Ashen God
Chapter 493 - 492: The War Horn

Chapter 493: Chapter 492: The War Horn

"Alas, if only I had cleared an additional square kilometer previously, I definitely wouldn’t be struggling to gather these incomplete 2349 soul points now," Zhang Yanhang sighed silently.

"Now that I’m only short of 2349 soul points, should I urgently clear a wave in the Goblin Plain and gather these soul points?"

Zhang Yanhang thought about it and eventually abandoned the idea because the assembly at the Goblin Chief’s side was still not complete. It would be better to wait until their assembly was complete before clearing them, in order to avoid alerting them prematurely.

He could perhaps go and fight the Dragon Vein Goblins now, but after the fight, the remaining Dragon Vein Goblins would definitely start fleeing immediately. They might run around all over the Goblin Plain, which would then be time-consuming to clear.

Zhang Yanhang might even need to clear the outer zone again, which would be truly frustrating, akin to picking up sesame seeds while losing watermelons—certainly not a good idea.

"Since these incomplete 2349 soul points can’t be gathered for now, do I still need to upgrade my skills with these 100,000 soul points?

If I definitely have to upgrade, I could promote either the Gun Master·Original or the Fighting Master·Original to the Original stage, or perhaps upgrade the skill level of the Limitless Universe Skill."

Although indeed he could upgrade these three skills, considering the upgrade plan he had previously set, Zhang Yanhang felt that he might as well save these 100,000 soul points for now and use them later to upgrade the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original LV.6 once he had gathered enough soul points.

Anyway, eliminating the Dragon Vein Goblins in the middle layer area wouldn’t take much time. Zhang Yanhang felt that a slight delay in upgrading wouldn’t matter much, considering the circumstances.

"Since the soul points obtained from the treasure box are not enough for an upgrade... I suppose there shouldn’t be anything else that needs to be addressed now, right?"

Zhang Yanhang thought carefully and indeed felt there were no more issues to resolve, so he directly opened his data panel to take a look.

[Name: Zhang Yanhang (Second Tier)]

[Race: Human]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 20]

[Profession: Heavenly Destiny Master]

[Level: LV.14 (0/8000)]

[Soul points: 100051]

[Shield Value: 5466/5466 (Life Value Limit × 210%, Recovery Speed: 20% per second.)]

[Life Value: 2603/2603 (Constitution × 21, current body has been officially dataized, Life Value Recovery Speed, 15 points per hour.)]

[Energy Value: 2030/2030 (Intelligence × 19, current body has been officially dataized, Energy Value Recovery Speed, 45 points per hour.)]

[Strength: 50 (+5[-5])]

[Agility: 50 (+5[-2])]

[Constitution: 50 (+5[-4])]

[Intelligence: 50 (+5[-7])]

[Charm: 45 (+19)]

[Luck: ??? (This attribute is a hidden attribute)]

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"Sigh, this is the first time my soul points balance has been this rich, actually reaching six digits."

Zhang Yanhang used to almost spend all his soul points on skill upgrades after opening treasure boxes, but this time it was different. He didn’t upgrade any skills, so he saved up a six-digit soul points balance, whereas before, he could barely save up more than ten thousand soul points, just like last time.

"This time, because I didn’t gather enough Thin Dragon Veins required to upgrade the Scroll Dragon Bloodline—729 to be exact—and I didn’t have enough soul points to upgrade skills, so, apart from the soul points balance, basically nothing changed on the data panel."

Zhang Yanhang figured that after he took care of those Dragon Vein Goblins in the Middle Layer, he should be able to gather enough Thin Dragon Veins and soul points.

After checking the data panel, Zhang Yanhang immediately scanned the situation with Goblin Chief·Nu Mountain and found that more than half an hour had passed, and yet, this guy still hadn’t gathered all the Dragon Vein Goblins, and these were just the Dragon Vein Goblins from the Middle Layer.

"The Dragon Vein Goblins from the Middle Layer and the Core Area together only account for about thirty percent of the total Goblin population. Plus, they are so close, all within a few kilometers, and yet it took more than an hour to assemble.

Sigh, maybe I’ve overestimated the leadership skills of this Goblin Chief."

Zhang Yanhang could only say that he indeed had the foresight at the beginning not to foolishly execute any unfeasible plans like launching a raid on the Core Area and letting the Goblin Chief summon all Goblins to surround and kill him.

Otherwise, with the Goblin Chief’s summoning ability, by the time the teleportation channel was about to close, he might still not have managed to gather all the Dragon Vein Goblins, especially those in the Outer Zone. There are large swathes of Big Saber Goblins lying around sleeping and slacking off in some corner, and it would certainly be impossible to gather all of them.

After all, as it is widely known, the difficulty of gathering increases not in a smooth curved progression but rather in a geometrically steep incline.

Given the Goblin Chief’s method of relying solely on shouting to gather 25,000 Dragon Vein Goblins, it would be even more challenging. Otherwise, it wouldn’t take more than an hour to even gather the Dragon Vein Goblins from the closer Core and Middle Areas.

"Sigh, if only this Goblin Chief had something like a war horn to blow to speed up the gathering. But no, he really doesn’t have any sort of assisting artifact, just relies on shouting."

According to Zhang Yanhang’s scan, it would still take the Goblin Chief about twenty more minutes to gather the remaining Dragon Vein Goblins, meaning that the whole process of gathering would have taken over an hour and a half.

"Compared to such a lackluster Goblin Chief, I really miss the Crimson Iron Ant Queen from the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalaguli, who gathered Crimson Iron Ants simply by vibrating."

Zhang Yanhang now began to doubt if this level of gathering capability was really enough to attack human cities.

But he later thought perhaps for Goblins, gathering ability really wasn’t important, as Goblins could only fight when they were on the winning side. When an enemy was weak, they would aggressively attack.

When facing strong enemies, on the other hand, it often only took a few Goblins at the front to start escaping for the rest at the back to disperse and scatter to the winds.

Just like the situation Zhang Yanhang had encountered previously, where one Goblin Wolf Cavalry wanted to escape, and the rest, as if sharing a heart-to-heart connection, all started to think of escaping. In this regard, Zhang Yanhang had to commend them; fleeing was indeed engraved in their skill list.

So, for them, perhaps gathering wasn’t very useful after all, because once they couldn’t win, all Goblins would not hesitate to escape immediately.

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