"After all, the Crimson Iron Ant King is a Same Tier Monster without a drop rate penalty, so at most, killing about eight or nine of them should result in another dropped treasure box."
Upon seeing the treasure box dropped by the Crimson Iron Ant King, Zhang Yanhang swiftly picked it up and put it into his Waist Bag.
Now, only one step away from completely clearing the entire Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu, Zhang Yanhang had plenty of time, so he stood quietly in the same spot, silently waiting for the death of the Crimson Iron Ant King. Time quietly passed by, and soon enough, Zhang Yanhang heard the familiar kill notification tone.
[Successfully killed Second Tier Two Star Monster ’Crimson Iron Ant King (Elite)’ ×1, Soul points +120.]
[Successfully killed Second Tier Two Star Monster ’Crimson Iron Ant King (Elite)’ ×1, Soul points +120.]
After hearing the kill notification tone, Zhang Yanhang immediately checked his watch. In a way, the time he waited wasn’t too long, only a few minutes, but considering his current hunting efficiency, those few minutes felt rather prolonged—as it was enough time to kill a double-digit number of monsters. ᴛhis chapter is ᴜpdated by novel•fire.net
"So, waiting for monsters to die naturally really isn’t that efficient. In the future, to speed up the hunting efficiency, I must finish them off as quickly as possible."
Zhang Yanhang was initially somewhat worried that monsters dying automatically in a dying state would be counted as suicide and therefore not yield any Soul points.
But as it turned out, Zhang Yanhang was overthinking it. After all, he was the one who put the monsters in a dying state, so it would actually be odd not to attribute the kill to him.
After confirming that the other two Crimson Iron Ant Kings had also fallen into a dying state, Zhang Yanhang stood without much hope for a few seconds, only to find that, indeed, his expectations weren’t disappointed—or perhaps a bit disappointed, as the remaining two Crimson Iron Ant Kings hadn’t dropped any treasure boxes.
After all, there were only two monsters; it wasn’t a quantity that would easily result in a treasure box drop. To get a treasure box in one go, even with Zhang Yanhang’s luck, he would have to kill at least five or six monsters in succession, but most of the time, it required killing about eight or nine monsters to drop a treasure box.
"Now that the Crimson Iron Ant Kings are dealt with, the next step is to take care of the Lord Monster, Crimson ed Iron Ant Queen. By the way, the Crimson Iron Ant King certainly lives up to its Second Tier Two Star Elite Monster status; how can its fire burning effect last so long?"
It’s important to note that due to previously checking the Attribute list of the Crimson Iron Ant King, Zhang Yanhang had to endure at least a double-digit number of Acid Liquid Fireballs. These Acid Liquid Fireballs from the Crimson Iron Ant King were not only much larger in size than those from the Crimson Iron Breeding Ants but their persistence was also much greater.
Zhang Yanhang remembered the Acid Liquid Fireballs from those what, Crimson Iron Breeding Ants, which usually could only burn for about a minute or so, but the Acid Liquid Fireballs from the Crimson Iron Ant King had been burning for several minutes by now. They continued to burn from the dying state of the Ant King until its true death without any signs of extinguishing—absurd.
Looking at the thick layer of acid liquid on his body, with the bright red flames on the surface showing no signs of fading, Zhang Yanhang eventually decided to simply expand and contract his Energy Shield, causing all the acid tightly clinging to the outer wall of the Shield to be thrown off.
After all, being engulfed in flames indeed feels slightly cool, but, when one actually experiences it, they’d find that apart from being a bit cool, it also significantly hampers their vision.
When Zhang Yanhang first saw the three Crimson Iron Ant Kings, he thought that this time he probably wouldn’t end up , but unexpectedly, the Acid Liquid Fireballs spat out by the Ant Kings were as big as washbasins, one Fireball could cover half his body. Just a few casual spits of Acid Liquid Fireballs had once again coated Zhang Yanhang entirely.
"Although there were some unexpected twists along the way, the plan to clear the Crimson Iron Ant Nest was still carried out quite smoothly overall..."
The thought of being able to completely clear the small-scale Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu made Zhang Yanhang’s heart surge with excitement, and he immediately began heading towards the Core Area of the Ant Nest.
Though the path leading to the Core Area of the Ant Nest was indeed very odd in its C-shape, it wasn’t very long. Zhang Yanhang quickly passed through this C-shaped tunnel, stepping into the Core Area of the Ant Nest for the second time after the previous Time Pause.
As soon as he entered the Core Area, he immediately saw a Crimson Iron Ant whose size far surpassed the Ant King’s. While the size of the Ant King was indeed considerable, it still gave off an impression of agility. However, the gigantic size of the Crimson Iron Ant Queen felt excessively bloated.
If the previous Ant King’s size could be compared to a rhinoceros, then the Ant Queen was comparable to a whale. Taking into account her thick and bloated abdomen, she measured at least a dozen meters in length, existing in a completely different dimension from the regular Crimson Iron Ants.
Perhaps it was precisely because of such a massive body that the Ant Queen could rapidly breed a large number of Crimson Iron Ants.
Like the previous inner area, the Core Area also had a very spacious cavity dug out, but ’spacious’ is relative to Zhang Yanhang; for the massive Ant Queen, the cavity might feel a bit cramped, with an overall area of just about 0.2 square kilometers.
Fortunately for Zhang Yanhang, judging by the looks of the Ant Queen, she probably didn’t move around much normally, so an area of 0.2 square kilometers should already be quite sufficient.
The reason Zhang Yanhang said this was because the body of the Ant Queen was indeed abnormally distorted. The upper body, including the head and thorax, was similar to a regular Ant King, about two meters, but right behind the thorax, there connected a lump of an exceptionally bloated and fat abdomen.
It was this deformed part of the body that stretched the size of the Ant Queen to be almost like that of a whale; just the abdomen alone was likely more than ten meters in length.
Let me also give a little piece of trivia: the body structure of insects is divided into three parts: head, thorax, and abdomen; thus, the abdomen is actually what is commonly referred to as the tail and buttocks.
Therefore, upon seeing the abnormal lower half of the Ant Queen’s body, Zhang Yanhang could not help but feel sympathy for the Alchemist who was responsible for refining the Crimson Iron Ant King Concentrated Hormone. What kind of commitment did he have to be able to go through with it, truly a tough character.