Ashen God
Chapter 571 - 570 Multi-Effect Resonance of Fifth Tier Magic

Chapter 571: Chapter 570 Multi-Effect Resonance of Fifth Tier Magic

Zhang Yanhang occasionally engaged in other activities, slightly wasting some time, so it took him an extra half hour to master the Three Tier Spell Silent Field by 3:30 PM. Had he stayed at home and focused solely on learning, he would have likely mastered it by 3:00 PM.

Compared with the Zero Ring Illusion Sound Barrier, a mere trick that only possessed sound isolation capabilities, the Three Tier Spell Silent Field was a legitimate spell that far surpassed the Soundproof Barrier in both functionality and coverage area.

First and foremost was the essential aspect of silence. Unlike the original Soundproof Barrier, which only simply isolated the interior from the exterior, the Silent Field also provided some defensive effects because it could completely eliminate any sounds produced within its covered area.

Although indeed niche, there was still a subset of mages who chose to master Sound Magic. When they cast spells such as Horiz Koller Cough, Horiz Koller’s Roar, Horiz Koller’s Multieffect Resonance, Destructive Sound Wave, Resonance Bundle, Sound Spear, Roar Technique, and similar Sound Magic, simply deploying a Silent Field could automatically defend against the noise damage caused by these spells.

Thus, from this perspective, defending against Sound Magic was actually the primary purpose of the Silent Field. Wanting to use the Silent Field to mask his own sounds, as Zhang Yanhang had intended, was quite uncommon. After all, it is typically the realm of Thieves and Assassins to engage in infiltration.

In other words, compared to already niche Sound Magic, the Silent Field, which is specifically designed to defend against Sound Magic, was even more niche. Furthermore, considering that Thieves and Assassins naturally possess abilities like Silent Stealth, they wouldn’t have a need for such a spell.

Therefore, the spell was generally quite useless for conventional mages, but not for unconventional ones like Zhang Yanhang who had a particular need for it.

Perhaps it was because the Silent Field and other Sound Barrier Defense spells were so niche, Zhang Yanhang hadn’t been able to directly obtain the spell from the Spell List during his Talent Upgrade and had to learn it on his own.

In comparison, the other spells on his Spell List were generally among the most valuable within the same tier, whereas a niche spell like the Silent Field could only be considered bottom-tier, only marginally better than utterly useless spells like Tentacle Tongue.

One of the main reasons for its low value ranking was that as a purely defensive spell, the Three Tier Spell Silent Field had some clear disadvantages.

For example, once cast, although everything within its range couldn’t produce sound—making it suitable for some peculiar endeavors—the problem was that sounds from the outside couldn’t penetrate either.

Since sound could travel normally outside but would be automatically nullified once it entered the covered area, this effectively made the user deaf.

Moreover, as a purely defense-oriented spell, the Three Tier Spell Silent Field, like the Zero Ring Illusion Sound Barrier, was immobile.

However, being a third-tier spell, the Silent Field covered a much larger area than the Soundproof Barrier, which extended only a few meters. Given Zhang Yanhang’s current situation, after casting, it was likely to cover about fifty meters.

That meant, although Zhang Yanhang had now mastered the Three Tier Spell Silent Field, there was essentially no substantial difference between it and the Soundproof Barrier—they were both immobile. Therefore, it wasn’t really the spell Zhang Yanhang needed; he would still have to learn the Fifth Tier Spell High-level Silence Field next.

Just as Zhang Yanhang was eager to continue his study of the Fifth Tier Spell High-level Silence Field, the screen of his phone suddenly lit up. It seemed that due to his search information from the previous day, the phone browser actively pushed him news he might be interested in—a level 18 super typhoon, Bai Lian, was returning to the Pacific Ocean.

Although Zhang Yanhang felt that Bai Lian did not particularly relate to him, since the phone had pushed the news, he was quite curious about the follow-up, so he couldn’t help but click on the news to check it.

He discovered that the progress of Bai Lian was indeed similar to what he had previously estimated. However, the issue was that shortly after arriving in South Korea, Bai Lian’s wind speed had significantly decreased, and after leaving South Korea, the wind speed had increased dramatically, even nearing the strength of a level 19 typhoon.

Although the news did not specify the reason, Zhang Yanhang guessed that South Korean Awakeners must have intervened since they had initially directed the super typhoon close to Qin Island City. Now, seeing their dispatched "gift" being rejected, they opted to redirect it to trouble Japan again.

Possibly because a super typhoon is somewhat inconsequential in the face of Awakeners, the typhoon, which had momentarily neared level 19 winds, suddenly weakened upon reaching the waters near Japan, likely due to Japanese Awakeners interventional efforts.

However, although indeed an intervention occurred, the disasters caused by the typhoon itself were quite diverse. Or to say, simply stopping the typhoon does not prevent the damage it brings.

Actually, from a great distance, the turbulent airflow formed by the typhoon had already affected the clouds over the land, causing heavy rain to fall prematurely and raising water levels, subsequently leading to dam breaches, village floods, and resultant flooding disasters.

If you were to ask whether preemptively dispersing the rain clouds would work, it could, but if unmanaged by human intervention—meaning Awakeners’ intervention—for a significant period, the area might experience prolonged droughts, thus forming a drought disaster.

Therefore, merely stopping the typhoon without comprehensive planning for other aspects could only reduce the most basic and direct storm damage.

In reality, besides storm damage and flooding damage, typhoons can also cause a third type of threat to human civilization—storm surges, similar to tsunamis in appearance. However, storm surges are weaker than earthquake-generated tsunamis in terms of coverage and speed, so they can be generally understood as a weakened version of a tsunami.

But the issue is, the storm surge in question refers to those formed by ordinary typhoons; for Bai Lian, a typhoon that had approached level 19 severe storm status, the storm surges it could generate, with Awakeners’ escalation, might even surpass an actual tsunami, easily destroying coastal cities.

So Zhang Yanhang, when he finally checked the disaster victim numbers of both countries, found that although it hadn’t reached the tens of millions he had initially envisioned, there was still a substantial number in the millions affected by the disaster.

After all, the typhoon passed through the capitals of both countries, which are among the top few densely populated areas in East Asia; just Han City alone has a permanent population of eighteen million, plus the Tokyo Metropolitan Area with a population of thirty-seven million, these two places combined have a total population of fifty-five million.

Therefore, for these two cities, even if only a small area was affected by Bai Lian, it was easy to accumulate a disaster victim population in the millions.

"While typhoons, these large-scale natural disasters, do indeed look spectacular, their lethality is also notoriously inadequate; from the start, this kind of widespread but imprecise mode of attack has been very incompatible with me."

Even though Zhang Yanhang had anticipated this outcome beforehand, he couldn’t help but lament, or rather, express his dislike for this type of large-scale damage that completely fails to kill.

Compared to the typhoon manipulated by the relevant department’s Awakener, he indeed preferred the type of damage done by Thermo-baric Bombs—maybe they couldn’t cover an area as large as a typhoon, but at least there were no concerns about the damage; anyone hit by a bomb had virtually no chance of survival.

Compared to Typhoon Bai Lian, it belonged to another extreme: where Typhoon Bai Lian inflicted minimal harm that couldn’t kill people, the Thermo-baric Bomb performed an overabundant output within its range, ensuring every "client" enjoyed the prestigious treatment of instant cremation to ashes.

After reading the news about the super typhoon Bai Lian, Zhang Yanhang didn’t linger in the classroom but prepared to go home immediately.

Although it was only three-thirty in the afternoon and theoretically there should be more classes, today was different, today was Friday, and Friday typically only had one class in the afternoon, mainly for the convenience of dormitory students to go home for the weekend earlier.

Although Zhang Yanhang was a day student, he passively enjoyed the related benefits for the same reason.

Since there were no classes on Saturday and Sunday, Zhang Yanhang planned to take a nap immediately after getting home and then start learning the Fifth Tier Spell High-level Silence Field upon waking, striving to master it in one go without external disturbances, especially before the Transmission Channel opened.

Judging by the current time, squeezing out these thirty-nine hours wasn’t difficult; after that, he could sleep for a while before he went to the Ashen World to hunt monsters. Of course, if there was extra time, Zhang Yanhang would probably spend it studying Alchemy.

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On October 22, the fourteenth day after the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays ended and also the second day since Zhang Yanhang left the Ashen World, at 8:10 PM, Xingfuli District, Unit 505, bedroom.

After returning home, having been busy for over a dozen hours, Zhang Yanhang immediately lay on his bed and slept for four and a half hours. Although this irregular way of living was not good for the body, that was for ordinary people; as a Second Tier Peak Awakened, Zhang Yanhang naturally didn’t need to worry about these issues.

After all, although Awakeners look like humans on the surface, internally they are already fundamentally different from humans. By the time they reach the Fourth Tier, they don’t even need to sleep anymore, which will be discarded just like the excretive functions that have become useless because of the Grain Avoidance Ability.

This is also why the group leader is always so idle; because she doesn’t need to sleep, she naturally has more time than others. And since she has reached such a level, her sleeping schedule is even less of a concern.

Since they don’t require sleep, each Fourth Tier Awakened likely treats staying up all night as the norm. From this perspective, it’s only natural for Zhang Yanhang, a Second Tier Awakened, to stay up late—it’s just getting used to future new life in advance.

"Now that I’m awake, I’ll start studying the Fifth Tier Spell High-level Silence Field right away. Once I’ve mastered this spell, my little goal of invisible, super-high-speed flight that won’t disturb anyone will finally be achieved."

Although this little goal was actually just set the day before yesterday, so the overall progress was quite fast, Zhang Yanhang still felt it was a bit slow in completion.

After all, most of Zhang Yanhang’s small goals were completed within a day or two; only a few, like reaching a bullet speed of six mach, took longer since it was a long-term goal, not really comparable to the other ordinary small goals.

"Speaking of which, if I really accomplish this invisible, silent, super-high-speed flight small goal, I feel I definitely have great potential to be an assassin, although I was already pretty skilled to begin with."

Zhang Yanhang was quite confident in his stealth skills. Take the previous example in Goblin Plain: unless he intentionally left a survivor to let the Goblin Wolf Cavalry send a message back, absolutely no monster could escape his presence, which represented the highest realm of stealth—naturally, no one could reveal his whereabouts if all the monsters were killed.

Of course, Zhang Yanhang was after all not a professional assassin, compared

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