Ashen God
Chapter 245 - 244 Moving Forward Successively

Chapter 245: Chapter 244 Moving Forward Successively

Originally, the corridor was filled with the "click-click-click" noises made by the collisions of the Crimson Iron Worker Ant limbs, and even some high-decibel noise generated by the flapping wings of the Crimson Iron Flying Ants.

Now, it seemed that with the activation of the Death Wave Skill, the surrounding noise immediately decreased by a large margin, leaving only faint sounds coming from afar.

However, although the environmental noise indeed had vanished, Zhang Yanhang’s ears were immediately engulfed by another kind of sound right after activating the Death Wave Skill—yes, it was the kill-notification sounds resulting from slaying the Crimson Iron Worker Ants.

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

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

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

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Although it was only a second, Zhang Yanhang was bombarded with over two hundred similar kill notifications in rapid succession. He had never killed so many monsters in such a short span of time before, and his only feeling right now was a buzzing in his head, slightly struggling to adapt.

But even though his head was buzzing, Zhang Yanhang felt that he should be able to adapt with more exposure, especially since he was definitely going to use the Death Wave Skill to hunt monsters often in the future.

Moreover, although this high-frequency bombardment of notifications wasn’t exactly friendly to Zhang Yanhang, he still hoped for more such instances in the future, as each notification represented Soul points and Treasure boxes he gained.

Looking at the corridor now completely covered with the crimson sticky liquid and corpses of the Crimson Iron Worker Ants, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but nod in satisfaction. He was quite pleased with the power of the Death Wave Skill—it truly deserved to be a skill from the Ancient Reaper Yeager, undeniably powerful.

"But as dominant as it is, the physical strength consumption is too much, isn’t it? The skill description only mentions a small amount of physical strength needed, but this ’small amount’ is completely different from the ’small amount’ in Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil. Could it be because the range represented by ’small’ is even broader compared to the previously defined ’tiny’?"

Zhang Yanhang remembered that the range between the upper and lower limits of ’tiny’ was at least tenfold, and now it seemed that the range represented by ’small’ had become even more ridiculous.

"Why must they use such vague adjectives to describe skill consumption? It’s not precise at all. It made me think that the consumption for Death Wave was similar to that for Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, both belonging to skills that could be activated for a long duration."

Because the description of the Death Wave Skill noted that upon activation, it would cause 270 points of fixed damage to everyone within the coverage area, indiscriminately affecting friends and foes alike, Zhang Yanhang had never used this skill in the Main World.

After all, Zhang Yanhang was too lazy to go to the suburbs, and once the Death Wave Skill was activated within the urban areas, given its current high coverage area of 250 meters, it was estimated that it would instantly kill hundreds of innocent people.

And then there would be no after that—Zhang Yanhang, upon activating the Death Wave, would immediately be taken away by the enforcement officials who flash in due to the massacre committed, which would be truly distressing.

Therefore, using the Death Wave Skill in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest this time was actually Zhang Yanhang’s first time using it, but after its use, he immediately noticed something terribly wrong—the consumption of his physical strength was far too great.

As for how great the physical strength consumption was? Zhang Yanhang estimated that if he consecutively released the Death Wave Skill, it would only take a few dozen times before his physical strength was completely drained.

That is to say, at a frequency of once per second, Zhang Yanhang would exhaust all his physical strength within a minute, whereas Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, also labeled as consuming a ’small amount’ of physical strength, allowed him to casually activate it for an hour or two. The difference between the two was like night and day.

Although a few dozen times might sound like a lot, Zhang Yanhang had already calculated the coverage area of the Death Wave Skill before. It would take fourteen uses to cover an area of 0.7 square kilometers, and using it a few dozen times would cover an area of only about three to four square kilometers at most.

Even though an area of three to four square kilometers was already not small, Zhang Yanhang had roughly explored the area of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest during his last visit, and the answer was that its area was similar to that of Raccoon City, both being around forty square kilometers.

Thus, if he only relied on the Death Wave Skill to hunt monsters, even if Zhang Yanhang exhausted all his physical strength, he could only clear about one tenth of the area of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest before needing to rest, which was quite troublesome.

"Since that’s the case, it seems I can’t rely solely on the Death Wave Skill to hunt monsters after all. I should supplement it with machine guns and Thermo-baric Bombs to maximize the area cleared each time. Otherwise, resting after clearing just one-tenth of the area each time might end up taking more than five days."

Zhang Yanhang, after his promotion to Second Tier, hadn’t yet tested how long it would take to fully recover his physical strength, but based on his past experience, it would require at least about eight hours.

Therefore, if Zhang Yanhang could only clear about one-tenth of the area of the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu each time, he would need to rest for about three to four days.

The problem was that Zhang Yanhang only had a total of five days, plus an additional six hours. Hunting monsters also took time, and with the travel time, although he had five days and six hours, it might not be enough.

Thus, facing this situation, Zhang Yanhang felt it would be best not to release too many consecutive Death Waves in a short period, to allow some time for his physical strength to recover. This way, he could clear more area in one go.

While Zhang Yanhang was contemplating, the rear of the corridor was once again filled with Crimson Iron Worker Ants walking over the corpses of other ants, but compared to before, the number of Worker Ants rushing over this time was clearly less.

"It would be great if all monsters could just come to me like these Crimson Iron Worker Ants are doing now," Zhang Yanhang mused silently.