Five Frozen Centuries

Chapter 44: The Truth Of The Ranking System

Wei Huo had entered a new realm. In this realm, he could feel his surroundings even with his eyes closed. It was as though God View in games.

Moreover, Wei Huo had not received any notification from the system after he entered the realm. It meant that the realm was not set by God. It was a realm that belonged only to Wei Huo himself.

It also implied that even if God seized everything from Wei Huo, he could not take this realm away.

Wei Huo felt relieved at that thought.

The Demonic Ant armies were still surging towards Wei Huo ceaselessly. On the other hand, Wei Huo was fully armed with equipment from the Item Mall. The equipment was not too expensive, but even so it still cost him 2,000 Magical Stones. In the end, he was only left with 2,010 Magical Stones reserves.

Wei Huo did not purchase more items as the equipment he bought was enough to deal with the Demonic Ants. He continued his endless slaughter, dyeing his Dragon Spear and armor in blue.

The ants’ blood was blue in color. Their split blood stained the ground in blue and it eventually became a blue stream. However, as long as the Demonic Ant armies kept surging forward, Wei Huo would not end his massacre!

After a frantic massacre, Wei Huo suddenly realized his Magical Stones reserve in his Item Mall became 2,011. Wei Huo was stunned.

Why did he have one extra Magical Stone?

In the past, he could only obtain one Magical Stone by successfully killing a rare creature. However, he was killing ordinary creatures now. How did he obtain one Magical Stone?

Wei Huo suddenly made a conjecture. However, that conjecture needed verification.

Wei Huo stopped attacking them in groups. He also stopped his large-scale killing. Instead, he killed them one by one and while killing, he counted in his heart. When he killed the 100th Demonic Ant, the number of Magical Stones increased to 2,012.

Indeed!

Wei Huo discovered the secret of obtaining Magical Stones was by killing 100 Demonic Ants. In other words, Wei Huo could obtain one Magical Stone by killing 100 Normal creatures!

When the Demonic Ants’ Empresses saw that the number of enemies Wei Huo was capable of killing at a time had greatly reduced, she immediately informed the army through telepathy. “Our enemy is exhausted. Let’s work harder and we will defeat our enemy soon. I will grant the title ‘Human Killing Ants’ to you!”

The Demonic Ant armies immediately regained their confidence. It was as though they were refueled with power and once again surged towards Wei Huo.

Wei Huo looked at the Demonic Ants who were rushing towards him like a black tide. He smiled coldly. “How naïve!”

However, Wei Huo was thinking at the same time, ‘Do all species become so arrogant when they evolved into intelligent creatures?’ The same thing had happened with the group of monkeys in Mount Emei and so were the Tree-Men. They both attacked Wei Huo as they laid eyes on him without the slightest hesitation thinking that they were the strongest creature in the world. Wei Huo was currently going through that again with the Demonic Ants. Without any doubt, they thought they could bury him to death with an Ant Wave Attack[1] [1].

They were like humans in the past. Arrogant and proud, humans thought they were the primacy of all living things.

However, they had no idea that there were now way more creatures in this world that were more powerful than them.

A wise man once said, “Modesty helps one to go forward, whereas conceit makes one lag behind.[2]”

Wei Huo threw his punches towards the Demonic Ant armies.

No matter humans or ants, it was better to be modest!

The terrifying lightning began to gather again before he threw out his punch.

The terrifying lightning punch was sent out in one blow.

The next moment, a white blast appeared in front of the Demonic Ant armies ahead of Wei Huo. Instantly, countless Demonic Ants were burnt into ashes. At this moment, Wei Huo had already advanced forward.

That was the first time he took the initiative to attack!

His target was the Empress!

The Demonic Ants’ Empress was ranked rare. However, it was only among the Demonic Ants. In fact, her combat power was not strong, yet she had telepathy abilities. Wei Huo was doubtful about the system’s judgment of her ranking.

The Demonic Ant Warlock was supposed to be ranked Normal, yet it was ranked ‘Slightly Abnormal’, which was between the rank Normal and Rare. Wei Huo was curious. Was this ‘Below Rare’ and ‘Above Normal’ ranks created by God for fun?

Wei Huo charged towards the Empress and countless loyal guards tried to stop Wei Huo. Suddenly, Wei Huo changed his direction and thrust the Dragon Spear, piercing through the Demonic Ant Warlock.

The next moment, Wei Huo hopped back into the Demonic Ant armies, and killed over 50 Demonic Ants in a row.

Then, one Magical Stone was added into Wei Huo’s reserve.

Seeing that, Wei Huo immediately understood everything.

The Magical Stones were souls!

100 Normal-ranked souls will produce one Magical Stone. One Rare-ranked soul will produce one Magical Stone. Likewise, one Epic-ranked soul would produce 100 Magical Stones!

The Rare, Epic, and Legendary ranks had nothing to do with the EXP or the character’s strength. It was a rank to evaluate the soul’s strength!

Wei Huo was suddenly reminded of his near 200 years of life. In fact, he never experienced any life-or-death situation throughout the journey. He had not encountered any hardship but his strength was improving continuously. He could even kill a Rare creature in seconds. However, why was he still at the rank Rare?

Wei Huo finally understood now. That was because the rank was used to evaluate a creature’s soul strength! It was a rank unrelated to the combat power.

Wei Huo might be able to defeat an Epic-ranked creature by force with his current ability. However, he obtained those powers through the BUG and by accomplishing the system’s quest, not by training himself step by step.

Different amounts of Magical Stones could be obtained through killing creatures from different ranks, and the Magical Stones could be used to exchange different items. However ultimately, the Magical Stones will go back to God’s own pocket.

From the fact that God could only create artificial beings without souls, it meant that God could not create souls. Souls belonged solely to creatures.

Wei Huo made more conjectures as more secrets were revealed.

However, they were only conjectures…

‘Trying to act cool with the abilities obtained from the headstart after the time halt had recovered? Are you kidding?’

There was still a long path ahead. Nobody would know what will happen in the future. Things might not work out if he keeps staying in his comfort zone.

He had to work hard to find caves, heritages and opportunities to become stronger. He should proceed with his journey while waiting for the time halt to recover.

At this moment, rain started pouring from the sky. The rain exuded a unique smell. It was the smell of gasoline. This was not a normal rain, it was a gasoline rain!

Wei Huo was stunned. It was probably God’s work as no one else could possibly have done that!

The Demonic Ants were confused. ‘Why does the rain smell like this?’

Wei Huo too was soaked in gasoline. Then, lightning struck down from the sky and hit the ground. The next moment, raging flames lashed out on the ground as it was covered in gasoline. Countless ants were set on fire instantly.

Wei Huo fled far away in shock. However, the raging inferno spread faster and soon after, Wei Huo’s body was also covered in the roaring flames. However, to Wei Huo’s surprise, the raging flames did not harm him at all.

[1] A pun from human wave attack. The human wave attack is an offensive infantry tactic in which an attacker conducts an unprotected frontal assault with densely concentrated infantry formations against the enemy line, intended to overrun and overwhelm the defenders by engaging in melee combat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_wave_attack

[2] A saying by famous Chairman Mao.