Ashen God
Chapter 199 - 198: Killing the Lord Monster Tracker

Chapter 199: Chapter 198: Killing the Lord Monster Tracker

Even without relying on the prescient ability of "Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil," Zhang Yanhang clearly knew what they intended to do—the tentacles aimed to snatch back the portion of the Tracker’s body below its chest, then use it as a foundation for regeneration and fully initiate the Third Tier Stage.

But Zhang Yanhang wouldn’t let the Tracker succeed. The instant the tentacles were about to touch the Tracker’s body, he picked up that part of the body from the ground and swiftly stuffed it into his Waist Bag.

Although Zhang Yanhang couldn’t put a living body into the Waist Bag, he had no difficulty in storing such a broken body that had been severed from its owner.

Seeing its lower half suddenly vanish, the Tracker evidently froze for a moment, but then several blood-red tentacles that had intended to snatch the lower body instead wrapped themselves around Zhang Yanhang’s Energy Shield.

Zhang Yanhang guessed that the Tracker probably wrapped him with a few tentacles because it feared it couldn’t beat him without its lower half and wanted to delay his attack to buy enough time for regeneration.

But Zhang Yanhang hadn’t planned on attacking it anyway. Since there were no Zombies around, the Tracker definitely couldn’t initiate the final Fourth Tier Stage, and the Third Tier Stage would only be elevated to Second Tier Four Stars, which was still within his capability to handle.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang was quite curious as to what the Third Tier Stage that the Tracker initiated without its lower half would look like? Or, with only shoulders, neck, and head left, whether the Tracker’s Third Tier Stage could be normally initiated, or even fail to initiate.

Although he had previously said he wanted to try and disrupt the Tracker’s transformation during the Third Tier Stage, at this moment, he was no longer in a rush to do so.

The main reason was that Zhang Yanhang suddenly remembered something quite important.

"The question arises, if the Tracker can’t transform into a Second Tier Four Stars Monster, does that mean I can only get a Second Tier Three Stars Treasure box? If that’s really the case, it would be rather embarrassing."

After pondering this issue, Zhang Yanhang even felt that he might need to proactively help the Tracker in the event of a failed transformation, such as returning its lower half to it, since the combat reward for killing a Second Tier Three Star Monster surely differed significantly from that for a Second Tier Four Star Monster.

But fortunately, the resilience of the Revenge Goddess Parasite was powerful enough that Zhang Yanhang didn’t need to offer assistance.

Upon discovering the loss of its lower half, many more blood-red tentacles surged from the interior of the Tracker’s chest. These were considerably thinner than the ones wrapped around Zhang Yanhang but far more numerous, forming a dense mass.

Just as Zhang Yanhang was curious about the purpose of these tentacles, he immediately witnessed a horrifying scene; the tiny tentacles quickly fused together like putty, forming a rough skeletal framework, followed by even more blood-red tentacles emerging from the chest to reconstruct the Tracker’s organs and muscle tissue.

Most importantly, the entire process was far too fast. Assembling the skeleton took one second, covering it with muscles and organs also took only one second.

After roughly reconstructing its original body, Zhang Yanhang watched as the Tracker transformed in one second from a rudimentary humanoid life form to a quadrupedal crawler. Compared to its two-meter-eight height in humanoid form, the Tracker’s body length as a crawler was now about three meters six.

"Indeed, it was affected," he mused. "I remember this form should be able to grow to four or five meters long. Now it’s been significantly reduced due to the lack of its lower half."

Zhang Yanhang took another look at the Tracker’s attribute list and found that although its size had shrunk a bit, the transformation to the Third Stage was well and truly complete.

The Tracker’s Life Value was fully restored once again, and the Life Value Limit had risen from 875 points in the Second Stage to 1400 points now, an increase of 525 points. Back in the First Stage, the Tracker’s Life Value Limit totalled only 600, so this increase of 525 points was almost like gaining an entire extra health bar.

Having successfully entered the Third Stage, the Tracker’s Agility had increased to thirty points, which meant that even without activating the Charge Skill for speed, it still possessed a velocity of nearly a hundred kilometers per hour. Moreover, by this time, the Tracker’s weight had also increased to over two tons.

The reason why Zhang Yanhang mentioned the Tracker’s speed and weight was that the Tracker was once again charging towards him. But this time, he reckoned, it wouldn’t just be facing his fists but the Death Claw.

At this moment, Zhang Yanhang really wanted to dodge and not use the Energy Shield to withstand the damage, yet he was tightly bound and couldn’t move, as the Energy Shield was ensnared by the greatly strengthened blood-red tendrils.

As the saying goes, the best defense is a good offense, so Zhang Yanhang didn’t hesitate to pull the trigger of the AT-4 rocket launcher.

Having just been hit by a rocket, the Tracker, blessed with intelligence on par with a normal human, immediately tried to dodge, but unexpectedly, just as it moved to the side, it smashed its head directly into the High Explosive Armor Piercing Bullet that Zhang Yanhang had fired.

To onlookers, this coincidence looked as though the Tracker had intentionally used its head to withstand a High Explosive Armor Piercing Bullet that was meant for its shoulder.

If one were to ask why, it was naturally thanks to Zhang Yanhang’s ability to Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, which anticipated events. Although it was completely unnecessary when dealing with smaller monsters, it proved very effective against the Tracker, always allowing him to predict the Tracker’s next move in time to respond correctly.

Taking a High Explosive Armor Piercing Bullet to the head, even though the Tracker’s Constitution Attribute had been enhanced and it took reduced damage, it still immediately collapsed to the ground, motionless.

Strike while the enemy is sick, was Zhang Yanhang’s philosophy, so he immediately discarded the now useless rocket launcher in his hands and pulled out a brand-new AT-4 rocket launcher from his Waist Bag, aiming it at the Tracker lying paralyzed on the ground.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Continuous massive explosions echoed ceaselessly in the narrow and enclosed underground tunnel, and the metal floor under Zhang Yanhang’s feet trembled non-stop as if a microearthquake was occurring.

Heavy flames and smoke completely enveloped the Tracker on the ground, and the incessant High Explosive Armor Piercing Bullets caused every inch of the Tracker’s body to be shattered to pieces.

After firing five AT-4 rocket launchers in succession, Zhang Yanhang finally heard the delightful kill confirmation tone. He had been waiting for this moment for too long. Ever since his first entry into the Ashen World, he had wanted to eliminate the Tracker, and now, after nearly two weeks, he had finally killed the Tracker.

[Successfully killed Second Tier Four-star Monster ’T-103 Type Tyrant・Tracker (Lord Monster)’ ×1, Soul points +3000.]