Ashen God
Chapter 524 - 523: Slaying the Lord Monster Goblin Chief·Nu Mountain

Chapter 524: Chapter 523: Slaying the Lord Monster Goblin Chief·Nu Mountain

"Ah, why did it have to be a critical hit at this time? The opponent’s heart seemed so valuable, and now it’s completely blown away."

Zhang Yanhang had actually tried hard to forcibly terminate the attack after realizing it was a critical hit, but he was a step too slow. Just as the thought had occurred to him, his fist had already solidly pounded the Goblin Chief’s chest.

The Goblin Chief, whose chest suddenly became very cool, couldn’t help but vomit a large mouthful of dark green blood mixed with bits of flesh – these were fragments of lung tissue that had been forcibly pushed up the esophagus by the spreading impact.

Just as the Goblin Chief had finished vomiting the last of the blood and its body was about to uncontrollably fall to the ground, its originally empty chest cavity had, unbeknownst to when, been completely filled with dazzlingly bright blue electric plasma.

Upon closer observation, one could even see a heart made of lightning rapidly expanding within, growing from the size of a palm to the size of a human head in a single breath, and finally expanding to the size of a safe before gradually stabilizing.

Most of the electric plasma that filled the chest cavity was used by the Lightning Heart to expand itself, while a smaller part was injected into other parts of the Goblin Chief’s body through its blood vessels.

Under the influence of the blue electric plasma, the Goblin Chief’s forearm, where both the radius and ulna had been broken, miraculously healed in the blink of an eye, and the excess electric plasma even formed a seven-meter-long Lightning Slash Horse Saber in the hands of the Goblin Chief.

"This Elementalization is outrageous!"

But what caught Zhang Yanhang off guard was that he had barely finished his complaint when he immediately noticed something even more preposterous – this Elementalization even came with a damn Skill refresh effect.

He watched, wide-eyed, as the Goblin Chief quickly reapplied Activated Muscles to itself, and this activation unexpectedly caused its height to grow again, inflating to seven meters tall.

Moreover, aside from the Skill refresh effect, Zhang Yanhang felt that this Elementalization probably also possessed some kind of hidden Energy supply effect, since under normal circumstances, the Goblin Chief should absolutely not be able to unleash a second Activated Muscles with its current Energy Value.

"Refreshing Skills, built-in Energy supply, forced Life Extension – this Elementalization makes me kind of want it."

As Zhang Yanhang was complaining about the Lightning Heart Skill, the Goblin Chief, which had taken less than two seconds to complete the creation of its heart and the Skill enhancement, had already swung the Lightning Slash Horse Saber in its hands towards Zhang Yanhang without hesitation.

To prevent his Shield Value from taking a big dive again, Zhang Yanhang launched another punch toward the Goblin Chief’s chest, but this time, since the Goblin Chief’s body had inflated to seven meters, he no longer needed to bend down. This also meant that the power generation process became more complete and the energy loss was lower.

Just like before, the Goblin Chief raised the Lightning Slash Horse Saber to chop at Zhang Yanhang’s fist.

Just when Zhang Yanhang thought the previous process would be repeated, the Horse-slaying Blade made of lightning in the Goblin Chief’s hand suddenly bypassed his fist.

In a suicidal attack style, it turned into a whip or Lightning Chain, tightly wrapping around Zhang Yanhang’s body and beginning to violently release electricity. It released four consecutive shocks before stopping due to a lack of energy.

"Why the energy failure?" you ask. Because at that moment, Zhang Yanhang had already crushed the Goblin Chief’s Lightning Heart with his bare hands. A do-or-die attack is just like that, it’s all about seeing who dies first.

However, compared to Zhang Yanhang, who took a Lightning Five Strikes attack and remained completely unscathed, the Goblin Chief, whose Lightning Heart was destroyed and immediately became powerless, seemed rather weak.

The Goblin Chief, whose Lightning Heart had been forcefully burst, spat out a mouthful of electric plasma onto the ground, hissing and crackling as it scorched the ground to charred black in an instant. Then, his body gradually went limp and fell to the ground with a thud, shrinking back to his original height of three meters.

At the same time, Zhang Yanhang heard the familiar sound of the kill notification.

"Successfully killed Third Tier One-star Monster ’Goblin Chief·Nu Mountain (Lord Monster)’ ×1, Soul points +4000."

"Four thousand soul points? Not bad at all. Worthy of being a Third Tier One-star Lord Monster, indeed much stronger than the Second Tier Four Stars Crimson Iron Ant Queen in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu. I remember the Ant Queen only gave me 2400 soul points, whereas the Goblin Chief Nu Shan, although only one star higher in level, gave me 1600 more soul points."

What Zhang Yanhang actually cared about more than the soul points earned from killing the Goblin Chief was the damage caused by the Lightning Five Strikes just before the Chief’s death. Although he only managed to launch four strikes due to insufficient energy supply, which forced him to stop, it still dealt a considerable amount of damage to Zhang Yanhang’s Shield Value.

Zhang Yanhang had been continuously monitoring his Shield Value, and to his surprise, the first attack alone had cost him 120 points of Shield Value, followed by successive losses of 150, 180, and 210 points, amounting to 660 points in total.

Just four segments of the attack caused more damage than the combined total before Elementalization. Had it continued to unleash the fifth segment, he would have probably lost 900 points of Shield Value in one go, which was nearly one-fifth of his total Shield Value.

"Just a huge Goblin Powerhouse weighing only 1200 pounds, and you dared to engage in dishonorable tactics, contemplating a sneak attack with Lightning Five-Chain Whip. I warn you, don’t count on it."

Thinking back to the drastic reduction in his Shield Value, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but reproach the corpse of the Goblin Chief.

"Now that I think about it, this body had inflated to seven meters at its peak, but as soon as the Goblin Chief died, it shrank back to three meters again. Could it be that the Goblin Chief was really feasting on Sponge Fruit?"

Zhang Yanhang was particularly concerned about this because the volume difference between three and seven meters was huge. With this shrinking, the materials he could use afterward would be at least an order of magnitude less.

"Never mind, although I couldn’t preserve the whole corpse of the Lord Monster this time, at least the majority of it is intact, and that’s already breaking a historical record."

The first two Lord Monsters Zhang Yanhang encountered were the Tracker from Raccoon City, which had been blown into minced meat by a rocket launcher, and the Crimson Iron Ant Queen from the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalaguli, whom he had turned into a pile of flesh with a single All Four Elements are Void attack.