Ashen God
Chapter 660 - 659: Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi

Chapter 660: Chapter 659: Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi

Other demonized creatures hardly made any movement after their demonization skill was activated, even a Second Tier Three-star Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar just changed skin color. But it was clearly not the same with the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi; suddenly, a big mass of black mist appeared, tightly enveloping it.

Moreover, this black mist continued to infuse into the layer of mud armor on the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi. Just by looking at this, Zhang Yanhang felt sure this fellow had activated some kind of defensive ability.

Furthermore, Zhang Yanhang noticed that the size of Wild Boar Pei Qi was continuously expanding. Before the expansion, it was already about the size of a medium-sized fishing boat, but now, Zhang Yanhang felt it had almost reached the size of a large fishing boat, standing about fifteen meters tall and nearly twenty meters long.

"If you say it might have had a double-digit weight before, now it’s definitely in the triple-digit tonnage, and probably not just one hundred tons, but upwards of two hundred tons."

Zhang Yanhang wasn’t knowledgeable about the proportion of volume to weight concerning wild boars. He could only roughly estimate a number, but even the lowest estimate, tens of tons, far exceeded his strength limit.

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang guessed that if the original Third Tier Two-star Lord Monster, Demonized Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, was at most equal in attributes to a Third Tier Three-star, now, he estimated that the attributes of the Demonized Wild Boar Queen reached at least Third Tier Four-star and possibly even Third Tier Four-star Elite.

The reason, he could only say, was that although Zhang Yanhang didn’t see the attribute list, just by seeing Wild Boar Pei Qi activate a charge-like skill and crash towards him at subsonic speeds of two to three hundred meters per second, Zhang Yanhang knew this was not something a normal Third Tier Two-star or even Third Tier Three-star could achieve.

Facing an enemy weighing at least a hundred tons and crashing into him at subsonic speed, Zhang Yanhang could only feel fortunate that he was short, which made the enemy’s lethal strike miss significantly.

Although it seemed Wild Boar Pei Qi was aiming for him with all its strength, in the end, this fifteen-meter-tall creature just barely grazed Zhang Yanhang with the lowest tusk on its jaw on his energy shield.

However, even though it was just a graze, the air caught up around it still created a shockwave-like effect, attacking Zhang Yanhang along with Wild Boar Pei Qi’s tusk.

Because of this, although it was indeed just a graze, Zhang Yanhang immediately witnessed an unprecedented shaking of his energy shield, with large ripples and waves instantaneously covering the energy shield around his entire body, like the surface of water in a violent rainstorm.

Just when Zhang Yanhang thought his energy shield would break, it finally calmed down again.

However, when Zhang Yanhang checked his shield value, he was shocked to find that just being grazed by the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar took away over three thousand shield points, essentially direct halving his shield value.

"This damage is really absurd. It’s several times more than what I received from the Third Tier One-star Lord Monster, Goblin Chief Nu Mountain, who had to complete a combination attack to take away a four-digit number from my shield value."

"But on this side, it was just a simple charge, and it merely grazed me, but it managed to knock off more than three thousand points of my shield value just by relying on its own mass and speed advantage."

Zhang Yanhang had initially thought of using his hands to block Peppa Pig’s charge or at least try to hold on to Peppa Pig’s tusks to stop the charge, but he realized he couldn’t block it at all.

His strength, less than sixteen tons, was completely inadequate in front of Peppa Pig, but that was within his expectations, after all, he had struggled even to lift the Demonized Mammoth, a Second Tier Two-star Ordinary Monster, let alone the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, who weighed at least a hundred tons.

Of course, although he initially used only one hand to lift the Demonized Mammoth, this time, Zhang Yanhang was definitely using both hands. Logically speaking, with sixteen tons of force in one hand, and combining the strength of his arms and torso, he should have been able to exert about forty tons of force.

But unexpectedly, forty tons of force still had no ability to resist Peppa Pig’s charge, and if it weren’t for the Energy Shield absorbing the impact, Zhang Yanhang would probably have been blown away hundreds of meters, and definitely not still standing as he was now.

"It’s not working, I have to get a bit more serious, or I feel like I’m going to be killed by a sow, and I certainly don’t want to die a bizarre death that would be recorded in the Awakener’s records, plus, if it were an ordinary sow it would be one thing, but being killed by Peppa Pig, that would be really..."

To prevent a possible disaster and to show his respect for the Lord Monster Demonized Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, whose attributes after demonization matched those of a Third Tier Three-star and even a Third Tier Four-star Elite, Zhang Yanhang eventually activated his Indestructible Golden Body Skill.

Accompanied by a layer of thin, but extremely tough and resilient golden light that covered his whole body, Zhang Yanhang suddenly felt much less worried about his personal safety.

In fact, although his defense was very high, he had no enhancers, and he didn’t have any particularly strong defensive equipment either, so his defense was merely equivalent to being unarmored—usually the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures he consumed were enough to defend against other Second-tier Monsters.

Now, however, this level of defense was clearly insignificant against a creature like the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, which could almost be considered a monster at the Peak of Third Tier.

But it was a good thing that he had no other defense bonuses; it was all just solid basic defense and so, after using the Indestructible Golden Body, his defense instantly shot up to four times his original.

However, Zhang Yanhang soon discovered that even four times the defense didn’t seem very stable, as he realized that the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi hadn’t used any Charge Skill when hitting him before; it was just a simple build-up Normal attack.

And the reason? He realized that the Demonized Wild Boar Queen was now striking him at a rhythmic frequency of every 0.7 seconds, back and forth between the mud pool and him, hitting him at subsonic speeds.

Because of the terrifying mass of the Demonized Wild Boar Queen, even after enhancing his defense by three times, Zhang Yanhang still lost nearly nine hundred shield points with each hit, leaving him with less than three thousand shield points.

"It seems that just the basic unbreakable Golden Body isn’t enough, I should also activate the Compression, or else after three more hits, I might just be directly killed."

Zhang Yanhang immediately manipulated the Golden Body Effect, making it thinner yet tougher. While it became as thin as a cicada’s wing—merely the thickness of plastic wrap—his defensive power was amplified an additional two-fold, reaching six times its original level.

Accompanying another impact, Zhang Yanhang found his shield value dropped by another six hundred points, barely remaining over two thousand.

"Damn, is this for real?!"

Seeing the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen, Pei Qi, ready to charge at him again, Zhang Yanhang immediately activated his Spiritual Qi Blessing.

Under the influence of Spiritual Qi Blessing, his basic defense was doubled, and with the addition of the Indestructible Golden Body, his defensive power doubled again, reaching twelve times his original basic defense.

Boom!

As he watched the grotesque, blood-patterned tusks of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi plunge into his energy shield, Zhang Yanhang found the ripples and waves on it had finally become much smaller.

If initially, the waves on Zhang Yanhang’s energy shield were like a torrential rain, they were now more akin to a moderate rain, which, despite still being somewhat unsettling, was indeed much better than initially.

After defending against this attack, Zhang Yanhang checked his shield value again and found it had only decreased by three hundred points, merely from just over two thousand to eighteen hundred. He could still withstand six more attacks from the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi.

And if his shield value could be fully restored, Zhang Yanhang could continuously withstand twenty-four attacks from the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi in this state.

"Now, I finally feel a slight sense of relief."

As for why Zhang Yanhang didn’t dodge the attacks of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, one reason was habit, and the other was that Zhang Yanhang’s normal speed simply couldn’t keep up with her.

The charge speed of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi was almost 0.7 Mach, while his normal speed was merely 0.5 Mach.

Having capitalized on speed to bully countless monsters, Zhang Yanhang faced a monster with a faster movement speed for the first time, even faster than his speed enhanced by Rhythm.

But considering that the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen was now roughly at the Peak Third Tier in terms of attributes, it was somewhat normal. Moreover, Zhang Yanhang hadn’t yet boosted his speed with Spiritual Qi Blessing. If he were to enhance it, surpassing the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi would actually be quite easy.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang had a third reason for not dodging the attacks of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen, which was to use Peppa Pig for a test—to gauge his defense.

"But there’s still a significant gap to complete peace of mind."

Three blue magical runes appeared on Zhang Yanhang’s left arm—High-level Mage Armor, Advanced Mage Armor, and Mage Leader Power Armor, which were quickly bestowed upon him in addition to his energy shield.

Moreover, these three layers of mage armor were layered directly on top of the energy shield, helping to mitigate the attacks.

"I could only lose three hundred shield points before, now I probably can’t even lose a hundred."

But reality proved otherwise. Zhang Yanhang underestimated himself, or perhaps his mage armor, particularly the Mage Leader Power Armor. When faced again with the impact from the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, Zhang Yanhang was surprised to find that not a single ripple had appeared on his energy shield.

This indicated that, with a series of protections continuously enhanced, he seemed to be immune to attacks from the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi.

Of course, Zhang Yanhang knew it wasn’t solely the merit of the Mage Armor, not even with three layers overlaid, for it shouldn’t be possible that the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi couldn’t even breach his armor.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang believed that the Defense Coins providing a fixed physical damage reduction played a significant role, with each coin offering a reduction of twenty-five points, and two coins reducing fifty points of physical damage.

Thus, he thought that with the Peak Third Tier strength of the Demonized Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, it shouldn’t be unable to breach his defense; more likely, it did breach but could only inflict less than fifty points of physical damage, unable to surpass the protection of the Defense Coins, leading to the current situation.

Facing this situation, Zhang Yanhang was somewhat sentimental; he really hadn’t anticipated that, after employing a suite of protective measures, the attacks of the Demonized Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, which initially could deplete half of his shield value, would now be outright ineffective.

For this, Zhang Yanhang could only credit the Heavenly Destiny Master’s professional skills for greatly enhancing his capabilities. He vaguely remembered how, at his Peak First Tier, facing a Second Tier Four Stars Lord Monster Tracker, his energy shield was virtually paper-thin, easily breached by a few additional prods.

And now, at this moment, like that moment, but the outcome was different. He was merely at the Second Tier Peak, facing at least a Third Tier Four-star power from the Demonized Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, yet miraculously not breached; albeit only one rank difference, the gap was indeed vast.

However, Zhang Yanhang underestimated himself simultaneously as he underestimated the opponent, the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi.

Because he soon realized, sensing that her initial attacks were ineffective, the Wild Boar Pei Qi decisively activated her real Charge Skill in her next collision. After a brief charging up, she dashed towards him at nearly three hundred meters per second, about 0.9 Mach, a real subsonic speed.