WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
From all directions, countless level 230 Frost Knights appeared.
Holding long spears, they charged at Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin from every side.
Chen Zijin gathered her strength, ready to unleash her killing move, but was stopped by Zhang Yue.
"If it can be handled normally, then respond with normal means."
Zhang Yue could tell Chen Zijin was planning to release another forbidden skill, Thunder Wrath, thinking her Wrath Value was almost full, ready to wipe out all these Frost Knights in one go.
At that moment, Chen Zijin also understood Zhang Yue's intent in stopping her. He wanted her to save this strongest killing move for the final, hardest ultimate challenge.
Although Thunder Wrath had no cooldown, and as long as Wrath Value was above 30%, it could be released at any time. Of course, the more Wrath Value accumulated, the stronger the effect it could unleash.
Judging from the difficulty increase between level one, level two, and level three, the difficulty of each subsequent challenge was definitely going to multiply.
At present, everything was being barely supported by Chen Zijin's Wrath Value.
With Zhang Yue's current strength, before opening the Armory and evolving his Transcendent set, he simply couldn't handle these level 230 monsters.
And if Chen Zijin ran out of Wrath Value, she too would lose the power to fight them.
So far, according to historical records, the furthest the raiding teams of professionals from all countries had ever reached in the Tomb of the Empire was the seventh-level challenge. No one had ever made it to the final stage, and no one knew what the last challenge was like.
But generally speaking, for an instance like the Tomb of the Empire that no one had ever cleared, the last level would definitely feature a final, super BOSS.
If, on top of that, it came with a bunch of lords or even BOSS-level minions, then even Chen Zijin, with the Wrath Source Stone and the God of Wrath set, might not be able to cope.
Therefore, it was necessary to accumulate more Wrath Value and save Thunder Wrath as the ultimate killing move for the final challenge.
For now, things were difficult, but still manageable.
Aside from the increase in numbers, the third-level challenge had begun introducing lord-level monsters.
Currently, however, their numbers weren't that many.
On average, one lord-level appeared among every hundred Frost Knights.
They were also easier to distinguish.
Ordinary Frost Knights fought alone, while the lord-level Frost Knights rode frost warhorses, cutting an imposing figure!
Under the command of those lords, the Frost Knight army brandished icy spears and charged at Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin.
With her body full of Wrath Value, Chen Zijin's figure moved like a phantom, darting through the enemy ranks.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
The shadows circling around Chen Zijin began automatically hunting enemies.
Since she had already reached the cap level of the World 42, her level could no longer increase.
All were level 230 mobs.
So, like the skeletons and Hellfire Demons before, in front of Chen Zijin they were relatively easy to deal with.
With a few quick slashes, Chen Zijin effortlessly crippled the ordinary Frost Knights.
At the same time, under Zhang Yue's command, the Death Servant army began automatically hunting enemies.
The Frost Knights beaten down to 1 HP by Chen Zijin were struck by the Death Servants' killing blows, and each transformed into a new Death Servant.
Under this mass slaughter, Zhang Yue's Death Servant army quickly grew.
Only the lord-level Frost Knights were somewhat troublesome.
Since Chen Zijin's regular damage had stabilized at 3 billion, and with the God of Wrath set's star upgrades, it had now risen to 4 billion.
With Wrath Value from the Wrath Source Stone and the God of Wrath set fluctuating between 400%–500%, she received about a 900% total attribute boost.
Under this powerful buff, Chen Zijin's average damage output could reach between 35–40 billion.
That kind of damage was more than enough to instantly kill the level 230 mobs with 30 billion HP caps.
But it could not instantly kill the level 230 lord monsters with 1000 billion HP caps.
Of course, it only meant she couldn't one-shot them.
If one strike couldn't kill, then it just took a few more strikes.
Chen Zijin first crippled all the ordinary Frost Knights on the field, leaving them to Zhang Yue.
Then she focused on the lord-level Frost Knights.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
With dual blades slashing at extreme speed, the Frost Knight lords were all cut down from their steeds one by one.
Meanwhile, the Death Servant army devoured all the crippled Frost Knights.
THUD!
When the last Frost Knight lord fell to the ground, the system's pleasant prompt rang from the sky—
["Ding~ Congratulations, you have completed the third-level challenge of the Tomb of the Empire instance. The fourth-level challenge will soon begin. Please prepare yourselves!"]
Swoosh!
The scene around them shifted once again.
The frozen land vanished, and gusts of hurricanes formed around, sweeping across sky and earth.
From within those hurricanes, sandmen walked out one by one.
As expected, their numbers were greater than the Frost Knights of the third level.
And the chance of lord-level sandmen appearing was also higher!
Chen Zijin repeated her method, crippling the monsters, then letting Zhang Yue finish them.
Together, the two of them quickly wiped out all the sandmen and cleared the challenge smoothly.
Next, the fifth-level challenge. Facing the Dark Hunters, their numbers increased to five digits compared to the previous level. And besides the lord-level Dark Hunters, BOSS-level monsters also appeared.
After that—
Level six, cleared!
Level seven, cleared!
Level eight, cleared!
When they reached the ninth-level challenge, Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin faced only lord-level monsters + BOSS-level monsters.
Chen Zijin nearly couldn't resist unleashing the Thunder Wrath she'd saved for so long.
But in the end, she still held it back.
The challenge time was only ten minutes.
As monster quality improved, their numbers correspondingly decreased.
The requirement: in ten minutes, kill three hundred lord monsters and five 40-star BOSSes.
In the end, without using Thunder Wrath, the two of them took 9 minutes and 12 seconds to kill all the monsters and complete the challenge!
["Ding~ Congratulations, you have completed the ninth-level challenge of the Tomb of the Empire instance. The ultimate challenge is about to begin. Please prepare yourselves!"]
As the system prompt sounded, both Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin couldn't help but tense up.
"So the final challenge is finally here!"
"The ninth-level challenge almost failed. This last battle, its difficulty is destined to skyrocket."
Zhang Yue looked at Chen Zijin and asked, "Thunder Wrath, how much Wrath have you accumulated?"
Previously, Chen Zijin hadn't really paid much attention to her Wrath Value.
Suddenly, she glanced at her skill numbers, and was utterly shocked.
Turning to look back at Zhang Yue, she said, "Guess."
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