Ashen God
Chapter 298 - 297: Complete Annihilation of the Crimson Iron Ants

Chapter 298: Chapter 297: Complete Annihilation of the Crimson Iron Ants

The exoskeleton on the bodies of the Crimson Iron Worker Ants had already turned pitch-black upon initial contact with the flames and had begun to melt on the outermost layer.

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

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

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

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Even the Crimson Iron Worker Ants located in the comparatively outer regions of the Thermo-baric Bomb’s range ended up like this, not to mention the Crimson Iron Flying Ants and Crimson Iron Soldier Ants at the center of the explosion.

In fact, as VIP recipients of the Thermo-baric Bomb’s immediate, highest-grade service, the Crimson Iron Flying Ants and Crimson Iron Soldier Ants were blasted into a barely recognizable mix of flesh and shards of exoskeleton due to the enormity of the blast’s impact at the moment of explosion.

Then, the mangled remains, formed by the Crimson Iron Flying Ants and Crimson Iron Soldier Ants, immediately enjoyed expedited cremation services. The fireball, a result of the high-temperature, high-pressure burst from the bomb, used its thousands of degrees of heat to incinerate the corpses completely, turning them into charcoal by consuming the surrounding oxygen.

And as the subsequent shockwave burst forth, this charcoal was shattered by the force and blown into the sky, effectively scattering even their ashes.

Massive flames raged and swirled within the cavern until, seconds later, the dwindling oxygen in the air caused them to finally vanish.

Under normal circumstances, the disappearance of the flames would have resulted in a corresponding mushroom cloud. But due to the peculiar environment inside the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, although indeed a mushroom cloud formed because of the air currents, it was rather sparse, a faint grey-black that dissipated quickly and disappeared in no time.

It’s worth mentioning that the grey part of the grey-black cloud was smoke created by the burning flames and the explosion of the Thermo-baric Bomb, whereas the black part was mostly ashes swept into the air, consisting mainly of the Crimson Iron Soldier Ants and the Crimson Iron Flying Ants, even though there were some ashes of the Crimson Iron Worker Ants mixed in.

After all, compared to the larger, incompletely burnt remains in the outer areas, it was undoubtedly easier for the ashes of the Crimson Iron Soldier Ants and the Crimson Iron Flying Ants, whose bodies were directly blasted into tiny fragments, to be carried by the airstream and rise up to form a mushroom cloud.

However, Zhang Yanhang wasn’t overly concerned with the mushroom cloud because he was deeply troubled by the notifications for kills at the moment.

[Successfully killed a First Tier Two Stars Monster ’Crimson Iron Soldier Ant (Ordinary)’ ×1, Soul points +7.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier Two Stars Monster ’Crimson Iron Soldier Ant (Ordinary)’ ×1, Soul points +7.]

"[Successfully killed a First Tier Two-star Monster ’Crimson Iron Soldier Ant (Ordinary)’ ×1, Soul points +7.]"

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At the moment the thermo-baric bomb exploded, Zhang Yanhang’s mind began to be incessantly flooded with an ultra-high frequency of kill notifications, at least several hundred, and as the aftermath of the thermo-baric bomb continued to spread, his mind was assaulted with thousands of kill notifications per second.

Facing the thousands of kill notifications bombarding his brain with high frequency, Zhang Yanhang was completely stunned, his only feeling being that his head hurt.

After a while, Zhang Yanhang gradually recovered his senses, and when he looked around again with his own eyes, all that remained were black charred corpses. The surrounding air had been scorched to a high-temperature state by the exploding bomb, giving the entire area an unnaturally distorted appearance.

But Zhang Yanhang’s focus wasn’t on the remains of the Crimson Iron Ants. What truly caught his attention were the large numbers of treasure boxes that had materialized on the charred bodies of the ants. Three-digit numbers of white drop treasure boxes, mixed with dozens of green drop treasure boxes, were scattered tastefully over the bodies of the ants.

After taking a brief pause, Zhang Yanhang immediately started collecting the treasure boxes. In the past, at most, he had only ever obtained a double-digit number of treasure boxes at one time, but on this occasion, he had acquired a triple-digit number in one fell swoop, smashing the record previously held by the zombie horde in Raccoon City.

After collecting all the treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang quickly stowed them in his waist bag, as it was clearly not a suitable time to open treasure boxes. Next, he had to hurry to finish off the last Crimson Iron Ant King and the Crimson Iron Ant Queen.

Zhang Yanhang ran fast towards the core area where the Crimson Iron Ant King and the Crimson Iron Ant Queen were located, pondering a problem as he ran. His previous idea of finding a city densely populated with humanoid creatures and then using the Death Wave Skill for rapid hunting now seemed to have many flaws.

Having quickly hunted over three thousand Crimson Iron Ants with a thermo-baric bomb, and after continuously killing so many Crimson Iron Ants, he found that he could now roughly ignore the bombardment of about one hundred kill notifications per second, but he was completely unable to adapt to the super-high frequency bombardment of a thousand per second.

If he had to take a breather after every time he used the Death Wave Skill to kill a large number of monsters, then the monsters would have surely escaped long before using that time.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang felt that he should gradually increase his ability to adapt in this area. Only then could he carry out that plan to hunt in a city of humanoid creatures. As for how exactly to adapt, that naturally involved attempting to kill a larger number of monsters at once each time.

For instance, killing a few hundred at a time and gradually getting used to this magnitude, the immunity to the super-high frequency bombardment of a thousand per second would surely greatly improve, and he wouldn’t end up like now, with his brain completely dominated by kill notifications, making him shut down entirely.

"But the problem is, I simply can’t easily kill hundreds of monsters at once unless the monsters gather together themselves..." Zhang Yanhang felt that his idea of practicing adaptability by killing more monsters was completely wishful thinking and realistically quite difficult to achieve.

"If I had known that the fused thermo-baric bombs were so powerful, I would have just launched ordinary thermobaric bombs instead. After all, the ordinary ones should have been more than enough."

Back in the Main World, since Zhang Yanhang didn’t have an appropriate place to test the power of thermo-baric bombs, he felt that the ordinary bombs might not be very useful, so he had fused them.