It was unclear whether the people from the Empire Guild were blind or if Zhang Yue’s route just happened to perfectly avoid their patrol range.
Zhang Yue traveled unimpeded from Mechanical City to the Waldemar Plains, surprisingly not encountering a single member of the Empire Guild along the way!
Zhang Yue had no intention of bothering them.
Let them keep searching!
For Zhang Yue, collecting the Flying Mantis illustrations was far more important than dealing with the Empire Guild!
Once the task was complete and he had some free time, he would pay them a visit.
Soon, Zhang Yue arrived at the Waldemar Plains.
In the vast sky above the plains, countless Flying Mantises soared, resembling a swarm of locusts!
Previously, it had taken him two hours to barely take down over two hundred Flying Mantises.
Let’s see how the efficiency of his kills fares now!
Zhang Yue summoned the Apocalyptic Black Dragon to stand by.
He chose a spot with a high density of Flying Mantises and unleashed an SSS-grade Thundercloud Storm.
A massive hurricane erupted in the center of the monster group.
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
Under the sweeping range of the lightning, the dozen or so Flying Mantises attacked nearby were all drawn to Zhang Yue in an instant!
Zhang Yue cast Hell Judgment and Necromancer Storm to restrain the group of Flying Mantises. Although the continuous damage of several thousand points was insignificant, the control effects of the skills kept them stunned and slowed.
The next moment, the enormous body of the Twenty-Four Winged Apocalyptic Black Dragon flew over Zhang Yue’s head.
Roar!
With a deafening dragon roar, the Apocalyptic Black Dragon released a sonic wave from its mouth, sweeping over the group of Flying Mantises.
This was precisely the Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s newly mastered S-rank skill: Apocalyptic Dragon Roar!
After reducing the physical defense of the Flying Mantises by 30%, the Apocalyptic Black Dragon followed up with the S-rank Apocalyptic Dragon Flame and S-rank Apocalyptic Dragon Breath.
Scorching flames and a silvery-gray aura enveloped the Flying Mantises.
Immediately, damage numbers ranging from 100,000 to 110,000 popped up over the Flying Mantises’ heads!
With just two skills, the Flying Mantises lost two-thirds of their health!
The 30% defense reduction from Apocalyptic Dragon Roar, combined with the 80% armor penetration from the 8-star Eternal Set, allowed the Apocalyptic Black Dragon to deal almost true damage, ignoring defense.
Coupled with the 100% damage increase from the Eternal Set, the final damage was simply explosive!
At this moment, Zhang Yue cast S-rank single-target skills in coordination with the Apocalyptic Black Dragon, quickly reaping the remaining low-health Flying Mantises!
Boom, boom!
The corpses of over a dozen Flying Mantises crashed to the ground.
Compared to before, the kill efficiency had instantly increased by more than tenfold!
For the Apocalyptic Black Dragon, this first battle was just a warm-up.
The real action was about to begin!
Because the Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s level 5 World Destruction effect increased its damage by 30% for each enemy killed, stacking up to five times.
In the previous battle, the Apocalyptic Black Dragon hadn’t benefited from the World Destruction bonus.
But now, the effect was fully stacked, granting the Apocalyptic Black Dragon a 150% damage increase!
After waiting for a skill cooldown, Zhang Yue repeated the process, luring a large group of Flying Mantises and using Hell Judgment and Necromancer Storm to control them.
The Apocalyptic Black Dragon followed suit, using Apocalyptic Dragon Roar to break defenses, then Apocalyptic Dragon Flame and Apocalyptic Dragon Breath to deal two rounds of AOE damage.
This time, the Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s damage surged to 180,000 to 200,000!
With just two AOE skills, it instantly one-shot the dozen or so Flying Mantises with a health cap of only 350,000!
Boom!
The massive body of the Twenty-Four Winged Apocalyptic Black Dragon landed heavily on the ground, letting out a roar over the field of Flying Mantis corpses, even intimidating the remaining Flying Mantises in the distant sky!
With the World Destruction effect, the Apocalyptic Black Dragon was now truly capable of world destruction!
Even Cherry couldn’t help but appear and exclaim, “Master, this big bird you raised is incredible!”
The Apocalyptic Black Dragon glanced back at Cherry, and the mighty dragon fell silent.
Seeing the Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s overwhelming power, Zhang Yue couldn’t help but feel gratified.
It seemed that saving the SSS-grade Eternal Set for the Apocalyptic Black Dragon, instead of using it himself, was the right choice!
If Zhang Yue had used the set himself, he might not have been able to one-shot a group of Flying Mantises with just two AOE skills.
Thus, the subsequent battles became exceptionally simple.
The Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s two AOE skills had cooldowns of about 15-20 seconds.
Including the time to lure monsters, it could wipe out a dozen Flying Mantises every half minute or so.
Seeing how much his master valued him, giving him the best equipment, the Apocalyptic Black Dragon seemed eager to prove itself in front of its master.
Therefore, during the cooldown period, the Apocalyptic Black Dragon didn’t remain idle.
It went on a rampage with its basic attacks!
Don’t underestimate the strength of the Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s basic attacks.
With the Eternal Set’s 50% crit rate, combined with the level 5 Dark Berserk’s 50% crit rate and 100% crit damage, the Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s basic attack crit rate reached 100%!
The Ninth World was considered a low-level world, where low-level monsters didn’t possess advanced attributes like crit resistance, so the Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s basic attacks were guaranteed to crit!
Level 5 Body of Apocalypse: +100% attack speed and 100% basic attack damage.
Level 5 World Destruction: +150% damage.
Eternal Set: +100% attack speed and 100% damage.
With all these bonuses, the Apocalyptic Black Dragon was like a machine gun, rapidly spewing energy balls from its mouth, relentlessly bombarding the surrounding Flying Mantises.
Massive crit damage numbers of over 140,000 kept popping up over the Flying Mantises’ heads.
On average, it took just three basic attacks to one-shot a Flying Mantis!
And the Apocalyptic Black Dragon’s attack speed allowed for three attacks per second.
Thus, during the half-minute cooldown period, the Apocalyptic Black Dragon effortlessly brought Zhang Yue the yield of thirty Flying Mantis illustrations!
The Skeleton King alone couldn’t keep up with collecting the loot, so Zhang Yue summoned the Shadow Predator to help gather the spoils.
As for Zhang Yue himself, he barely had to lift a finger, enjoying the fruits of his labor!
At that moment, Zhang Yue deeply appreciated, “The Beast Tamer profession is truly amazing!”
On average, he was collecting seventy to eighty monster illustrations per minute.
Amazing! Absolutely amazing!
Thus, in just under two hours, Zhang Yue had collected 8,400 Flying Mantis illustrations!
Additionally, Zhang Yue took some extra time to kill a total of ten thousand Flying Mantises, completing the world task of “defeating ten thousand monsters while wearing the Eternal Set”!
Another world task, collecting a complete Eternal Set, had long been completed.
Now, with the Ninth World’s tasks settled, he could begin the world boss challenge!
However, Zhang Yue wasn’t in a hurry.
He crushed a Return Scroll and returned to Mechanical City.
He handed over ten thousand Flying Mantis illustrations to the monster merchant, Lord, giving him the surplus beyond 8,400 as a gift.
In just two hours, Lord received ten thousand illustrations from Zhang Yue, nearly fainting from excitement.
Checking the time: twelve noon.
The Empire Guild hadn’t made any moves, and Zhang Yue couldn’t help but frown slightly, “After all this time, you still haven’t found me. Even with half a day, you’re still useless.”
Just as he finished speaking.
Suddenly, a stranger requested to add Zhang Yue on Feixin, with a message: “Your people are almost all dead. Aren’t you coming to take a look?”
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