The Fifth World, Northern Dawn Sanctuary.
Level 40 Primal Forest.
Upon reaching the mission site, Zhang Yue and his team of five immediately began their task.
As far as the eye could see, the dense forest shrouded in darkness was teeming with black giant pythons, each as thick as a barrel and over ten meters long, slithering about.
The two girls clung to each other in fright.
“Snakes! I’m terrified of snakes!”
Wu Haotian, carrying a flaming spear, laughed heartily, “What’s there to be afraid of? Watch me catch one and roast it!”
“Boss, don’t steal my thunder. I’ll take down the first snake!”
Eager to show off in front of the girls, Wu Haotian charged into the forest with his spear.
Moments later, Wu Haotian came tumbling out of the forest, panic written all over his face, “Holy crap! I hit the jackpot!”
Goodness!
A lord-level man-eating python was slithering out after Wu Haotian!
No wonder.
Wu Haotian’s gear level was too low; he wasn’t a match for a level 40 lord monster.
The lord python was nearly twice the size of an ordinary man-eating python.
Longer! Blacker! Thicker!
With speed far surpassing Wu Haotian’s, it quickly closed in.
Just as it opened its gaping maw to swallow Wu Haotian whole—
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
From the rear, Zhang Yue had already raised the Demon·Death’s Eye, leveraging his agility of 386 points to cast spells at lightning speed!
Inferno!
Frozen Wasteland!
Thunderstrike!
Divine Fire Catastrophe!
He unleashed a barrage of S-rank single-target burst skills onto the lord python.
In the next moment, a series of exhilarating blood-red damage numbers popped up above the lord python’s head—
-4892! -734 Burn!
-6971 Critical! Freeze!
-5137! Paralyze!
-2752 Critical! -2752 Critical! -1835!
The accumulated damage instantly took out one-fifth of the lord python’s health!
The lord python changed direction, attacking Zhang Yue.
At this moment, the Dark Skeleton King and the Apocalyptic Black Dragon appeared at Zhang Yue’s summons.
Whoosh!
Both activated their Dark Set skills simultaneously.
Intimidation Field!
Slaughter Field!
One red, one blue, dual fields enveloped the entire area.
Using Fatal Taunt to draw the python’s aggro, the Skeleton King charged in, combining S-rank Shadow Sword Array, Mighty Slash, and Ultra Light Slash into a combo.
-3980!
-1325! -1325…
-4231!
-4139!
Meanwhile, the Apocalyptic Black Dragon soared over the lord python’s head, opening its maw to unleash S-rank Apocalyptic Dragon Flame, Apocalyptic Dragon Breath, and Apocalyptic Dragon Explosion, dealing massive damage—
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From the rear, Wu Haotian gasped, “This damage… it’s fing terrifying!”
Ouyang Ling’er: “I’m new here, just asking, is our Guild Leader always this OP?”
Lin Tian: “I thought our Guild Leader was already strong (OP) enough, but his pets are even more so.”
Ning Tiantian: “Brother Zhang Yue is amazing!”
Equipped with a level 35 4-star full gold Dark Set, the combat power of the Dark Skeleton King and the Apocalyptic Black Dragon had significantly increased.
Especially the Apocalyptic Black Dragon.
With an attack power of over 2600, combined with the Archer’s Dark Set’s 30% armor penetration, 20% damage boost, and the Slaughter Field’s 15% damage boost, its damage output was simply insane!
Even Zhang Yue, the master, felt inferior.
Thus, with Zhang Yue and his two pets each unleashing a combo, the level 40 lord python’s health dropped by nearly two-thirds in an instant!
Frightened, the lord python turned to flee!
No way Zhang Yue would let it escape.
Boom!
The Apocalyptic Black Dragon descended from the sky, blocking the python’s retreat.
As the lord python turned, it was met with S-rank rare skills from Zhang Yue and the Dark Skeleton King—
Hell Judgment!
Necromancer Storm!
Sword Shadow Storm!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Beams of death light mixed with black skeletons and sword shadow hurricanes repeatedly ravaged the lord python.
With the Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s Explosive Combo and Explosive Piercing adding fuel to the fire, the remaining third of the lord python’s health was wiped out, killing it!
“Ding~ Congratulations on killing the level 40 lord-level [Man-Eating Python Leader], Experience Points + (five-person team base 50%, final hit 20%), Psionic Energy +1200w!”
“Ding~ Your Treasure [Demon Contract] effect [Energy Contract] has activated, Psionic Energy +60w points (5% of obtained Psionic Energy)! Demon Contract upgrade task progress +1!”
60 million Psionic Energy was enough to refine a 4-star piece of equipment to gold.
But for the four members of the Temple of Destiny needing comprehensive equipment and skill upgrades, it was far from enough.
After clearing the lord python’s loot: a level 38 4-star equipment + 80 silver coins, and over 30 level 5 materials.
Zhang Yue and his team began searching for survivors in the Primal Forest while slaughtering man-eating pythons.
Even lord-level pythons couldn’t last ten seconds against Zhang Yue.
Let alone ordinary pythons.
Ordinary pythons had much lower attack and defense compared to lord pythons, and their health couldn’t withstand the Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s onslaught.
With single hits dealing five-digit damage, the Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s three S-rank skills could one-shot a man-eating python!
Zhang Yue’s combo could also easily take down a man-eating python.
For the freeloaders Wu Haotian and Ouyang Ling’er, they were tired of expressing their envy.
“Feels like we’re just freeloaders following the Guild Leader…”
“Be confident, drop the ‘feels like,’ we are freeloaders.”
“Back in the Infinity Guild as the Vice President, I was full of energy. Now in the Temple of Destiny, I just want to lie down…”
“When will we be as powerful as Brother Zhang Yue?”
Zhang Yue checked the Psionic Energy collection progress of the Demon Contract, glanced at the four freeloaders, and said, “Soon.”
Thinking Zhang Yue was just comforting them, Wu Haotian and the others didn’t take it to heart.
They couldn’t imagine that soon, they would have endless Psionic Energy like Zhang Yue!
A normal level 40 python could provide 40 Psionic Energy, but with Zhang Yue’s ten-thousand-fold amplification buff, he could get 400,000.
The Demon Contract extracts 5% each time, so killing one python would yield 20,000 Psionic Energy!
“Collecting through monster kills is still too slow…”
Zhang Yue could only hope for mission rewards.
The current mission [Rescue Operation] had a reward of 50,000 Psionic Energy, which, with the ten-thousand-fold amplification, would yield 500 million. Extracting 5% of that would instantly give the Demon Contract 25 million Psionic Energy, enough to upgrade six D-rank skills to S-rank!
Thus, under Zhang Yue’s tofu-cutting mode, they quickly killed 300 man-eating pythons.
Mission accomplished.
Through killing 300 monsters, the Demon Blood purity of Zhang Yue’s Demon·Death’s Eye had reached 48%!
One step closer to activating the hidden event.
Meanwhile, Wu Haotian and the others found five survivors in the Primal Forest, dragging them back to the Dawn Sanctuary.
They submitted the mission to NPC guard Ezio.
“Ding~ Congratulations on completing the mission [Rescue Operation], rewards: Experience Points +, Gold Coin +1, Psionic Energy +w, Equipment [Heroic Legguards] (level 38 4-star), Energy Cells +10!”
“Ding~ [Demon Contract] Psionic Energy +2500w!”
Wow!
Bathed in golden light, Zhang Yue leveled up to 39.
At the same time, after handing over the 10 Energy Cells from the mission rewards, Zhang Yue’s Fifth World mission was complete.
Next, he only needed to defeat the Fifth World BOSS to advance to the Sixth World!
Before that, Zhang Yue could choose one of Wu Haotian, Ouyang Ling’er, Lin Tian, and Ning Tiantian for a comprehensive evolution and transformation.
As for who the lucky chosen one would be…
Zhang Yue pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked the four a question: “If I and the Tian Family’s young master fell into the water at the same time, who would you save first?”
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