The eight major tribes of the Seventh World are all named after their leaders.
Following the guide, Zhang Yue arrived at the central area of the Ottman Tribe and found the tribe leader, Ottman.
Ottman, leaning on an ancient staff, gazed into the distance and muttered to himself, “It’s back!”
“The village from before, it’s back again!”
Zhang Yue approached and triggered a conversation.
“Leader, are you troubled by the Slime army invading our territory?”
Ottman turned around, glanced at Zhang Yue, and sighed, “You don’t know, I dream of returning to the days without those damned Slimes, when we lived in peace and freedom!”
“Recently, the Slime army’s attacks have become more ferocious. If we humans don’t take action soon, our tribe will be devoured by those Slimes! Unfortunately, I am old and no longer as brave and strong as I was in my youth…”
Saying this, Ottman finally extended his “claws” to Zhang Yue: “Warrior, can you protect our tribe and kill those Slimes outside the tribe?”
As soon as he finished speaking, a system notification appeared.
“Ding~ Do you accept the quest [Guard the Tribe]?”
Zhang Yue gladly accepted Ottman’s outstretched claws: “No problem, leave it to me.”
“Ding~ You have accepted the quest [Guard the Tribe]. Please complete the quest within the specified time!”
After accepting the quest, Zhang Yue visited the pharmacy.
Although he had a high mana limit of 7900 points, higher than the health limit of most new Professionals at this stage.
And the Grim Reaper Set had a skill consumption reduction of 50%.
But the S-rank skills Zhang Yue possessed consumed a staggering 300+ mana each!
The SSS-grade unique skill Heavenless · Godslayer Curse consumed an even more astonishing 480 mana!
Such high and frequent consumption required a tremendous amount of mana, and even with 7900 mana points, it couldn’t sustain long-term use.
At the price of 3 Silver Coins each, Zhang Yue bought 20 sets (10 bottles per set) of Master-level Instant Mana Potions.
[Master-level Instant Mana Potion]: Restores 30% + 3000 mana points instantly upon use, with a 30-second cooldown, suitable for level 40 and above.
Ordinary people definitely couldn’t afford it.
After all, even the top-level 45th level ghost in the Sixth World only dropped around 40 Copper Coins.
But for Zhang Yue, who had just completed the unique hidden quest [Pharaoh’s Prophecy] in the morning and was rewarded with 1000 Gold Coins, bringing his total assets to 1718 Gold Coins.
The cost of 20 sets of Master Potions, totaling 6 Gold Coins, was just a drop in the bucket!
Since he was pursuing the ultimate enhancement, naturally, all consumables had to be the best!
As for health potions, they weren’t needed.
The 15% lifesteal effect of the Grim Reaper Set was more useful than Master-level Health Potions!
After restocking, Zhang Yue headed out of the Ottman Tribe while opening the quest list.
[Guard the Tribe] (Regular Quest)
[Difficulty: 1280]
[Description: The Slime army is about to invade the Ottman Tribe. Please find and kill Silver Slimes outside the tribe to guard the Ottman Tribe…]
[Quest Progress: 0/200 (killing Gold or higher Slimes grants additional progress)]
[Quest Rewards: 4 million Experience Points, 20 Gold Coins, 800,000 Psionic Energy, 1 random level 45 star equipment (minimum 5 stars, small chance for 6 stars, very small chance for 7 stars)]
[Time: 2 days]
Although the quest time seemed ample, with two days.
The historical completion rate was only 0.1%, meaning only one in a thousand Professionals could complete it!
At the same time, its rewards were unmatched by any other quest in the Seventh World.
If someone got lucky and obtained a 6-star equipment, they could make a fortune.
If it was a 7-star, they could become rich overnight, turning from a farmer to a landlord!
Of course, Zhang Yue valued the experience rewards the most.
Accumulating the kills of 200 Silver Slimes, plus the 4 million experience points from the quest reward, would definitely level him up from 43 to 45.
At level 45, he could equip the 7-star Void Set!
With a full set of 7-star Void equipment, Zhang Yue wouldn’t even look at those 6-7 star scattered pieces.
This quest didn’t specify an execution location.
But to complete the quest more efficiently, Zhang Yue decided to add a location for himself: the level 48 Secret Realm · Slime Forest!
Following the map’s guidance, Zhang Yue headed south of the Ottman Tribe.
As Zhang Yue stepped out of the Ottman Tribe.
In a dark forest within the Slime Empire of the Seventh World, a pair of deep eyes suddenly opened!
“Such a familiar scent…”
“After a hundred years, you have finally returned!”
Roar—
With an earth-shattering roar, all the Slimes in the forest scattered in fear!
On the other side, Zhang Yue spent twenty minutes traveling and finally arrived at the entrance of the [Slime Forest] Secret Realm.
Looking ahead, he saw a native holding a spear, wearing pants woven from grass leaves, guarding the entrance’s light curtain.
Indeed, this was another upgradable hidden Secret Realm!
It could be entered as a regular Secret Realm with mediocre rewards.
Or, by obtaining a Secret Order from the guard, the native, and upgrading it to a Golden Secret Order as per the instructions, the regular Secret Realm could be temporarily upgraded to a hidden Secret Realm, offering extremely rich rewards upon completion!
According to the guide: once the Slime Forest is upgraded to a hidden Secret Realm, all the Slimes inside will be upgraded from Black Iron and Bronze Slimes to Silver or even Gold Slimes!
A hundred Slimes could directly increase Zhang Yue’s [Guard the Tribe] quest progress by half!
Thus, Zhang Yue obtained a Secret Order from the native [Wali].
[Regular Secret Order] (level 48 Slime Forest Secret Realm exclusive)
[Description: Collecting Slime Medals grants refinement opportunities. Each Black Iron Slime Medal grants 3 refinement chances, each Bronze Slime Medal grants 6 refinement chances, each Silver Medal grants 9 refinement chances, and so on…]
[Note: Each refinement consumes 1000 Psionic Energy, with a chance to upgrade to a Golden Secret Order]
In the Seventh World, killing Slimes can drop a special item: Slime Medals.
So, in a way, the key to upgrading the Secret Order in the Slime Forest Secret Realm lies in hunting Slimes!
Thus, Zhang Yue was about to lock onto the nearby Slimes and start farming.
Unintentionally, he caught a glimpse of a figure crouching in a nearby forest out of the corner of his eye.
Zhang Yue smiled indifferently, ignoring it.
Looking around.
He saw several creatures about the size of a toilet, pitch black like charcoal, scattered everywhere.
They were the lowest grade and most common Black Iron Slimes in the Seventh World!
[Black Iron Slime] (level 46 Physical Type · Common Monster)
[Physical Attack: 3350]
[Physical Defense: 2100]
[Magic Defense: 2000]
[Health Points:]
[Skills: Slime (B-rank), Bounce (B-rank)]
[Description: As the lowest grade Black Iron Slime under the Slime King, they look like black charcoal and seem easy to bully, but don’t underestimate them. They can jump onto your face and spray you with slime…]
Zhang Yue didn’t attack first.
Instead, he summoned the Twenty-Four Winged Apocalyptic Black Dragon.
Earlier, due to overwhelming strength, Zhang Yue had directly soloed the Sixth World BOSS Death Dominator, without needing the Apocalyptic Black Dragon or the Skeleton King.
As a result, even after the Apocalyptic Black Dragon upgraded from Epic Grade to Legendary Grade, its current strength was still unclear.
Time to test it on these Slimes!
Roar—
With a fierce dragon roar, the massive Apocalyptic Black Dragon, large enough to block out the sky, flew over Zhang Yue’s head.
It unleashed the Dark Set skill [Slaughter Domain] (increases damage by 15% for self and allies within range, lasts 10 seconds).
Opening its blood-red maw, an S-rank Apocalyptic Dragon Flame poured down!
Boom!
The scorching dragon flame instantly covered several Slimes in the area ahead.
A series of 15,000 damage numbers popped up above the Slimes’ heads.
Before triggering [World Destruction] (25% damage boost upon killing an enemy, lasts 10 minutes, stacks up to 5 times), the Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s damage was still relatively moderate, about 30% higher than its Epic Grade damage before stacking World Destruction.
Taking advantage of the Slimes’ aggro being drawn.
Zhang Yue raised his staff and cast [Hell Judgment] + [Necromancer Storm].
Boom boom boom boom!
The damage from the two rare S-rank AOE skills hit full force, dealing over 30,000 damage each, reducing all the Slimes’ health bars to below half.
Then, using single-target burst skills like Heavenly Fire, Icebound World, and Thunderclap, he severely injured several Slimes!
At this moment, the Apocalyptic Black Dragon, with an Apocalyptic Dragon Breath, blasted those five Black Iron Slimes to death!
Killing 5 Slimes instantly maxed out the Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s special effect level 4 [World Destruction]: an additional 125% damage boost!
Zhang Yue knew: from now on, the Twenty-Four Winged Apocalyptic Black Dragon would showcase its true power.
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