Ashen God
Chapter 487 - 486: Thief Goblin

Chapter 487: Chapter 486: Thief Goblin

"An 11% Power Effect should indeed help me increase my strength quite a bit. I thought my strength would plateau at thirteen tons in the Second Tier...but unexpectedly, it can still continue to grow."

Zhang Yanhang had been prepared to only increase his strength upon reaching the Third Tier, but the appearance of the Barbaric Stone Bandage allowed his strength to keep growing.

"Moreover, what’s even more crucial is that the score of the Barbaric Stone Bandage reaches 148, just two points shy of purple full-score equipment. With this, a simple fusion would immediately elevate the Barbaric Stone Bandage to Dark Purple Quality.

If only there were more Big Goblins, for equipment that starts close to purple full score, I could possibly fuse it all the way to Light Gold."

Of course, attaining Light Gold Quality was wishful thinking, something he hadn’t really hoped for in the first place, so Zhang Yanhang felt very satisfied with reaching Dark Purple Quality.

"So, the question arises, where exactly is this Barbaric Stone Bandage supposed to be attached? Never mind, such trivial matters can wait until after I’ve opened the treasure box. Since it can be opened, it definitely can be used." Zhang Yanhang muttered as he clicked open the next item.

[Item Four]

[Option One: 30 Soul points]

[Option Two: Thief Goblin, Green quality, Pet]

[Option Three: 300 Soul points]

"Finally, a pet from the treasure box of a Second-tier One-star Big Goblin is at least Green quality, but looking at the name, Thief Goblin, it immediately doesn’t seem like a very strong Goblin, and probably just an ordinary Goblin as well."

Zhang Yanhang had never understood why, despite being a Dragon Vein Goblin’s treasure box, it only ever yielded ordinary goblins as pets, which felt quite absurd. He remembered clearly that from the Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, the treasure boxes of Crimson Iron Ants would normally yield Crimson Iron Ants.

Since this was a new type of Goblin he hadn’t come across before, Zhang Yanhang opened the attribute list of the Thief Goblin and found that it seemed to be an ordinary Goblin of First Tier Two Stars.

"Even though it’s from a Second-tier One-star Big Goblin’s drop treasure box, why is the pet’s strength only First Tier Two Stars? Shouldn’t it be at least First Tier Three Stars?" Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but complain, then continued to review the Thief Goblin’s attribute list.

After briefly checking the Thief Goblin’s attributes, Zhang Yanhang found that this Thief Goblin was entirely different from those Ash Goblins like Stick Goblins and Spear Goblins; it belonged to the stronger type within the Goblin groups.

In terms of abilities, this Thief Goblin seemed like an evolved version of the more common First Tier One Star Short Knife Goblin, also specializing in sneak attacks, only using a dagger instead of a short knife.

Of course, because its combat ability had substantially increased, this type of First Tier Two Star Thief Goblin had become completely unmanageable for ordinary humans.

Compared to the Stick Goblin which any average adult could easily beat, or the Short Knife Goblin that an ordinary person with a cold weapon could also defeat if they tried hard enough, this Thief Goblin could easily massacre ordinary adults with its superior Agility attribute.

Unless the ordinary adult had a firearm, with just an ordinary cold weapon, they definitely wouldn’t stand a chance because attribute overwhelming is not something easily resolved.

After all, the Thief Goblin’s lateral comparison target is the Licker of the same tier, which is much stronger due to its wall-climbing ability. If the only firearm to hand is a semi-automatic pistol, that’s equally useless; only a rifle’s burst fire could potentially counter-attack.

[Item Five]

[Option One: Thin Dragon Vein (Mixed), Quality E, Talent]

[Option Two: Dragon Vein Goblin (Big Goblin), D-Level Quality, Talent]

[Option Three: Dragon Vein Goblin (Goblin Wolf Cavalry), D-Level Quality, Talent]

"As a Second-tier One-star ordinary monster, it’s quite normal for a Big Goblin’s Talent Quality to be at D-level, but I wonder what the standard for a C-level Quality Racial Talent would be?"

Since both types of Second-tier One-star Monsters he had killed so far, the Prototype Tyrant and the Big Goblin, had Racial Talents of D-grade, Zhang Yanhang guessed that to have even a slight chance at C-grade Racial Talent would require at least Second Tier Two Stars.

And since the Goblin Shaman in the Goblin Plain, a Second-tier One-star Elite Monster, happens to be of Second Tier Two Stars strength, Zhang Yanhang felt he could definitely verify this issue on it to determine whether it holds a D-level or C-level Quality Talent.

If it is a C-level Quality, then it would make it a little easier for Zhang Yanhang to find monsters that are initially C-level in talent later; but if it is D-level, then that’s just one more difficulty added to an already challenging task.

"Alas, I haven’t even found a monster with D-level Initial Talent Quality yet; trying to leapfrog directly to C-level is even more difficult. I feel like there’s hardly any hope in the Second Tier, but maybe in the Third Tier, it could be possible."

Zhang Yanhang felt that this matter of looking for new monsters should ideally be resolved after clearing the Goblin Plain, so he shifted his focus back to the treasure box.

After examining all five items in the treasure box, Zhang Yanhang immediately made his choices, "So, I choose ’100 Soul points’, ’100 Soul points’, ’Barbaric Stone Bandage’, ’100 Soul points’, ’Thin Dragon Vein (Mixed)’."

After making his selections, the Time Pause instantly disappeared, and Zhang Yanhang then quickly picked up another Blue quality treasure box; although there seemed to be plenty of time left, he felt he should not delay in opening treasure boxes. Finishing earlier would also give him more time to enhance his skills.

...

Due to the relatively small number of treasure boxes needing to be opened this time, Zhang Yanhang took no more than fifteen minutes to finish opening all the boxes.

Last time, because he had to open nearly six hundred boxes, by the end he’d grown somewhat numb, and after opening all the boxes, he took a while to start tallying his gains. But this time, the situation was much better, and Zhang Yanhang started tallying his gains immediately after opening the boxes.

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