Late at night.
North of the Ottman Tribe, Slime Village.
Upon reaching the mission site, Zhang Yue surveyed the area and saw a dilapidated village filled with black, bronze, and silver slimes scattered everywhere.
Taking advantage of the bounty mission, Zhang Yue also needed to quickly advance the progress of the [Defend the Tribe] mission.
Thus, he entered the village and prioritized hunting the silver slimes.
Just like in the Slime Forest Secret Realm, the slimes in this village were also level 48, so they were not difficult to kill.
Boom boom!
Swish swish swish!
Zhang Yue and the Overlord Blade unleashed their full power, quickly crippling a silver slime, and then Zhang Yue delivered the final blow to complete the kill.
“Ding~ You have killed a level 48 silver slime, gaining 1350 experience points and 48,000 psionic energy!”
[Defend the Tribe] mission progress: 146/200!
[Slime Slayer] mission progress: 0.01%!
Only 0.01 progress for each slime.
It seems this King Grade Bounty Mission is a massive undertaking!
Fortunately, Overlord Blade had called in a large group of helpers.
They were his subordinates, the Overlord’s crew!
According to Overlord Blade, they met while staying in the Sixth World to farm S-rank rewards, and gradually formed a team by hunting monsters and collecting Resurrection Stone fragments together.
Among them, Overlord Blade was the strongest, with the highest profession rank, naturally becoming their leader!
Thanks to the Radiant Guild’s training, Overlord Blade’s subordinates were all very powerful, making it easy to slaughter the slimes in Slime Village like cutting vegetables!
With their help, Zhang Yue’s mission progress sped up significantly!
Since this mission didn’t require Zhang Yue to personally kill the slimes, as long as all the slimes in the village were killed within the mission’s time limit, the mission would be considered complete.
It was unexpected.
The group that was enemies just the day before was now teaming up to complete a mission!
Due to the late hour and the fact that the Global Professionals Tournament’s national challenge was starting the next day, Zhang Yue planned to go offline around 2 AM to rest.
During this time, aside from the silver or higher-grade slimes that Zhang Yue took the final blow on, the rest were left for Overlord Blade to clear his sin value!
However, because he had previously killed dozens of people from the Radiant Guild, accumulating a lot of sin value, Overlord Blade’s sin value wasn’t completely cleared yet, with a few hundred points remaining.
Zhang Yue decided to withdraw first.
Leaving the Overlord and his team to continue helping Overlord Blade clear his sin value.
On the way, thinking about the impending national challenge and the fact that the guild only had six members who could represent the new professionals in the competition, Zhang Yue sent a Feixin message to Overlord Blade: “Do you know any skilled new professionals who can compete in the national challenge?”
Although Overlord Blade was powerful, he wasn’t a new professional and couldn’t represent the Temple of Destiny in the competition.
It was a casual question, but unexpectedly, Overlord Blade had a lead: “Yes, I have taken in a batch of apprentices in Beiming, all new professionals this year, and a few have qualified for the national challenge.”
Zhang Yue was delighted: “That’s great, bring them over to help our guild in the competition tomorrow!”
Overlord Blade: “Alright, I’ll have them come over from Beiming.”
It seems this time’s gain wasn’t just Overlord Blade!
After returning to the Ottman Tribe, Zhang Yue went offline.
Meanwhile.
With the help of the Overlord and the other brothers, Overlord Blade soon cleared his sin value, and his ID finally returned to white!
“Thanks for your hard work, brothers,” Overlord Blade said. “Let’s go offline and have some barbecue!”
“Boss, you’re awesome!”
Amidst cheers, the group prepared to return to the city.
Just as they stepped out of the Slime Village, discussing which barbecue stall to visit, Overlord Blade suddenly stopped, his expression turning serious!
Having followed Overlord Blade for over a decade, his subordinates could instantly detect a danger signal from just his expression.
Everyone immediately put away their playful demeanor, grabbed their weapons, and went on high alert!
The Overlord asked, “Boss, what level of alert?”
“Level three.”
“Level three!!”
Everyone was stunned.
Because in their agreement, level three alert was the highest danger signal!
Everyone became tense.
Yet, even with their awareness, they still couldn’t detect where the danger was coming from!
Only Overlord Blade remained focused.
“It’s here!”
With a soft shout from Overlord Blade.
Whoosh!
A black shadow shot out from the darkness like an arrow.
Before anyone could react.
A scream echoed.
Then, a flash of white light burst from the crowd, and in the blink of an eye, a warrior was one-shot killed!
“Defensive formation!” Overlord Blade shouted, planting his long blade to activate a defensive aura.
The surrounding people quickly formed a circle around Overlord Blade.
But even so, they couldn’t stop the attacks from the shadowy monster.
Swish swish swish swish!
The black shadow darted back and forth among the crowd like lightning.
There was no chance to resist, and with each scream, a flash of white light followed.
In an instant, everyone around was wiped out, leaving only Overlord Blade!
Though Overlord Blade appeared calm, he was panicking inside!
As he searched for the enemy’s presence.
“Thud!”
A black claw pierced through Overlord Blade’s back, emerging from his chest!
Overlord Blade looked down at the claw that impaled him, eyes wide with shock!
Bright red blood dripped continuously from the black claw.
The next second, Overlord Blade’s body turned into a beam of white light and vanished.
After the white light faded.
A wolf-faced, human-bodied creature covered in black fur with a long tail let out a long howl.
Instantly, all the slimes in Slime Village were so frightened they hid away…
The night faded, and morning arrived in an instant.
At nine in the morning, Zhang Yue was awakened by a knock on the door.
Ning Tiantian’s voice came from outside:
“Zhang Yue, wake up and have breakfast! The competition is about to start!”
Zhang Yue got out of bed, intending to check the time on his phone, only to see an unread Feixin message from Overlord Blade sent at 3 AM:
“There’s a fierce beast in the Seventh World, be careful!”
Zhang Yue was baffled by this sudden message.
Just as he was about to ask Overlord Blade what it meant.
Coincidentally, a message from Lin Tian popped up in the guild chat: “Have you heard? Apparently, a mysterious monster appeared in our Coastal City’s landing area in the Seventh World last night, and many professionals were attacked by it.”
Wu Haotian: “Not just in Coastal City, but also in Tianlang and Ganyang!”
Ouyang Ling’er: “Duh, those three cities share the same landing area!”
Lin Tian: “Online reports say the monster is extremely fierce, and all the professionals who encountered it were one-shot killed without even seeing what it looked like!”
Reading Lin Tian’s message, Zhang Yue pondered.
He replied to Overlord Blade: “How are you guys?”
Overlord Blade: “Lost several brothers, total wipeout, I got one-shot too.”
“Probably an 8-star or 9-star BOSS.”
Zhang Yue frowned slightly.
Even Overlord Blade got one-shot…
It seems this monster is exceptionally strong!
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