Ashen God
Chapter 500 - 499 How Dare You!

Chapter 500: Chapter 499 How Dare You!

Regarding this matter, Zhang Yanhang planned to wait until he had time later to fuse another Thermo-baric Bomb +4 to test the specific coverage area and to study the growth pattern of the coverage area of the Thermo-baric Bomb as well.

By the way, the direct coverage area that Zhang Yanhang mentioned here refers only to the area that could be reached by the high-temperature and high-pressure fireball formed by the Thermo-baric Bomb, but in fact, the shock wave, which also poses a lethal threat to monsters, covers a much, much larger area.

Although Zhang Yanhang’s Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil’s scanning range was insufficient, based on his naked-eye observations, the direct coverage diameter of the high-temperature and high-pressure fireball was indeed only four kilometers, but in fact, the area within several tens of square kilometers was essentially swept over by the shock wave.

However, the closer it got to the outer zone, the more severe the dissipation of the shock wave was, so perhaps at around five kilometers, the shock wave still had the power to kill ordinary First Tier Dragon Vein Goblins, but at six kilometers, it could only likely cause serious injuries.

By the time it reached the maximum range of seven kilometers, the power of the shock wave had diminished to the extent that it could only kill ordinary humans and destroy modern buildings.

As for beyond that? The kinetic energy of the shock wave had basically dissipated completely, no longer posing much of a threat, merely capable of stirring up some soil and gravel causing some non-lethal injuries, hardly enough to kill even ordinary humans, let alone pose any threat to the monsters in Ashen World.

Thus, in terms of actual damage, only the area completely covered by the high-temperature high-pressure fireball possessed full power.

Of course, for the Main World, even the power of the outermost shock wave was already very sufficient, which is why Zhang Yanhang had previously stated that he could "cleanse" the entire Tokyo City directly with a Thermo-baric Bomb.

Although the area directly covered by the high-temperature high-pressure fireball was indeed relatively small, the area covered by the shock wave was large enough to easily destroy modern buildings and ordinary humans.

Looking at the ash-black land beneath his feet, completely scorched of all vegetation as far as the eye could see, and the gray-black fluffy unknown material constantly falling from the sky above his head like "snowfall," Zhang Yanhang silently sighed.

"Ah, I remember when I first arrived at the Goblin Plain, I was praising how good the environment here was, with green plants everywhere, and the air so fresh it was deadly, but now, the environment of the Goblin Plain has deteriorated to worse than Raccoon City, directly turned into barren land as if bombed by a nuclear bomb.

Luckily, this is Ashen World, where there are no environmental protection organizations, otherwise in the Main World, I might already be being pointed at and scolded ’How Dare You!’

But then again, perhaps they would commend me on the ’merits’ of the Thermo-baric Bomb for rationally clearing the wilderness to exchange for farming land."

In a way, Zhang Yanhang thought of himself as an environmentalist too, because he often would promptly pick and consume Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures when they matured, thereby reducing the survival pressure on ordinary plants around them and optimizing the biological structure accordingly.

For environmental protection, Zhang Yanhang felt it was his undeniable duty. The lives of ordinary plants were also lives that needed to be safeguarded, and picking mature Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to prevent them from continuing to hog limited nutrients, sunlight, and Spiritual Energy was imperative.

After briefly observing the crater caused by the Thermo-baric Bomb +5, Zhang Yanhang immediately began collecting Treasure boxes; this time he had killed nearly seven thousand Dragon Vein Goblins.

The treasure boxes dropped by the slain Dragon Vein Goblins were now scattered across the dark gray earth, their bright blue-green lights intermingling and glinting, instantly uplifting anyone’s mood at first glance.

After spending a few minutes picking up the treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang looked at the nearly four hundred boxes piled up like a small mountain in front of him, feeling the urge to just start opening them.

"There’s still about forty-five minutes left, which should be enough. If I hurry, I should still have about twenty minutes after sorting through the contents of the boxes to deal with Chief Shaman Goblin Maka Baga and Goblin Chief Nu Shan."

Zhang Yanhang thought for a moment, felt there was no major issue, and decided to go ahead with this plan. Then he immediately checked his Soul points balance before inventorying the treasure boxes. He wanted to see how many Soul points he had earned after taking down those seven thousand Dragon Vein Goblins.

[Soul Points: 158723 (+58672)]

"The seven thousand Dragon Vein Goblins brought me a gain of 58,672 Soul points, which is quite good. It successfully increased my Soul points balance from an awkward 100,051 to 158,723.

Just this portion of Soul points would allow me to upgrade the ’Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil·Original Scripture’ to LV.6 and subsequently promote my Gun Mastery or Fighting Master Skill.

Moreover, after opening the treasure boxes, I will gain more Soul points, and I might even be able to boost the promoted Gun Mastery or Fighting Master directly to LV.6."

Zhang Yanhang was actually quite surprised by this gain of Soul points, especially since the rate was much higher compared to the Outer Zone.

Previously, when he was carrying out the Second Tier Stage cleaning plan in the Outer Zone, even after clearing an area of fifty square kilometers, he only gained 72,828 Soul points.

But this time, by merely clearing around thirty square kilometers of the Middle Layer and Core Area, he suddenly garnered an amount of Soul points that amounted to eighty percent of the previous total.

A sixty percent area comparison yielding eighty percent of the Soul points profit – Zhang Yanhang felt that this increased efficiency by a third was mainly due to the Goblin Wolf Cavalry, indeed, the Goblin Wolf Cavalry and not any higher-ranked Big Goblins or Goblin Shamans.

Although the three-tier one-star Big Goblins and the three-tier two-star Goblin Shamans yielded high Soul points, being three times and six times that of the Goblin Wolf Cavalry, which only had ten points, their numbers were too few, barely totaling less than two hundred.

And the Goblin Wolf Cavalry that Zhang Yanhang had taken down this time? There were more than two thousand of them, a tenfold difference in numbers that instantly boosted the rate of gain.

Although the Goblin army still predominantly consisted of First Tier Two Stars Big Saber Goblins, a significant portion had been replaced by Goblin Wolf Cavalry, which was why there was a one-third increase in the rate of Soul points gain.

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