Ashen God
Chapter 597 - 596: Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape

Chapter 597: Chapter 596: Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape

Of course, although there are no cheats with such functionality in the real world, Zhang Yanhang could still grasp that ability through some other channels, one of the most classic being "Speak and follow".

If Zhang Yanhang mastered the related ability, he would simply need to say "Plants disappear automatically," but such a powerful ability is definitely very far from his current reach.

Moreover, compared to mastering "Speak and follow", it would be more realistic for him to rely on rank advancement to elevate Multiple Choice to a level that could exert a similar ability, like creating an option to remove all vegetation in the current area.

Honestly, if he removed this range limit, Zhang Yanhang could almost achieve this already, but the area would definitely be very small and it would for sure require consuming a lot of Energy Value, so it lacks practical significance and could only be used to show off at specific moments.

There are also many other abilities with functions similar to a one-click weed removal tool, such as the Death Domain, once activated, all plants in its domain are guaranteed to die, and he could also manipulate the undead under his control to manually remove the plants.

"Thinking it over, the most realistic ability that can indirectly achieve a one-click weed removal function for me right now is still Ghostification. If I could master a type of Ghostification ability, it would be like being on a great plain no matter where I go, completely disregarding environmental differences.

However, unfortunately, unless the Ghostification ability is obtained directly through a related Talent or by changing one’s Race, it wouldn’t likely become a passive-type perpetual ability. It should be a high-end ability that consumes a lot of Energy during use, just the thought of the energy cost alone makes it clear that I can’t afford it right now."

Zhang Yanhang felt that since both methods relied heavily on consuming medicinal herbs to enhance hunting efficiency, he might as well stick with using Spiritual Qi Blessing, which, although a very basic ability, is also one of the most practical ones and is synonymous with simplicity.

"Looking at the current progress, the overall situation is actually quite optimistic. If time really runs out, it would probably only take finishing the Green Medicine Grass and then briefly using Spiritual Qi Blessing to clear out the entire Demonized Swamp before the Transmission Channel closes."

With this thought in mind, Zhang Yanhang immediately dashed towards the west. According to his previous scan, the real ruler of the Southern Forest wasn’t the Demonized Maned Beast, those were just a minor part that Zhang Yanhang had mentioned before.

That’s why, after he killed those seven Demonized Maned Beasts, he said he had eliminated all the Demonized Maned Beasts around because there indeed weren’t any others, but instead, there was another type of equally massive demonized prehistoric creature, which truly dominated the Southern Forest.

A few seconds later, Zhang Yanhang smoothly arrived behind this prehistoric demonized creature. From its appearance, this demonized prehistoric creature seemed to belong to the gorilla or monkey category.

However, as a prehistoric creature, it was much larger than any modern gorilla or monkey, with a height of about three and a half meters when upright and disproportionately long arms, measuring more than two meters.

This caused it to easily lean on the ground with its thick, strong arms that were almost as thick as its thighs whenever it slightly bent its legs. Although it stood upright at three and a half meters tall, most of the time it maintained a height of less than three meters due to the bent legs.

As a primate too, Zhang Yanhang could only remark that prehistoric creatures truly deserved their name. Their height was almost equivalent to stacking two ordinary people on top of each other, and they were robust and round in shape, covered in large muscles all over their bodies, and aside from the hairlessness on their chest and face, their whole bodies were covered in stiff, black hair.

Moreover, although it was large, the creature was quick to react. As soon as Zhang Yanhang approached, it immediately responded, turning around to bare its dark, sharp-toothed mouth at him.

Yet, when it opened its mouth and tried to attack Zhang Yanhang’s body with its fist, he had already skillfully begun reviewing the attribute list of this demonized prehistoric creature.

[Demonized Canine Giant Ape (Ordinary)]

[Level: First Tier 3 Star]

[Talent: 1. Prehistoric Giant Beast. 2. Demonized Life Form (Canine Giant Ape).]

[Prehistoric Giant Beast: Has a 20% chance of triggering the ’Spiritual Suppression’ effect when facing an enemy at least 30% smaller than itself, reducing the enemy’s movement speed and defensive power by 20% each and has a 2.5% chance of causing ’Demonization Infection’ effect resulting in severe deformation of the enemy’s body. Movement Speed +15%.]

[Demonized Life Form (Canine Giant Ape): The canine giant ape was originally a species that lived in the Phanerozoic Era, Neogene Period, Middle Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs approximately 9 million to 500,000 years ago. It was a large primate of the hominid suborder, great ape family, and had a physical appearance similar to modern chimpanzees, though not related by lineage.

As a prehistoric hominid, the adult canine giant ape stood at three and a half meters tall and weighed around 600 kilograms, making it a bona fide large prehistoric creature. Furthermore, the canine giant ape was the largest subspecies among its contemporaries in the ape suborder, being one to two times the size of other contemporary hominids.

The mouth of the canine giant ape was filled with sharp canine teeth and large, sturdy molars. The molars were approximately five times the size of those of a modern adult human, and their large molars, along with sharp teeth, made it easier for them to grind their food and also effortlessly snap tree trunks not exceeding their mouth diameter.

Initially, the canine giant ape was an omnivorous animal and a very powerful prehistoric predator. However, during subsequent evolutionary processes, due to its slow movement speed, it gradually transitioned from an omnivorous to a herbivorous diet. The sharp canine teeth, originally adapted for easily crushing the skulls of enemies, turned into tools for crushing bamboo.

As a species that lived alongside and had a similar penchant for bamboo as the giant panda, the canine giant ape during its later stages due to its rapid reproductive rate and preference for communal family living exerted dominance over other herbivorous animals including the giant panda, leaving them without bamboo to eat.

Yet, because of its rapid reproduction rate and communal lifestyle, the canine giant ape faced a food shortage once again in the late Pleistocene epoch. Even though it timely shifted to a variety of fruits and vegetables, it was already too late. By then, various smaller and more agile mammals with lesser food needs had already started to rise quietly.

Although their numbers significantly decreased, the canine giant apes didn’t face extinction. Their large bodies and powerful attack abilities still gave them a strong advantage over most carnivorous animals until the advent of humans, a primate species with even greater reproductive capabilities, a preference for communal living, and a consistent omnivorous diet.]

[Life Value: 225/225]

[Energy Value: 110/110]

[Strength: 19]

[Agility: 15]

[Constitution: 15]

[Intelligence: 11]

[Charm: 6]

[Skill: 1. Wild Charge. 2. Wild Heavy Punch. 3. Half-demonized. 4. Dark Shock Wave.]

[Wild Charge: The Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape charges wildly towards the enemy, increasing Movement Speed by 17.5% (+2.5%) for 6 seconds (+1 second), with a cooldown of two minutes, and consumes a moderate amount of Physical Strength. When the enemy is under the ’Spiritual Suppression’ and ’Demonization Infection’ status, additional increase in Movement Speed by 17.5% (+2.5%), and it’s stackable.]

[Wild Heavy Punch: The Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape swings its fist to attack the enemies in front, hitting them causes 150% Physical Damage, and a 10% chance of causing an Armor Penetration Attack that ignores Physical Defense, with a cooldown of two minutes, and consumes a large amount of Physical Strength. When the enemy is under the ’Spiritual Suppression’ and ’Demonization Infection’ status, Physical Damage is additionally increased by 22.5% (+2.5%), and the chance of Armor Penetration is increased by 5%, which is stackable.]

[Half-demonized: Although the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape usually maintains its normal form of a Prehistoric Giant Beast, it activates the hidden Dark Power inside its body to enter the ’Half-demonized’ state when encountering powerful enemies, gaining +3 Strength, +3 Agility, +3 Constitution, -5 Intelligence, -5 Charm, lasting for 4 minutes (+1 minute) with a cooldown of 60 minutes, consuming a large amount of Physical Strength.

In this state, the chances of triggering ’Spiritual Suppression’ and ’Demonization Infection’ effects on attacks against enemies increase by 22.5% (+2.5%) and 3% (+0.5%) respectively.]

[Dark Shock Wave: After entering the Half-demonized state, the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape can spit out a Dark Shock Wave from its mouth, causing 150% Dark Damage upon hitting the enemy, with a 22.5% (+2.5%) chance to ignore body size and forcibly trigger the ’Spiritual Suppression’ effect, and a 3% (+0.5%) chance to forcibly trigger the ’Demonization Infection’ effect. Cooldown: two minutes, consumes 60 Energy Points.]

"Indeed, it belongs to the category of apes and gorillas, only not related by blood to modern apes and humans. Moreover, from the last sentence of the Talent, the relationship between humans and this Canine Giant Ape is likely that of predator and prey, since in those days, humans would eat anything they could catch and eat as much as they could, as long as it didn’t kill them."

Although early intelligent people would probably like to eat such meat, Zhang Yanhang wasn’t really interested, and of course, it wasn’t because he didn’t like gorillas or similar reasons, but he simply thought that meat soaked in Dark Power definitely wouldn’t taste good.

Compared to eating the meat of this demonized creature, Zhang Yanhang undoubtedly preferred the meat of Crimson Iron Ants, which was the only kind of meat with food value in the four areas he had cleaned so far.

If Zhang Yanhang were to rank the taste of monster meat, the rotting flesh of zombies in Raccoon City would certainly rank last, as it is ultimately just human corpses after decomposition, and anyone with a slightly normal brain wouldn’t be able to stomach it.

And second to last would be the meat of demonized creatures from the Demonized Swamp, with the third to last being the meat of Dragon Vein Goblins from the Goblin Plain, although it’s full of the smell of hydrogen sulfide, it should still be quite nutritious if properly processed.

After all, these are also Dragon Vein Goblins, which contain some part of the Giant Dragon Bloodline, and after rounding up a billion times, it’s also equivalent to eating dragon meat, which must be much better than the meat of demonized creatures from the Demonized Swamp.

Previously, while checking the attribute list of the Demonized Maned Beast, Zhang Yanhang hadn’t had time to closely examine the skills, but this time, he started by checking the skills.

"This Half-demonized skill seems pretty strong; once used, it immediately increases three points of Strength, three points of Agility, and three points of Constitution Attribute. Eventually, the Strength, Agility, and Constitution Attributes of the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape will sequentially rise to 22 points, 18 points, and 18 points.

Although I haven’t encountered it yet, such level of Attribute values already belong to the First Tier Three Star Elite, but this skill has a significant side effect, deducting five points of Intelligence and five points of Charm, so, it’s actually deducting ten points of Sub-attribute to enhance nine points of Main Attribute.

The Intelligence of the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape, originally 11 points, will be reduced to 6 points after deducting 5 points, and the Charm attribute is even more tragic, originally at 6 points, and after deduction, only 1 point will remain."

Talking about this, Zhang Yanhang suddenly realized that the demonized creatures in the Demonized Swamp are that rare type with high Charm attributes, in the previous three areas, the majority of monsters, including Lord Monsters, had Charm attribute values of just one point.

Only the Crimson Iron Ant King and the Crimson Iron Ant Queen in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu were exceptions, due to absorbing a special substance related to Charm from Crimson Iron Ore, their Charm attribute directly left other monsters far behind.

Among other monsters with only one point of Charm, the Charm of the Crimson Iron Ant King was a two-digit ten points, and as a Lord Monster, the Charm attribute of the Crimson Iron Ant Queen reached the First Tier Limit of twenty-five points, these two beings are still the highest Charm attribute monsters Zhang Yanhang has ever seen.

And if you ask why the demonized creatures in the Demonized Swamp, despite not looking very attractive, have such high Charm values, Zhang Yanhang guessed that it’s probably mainly due to the influence of Talent.

After all, the Talent he obtained from these demonized creatures was a Charming Talent that enhances the Charm attribute after the evolution of the Prehistoric Giant Beasts. To say that Biological Rhythm’s Charm boost is unrelated to the monster itself, Zhang Yanhang definitely wouldn’t believe it, so, these demonized creatures probably have a certain inclination towards Charm in their own Talents.

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