Ashen God
Chapter 271 - 270: Third Stage Cleanup Plan

Chapter 271: Chapter 270: Third Stage Cleanup Plan

[Item Four]

[Option One: Ant Power, Quality E, Talent]

[Option Two: Crimson Iron Ant (Flying Ant), Quality E, Talent]

[Option Three: Crimson Iron Ant (Soldier Ant), Quality E, Talent]

"Sigh, the much-anticipated Blue quality new equipment didn’t appear. I don’t have much expectation for what’s left in the treasure box now...

I mean, the Crimson Iron Soldier Ants are already First Tier Two Stars monsters, but how come their Talent levels are still at the same level as the One Star First Tier Crimson Iron Worker Ant and the Crimson Iron Flying Ant?"

Zhang Yanhang initially thought that a talent like the Crimson Iron Soldier Ant should at least be rated a D since its enhancement was quite significant. It even enabled the Crimson Iron Soldier Ants to perform magic attacks and spit out Crimson Flame Fireballs, but to his surprise, it was only rated E.

"It looks like Ashen World’s formula for evaluating Talent levels is somewhat strict. Perhaps only a First Tier Three Stars Crimson Iron Ant and a Second Tier Crimson Iron Ant could attain a D-level Talent."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that when he was in Raccoon City, it started with the Beta-type Hunter and the Gamma Type Hunter, who were First Tier Three Stars, being rated as D-level Talent, and similarly, the Second Order One Star T-001 Prototype Tyrant was also D-level Talent.

"Put another way, it can be said that the Talent level has a high quality value, with a rather large gap between the upper and lower limits, or even ridiculously large. Otherwise, you wouldn’t see a Second-tier Prototype Tyrant and First Tier Three Star ordinary monsters like Beta-type Hunter and Gamma Type Hunter at the same level."

Zhang Yanhang felt from a strength perspective, the Second Order One Star T-001 Prototype Tyrant could completely overwhelm both the Beta-type Hunter and the Gamma Type Hunter, and could easily handle the attacks from several Hunters.

By the way, the highest quality Racial Talent Zhang Yanhang had seen so far was only a C-grade, originating from a Lord Monster Tracker who had possessed Second Order Four Star strength before death.

Although it only had the capabilities of a Second Order Four Stars before death, the Tracker actually had the ability to transform into a Third Tier One-star, yet the Talent level was fixed and would not rise with strength. Thus, Zhang Yanhang believed the C-grade Racial Talent should logically correspond to Second to Third Tier.

Inferentially, a D-grade Talent corresponds to First to Second Tier. The difference in strength between First and Second Tiers can be seen from Zhang Yanhang himself, who could now easily annihilate his former First Tier self.

It was precisely because of this that Zhang Yanhang found the gap between the upper and lower limits of Talent somewhat absurd, just like the absurd disparity between small amounts of Physical Strength.

The Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, which could be used continuously for several hours, compared to Death Wave, which would exhaust Physical Strength after just a dozen uses or so, make Zhang Yanhang feel, even now, that Ashen World marking the energy consumption of both as minor is nothing short of consumer fraud.

[Item Five]

[Option One: Mouthparts of a Crimson Iron Soldier Ant (a pair), Green quality, Material]

[Option Two: 35 Soul points]

[Option Three: 70 Soul points]

"The mouthparts of the Crimson Iron Soldier Ants are still considered Green quality material? I actually find them quite fragile... But since they are the hardest part of a Crimson Iron Soldier Ant, a Green quality rating seems reasonable."

Zhang Yanhang believed that the reason why the mouthparts of the Crimson Iron Soldier Ant could achieve Green quality was mostly because they absorbed the most nutritious part of the Crimson iron ore and used it to form their mouthparts, thus achieving this result.

Although Zhang Yanhang might truly find these items fragile, it’s quite normal after all, as there isn’t anything in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest that isn’t brittle to someone who had advanced to the Second Tier.

Previously, a full-force punch from Zhang Yanhang could only chip off a layer of stone from the walls made of Crimson iron ore, but now, with a basic strength of eight and a half tons plus various bonuses, he could easily punch a large pile of rubble from the wall, leaving a deep imprint, quite like a human-shaped stone crusher.

"But even though it’s Green quality material, it’s still useless to me. Perhaps only material of Blue quality might entice me a bit."

Zhang Yanhang was still at the Second Tier, so Green quality items still had some utility for him. Once he ascended to the Third Tier, only items of Blue quality or higher would continue to be useful.

"So, I’ll choose ’70 Soul points,’ ’70 Soul points,’ ’Crimson Iron Heart,’ ’Ant Power,’ ’70 Soul points.’"

After making his final selection, time resumed its flow, but he immediately picked up another treasure box. This time he planned to continuously open around two hundred treasure boxes, which would probably take around ten minutes just to open.

.....

Ten minutes later, Zhang Yanhang quickly finished opening all the treasure boxes, and he immediately began to tally the various items he had gotten from the treasure boxes this time.

First of all, of course, was the most important Ant Power. This time he obtained a total of one hundred ninety-two E level Talent Ant Powers, and including the previous forty-one Ant Powers, Zhang Yanhang now had a total of two hundred thirty-three Ant Powers in his possession.

However, unfortunately, although Zhang Yanhang had over two hundred Ant Powers, upgrading the A-level Talent Power of Bull Demon to S-level required two hundred forty-three Ant Powers, meaning that Zhang Yanhang was still short of the last ten Ant Powers needed to upgrade the Power of Bull Demon.

"Just ten short, that’s a bit frustrating. I should have worked harder to clean up an extra square kilometer of area before going to sleep; if I had, I might have been able to gather all the needed two hundred forty-three Ant Powers."

But not being able to gather enough Ant Powers for the upgrade was unavoidable. The upgrade would have to wait until next time he opened treasure boxes, and Zhang Yanhang estimated that he wouldn’t accrue treasure boxes in the triple digits again until after completing the Third Stage of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest clearance project.

After all, he was currently executing the Second Tier Stage of the plan, and there were only three more areas left to clear in this stage.

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