"But as for attribute values, without any enhancements, whether my Peak Third Tier actual constitution is stronger or the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's Peak Fourth Tier constitution is stronger still remains an unknown matter."

Zhang Yanhang tended to believe that his strength was slightly superior to that of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant. After all, he had just recently leveled up the Power System Talent, Longbo's Power, and besides, even if his regular strength wasn't greater, he believed that his strength with all kinds of enhancements would definitely surpass that of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant.

After checking the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's attribute list, Zhang Yanhang looked at his Shield Value and found that in just a short while, it had been reduced by over a thousand points by those Doomsday Fireballs, each sized like a two-story building.

According to Zhang Yanhang's observations, the Crimson Iron Queen Ant could spit out two Doomsday Fireballs per second, each subtracting one hundred and fifty points from his Shield Value, "At this rate, wouldn't my Energy Shield only last a hundred seconds?"

Fortunately, Zhang Yanhang estimated that he could probably end the battle within a minute.

Just as Zhang Yanhang was thinking this, he suddenly noticed a massive gathering of flame energy on the body of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant.

This flame energy assembled on the outside of its body, using the original small appendages of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant as a base, eventually forming two rows of Flame Crab Legs that were at least six stories tall, and also formed a pair of Flame Crab Claws in front of it that were wider than its body by dozens of meters.

The substantially formed Flame Crab Legs below the Crimson Iron Queen Ant pushed hard, propelling its massive body, comparable to a destroyer, to stand up. Immediately upon standing, it displayed astonishing speed. Charging straight towards Zhang Yanhang at subsonic speeds that matched its seventy-five-point Agility Attribute.

By that point, Zhang Yanhang had finally understood why the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's Agility Attribute could reach seventy-five points, "But the question is, shouldn't crabs walk sideways?"

However, in such a magical mythical system, it seemed entirely unnecessary to fixate on such biological knowledge. Besides, certain species of crabs do indeed walk forward, and perhaps this was one of them.

While Zhang Yanhang was puzzled by why the Crimson Iron Queen Ant walked forwards, this Peak Fourth Tier Lord Monster, with a size like that of a destroyer, had already charged at subsonic speeds to his position and raised its Flame Crab Claws, each comparable in size to two basketball courts, and ruthlessly smashed them down onto Zhang Yanhang.

Bang!

While the limbs were made of fire energy, the Flame Crab Claws emitted a colossal collision noise when they struck the Energy Shield, as if they were solid material.

The instant the Flame God's Fist—also known as the Flame Crab Claws—hit him, layers of ripples surged on Zhang Yanhang's Energy Shield, spreading from the point of impact to his entire body, rising wave upon wave like the sea.

Just from this impact, Zhang Yanhang could tell he'd lost a significant amount of Shield Value. A quick glance revealed that just that one hit had cost him five hundred points of his Shield Value, almost 3.5 times the power of the Doomsday Fireball.

More critically, the Flame God's Fist wasn't a one-time Skill. After the first blow, once the Crimson Iron Queen Ant saw the prominent ripples on the Energy Shield, it started pummeling the Energy Shield non-stop with both its Flame Crab Claws.

With one Flame God's Fist, even if it lacked the flexibility of actual limbs due to being an energy construct, it could still manage five attacks per second, causing Zhang Yanhang's Energy Shield to decline rapidly.

When Zhang Yanhang noticed his Energy Shield seemed to be struggling, he immediately activated the Indestructible Golden Body. Accompanied by a thin layer of Golden Light covering his entire body, his defensive power increased sixfold. When he was hit by the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's Flame Crab Claws against his Energy Shield again, they only caused a few minor ripples and waves on the surface of the Energy Shield, reducing only a few dozen points of Shield Value.

Watching his Shield Value, though battered by the Crimson Iron Queen Ant for a while but still maintaining over twenty-five thousand points, Zhang Yanhang nodded with satisfaction. Such a loss could be recovered in a second later, truly justifying his expenditure of so many Soul points to upgrade Technique Immunity and increase the conversion coefficient for his Shield Value Limit.

"Speaking of which, it's an ant, so why would it have Flame Crab Claws? Could it be that the Flame God is not the god of the Crimson Iron Ants but the god of crabs? Or perhaps the god of arthropods?"

Considering that a god of crabs, as a crustacean, was unlikely to attract followers like Crimson Iron Ants, Zhang Yanhang was more inclined to believe that the Flame God was an arthropod god.

But given the low intelligence of the Crimson Iron Ants as followers, it should probably be one of the weakest Racial Gods or even a Pseudo-God. In any case, in terms of strength, it definitely couldn't compare to the typical gods of flames.

After all, a powerful Divine Position like flames in the DND world could at least give rise to Medium Divine Power or even High-level Divine Power. As for a god of arthropods, having Weak Divine Power would already be impressive, and Low-level Divine Power was out of the question.

It's even likely that this was one of those Divinity creatures that grew strong over a long life span, gradually acquiring a rudimentary understanding of faith, or a Demigod life form, a common growth process for such monster gods.

Zhang Yanhang considered these possibilities mainly because it would be quite embarrassing if the Flame God actually appeared and he couldn't defeat it. After all, the Crimson Iron Queen Ant itself was already Peak Fourth Tier, and upon initiating Flame God Descent, it might even reach Fifth Tier strength.

Watching the Crimson Iron Queen Ant, which was getting increasingly aggressive and was now gathering the Bursting Flame Beam in its mouthpiece for a simultaneous shot, Zhang Yanhang reached out a hand and forcefully held back the Flame God's Fist descending from the Crimson Iron Queen Ant, but unexpectedly, he almost couldn't hold up against its strength.

"A Peak Fourth Tier is truly worthy of its name; it does have some substance..."

Amidst a shower of sparks, Zhang Yanhang suddenly activated the Spiritual Qi Blessing, boosting his single hand's strength to nearly fifteen hundred tons, and then slammed a punch onto the Flame Crab Claw.

Boom!

In the midst of the great collision and explosive noises, the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's flame crab claws flashed with numerous cracks, then burst apart in the next instant, turning into a fiery rain that filled the sky.

Zhang Yanhang once again threw a punch, and with the help of Spiritual Qi Blessing, his fist, moving at eight times the speed of sound, carried a violent air flow. Amidst a huge sonic boom, it forcibly compressed the surrounding air, increasing the atmospheric pressure and forming a solid-like air bomb that scattered the fiery rain, leaving a vast swath of the core area empty, and then struck the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's hard exoskeleton.

However, this kind of air bomb wasn't a real punch, and the damage it could cause was limited. It only created a few noticeable cracks on the most durable part of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's head exoskeleton, still some distance away from completely breaking through the armor.

Just as Zhang Yanhang was preparing to throw another punch, an extra attack with an attack multiplier of 425% was triggered. A blue air bomb suddenly appeared near the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's exoskeleton and, in an instant, gathered and enveloped the surrounding air to form a powerful air flow that struck the previously cracked exoskeleton armor again.

This time, the exoskeleton armor of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant, measured in meters of thickness, was immediately dented at least one or two meters deep, causing the head of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant to stop abruptly downward.

But for the Crimson Iron Queen Ant, with a head width of at least twenty meters, such damage was merely acceptable.

"These air fists are really not very reliable, bound only to bullying the weak."

After witnessing the performance of the air fists, Zhang Yanhang quietly sighed, then directly flashed on top of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's head, and punched the crater previously created by the extra attack on the exoskeleton armor.

Accompanied by a violent collision noise, the exoskeleton armor, which had only been dented one or two meters by the air bomb from the extra attack with an attack multiplier as high as 425%, now shattered inch by inch. Large pieces of exoskeleton fragments burst in all directions.

The muscles inside, which were protected, tore in large chunks, and at the moment the exoskeleton armor fell apart, they turned into minced flesh. The thick, dark red body fluid surged out with various nervous tissues and muscle fibers, turning into a splattered mess of irregular blood and flesh mixtures that sprayed onto the ground, staining a large conical patch of blood-red earth.

But because the Crimson Iron Queen Ant was so massive and its life force so tenacious, Zhang Yanhang's punch had only shattered part of the left edge of the Queen Ant's head.

To give an example, it was as if he had only shattered the cheek portion of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's left face; the main integrity of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's head remained over eighty percent intact.

To be more specific, Zhang Yanhang's punch had only shattered roughly a five-meter section of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's head; the main part was still about twenty meters.

"No wonder it's a Peak Fourth Tier Lord Monster with an Attribute list of ninety-nine Constitution. It has such high Strength..." Zhang Yanhang hadn't encountered such a resistant monster in a long time.

Although its left face had been obliterated and a large amount of dark red viscous fluid was continuously flowing out of the wound like water bursting from a dam, the Crimson Iron Queen Ant did not show any reaction like retreating due to the pain; it didn't even utter any shrieks of agony.

It merely silently swung its remaining right flame crab claw at Zhang Yanhang, and at the same time, it also shot the bursting flame beam that had been accumulating in its mouthparts toward him.

"You really are brave," Zhang Yanhang gasped deeply as his right arm's muscles rapidly expanded and he threw out three punches at eight times the speed of sound.

Amid the huge noise of the sonic boom, the first punch, Zhang Yanhang scattered the bursting flame beam, stout as a train, causing it to break in the middle section, as if a slender chopstick was forcibly split apart, and the thick dark red flame column split and flew past both sides of his body.

The second punch, Zhang Yanhang hit the second set of flame crab claws, which had appeared while the Crimson Iron Queen Ant activated the Flame God's Fist skill. The seemingly solid flame crab claws showed a large number of irregular fine cracks, like plant roots, and then, in the next instant, they exploded into a sky of fire raining down and scattering in all directions.

The third punch, while Zhang Yanhang scattered the vision-obstructing rain of fire, he gathered all his strength to punch the left side of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's head, right where it had just been struck, and the tons of exoskeleton armor could hardly demonstrate any defensive power before it immediately disintegrated.

The eye, eye socket, optic tissue, and head muscle tissues were instantly minced into mush by the remnants of the exoskeleton propelled by tremendous impact, and mixed with dark red viscous fluid, splashed backward in a conical distribution.

Some splattered onto the ground, staining the already crimson surface even more vividly, while another part splashed onto the chest, abdomen, and the flame crab legs beneath the body of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant.

Although the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's flame resistance was certainly high, when the severed flesh fell into the flame crab legs, it inevitably got roasted black, emitting an unpleasant smell mixed with a small portion of the roasted exoskeleton fragments.

If initially, Zhang Yanhang had merely smashed the left cheek of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant with a punch, then this time he had almost completely shattered half of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's head, completely smashing the left half of its skull, even pulverizing a part of its complex neural structure, or brain tissue with that punch.

From the broken wound, Zhang Yanhang could clearly see parts of the brain tissue, now with irregular rifts, continuing their feeble rhythmic writhing with the movement of blood vessels and nerves, still functioning; but as they operated, complex vascular structures continued to pour out large amounts of dark red viscous fluid from the rifts.

Thanks to the colossal size of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant, its brain vessels were also exceptionally thick, with even the thinnest part being about as thick as an adult's waist, and for this reason, when such large vessels suffered gaps, the volume of blood lost every second was also extremely high, essentially measured in cubic meters.

Yet, even though Zhang Yanhang had shattered half of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's head, it still stood firmly in place and maintained a degree of motor ability, attempting to continue launching attacks against him; it didn't suffer the expected instant death from brain tissue damage.

"This attack was relatively decent ... But even after being hit like that, you're still not dead? Worthy of being a Fourth Tier Four Star Lord Monster, resilience of life indeed is exceptionally tenacious."

Of course, being tenaciously alive aside, without any special skills, Zhang Yanhang figured that under these circumstances, the Crimson Iron Queen Ant shouldn't last much longer.

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