["Ding~ Welcome to the [Tomb of the Empire] instance, please complete the first-level challenge within 30 minutes!"]
The sudden system notification pulled Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin's thoughts back to reality.
"Before we came in, I looked over some strategies. Supposedly, the Tomb of the Empire instance is divided into multiple levels of challenges."
Chen Zijin spoke thoughtfully, "Each time you complete a level, you'll automatically move into the next."
As soon as she finished speaking, from beneath the ground around them seeped a dark aura.
Soon after, skeleton warriors wreathed in black mist began climbing out of the earth endlessly.
Zhang Yue lifted his staff, calmly watching the skeletons, and said, "Then let's end this quickly."
"We don't have much time."
Chen Zijin nodded, "Understood!"
Saying that, she stepped forward, but then glanced back at Zhang Yue, adding, "Let's begin, I'm ready."
"Stop with the nonsense. Get to work."
Zhang Yue's first words sent him directly into battle mode, leaving Chen Zijin momentarily dazed.
The Wrath Stones she carried and the Wrath God Set she wore began to build up fury.
At the same time, Zhang Yue opened the chat interface and messaged Liyue, ["Starting now."]
The next second, Liyue sent back an "ok" emoji.
["Then you'd better pay attention. I'm only teaching you one last time."]
["Otherwise in the future, every time you flirt with Sister Zijin, you'll rely on me to teach you? That's too exhausting. After all, I also need to level up, fight monsters, and work. I can't just take guild salary for free…"]
Zhang Yue instantly understood what she meant.
He replied, ["Starting today, you're promoted to Guild Strategist. Your salary doubles."]
Liyue: ["￥@％×..."]
Looking at her message, Zhang Yue then lifted his head toward Chen Zijin, ["￥@％×..."]
Chen Zijin's Wrath Meter:
30%!
55%!
89%!
142%!
SSSSS-tier Forbidden Spell: Wrath of Thunder!
BOOM!
Once the Wrath accumulated to a certain point, Chen Zijin unleashed all of it, erupting into the true Wrath of Thunder.
From every direction, powerful currents of electricity surged outward, instantly swallowing all skeleton warriors in range.
Ignoring defense, ignoring resistance, ignoring damage reduction.
Under this unmatched absolute damage, an enormous white true damage of over 30 billion+ instantly devoured all the skeleton warriors' health bars, erasing them.
In just the blink of an eye.
When Zhang Yue looked around again, all four directions were silent.
The ground was strewn with corpses of skeleton warriors.
The vast domain stretched out endlessly, not a blade of grass alive!
At the same time, another system prompt descended—
["Ding~ Congratulations, you have completed the first-level challenge of the Tomb of the Empire instance. The second-level challenge will soon begin, please prepare!"]
The challenge that required half an hour to complete, Chen Zijin had cleared in less than half a minute.
It had to be said: the current Chen Zijin was terrifyingly strong.
No exaggeration: judging from her current enWrathd state, Zhang Yue's chance of defeating her one-on-one was probably no higher than 50%.
According to the system's statistics, in that one swoop just now, the total number of level 230 skeleton warlords exterminated by Chen Zijin reached 1,235.
The experience from over a thousand level 230 monsters also caused Zhang Yue's exp bar to visibly surge upward.
Though Chen Zijin had wiped them all in one move, in truth, if the requirement was killing all monsters in the area to count as challenge success, then eliminating more than 1,200 level 230 monsters in half an hour was still a formidable difficulty for ordinary players around level 220.
And this was only the first-level challenge.
Later ones would only grow harder.
At this moment, Zhang Yue finally understood why, even after the Dead Domain had been open for so long, the Tomb of the Empire had never been conquered.
Truthfully, without Chen Zijin, even the current Zhang Yue didn't have the power to face it.
After the first-level challenge ended, the second came quickly.
Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin still stood in place, unmoving.
But the scenery around them changed.
Crash!
All the corpses of the skeleton warlords turned to ash and vanished.
The darkened ground transformed into a flaming forbidden zone.
Whoosh!
Blazing flames burned up from the earth.
["Ding~ The second-level challenge of the Tomb of the Empire instance has begun, please complete it within 30 minutes!"]
Hearing the time requirement was the same, Zhang Yue knew at once: the monster count would be higher.
Sure enough, as soon as the system prompt ended,
From the flaming forbidden zone all around, countless humanoid monsters burning with flames, [Hellfire Demons], crawled up from the ground.
ROAR! ROAR!
They let out furious howls and rushed to besiege Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin.
This time, the number of Hellfire Demons was clearly far greater than that of the skeleton warlords before.
All around, densely packed, uncountable.
Before they even got close—
WHOOSH!
Chen Zijin's body flashed like lightning, charging into the monster horde.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Her blades fell, each strike inflicting massive damage, emptying the Hellfire Demons' health bars.
But then, Zhang Yue noticed: this time, Chen Zijin wasn't killing them outright, but had instead activated lock-health protection mode.
Even when she could have finished them instantly, she deliberately left them at 1 HP.
At that moment, Chen Zijin turned her head back toward Zhang Yue and said, "Can't you lend a hand? My Wrath is already starting to drop, I can't finish them off anymore!"
"Quick, come help with the last hit!"
Though she said it like that, how could Zhang Yue not understand, Chen Zijin was deliberately leaving the finishing blow to him.
Because while in party state, it didn't matter who landed the kill, both would still gain credit.
But for Zhang Yue as a Necromancer, the last strike mattered immensely.
Only when he or one of his death-servants landed the kill could he trigger Death Summon and call forth more death-servants.
Earlier, Chen Zijin had hogged all the spotlight, slaughtering nearly everything and leaving none for him, which meant Zhang Yue hadn't advanced his summons for quite some time.
Now, clearly, Chen Zijin had realized it.
She was leaving this chance to Zhang Yue, for him to build his Death Summons.
Of course, Zhang Yue didn't refuse her good intentions.
Summoning his death-servants, he simultaneously activated Chains of Fate, launching attacks against the Hellfire Demons.
SWISH! SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!
The chains transformed into blades, automatically pursuing the enemies around them…
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