Ashen God

Chapter 1001: Achieving Sub-light Speed Navigation! Arriving at Vesta!


After all, even with the entire Korean Peninsula combined, it's only about 220,000 square kilometers. With Zhang Yanhang's current coverage area, he can already consecutively destroy six of them at once.

"Speaking of which, Japan, which I had always hoped to set a small goal for but had not yet established one, has now been easily surpassed. After all, Japan is only 378,000 square kilometers, and I can currently cover four Japans at once."

If we're really calculating by national area, the one closest in size to Zhang Yanhang's current total Death Wave coverage area is actually Iran. Iran has an area of 1.64 million square kilometers, only about 20,000 square kilometers more than his current total coverage area.

Iran ranks seventeenth globally in terms of area. Moving up to the sixteenth spot is Libya, which has an area of 1.76 million square kilometers. It's still relatively large, so Zhang Yanhang needs some time to catch up.

After solving the stamina limit issue, Zhang Yanhang found that he seemed to have nothing else to do at the moment. "Since there's nothing to do, I might as well take a trip to space."

Zhang Yanhang planned to find an asteroid to play with. Although he previously estimated he should be able to destroy an asteroid, it was just an estimate, and he felt it would be more reassuring to test it out in practice.

After searching on his phone, Zhang Yanhang discovered that Vesta might be a good choice. It has a diameter of 525 kilometers and ranks first among all asteroids in the Solar System.

However, Vesta's distance might be slightly far from Earth, about 170 million kilometers. Given his current flying speed, it would take nearly twenty days to reach it.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang planned to use the Transmission Technique this time. With the rank enhancement, even though the Teleportation Technique as a Fifth Tier Magic is constantly increasing in teleportation distance, the energy value consumption has, in contrast, continued to decrease.

The reason for this is that the intensity of the energy value is increasing. After all, the energy value of a First Tier Awakened is at least ten thousand times weaker than that of a Fifth Tier Awakened.

Therefore, although he initially might have needed to use dozens of energy points to teleport, now Zhang Yanhang only needs five energy points to teleport once.

In other words, with his current energy value limit, he can teleport consecutively over six thousand times in one go.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, as long as he could provide a rough set of coordinates, he could rely on consecutive teleports to get there much faster than flying. This even applies to a place like Vesta that he hasn't been to.

Finding this plan feasible, Zhang Yanhang packed up the items on the ground into his waist bag, and immediately teleported into space, or rather, directly to the position he stayed at last time.

After roughly identifying the star map and position, Zhang Yanhang immediately manifested into his Eight Arms and Eight Feet state, quickly progressing towards the location of Vesta.

The reason for using the Three-Headed Six-Armed Skill was that, in a certain sense, casting speed could also gain partial enhancement from attack speed. However, the greatest bonuses certainly stem from the intelligence-related attribute branches.

Since Zhang Yanhang wanted to teleport all the way there, he naturally aimed to go as fast as possible to save time.

Therefore, in this context, the Three-Headed Six-Armed Skill, which provides a 960% attack speed bonus, was naturally activated. After all, it only consumed a little extra physical strength, which was completely irrelevant in situations without combat.

Once the Eight Arms and Eight Feet state was activated, Zhang Yanhang found his casting speed significantly improved, allowing him to cast the Teleportation Technique ten times per second, meaning he moved forward 20,000 kilometers per second. This is 180 times his own movement speed, even when empowered by Spiritual Energy.

If not empowered by Spiritual Energy, the current teleportation speed is 360 times his basic movement speed.

However, once compressed to this extent, he found it challenging to condense further. Since he could already instantly cast spells, this casting speed didn't reflect the time needed to cast the spell but rather the time until he arrived at the teleportation destination.

Even though he could instantly cast spells, spatial teleportation itself still required a little time. It wasn't possible to teleport to the designated location without consuming a millisecond after casting, a feat only Divine beings of the Space System might achieve.

But the good news is that he could still multi-cast. Long ago, or rather, when Zhang Yanhang just acquired the Scroll Dragon Bloodline, he could already multi-cast. Back then, he could only release two or three spells simultaneously.

But now things have changed. Zhang Yanhang found his Eight Arms and Eight Feet state seemed to enhance his multi-casting ability. Or perhaps due to some strange, unknown characteristic, each of his individual heads could perform dual casting. Together, the five heads allowed for ten-fold casting.

In other words, Zhang Yanhang could simultaneously cast ten times as many spells as he could initially with multi-casting.

Therefore, after the actual experience, Zhang Yanhang was surprised to find his previous teleportation spell casting frequency of ten times per second had now been forcibly increased to one hundred times per second by multi-casting.

"Could it be that I'm actually really suited to be a master mage?"

But upon recalling his current five-headed eight-armed muscular image, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but sigh. There was no turning back now. Although he might truly be suited to the mage path, he had already ventured too far down the road of close combat.

And if one wonders why Zhang Yanhang can sigh in a vacuum, it's because the energy shield contains oxygen. Why is there oxygen in the energy shield? Because he deliberately brought some oxygen to trigger the aerobic exercise movement speed bonus. It's a chain reaction, one link after another, interconnected.

Of course, even if there wasn't an Energy Shield, it's no issue for him to forcibly sigh now. After all, even a human with ordinary physical strength can survive for a minute in a vacuum before dying completely. For someone like him, a Fifth Tier Awakened, it's needless to mention.

The so-called pressure in front of him isn't even comparable to a massage; he doesn't feel a thing, let alone any damage to internal organs and blood vessels. After all, vacuum pressure, when faced with just a layer of spacesuit, can be completely blocked. So, it's nothing advanced at all.

With the ability to continuously cast Teleportation Technique a hundred times per second, Zhang Yanhang can currently achieve uniform forward movement of 200,000 kilometers per second. This is 3,600 times his basic Movement Speed, even with Spiritual Energy enhancement, there is still a gap of 1,800 times.

"Why do I feel like I've somehow unlocked a spell version of sub-light speed navigation? Clearly, I haven't activated Star Realm Teleportation and Star Realm Projection."

If you're wondering about the Star Realm Teleportation and Star Realm Projection Zhang Yanhang mentioned, those are two high-tier spells specifically used for movement in the Star Realm, which refers to void and space environments. Zhang Yanhang's Scroll Dragon Bloodline hasn't unlocked such high-tier spells yet.

"Light speed itself only moves 300,000 kilometers per second. But now, I'm inexplicably achieving sub-light speed with the Teleportation Technique. This isn't just outrageous; it's outrageous to the extreme."

Frankly, before entering the Eight Arms and Eight Feet state, Zhang Yanhang never imagined this result. After all, he had never tried such an approach before, so he had no concept of it. Yet, it inexplicably led to the occurrence of sub-light speed movement.

"It's just that this is still only an ordinary Teleportation Technique. If I were to actually unlock the specialized Star Realm Teleportation, my teleportation speed might truly surpass light speed."

Of course, using teleportation to surpass light speed, after all, isn't a physical surpassing of light speed, so there are no bonus benefits.

If it were a physical surpassing of light speed, then even at normal forward movement at light speed, Zhang Yanhang could achieve Light Particle Strike and directly destroy a star. But the light speed achieved by teleportation doesn't have such merits because, during teleportation, he remains stationary, naturally providing no kinetic bonus from movement speed.

"But then again, considering Star Realm Teleportation is a high-tier spell, its energy consumption is higher, so it might not necessarily surpass the current state."

Zhang Yanhang believes the current height achieved by the Teleportation Technique, which it definitely shouldn't have achieved, is due to the special bonus provided by his Three-Headed Six-Armed Skill. The technique's inherently low intensity should also be a primary reason.

After all, the Teleportation Technique is considered a Fifth Tier Magic, seemingly high. But spells are actually divided by tier: Zero Ring Magic, First Tier Spell, and Second Ring Magic are First Tier Magic; Third Tier Magic, Fourth Tier Magic, and Fifth Tier Magic are Second Tier Magic. The subsequent Sixth Circle, Seven Rings, and Eighth Circle are Third Tier Magic.

Thus, Fifth Tier Magic is practically Second Tier Magic. So, when Zhang Yanhang uses the Teleportation Technique, a Second Tier Magic, at Fifth Tier, it naturally brings significant bonuses. Because its tier is low and its energy consumption is also low, it leads to this inexplicable current state, whereas using high-tier magic might not have the same outcome.

However, relying on the Teleportation Technique to move forward at two-thirds the speed of light is pretty good, but the Energy Value consumption is relatively high.

Or rather, given his current Energy Value limit, it's impossible to maintain uniform speed. After all, with a hundred Teleportation Techniques per second, and each consuming five Energy Value points, he'd be burning through 500 Energy Value points per second.

But his current Energy Value limit is just about 34,000 points, only enough to support 68 seconds in a sub-light speed navigation state.

With his current automatic Energy Value recovery speed of 298 points per second, it would take around two minutes to automatically recover one full bar of Energy Value.

While moving, he can automatically recover some Energy Value too, but the recovery is not as fast as the replenishment.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang can only teleport for a while before resting. Once his Energy Value has sufficiently recovered, he then continues teleporting again. If any asteroid belts or asteroids happen to block his path, he simply bypasses them or employs a gap teleportation, changing the teleportation point to directly reach the backside of the asteroid belt or asteroids.

Of course, if Zhang Yanhang decides to unleash a Normal attack on those asteroid belts and asteroids, he could destroy them easily. But that would be a waste of time and meaningless, so bypassing is indeed the most time-efficient choice.

In a certain sense, Zhang Yanhang feels like he's playing some game akin to Temple Run or Subway Surfers, dodging obstacles slightly when encountered, and automatically advancing when there are no obstacles, continually closing the distance with Vesta.

Occasionally, Zhang Yanhang also takes pleasure in the space landscape. However, as dark as it is, there's not much to appreciate. Even though distant starlight keeps flickering, these densely-packed stars like grains of Ganges sand, visible yet untouchable, seem mundane after prolonged observation.

If it were his first time in space, upon seeing the radiation emitted by stars or other planets from unknown light-years away, Zhang Yanhang might feel somewhat awestruck. But being his second time now, it's just alright.

Finally, after continuously repeating the teleportations for twenty-four minutes, Zhang Yanhang reached Vesta.

"Sigh, why did I choose Vesta initially? It's so far away; teleporting here takes twenty-four minutes, and teleporting back will take another twenty-four minutes. Choosing a closer one would've been much better."

Thinking about the upcoming necessity to teleport back soon, Zhang Yanhang feels somewhat tormented. After all, the way here saw him use Teleportation Technique eighty-five thousand times, and returning would require another eighty-five thousand times, totaling 170,000 uses.

While Zhang Yanhang isn't human anymore, he's still retained a part of human nature, naturally becoming annoyed by such high-intensity repetitive mechanical operations.

Moreover, besides the mechanical aspect, during the round trip of fifty minutes, he couldn't grow physically due to the Energy Value used for teleportation. This discomforts Zhang Yanhang since he avoids using Energy Values often to not hinder physical growth.

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