Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot-Chapter 1167 - 477 Iron Thorn Steel Whip

Chapter 1167: Chapter 477: Iron Thorn Steel Whip

Chapter 1167 -477: Iron Thorn Steel Whip

This mutated vine was the strongest enemy Wang Tao had faced so far. Although Wang Tao remained composed throughout the battle and hardly lost any HP, it was indeed a formidable foe, having fifty thousand HP.

Wang Tao could have fought without using [Hellfire], as the consumption of [Hellfire] is massive—it consumes 1000 Awakening Energy per use. With those 1000 Awakening Energy, he could absolutely slay the mutant vine using other abilities.

The main reason was that Wang Tao wanted to know how much damage [Hellfire] could cause to a Level 5, Lord with fifty thousand HP.

Now he knew, even against a Level 5, Lord, [Hellfire] could still deal around a hundred thousand damage!

This was definitely the most powerful ability he had at the moment—a strong trump card in Wang Tao’s hands!

After collecting the spoils of war from the mutant vine, Wang Tao did not hurry to check them, instead, he walked over to a pile of rubble to inspect a treasure chest.

The chest before him seemed to be made of wood and brass, slightly larger than the Fine Treasure Chest he had obtained before—its quality was clearly higher—this was an Excellent Treasure Chest.

This pleasantly surprised Wang Tao, as the higher the quality of the chest, the likelier it seemed that it would contain valuable items.

An unopened chest couldn’t be placed into storage, so Wang Tao placed his hand on the lock, ready to unlock it with a Secret Key. He had plenty of Awakening Secret Keys, so opening one chest was no big deal.

Then, Wang Tao was stunned.

He realized that the Awakening Secret Key couldn’t unlock this Excellent Treasure Chest and that it required an Advanced Awakening Secret Key instead.

“Ah?”

Use an Advanced Awakening Secret Key?

It took a fusion of 100 Ordinary Awakening Secret Keys to make 1 Advanced Awakening Secret Key, so the cost of opening this Excellent Treasure Chest was 100 times that of opening a Fine Treasure Chest! That’s a really high cost!

Wang Tao suddenly felt troubled.

The discomfort wasn’t just from the vastly increased cost, but more importantly, he didn’t even have 100 Ordinary Awakening Secret Keys… It wasn’t a matter of whether he wanted to open the chest or not, he simply couldn’t!

However, Wang Tao now only obtained Awakening Secret Keys by slaying Level 5 or higher Lords… He had only 80, still needing 20 more.

He did think about slaying twenty Level 5 Lords, but they weren’t exactly easy to find at a moment’s notice!

Also, all the Awakening Secret Keys Wang Tao had were physical ones, which could be used or traded with teammates. Using these Secret Keys to open treasure chests felt a bit wasteful—

“Right! It doesn’t necessarily have to be me who opens the chest; I can let someone else do it!”

A spark lit up in Wang Tao’s eyes.

Although he could only obtain Awakening Secret Keys by killing Lords above Level 5, Ding Yuqin and the others were still at Level 4; they could just kill Level 4 Lords.

From the looks of it, there were quite a few Level 4 Lords here, especially on the first level; they were everywhere!

It seemed that letting them gather 100 Awakening Secret Keys shouldn’t be a big deal, especially with Wang Tao’s help; it would be a breeze.

“That’s the plan!”

Wang Tao made his decision immediately. He contacted Ding Yuqin and told them to stay put, that he was coming to find them.

With the treasure chest, if it hadn’t been discovered, it would be one thing, but since it had been found, if there was an opportunity, Wang Tao would undoubtedly want to open it first before continuing his exploration.

After waiting for Lightning to completely devour the body of the mutant vine, Wang Tao addressed it:

“Let’s go, back to the previous level.”

“Woof~”

Lightning was good at tracking; it quickly grew larger, carrying Wang Tao as they ran back.

Riding on Lightning’s back, Wang Tao took this opportunity to check the spoils he had just obtained.

The mutant vine had yielded five kinds of physical spoils of war.

[Received: Level 5 Crystal Core: Great Strength x1]

[Received: High-Level Tree Essence Liquid x3283]

[Received: Steel Vine x1]

[Received: Devouring Seed x1]

[Received: Alloy Vine x8]

The Red Crystal Core wasn’t new; it was a Power Crystal Core, an old face by now.

Unlike the Level 5 Lords he had slain before, which didn’t drop High-Level Tree Essence, it was abundant from Level 4 Lords. Wang Tao hadn’t expected Level 5 Lords would drop these, but it seems they did. He had burst out over five thousand at once, ten times more than what the Level 4 Lords had dropped!

Wang Tao joyfully stored the High-Level Essence Liquid. Whether he could break through two hundred thousand HP was entirely dependent on these High-Level Essences now.

[Steel Vine: Crafting Material]

“Steel Vine” was part of the body that dropped from the mutant vine, a crafting material. So strictly speaking, the monster should be called “Steel Vine”…

The material was large in volume, and Wang Tao wasn’t yet clear on what it could make, but he was eager to find out.

[Devouring Seed: Plant inside a Level 4 Lord organism to grow. Once mature, it produces a Devouring Fruit. The Devouring Fruit can consume a certain quantity of Wood Attribute materials, thereby transforming them into higher-grade Wood Attribute materials.]

When he saw the name “Devouring Seed,” Wang Tao thought it might be something like “Magic Seeds,” which could enhance Hidden Attributes, but it wasn’t.

As for the description of the Devouring Seed, it said it could use the Devouring Fruit to consume other Wood Attribute materials and transform them into higher-level materials… Listening to that seemed pretty nice, but just having materials was useless without the corresponding blueprints!

Even if he produced high-level materials, without the blueprints, it would still be of no avail… Although the research institute could utilize these materials or make equipment from them, it definitely wouldn’t be as good as having blueprints…