Ashen God
Chapter 494 - 493: Implementing the Fourth Stage Cleanup Plan

Chapter 494: Chapter 493: Implementing the Fourth Stage Cleanup Plan

"Since there’s still a portion of the Dragon Vein Goblins that haven’t been gathered, what should I do now?"

Zhang Yanhang conservatively estimated that he would have to wait at least ten minutes, and he felt he shouldn’t waste this precious time, but should find something to do.

"But the problem is that I really don’t have anything to do right now. Should I use these ten minutes to also synthesize some Thermo-baric Bombs +3?"

After giving it some thought, Zhang Yan felt it was an acceptable idea. Since he had nothing else to do anyway, he might as well make some.

Zhang Yan took out twenty bottles of Medium Magic Recovery Potions from his Waist Bag and set them aside for later use, then immediately began to use his remaining Energy Value to create Thermo-baric Bombs.

He now had about half of his Energy Value remaining. The other half that had been spent was only partially used in the creation of magazines or casting spells, with the majority being consumed intermittently earlier when he activated the Spiritual Qi Blessing in order to speed up progress.

About twenty minutes later, Zhang Yan successfully fused four Thermo-baric Bombs +3. On average, it took about five minutes to fuse each one, and that was after Zhang Yan had become skillful at it. It was unlikely he could reduce the time any further.

After all, the Quality of the Thermo-baric Bombs was inherently higher, so fusing them naturally took much longer than fusing lower-quality Equipment such as the Dragon Power Bracelet or Swift Leggings, which began at merely a blue starting Quality.

Zhang Yan looked over at the Medium Magic Recovery Potions next to him; only six unopened ones remained, the rest were now empty bottles. He put the six Medium Magic Recovery Potions and the four Thermo-baric Bombs +3 back into his Waist Bag and then re-scanned the situation with the Goblin Chief.

To his slight surprise, even though another twenty minutes had passed, the Goblin Chief still hadn’t gathered all the Dragon Vein Goblins.

"Seriously, this Goblin Chief’s speed at gathering his subordinates is too slow, isn’t it? Are you dragging your feet with me?" Zhang Yan couldn’t help but comment, but he still didn’t have a better solution. For this kind of thing, his only option was to continue waiting.

Zhang Yan glanced at the time on his watch. "It’s already 4:30 a.m., with only an hour and a half left until the Transmission Channel closes. Given the Goblin Chief’s current pace, it would be decent if they could gather by 5 a.m. I hope everything goes smoothly.

I thought the 30% of Dragon Vein Goblins would take at most an hour and a half to gather, but who would have thought they’re now heading towards two hours? It’s really frustrating."

Zhang Yan now felt even more that his initial planning was incredibly wise. If it took two hours to gather just thirty percent, then for the full twenty-five thousand Goblins, it would take the Goblin Chief not just ten hours, but perhaps a whole day might not even be enough. It was truly inefficient.

"Ah, given the current situation, it seems the Goblin Chief will still need some time to finish gathering the Dragon Vein Goblins, so should I continue to fuse Thermo-baric Bombs +3?"

Zhang Yan thought it over and decided he probably shouldn’t keep fusing Thermo-baric Bombs +3.

The reason was that Zhang Yan had just counted the number of Thermo-baric Bombs +3 in his Waist Bag, and including the ones he had just made, he had now accumulated sixteen Thermo-baric Bombs +3, which meant he could start trying to fuse Thermo-baric Bombs +7.

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October 21st, thirteen days after the end of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, and also Zhang Yan’s first day in the Ashen World, 5:11 a.m., Outer Zone of the Goblin Plain.

Looking at the freshly fused Thermo-baric Bomb +5 before him, Zhang Yan felt a bit dismayed. Just one Thermo-baric Bomb +5 had consumed a full twenty minutes of his time, which was almost as much as what he spent breaking through the limit of the Dragon Power Bracelet to reach Dark Purple Quality, which was absurd.

By the way, Zhang Yan discovered something very strange: although the process of fusing the Thermo-baric Bombs went smoothly up till now, and he had reached +5 without much difficulty, the process was mysteriously slow regardless.

It took ten minutes to fuse a +4 bomb, and twenty minutes for a +5, resulting in a total of forty minutes just to create one Thermo-baric Bomb +5.

"If this keeps going, even if I spend the remaining hour on it, I definitely won’t be able to make a Thermo-baric Bomb +7..."

Another thing Zhang Yan couldn’t ignore was that, unlike other items that could be processed twenty at a time, he had to make the high-quality Thermo-baric Bombs one by one due to the high complexity and to avoid mistakes due to being distracted.

Because of this, Zhang Yan’s production efficiency was further significantly reduced. Otherwise, if he could batch produce other items with a twenty-minute fusion time, he could average the production time to around one minute each.

The reason he could only produce them one by one led to Zhang Yan spending twenty minutes to create two Thermo-baric Bombs +4, and then another twenty minutes to fuse them into a Thermo-baric Bomb +5.

Initially, Zhang Yan wanted to make a few more Thermo-baric Bombs +4, but then realizing time was insufficient, he decisively abandoned the idea and fused a Thermo-baric Bomb +5 instead.

"Since fusing Thermo-baric Bombs +7 is so troublesome, it seems I can only wait until I return to the Main World to finish this task."

Zhang Yan cleaned up the items on the ground, put them all into his Waist Bag, and then scanned the situation with the Goblin Chief again. Unsurprisingly, after giving the Chief another forty minutes, the Goblin Chief had indeed gathered all the Dragon Vein Goblins.

Now that group of Dragon Vein Goblins was marching towards Zhang Yan’s position. But since they’d only just started out not long ago and were still within the Middle Layer, it was unclear how much time it would take to reach Zhang Yan’s location.

"There’s no hope waiting for them to come on their own; since there’s only fifty minutes left until the Transmission Channel closes, I might as well go meet them myself and help save them some Physical Strength."

Zhang Yan immediately began to move at full speed towards the direction of the Goblin army.

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