Ashen God
Chapter 651 - 650: Increased Shield Value Limit

Chapter 651: Chapter 650: Increased Shield Value Limit

"The only slight regret is that I can only instantly kill enemies with less than ten percent of their life value remaining. If the limit could be relaxed a bit, like to be able to instantly kill enemies with twenty percent or less remaining, it would be much more practical."

Zhang Yanhang estimated that abilities like this should continue to grow with the increase of Death Wave·Original LV.6’s skill level. Perhaps it’s unlikely to improve with a normal upgrade, but based on his experience, once Death Wave is enhanced to Original LV.MAX, there’s a good chance it might improve.

After all, it definitely won’t always be restricted to ten percent; ten percent is basically the brink of death. Unless it’s a monster proficient in recovering life value, most monsters wouldn’t likely survive after being reduced to this level.

Therefore, this execute ability essentially saves Zhang Yanhang the time he would otherwise waste on delivering the final blow. Overall, it’s still pretty good, especially considering the potential for the future.

"Based on my current fixed damage, even the Third Tier One-star Lord Monster, Goblin Chief·Nu Mountain, would lose more than fifty percent of his life value in my presence.

In other words, as long as I can deplete his first forty-five percent of life value limit, I could instantly kill him with fifty-five percent remaining with just one Death Wave.

Although my normal attack could take him down with just two punches, and if it weren’t for his forced resurrection, one punch would suffice.

So, it’s fair to say that Death Wave is indeed more suited for clearing groups of monsters. For dealing with single monsters, it’s better to just go in swinging."

Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but ponder.

"Based on the previous calculations and using the population density of the Qin Island City South District, which is twenty thousand people per square kilometer, I remember when I first improved Death Wave skill to LV.MAX, according to my movement speed at that time, I could only use a maximum range of five hundred meters eight times per minute, covering 1.6 square kilometers, and could only kill thirty-two thousand people.

But now, it’s qualitatively different from then. With my current movement speed, I can release twenty full-powered Death Waves within a six hundred meter range, covering 5.7 square kilometers, an increase of 4.1 square kilometers in area, nearly four times the original.

In terms of numbers, I can kill one hundred fourteen thousand people within a minute, an increase of eighty-two thousand from the original. The progress is visibly significant."

After a considerable time revisiting the data, Zhang Yanhang was extremely satisfied with his pronounced progress.

"Moreover, the total area of the Qin Island City South District is just thirty square kilometers. Initially, I could only destroy one-nineteenth of the area per minute, needing nearly twenty minutes to fully destroy the entire South District.

Now it’s different. I can obliterate a quarter of the South District per minute, only needing four minutes to completely destroy it. Since Qin Island City is a directly governed city, the South District is classified as a city-level unit by administrative division.

Thus, I can now clear a city-level unit in four minutes, leaping over five ranks, just one step away from a provincial-level unit.

Alright, maybe I’m somewhat deluding myself. The true city-level and provincial-level units probably still need me to ascend to the Third Tier before I can destroy them quickly."

Zhang Yanhang felt it would be better to be a bit more humble in this aspect, opting to wait until he reached the Third Tier before boasting.

"Now Indestructible Golden Body has been successfully advanced to Original LV.6, and Death Wave has also been upgraded to Original LV.6. The upgrade plan for the Second Tier is now completely finished, and I’ve accounted for everything in the treasure box, so what should I do next?"

Zhang Yanhang thought for a moment, feeling like there was really nothing else to do. So, he opened his data panel and took a look. He had yet to check the 10% life value limit increase he had obtained from Indestructible Golden Body·Original LV.6.

[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Second Tier)]

[Race: Human]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 20]

[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]

[Level: LV.20 (0/4)]

[Soul Points: 130933]

[Shield Value: 7262/7262 (Life value limit ×210%, recovery speed: 20% per second.)]

[Life Value: 3458/3458 (Constitution×21, the body is now officially digitized, life value recovery speed: 15 points per hour.)]

[Energy Value: 2720/2720 (Intelligence×21, the body is now officially digitized, energy value recovery speed: 48 points per hour.)]

[Strength: 50 (+4[-5])]

[Agility: 50 (+4[-4])]

[Constitution: 50 (+4[-4])]

[Intelligence: 50 (+4[-9])]

[Charm: 50 (+17)]

[Luck: ??? (This attribute is hidden.)]

[Talent: 1. Multiple Choice (???). 2. Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea (SS rank). 3. Bear Power (S rank). 4. Mature Scroll Dragon [Bloodline Purification] (SS rank). 5. Ocean Rhythm (SS rank).]

[Skill: 1. Limitless Universe Skill [Second Tier] LV.MAX (Passive/Active). 2. Alchemy (Active skill). 3. Gun Mastery LV.6 (Passive skill). 4. Fighting Master LV.6 (Passive skill). 5. Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original LV.6 (Passive/Active). 6. Technique Immunity·Original LV.6 (Passive skill). 7. Death Wave·Original LV.6 (Passive/Active). 8. Supreme Will LV.MAX (Passive skill). 9. Indestructible Golden Body·Original LV.6 (Passive/Active).]

"Thanks to the recent upgrade of Indestructible Golden Body to Original LV.6, which gave me a 10% bonus to my Life Value Limit, my Life Value Limit has now increased by another 216 points, rising from 3242 to 3458 points.

Yet it still falls far short of the initial modest goal of four thousand points, and it seems that it’s indeed impossible to achieve within the Second Tier."

Zhang Yanhang now felt that his initial modest goal of four thousand points for the Life Value Limit might have been set a bit too high, perhaps aiming for three thousand five hundred points would have been more appropriate.

After all, with a current Life Value Limit of 3458 points, if the modest goal had been set at three thousand five hundred points, he would now be just 42 points short of achieving it. Would that not be easily done?

Even if he couldn’t obtain any more artifacts or achievements to increase his Life Value Limit, Zhang Yanhang could easily meet this modest goal just with the Yellow Medicine Grass from Raccoon City.

As for reaching four thousand points in the Life Value Limit, that amount was far beyond what the Yellow Medicine Grass could make up for unless Raccoon City suddenly spawned a few hundred Beta-type Hunters or quadruple-digit Lickers.

"With the increase in Life Value Limit, my Shield Value saw another rise, jumping from 6808 points straight up to 7262 points, a total increase of 454 points in Shield Value Limit.

While it’s somewhat difficult to achieve the modest goal for Life Value Limit, the one for Shield Value Limit is very easy; simply by slightly raising the skill level of Indestructible Golden Body, I’ve already met the modest goal of increasing the Shield Value Limit to seven thousand points."

For the next modest goal, Zhang Yanhang felt he could aim for around eight thousand points in Shield Value Limit. That way, after achieving the four thousand points Life Value Limit modest goal, he believed he could also reach this eight thousand points Shield Value Limit goal alongside it.

"But if there’s a sliver of hope for achieving four thousand points in Life Value Limit and eight thousand points in Shield Value Limit, then the long-term goal I set a long time ago, to have a Shield Value Limit ten times that of a Same Tier Awakened’s Life Value Limit, is utterly unattainable.

My current Shield Value Limit hardly reaches eight thousand points, let alone jumping straight to ten thousand points. I’m short by 2738 points from a ten thousand Shield Value limit, and even after dividing that by the conversion ratio of 2.1, I would need to increase my Life Value Limit by more than a thousand points to have a chance, which is really too difficult.

Unless I can upgrade my Indestructible Golden Body to Original LV.MAX right now, there’s absolutely no other way."

Zhang Yanhang truly regretted not achieving this modest goal within the Second Tier, especially since once he got promoted to the Third Tier, the conditions to complete this long-term goal would be renewed, and it could become even more difficult to accomplish.

After all, even Second Tier Awakened have a Life Value Limit of one thousand points, and he felt an increase to more than two thousand points for Third Tier Awakened wouldn’t be excessive in the slightest.

So, by then, fulfilling this long-term goal would definitely require more than just ten thousand points in Shield Value Limit; he would need at least twenty thousand points to start with. The more he thought about it, the more he found the long-term goal became even harder to achieve.

However, it’s not truly impossible to meet this goal, as he could not only rely on increasing the Life Value Limit to raise the Shield Value Limit but also enhance his Shield Value Limit by increasing the efficiency of Shield Value conversion.

Therefore, after being promoted to a Third Tier Awakened, Zhang Yanhang felt that as long as he kept improving his Indestructible Golden Body and Technique Immunity skills, raising them all to Original LV.MAX, then reaching this long-term goal shouldn’t be too difficult.

However, to elevate the Indestructible Golden Body and Technique Immunity to Original LV.MAX, it might take several million soul points. He could only hope that after his promotion to Third Tier, his efficiency in acquiring soul points would be as high as possible; otherwise, he wouldn’t even be able to level up his skills.

In any case, with "two legs to walk," Zhang Yanhang was still confident that he could achieve this long-term goal of "reaching ten times the Shield Value Limit of a same tier Awakened’s Life Value Limit." However, he had confidence for the Third Tier; the Second Tier was indeed impossible to complete.

"Besides the Limitless Universe Skill, Supreme Will, and Alchemy, which can no longer be increased in skill level, the remaining six skills out of my nine have all been raised to Original LV.6. They look much more pleasing to the eye.

Of course, it would definitely be more pleasing if all were at Original LV.MAX, but that’s a goal for the effort in the Third Tier, and for now, it has nothing to do with me."

After checking his data panel, Zhang Yanhang could only say that he was indeed fully prepared and ready for a rank promotion at any time.

For this, he would need to hunt demonized creatures in the Demonized Swamp even more diligently, as only from Ashen Treasure Boxes obtained with over 100% completion could he find the three points of Ash Source needed to gather the four points required for his rank promotion.

Though that was said, after checking his data panel, Zhang Yanhang didn’t immediately start hunting monsters. Instead, he tidied up various odds and ends on his bed, lay down for a while longer, and then finally sat up, ready to begin his monster hunt.

Zhang Yanhang glanced at his watch and saw that it was already 9:40. Opening treasure boxes and subsequent equipment fusion had taken up about an hour and a half.

Mainly because the time-consuming equipment fusion took longer; although there was no need for the most time-consuming breakthrough this time, the sheer number of items meant that fusion alone also took almost an hour.

"There are only two hours and twenty minutes left until the end of today. Translated, that’s just 140 minutes left. I wonder if I can clear the entire Demonized Swamp within today."

Zhang Yanhang’s current plan to clear the Demonized Swamp was in its final, fifth stage. Only the core swamp area had not yet been cleared.

The whole Demonized Swamp Zone spanned an area of four hundred square kilometers, and he had already cleared nearly three hundred and sixty square kilometers, with less than forty square kilometers left to completely clear out, which was indeed not too difficult.

Of course, this was provided the energy cost of the Death Wave skill didn’t increase too much. Otherwise, he feared a few tries would exhaust his remaining physical strength. He had already spent more than eight hours clearing monsters today and wasn’t as energetic as he had been at the start.

"Now that everything has been resolved, the next step is to immediately start hunting the few hundred demonized creatures left in the Demonized Swamp."

If Zhang Yanhang remembered correctly, even with the Lord Monster, the Demonized Four-Eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi included, there were only a total of two hundred and eight demonized creatures in the swamp area, which should indeed be easy to clear within today.

After all, he still had 140 minutes left today, and even if it took half a minute to hunt each demonized creature, he could easily finish off all the demonized creatures, not to mention that it definitely wouldn’t take that long.

Based on his experience from clearing the Demonized Emperor Crocodile in the Demonized Swamp Lake Region, Zhang Yanhang estimated that it should take at most only about one minute to clear one square kilometer in the swamp area. So, barring any unforeseen circumstances, he should be able to clear the entire Demonized Swamp within an hour at most.