Ashen God
Chapter 257 - 256 Filling the Void

Chapter 257: Chapter 256 Filling the Void

Once the Energy Shield was enhanced by the Defense bonus of the Indestructible Golden Body, Zhang Yanhang was confident that he could be immune to attacks from weaker three-star monsters, which would allow him to bravely fight against higher-level monsters. After all, if he couldn’t be breached, couldn’t he just hit them at will and win?

"This upgrade has increased the Life Value Limit by another 5%, which should raise my Life Value Limit substantially. Moreover, Defense bonus and Attack Power Bonus have also increased by 25% and 5%, respectively. It’s just a pity that if it can only cover the arms and calves, it’s temporarily useless for me."

Zhang Yanhang felt that the Indestructible Golden Body would only truly be useful when he upgraded it to LV.MAX. As of now, it wasn’t very useful for him.

This was because when it came to fighting Crimson Iron Ants, he didn’t need to enhance his arms and calves separately. If he had to use it, then it would probably only serve to unnecessarily increase his Physical Strength consumption.

"So, what should I do next? It seems everything is wrapped up; the next step should be to clear out the remaining four-fifths of the Crimson Iron Ants in the nest. No, four-fifths may be an inaccurate proportion.

The last time I was here, I had already cleared out four or five hundred Crimson Iron Ants. Adding the two thousand or more that I just killed, given a total number of ten thousand, I might have already taken care of a quarter of them.

Though it’s been five days since the last visit to the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, and some ants might have respawned during this time, I don’t think there would be too many even if there were a respawn."

Since it was only his second visit to the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, Zhang Yanhang was not as familiar with the monster respawn rate here as he was with Raccoon City, which was like his happy hometown. He felt that he could only accurately calculate the specific respawn speed after clearing out the entire Crimson Iron Ant Nest and then waiting for a few more days.

The reason he thought that not many monsters would respawn in five days is that, in the Ashen World, monsters respawn to fill the void. If the gap in monsters is small, then the respawn speed should be correspondingly slow; this was an experience Zhang Yanhang had summarized previously in Raccoon City.

During his second entry into Raccoon City, only a little over a hundred monsters had respawned because, at that time, Zhang Yanhang only eliminated monsters from a small part of the city.

However, on his third entry into Raccoon City, over six hundred monsters had respawned within the entire area, showing a fivefold difference between the two instances.

Despite the same period of four days, the numbers of respawned monsters could not compare. The reason was that by the third entry into the Ashen World, Zhang Yanhang had almost cleared out the entire Raccoon City, leaving only the sewers and the Raccoon City branch of the Umbrella company uncleared.

For the whole of Raccoon City, the sewers and the Raccoon City branch of the Umbrella company were relatively insignificant, so at that time, Raccoon City was essentially refilling monsters in all the vacant areas. Although each individual area might not have many, the total number appeared much more significant.

Based on this reasoning, Zhang Yanhang thought that for the small area he cleared last time, the Crimson Iron Ant Nest might have just respawned a few dozen ants at most; certainly not enough to immediately fill the void of five hundred ants.

Accordingly, the Crimson Iron Ants in the nest should indeed be considered a quarter cleared out by now, and in the next few days, Zhang Yanhang needed to clear the remaining three-quarters in the same manner.

Of course, if possible, Zhang Yanhang hoped his prediction was wrong because a faster respawn rate of monsters would actually benefit him, allowing him to obtain more E-rank Talent "Ant Power." Unfortunately, the likelihood of the monster respawn rate increasing was very low.

Before starting his plan to clear out the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, Zhang Yanhang first opened his data panel to take a look.

[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Second Tier)]

[Race: Human]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 20]

[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]

[Level: LV.13 (0/6000)]

[Soul Points: 224]

[Shield Value: 2765/2765 (Life Value Limit × 150%, Recovery Speed: 20% per second.)]

[Life Value: 1843/1843 (Constitution × 20, the body has been officially digitized, Life Value Recovery Speed, 15 points per hour.)]

[Energy Value: 840/840 (Intelligence × 15, the body has been officially digitized, Energy Value Recovery Speed, 42 points per hour.)]

[Strength: 47 (+3)]

[Agility: 47 (+3)]

[Constitution: 50 (+3)]

[Intelligence: 46 (+3)]

[Charm: 23 (+14)]

[Luck: ??? (This attribute is Hidden)]

[Talent: 1. Multiple Choice (???). 2. Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea (SS-rank). 3. Power of Bull Demon (A-rank).]

[Skills: 1. Limitless Universe Skill [Second Tier] LV.4 (Passive/Active). 2. Alchemy (Active Skill). 3. Gun Master LV.MAX (Passive Skill). 4. Fighting Master LV.MAX (Passive Skill). 5. Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil LV.MAX (Passive/Active). 6. Technique Immunity Skill LV.MAX (Passive Skill). 7. Death Wave LV.6 (Passive/Active). 8. Supreme Will LV.1 (Passive Skill). 9. Indestructible Golden Body LV.5 (Passive/Active).]

"Since I’ve just upgraded the Indestructible Golden Body to LV.5, the Life Value Limit has increased by another 5%, also increasing by 74 Life Value points, and correspondingly, the Shield Value Limit has grown by 111 points."

Zhang Yanhang estimated that if he could upgrade his Indestructible Golden Body a few more levels, his Life Value Limit and Shield Value Limit would soon exceed two thousand points and three thousand points, respectively, whereas his Energy Value Limit might still not even reach a thousand points and remain in the three-digit range.

Thinking about this, Zhang Yanhang felt a bit sad, but it was inevitable since he had not found any other ways to increase his Energy Value Limit.

"Suddenly, I realize I still have 224 Soul points left, and Supreme Will is still only at LV.1. If I used these Soul points, I could probably upgrade Supreme Will to LV.3. So the question arises whether I should also take the opportunity to upgrade Supreme Will?"

Zhang Yanhang thought carefully; after all, it would only require 150 Soul points, so upgrading it wouldn’t really matter.