Ashen God
Chapter 588 - 587: Demonized Swamp Cleanup Plan

Chapter 588: Chapter 587: Demonized Swamp Cleanup Plan

After scanning the monsters in Raccoon City, Zhang Yanhang quickly rushed to Goblin Plain and likewise carried out a comprehensive scan of the monsters there. Due to being less familiar with the terrain than that of Raccoon City, it took him about half an hour to finally complete the scanning of the entire Goblin Plain.

Compared to Raccoon City, although both took four days, the designated quantity of monsters at Goblin Plain was higher, therefore, the respawn quantity of monsters was much higher on Goblin Plain.

According to Zhang Yanhang’s scan results, there were approximately three thousand five hundred Dragon Vein Goblins on the Goblin Plain, and all of these three thousand five hundred Dragon Vein Goblins were First Tier One-star Elite Big Saber Goblins.

"At Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalaguna, I didn’t clear it for ten days, so that’s why three thousand Crimson Iron Worker Ants could respawn, but here at Goblin Plain, it’s only four days since the last clearing, and already three thousand five hundred Big Saber Goblins have respawned, even five hundred more than at Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalaguna."

Zhang Yanhang’s only thought was that a higher designated quantity is indeed better. Due to the high designated quantity, the refresh rate of the monsters on Goblin Plain completely overwhelmed Raccoon City and Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalaguna, even surpassing the combined refresh rate of both those areas.

"Goblin Plain has already refreshed three thousand five hundred Big Saber Goblins in just four days. Four days from now, it could probably refresh seven thousand Big Saber Goblins, and by then, I should be able to stock up a four-digit number of Medium Magic Recovery Potions.

Since the refresh rate is already this high, why should I bother crafting them myself? Indeed, crafting Alchemy Potions really isn’t suitable for me."

Zhang Yanhang had originally thought about self-sufficiency by collecting alchemy materials on Goblin Plain, but now it seemed that this method was too inefficient.

After all, if he relies on hunting Big Saber Goblins to obtain Medium Magic Recovery Potions, it would only take a few hours to harvest up to thousands of bottles. However, if he were to craft them himself, it may take two to three days, and he might not even be able to craft as many.

Even if you add the time spent collecting materials, the time cost would be even higher. So, it would be better to give up on the idea of crafting Medium Magic Recovery Potions himself and consider it as cutting losses in time. Fortunately, he hadn’t yet embarrassed himself by starting the relevant preparatory work.

The preliminary preparation here mainly involved collecting materials and exploring recipes.

Since Zhang Yanhang had not managed to extract the recipe for Medium Magic Recovery Potions from Maka Bagga’s treasure box, if he wanted to craft them himself, he would inevitably need to collect a large amount of materials and perform high-frequency restoration experiments to explore the necessary types and specific ratios of medicinal materials.

This restoration experimentation, if nothing unusual happened, would definitely consume a lot of Zhang Yanhang’s time, so preliminary preparations were indeed quite troublesome, especially since he could only start mass production of Medium Magic Recovery Potions once he recreated the recipe.

Of course, aside from Medium Magic Recovery Potions, Zhang Yanhang was still quite interested in dabbling with other Alchemy Potions, mainly to learn the relevant crafting techniques.

"Besides Medium Magic Recovery Potions, I can also obtain over three hundred E-grade Thin Dragon Vein Talents from these Big Saber Goblins, although I’m still short of 1906 Thin Dragon Veins."

Compared to the upgrade requirement of 2187 Thin Dragon Veins, Zhang Yanhang had only just filled an eighth of the progress. If he could obtain another three hundred Thin Dragon Veins, that should again fill an eighth of the progress, bringing the overall progress to 25%.

Although the accumulation speed was indeed very slow, at least there was still hope of gathering enough, even if later Zhang Yanhang could not find other areas related to Thin Dragon Vein Talent, he should still be able to upgrade Scroll Dragon Bloodline to SSS grade through gradual efforts.

Just like his previous S-grade Talent "Chunling Endless", which could not be upgraded directly due to insufficient number of Zombies in Raccoon City, but was later upgraded to SS-grade Talent "Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea" after killing Zombies for a while longer due to Ashen World’s automatic respawn.

Therefore, although the required number of Thin Dragon Vein Talents is many times higher than the "Slow Corrosion" he needed back then, considering that the designated number of monsters in Goblin Plain is several times higher than that of Raccoon City, Zhang Yanhang still had a bit of confidence that he could gather enough through respawns.

But replenishing an eighth every eight days meant Zhang Yanhang would still need two more months.

Therefore, compared to relying on the slow automatic respawn of Ashen World, Zhang Yanhang would definitely still prefer to find other areas related to Thin Dragon Vein Talent, as directly clearing existing areas would be much faster. Based on Zhang Yanhang’s current hunting experience, it should take just a few days to clear an entire area.

"Since the respawn rate of monsters in both Raccoon City and Goblin Plain is very healthy, I should hurry and check the situation in Demonized Swamp next. Although it’s a swamp, I didn’t see any swampy area before, it seems that this swamp must be hidden deep in the forest and is probably not very large."

Zhang Yanhang quickly headed toward the Demonized Swamp after some brief consideration. Although Demonized Swamp was located to the north of Raccoon City and Goblin Plain to the west of Raccoon City, the large area of the Demonized Swamp meant that it also bordered Goblin Plain.

Because of this, when Zhang Yanhang stood on Goblin Plain looking out, no matter where he looked, he could only see forest, which was simply comprised of two parts; one part was naturally the swamp forest of the Demonized Swamp, and the other part was an unknown forest he had mentioned before.

Since he didn’t plan to clear that area for the time being, Zhang Yanhang hadn’t explored it yet, merely scanning the periphery, which seemed like just an ordinary forest.

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After an indeterminate amount of time, Zhang Yanhang eventually chose the third option "Decline late-night snacks starting from me" due to time constraints. Following that decision, he triggered a Time Pause by deciding which leg to move first and spent a good while scanning before he finally completed the full scan of the Demonized Swamp.

After scanning the entire Demonized Swamp, Zhang Yanhang found the actual situation a bit better than his initial estimate. Although the area of the Demonized Swamp was indeed vast, it wasn’t as expansive as he previously thought.

Zhang Yanhang had always assumed the Demonized Swamp covered an area of over five hundred square kilometers, possibly nearing a thousand square kilometers. However, it turned out that the areas he had previously misjudged were from a new forested region located further beyond the Demonized Swamp.

After deducting the misjudged area, the Demonized Swamp only amounted to roughly four hundred square kilometers.

Of course, this is just an approximate figure. The actual size might be slightly more or less, since Zhang Yanhang didn’t have an accurate land measurement app installed in his brain, and he found it challenging to precisely map an irregular polygonal area.

Perhaps due to its large area, or possibly because of the terrain, the Demonized Swamp zone didn’t have the obvious Outer and Middle Layers that Zhang Yanhang had encountered in the Goblin Plain and Raccoon City.

The Demonized Swamp region was divided by four thick rivers into five parts. The swamp area, which dominates and lends its name to the region, is located in the northernmost, innermost part of the zone.

Not far from the swamp area is the lake area, which provides water to the rivers, located in the northwest of the entire region, right next to the swamp area.

If Zhang Yanhang were forced to make a classification, these two areas would respectively be the Core Area and the Middle Layer, while the other three remaining sections are merely ordinary forests. This is why Zhang Yanhang always thought this area was just an ordinary forest, as the outer perimeter consisted entirely of forests.

These three forest areas respectively occupy the west, south, and east of the Demonized Swamp region, effectively enclosing the lake and swamp areas, thus greatly contributing to the confusion, which consequently misled Zhang Yanhang.

Besides the terrain differences, even the distribution of monsters in the Demonized Swamp is different from other regions. It seems each area mainly harbors one type of monster, at most mixed with a small number of other monsters, unlike in Goblin Plain and Raccoon City, where most monsters are mixed together.

Because of these significant differences, Zhang Yanhang felt that his cleaning plan this time should also be divided into five stages, although the cleaning plan for the Demonized Swamp differs considerably from that of the Goblin Plain.

This cleaning plan for the Demonized Swamp mainly requires each stage to correspond to a particular area, which itself serves as the anchor point. Previously, Zhang Yanhang mostly used slot machines, Evaluation Settlement Treasure Boxes, and Achievement Vending Machines as anchor points.

This time, based on the principle of proximity, Zhang Yanhang planned this cleaning mission. For the First Stage of the cleaning plan, he aimed to clear the southern area of the Demonized Swamp first, which covers about ninety square kilometers and notably contains a Lucky Slot Machine.

Indeed, it may be because these devices really are standard features of every region in the Ashen World, as Zhang Yanhang also found Lucky Slot Machines, Evaluation Settlement Treasure Boxes, and Achievement Vending Machines in the Demonized Swamp.

Then came the Second Stage of the cleaning plan. After cleaning the southern area, Zhang Yanhang planned to proceed to clean the eastern region of the Demonized Swamp, which is significantly larger, covering about one hundred and thirty square kilometers.

Next, in the Third Stage of the cleaning plan, by that time, having already cleared both the southern and eastern areas, Zhang Yanhang would then go on to clear the last remaining forest in the outer perimeter—the western area, encompassing approximately seventy-five square kilometers.

In the western area during his previous scanning, Zhang Yanhang located an Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box near the northwest lakes.

Then comes the Fourth Stage of the cleaning plan, where Zhang Yanhang would clean the lake area that was forcibly categorized as the Middle Layer. This immense lake in the northwest of the Demonized Swamp covers an area of sixty square kilometers and is mainly a water environment with practically no land.

Zhang Yanhang planned to leave the lake area for the Fourth Stage largely because of the aquatic environment, as he can’t swim. Therefore, he anticipated that hunting there would be extremely troublesome, certainly more so than the forested areas.

Although there’s practically no land in this water environment, it does contain small scatter islands in the lake. On one of these islands in the lake area, Zhang Yanhang discovered an Achievement Vending Machine in the Demonized Swamp.

Zhang Yanhang wasn’t at all surprised by this, as the three Achievement Vending Machines he had found before were all relatively close to, or even inside, the Core Area.

Thus, from practical cases, having this Achievement Vending Machine in the Middle Layer of the Demonized Swamp is already the furthest one.

Once he had cleared the outer forested areas and the Middle Layer’s lake, the final Fifth Stage of the cleaning plan would be to clear the swamp mudponds, classified as the Core Area, which gave the Demonized Swamp its name. This swamp spans about forty-five square kilometers, even larger than Raccoon City itself.

This swamp area in the northern part of the Demonized Swamp is home to the Lord Monster of the Demonized Swamp and various other scattered monsters. Perhaps due to customary reasons, stronger monsters are generally rarer. Hence, although the swamp area is indeed vast, there actually aren’t many monsters.

For this reason, Zhang Yanhang should be able to clean it relatively quickly when the time comes, especially compared to the lake area. After all, despite also sinking in mud, at least there’s something solid in the swamp to leverage against, unlike stepping into a lake and sinking instantly. The swamp may still cause sinking, but it would be much slower and more suitable for exerting force.

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