Ashen God
Chapter 151 - 150: Exterminating the Crimson Iron Ant Swarm

Chapter 151: Chapter 150: Exterminating the Crimson Iron Ant Swarm

"Fifteen Crimson Iron Worker Ants dropped two treasure boxes, which means an average of seven or eight Crimson Iron Worker Ants would drop a treasure box—this probability is about the same as the zombies in Raccoon City.

But fifteen Crimson Iron Worker Ants is really too few to be of any reference value. I need to kill at least a few hundred more Crimson Iron Worker Ants to calculate the real treasure box drop rate."

Zhang Yanhang picked up two white treasure boxes from the ground and tucked them into his waist bag, then he conveniently stuffed a few more intact corpses into the bag as well. Although the experimental result was not out yet, it didn’t prevent him from collecting them first.

During the gap when Zhang Yanhang was picking up the treasure boxes, two groups of Crimson Iron Worker Ants, who were already close, had reached him. As with the previous group of Crimson Iron Worker Ants, they immediately threw down the crimson iron ore they were carrying and then started to besiege Zhang Yanhang.

But Zhang Yanhang was already tired of the sensation of ants crawling over his body, so he directly switched his energy shield to an external visible state and expanded it back to its original eggshell shape.

These two groups of Crimson Iron Worker Ants amounted to roughly thirty or forty in total, but only a small part of them could actually bite Zhang Yanhang’s energy shield.

There were mainly two reasons for this: one was because the tunnel was rather narrow, only three meters wide and three meters high; with Zhang Yanhang blocking the middle, it couldn’t accommodate too many Crimson Iron Worker Ants to attack him simultaneously.

The other reason was that even after expanding, Zhang Yanhang’s energy shield wasn’t very large in volume. About ten or so Crimson Iron Worker Ants could fit on it at most, and the rest could only stand behind, anxiously unable to do anything.

Although some Crimson Iron Worker Ants did assist by spitting ant acid to help those biting at the energy shield, there were still quite a few Crimson Iron Worker Ants with nothing to do but run in circles in place.

Soon enough, the group of Crimson Iron Worker Ants, who had nothing to do on the side, found something to do because the previous batch that had climbed onto the energy shield had been shot dead by Zhang Yanhang with his M4A1 rifle in semi-automatic fire.

Because the Crimson Iron Worker Ants were always earnestly gnawing at the same spot on the energy shield, once they found their position, they would just cling on and stay put. Therefore, Zhang Yanhang easily aimed at their heads, and one bullet was all it took to send them off.

[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star monster ’Crimson Iron Worker Ant (Ordinary)’×1, Soul points +3.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star monster ’Crimson Iron Worker Ant (Ordinary)’×1, Soul points +3.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star monster ’Crimson Iron Worker Ant (Ordinary)’×1, Soul points +3.]

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With Zhang Yanhang’s hand speed, he basically shot all the Crimson Iron Worker Ants clinging to his energy shield dead in one second.

The corpses of the Crimson Iron Worker Ants slid down the energy shield to the ground, and the Crimson Iron Worker Ants, who were previously idling and could only run in circles around the side, immediately filled in the gaps left by their fallen comrades."

A new batch of Crimson Iron Worker Ants climbed over the corpses of their dead brethren and onto Zhang Yanhang’s Energy Shield, continuing to gnaw at it just like their predecessors.

They probably aimed to break through Zhang Yanhang’s Energy Shield with this relentless assault, but unfortunately, their Attack Power was too weak, and their numbers, too few.

Now, when his Energy Shield was activated in its manifest state, it possessed 145% of its original defensive power. With the feeble Attack Power of the group of Crimson Iron Worker Ants, they could not breach his defense.

Moreover, even if they could break through his defense, Zhang Yanhang had a Dark Purple Quality Defense Coin that could consistently reduce twenty-five points of Physical Damage.

For instance, the Beta-type Hunter with First Tier Three Stars strength could inflict a fixed Fifty points of Armor Penetration Damage that ignored Physical Defense with its Death Claw Skill, but now with the Defense Coin, it could only reduce his Shield Value by twenty-five points.

Even if you added the subsequent Physical Damage from a Normal Attack, it might only be a little over thirty points of Shield Value at most. With his current Shield Value Limit of one thousand two hundred points, he could withstand dozens of hits in a row.

What’s more crucial was that even if Zhang Yanhang’s Energy Shield could be broken, as long as the damage inflicted was under twenty-five points, there would be no reduction in Shield Value. This point was really important; it allowed Zhang Yanhang to completely ignore the Beta-type Hunter’s Normal Attacks.

Previously, the Beta-type Hunter’s Normal Attacks could chip away at Zhang Yanhang’s Shield Value. Though little, there was still the possibility of death by a thousand cuts. But now, things were different; unless it used the Death Claw Skill, the Beta-type Hunter had no way of affecting Zhang Yanhang at all. Its Normal Attacks might break the defense but could not inflict any damage.

Therefore, faced with such a straightforward and weak Monster as the Crimson Iron Worker Ant, Zhang Yanhang felt no psychological pressure whatsoever and chose to shoot each of them dead, just as before.

As expected, after this batch of Crimson Iron Worker Ants was eliminated, another batch climbed onto Zhang Yanhang’s Energy Shield using the other ants’ corpses, biting and spitting Ant Acid. This method of attrition might be effective against other Ordinary Awakened, but it posed no threat to Zhang Yanhang.

But after Zhang Yanhang killed them this time, there were no other Crimson Iron Worker Ants left to fill their places. Mainly because all the idle ones were already dead, and those who dared to approach Zhang Yanhang were also dead, with only a few that were still alive and spitting Ant Acid from a distance.

The reason these Crimson Iron Worker Ants were still alive was not due to anything special; it was mainly because Zhang Yanhang had run out of bullets in his magazine. After all, a normal magazine contains only forty rounds. Once he reloaded, the Crimson Iron Worker Ants that continued to spit Ant Acid at him immediately entered a state of death.

"Really, I should consider getting a machine gun. A normal rifle’s magazine only holds forty rounds, which sometimes isn’t even enough for one battle, not to mention, if there’s a large number of Monsters, it would require several magazine changes during a fight. But with a machine gun, this shouldn’t be a problem," he thought.

Zhang Yanhang stood still for a few seconds, then picked up three White Treasure Boxes from the ground and put them into his Waist Bag, followed by some corpses.

"By the way, if I make a choice related to machine guns in the future, is it possible to get one? But in a place like the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, there’s probably no chance, as there are only ants here..."

Zhang Yanhang felt that if he had time later on, he might try making such a choice.

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