Ashen God
Chapter 148 - 147 Crimson Iron Ring

Chapter 148: Chapter 147 Crimson Iron Ring

Although Zhang Yanhang could perhaps try using alchemy to fuse with the Crimson Iron Ant and see if it could improve its quality, the problem was, wouldn’t it be more appealing to just select soul points and use them to strengthen oneself? Zhang Yanhang certainly didn’t think such a trash monster was worth thirty soul points.

"By the way, what exactly does ’pet’ mean here? After I choose it, will this monster become my pet and then be at my beck and call?" Zhang Yanhang felt that under normal circumstances, that’s how a pet should work, and logically, pets in the Ashen World should be similar.

"I admit that I did say before that I wanted to keep a pet, but I was talking about a cat, not an ant, right?"

Although Zhang Yanhang had not mentioned it much before, he actually had a strong aversion to insects, especially spiders, centipedes, cockroaches, and silverfish, or more broadly, he disliked most insects with too many legs that also looked disgusting.

As for ants, which didn’t look too disgusting, Zhang Yanhang felt indifferent towards them and didn’t particularly dislike them but definitely wouldn’t want to keep one.

By the way, although he despised insects with many legs, Zhang Yanhang was quite fond of scorpions because fried scorpions were indeed very tasty, crispy, and much more fragrant than ordinary animal meat—but this was limited only to scorpions, as other edible insects like maggots looked too disgusting.

So, to sum it up, it was impossible for Zhang Yanhang to choose the Crimson Iron Ant. After all, it was not some cat-like creature. If it were, Zhang Yanhang might consider choosing it because a cat-like creature really was cute, but a regular ant was truly out of the question.

[Item Three]

[Option One: 3 Soul Points]

[Option Two: Crimson Iron (500 grams), Quality Green, Material]

[Option Three: 30 Soul Points]

"Crimson Iron is a green quality material? Well, even though it’s of green quality, I still prefer those thirty soul points."

On his previous explorations at the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, Zhang Yanhang had found the spot where the Crimson Iron Worker Ants concentrated their droppings—that is, where they piled up the Crimson Iron. The amount of Crimson Iron accumulated there would need to be measured in tons.

The one pound of Crimson Iron that came from the treasure box was a drop in the ocean compared to the tons of it heaped up at the location in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest’s toilets.

Although that Crimson Iron was probably a material that couldn’t be taken out, even if the one pound of Crimson Iron from the treasure box could be taken out of the Ashen World, why wouldn’t he just use the readily available Crimson Iron from the ant nest instead? After all, there was plenty of it there to go around.

Anyway, he hardly encountered battles in the real world, so it didn’t matter if the items made couldn’t be taken out of the Ashen World. As long as they could be used normally within the Ashen World, that was all that mattered.

Even if he really needed to take items made from Crimson Iron to the Main World, he would only need to choose a small amount of Crimson Iron, maybe just a few kilograms.

With such a small amount of Crimson Iron needed, just opening a few treasure boxes should be enough to meet the demand, so he definitely wouldn’t extensively choose the Crimson Iron option. Under normal circumstances, he still thought that thirty soul points would be of more use to him.

As for the methods of utilizing Crimson Iron, Zhang Yanhang already had some preliminary ideas, but he didn’t have time to complete them right now. He was waiting to finish choosing items from the treasure box before immediately going to hunt monsters in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest. It was only after he finished hunting and was resting that he would have time to research the Crimson Iron.

[Item Four]

[Option One: Leg meat of the Crimson Iron Worker Ant (Five kilograms), Quality white, Material]

[Option Two: 15 Soul points]

[Option Three: 30 Soul points]

"Why do I feel something odd about this Crimson Iron Worker Ant’s treasure box? Each option related to soul points is mixed with something else. Does Multiple Choice think these items are more valuable than the original soul point options? And why are such things never found in a zombie’s treasure box?"

Of course, Zhang Yanhang wasn’t really disappointed that he couldn’t find such things in a zombie’s treasure box; after all, he wouldn’t want to acquire materials like a zombie’s rotten thigh—it’s simply too disgusting.

Besides, he had no use for such a thing. He could roast the leg meat of the Crimson Iron Worker Ant and eat it directly, but rotting zombie flesh clearly had no food value, and anyone with a sane mind wouldn’t dream of eating a zombie.

While there may be some who are not in their right mind (like ogres) that might fancy trying zombie intestine sashimi or the like, that’s clearly nothing to do with Zhang Yanhang.

Even though he did indeed enjoy tearing zombies apart with his hands like pulling apart cooked chicken, enjoying the act of tearing did not mean he would then want to eat a fresh hot meal of it afterwards.

[Item Five]

[Option One: Crimson Iron Dagger, Quality white, Weapon]

[Option Two: Crimson Iron Ring, Quality green, Equipment]

[Option Three: Crimson Iron straight sword, Quality white, Weapon]

"The fifth item, finally some relatively normal stuff appears. I didn’t expect to find weapons and equipment in the Crimson Iron Worker Ant’s treasure box, although they’re not high quality and not part of a set."

Zhang Yanhang carefully examined the attribute list of the white quality Crimson Iron Dagger and the Crimson Iron straight sword, and found that although both weapons bore the ’Crimson Iron’ prefix, there was absolutely no connection between the two. The only similarity might be the material, as both were made with some incorporation of Crimson Iron.

As for the two white quality weapons, Zhang Yanhang had no interest in them, mainly because he didn’t like that type of weapon. Whether it was the dagger or the straight sword, he didn’t care for them, thinking such refined weapons were only used by women.

He preferred heavier weapons like Guandao, giant hammers, double-edged battle axes, and broadswords for beheading. After all, with his Strength Attribute so high, not using heavy weapons would be a complete waste of his brawny arm strength.

Okay, besides these points, Zhang Yanhang also disliked the quality of these two weapons, just white quality. Although maybe they could be improved through Alchemy, he guessed that elevating them to green quality was probably the limit.

Mainly because the content of Crimson Iron in the two weapons was too low, with most of the material made of ordinary steel and only a small amount of Crimson Iron mixed in. If Zhang Yanhang were to directly make a weapon out of Crimson Iron now, it would definitely start at least as green quality.

After all, Crimson Iron itself is a material of green quality, so there’s no way a weapon forged from it would be of any lower quality.