Ashen God
Chapter 453 - 452: Spell Amplification

Chapter 453: Chapter 452: Spell Amplification

After stowing the green treasure box dropped by the Goblin Spear Thrower into his waist bag, Zhang Yanhang didn’t immediately resume his journey to another area to hunt monsters. Instead, he stood still and roughly calculated how much area he had cleared so far.

"Including the area that was just cleared, it seems I’ve cleared a total of twenty-six square kilometers already. The progress of the second stage clearing plan of Goblin Plain has successfully passed the halfway mark."

Zhang Yanhang glanced at his watch, realizing that more than two hours had passed since he last opened a treasure box.

"It took only two hours to clear twenty-six square kilometers. Presumably, the remaining twenty-four square kilometers will probably also require about two more hours to finish clearing.

Now it’s eleven thirty at night, and I’ve been in Ashen World for four hours, while the duration of the transmission channel is ten and a half hours; therefore, there are still six and a half hours left for the transmission channel.

If I spend another two hours clearing the remaining twenty-four square kilometers of the second stage, that will leave only four and a half hours. It seems quite tight to clear the remaining fifty square kilometers of Goblin Plain in such a short time."

After doing some quick calculations, Zhang Yanhang immediately ran towards the direction from which the Big Saber Goblins had come, an area he hadn’t cleared yet.

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Although time was tight, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but take some time to test the Flying Technique, but the results were not very good.

Zhang Yanhang had hoped that the Flying Technique would allow him to fly faster than his own movement speed, but he later found that the Flying Technique couldn’t even match his speed, let alone exceed it; maintaining it was quite challenging.

The main problem was that the energy consumption was simply too significant. Flying at a slower speed was manageable, but achieving a speed consistent with his own movement speed would need about one Energy Value point per second.

That is to say, even with Zhang Yanhang’s current Energy Value limit, he could only fly continuously for half an hour. The endurance was quite lacking.

Although the Flying Technique wasn’t designed for long-distance travel, Zhang Yanhang was still slightly disappointed with this finding.

Of course, apart from the Energy Value limit, another significant reason that restricted Zhang Yanhang’s Flying Technique was his not quite sufficient Intelligence Attribute Value.

In subsequent experiments, Zhang Yanhang discovered an issue. His current fifty points of Intelligence Attribute Value could significantly augment Zero Ring Magic, First Tier Spells, and Second Ring Magic, but the enhancement for Third Tier Magic and Fourth Tier Magic was greatly reduced.

Regarding this circumstance, Zhang Yanhang speculated that Zero Ring Magic, First Tier Spells, and Second Ring Magic are considered within the First Tier range. Therefore, as a Second Tier Awakened, he received a lot of additional power when using them—after all, it’s normal for a High-level Awakened to use Low-level Spells.

However, it was different for Third Tier Magic and Fourth Tier Magic. Zhang Yanhang suspected that these two tiers of Magic were meant for Second Tier Awakened to use normally, while his Intelligence Attribute Value couldn’t break through to Second Tier but could only maintain at the Second Tier Limit of fifty points.

As a result, the fifty points of Intelligence Attribute Value could still moderately enhance Third Tier Magic and Fourth Tier Magic but couldn’t provide the significant effect that Zero Ring Magic, First Tier Spells, and Second Ring Magic did, leading to somewhat unsatisfactory usage effects.

So, if he could advance to the Third Tier, Zhang Yanhang believed that the Flying Technique might show some pretty good performance. As for now, the energy consumption was indeed a real issue.

Although he could force it to accelerate to a speed surpassing his own Movement Speed, the energy consumption would further increase drastically, further reducing what was already a less than impressive endurance.

Just now, Zhang Yanhang also tested the hunting efficiency of flying in the air and firing the Six Roots Pure Soul Passage Spear at the Dragon Vein Goblins, and the result turned out to be less efficient than honestly hunting monsters on the ground.

Because of the absence of a Silence Spell, Zhang Yanhang flying resembled a low-altitude bomber, not only loud but also spreading the sound further because of being airborne.

This caused the surrounding Goblins to scatter in all directions as soon as they heard the noise. Although chasing them wasn’t difficult, their tendency to scatter made it quite a bother for him.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang concluded that the tactic of flying in the air and firing the Six Roots Pure Soul Passage Spear was not very suitable for Goblin Plain, as the Dragon Vein Goblins here were adept at scattering all at once.

Thus, the best area to use this tactic would be similar to Raccoon City, where Zombies are not afraid of death and are quite sensitive to sound. If he could find a similar area, Zhang Yanhang could definitely reap it quickly with this tactic.

Of course, it doesn’t need to be so strict. Theoretically, as long as the monsters in that area don’t have an escape skill ingrained in their Skill list and Talent Effect like the Dragon Vein Goblins of Goblin Plain, there shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

After all, apart from the oddball monsters like Goblins, the natural instinct of most normal monsters is to attack intruders, even recklessly.

Take for example the Crimson Iron Worker Ants in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu. Even when they had not received orders from the Crimson Iron Ant Queen, they would still abandon their gathering tasks at the first sign of an intruder and launch a suicidal attack on Zhang Yanhang.

So, Zhang Yanhang felt that this scenario was more typical, as Dragon Vein Goblins were indeed inclined to flee when they realized they were overpowered, but before acknowledging the superior enemy, their zeal in eliminating invaders was as fervent as that of the Crimson Iron Worker Ants.

It was just that this fervor would decrease with the battle, and once their minds completely cooled down, the Big Saber Goblins and Goblin Spear Throwers would start contemplating escape.

And in a very short time, they would come to a consensus with the surrounding Big Saber Goblins and Goblin Spear Throwers, causing a large group of Goblins to scatter on the spot.