Ashen God
Chapter 600 - 599 [Demon Ape Leg Armor]

Chapter 600: Chapter 599 [Demon Ape Leg Armor]

After silently praying for a moment, Zhang Yanhang opened the first item.

[Item One]

[Option One: Demonized Canine Giant Ape’s canine teeth, green quality, material]

[Option Two: 50 soul points]

[Option Three: 100 soul points]

"The first option, unsurprisingly, is related to soul points again, after all three out of five items are related to soul points, giving it a probability 1.5 times higher than Talent and items.

Finally, the normal option of 100 soul points in the Demonized Canine Giant Ape’s treasure box meant that the three Soul-points-related options from the treasure boxes dropped by the Demonized Canine Giant Ape could provide me a total of 300 soul points."

Zhang Yanhang currently had twenty-three treasure boxes dropped by Demonized Canine Giant Apes, each providing three hundred soul points, adding up to a total of six thousand nine hundred soul points, which, combined with his previous nearly twelve thousand soul points, was indeed enough to raise his profession level from LV.18 to LV.19.

"This way, I should definitely be able to raise the profession level directly from LV.18 to LV.20 today, as moving from LV.18 to LV.19 only needs sixteen thousand soul points, and upgrading from LV.19 to LV.20 should also only need a maximum of eighteen thousand soul points, a mere eighteen thousand soul points should still be easy to gather."

Zhang Yanhang was planning to hunt monsters immediately after opening the treasure boxes and upgrading the Talent. With his physical strength fully recovered, as long as he did not enhance the Death Wave skill which would increase physical consumption, working continuously for eleven to twelve hours shouldn’t be a problem.

Therefore, he would definitely be able to clear the remaining 88.9% progress in the Southern Forest all at once, and even if he could not endure it anymore, he would still force himself to complete it in one go by taking medicine if necessary, as his current progress was indeed a bit behind the overall clearing plan.

It had already been twelve hours since he entered, yet he had only cleared an area of ten square kilometers, averaging less than a square kilometer per hour, which indeed was slowing him down.

Hence, if Zhang Yanhang wanted to smoothly execute the entire Demonized Swamp clearing plan, he would have to make a rush for it next, otherwise, the pressure of progress piling up towards the end would become a troublesome matter.

"Now that I think about it, the material being teeth again is actually quite normal, considering that both the Demonized Maned Beast and Demonized Canine Giant Ape had ’tooth’ in their names. Since it is such a symbolic and strength-representative part, it would rather be strange if it did not appear. However, the only issue is, these teeth are of no use to me."

Currently, the number of useful materials Zhang Yanhang had come across was indeed few, and among those, the most useful were the Refined Crimson Iron from the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu, which allowed Zhang Yanhang to gather two dark purple quality weapons and upgrade the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist to light gold quality.

While currently, Zhang Yanhang’s All Four Elements are Void, Pure World Fist had already advanced to a golden quality, if he wanted to continue upgrading, he would need to gather four golden quality weapons.

According to Zhang Yanhang’s fusion experience, aiming to upgrade to golden quality through fusion would probably only be possible if the material itself was at least of dark purple quality. Hence, for him, the canine teeth of the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape, which are of green quality, really aren’t of much use.

In fact, they are almost completely useless since he was about to advance to the third tier. Once promoted to the third tier, items of white and green quality would become unusable for him.

[Item Two]

[Option One: Molar Meteor Hammer, green quality, weapon]

[Option Two: 50 Soul Points]

[Option Three: 100 Soul Points]

"The Molar Meteor Hammer, the name somehow feels a bit bizarre. Besides, although the molars of the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape are indeed bigger than those of a typical human—about five times bigger—does that size really make it suitable for a meteor hammer? Isn’t that a bit too miniature?"

Zhang Yanhang felt that even with such a five-fold size increase, it definitely wouldn’t reach the scale required for a meteor hammer.

After all, meteor hammers as weapons generally need to be at least about as large as a human fist, if not larger, to be effective, or else their destructive capability is questionable. The larger ones can be as big as a human skull, basically considered heavy equipment and extremely suitable for attacking units without armor or with heavy armor, but they are not very effective against lightly armored units and can easily be counterattacked.

Out of curiosity, Zhang Yanhang briefly checked the attribute list of the Molar Meteor Hammer and found that, similar to the Maned Tooth Dagger that had been found in the treasure box of the Demonized Hyena Beast, it was also a piece of equipment with a full score in green quality, just specializing in a different area.

The Maned Tooth Dagger from the Demonized Hyena Beast side was primarily for stealth attacks, while the Molar Meteor Hammer was aimed at frontal combat, which closely mirrored the natural inclinations of the two types of monsters.

Zhang Yanhang vividly remembered the talent effect mentioned for the Demonized Hyena Beast, which stated that it was a top predator skilled in stealth attacks and mid-to-long-distance pursuits, while the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape, due to its huge size and relatively less agility compared to the Demonized Hyena Beast, preferred to swing its massive fists directly at opponents.

Moreover, since they lived in groups, if one couldn’t overcome an opponent, they would all join forces, which enabled them to defeat most carnivorous animals. However, in front of humans, they quickly succumbed.

The reason was well-known: these creatures lacked intelligence. Though each had a significantly large head, especially the Demonized Hyena Beast, which had a head one-third the length of its body, it was purely a matter of size, without any significant brain function evolution.

Thus, these creatures were swiftly and comprehensively defeated by humans, whose physical evolution wasn’t remarkable, but who had relatively more complete cognitive evolution and could no longer find any niche for survival, eventually all turning into fossils.

After carefully reviewing the attribute list of the Molar Meteor Hammer, Zhang Yanhang still couldn’t understand why the molars of the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Ape could be made into Molar Meteor Hammers. Therefore, he immediately checked the thumbnail of the Molar Meteor Hammer, feeling that the thumbnail would surely provide a proper answer.

In fact, that was exactly the case. Upon viewing the thumbnail of the Molar Meteor Hammer, Zhang Yanhang immediately understood why molars could be used to make a meteor hammer.

Because the main body of the hammerhead was just an ordinary metal ball, however, the part of the hammerhead that should also have been made of metal—the spikes—was replaced with molars from the mouth of the demonized canine giant ape. In other words, the Molar Meteor Hammer wasn’t a ’molar meteor hammer’ but a ’molar’ meteor hammer.

Although, logically speaking, this blunt protrusion was unlike the spiked meteor hammers people typically think of, which are designed to strike unarmored targets and immediately tear large wounds upon impact.

This type of blunt meteor hammer was mainly used for striking heavily armored targets. After all, using spikes against heavy armor was purely a suicide mission. Heavy armor excelled at defending against sharp attacks. Compared to that, a blunt attack relying on the weight of the meteor hammer itself could inflict damage through the heavy armor to the enemy, naturally making it more appropriate for dealing with heavily armored targets.

Because there were indeed only these two types of mainstream meteor hammers, they weren’t very effective against light-armored targets. In those cases, swapping for a more typical weapon could cause more damage than a meteor hammer.

[Item Three]

[Option One: 10 Soul Points]

[Option Two: Demonized Silver-Backed Gorilla, White Quality, Pet]

[Option Three: 100 Soul Points]

"Three consecutive options all related to Soul Points? Shouldn’t it be time for options related to Talent or perhaps Equipment and Artifacts?"

Although Zhang Yanhang didn’t have much expectation for Talent-related options, since Talent would definitely include fixed items like Prehistoric Giant Beasts, he was still very excited about Equipment.

This was still the first time Zhang Yanhang was opening a Drop Treasure Box from a demonized canine giant ape, so, naturally, new Equipment or Artifacts were bound to come out.

Considering that this side, mainly consisting of demonized creatures, wasn’t very proficient in controlling energy, he thought it unlikely for any Artifacts that could increase the Energy Value Limit to appear. It was possible, however, for items that could increase Life Value Limit to surface.

For instance, the Maned Arm Guard previously obtained from the Drop Treasure Box of a demonized hyena beast increased Physical Recovery Speed, an attribute related to Constitution. Zhang Yanhang, based on his experiences, believed that there was a high chance of obtaining items related to Constitution from other creatures as well.

Considering items related to Constitution, the first that came to mind for Zhang Yanhang was those that could increase the Life Value Limit. Honestly, he was quite eager about such items.

After all, if he really managed to get one, then his Life Value Limit would be seamlessly extended, even if he would no longer be able to use the Yellow Medicine Grass after advancing to Third Tier. Instead, he would have a new item that could also increase his Life Value Limit.

This way, his Life Value Limit at the Third Tier would definitely see a continuous increase just by using this new item.

"But even though I really do want a new item that can increase my Life Value Limit, when I think about it, the probability actually seems pretty low."

For a type of monster like the demonized canine giant ape, the likelihood of dropping equipment or even weapons is much higher than dropping Artifacts. After all, there’s nothing here that suggests these demonized creatures could make Artifacts. They just don’t seem like the type.

Previously in Goblin Plain, Zhang Yanhang managed to obtain a Medium Magic Recovery Potion because the Chief Shaman Goblin, Maka Baga, at that place concocted the potion. Hence, it was possible to get it from the Drop Treasure Box of a Big Saber Goblin.

The monsters in Raccoon City were able to drop various colored Medicinal Herbs because ’Umbrella,’ that is, the Umbrella company, developed these peculiar and uniquely functional special herbs through genetic modifications.

These findings were traceable, so it made sense according to the principles related to treasure boxes. Otherwise, even if Zhang Yanhang’s Luck Value was maxed out, he definitely wouldn’t have been able to get an item completely unrelated to the monster.

But currently with these demonized creatures, Zhang Yanhang had not noticed any such indications. So, the chance of getting a related item that could increase the Life Value Limit seemed quite slim, or pitifully small, to be precise.

"It’s a Green Quality Drop Treasure Box, yet it strangely only gives the option of a White Quality pet. Could it be because the Multiple Choice feels that the value of a hundred Soul Points is higher than a Green Quality pet, so it only refreshed the option for a White Quality pet?

If that’s really the case, then I must say the Multiple Choice has a sharp eye, or rather, it knows me too well."

Indeed, Zhang Yanhang felt that a Green Quality pet wasn’t as valuable as a hundred Soul Points. After all, he had no use for Green Quality pets, although he wasn’t sure if pets had rank restrictions like Equipment—whether once promoted to Third Tier, White and Green Quality pets would immediately become useless.

But given the characteristics of pets, even if they didn’t become useless, they likely wouldn’t be able to contribute anything in a fight. The only remaining value would be to act cute during rest times. After all, for a First Tier being to participate in a Third Tier battle, just a slight aftermath of the battle could instantly wipe out this kind of First Tier pet.

[Item Four]

[Option One: Demon Ape Leg Armor, Blue Quality, Equipment]

[Option Two: Giant Ape Leg Guards, Green Quality, Equipment]

[Option Three: Gorilla Leg Guards, White Quality, Equipment]

"As expected, the fourth item finally revealed Equipment, though, it seems they are for the legs? I hope they don’t conflict with the Swift Leggings. It shouldn’t be a problem, one is bindings and the other leg armor. Just from the names, it’s likely they wouldn’t occupy the same slot.

Now, the Gorilla Leg Guards mentioned in this item—is it referring to the Demonized Silver-Backed Gorilla from a previous option?"

Zhang Yanhang recalled that the last time the treasure box of a demonized maned beast similarly dropped a Hyena Arm Guard. Despite having no familial relation, it mysteriously appeared as an option.

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