Ashen God
Chapter 301 - 230: Crimson Flame Bite

Chapter 301: Chapter 230: Crimson Flame Bite

Upon seeing the Acid Liquid Fireball in the Crimson Iron Ant King’s skill list, Zhang Yanhang suddenly remembered something. These Acid Liquid Fireballs were skill attacks, not normal attacks, and theoretically, they were on the same level as the Beta-type Hunter’s Death Claw.

The Beta-type Hunter’s Death Claw could cause a fixed reduction in Zhang Yanhang’s shield value due to its armor penetration damage, while the Acid Liquid Fireball could only cause flame and acid damage due to being a different type of attack. Therefore, the damage it dealt was definitely not as high as that of the Death Claw.

Even if the damage dealt by the Acid Liquid Fireball was not as critical as that of the Death Claw, it was still a legitimate skill attack. Now, Zhang Yanhang was able to withstand such skill attacks with only two or three points of damage, which was a significant improvement compared to before.

Before, when he was at the First Tier, besides reducing his shield value with armor penetration damage, the Beta-type Hunter’s normal attacks boosted by attack power could also reduce around ten or more points of his shield value. Thus, comparing the two, Zhang Yanhang had indeed made a great improvement.

Zhang Yanhang felt that given the current situation, if the Crimson Iron Ant King were to use skills other than Acid Liquid Fireball or normal attacks, his energy shield, which could barely be depleted by two or three points of shield value, would probably not react at all and would directly be immune to that part of the attack.

"The Crimson Iron Ant King has indeed entered the magical realm of ’only eating without excreting,’ just as I predicted before..."

Zhang Yanhang noticed that the last line in the introduction of the Crimson Iron Ant King’s talent mentioned that when the Crimson Iron Ant King ate the crimson iron ore, it achieved complete digestion, which led to the creation of a certain type of hormone with magical effects in its body.

Normally, compared to the ’only eating without excreting,’ Zhang Yanhang would be more interested in that hormone. However, since he had already consumed two bottles of the concentrated hormone from the Crimson Iron Ant King, he was not curious about that hormone with magical effects at all now.

Previously, Zhang Yanhang had thought about allowing the Crimson Iron Ant King to mate with the Crimson Iron Ant Queen before killing it to obtain the hormone, although this idea was rejected at that time. But looking at the specific situation now, even if he wanted to execute this idea, it was simply not possible because the two were never together.

"Thirty-eight points in strength attribute and thirty-seven points in constitution attribute indeed match the level of Second Tier Three Stars. Now it seems that the elite quality does indeed mean that a monster’s strength is one star higher than its normal level.

Moreover, aside from the strength of a Second Tier Three Stars, this Crimson Iron Ant King also has ten points of charm attribute value. All previous Crimson Iron Ants had only one point of charm attribute. Having ten points now means that the Crimson Iron Ant King’s charm attribute is equivalent to twice that of an average adult, making it truly as handsome as Pan An."

Since the hormone inside the Crimson Iron Ant King could be concentrated to make an alchemy potion that increases charm attribute, Zhang Yanhang had every reason to believe that the high charm attribute value of the Crimson Iron Ant King was definitely due to the miraculous hormone it produced.

"I don’t think these three Crimson Iron Ant Kings look any better though. So where exactly has this part of the charm attribute value enhanced? Did it enhance some kind of inner beauty? I don’t think so."

Rather than inner beauty, Zhang Yanhang was more inclined to believe that the ten points of charm attribute were indeed used to enhance the aesthetic appeal of the Crimson Iron Ant King, and he simply couldn’t see it because of different aesthetic standards.

Unlike the Crimson Iron Ant King, which had ten points of charm but looked exactly like the other Crimson Iron Ants, Zhang Yanhang now also possessed thirty-two points of charm attribute value. So, even if only part of it genuinely affected his looks, it indeed made him much handsomer.

However, as for the changes in his appearance, Zhang Yanhang generally did not pay much attention since being handsome did not increase combat effectiveness or efficiency in hunting monsters. So why should he care about such trivial matters?

Zhang Yanhang felt that if he wanted to take advantage of his looks in the Ashen World, he would at least need to encounter humanoid monsters, particularly female ones, to have a slight possibility.

But now, let alone female humanoid monsters, Zhang Yanhang had not even found any female monsters barely resembling humans, so focusing on looks was indeed a pointless matter.

Just as Zhang Yanhang was about to check out the new skill Crimson Flame Bite that he had never seen before, he suddenly noticed that one of the Crimson Iron Ant Kings had already lunged toward him, and its mouthparts were covered with a large amount of crimson flames.

"Wait, isn’t this the so-called ’Crimson Flame Bite’?"

While Zhang Yanhang was thinking this, the Crimson Iron Ant King had already clamped onto his body with its huge mouthparts, at least a meter wide when opened, and began to incessantly spew flames while simultaneously squeezing the energy shield with its mouthparts.

Zhang Yanhang, watching the ugly mouthparts of the Crimson Iron Ant King in front of him, couldn’t help but release the Death Wave Skill.

Up till now, all the monsters he had encountered while executing the Death Wave Skill had a life value limit far below the fixed damage of the Death Wave Skill itself, so he could achieve an instant kill right after releasing the skill.

But this time was different. The Crimson Iron Ant King he encountered this time had a life value limit of seven hundred forty points. Although he could achieve an instant kill with seven hundred fifty points of fixed damage if he could max out both the intelligence attribute bonus and charm attribute bonus, it was not feasible at the moment.

Currently, Zhang Yanhang’s fixed damage was only six hundred forty-five points, still ninety-five points short of instantly killing the Crimson Iron Ant King with seven hundred forty points of life value limit.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang wanted to conduct a simple experiment using these three Crimson Iron Ant Kings. The specific content of the experiment was to see what outcome would occur if a monster, after experiencing the Death Wave Skill, did not have its life value immediately cleared.

This experiment was relatively important for Zhang Yanhang, as he couldn’t always hunt lower-tier monsters, and most of the time, he had to face same-tier monsters.

Once facing same-tier monsters, especially those with high constitution attributes, encountering monsters that couldn’t be instantly killed by the Death Wave Skill was very likely, and it was really significant to see how these monsters would react.