Ashen God
Chapter 499 - 498: Thermo-baric Bomb Sweep!

Chapter 499: Chapter 498: Thermo-baric Bomb Sweep!

Millions of tons of earth and rocks shot up into the sky, and the resulting shockwave, like a hail of sharp bullets, pummeled the Big Saber Goblins and Goblin Wolf Cavalry who had fancied escaping.

Muscles tore, bones fractured, organs were pulverized, and blood spurted—a horrific sight compounded when chunks of earth and stone carried by the shockwave further struck the mangled bodies of the Dragon Vein Goblins.

Then, almost immediately, these pieces of flesh were swept up with the shockwave, bobbing like rocks in a stream, continuing to batter the Dragon Vein Goblins further back.

[Successfully killed a First Tier Three Star Monster ’Goblin Wolf Cavalry (Ordinary)’×1, Soul points +10.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier Three Star Monster ’Goblin Wolf Cavalry (Ordinary)’×1, Soul points +10.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier Three Star Monster ’Goblin Wolf Cavalry (Ordinary)’×1, Soul points +10.]

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Some Dragon Vein Goblins were "luckier," their corpses remaining somewhat intact. However, the most lethal part of the thermobaric bomb’s effect, the high temperature and pressure fireball, began rampaging recklessly after shockwave—the appetizer—had softened targets, unabashedly incinerating everything on the ground.

At temperatures exceeding the surface of the sun, the high temperature and pressure fireball could instantly reduce the corpses of Dragon Vein Goblins near the blast’s core to ashes, vanishing on the spot.

Even as its ferocious might dissipated with spreading, the thermo-baric fireball continued to char the Dragon Vein Goblins to a crisp before the subsequent shockwaves scattered them into handfuls of ash, rising into the sky with the dust to form a massive, ashen mushroom cloud.

Zhang Yanhang, watching the fireball that maintained its high temperature and pressure over a diameter until it faded after four kilometers, felt something was not quite right—this thermo-baric bomb seemed excessively powerful.

Although the fireball had disappeared, the turbulent airflow from the resulting massive mushroom cloud and the tiny rocks that soared up to an altitude of four kilometers were still harassing Zhang Yanhang’s energy shield.

Of course, this was nothing compared to the initial onslaught from the bomb; the attack Zhang Yanhang endured at the moment of explosion was much more intense.

But Zhang Yanhang was now too preoccupied to care about these things, as the high-frequency bombardment formed by the quadruple-digit kill notifications every second was almost enough to crash his brain.

This being the second experience of such treatment, Zhang Yanhang didn’t show the slightest bit of acclimatization and was still completely defenseless against the onslaught of the kill notifications.

Fortunately, the kill notifications this time lasted for quite a few seconds, allowing Zhang Yanhang to get a bit of training. He believed that the next time he faced this situation, he would handle it a little better, not to be utterly dazed by the relentless barrage.

[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster ’Big Saber Goblin (Elite)’×1, Soul points +6.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster ’Big Saber Goblin (Elite)’×1, Soul points +6.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster "Big Saber Goblin (Elite)" x1, Soul points +6.]

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According to Zhang Yanhang’s own incomplete statistics, he had killed at least seven thousand Dragon Vein Goblins this time, which means that basically all of the remaining Dragon Vein Goblins on the Goblin Plain had just been wiped out by his single thermo-baric bomb.

Only the Chief Shaman Goblin Maka Baga and Goblin Chief Nu Shan, who were still in the Core Area, survived.

"Since all the Dragon Vein Goblins in the Core Area were also summoned to besiege me, that means I have not only completed the Fourth Stage of the Goblin Plain clearing plan but also incidentally finished the Fifth Stage as well.

Now, I just need to kill Chief Shaman Goblin Maka Baga and Goblin Chief Nu Shan to completely clear the Goblin Plain and claim the Ashen Treasure Box."

Zhang Yanhang glanced at the time. It was only 5:11 a.m., which meant that he had killed the entire Goblin army in about a minute, and nearly half that time was spent travelling.

"I’m so powerful now, or should I say, the thermo-baric bomb+5 is a bit too strong?"

Zhang Yanhang flashed to the core area of the thermo-baric bomb+5’s impact to observe the huge crater. From the results, the scale of the two was incredibly different.

He remembered that when the thermo-baric bomb+3 had exploded inside the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu, the crater was only a few meters deep with a diameter of only tens of meters, which was more or less the size of a public restroom.

But the crater in front of him was larger than the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing. According to Zhang Yanhang’s observation, this crater’s diameter was around four hundred meters, and the depth reached forty meters.

Both the diameter and the depth (height) could easily accommodate a Bird’s Nest Stadium and still leave a vast amount of space to build a heap of football fields and basketball courts and the like.

"Gosh, it’s not even on the same scale. Although I know that the strength of the Crimson iron ore in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu is much stronger than ordinary steel, so there’s actually the gap of steel and concrete between it and soil in terms of nuclear defense levels.

But even if it’s three levels lower, such a huge crater is still ridiculously big, so, the additional power must be from the upgrade of the thermo-baric bomb to +5."

However, compared to the power increase of the thermo-baric bomb, Zhang Yanhang had no doubt that he found the range increase of the thermo-baric bomb+5 even more absurd. It had directly jumped from a diameter of one thousand meters to four thousand meters, which was terrifying. After all, although the diameter differed by only four times, the coverage area had suddenly increased more than tenfold.

The direct coverage area of the high-temperature and high-pressure fireball from the original thermo-baric bomb+3 was about 0.8 square kilometers, while the direct coverage area of the high-temperature and high-pressure fireball from the current thermo-baric bomb+5 had explosively increased to 12.5 square kilometers, equivalent to fifteen times the original coverage area.

With such a ridiculous coverage area, how could Zhang Yanhang not be astonished, "How on earth did this thermo-baric bomb+5 get to a coverage diameter of four thousand meters? Did it just double? Did it jump to two thousand meters at +4 and then directly to four thousand meters at +5?"