Ashen God
Chapter 385 - 384: Sputum Spray

Chapter 385: Chapter 384: Sputum Spray

"After all, it was such a death-related choice that Zhang Yanhang felt that even just using it to kill a First Tier Miscellaneous Monster would likely consume a massive amount of Energy Value, and the profit it brought was also just a normal Soul Point.

It was precisely because he knew that using this method to kill a Monster was highly likely to result in an inefficient scenario where the costs exceeded the benefits that Zhang Yanhang had never tried this type of Multiple Choice.

Furthermore, when facing such a degree of Energy Value consumption, whether it was successful or not didn’t really matter; Zhang Yanhang definitely wouldn’t consider it a normal method to hunt Monsters.

After all, the First Tier Zero Star ordinary Zombies were utterly insignificant in front of Zhang Yanhang. To make what might seem like an exaggerated statement, but which he could actually easily carry out, Zhang Yanhang could spit out phlegm and directly shoot through the brain of an ordinary Zombie. So why would he bother with pursuing a Multiple Choice Support Type Talent to aid him in indirectly killing Monsters?

Wouldn’t that just be a completely superfluous act—unnecessarily complicated as taking off your pants just to fart?

By the way, Zhang Yanhang’s confidence in killing Zombies with just a spit of thick phlegm also came from the recent upgrade to his Indestructible Golden Body LV.MAX, which allowed him to use it to enhance his sputum’s defensive power and Attack Power.

The main reason was that the muscles that composed the tongue were among the most durable in the human body. Although they couldn’t fully exert the Thirteen Tons of force like an arm due to structural reasons.

But even just a small fraction of that, that’s still several tons of power!

Firing a loogie that’s tougher than a normal bullet, with the Golden Body Effect from his mouth, and considering several tons of force behind it—you wouldn’t just talk about killing ordinary First Tier Zero Star Zombies, even shooting through a First Tier One Star Crimson Iron Worker Ant with Exoskeleton Armor wouldn’t likely pose an issue.

Even more so, if Zhang Yanhang were to expend a bit of Energy Value to bless that sputum with Spiritual Qi, then First Tier Monsters would look even less impressive, and in terms of power, it might even straight-up kill a Second-tier Monster.

Of course, as it was just a spit of phlegm after all, it might suffice against Monsters, but if used to attack an Awakener of the same Tier, it probably wouldn’t be very effective and would likely just produce a feedback of ’minimal lethality, but extremely insulting.’

Therefore, overall, if Zhang Yanhang were an assassin, this ability to kill well-protected yet weak targets through Multiple Choice and disguise the death as accidental or natural might indeed be useful.

But the problem is he is not an assassin, and his combat style has nothing to do with assassination, so a method of using Multiple Choice to indirectly kill enemies can’t even be considered a luxury; it basically doesn’t fit any scenario or context at all.

As such, it can be concluded that using Multiple Choice to indirectly kill enemies is indeed too cost-inefficient.

For Zhang Yanhang, even if he didn’t use the part of the Energy Value originally intended for choices to cast All Four Elements are Void or create Thermo-baric Bombs, he’d still probably have enough to spit out a hundred loogies blessed with Spiritual Qi.

When such a large amount of spit strikes the enemy simultaneously, the best outcome for the enemy would at least be left riddled with holes; a slightly worse outcome would be to have their body shattered by the initial loogies and then further mutilated into a pile of minced meat by the later ones.

Of course, limited by the rate of production of his own phlegm, Zhang Yanhang could also accumulate a big pool of it, channel a whole load of Energy Value into it, thus creating a more concentrated attack, probably pulverizing the enemy with a single shot.

Therefore, the crux of the matter is here: if Zhang Yanhang’s simple spit is more convenient than killing enemies through Multiple Choice, then why should he pursue this low-cost-effective method of using Multiple Choice to indirectly kill enemies? It’s utterly meaningless.

And for this reason, unlike the indirect attack methods that are both time-consuming and unappreciated, Zhang Yanhang sees more potential in Multiple Choice’s direct attack methods, like making a Monster immediately die as an available option after his Energy value limit rises in the future.

In such a case, Multiple Choice would be barely adequate as a relatively ordinary means of attack—well, perhaps not just adequate as an attack, but taking a solid step towards the wonderful dream of ’Speak and follow.’

Although these direct attack methods would probably consume even more Energy than indirect ones, they would at least save time, not requiring him to wait foolishly for an accident to happen. Yet, in terms of cost-effectiveness, they might still not match up to Zhang Yanhang’s expectorate.

But how low would it be to resort to using phlegm? Compared to that, ’Speak and follow’ type of attacks were without a doubt much cooler and possessed a higher bluffing value, even if they’re not typically useful, they would be great for showing off at crucial moments.

However, it’s regrettable that to achieve such level of choice, the Energy value limit of the Second Tier is definitely not enough. At a minimum, he’d have to wait until his Promotion to the Third Tier or even a higher Rank before there was a chance of fulfilling it, so for the current stage, Multiple Choice truly has no attack capability.

It is for this reason that lacking attack capability in Multiple Choice does not affect Zhang Yanhang’s own ability to launch a powerful attack, so to some extent, the suitability of Talent Ability for combat does not necessarily correspond to an Awakener’s battle efficiency.

By the way, according to the Empire’s research data, it turns out that most Awakeners have Talents that are more suited for combat. It is actually rare, like Zhang Yanhang’s, to have a Support Type Talent.

But, it’s undeniable that during the initial stage, Awakeners with Support Type Talents would indeed be weaker than those with Attack Type Talent in terms of hunting efficiency.

Certainly, if you compare the hunting efficiency of someone casting a Healing Skill to that of someone who can launch a Fireball, the latter obviously has no match.

Or, comparing someone who has the ability of Divination to someone with Body Enhancement, the former clearly can’t compete either.

However, this disadvantage is only limited to the initial stage; with an increase in Level and Rank, even Awakeners with Support Type Talents can obtain powerful combat abilities through an enhancement in Attribute values."