Kwon Ji-Hyun also understood the structure of this Ghost Tower in the World 19 only through Inoue Amano.
According to the information provided by Inoue Amano, the summary is: as long as a professional kills a Soul Devourer in the World 19, it will increase the number of monsters inside the Ghost Tower, thereby raising the difficulty of the Ghost Tower.
Moreover, during the opening period of the Ghost Tower, it is easiest to absorb the resentment generated by the Soul Devourers, so the Seven Great Nations, with hundreds of millions of professionals spread across the World 19, are wantonly slaughtering Soul Devourers, precisely to maximize the difficulty of the Ghost Tower.
"Only Zero can enter the Ghost Tower in the entire world, meaning that the disaster inside the Ghost Tower must be borne by him alone. Even Restiev can't help him."
"So this time, we don't need to take action ourselves. With the knife of the Ghost Tower, we can kill Zero."
———
[On the Other Side]
Within the borders of the Eastern Nation.
Inoue Amano personally led a large group of professionals to hunt Soul Devourers in the World 19.
It could be seen that because his son, Inoue Kojiro, once died at Zhang Yue's hands, Inoue Amano's attitude toward Zhang Yue has always been one of deep hatred.
Therefore, he must firmly seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
As a Level 500 Tier 9 Legendary-class Ghost Dance Professional, Inoue Amano, once the Ghost Dance is unleashed, corpses lie everywhere.
Slaughtering thousands of Soul Devourers in one wave across an entire forest, Inoue Amano stepped on the corpse of a Lord-class Soul Devourer, a fierce glint in his eyes, "Kojiro, this time, I will definitely avenge you."
Stomping and crushing the Soul Devourer beneath his foot, Inoue Amano turned around.
Before heading to the next location to continue slaughtering Soul Devourers, he instructed Higashino Takajo, who was stationed outside the forest, "Deploy it!"
"Hai!", Higashino Takajo accepted the order and immediately led a large group of professionals into the forest.
At this time, the vast forest was covered with Soul Devourer corpses.
After entering, Higashino Takajo and his group began placing the Death Marks they carried on them onto those corpses one by one.
Until over a thousand Soul Devourer corpses in the forest were all covered with Death Marks.
Before long, those Soul Devourer corpses all turned into ashes.
And those Death Marks also mixed into the ashes, drifting toward one place.
Not only in this area.
The same scene was playing out all over the Eastern Nation's World 19.
After killing Soul Devourers, the nation's professionals would all cover the corpses with Death Marks.
Their purpose was to allow these Soul Devourers, after reaching the Ghost Tower and being reborn, to retain the effect of the Death Mark.
This way, when they kill Zhang Yue inside the Ghost Tower, they can directly apply a permanent erasure effect on him.
And the final destination of these black ashes, transformed from the Soul Devourer corpses, was the Ghost Tower.
Souls of the dead from all directions and various regions, all converged into the Ghost Tower.
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[First Floor of the Ghost Tower]
Corpses were everywhere.
The corpses of over ten thousand Soul Devourers slain by Zhang Yue lay on the ground.
At this moment, countless souls flew through the air and merged into those corpses.
ROAR!!!
Accompanied by a series of low growls, the dead Soul Devourers suddenly began to climb up from the ground, one after another…
At the same time, on the fifth floor of the Ghost Tower.
Zhang Yue was wreaking havoc.
With the bonus of the 20-star Mythical·Transcendent Set, Zhang Yue's combat power skyrocketed like riding a rocket.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The Transcendent Staff swung rapidly, and skill after skill burst among the beast horde.
With regular skills dealing 150 million and lightning-type skills 200 million explosive damage, all Soul Devourers were annihilated.
Zhang Yue's 292,000 attack power, under the 100% attack power bonus of the Void Shield, could reach 584,000.
Void Shield 1000%, Abyssal Breath 1200%, Enchantment 1500%…
Total bonus from equipment, skills, and other aspects, Zhang Yue's damage boost reached 3900%.
Additionally, lightning-type skills had an extra 2400% damage boost.
The unique effect of the set skill Thunder Power allowed non-lightning attacks to gain 30% of the lightning-type damage boost, meaning Zhang Yue's regular skill boost reached 4620%, and lightning-type skill boost hit 6300%.
With this kind of damage, how could these Soul Devourers possibly endure?
Meanwhile, the Transcendent Set didn't only enhance Zhang Yue himself.
The damage boost effects of Void Shield and Thunder Shield could also apply to pets or team members.
Combined, the two provided 100% attack power and 3500% damage boost, not to be underestimated.
This greatly increased the damage output of the pet team.
Cherry's skill damage had already risen to around 150 million, not much different from Zhang Yue, this monster.
Of course, that was because Cherry's equipment was currently only the 17-star Soul Hunter Set.
If she, like Zhang Yue, possessed 20-star equipment, her combat power would certainly far exceed his.
The AOE damage rate of the Armageddon Black Dragon reached over 50 million, and just two AOE attacks could easily wipe out hundreds of Soul Devourers in a large area.
The Phantom Predator's single-target burst could reach a maximum critical damage of over 120 million, one shot per target, the damage was no joke.
As for the Skeleton King, its enhancement effect was currently unknown.
Because from start to finish, Zhang Yue had not let it participate in battle, it had always silently scavenged loot.
Under such explosive lethality, all Soul Devourers attempting to approach were blasted into dust.
100 kills!
500 kills!
1000 kills!
1500 kills!
2000 kills!
3000 kills!
5000 kills!
10000 kills, SSS grade achievement, quickly attained.
["Ding~ Congratulations on earning the exclusive reward for SSS grade rating on Ghost Tower Floor 5: EXP +80 billion, Gold +100,000, Energy +100 trillion!"]
["Ding~ You have received the unique special reward for SSS rating: [Ghost Stone] +2!"]
'Two Ghost Stones?'
'The unique reward is doubled?'
Zhang Yue was a little happy.
Currently, the 20-star Transcendent Set on his body was already overpowered for the current stage, at least suitable for Level 130.
He could consider developing his pets.
In this kind of beast tide-scale battle, the Armageddon Black Dragon with AOE damage had a huge advantage.
Thus, Zhang Yue used the two Ghost Stones on the Armageddon Black Dragon's [Sovereign Set].
The 15-star Sovereign Set immediately evolved to 17 stars.
The set skill Sovereign Power also received an upgrade: increases wearer's attack power by 300% and attack speed by 500%, and each hit on an enemy grants 40% armor penetration for ten seconds, stackable up to ten times.
With massive increases in attack speed and power, the Armageddon Black Dragon's AOE damage rate rose from 50 million to 70 million.
Meaning the upcoming challenges would also become much easier.
Just as Zhang Yue was about to advance to the sixth floor of the Ghost Tower, suddenly, he received a message from Ouyang Ling'er, [President, hurry and get out of the Ghost Tower, don't stay in there.]
[Hurry, hurry, hurry! Or it'll be too late!]
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