October 30th, Friday, five days after the Double Ninth Festival, it was still technically Zhang Yanhang's first day entering Ashen World. At 6 a.m., Ashen World, Crimson Iron Ore Vein, Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano, Outer Zone, Lucky Slot Machine.

As expected, when the time gradually came around to six o'clock, the third prize pool of the Lucky Slot Machine at Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano was immediately refreshed, and Zhang Yanhang, who had been waiting for nearly twenty minutes, immediately pulled the metal lever on the side of the slot machine.

With the turning of the lever, a momentary pause of time descended upon Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano, and a long list of format options, though not too familiar in content, gradually emerged in front of Zhang Yanhang.

[Please choose the specific content of the Lucky Slot Machine lottery this time]

[Option One: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Crimson Iron Destruction Ant, Second tier three-star, elite monster.)]

[Option Two: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ant, Third tier one star, ordinary monster.)]

[Option Three: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Crimson Iron Flame Ant, Second tier four stars, ordinary monster.)]

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[Option Forty-Two: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Crimson Iron Prince Ant, Third tier three-star, elite monster.)]

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[Option Seventy-Six: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Crimson Iron Hell Ant, Third tier two-star, ordinary monster.)]

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[Option One Hundred Thirty-Three: ✭✬✭ (Fourth Prize, thank you for your participation, no physical prizes.)]

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"Since I have already wiped out all the large Crimson Iron Ants in the entire Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano, it's not surprising that the pool indeed refreshed all five types of large Crimson Iron Ants other than the Lord Monster Crimson Iron Queen Ant," Zhang Yanhang remarked after carefully reviewing the list of third prize options in the refreshed pool, finding that they were different from those in Goblin Plain and Demonized Swamp.

The third prize pool in Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano seemed to partition twenty prize positions equally among the five types of large Crimson Iron Ants because of their quantity.

Whether it was the weakest Second Tier three-star elite monster Crimson Iron Destruction Ant or the strongest Third tier three-star elite monster Crimson Iron Prince Ant, all enjoyed an equal status here, with twenty each.

For there to be twenty instances of the prized Crimson Iron Prince Ant in the pool seemed very normal to Zhang Yanhang. In contrast, like the last time in the Demonized Swamp, the pooling of twenty Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars when there were only seven in the entire area was regarded as an anomaly.

"I was originally worried that the two missing ordinary Flame God's Crown +3 might not be completed, but now it looks like, easily, with twenty Crimson Iron Prince Ants, based on the normal occurrence of a treasure box dropping every seven kills, it looks more than sufficient."

Moreover, the acquisition of Crimson Marrow Hell Finger was still lacking on Zhang Yanhang's end, allowing him to use these twenty Crimson Iron Hell Ants to gather some, even though the quantity was more and it certainly wouldn't be enough with just twenty, but some was better than none.

"So, I choose Option One, Second Tier Three Star Elite Monster Crimson Iron Destruction Ant," Zhang Yanhang made his choice swiftly after briefly reviewing the contents of the third prize pool of the Lucky Slot Machine at Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano.

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October 30th, Friday, five days after Double Ninth Festival, still technically Zhang Yanhang's first day in Ashen World, 6:05 a.m., Ashen World, Crimson Iron Ore Vein, Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano, Outer Zone, Lucky Slot Machine.

[Successfully killed Third Tier Two-star Monster 'Crimson Iron Hell Ant (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +600.]

[Successfully killed Third Tier Two-star Monster 'Crimson Iron Hell Ant (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +600.]

[Successfully killed Third Tier Two-star Monster 'Crimson Iron Hell Ant (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +600.]

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After spending five minutes drawing the full one hundred large Crimson Iron Ants from the third prize pool, Zhang Yanhang skillfully used Death Wave to obliterate the hundred summoned large Crimson Iron Ants.

Having dealt with these one hundred large Crimson Iron Ants, Zhang Yanhang stood still for a moment as the messy remains of large Crimson Iron Ant corpses gradually began to reveal scattered Drop treasure boxes. Zhang Yanhang counted a total of eleven—two Purple Quality Treasure Boxes, six Dark Purple Quality Treasure Boxes, and three Light Golden Treasure Boxes.

Zhang Yanhang quickly went forward, picked them up, and checked their Attribute lists, noticing that apart from the Crimson Iron Destruction Ant and the Crimson Iron Flame Ant which only dropped one treasure box each, the other three types of Crimson Iron Ants all dropped three treasure boxes each.

"Normally, dropping three treasure boxes would require twenty-one monsters, yet there were only twenty this time, but the three Third Tier monsters, the Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ant, the Crimson Iron Hell Ant, and the Crimson Iron Prince Ant, all dropped three treasure boxes. So, the question arises, did the Luck Value Bonus actually play a part in this?"

Zhang Yanhang was entirely unable to distinguish this scenario, as the event of dropping three treasure boxes with only twenty monsters had also frequently occurred when cleaning the Lucky Slot Machine third prize pool in Goblin Plain and the Demonized Swamp before.

But those were due to certain accumulations, and whether this time was also due to this reason was indeed hard to say.

"So, testing the Luck Value increase should indeed be conducted by killing more monsters; cleaning a slot machine's third prize pool to this extent simply won't reveal it."

However, as currently neither the Small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu nor the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano had any extra monsters for Zhang Yanhang to hunt, he reckoned that this specific increase in Luck Value might only be testable after he was promoted to Fourth Tier and started clearing new areas.

"Since the third prize pool of the Lucky Slot Machine at Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano is now cleared, I'll head over to the Achievement Vending Machine to exchange some achievements first. I wonder what quality of achievement this Fourth Tier area will yield?"

Zhang Yanhang quickly activated the teleportation after tucking the Drop treasure box he had just picked up into his Waist Bag.

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October 30th, Friday, five days after the Double Ninth Festival, was still only the first day Zhang Yanhang entered the Ashen World, 6:06 in the morning, Ashen World, Crimson Iron Ore Vein, Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano, inner area, Achievement Vending Machine.

After teleporting to the Achievement Vending Machine, Zhang Yanhang immediately began to review the achievements listed on this large metal cabinet. As expected, the quality of the achievements here was much higher compared to those in the Goblin Plain and the Demonized Swamp, with even the lowest being of Light Golden Quality – equivalent to the highest quality achievements in the Demonized Swamp.

Besides one Light Golden Quality Achievement, there was also one Golden Quality Achievement and one Dark Golden Quality Achievement.

Zhang Yanhang thought this was quite normal, given his previous experience, as the achievements in the vending machines typically corresponded to the strength of the weakest monsters in the area.

Previously, in the Demonized Swamp, the weakest Demonized Maned Beast was just a Third Tier Three-star Ordinary Monster, while here in the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano, the weakest was the Crimson Iron Destruction Ant, a Second Tier Three-star Elite Monster - a whole rank higher than the Demonized Maned Beast, and naturally this was reflected in the quality of the achievements.

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang did not feel that the quality of these achievements was high; in fact, he even felt it was somewhat low. He had thought since there were Orange Quality Equipment here, there might be Orange Quality Achievements. Now it seemed he had expected too much, but it was still fine since Dark Golden Quality was high enough and should provide quite a significant attribute bonus.

After briefly glancing at the quality of the achievements in the vending machine, Zhang Yanhang quickly started checking the specific attribute list of that Light Golden Quality Achievement.

[Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano Annihilation Battle]

[Quality: Light Golden]

[Type: Achievement]

[Acquisition Conditions: Kill Crimson Iron Destruction Ant 10000/10000, Kill Crimson Iron Flame Ant 5000/5000.]

[Description: Although the Large Crimson Iron Ants in the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano mostly keep to themselves, repetitively mining Crimson Iron Ore and reproducing more Large Crimson Iron Ants within the Crimson Iron Ore Vein, they ordinarily do not initiate attacks on life forms not included in their diet.

However, due to some unknown reasons, humans still launched an annihilation battle against the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano, aiming to clear out all Large Crimson Iron Ants, and the first step of the annihilation battle was to eradicate the most numerous Crimson Iron Destruction Ants and Crimson Iron Flame Ants in the outer zones.]

[Achievement Reward: Armor Penetration Effect +5%.]

"I didn't expect the bonus effect of this Light Golden Quality Achievement to be Armor Penetration Effect +5%? How should I put it, it's useful but not so useful, just slightly better than the bonus provided by a Light Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Hell Finger."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that the Light Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Hell Finger provided an Armor Penetration Effect bonus of 4%, and this Light Golden Achievement was 1% higher.

Unfortunately, even though the Light Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Hell Finger truly has only a 4% chance, the fusion to a +5 Dark Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Hell Finger could provide a 10% Armor Penetration Effect Bonus. Thus, this Light Golden Quality Achievement merely equates to half a Dark Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Hell Finger +5, which is just passable.

"By the way, it seems like the description of this achievement has nothing to do with the achievement reward itself. Or rather, what does the Annihilation Battle have to do with Armor Penetration Effect? Generally speaking, shouldn't Annihilation Battle types be associated with bonuses to more solid attributes like Power Effect or Attack Power?"

Zhang Yanhang thought it over and concluded that it must be because the defensive power of the Crimson Iron Destruction Ant and the Crimson Iron Flame Ant is quite strong. The attacks of ordinary humans could hardly penetrate the exoskeletal armor of these large Crimson Iron Ants, which is why a +5% Armor Penetration Effect bonus was given.

After reviewing the Light Golden Quality Achievement, Zhang Yanhang quickly moved on to examine the attributes of a higher-quality Golden Quality Achievement.

[Crimson Iron Ant Nest Destroyer]

[Quality: Golden]

[Type: Achievement]

[Achievement Conditions: Kill 800/800 Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ants, and 400/400 Crimson Iron Hell Ants.]

[Description: The large Crimson Iron Ants, which had been routinely digging for Crimson Iron Ore and breeding more large Crimson Iron Ants, had to launch a resistance against human attacks. However, ordinary peripheral Crimson Iron Destruction Ants and Crimson Iron Flame Ants often couldn't display enough resistance against humans.

Although the Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ants and Crimson Iron Hell Ants, which took on the defense responsibilities of the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano during the resistance, joined the battle in time to undertake the tasks of assault and command, it was inevitable that the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano would gradually head towards destruction.]

[Achievement Reward: Power Effect +40%.]

"Golden Quality Achievements are indeed reliable, providing a 40% Power Effect Bonus, which is equivalent to a fully fused +5 Dark Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Flame Demon Armor."

The +5 Dark Golden Quality Crimson Marrow Flame Demon Armor that Zhang Yanhang was currently wearing provided the same bonus as this Golden Quality Achievement, both providing a 40% Power Effect Bonus.

"Since it's an Annihilation Battle, indeed, such a Power Effect Bonus is more suitable."

Zhang Yanhang had always felt that he would obtain a new achievement related to Power Effect Bonus from the Achievement Vending Machine. Now, it really came true; this 40% Power Effect Bonus should significantly increase his strength, certainly helping him achieve that one-thousand-ton strength goal without any problem.

"The description of this achievement mentioned that the Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ant and the Crimson Iron Hell Ant joined the battle in time to take charge of the command. I think there's no problem with them taking charge of the command, but it definitely wasn't 'timely'."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that he had nearly cleared half of the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano before he even encountered the Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ant and the Crimson Iron Hell Ant. If this were a game, it would be as though he had already pushed the enemy's second tower before the enemy heroes had even left their base. If that could be considered timely, then the notion of untimeliness doesn't exist.

Zhang Yanhang felt that to be truly 'timely', the large Crimson Iron Ants should have been gathered to attack him just as he had finished clearing the outer area of the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano and was organizing the treasure chest proceeds.

That way, he could have eliminated all the large Crimson Iron Ants in one fell swoop. Well, he was daydreaming; such good fortune is indeed very rare.

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