A hundred years ago, when Zhang Yue first sealed Predator · Taotie, it was just a Level 1 baby.
After a century of dormancy, it has grown to Level 50.
Moreover, it is clearly restricted by the highest level of the Seventh World!
Zhang Yue was relieved that he sealed it in the Seventh World back then. If it had been in a higher world, its level would have been higher, its strength greater, possibly even surpassing its mother, Poverty-stricken!
It’s worth noting: back then, Zhang Yue had to team up with Wolong and Hidden Dragon to barely take down that King-level BOSS, Predator · Poverty-stricken!
Taotie’s current strength is not yet invincible.
To deal with God-level or above BOSS, one needs strong awareness and operational skills; merely relying on attribute suppression cannot match a God-level BOSS.
Zhang Yue’s skills and awareness are beyond doubt.
The biggest gap between him and Taotie is the attributes!
His speed is too slow, affecting his operational skills, making even basic dodging of Taotie’s attacks difficult.
His attack power is too low to harm Taotie.
His health and defense are insufficient, making it easy for Taotie to one-shot kill him.
Therefore, as long as he equips the Void Set, Zhang Yue can eliminate these weaknesses and possess the strength to rival the God-level BOSS Taotie!
Zhang Yue even felt a bit of anticipation.
Because in the Otherworld, God-level BOSS are extremely rare, and their drop rates are very high!
He remembers that a hundred years ago, its mother, the King-level BOSS Poverty-stricken, dropped a unique skill book and a Legendary Grade treasure for Zhang Yue!
Although a God-level BOSS might not be as generous as a King-level one, it shouldn’t be too bad!
Since he couldn’t even step out of the Safe Zone online, Zhang Yue decided to go offline and sleep!
When he woke up, it was already five in the evening.
Feeling refreshed, Zhang Yue was ready to take on the Predator!
So, he immediately went online.
At this time, the progress bar for the task [Slime Slayer] had already reached 85.7%!
It seemed that Overlord Blade and his team were quite effective!
At this rate, it shouldn’t take more than two or three hours for them to help Zhang Yue complete the task!
This King Grade Bounty Mission offered a reward of 5 million experience points.
It was more than enough to level Zhang Yue from 43 at 82% to 45!
But just as Zhang Yue was sharpening his blade, preparing to face Taotie, something happened!
A message came from Overlord Blade: “We’ve been targeted by the Predator. Somehow, it found the Slime Village. We avoided it the first time this afternoon, but after it left, we went back.”
“It came again just now, and we suffered heavy losses, with only a few of us narrowly escaping…”
Seeing this message, Zhang Yue frowned slightly.
It must have been Ling Ke’er who ordered the Predator to target Overlord Blade and his team.
Of course, Ling Ke’er didn’t do it because she knew Overlord Blade and his team were helping Zhang Yue with his task; she simply wanted to retaliate against Overlord Blade for betraying the Radiant Guild!
But this inadvertently blocked Zhang Yue’s task!
Overlord Blade’s team had already been wiped out by Taotie once before, and now they were down again, unable to use Resurrection Scrolls within the cycle.
He couldn’t let them risk their lives to help him with this task.
So, Zhang Yue had Overlord Blade and his team retreat.
According to Ouyang Ling’er, the Predator appears roughly every three days.
Not to mention the development opportunities lost if he stayed in the Safe Zone for those three days.
More importantly, Zhang Yue would lose the tasks [Defend the Tribe] and [Slime Slayer]!
One was a King Grade Bounty Mission, the other a rare task with a historical completion rate of only 0.1%.
The loss would be too great!
Zhang Yue had to go out!
Faced with the problem of how to avoid the Predator’s pursuit, Zhang Yue thought of the “genius girl” Ouyang Ling’er.
So, he sent a message to Ouyang Ling’er: “Is there a way to avoid the Predator’s pursuit?”
“Wait, let me check!”
Ouyang Ling’er was diligent and responsible.
She logged off from the Sixth World specifically to search for information on her computer.
She actually found something: “The Predator tracks its target through scent. As long as you mask your living scent, you can avoid its pursuit!”
Not only that, Ouyang Ling’er even found a corresponding solution!
“In the Otherworld, there’s a treasure called the [Divine Concealment Scroll]. Using it can hide a Professional’s presence for a certain period!”
Upon receiving this message, Zhang Yue immediately logged off.
He logged into the Otherworld Marketplace on his phone, searched, and indeed found the Divine Concealment Scroll Ouyang Ling’er mentioned!
But treasures in the Otherworld are extremely precious and hard to come by.
Especially the higher-grade treasures, the rarer they are!
So the Divine Concealment Scrolls in the marketplace were mostly [Common Grade].
A one-time-use treasure, its effect is to hide the user’s presence for three hours after use.
This Divine Concealment Scroll is mostly used by high-level world Professionals for hunting or evading God-level BOSS pursuits, making it quite marketable!
So even the Common Grade ones have a market value of up to a million each!
“Three hours is enough to complete the Slime Village task.”
With this in mind, Zhang Yue immediately ordered a [Divine Concealment Scroll]!
Though expensive, there was no other way.
Besides, the Radiant Guild had contributed quite a bit of equipment to him before, worth several million.
Consider it a sponsorship from the Radiant Guild!
Since it was shipped from Tianjing, even with express delivery, it wasn’t delivered until after nine in the evening!
Once Zhang Yue got the Divine Concealment Scroll, he went online immediately.
At this time, the [Defend the Tribe] task had only 12 hours left.
And [Slime Slayer] had only one day left.
Time was tight, so Zhang Yue immediately crushed the Divine Concealment Scroll.
Whoosh!
A silver light showered over Zhang Yue, forming a transparent protective shield around him.
Meanwhile, at the southern exit of the Ottman Tribe, the wolf-faced, human-bodied monster, Predator · Taotie, suddenly sensed Zhang Yue’s presence, then it disappeared!
It was even a bit puzzled…
Little did it know, Zhang Yue had already left the Ottman Tribe through the northern exit…
With the cover of the Divine Concealment Scroll, the Predator indeed didn’t pursue!
Zhang Yue headed straight to Slime Village.
Taking a detour took half an hour on the road.
The Divine Concealment Scroll had only two and a half hours of effective time left, so Zhang Yue immediately launched an attack on the Slimes in Slime Village!
Meanwhile, elsewhere.
Ling Ke’er had been staying offline at a high-end hotel in Coastal City.
She only had Radiant Wushuang and his team monitor the Seventh World’s situation, not daring to go online herself.
Because awakening the Predator had a huge impact on her!
Not only was she bound to the Predator, sharing life and death, but if the Predator died, Ling Ke’er, as the host, would die too.
Moreover, just awakening the Predator cost Ling Ke’er two permanent resurrection opportunities!
This meant that normally, a Professional could use two Resurrection Scrolls per cycle.
But from now on, Ling Ke’er could never use Resurrection Scrolls again, and if she died in the Otherworld, it would be permanent!
So Ling Ke’er was somewhat regretful!
She should have had someone else awaken the Predator for her!
But when she saw the method to awaken the Predator on that mysterious website, it didn’t mention such a cost.
In a moment of impulse, she awakened the Predator, only learning of the cost afterward.
But then she thought, why worry so much: “Zhang Yue is no match for the Predator, so Ling Ke’er, what are you worried about?”
“Once the Predator kills Zhang Yue, no one can threaten me, and as long as I don’t die in the Otherworld, I’ll be fine with Radiant’s protection!”
With this in mind, Ling Ke’er sent a Feixin to Radiant Wushuang: “How’s it going on your end?”
Soon, Radiant Wushuang replied: “The Predator is still outside the tribe, and that Zero must have gone offline to hide; he wouldn’t dare come out in this situation.”
Ling Ke’er sneered: “Hmph, I don’t believe you can hide forever!”
“After this, I’ll have someone awaken the Predator again!”
“I’d like to see how long you can hide!”
“Unless you never step into the Otherworld again!”
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