Ashen God
Chapter 426 - 425 Frost Freeze Beam

Chapter 426: Chapter 425 Frost Freeze Beam

Having carefully reviewed the Goblin Spear Thrower’s attribute list, Zhang Yanhang shifted his attention back to the Big Saber Goblins surrounding him. Because he had cast a Master Language spell on himself earlier, he could now understand the tribal dialect of the Nu Mountain Tribe.

However, whether it was because of the Goblins’ low intelligence or the simple nature of the Nu Mountain tribal dialect, Zhang Yanhang could only make out simple vocabulary from their speech.

Words such as ’kill,’ ’invader,’ ’eat,’ ’food,’ and ’escape’ could be heard, without forming a complete sentence.

Even the Goblin Spear Thrower was the same; with fourteen points of Intelligence, nearly equivalent to three times that of an average adult, its cognitive abilities were barely above those of the Big Saber Goblins.

While it could use more complex vocabulary such as ’encircle’ to command the surrounding Big Saber Goblins to hack at the stationary Zhang Yanhang, it still could not utter a complete sentence.

"Although I’ve long felt that this Intelligence was not the same as that intelligence, this time it really proved it."

Zhang Yanhang had suspected before that intelligence had nothing to do with IQ. It seems that improving Intelligence does not enhance IQ; at most, it might enhance some brain-related abilities such as memory and computational skills while increasing the Energy value limit.

Watching the Big Saber Goblins clanking against the Energy Shield with their large sabers, Zhang Yanhang did not immediately attack them.

Previously, he killed them so quickly that he never had the chance to experience the Lightning Double Strike of the Big Saber Goblins. So this time, he planned to use the opportunity to gain a little combat experience against higher-level Goblins or even the Lord Monster, the Goblin Chief, whether it be experience in taking hits or verifying if Lightning Double Strike could stack with the lightning damage from his Talent.

As Zhang Yanhang was thinking this, the Goblin Spear Thrower at the back, seeing that the Big Saber Goblins had hacked for quite a while without inflicting any damage, immediately ordered them to start using their skills in an attempt to breach the defense.

At the command, the large sabers of the Goblins surrounding Zhang Yanhang immediately sparked with a faint blue-purple light, and they slashed directly at Zhang Yanhang’s belly with two rapid strikes.

However, Zhang Yanhang’s Energy Shield remained unaffected after withstanding several Lightning Double Strikes, not even bothering to ripple or tremble slightly as if nothing had happened. Only the bright blue-purple current that appeared on the surface of the Energy Shield when struck by the Lightning Double Strike signified that the skill indeed had an effect.

In fact, not only was the Energy Shield unscathed, but the poor-quality large saber in the hand of the Big Saber Goblin had chipped from striking a hard object, leaving a noticeable gap.

"This lightning damage actually can stack; with that taken into account, the skill damage of the Big Saber Goblin has increased even more. True to a Dragon Vein Goblin, there are indeed some redeeming features."

Zhang Yanhang had clearly felt two currents hitting him at the same time: one was the Enchanted Current bestowed by his Talent on the blade, and the other was a current that was generated automatically by extracting Energy Value from the Big Saber Goblin upon hitting the Energy Shield.

But because the Attack Power of the Big Saber Goblin was unimpressive, the two currents, which were generated based on a percentage of Attack Power, didn’t amount to much damage combined. They just sparked briefly on the surface of Zhang Yanhang’s Energy Shield, bringing a burst of bright light before being grounded beneath his feet.

Looking at the notched and cracked blade in his hand, and then at the invader standing before him, unscathed, the Big Saber Goblin’s not-so-bright little brain couldn’t help but conjure an instinctual thought, "Completely outmatched—time to run away!"

"Frost Freeze Beam!"

As the Big Saber Goblin had just formed the idea of escape and had not yet turned to flee, Zhang Yanhang immediately activated the spell. He hadn’t had the chance to use this new spell in combat yet, so this was also a good opportunity to experiment and see how powerful it really was.

It’s worth mentioning that Zhang Yanhang had realized something when he cast Master Language earlier—that the spells on the spell list seemed to not require any incantations or media for activation. They were all instant cast spells that could be triggered by a mere thought, which was incredibly convenient.

With the activation of the Frost Freeze Beam, two thick ice-blue beams of light suddenly appeared in Zhang Yanhang’s eyes, sweeping across the field with the movement of his gaze.

The Big Saber Goblin standing before Zhang Yanhang bore the brunt, and in the moment that Zhang Yanhang lowered his head, the thick Frost Freeze Beam had already hit its head directly.

Its brain took less than half a second to be completely frozen by the Frost Freeze Beam, life snuffed out by the burgeoning frost.

Under the observation of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, Zhang Yanhang perceived that although the Big Saber Goblin before him had fallen silent, the residual energy of the Frost Freeze Beam inside it was still rapidly at work.

The residual energy of the Frost Freeze Beam generated a large number of ice crystals within its blood vessels, bursting them, and continuously damaged the Big Saber Goblin’s muscle tissue, other nerve tissues, and various organs.

If observed from the outside, the state of the Big Saber Goblin was such that it began to be gradually devoured by the Frost Freeze Beam from the head, and within just a few seconds, it was covered with a multitude of ice shards, turning it into a specimen that looked like it had just been excavated from a permafrost layer of the Ice Age.

Of course, Zhang Yanhang wasn’t constantly making eye contact with the Big Saber Goblin. In fact, his Frost Freeze Ray simply swept over it briefly and then moved on to scan numerous other targets.

With the rapid sweep of the thick Frost Freeze Ray beams from Zhang Yanhang’s eyes, just a slight twist of his head had already turned the surrounding Big Saber Goblins into instant frozen specimens, standing rigid in place.

[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster ’Big Saber Goblin (Elite)’, Soul points +6.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster ’Big Saber Goblin (Elite)’, Soul points +6.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster ’Big Saber Goblin (Elite)’, Soul points +6.]

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