Ashen God
Chapter 476 - 475: Emergency Plan

Chapter 476: Chapter 475: Emergency Plan

"So, if he wanted to carry out this plan, he could only rely on the Thermo-baric Bombs +3 he had prepared in advance. Currently, the Thermo-baric Bombs +3 in his waist bag totaled in the single digits, which wasn’t enough to completely cleanse the remaining area of the Goblin Plain.

It was for this reason that both the third strategy, which involved a massive release of Thermo-baric Bombs, and the first strategy, which involved a massive release of Death Waves, could not be executed for a long period and were only suitable for temporary assaults. In other words, to urgently clean up a wave of monsters in the Goblin Plain before the Transmission Channel closed.

Therefore, although Zhang Yanhang had many means at his disposal that could dramatically increase hunting efficiency, the most practical was still the most basic Spiritual Qi Blessing, as long as the supply of Medium Magic Recovery Potions was sufficient, and it did not require advance preparation.

However, because of those Medium Magic Recovery Potions, Zhang Yanhang wanted to manufacture most of them into Thermo-baric Bombs or enchant bullets afterward.

So, even though Spiritual Qi Blessing was very good, Zhang Yanhang’s usage philosophy was still to save when possible, and to not use it unless necessary. After all, the consumption of Spiritual Qi Blessing was quite significant, much greater than the Flying Technique.

And the duration of it was reckoned in hours, resulting in the consumption of Medium Magic Recovery Potions flowing out like water, making it not very suitable to be used as a regular tactic.

After all, the Medium Magic Recovery Potions might look abundant now, but since they’re single-use, it will likely be quite difficult to obtain related artifacts that can recover Energy Value after cleaning the Goblin Plain.

"Let’s just start executing the Third Stage cleansing plan, and hope everything goes smoothly," Zhang Yanhang said as he packed everything on the ground back into his waist bag and then rapidly advanced towards the last bit of the plains in the outer zone of the Goblin Plain.

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October 21st, thirteen days after the end of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, and also the first day of Zhang Yanhang’s entry into the Ashen World, 2:30 AM, Goblin Plain, Outer Zone.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The continuous impact sounds rang out amid the splatter of green blood and flying limbs. Zhang Yanhang, moving at full speed, stopped after incidentally killing several Goblin Spear Throwers.

[Successfully killed First Tier Two-Star Monster ’Goblin Spear Thrower (Elite)’ ×1, Soul Points +10.]

[Successfully killed First Tier Two-Star Monster ’Goblin Spear Thrower (Elite)’ ×1, Soul Points +10.]

[Successfully killed First Tier Two-Star Monster ’Goblin Spear Thrower (Elite)’ ×1, Soul Points +10.]

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"It’s clear I’ve gained an 8% increase in Movement Speed, but this specific increase in hunting efficiency isn’t ideal."

In under twenty minutes, Zhang Yanhang had re-cleansed an area of four square kilometers and was now only sixteen square kilometers away from completing the Third Stage cleansing plan for the entire outer zone of the Goblin Plain.

In the process of hunting monsters just now, Zhang Yanhang had also tested his Movement Speed. After obtaining an additional 8% boost to his Movement Speed, his speed had increased from eighty-two meters per second to eighty-eight meters, an increment of six meters per second, which wasn’t much.

Zhang Yanhang had previously thought that the Swift Leggings might help increase his Movement Speed to over ninety meters per second, but now it seemed that reaching ninety might be possible, yet it would likely require one or two more fusions to further increase the Movement Speed boost to achieve this minor goal.

Also, after increasing his Movement Speed to eighty-eight meters per second, Zhang Yanhang’s Movement Speed under the Spiritual Qi Blessing officially reached 0.5 Mach, or rather 0.52 Mach, whereas before it was only 0.48 Mach. Although rounding up would indeed make both 0.5 Mach, there was still a difference.

A long time ago, Zhang Yanhang had realized that increasing Movement Speed by 100% would not result in a 100% increase in hunting efficiency. Instead, there would be a significant discount, as hunting efficiency is a holistic efficiency that involves many complex factors.

The simplest influencing factor was that the Treasure Box dropped by a monster would take several seconds to refresh after its death. This alone has a great impact on Zhang Yanhang’s hunting efficiency.

So overall, because the 8% Movement Speed increase wasn’t very large to begin with, its effect became even smaller after being influenced by other factors.

Suppose Zhang Yanhang’s hunting efficiency was originally an average of cleaning one square kilometer area in five minutes. In that case, after an 8% increase in Movement Speed, the overall efficiency became only slightly less than five minutes.

Not to mention reaching an efficiency of four minutes per square kilometer, it actually couldn’t even reach four and a half minutes, but was in the range between four and a half and five minutes.

As a result, the four square kilometers that Zhang Yanhang just cleaned saved barely two minutes of time in total. Although it seemed meager, the savings could be significant once accumulated.

The most obvious difference was that previously, Zhang Yanhang would have needed about two hundred and fifty minutes to cleanse the remaining fifty square kilometers of the Goblin Plain.

But now, it would only take roughly two hundred and twenty-five minutes to clear that area, allowing the entire Goblin Plain to be cleared before the Transmission Channel closed.

Therefore, although the Swift Leggings did help Zhang Yanhang save time, they did not fully achieve this purpose, only to a minor extent. Considering various influencing factors, he might still have to rely on various emergency plans to rush and cleanse part of the Goblin Plain.

Moreover, besides testing the Movement Speed, Zhang Yanhang also tested the energy consumption of the Skill Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original Scripture LV.5. It had increased compared to before, but the increase wasn’t too significant.

Of course, although it wasn’t much, it hadn’t reached the lower limit originally estimated by Zhang Yanhang, which was about a fifty percent increase in Physical Strength consumption. Practically speaking, since the coverage area had doubled, Zhang Yanhang’s Physical Strength consumption had also nearly doubled.

But the current Zhang Yanhang was no longer the First Tier Zhang Yanhang of before. Therefore, even if the Physical Strength consumption of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil doubled, it wasn’t a big deal for him, at most reducing his endurance to a minor extent.

Before, Zhang Yanhang’s maximum endurance was about nine and a half hours, but he usually rested after just over eight hours or at most nine hours. After all, exhausting all his physical strength was not a wise choice.