Ashen God -
Chapter 662 - 661: Lord’s Treasure Chest
Chapter 662: Chapter 661: Lord’s Treasure Chest
So, although the vision of stacking Skill activations was indeed wonderful, Zhang Yanhang reckoned that he could only use it comfortably after he acquired several pieces of Equipment that enhanced his Critical Strike Rate or after he improved Bear Power by a few levels.
However, rather than issues that would need to be addressed in the future, Zhang Yanhang was more focused on the present, which was the kill notification sound from the Lord Monster, Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi.
[Successfully killed Third Tier Two-star Monster ’Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi (Lord Monster)’ ×1, Soul points +8000.]
"Wild Boar Peppa, as a Third Tier Two-star Lord Monster, was indeed powerful, but the value of Soul points is especially impressive eh, directly twice as high compared to the Third Tier One-star Lord Monster Goblin Chief Nu Mountain from the Goblin Plain, which was only four thousand points."
Had this been at the start of his journey in the Ashen World, Zhang Yanhang might have been surprised by the fact that the value of Soul points doubled with just one additional star rather than a whole Rank. But now, he had gotten accustomed to it.
For example, the Big Goblins he hunted on the Goblin Plain, being Second-tier One-star Monsters, were worth thirty Soul points, while the Second Tier Second Star Goblin Shamans were worth sixty Soul points.
So, a difference of just one star but a doubling in value of Soul points was actually normal. After all, Third Tier Two Stars was still considered in the early stages of the Third Tier, and based on his past experience, it was unlikely for this doubling of Soul points value to occur in the late stages of the Third Tier, such as with Third Tier Three Stars and Third Tier Four Stars.
After paying attention to the kill notification, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but sigh as he looked around the dark red swamp, "This ’All Four Elements are Void’ Skill is useful, but the enemies end up quite shattered after using it, or rather, there’s nothing left that resembles the original anatomy of the enemy."
"I remember last time fighting the Crimson Iron Ant Queen was the same, and due to good Luck, she got hit twice by ’All Four Elements are Void’, ending up especially shattered."
Zhang Yanhang had initially hoped, like last time, to collect some Material or something from the body that was merely cut in half after being internally hollowed out with a hole in the chest by a Normal Attack, like the Goblin Chief Nu Mountain. But now that Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi was so shattered, he obviously couldn’t collect materials, and indeed, he felt a bit of regret.
"Moreover, I originally intended just to blow up the head of Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi and then arrange it with the headless bodies of the other seven Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars. After all, the most important thing for a family is to be complete. But unexpectedly, ’All Four Elements are Void’ went ahead and blew up her entire body."
As for the overflowing power of ’All Four Elements are Void’, Zhang Yanhang didn’t know whether to be happy or delighted; all he could say was that it was indeed very joyful.
During the not-so-long wait, Zhang Yanhang felt that, just as he casually thought about Wild Boar Peppa, a Dark Purple Quality Drop Treasure Box appeared amidst the scattered body fragments across the swamp. This was the second Dark Purple Quality Drop Treasure Box that Zhang Yanhang had obtained.
"Speaking of which, even though Wild Boar Peppa’s strength after Demonization was already comparable to the Peak of the Third Tier, the Quality of the treasure box still remained at the same level as that of the Third Tier One-star Lord Monster Goblin Chief Nu Mountain."
It seems that skills like Demonization, which could only temporarily boost strength rather than permanently transform and level up like the Tracker, were not recognized by the Ashen World; it still only dropped treasure boxes according to the original Third Tier Two-star status of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi.
Suddenly, I thought it would be great if the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi was a Third Tier Three-star Lord Monster, could I get a Light Golden Quality Drop treasure box right away.
However, considering the extent of the boost from the Demonization skill, if the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi really was Third Tier Three-star, she might have gone straight to Fourth Tier after using it, which would be truly terrifying."
Although Zhang Yanhang had one-punched the demonic Wild Boar Peppa, he was still wary of the Fourth Tier; those would definitely be tough to handle. He would have to wait until he reached Third Tier to deal with them more comfortably, but luckily, his promotion to the Third Tier was imminent, so it was not a big issue.
"After successfully killing the Third Tier Two-star Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, I finally succeeded in clearing the last square kilometer of the swamp area.
At the same time, it also meant I had perfectly completed the late phase of the fifth stage of my Demonized Swamp clearing plan, having thoroughly and strictly cleared the entire Demonized Swamp according to the plan.
Although it’s an old tradition to fight small monsters slowly and Lord Monsters quickly, this time it was extraordinarily fast. It seemed I took less than a minute to consecutively kill seven Second Tier Three Star Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars and the Third Tier Two-star Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi."
Zhang Yanhang checked the time on his watch. It was only 10:24 PM, and only a few seconds had passed. If he excluded the time he waited for the treasure box to refresh, then he had indeed taken out the Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi within 23 minutes.
"Initially, after killing seven Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars, I had about twenty seconds left before 10:24 PM. It was in those twenty seconds that I successively completed traveling and testing my defensive power while incidentally killing the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi. Now that my strength has increased, the combat pace is indeed significantly faster."
In fact, Zhang Yanhang had not anticipated the combat pace to be so fast initially, but the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi was incredibly quick, launching full-power charge attacks at him with a frequency of 0.7 seconds per attack. How could anyone withstand that? So, he was forced to speed up the combat pace as well.
Even if he was stronger and faster, he was indeed the passive party in this aspect, although he later turned passive into active and one-punched the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi after buffing himself.
After quickly picking up the Dark Purple Quality Drop treasure box from the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, Zhang Yanhang did not rush to open the treasure box. Instead, he prepared to test his current one-handed strength to see if his previous estimations were accurate.
Zhang Yanhang took out a large amount of reinforced concrete from his Waist Bag and began to stack it on his hand. The reinforced concrete, which used to look particularly large and far exceeded the coverage of his palm, now felt more like some kind of palm-sized stress-relief toy in his hands.
After all, the reinforced concrete he stored for convenience and measurement was usually only up to one cubic meter. Now, his hands, over a meter long, could almost completely grasp it.
Based on the density of reinforced concrete, each cubic meter weighs about 2.5 tons, so Zhang Yanhang stacked twenty-eight blocks of reinforced concrete on his hand according to the Strength he had previously estimated.
However, when he stacked more than ten blocks, the reinforced concrete wasn’t very stable due to balance issues, so Zhang Yanhang used Alchemy to modify these blocks, fusing them into a single piece, and that solved the problem.
When Zhang Yanhang held the seventy-ton block of reinforced concrete in his hand, he definitely felt that his Strength was close to its limit, though he still had a bit of leeway. After thinking for a bit, he added another half-ton, then tried again. This time, there was absolutely no leeway left.
"It seems my previous estimate was quite accurate, I estimated seventy tons, the actual test is 70.5 tons, rounding off, that’s seventy-one tons." After testing his Strength, Zhang Yanhang quickly put the reinforced concrete back into his Waist Bag.
"So, the question is, do I open the Treasure box now?" Zhang Yanhang was mainly hesitating about whether to wait until he had cleared the freshly respawned Monsters in Raccoon City and the Goblin Plain before opening the Treasure box, but after thinking it over, he felt there was no need to wait and decided to just open it now.
Therefore, after making the decision, Zhang Yanhang quickly took out the Purple Quality Drop treasure box he had obtained from the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar, since if he was going to open Treasure boxes, these two Drop treasure boxes definitely needed to be opened as well.
But before opening the Treasure box, Zhang Yanhang, as usual, checked his Soul points balance first.
[Soul points: 227773 (+8840)]
"As expected, the number of Soul points obtained this time is very little or rather, pitifully little, not even reaching ten thousand Soul points, and even less than what I made from a single clearance of the Goblin Plain slot machine’s third-place prize pool.
But even with the addition of the Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, I only killed a total of eight Monsters this time, so it’s extremely normal to have a small Soul points gain.
After gaining these 8840 Soul points, my Soul points balance increased from the original 218933 to 227773, not a very noticeable growth."
Of the 8840 Soul points Zhang Yanhang gained this time, naturally, the Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi was the main contributor, donating eight thousand Soul points all by itself.
And the remaining eight hundred forty points came from the other seven Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars, with one Second Tier Three Stars Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar worth one hundred twenty Soul points, which added up to precisely eight hundred forty points, not one more, not one less.
"Yet while I do have fewer now, I should have a bit more after opening the Drop treasure box later."
As he spoke, Zhang Yanhang symbolically counted the number of Drop treasure boxes he had obtained. This time he got a total of three, one being a Dark Purple Quality Drop treasure box from Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi and two Purple Quality Drop treasure boxes from the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars.
After counting the Drop treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang immediately picked up a Purple Quality Drop treasure box from a Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar.
[Do you wish to open ’Drop treasure box (Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar)’?]
"Yes, open." Following Zhang Yanhang’s decision, Time Pause descended once more upon the Demonized Swamp, not even fifteen minutes after its last appearance.
However, compared to the three hundred Drop treasure boxes last time and thirty the time before, Zhang Yanhang’s haul this time was particularly lackluster, the number of boxes had shrunk by an order of magnitude, indeed starting with the number three but followed by nothing more, leaving only a pitiful three Drop treasure boxes to be opened.
Fortunately, three Drop treasure boxes were already at rock bottom, and there was no further drop possible because in Ashen World, there is no absurd notion of 0.3 of a treasure box, so he certainly did not have to worry about this issue anymore.
After clearing all the budgeted number of Monsters in the Demonized Swamp, Zhang Yanhang felt that his Evaluation Settlement box’s Level should definitely rise to above one hundred percent, and he should exceed that by some margin.
After all, in addition to the budgeted number of Monsters, he actually killed an additional batch of Demonized Creatures with the aid of the Demonized Swamp Lucky Slot Machine’s third prize pool.
However, exceeding one hundred twenty percent like Raccoon City, where Zhang Yanhang left enough refresh time and gaps, would certainly be unattainable since the Demonized Swamp was cleared in one go, taking only three days.
Of course, as long as the completion reached over one hundred percent, he would be able to get the highest EX Rank evaluation, so there was no real need to chase a higher completion rate.
Unless the Evaluation Settlement Treasure box included an additional tier of rewards at one hundred twenty percent, like a MAX Level reward, he might have tried to raise the completion rate, but no such higher tier of Ashen Treasure Box rewards existed.
Therefore, Zhang Yanhang only had to wait to open the Lord’s Treasure Chest and then directly go to the Demonized Swamp Evaluation Settlement Box to claim his EX Rank Ashen Treasure Box.
Although he was currently opening the Treasure box of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar, he was not supposed to be so scattered in focus, but he still wanted to say that he had been looking forward to the Ashen Treasure Box from the Demonized Swamp Zone for a long time.
After all, he currently had less than four points of Ash Source, and only by obtaining more Ash Source from the Ashen Treasure Box of the Demonized Swamp Zone could he successfully advance to Third Tier. This reason alone was enough for Zhang Yanhang to look forward to the Ashen Treasure Box from the Demonized Swamp Zone.
Not to mention that, compared to Ash Source, other Items in the Ashen Treasure Box were also very much worth anticipating, but since he was in the process of opening the Drop treasure box of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar, Zhang Yanhang thought it was indeed better to focus on that.
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