Zhang Yue crushed the scroll in his hand: [Soul Seal]
Swoosh!
Immediately, the scroll turned into streams of flowing light, converging into the Ghost Tower.
At the same time, the Ghost Tower radiated bursts of silver brilliance, and a gate of time and space quietly opened!
["Ding~ Congratulations, you have obtained the qualification to enter the [Ghost Tower] map. Valid time: 12 hours. During this period, you can freely enter and exit the Ghost Tower!"]
'There's even a time limit?'
However, 12 hours for clearing a map was more than enough for Zhang Yue.
As the gate of the Ghost Tower opened, Zhang Yue stepped into it.
———
At the same time, in the Eastern Nation, World 19.
With the Ghost Tower showing anomalies, several Eastern Nation professionals stationed nearby immediately reported the information to Inoue Amano, "Your Majesty the Emperor, the Ghost Tower has opened."
Upon receiving this news, Inoue Amano immediately informed his "master."
"Kwon-ji-kun, Zero has entered the Ghost Tower."
["How can you be sure?",] On the other end of the call, Kwon-Ji-Hyun asked suspiciously, ["Are you in Dragon Nation?"]
"No, I just took advantage of a setting in the Ghost Tower," Inoue Amano said, "The Ghost Towers of various nations in the World 19 are interconnected. Once any one of the Ghost Towers shows anomalies, the others will show the same anomaly."
"Zero has definitely entered the Ghost Tower. Next, we can carry out our plan," Inoue Amano's lips curled upward, "We must take this opportunity to eliminate Zero."
["I understand. I'll immediately arrange for my people here to take action."]
Inoue Amano responded, "Mm, I'll notify other allied nations and have them take action as well."
"This time, let's play a big one with him."
———
[On the Other Side]
WHOOSH!
White light fell, and Zhang Yue appeared in a land of darkness.
["Ding~ Welcome to the Ghost Tower. Your current location is the first floor. Challenge difficulty: one star. Please kill the monsters on the first floor. Achieve a kill rating of A-grade to proceed to the second floor and receive rewards according to your rating!"]
As the system prompt ended.
From all directions in the darkness, Zhang Yue could feel that countless eyes were staring at him.
A moment of silence.
Suddenly, countless Soul Devourers charged from the darkness in all directions.
ROAR! ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!
With earth-shaking roars, the Soul Devourer army, already forming a first-level beast tide scale, charged with an unstoppable momentum like crashing waves.
This kind of formation, if it were any other professional besides Zhang Yue, they wouldn't last five seconds in here.
"As expected of the Ghost Tower that no one has unlocked for so many years, this difficulty is thrilling."
After speaking, Zhang Yue lifted his extraordinary staff.
'Next comes the hunt!'
Glory · God of War's Physique!
Enchantment!
Water Shield!
All support-type skills, fully activated.
At the same time, he summoned myth-level Thirty-Six Winged Armageddon Black Dragon, myth-level Cherry, legendary Phantom Predator, and legendary Infernal Skeleton King.
ROAR!
The Thirty-Six Winged Armageddon Black Dragon spread its massive wings and soared into the sky.
Flying high, it spewed energy balls from its mouth, triggering AOE splash damage, unleashing a massive 20 million+ damage on the dense beast horde on the ground.
All those approaching were uniformly World 19 God-Class level 110 Soul Devourers.
Moreover, their attributes were 10% higher than normal level 110 Soul Devourers.
The 20 million AOE damage of the Armageddon Black Dragon wasn't enough to one-shot these Soul Devourers with 60 million HP.
Of course, he only needed to severely injure them.
The task of finishing them off was left to the Phantom Predator and his Shadow Army.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Positioned as an assassin, the Phantom Predator's body flashed like lightning, diving into the beast horde.
Wielding the 15-star Flowgold-grade [Blade of Dominion], it rampaged through the dense beasts, dealing over 30 million critical single-target damage, unstoppable.
At the same time, Cherry used her top-tier single-target output to deal 60–80 million damage per strike, directly one-shotting those full-health Soul Devourers.
With the effect of Glory · Immortal Body, every time Cherry killed an enemy with a skill, all her skills' cooldowns were instantly refreshed.
As such, Cherry's skills were almost CD-free and infinitely castable.
Additionally, the 17-star Soul Hunt Set's skill Soul Hunt: restores 5% max mana upon killing an enemy.
This completely offset Cherry's massive mana consumption drawback.
Even if it was a level 110 SS-grade skill, its mana cost translated into reality would only be 2–3 energy points.
One skill was enough to kill an enemy, and 5 energy points restored were more than enough to compensate for the skill cost.
Hence, Cherry was like a magical turret with infinite firepower.
From all directions, countless Soul Devourers were blasted mid-charge before they could even get close.
For battles of this scale, there was no need for operation technique.
Zhang Yue relied entirely on a "click wherever it lights up" method, every skill, as long as it was available, was unleashed all at once.
Ordinary skills did 40–50 million damage, lightning-type skills did 70–80 million damage, relentlessly hammering the beast tide.
The Void Shields generated from massive damage were individually layered on him and his four pets.
To Zhang Yue, these Soul Devourers were nothing but walking experience.
During the massacre with the four pets, he kept hearing system prompts, one after another.
["Ding~ You have killed Soul Devourer x135, gained 675 million EXP, +40.5 billion Energy!"]
["Ding~ Congratulations on killing 100 Soul Devourers in total, kill rating reached F grade!"]
["Ding~ You have killed Soul Devourer x248, gained 1.24 billion EXP, +74.4 billion Energy!"]
["Ding~ Congratulations on killing 300 Soul Devourers in total, kill rating reached E grade!"]
["Ding~ Congratulations on killing 500 Soul Devourers in total, kill rating reached D grade!"]
["Ding…"]
In this massive slaughterhouse, Zhang Yue's experience bar surged rapidly.
Although he had already reached the level 110 cap of the World 19, it didn't stop him from continuing to accumulate experience.
Gradually.
1,000 Soul Devourers killed: C-grade rating!
1,500 kills: B-grade rating!
2,000 kills: A-grade rating!
["Ding~ Congratulations, you have reached A-grade rating. You may claim your reward and proceed to the second floor. Do you choose to end the Ghost Tower first floor challenge?"]
Faced with the system's question, Zhang Yue decisively chose no.
Perhaps the 12-hour clearance time was limited for other professionals, so once they had a chance to enter the Ghost Tower, they would proceed as long as they met the requirement.
However, Zhang Yue cleared the first floor and reached A-grade in just five minutes.
Time was more than abundant.
Since the higher the rating, the better the rewards, then Zhang Yue naturally had to continue grinding for a higher rating. [T/N: Mah boye]
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