Ashen God
Chapter 637 - 636 [Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box (Demonized Swamp)]

Chapter 637: Chapter 636 [Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box (Demonized Swamp)]

By the way, Zhang Yanhang just discovered that this Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger was actually a female, and no, this isn’t to say Zhang Yanhang suddenly developed any unconventional attractions towards it; he wasn’t at that level yet, as he wasn’t some nature-crazed, ’experience the wild’ type of Druid.

So, what he primarily wanted to say was that although he wasn’t sure if it was alright to touch a male tiger’s butt, a female’s should pose no problem, although it’s likely uncomfortable to touch either way.

Originally, Zhang Yanhang had thought to use the opportunity while the Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger was biting his hand to check its attribute list, but it turned out that although the tiger did bite his hand at first, it released quickly and even jumped back to readjust its stance, opening its massive jaws again towards Zhang Yanhang.

Seeing the black energy shimmering on the two saber teeth in the upper jaw of the Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger, Zhang Yanhang guessed that it must have definitely triggered some skill.

Observing the brazen display by the Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger, Zhang Yanhang immediately slid right into its mouth, aided by inertia and the impact momentum, and in a swift move ended up in its stomach.

Of course, Zhang Yanhang didn’t intend to burst the Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger from inside out. Rather, he aimed to blow its stomach and intestines apart. After all, a three-meter-long tiger couldn’t suddenly swallow a nearly two-meter-tall burly man like Zhang Yanhang. So naturally, its stomach was torn apart.

However, before this, the parts like the mouth and the esophagus through which Zhang Yanhang passed had already disintegrated into pulpy flesh, in other words, due to the insufficient size of the Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger, Zhang Yanhang’s slide essentially smashed its head and forcefully burrowed inside, destroying its stomach and intestinal structure.

But since Zhang Yanhang had subdued his force initially, he did not end up emerging covered in digestive material (crudely referred to as shit) from the rear end of the Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger but temporarily stayed inside its abdomen.

[Successfully killed a First Tier Three Star monster "Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger (Ordinary)" ×1, Soul points +11.]

"Is it really called a Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger? And it’s a First Tier Three Star monster again, but its soul point value is actually eleven, one point higher than the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape, and two points higher than the Demonized Maned Beast."

After hearing the kill notification, Zhang Yanhang quickly climbed out from the corpse of the Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger.

"Even with a length less than three and a half meters including the tail and a weight barely over four hundred kilograms, how on earth does the Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger have a higher soul point value than the Demonized Maned Beast?"

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang remembered that the Maned Beast’s diet also included the Saber-toothed Tiger, although it only fought with Saber-toothed Tigers when it could not hunt other monsters and still managed to dominate. Thus, he really couldn’t understand why such a creature, inferior in both size and weight, could have a higher soul point value than the Maned Beast.

"Could it be that there’s some advantage in the attribute list of the Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger? That’s very possible since I didn’t check its attribute list this time.

Perhaps there really is some special ability listed that’s more valuable than the Demonized Maned Beast, just that I killed it too quickly before it could show anything.

But that’s rather normal, unless I intentionally go easy, virtually no monster can show off their abilities in my presence."

As for why Zhang Yanhang suddenly decided not to check the attribute list this time, there’s no particular reason; he just didn’t feel like it. Checking a monster’s attribute list is a good habit, but sometimes habits don’t need to be strictly followed, or rather, they often need adjustments according to actual situations.

"Never mind, having more soul points is a good thing; it means higher composite soul point gains later." Zhang Yanhang didn’t want to dwell on these matters anymore and began waiting quietly where he stood for the Treasure box drop to refresh.

Because of his "First Kill", a green-quality Drop Treasure Box soon appeared on the body of the Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger that Zhang Yanhang had just kicked into a pile of mush.

"If everything goes as expected, this Drop Treasure Box from the Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger should also allow me to obtain another piece of new equipment..."

Zhang Yanhang hoped that this new equipment would also enhance his Physical Recovery Speed. Well, actually, Attack Speed would be fine as well, since his current Movement Speed and Attack Speed were still a bit imbalanced. Balancing them quickly was truly necessary to prevent any mishaps during battles.

After quickly picking up the green quality Drop Treasure Box from the Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger and stashing it in his Waist Bag, Zhang Yanhang soon set off toward the distance.

Zhang Yanhang was about to officially start the third stage of clearing the Demonized Swamp Plan; he estimated that at the very least, it would take him several hours to completely clear the thousands of Demonized Saber-Toothed Tigers in this part of the Western Forest of the Demonized Swamp.

At any rate, clearing them within ten hours was definitely not a problem; there should undoubtedly be time to spare for clearing the lake area pertaining to the fourth stage plan and even the swamp area pertaining to the fifth stage clearing plan.

...

October 27, Tuesday, the day after Double Ninth Festival, and also the third day since Zhang Yanhang entered Ashen World, 4:15 PM, Demonized Swamp, Western Forest, inner area.

[Successfully killed a First Tier Three Star ordinary monster ’Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger x1, Soul points +11.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier Three Star ordinary monster ’Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger x1, Soul points +11.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier Three Star ordinary monster ’Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger x1, Soul points +11.]

...

After grabbing a hind leg of a Demonized Saber-Toothed Tiger and smashing three other Demonized Saber-Toothed Tigers into minced meat with it, Zhang Yanhang disdainfully threw away the battered limb, as the bodies of such First Tier Three Star Monsters could not withstand Zhang Yanhang’s Strength.

Having killed another four Demonized Saber-Toothed Tigers, Zhang Yanhang stood still and took a short rest while waiting for the treasure boxes to refresh. In the nearly three and a half hours that had just passed, he had cleared approximately forty-one square kilometers of the Western Forest of the Demonized Swamp.

During this prolonged hunting process, Zhang Yanhang had also successfully calculated his current hunting efficiency. Although the Demonized Saber-Toothed Tigers were similarly dispersed and did not gather in groups like the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Apes but would at most form family groups of three to five like the Maned Tooth Beasts.

However, Zhang Yanhang’s current hunting efficiency had successfully reached the point where it only took about five minutes to clear one square kilometer, which was a further reduction of approximately one minute compared to before. It can be said that, with the Movement Speed enhancement provided by the SS Talent "Ocean Rhythm," he forcibly matched the hunting efficiency of Goblin Plain.

As for why a forty percent increase in Movement Speed previously reduced the time by a minute and a half, while a fifty percent increase this time only reduced it by one minute—well, that naturally was because the treasure box refresh time is fixed.

Because the refresh time is fixed, compressing it further becomes more difficult unless the treasure box refresh time can be reduced. If that were possible, it might even be conceivable to reduce Zhang Yanhang’s clearing time per square kilometer to three minutes or even under two minutes, but unfortunately, the treasure box refresh time cannot be compressed.

"The Demonized Swamp cleansing project’s Third Stage in the Western Forest spans a total area of only seventy-five square kilometers, of which I have already cleared forty-one square kilometers, over half. Only the last thirty-four square kilometers remain before the entire Western Forest area is completely cleared.

If converted to the specific progress of the Third Stage of the Demonized Swamp cleansing plan, approximately 54.7% of the cleansing has been completed.

Given the current situation, I should need mostly no more than three more hours to completely clear the Western Forest, and it will just be seven in the evening by then, so I will definitely be able to save time for cleaning the lake area."

"If Zhang Yanhang’s current cleaning progress was converted into the total progress of the Demonized Swamp cleansing project, it would reach a 65.3% cleansing progress, providing a further 10.3% increase over the previous cleaning of the Eastern Forest."

"It’s just past four in the afternoon, and I’ve already nearly pushed the completion progress of the entire Demonized Swamp cleansing plan to two-thirds. This means that the cleaning workload needed tomorrow will definitely be greatly reduced."

Zhang Yanhang stood on the thick humus layer of the Demonized Swamp Zone and calmly waited for several seconds; unfortunately, the Demonized Saber-toothed Tigers did not drop a treasure box this time.

Based on Zhang Yanhang’s previous hunting process, he found although the number of Demonized Saber-toothed Tigers in the Western Forest of the Demonized Swamp was somewhat fewer than the Maned Tooth Beasts, their density was slightly higher, roughly the same in level as the Maned Tooth Beasts, with about sixty-plus Demonized Saber-toothed Tigers per square kilometer.

So far, Zhang had already killed two to three thousand Demonized Saber-toothed Tigers, harvested a three-digit number of drop treasure boxes, and thus determined the treasure box drop rate of the Demonized Saber-toothed Tigers, the same as the other two types of First Tier Three Star Demonized Monsters, Demonized Canine Giant Apes and Maned Tooth Beasts, all requiring the killing of twenty to drop one box.

Because the four Demonized Saber-toothed Tigers he’d just killed did not yield any treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang immediately resumed his journey, continuing to hunt other Demonized Saber-toothed Tigers in different directions.

...

October 27th, Tuesday, the day after Double Ninth Festival, also Zhang Yanhang’s third day in Ashen World, 7:05 PM, Demonized Swamp, Western Forest, Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box.

In the last almost three hours of hunting, Zhang Yanhang had cleared another thirty-four square kilometers. In other words, he had successfully completely cleared the entire Western Forest. Therefore, he was standing in front of the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box.

"Because the entire Western Forest has been completely cleared, the completion progress of the Third Stage of the Demonized Swamp cleansing plan has successfully reached 100%, further increasing by 45.3% compared to the previous 54.7%.

And if converted into the total completion progress of the Demonized Swamp cleansing plan, that would have propelled the total progress to 73.8%, improving by 8.5% compared to the earlier 65.3%.

This way, my cleansing plan has almost moved from two-thirds to three-quarters, with only the last quarter remaining to completely clear the entire Demonized Swamp.

Although it is just seven in the evening now, with five hours remaining until the end of the day, there’s only 26.2% of progress left. Given the current situation, it’s not certain if even 10% cleaning workload could be left for tomorrow, which is great".

After briefly reflecting, Zhang Yanhang quickly shifted his focus to the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box in front of him, which was blinking with dazzling golden light, and began to review his current evaluation level.

[Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box (Demonized Swamp)]

[Quality: None (Generated by Ashen World without quality.)]

[Type: Treasure Box]

[Origin: Ashen World, Demonized Swamp.]

[Current Area Comprehensive Evaluation Details List]

[Maned Tooth Beast (First Tier Three Star ordinary monster): 7243/7000]

[Demonized Canine Giant Ape (First Tier Three Star ordinary monster): 6085/6000]

[Demonized Saber-toothed Tiger (First Tier Three Star ordinary monster): 5000/5000]

[Emperor Crocodile (Second Tier Two-star ordinary monster): 11/350]

[Demonized Mammoth (Second Tier two-star ordinary monster): 0/200]

[Four-eyed Wild Boar (Second Tier Three-star ordinary monster): 0/7]

[Demonized Four-Eyed Wild Boar·Peppa Pig (Third Tier Two-star Lord Monster): 0/1]

[Current Area Comprehensive Completion Rate: 79.8%]

[Current Area Comprehensive Evaluation Level: A+ (F-EX)]

[Special Attribute: Ashen Treasure Box—User can obtain an Ashen Treasure Box related to the evaluation level after completion of the evaluation.]

[Usage Requirements: Current area comprehensive evaluation level F and above.]

[Introduction: Generated by the Ashen World, this Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box can calculate the current comprehensive evaluation level and generate a corresponding Ashen Treasure Box in real-time.]

"A+? This seems to be the first time I’ve received an A+ level evaluation, though a 79.8% completion rate still qualifies for an A+ rating. It seems an S rating probably requires reaching over 80% though my ultimate goal is definitely EX."

Even with just an A+, Zhang Yanhang was still quite satisfied with his current completion rate. After all, during his previous cleanings of the three areas, he generally only received around a B level rating when first checking the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box. So indeed, this was his first time obtaining an A+ level rating.