Ashen God
Chapter 583 - 582: The New Transmission Channel

Chapter 583: Chapter 582: The New Transmission Channel

Zhang Yanhang wasn’t paying much attention to Maka Baga’s condition at the moment because the other Dragon Vein Goblins in the prize pool had fallen silent before Maka Baga, which immediately triggered a flood of kill notification sounds in Zhang Yanhang’s ears.

[Successfully killed a First Tier Two Stars Monster ’Goblin Spear Thrower (Elite)’×1, Soul points+10.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier Two Stars Monster ’Goblin Spear Thrower (Elite)’×1, Soul points+10.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier Two Stars Monster ’Goblin Spear Thrower (Elite)’×1, Soul points+10.]

...

Perhaps because Maka Baga, as a Second Tier Elite Monster, had a higher Constitution Attribute and a correspondingly higher Life Value Limit, Death Wave couldn’t kill him instantly. This guy, like the Crimson Iron Ant King, held on about a second longer than the other monsters before Zhang Yanhang heard the kill notification sound.

[Successfully killed a Second Tier Two Stars Monster ’Goblin Chief Shaman Maka Baga (Elite)’×1, Soul points+100.]

"Although I can’t really claim I killed Maka Baga with my own hands this time, at least he died in front of me, so I guess that somewhat makes up for the regret."

After successfully wiping out Maka Baga and the other ninety-nine Dragon Vein Goblins with a single Death Wave, Zhang Yanhang quietly stood in place, waiting for the treasure boxes to refresh.

A few seconds later, nine Drop treasure boxes simultaneously appeared on the ground strewn with the mangled corpses of the Dragon Vein Goblins, marking the highest number of Drop treasure boxes since Zhang Yanhang started clearing the slot machine prize pool, albeit perhaps only applicable after his promotion to the second tier.

After all, when he was at the First Tier, due to the absence of a Rank Penalty, cleaning out the prize pool in Raccoon City usually yielded at least a double-digit number of Drop treasure boxes, that is, more than ten Drop treasure boxes, with the best times even yielding thirteen or fourteen Drop treasure boxes.

But after his promotion to the Second Tier, due to the Rank Penalty, Zhang Yanhang could no longer achieve this. This time, however, the reason there were so many treasure boxes was that the slot machine prize pool contained forty Same Tier Monsters.

Unfortunately, although nine treasure boxes dropped, they were all Green Treasure Boxes and Blue Treasure Boxes, lacking the most important Purple Treasure Box from the Goblin Chief Shaman Maka Baga.

But it was normal for Maka Baga not to drop a treasure box because, even including the First Kill, this was only the second Maka Baga he had killed.

Based on Zhang Yanhang’s previous calculations of the drop rate of Second Tier Goblins on Goblin Plain, under normal circumstances, Zhang Yanhang would need to kill five more Maka Baggas, a total of seven, to obtain another Drop treasure box. In other words, he needed to clear the Goblin Plain slot machine third prize pool five more times.

"Speaking of the refresh issue of the Goblin Plain slot machine, I still don’t know the specific refresh time for this Goblin Plain slot machine. The last time, the options didn’t mention it, only saying that after sleeping for a while, the slot machine here had refreshed."

According to normal sleep standards, it could range from one to eight hours, so the specific refresh time for the slot machine on Goblin Plain should be between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. However, the exact time still needs to be observed to be determined."

Zhang Yanhang would continue to pay attention to this matter, just occasionally checking in to pin down the precise refresh times.

Moreover, compared to the refresh time, Zhang Yanhang was actually more interested in other things, such as the transmission channel. Although he had never seen the slot machine located in the Goblin Plain, the options mentioned there was a transmission channel there, even one leading to "India."

Although Zhang Yanhang was not particularly interested in India, since it had always been quite chaotic, he still wanted to casually observe the exact opening times of the new transmission channel.

After all, it would be a bit of a hassle if an Indian Awakener were to come through, given that the Empire and India were hostile nations, even though India was a defeated nation.

Mentioning this, Zhang Yanhang could not help but start to ponder whether the bodies of the Awakeners would respawn. If he just left the bodies of Indian Awakeners there, would they decay normally or undergo some other transformation? Zhang Yanhang felt this observational experiment could be very interesting.

That’s right, the premise of Zhang Yanhang’s thoughts was to eliminate the opposition. As hostile nations, Zhang Yanhang could not think of any possibility where they could coexist amicably. Besides, the two parties did not even speak the same language fundamentally, leaving no possibility for communication.

Well, if he really wanted to communicate, it wasn’t actually impossible. Zhang Yanhang could give himself the Master Language talent, which would allow him to understand Hindi. However, he chose to refuse.

And if you ask why, there is no reason. It’s just a pure rejection, because he somewhat enjoyed that sense of refusal.

"Never mind, I’ll stop thinking about the matters related to India. As long as no Fourth Tier Awakened comes from the other side, I generally won’t be under too much pressure. Additionally, the periodicity of this transmission channel is still unknown, and it might unexpectedly be quite long.

I haven’t seen this transmission channel open while hunting monsters on Goblin Plain before, so the opening cycle of this transmission channel on Goblin Plain must be at least over five days. I mostly belong to those situations where even if I want to encounter it, I can’t."

Compared to the potentially opening transmission channel on Goblin Plain, Zhang Yanhang felt the most pressing thing he needed to do was to open the drop treasure box he had just obtained from clearing the third prize pool of the slot machine.

Zhang Yanhang didn’t bother to find another clean area. He simply sat down on the body of Maka Bagga and poured out five treasure boxes from his waist bag, setting them alongside the nine boxes he had picked up earlier.

Zhang Yanhang now had a total of fourteen treasure boxes in his hands, whose composition was quite complex. They included two drop treasure boxes from ordinary zombies from Raccoon City, one from a zombie dog and a Licker, and one from a police zombie.

Then there was a drop treasure box from the big saber goblin, a goblin spear thrower, and a goblin wolf cavalry on Goblin Plain, and finally, three drop treasure boxes provided by a big goblin and a goblin shaman.

After briefly counting the number of treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang immediately picked up the most important green treasure box from the goblin wolf cavalry and chose to open it. Time Pause abruptly descended.

[Open the Drop Treasure Box (Goblin Wolf Cavalry)?]

"Yes, open it." Zhang Yanhang didn’t have any specific expectations for opening the treasure box this time; he just hoped to get the Swift Leggings. Besides that, there really wasn’t anything else to expect, especially since there wasn’t much else in the Goblin Wolf Cavalry’s drop treasure box.

[Please select the specific contents of the Drop Treasure Box (Goblin Wolf Cavalry)]

[Item One: ?]

[Item Two: ?]

[Item Three: ?]

[Item Four: ?]

[Item Five: ?]

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After spending about a minute to open all the treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang immediately started to tally his gains, starting with the Talent aspect. He had obtained thirteen E-rank Talents this time, specifically four "Slow Corrosion" and nine "Thin Dragon Vein (Mixed)".

Previously, Zhang Yanhang had a total of 121 Slow Corrosion Talents, and with the four he had obtained this time, he now had a total of 125 Slow Corrosion Talents.

"125 Slow Corrosion Talents, which isn’t even enough to be considered spare components for upgrading to SSS-rank. To upgrade the SS-rank Talent ’Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea’ to SSS-rank, it requires a total of 2187 Slow Corrosion, and I am still short by 2062 Slow Corrosion."

Zhang Yanhang was truly beginning to feel desperate about the shortfall of Slow Corrosion. If he couldn’t find other monsters related to Slow Corrosion Talents, he would definitely not be able to accumulate enough from Raccoon City alone.

As for finding other monsters related to Slow Corrosion Talents, specifically zombie-type monsters, Zhang Yanhang recently had some hope of resolving it, thanks to the talisman paper he bought from the group leader.

Zhang Yanhang had long suspected that the area opposite the abandoned transmission channel was related to zombies but had been unable to confirm it, considering his complete lack of knowledge in repairing transmission channels.

But this time it was different. Zhang Yanhang had bought a talisman paper specifically designed for repairing transmission channels from the group leader, and if everything went smoothly, he should finally be able to see what was on the other side of the transmission channel.

If it did turn out to be a zombie-related transmission channel as he had anticipated, then he could finally advance his SS-rank Talent "Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea" again. He had been looking forward to this since he first advanced to the second tier and was now close to promoting to the third tier before he finally found hope of completion.

However, finding a resolution was merely a hope; to actually achieve this minor goal, he probably had to wait until he reached the third tier, especially since he definitely wouldn’t have time to clear other areas this time, busy as he was with the Demonized Swamp.

Moreover, because the automatic repair service provided by the talisman paper would take several days to complete, his four days in the Ashen World might not be enough. If that were the case, cleaning the areas opposite the abandoned transmission channel would be even less likely.

Compared to the insufficiently stocked Slow Corrosion due to the low zombie population in Raccoon City, the performance of the "Thin Dragon Vein (Mixed)" was undoubtedly better, at least enough to scrape together some spare change.

Zhang Yanhang used to have a total of 272 Thin Dragon Veins in his waist bag. With the nine Thin Dragon Vein Talents he obtained this time, he now had a total of 281 Thin Dragon Veins.

"Although it’s indeed enough to make up a spare change, it’s only slightly more than that. I also need 2187 E-rank Talents to upgrade ’Scroll Dragon Bloodline’ from SS to SSS-rank, and I currently only have about one-eighth of that, still short by 1906 Thin Dragon Veins."

Zhang Yanhang felt equally hopeless about the Thin Dragon Veins. If he wanted to continue upgrading, he would definitely need to hunt more monsters with related Thin Dragon Vein Talents.

Relying solely on the monsters from Goblin Plain was certainly not enough, especially since the current shortfall in Thin Dragon Vein required him to hunt about forty thousand Dragon Vein Goblins, twice the designated amount for the entire Goblin Plain.

Therefore, even though Zhang Yanhang hadn’t yet had time to check the recent Dragon Vein Goblin spawn rates on the Goblin Plain, he assumed they wouldn’t be sufficient.

Even if the Dragon Vein Goblins in Goblin Plain spawned quickly, there would definitely be a limit. In four days, they could probably only spawn a four-digit number of Dragon Vein Goblins, mostly the weakest Big Saber Goblins from the plains.

Regarding this spawning issue, Zhang Yanhang planned to take advantage of the Time Pause later to scan the monster spawn conditions in both Raccoon City and the Goblin Plain.

Of course, he wouldn’t immediately think about hunting; instead, he planned to wait until just before leaving the Ashen World to conduct a focused cleanup of these two areas.

After all, if he didn’t clear them at the second tier, advancing to the third tier might result in an unnecessary loss of Drop Treasure Boxes due to rank penalties.

This focused cleanup also depended on one condition: that Zhang Yanhang still had enough time left after clearing the Demonized Swamp. If he couldn’t even finish cleaning up the swamp, it definitely wouldn’t be possible for him to find separate time to clean Raccoon City and Goblin Plain.

After he finished tallying the gains related to Talents, Zhang Yanhang began to count the artifacts he had acquired. This time, he obtained three Green Medicine Grasses, three Red Medicine Herbs, one Emergency Spray, one Yellow Medicine Grass, and three Medium Magic Recovery Potions.

Regarding the three green-quality artifacts—Green Medicine Grass, Red Medicine Herb, and Emergency Spray—Zhang Yanhang was actually too lazy to count them, and after finishing the tally, he directly put them into his waist bag.

Compared to the Green and Red Medicine Grasses, which he usually stocked in four-digit quantities of low-quality artifacts, what was more important to Zhang Yanhang was that Yellow Medicine Grass and the three Medium Magic Recovery Potions.