Chapter 116: Chapter 115: Multi-Hit Damage
The powers of sharpness and impact converged on his spear. Feeling the humming vibration of the spearhead, Lin Fan kicked off a tree branch and lunged straight for the Giant-Armed Zombie!
"Hah!"
Since he’d switched to the Sharpness Crystal and exposed himself to the Giant-Armed Zombie’s line of sight, Lin Fan decided to go all in. He let out a sharp cry, raised his spear high, and feinted a powerful downward chop!
The Giant-Armed Zombie had grown smarter since their last encounter. Instead of attacking the spear, it sent a fist wreathed in impact energy straight for Lin Fan’s body!
As the zombie made its move, Lin Fan instantly switched from a chop to a thrust, rotating the spearhead to stab at the incoming fist!
The sharp blade, wreathed in two different powers, slammed heavily into the monster’s intercepting fist!
A sharp, grating sound rang out once more as blurry torrents of turbulent energy erupted where the blade and fist met.
The mutually annihilating impact forces practically "glued" them together, allowing Lin Fan to hang suspended in mid-air, supported only by his spear!
But, completely unlike last time, in addition to the impact power grinding against the energy on the fist, the spear was also imbued with sharpness power worth 10 Energy Value...
HUMMM—
A low hum suddenly cut through the continuous grating sound. A strange white halo flashed across the spearhead’s blade, allowing it to slice through the energy turbulence and plunge deeper!
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
A portion of the deflected energy shot out and snapped the northern branches of the nearby willow tree where Lin Fan had just been perched.
The rest of the energy was vented into the ground and lawn beside the man and the zombie, obliterating a patch of grass and cracking a row of paving stones...
Meanwhile, the sharpness power, having cut through the energy shield, followed the blade into the Giant-Armed Zombie’s hand and exploded. It sliced the basketball-sized fist into four pieces, with only shreds of flesh and sinew left connecting it to the arm bone...
[-268]!
[1272/2000]
"ROAR—"
Struck again, the Giant-Armed Zombie lost its balance and stumbled backward. The shattered fist clearly caused it extreme discomfort. With a flick of its long arm, it flung away the mangled remnants of its hand, leaving only a jagged, white stump of bone exposed to the air!
"Die!"
Having just landed, Lin Fan saw the off-balance zombie struggling to its feet and knew this was his chance!
’Its weak point is the chest, but that ruined arm is still a threat. I have to launch a surprise attack with maximum speed!’
Without the slightest hesitation, he switched to the Swiftness Crystal, channeled energy into the spear to activate its impact power, and shot forward like an arrow loosed from a bow, aiming straight for the Giant-Armed Zombie’s chest!
Facing this deathblow, the Giant-Armed Zombie reacted with purely beast-like instinct, swinging its shattered arm bone in a sweep aimed at Lin Fan’s chest!
Bent on ending the fight, Lin Fan dodged but did not retreat!
Boosted by the Swiftness Crystal, he twisted his body, evading the sweeping arm bone by a hair’s breadth. Still, the thick forearm muscles clipped him in the chest, making him stumble!
[-19]!
Lin Fan felt a tightness in his chest. ’This thing is dangerous even on its last legs.’ A mere glancing blow from the Giant-Armed Zombie had cost him nineteen Life Value!
But he braced the spear with his other hand and forced the thrust straight toward the zombie’s weak spot on its chest!
With its fist blown off, the Giant-Armed Zombie’s arm was about the same length as Lin Fan’s spear. The instant its arm struck Lin Fan’s chest, his spear pierced the zombie’s own!
[-99]!
"Huh?"
Lin Fan stared, stunned by the damage number that appeared before him.
’Why?’
’How could the damage be so low?!’
’Before, whenever I activated the impact power, it would blow my enemies apart. What’s different this time?’
But immediately after, the area around the wound in the Giant-Armed Zombie’s chest began to shudder violently!
Gouts of gore spurted from the spear wound, as if its insides were being wracked by a series of continuous explosions!
Then, a dense series of damage numbers appeared one after another, cascading before Lin Fan’s eyes like a waterfall!
This made Lin Fan realize that socketing a crystal into a weapon was far more terrifying than using it directly!
[-99]!
[-99]!
[-99]!
...
The damage notification popped up thirteen consecutive times before it finally stopped!
[0/2000]!
The impact power injected into the Giant-Armed Zombie’s chest had instantly killed it!
Moreover, Lin Fan had reason to believe this wasn’t the upper limit of the Impact Crystal’s damage—it was simply that the Giant-Armed Zombie had run out of health!
[Acquired: Interface Module (Medium) x1]
[Acquired: Interface Module (Small) x1]
[Acquired: Hardening Potion (Medium) x1]
[Acquired: Strength Potion (Medium) x1]
...
Staring at the long list of dropped supplies, Lin Fan still felt a sense of unreality.
That had to be the highest damage he had dealt since the start of the apocalypse!
Instantly killing the Giant-Armed Zombie came as a surprise to Lin Fan. Though it was already wounded, it still had half of its Life Value. Last time, he’d fought for his life against that Mutant Dog, stabbing it repeatedly without managing to kill it. It seemed either he hadn’t actually struck its core then, or...
’...the power of this modular weapon?’
He raised the spear. With a thought, he recalled it to his inventory. The gore coating the spear hung suspended in the air for a moment before splattering to the ground.
When Lin Fan took the spear out again, it was spotless, aside from some minor wear on the spearhead’s blade...
[Durability: 97/100]...
’It lost another point of durability. I wonder if it was from channeling the impact power so frequently, or if it got chipped on the Giant-Armed Zombie’s bone. Overall, it’s quite durable, and since I can repair it anytime, I don’t have to worry about it breaking.’
Lin Fan shortened his grip on the spear and used the head to slice open the Giant-Armed Zombie’s chest, only to find the cavity within had been almost completely annihilated by the impact power, reduced to a slurry of blood and pulp...
"Sigh..."
He sighed, rolled up his sleeve, and plunged his hand into the disgusting mess of mangled flesh, feeling around inside...
’The crystal couldn’t have been shattered, could it...?’
’Logically, there should be an Impact Crystal inside the Giant-Armed Zombie...’
Sure enough, his fingers brushed against a hard object settled at the bottom. Lin Fan’s eyes lit up as he pinched it and pulled it out.
[Impact Crystal]
[Energy Level: 1]
[Quality: Common (Fusible, Effective Channel Structure 10%)]
...
[Fusible. Do you wish to fuse?]
"Huh?"
’What crystal do I even have that can be fused?’
’No, wait, I do. It’s right here...’
He had subconsciously forgotten about the crystal already socketed in his weapon, assuming it had been used up!
’So crystals already socketed into an interface module can still be fused...’
’Doesn’t that mean this weapon can keep getting stronger?’
And it wasn’t just the weapon—the Giant-Armed Zombie had even dropped two more interface modules!
’This is great stuff! Socketing a crystal into an interface module is so much more effective than just using one to temporarily imbue a weapon!’
"Fuse!"
Lin Fan calmed his excited thoughts and fused the newly obtained crystal with the one already on his weapon...
[Item: "Unnamed"]
[Durability: 97/100]
[Crystal Interface 1: Impact Crystal (Lv. 1) (30% Fine)]
...
Lin Fan looked at the spear’s description. At first glance, nothing seemed to have changed, which puzzled him for a moment. But then he understood: the effective channel structure had increased.
He recalled that the Activation Crystal had only become "Rare" at 40%. That meant this one must have been at 20% before. Adding the new 10% brought it to 30%, which was still within the "Fine" quality range...
Realizing this, Lin Fan breathed a sigh of relief. At least the system hadn’t just swindled him out of a hard-earned crystal...
After a quick scan of his surroundings, Lin Fan deactivated the crystal with a thought and stored the spear back in his inventory.
Looking at the gore smeared all over his arm from fishing for the crystal and the filth splattered on his clothes, Lin Fan wished he could just store himself in his inventory and take himself out again. It would save him the trouble of a bath...
But that convenient fantasy was just a passing thought. He remembered Su Qing and the others, wondering how they were faring, and quickly hurried off in their direction.
He hadn’t taken more than two steps when the walkie-talkie at his waist crackled to life:
"Lin Fan, it’s Su Qing. We’ve killed all the zombies... But that wild Awakened One, the one with the surname Wang... he might not make it."
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