Ashen God
Chapter 548 - 547: Spiritual Power

Chapter 548: Chapter 547: Spiritual Power

"So, my treasure box drop rate is just at an average level?"

Zhao Yalan had initially felt that her luck should be higher than that of other Awakeners, so she was actually quite dissatisfied with this ’average’ assessment.

But then she thought that this ’average’ came from the mouth of Zhang Yanhang, a Lucky Awakened, so perhaps it wasn’t really just average? As soon as she thought of this, Zhao Yalan felt relieved again.

"It’s also possible that I’ve seen too few Awakeners, which is why you seem more normal."

Zhang Yanhang, feeling that his rather reclusive nature could at most offer a local statistic, figured he might later ask Zhou Muxi if she knew any data on the average treasure box drop rate for Awakeners by leveraging big data statistics.

"Okay then. Are there any other things I need to know about the Second Tier?" Although she was asking about things to be cautious of, Zhao Yalan found herself puzzled again about why the Awakener on the lecture stage was just moving their mouth without speaking, as she was actually quite curious about the content of the public lecture.

"Do you know how the Awakeners’ ranks are divided? The whole village-town-county-city-province thing?" Zhang Yanhang carefully recalled his previous conversation with the group leader but realized there was nothing relevant to precautions, so he felt helpless and just brought up something random.

"Oh, that? Didn’t that ranking system get phased out already?" As an Awakener who had awakened her powers several months ago, Zhao Yalan was well aware of this level division and had even witnessed its rise and fall.

"But there’s still some reference value, like the original county-level definition in the village-town-county-city system belonged to Fourth Tier, which meant the rapid destruction of a county-level unit, but for some powerful Awakeners, they could destroy a county-level unit in one strike.

And even the weaker ones should be able to destroy a town with one strike, so from this perspective, there is still a bit of reference value."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that the group leader, a Fourth Tier Awakened, already had the capability to rapidly destroy provincial units in that ranking system, which was a Sixth Tier, so the original division was indeed not very reliable.

"Ah? Destroy a county-level city in one strike? Doesn’t that mean I should be able to destroy a village-level unit at Second Tier? But I feel like I can’t even destroy a village-level unit with one strike..."

Although Zhao Yalan had learned many spiritual powers from the Mind Power Rank, low-level spiritual powers were generally single-target attacks, with few area attacks, so she had always been not very good at area attacks, making her look very weak in that ranking system.

"Don’t worry, that’s normal. If I hadn’t obtained a wide-area attack skill, I would also struggle to destroy a village-level unit with a single strike."

Zhang Yanhang had always held a praising attitude toward his Death Wave Skill, which was, after all, a skill obtained from the Ancient Reaper, a being close to a God above God level—it was indeed a ridiculously powerful bug-like skill.

"Let’s talk about something else, like why the Awakener from the relevant department on the podium just keeps moving their mouth without speaking."

Zhao Yalan felt that being a Second Tier Awakened probably didn’t come with any special precautions, so she asked about something that had been bothering her. This was already the third time she had dwelled on this issue, and as the saying goes, it’s best to ask directly after the third time.

As for Zhang Yanhang possessing an area-effect skill that could destroy village-level units, Zhao Yalan felt it might be important, yet not that important.

After all, Zhang Yanhang was a Second Tier Peak Awakened, and theoretically, he should have the capability to destroy a village-level unit, let alone a lower tier. Therefore, she felt that it wasn’t something worth focusing on.

Moreover, she was only now entering the Second Tier, which explained her relatively weak strength; she believed that once she reached the Peak of the Second Tier, she would likely be able to use the area-effect superpowers from the Mind Power Rank to achieve similar feats, such as destroying a village-level unit, although it might be challenging.

"Wow, really? You actually want to listen to the public lecture?" Although Zhang Yanhang himself was quite disdainful of the Awakener from the relevant department on the stage, he still admired his ability to endlessly praise the department’s benefits.

"What are you talking about? If I didn’t want to listen, why would I come? Just like you said earlier, if you randomly killed a hundred lucky audience members in this classroom, all hundred would be here for the public lecture."

Zhao Yalan felt extremely happy to be able to use Zhang Yanhang’s own words to refute him sharply—an enjoyment that might even surpass finding Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

"Alright, then I’ll cancel the external blocking of the soundproof barrier."

The soundproof barrier released by Zhang Yanhang was quite trivial, being fixated in position and covering only a few meters. However, it was quite controllable.

Normally, it only provided one-way soundproofing—blocking outward noise from Zhang Yanhang—but due to his annoyance, he had modified it for two-way soundproofing, blocking external sounds. Now that Zhao Yalan wanted to listen to the lecture, he just needed to cancel the external block.

By the way, the reason Zhang Yanhang always said this soundproof barrier was trivial was that its function could be perfectly replaced by the energy shield. He could control the energy shield to block external sound waves and also isolate his own sound from escaping.

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang could expand the energy shield to cover those nearby, such as Zhao Yalan, to form a similar soundproof zone. Thus, from this perspective, if a soundproof barrier wasn’t considered trivial, it would be hard to find anything else that was.

Although this soundproof barrier was so trivial for Zhang Yanhang, he still learned it to quickly master the Advanced Silent Force Field, a Fifth Tier magic.

After all, the energy shield’s soundproofing, or rather, vibration isolation, could only work for Zhang Yanhang and those within its range, but was completely useless externally.

Therefore, mastering the Advanced Silent Force Field of Fifth Tier magic was essential to prevent others from hearing the colossal noise of breaking the sound barrier—otherwise, Zhang Yanhang’s invisibility would be nothing but a self-deceptive trick.