Half an hour later, Zhang Yanhang walked through the corridors filled with the remains of Crimson Iron Ants, quietly picking up treasure boxes.
Zhang Yanhang hadn’t counted carefully earlier, but if he included some of the Crimson Iron Flying Ants, he had killed more than two thousand Crimson Iron Ants in total. This meant that there were hundreds of drop treasure boxes on the ground waiting for his retrieval.
Although he was trying to slow down the killing of the Crimson Iron Worker Ants, Zhang Yanhang still wiped out all the Crimson Iron Ants converging in this direction within half an hour.
"What should I do next, go hunt monsters right away? No, let’s open some treasure boxes first. I want to upgrade my Death Wave Skill quickly and see what the additional attributes are after upgrading it to LV.6," Zhang Yanhang muttered to himself while swiftly picking up treasure boxes from the ground.
Because there were many treasure boxes to be picked up, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but come up with a strange idea, "If only the Ashen World had some kind of auto-loot feature like online games, then I wouldn’t have to tiresomely pick up treasure boxes."
The reason this idea suddenly came to him was that Zhang Yanhang realized an important issue.
If he used the Death Wave Skill in an environment like the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, and Crimson Iron Ants killed by the Death Wave Skill through the walls dropped treasure boxes, he wouldn’t be able to take a shortcut straight through the walls. He would have to take a long detour to pick them up, and that would make collecting treasure boxes a troublesome matter.
After quickly picking up the treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang first checked his soul points balance.
[Soul points: 7334 (+7290)]
"Killing more than two thousand Crimson Iron Ants has given me over seven thousand soul points. This haul feels pretty good; the Crimson Iron Worker Ants are indeed worthy of being First Tier One Star monsters. The ordinary zombies in Raccoon City that are Zero Star First Tier really don’t compare."
After checking his soul points balance, Zhang Yanhang expanded his Energy Shield into a circular shape, then sat cross-legged on the ground, and poured out a large pile of drop treasure boxes from his Waist Bag.
After a quick count of the number of treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang found he had obtained a total of 105 treasure boxes this time, 91 of which were from the Crimson Iron Worker Ants, and the remaining 14 were from the Crimson Iron Flying Ants.
It was also strange that although there were other stronger Crimson Iron Ants in the Ant Nest, Zhang Yanhang didn’t encounter any during this roundup; he only faced the most common Crimson Iron Worker Ants and the slightly stronger Crimson Iron Flying Ants.
"Forget it, let’s just open the treasure boxes," said Zhang Yanhang, and immediately picked up a White Treasure Box from the ground.
[Would you like to open ’Drop Treasure Box (Crimson Iron Worker Ant)’?]
"Yes, open it." The familiar Time Pause descended once more upon the Crimson Iron Ant Nest. Zhang Yanhang felt that after opening the treasure boxes this time, in addition to having enough soul points to upgrade his Death Wave Skill, perhaps he could also gather some soul points to upgrade his Limitless Universe Skill.
Next, Zhang Yanhang planned to prioritize upgrading the Limitless Universe Skill. After all, he had been promoted to Second Tier, yet if his Limitless Universe Skill remained at First Tier, it would not be acceptable. It would affect not only his Energy Value Recovery Speed but also Zhang Yanhang’s attribute values. Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs novel[f]ire.net
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Several minutes later, Zhang Yanhang successfully opened all the treasure boxes. Next, he would start to tally the specific loot, but first, he checked his most important balance of soul points. He estimated that this time he must have yielded at least over ten thousand soul points.
[Soul Points: 18464 (+11130)]
"18,464 soul points — if I were still in Raccoon City, I would have to kill at least four to five thousand zombies to accumulate this much, and there are only about five thousand zombies in Raccoon City in total."
Although Zhang Yanhang didn’t yet know how much the upgrade cost for Limitless Universe Skill would be, he felt that the soul points remaining after upgrading Death Wave LV.6 should at least be enough to raise the skill by two or three levels. By then, his attribute values would rise significantly, and his Energy Value Recovery Speed would return to normal.
After checking the income of soul points, Zhang Yanhang began to count the other loot from the treasure boxes, starting with Talent. He had a total of 105 E-grade Talents, Ant Power, this time. Along with the 17 he had left before, Zhang Yanhang now had a total of 122 Ant Powers in hand.
And to raise the B-grade Talent, Power of Swallowing Sheep, to A-grade, only 81 Ant Powers were needed. Even after the upgrade, he would still have 41 Ant Powers left.
After having counted the quantity of Talents, Zhang Yanhang counted out eighty-one crimson little light balls from the huge pile on the ground and crushed them all.
[Detected the presence of B-grade Talent ’Power of Swallowing Sheep,’ do you wish to merge Talents?]
"Yes, merge." Like when he upgraded Talents before, Zhang Yanhang had two hopes this time as well. The first was that the name of the Talent would become more appealing — Power of Swallowing Sheep was still a bit too obscure and might not make people think of ’Starving Tiger Swallowing Sheep.’
The second hope was that the enhancement effect of the Double Strike feature of Power of Swallowing Sheep after its upgrade to A-grade would remain the same and not decrease. Because if it could maintain the original level of enhancement, then the extra attacks accompanying this upgrade would become as strong as the original attacks.
Although the trigger probability of the Double Strike wasn’t very high, the rapid fire rate of Zhang Yanhang’s machine gun made up for it. A hundred bullets per second, even with a 3.6% trigger chance before upgrading, would still mean four extra Energy Bullets every second.
Moreover, as the trigger chance of the extra attack would increase further with the upgrade, the effectiveness of this Double Strike would become even more significant.
Plus, the most fearsome aspect of the Double Strike lay in its ability to replicate not just the attack but also the exact impact location of the attack. This was particularly crucial.
In the previous battle against the Tracker, just when one Energy Rocket had exploded, an additional Energy Rocket generated by the extra attack immediately appeared in the Tracker’s chest cavity and caused another explosion.
So, the damage caused by this extra attack was definitely not as simple as the standard 1+1 equals 2. After all, the damage caused by the same bullet after struggle to penetrate the opponent’s defenses and the damage from the bullet appearing inside the opponent from the beginning were entirely different things.
[You have obtained the A-grade Talent ’Power of Bull Demon.’]