrifices, there was no rush now. Zombies were rare outside, and he couldn’t find them easily at the moment. If he encountered zombies later, he could keep them for sacrifices, but there was no need to specifically search for them.

The group returned to the Rift and started cleaning it up.

This time, Wang Tao gave the Leopard a task—to lure out the other mutant beasts.

Those mutant beasts had been avoiding Wang Tao, which was unacceptable. Wang Tao was waiting to subdue them.

Wang Tao himself definitely couldn’t attract them. That task could only rely on the Leopard.

According to what the Leopard had mentioned earlier, mutant beasts would also hunt each other. It couldn’t afford to get injured; otherwise, it would become prey for other mutant beasts. Similarly, other mutant beasts wouldn’t pass up a chance if they found it injured!

Of course, the Leopard was indeed low on HP now, and without a healer by Wang Tao’s side to restore its HP, using it as bait was somewhat risky.

So, for safety, Wang Tao asked Jiang Shixue and Lightning to secretly follow the Leopard and protect it. If any other mutant beasts appeared, they would protect the Leopard and then call Wang Tao.

Meanwhile, Wang Tao himself went to hunt the remaining mutated plants, because killing enemies of the same level would result in Loot Packs. Letting others do the hunting would be a waste.

After delegating the tasks, Wang Tao and his team immediately split up and got to work.

Wang Tao started a methodical search based on previous progress. It didn’t take long before he found mutated plants, including a Level 5, Lord Rank plant.

It could be said that these mutated plants were really out of luck encountering Wang Tao.

After some time, Wang Tao suddenly received a radio message from Jiang Shixue. They had found a mutant beast; the Leopard had successfully fished one out!

"Well done, wait for me!"

Wang Tao immediately secured the spoils of war he had just obtained and ran non-stop towards Jiang Shixue’s location.

Upon arriving, Wang Tao was somewhat surprised.

"Eh? It’s still a black and red Leopard, and it looks exactly the same..."