If the Molten Fire Giant Lizards were to confront ordinary humans in the Main World, it would undoubtedly be a nightmare.
An enormous five-meter-long Molten Fire Giant Lizard that could accelerate up to 200 kilometers per hour from a standstill could easily demolish numerous buildings and cause unimaginable casualties just by relying on its speed and weight alone, even without using any special skills or breathing fire.
After all, there were not just one or two Molten Fire Giant Lizards, but tens of thousands. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they could flatten Qin Island City if lined up in a row, given these Late Stage Second Tier monsters had reached the Official Extraordinary Stage, making them extremely aggressive and comparable to tanks.
Aside from heavy artillery, common weapons like grenades and machine guns were utterly useless against them. Only large-caliber cannons or self-propelled artillery with coordinated fire would possibly be effective, but using such in the city center was as unrealistic as a pipe dream.
Fighting was possible, but the aftermath would likely leave neither buildings nor civilians standing, resulting in mutual destruction. Using such firepower would waste ammunition and fail to save anyone, so typically, it was more appropriate for Awakeners to intervene. Even if the ground needed to be bombarded with artillery, it would first require a Space System Awakener to teleport the civilians to safety.
After all, while buildings could be rebuilt, there's no easy resurrection for the dead. For example, the resurrection item Zhang Yanhang obtained was of Golden quality, with limited resurrections, and most importantly, a high death toll would turn into a massive scandal.
Of course, compared to dealing with such aftermath and rescue efforts, it was definitely better to eliminate the monsters at their source, which is exactly what Zhang Yanhang was currently doing by clearing the area as soon as the Permanent Teleportation Channel opened.
"Successfully killed a Second Tier Three Star Monster 'Molten Fire Giant Lizard (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +100."
"Successfully killed a Second Tier Three Star Monster 'Molten Fire Giant Lizard (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +100."
"Successfully killed a Second Tier Three Star Monster 'Molten Fire Giant Lizard (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +100."
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After these Molten Fire Giant Lizards charged for a while, or rather, when Zhang Yanhang's soul point balance reached two million, he noticed their momentum began to wane, but this was normal—after all, the Molten Fire Giant Lizards weren't mindless, and seeing so many of their kind dead ahead would naturally dampen their enthusiasm.
Zhang Yanhang wasn't sure if it was because a Lord Monster was directing them from behind, but after he noticed their flagging momentum, a new type of monster suddenly appeared from the transmission channel, and this new monster was even larger. Just based on its size, it seemed much stronger than a Second Tier Three Star Molten Fire Giant Lizard.
Moreover, these new monsters were much more ferocious when charging, as they hadn't yet suffered the ravaging effects of the Death Wave Skill that Zhang Yanhang had used to kill twenty thousand Molten Fire Giant Lizards.
When they charged at Zhang Yanhang, he couldn't help but check their attribute list again, only to find he still could only see a bunch of question marks and black boxes, with nothing discernible except their names and levels.
"Molten Lava Giant Turtle (Ordinary)"
[Level: Second Tier Four Stars]
To be honest, Zhang Yanhang didn't know why turtles could run so fast on land, even faster than lizards. Regarding this, he could only guess that it was probably due to the overwhelming attributes.
Of course, when saying "fast," Zhang Yanhang felt that although the molten lava giant turtle's level was indeed a bit higher than the molten fire giant lizard, it was actually only slightly faster. Zhang Yanhang thought that although it was one level higher, the fact that it was only a bit faster must be related to its being a turtle.
Zhang Yanhang felt that this type of molten lava giant turtle would definitely be much faster in the water, or rather, in magma.
Moreover, looking at the molten lava giant turtle, it seemed to follow the typical turtle pattern, specializing in defense. Its shell grew a large cluster of hard, crystal-like bodies similar to crystal, yet at the center, molten lava kept surging, making the transparent crystals continuously flicker with red light.
Seeing this, Zhang Yanhang guessed it would definitely be capable of spouting molten rock cannons, just like the Waterjet Turtle's water jet cannons.
Due to the presence of many crystals on its back, this molten lava giant turtle had a much larger body size than the molten fire giant lizard. Zhang Yanhang estimated its body length to be about seven meters, and its height, including the crystals, could reach five meters. Although the body of a regular turtle is usually flattened, the molten lava giant turtle attained a height of five meters solely by its crystals.
For Zhang Yanhang, the only use of these molten lava giant turtles that were continuously spewing lava at him, similar to the molten fire giant lizard, was to block his line of sight.
Even though it had Second Tier Four Star strength, the molten lava giant turtle, whether it was spewing lava from its mouth or firing molten rock cannons and a semi-solid, semi-liquid type of molten rock bundle similar to a Ray Spell from its back, none of these could cause any harm to Zhang Yanhang.
So, although Zhang Yanhang was always excited due to the constant influx of soul points, Zhou Muxi next to him was bored to death.
After all, in her view, no matter what kind of attack it was, none could break Zhang Yanhang's energy shield, and Zhang Yanhang could easily kill all the monsters with just one Death Wave. The overall situation was utterly uneventful and lacked the usual thrill of hunting monsters, indeed quite boring.
She even got too lazy to continue standing and simply sat down cross-legged on the ground, starting to play a mobile game, because given the current situation, it was clearly not her turn to make a move.
As for Zhang Yanhang, he completely ignored what Zhou Muxi was thinking. His position for her had originally been just a tool person to find and lead the way to transmission channels and set up barriers. He had never expected her to engage in hunting monsters.
Moreover, he didn't even want Zhou Muxi to take action because if she did, it would only mean taking the soul points that belonged to him. Compared to Zhou Muxi, who was at the peak of Third Tier and about to be promoted to Fourth Tier and thus didn't lack soul points at all, he, who had just been promoted in rank, was in dire need of them.
Zhang Yanhang now had the necessity to fulfill millions of soul points demand amassed upon him.
Zhang Yanhang had long said that, as an Awakener like him, there was no need to team up with other Awakeners to hunt monsters, since he alone could handle all the monsters, and he even wished there were more monsters to kill.
"As for this concept, Zhang Yanhang still felt it was absolutely correct up to now, as one might only lose some soul points with something like a permanent teleportation channel, but in normal areas, one loses drop treasure boxes, and the reduction in drop treasure boxes means a reduction in Talent quantity, which is absolutely unbearable."
"Although the Molten Lava Giant Turtle's strength had reached the level of a Second Tier Four-star Monster, Zhang Yanhang's fixed damage for his Death Wave Skill was 1092 points, so as long as he didn't encounter a Third Tier monster, Second-tier Monsters were absolutely bound to die in whatever number they appeared."
"Therefore, the Molten Lava Giant Turtle gathering around Zhang Yanhang and continuously vomiting lava at him naturally had no chance of resisting the Death Wave either."
"With the spread of the Twisted Force Field, the huge transparent crystalline structure on the back of the Molten Lava Giant Turtle shattered into countless tiny fragments like tempered glass hit at the corner, collapsing and scattering instantly."
"The most important part of the Molten Lava Giant Turtle, the lava turtle shell, after encountering the Twisted Force Field, looked as if it were directly smashed by a large iron hammer, covered in fine cracks, deeply concaving from top to bottom, severely compressing the heart and internal organs of the Molten Lava Giant Turtle. Copious amounts of blood gushed from the head of the Molten Lava Giant Turtle, which had just been vomiting at him."
"Under the influence of the Twisted Force Field, some shattered crystalline bodies and shell fragments gradually penetrated and easily slashed open the body of the Molten Lava Giant Turtle protected under the shell."
"Whether it was the thick keratinized skin formed from years of soaking in magma, the tough muscle tissue below, or the thick blood vessels carrying boiling blood, all were immediately minced by the crystalline fragments and shell fragments."
"Even the heart, which was even larger than the body of a normal adult, and other internal organs of the same huge size couldn't escape the fate of being minced."
"A large amount of boiling blood, mixed with fine minced meat and fragments of bone, poured out from six natural openings on the shell; upon contact with the outside air, it immediately created vast clouds of steam."
"From a purely superficial perspective, the situation of the Molten Lava Giant Turtle was actually much better than that of the Molten Fire Giant Lizard. After all, many Molten Fire Giant Lizards were directly torn into minced meat by the Twisted Force Field. In contrast, although the internals of the Molten Lava Giant Turtle also turned into minced meat, at least there was a shell covering it, which didn't make it too apparent from the outside."
"Overall, there were rarely instances of limb-cut corpses like those of Molten Fire Giant Lizards; most bodies were relatively intact."
"In the eyes of Zhou Muxi, these Molten Lava Giant Turtles looked more like they were suddenly flattened directly, then from their six openings—the limbs, head, and tail—they suddenly began spewing out large amounts of crimson blood as if some unknown valve had been opened, leaking oil-like."
"[Successfully killed a Second Tier Four-star Monster 'Molten Lava Giant Turtle (Ordinary)' ×1, soul points +150.]"
"[Successfully killed a Second Tier Four-star Monster 'Molten Lava Giant Turtle (Ordinary)' ×1, soul points +150.]"
"[Successfully killed a Second Tier Four-star Monster 'Molten Lava Giant Turtle (Ordinary)' ×1, soul points +150.]"
"..."
While all these matters were important, what Zhang Yanhang cared about most was the gain in soul points. From the moment he released the Death Wave, he constantly heard the killing notification sounds by his ear.
If this had happened initially, the bombardment of high-frequency words formed by these four-digit killing notifications would have made Zhang Yanhang daze a bit, but now, he had gradually gotten used to this extent of killing notifications after hunting over twenty thousand monsters just earlier.
Humans do indeed have a strong adaptability, Zhang Yanhang estimated that now it would take a massacre of at least three to five thousand monsters at once to make him feel uncomfortable.
However, it was a pity that the monsters in the Fourth Tier Permanent Transmission Channel weren't so reckless; otherwise, he would have liked to challenge his own weaknesses and experience bombings of even higher frequency levels.
"Does each Molten Lava Giant Turtle of Second Order Four Star really worth a hundred and fifty soul points?"
If Zhang Yanhang remembered correctly, this was his first time killing a regular Second Order Four-star Monster. The highest he had encountered previously was only the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar of Second Order Three Stars, worth one hundred and twenty soul points.
Of course, he had killed Second Order Four-star Monsters before, but they were only Lord Monsters, specifically, the T-103 model Tyrant · Tracker worth three thousand soul points, and the Crimson Iron Ant Queen worth two thousand four hundred soul points, although these two Lord Monsters certainly couldn't represent the value of regular Second Order Four-star Monsters.
In his view, the Second Order Three Stars Molten Fire Giant Lizard worth one hundred soul points, and the Molten Lava Giant Turtle of Second Order Four Stars had suddenly increased by fifty percent in value, reaching one hundred and fifty soul points per turtle, which was indeed very good.
However, based on Zhang Yanhang's previous experience, the higher the level of the monsters, the fewer in number, so there were bound to be significantly fewer Molten Lava Giant Turtles compared to Molten Fire Giant Lizards.
Therefore, he estimated that by the time he finished clearing the entire Fourth Tier Transmission Channel, the soul points earned from the weakest Molten Fire Giant Lizards would still make up the largest proportion. This was an old tradition, winning by quantity, surpassing quality with numbers.
From the quantity of killing notification messages, he had probably just killed about eight hundred Molten Lava Giant Turtles, which, converted into soul points, meant that just the Molten Lava Giant Turtles had garnered him a total of one hundred and twenty thousand soul points. Plus the sixty thousand soul points contributed by the six hundred Molten Fire Giant Lizards killed along the way, he had essentially received a total of one hundred and eighty thousand soul points in one go.
"I wonder if I can keep this efficiency up afterward..."
If so, Zhang Yanhang estimated that it shouldn't take him many waves to gather the last eight hundred thousand soul points needed to level up the Death Wave Skill. Of course, this wasn't too urgent—so long as he gathered them before the Third Tier monsters showed up, there wouldn't be any problem for now.
Zhang Yanhang remembered Zhou Muxi mentioning that there were a total of 87,500 monsters in this Fourth Tier region; yet he had only killed a quarter of them so far, and was already about to gather three million soul points. He felt that his soul points gain this time would definitely be much higher than the previously estimated six million.
Since the Molten Lava Giant Turtle was a new monster, Zhang Yanhang thought to check if they would drop treasure boxes, but unfortunately, just like the prior Second Order Three Stars Molten Fire Giant Lizards, once their corpses had despawned, there were still no signs of any drop treasure boxes.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yanhang glanced at Zhou Muxi, who was still engrossed in her mobile game next to him, and had to admit she was indeed right.
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