Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot-Chapter 900 - 354 Epic Explosion_2

Moments later, Wang Tao had lost ten thousand HP, while the Flame Centipede Monster had lost a hundred thousand! Now it had just over forty thousand HP left.

Give Wang Tao a few more seconds, and he would be able to kill it.

But at that moment, the flames engulfing the Flame Centipede Monster suddenly became much more fierce. The fire seemed to swell, and the flames shot up over ten meters high!

That scene looked vaguely familiar to Wang Tao...

Boom!

The flames enveloping the Flame Zombie exploded, and a mushroom cloud of fire slowly rose, turning an area with a radius of a hundred meters into a sea of fire.

"Wang Tao!"

Lan Yulian and the others were startled from a distance. Fortunately, they were far enough away to not be hit by the flames, but Wang Tao was right at the center of the explosion!

"He’ll be fine!"

Jiang Shixue took Lan Yulian’s hand and comforted her.

She had thought of the move that the fire monsters used before when she saw the flames on the Flame Centipede Monster start to expand, but at that time Wang Tao had not died. Now, Wang Tao was not the same as before. He was much stronger and doubtless fine facing this kind of crisis.

Indeed, just as Jiang Shixue had thought, after the explosion, a figure emerged from the blazing flames, cursing under his breath.

"Damn it! That thing’s damage is pretty high!"

After Wang Tao walked out of the fire, he immediately cancelled the Starfire Prairie status.

As soon as he recognized the ability unleashed by the Flame Centipede Monster as "Explosion," he had decided not to run—because the range was too vast, and he couldn’t escape. He thought he would not suffer too much damage in Starfire Prairie status from the "Explosion."

However, it turned out that the "Explosion’s" damage was indeed terrifying. Even though Wang Tao ignored most of the fire damage, just the explosion alone cost him several tens of thousands of HP.

He had a total of 180,000 HP, and now only 80,000 remained. If he had been hit by the flames, he might have triggered Berserk again... This ability was somewhat terrifying!

Seeing that Wang Tao was alright, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Lan Yulian quickly healed Wang Tao.

"It’s good that you’re fine, Wang Tao. You scared me to death! Is that monster dead?"

Feeling the Healing Glow on him, Wang Tao sighed comfortably, then replied:

"Dead, after it used that ability, it was left with hardly any life. A light slash was all it took to finish it off."

The side effect of "Explosion" was that after its use, HP dropped to 1%. For the Flame Centipede Monster with 15,000 HP, only 150 remained after using "Explosion," making it easy for Wang Tao to slay it.

"That’s good to hear!"

Only then did Lan Yulian completely relax.

While his HP was recovering, Wang Tao checked the loot and immediately grinned.

The Flame Centipede Monster itself had dropped three items.

They were a Crystal Core, an Awakening Energy Pearl, and a pair of its large fangs.

The item that pleased Wang Tao the most was the Crystal Core.

[Level 4 Crystal Core·Explosion]

[Quality: Excellent (40%)]

[Purity: 35% (Side effect: HP reduces to 1% after use)]

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[Explosion: Compress all awakening energy, then burst forth instantly (The power depends on the amount of awakening energy, only Fire Awakened can assimilate)]

This was a very strong Ability, and it suited Wang Tao, the Fire-Awakened. But the side effect of the Ability was fatal. If Wang Tao wanted to assimilate it, he would have to remove the side effect.

However, to remove the side effect, three Crystal Cores were needed. But Wang Tao only had two Explosion Crystal Cores. One was obtained from killing a Flame Monster, and the other was obtained from killing a Fat Flame Zombie.

He had not encountered any more Flame Zombies or monsters after that, so he couldn’t collect the third one.

But today, he finally got the third Explosion Crystal Core!

Without any hesitation, Wang Tao immediately started to synthesize the three Explosion Crystal Cores.

Shortly after, the synthesis was complete.

[Level 4 Crystal Core·Explosion]

[Quality: Epic (100%)]

[Purity: 100% (Side effect: None)]

Seeing the attributes of the synthesized Crystal Core, Wang Tao wished he could start assimilating it right away.

If I fuse this Ability, it will absolutely become the most damaging Ability Wang Tao currently has!

After all, this Ability consumes Awakening Energy—and it consumes all of the Awakening Energy! You can tell from these monsters just how powerful the Ability is. It’s much like another awakening!

However, Wang Tao still held back and didn’t rush to fuse. Because the four Abilities he possesses are all very useful, he needs to wait for a second awakening, allow the new awakening to fuse with an Ability, and then free up a spot to fuse this Ability.

No problem, just hold on for a bit.

Wang Tao turned his attention to the other loot.

The Flame Centipede Monster dropped four Loot Packs.

The first pack contained a Crystal Core Gift Bag, all of which were Crystal Cores Wang Tao had seen before. The second pack held an Awakening Energy Pearl. The third Loot Pack contained Explosion Grenades. The last pack contained a blueprint for a pair of dual blades, which were rather interesting, as they inflicted Fire Damage.

Fire Attribute Damage is not the same as Flame Damage.

Flame Damage means the attack comes with flame, like when Wang Tao uses a Shockwave under Starfire Prairie Status, his Shockwave is aflame, capable of igniting the target directly.

Fire Attribute Damage, on the other hand, adds a little extra damage on top of normal damage, which might ignite the target given enough luck or a sufficient number of hits...

Clearly, Flame Damage is stronger than Fire Attribute Damage, but in any case, having some is better than none. Anything that boosts damage is good. Wang Tao collected all the items, planning to focus on crafting them later.

He glanced at the corpses of the two monsters from before. The toxic gas and acidic liquid were still present, so Wang Tao didn’t go over for the time being and continued to open the meteorites.

The 19th meteorite, upon being opened, contained a junk Crystal Core.

Loss of HP, carry it away for the next one.

Inside the 20th meteorite was an Ordinary piece of equipment.

Not bad, not a loss.

The 21st meteorite contained a physical awakening key.

This time, a big gain of HP.

The 22nd meteorite held another junk Crystal Core.

Lost again.

Inside the 23rd meteorite, finally another monster appeared.

The monster that emerged was the previously encountered Iron Thorn Centipede.

With the combined efforts of Wang Tao and his companions, they easily killed it.

The 24th meteorite, the last with Superior Quality, opened to reveal another Insect Clan Monster.

"Is the appearance rate of Insect Clan Monsters so high?"

While grinning, Wang Tao joined forces with everyone and quickly dealt with this monster.

With that, all 24 Superior Quality Level 4 Meteorites were opened.

Now only 6 Epic Quality Meteorites remained.

Gazing at these Epic Meteorites, Wang Tao rubbed his hands together.

Theoretically, the items coming from Epic Meteorites should be better than those from Superior Meteorites—but luck is unpredictable.

However, Wang Tao believed his luck to be quite good. As long as he performs consistently, there shouldn’t be a problem.

Wang Tao took a deep breath and then opened the first Epic Meteorite.

When he saw the Iron Beetle crawl out, he burst into laughter.

"My luck, as expected, is not bad at all!"

This was the third Iron Beetle Wang Tao had found! These creatures could endow a Level 3 individual with Level 4 Combat Power and take a Level 4 person to a higher level! Now, selling one for two to three million shouldn’t be a problem.

And he also had two Insect Clan bodies that weren’t devoured by Lightning.

One was the body of a Dual-tail Scorpion, surrounded by poisonous gas. The other was an Acidic Worm, surrounded by acid.

Now, Wang Tao saw that the poison around the Dual-tail Scorpion had dissipated and the Acidic Worm’s acid was gone.

Wang Tao first went to collect the loot from the Dual-tail Scorpion. He took a quick look—the scorpion’s tail could be used to make a pretty good weapon, so it seemed better to save the tail. But the Acidic Worm had dropped a rather Ordinary blueprint and nothing particularly special in terms of materials.

So, Wang Tao let the Iron Beetle consume the Acidic Worm, and after removing its tail, let Lightning eat the Dual-tail Scorpion.

Moments later, the Iron Beetle’s HP turned into 50,000, while its Armed Enhancement Attributes gained an [Acidic] effect.