Ashen God
Chapter 230 - 229: A Mob

Chapter 230: Chapter 229: A Mob

Curse Binding Vajra: "After entering the Second Tier, the destructive power of an Awakener increases significantly, effectively allowing them to completely disregard ordinary people. Therefore, during the early stage of Spiritual Qi Recovery, some people matched other names with Ranks.

For example, First Tier is Village-level, Second Tier is Town Level, Third Tier is County Level, Fourth Tier is City-level, Fifth Tier is Provincial, and Sixth Tier is Empire-level. The main idea is that a First Tier Awakener, at full strength, can quickly destroy a village-level unit, while a Second Tier Awakener can swiftly annihilate a town-level unit. The same logic applied to other Ranks.

But because these names are not as concise as First Tier, Second Tier, Third Tier, and so on, which are the official Empire designations, and they are not accurate enough, they were only popular for a while during the initial period of Spiritual Qi Recovery."

Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but fall into thought as he looked at the long string of messages sent by the group admin. It seemed that the admin’s points were indeed well-founded. Although he had not seen other Second Tier Awakened in action, as for himself, he could indeed easily cause massive destruction in a short period of time.

Even, if Zhang Yanhang were in a densely populated area, he could entirely kill tens of thousands of people in under a minute.

Take, for instance, the university where Zhang Yanhang is currently located; it belongs to an extremely densely populated area with thousands of people gathering in this small area.

Once Zhang Yanhang activated his Death Wave Skill here, he could kill thousands in an instant. Moreover, with his Movement Speed of 57 meters per second, he could cover 3420 meters in one minute. Calculating the release of Death Wave every 250 meters to the limit, Zhang Yanhang could unleash the skill roughly fourteen times.

And these fourteen releases could cover an area of approximately 0.7 square kilometers. It’s important to note that in Qin Island City, even the area with the lowest population density still has several thousand residents per square kilometer. The population density in the Southern City District, where Zhang Yanhang’s university is located, is a frightening twenty thousand.

That is to say, given just one minute, Zhang Yanhang could kill at least fourteen thousand people with just his Death Wave Skill, without a doubt, an incredibly terrifying number.

After doing some rough calculations, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help being a bit frightened. He was just a Second Tier, and it only took a minute, but he was capable of inflicting such immense damage. If he had enough time, say an hour, he could potentially destroy the entire Southern City District by himself.

Well, Zhang Yanhang might be an exception, after all, not all Awakeners possess a mass destruction Skill like Death Wave.

But even with just the physical capabilities of a Second Tier Awakener, killing hundreds of ordinary Humans in under a minute would certainly be no issue.

Adding the endurance brought by the Constitution Attribute, even an ordinary Second Tier Awakener could indeed quickly destroy a village-level Unit. After all, a town usually only has thousands of people, and to a Second Tier Awakener, ordinary Humans are definitely much easier to deal with than the Monsters of Ashen World.

With the rich combat experience of Awakeners, dealing with ordinary people is like using a sledgehammer to crack nuts. Although it might be a bit of an overkill, the advantage of overkill is its high efficiency.

"No wonder the Empire issues a basic allowance to all Awakeners. If an Awakener were to cause trouble, it feels like by the time they reach Third Tier, they could easily demolish a small African nation."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that a typical small African nation might have an army of a few thousand at most, certainly no match for a Third Tier Awakener. At most, they might besiege a Second Tier Awakener, and that’s if they are fearless and don’t disperse.

You should know that a normal military force can generally manage to fight until casualty rates exceed ten percent before reaching a state of collapse, but for African troops, having even one percent casualty rates is considered strict discipline. So, such a ragtag bunch, even when facing a Second Tier Awakener, would likely fall short.

"It’s like I suddenly understand why small African nations are always so chaotic. When ordinary Human Tyrants ruled, it was like they wouldn’t bother leaving the house if they didn’t kill a few thousand, but now with Awakeners relying on their formidable power to take charge, in comparison to the original Tyrants, they absolutely go beyond in their dealings with ordinary citizens.

Although ordinary Human Tyrants are nothing to write home about, they are much better compared to wild Awakeners who might emerge from completely untamed backgrounds, perhaps even illiterate.

Zhang Yanhang is already imagining scenes of carnage caused by wild High-level Awakened in Africa when even a slight gesture results in countless casualties.

"And if wild Awakeners fight among themselves, they can easily reduce the country’s few basic infrastructures to rubble – such as the few hospitals, schools, power plants..."

Zhang Yanhang finally understood why the news every now and then would report civil unrest in some African nation. It’s certainly because some wild Awakener refused to submit to the brutal rule of another.

But from Zhang Yanhang’s observation of the news for so long, conflicts between wild Awakeners generally lead to two outcomes: either the challenger is defeated by the ruler, who then consolidates their rule, or the challenger defeats the ruler and ascends, embarking on even more brutal rule.

There’s a saying that goes, ’The Dragonslayer eventually becomes the Evil Dragon.’ Nobody is surprised by this outcome; it’s just that on this continent of Africa, which has often produced Tyrants, this process is exceptionally rapid.

The main reason is that the cultural level of wild Awakeners in Africa is extremely low; most of them are illiterate. So after challengers have had enough of the rulers’ oppression and succeed in overthrowing them, they immediately and subconsciously continue the previous rulers’ methods, since the concept of reform is naturally absent from their minds.

Therefore, wild Awakeners who come to power this way are genuinely worse for the ordinary people than Human Tyrants. At least, a Human Tyrant may sustain their exploitation without pushing the people too hard.

But each new wild Awakener is more ruthless than the last, with stronger exploitation, acting with a relentless commitment to squeeze them dry. After all, they could be overthrown by other wild Awakeners at any moment, so they need to extract as many benefits as possible within the limited time they have.

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