WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
From all directions, countless level-230 Hellhunters materialized.
They immediately attacked the nearby professional squads.
Chen Zijin and Zhang Yue inside the instance were still calmly facing the incoming enemies.
A single person's emotions cannot stay fixed at one point forever.
Except for the steadfast Zhang Yue.
500%, although it wasn't the absolute limit of Wrath Value, was already about that height; any higher and things would explode.
During this process, it would both rise and fall.
The strength of the Wrath Source Stone and the God of Wrath set were determined according to real-time Wrath Value.
And Thunder Wrath would constantly accumulate Wrath Value at any moment.
Zhang Yue could surmise that the Wrath Value Chen Zijin had accumulated at this moment must already have reached a peak.
Because aside from the first-level challenge, from the second to the ninth-level challenges Chen Zijin had not used Thunder Wrath even once.
From the small expression Chen Zijin accidentally revealed, it was enough to see: she was very confident in her current condition.
Facing the coming ultimate challenge, she was nervous yet very much looking forward to it.
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At the same time, outside the Tomb of the Empire, in the World 42's Death Territory—
Except for the Eastern nation whose group had been wiped out, the professional raiding squads from various nations of the World 42 still stood guard at the instance entrance; they had not left.
Facing this super instance that no one could break, they were full of anticipation.
They wanted to see whether, relying on the power of a necromancer and a shadowdancer, the Tomb of the Empire could be cracked.
Checking the time.
At this moment the inside of the instance was peaceful; outside, people began to murmur and speculate.
"They've already been inside for half an hour. I wonder how things are going."
"Only half an hour? Do you really expect them to clear many floors in thirty minutes? Remember, the Beacon Nation's first-tier professional raiding squad only reached the seventh-level challenge, and that took them over two hours."
"The necromancer and shadowdancer are unquestionably strong, but still, in half an hour they probably could only reach like the fifth or sixth level."
"Can they clear the Tomb of the Empire and make a miracle?"
"Don't say for sure; I think it's pretty unlikely."
While everyone was speculating, suddenly the ground trembled violently.
Dark breath also drifted out from the light curtain at the Tomb of the Empire's entrance.
Seeing this, everyone present was shocked.
"What's going on? What's happening?"
"That movement, when the Beacon Nation's first-tier squad reached the seventh level they didn't have this. Could it be the Tomb of the Empire's ultimate challenge triggering?"
"Ultimate challenge? Are you kidding? The necromancer and shadowdancer have only been in there half an hour, how could they have reached the ultimate challenge so fast?"
While everyone was incredulous, the dark breaths drifting out of the light curtain suddenly condensed into Hellhunters exuding black aura.
Without asking questions, those Hellhunters immediately launched attacks at the nearby professionals.
"Fuck! Where did these monsters come from!"
"Are they coming out of the instance?"
"Enemies! Everyone be careful!"
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Everyone on the field immediately braced themselves.
But some could not react in time and were attacked by the Hellhunters.
Those Hellhunters were extremely quick to respond.
And all of them were lord-level monsters.
The professionals outside the instance, around level 220-plus, were not without ability to deal with lord monsters.
It was just that the number of lord-level Hellhunters spilling out of the instance was simply too many.
By rough estimate the first wave already numbered in the hundreds.
Over a hundred level-230 lord-level Hellhunters poured out and launched a frenzied assault on nearby professionals.
Those squads closest to the entrance were caught off guard and suddenly toppled by that pack of Hellhunters.
They had no time to resist and, under the lord monsters' extremely high damage, were killed.
Strangely, the bodies of the professionals killed by the Hellhunters did not respawn; they lay on the ground.
And after killing them, the Hellhunters actually dragged the corpses toward the instance entrance.
Several Hellhunters could be seen, each dragging a professional's thigh, hauling the bodies across the ground to the entrance.
With a sudden heave, they threw the corpses into the light curtain.
This scene stunned everyone nearby.
"Holy shit! What are they doing?"
"Why don't the dead respawn?"
"Aren't they treating us as prey? Are they using us to feed something inside?"
"Does this mean the people killed will face permanent death?"
For a moment, everyone fell into panic.
Meanwhile, from within the light curtain more and more Hellhunters kept streaming out.
Each nation's professionals rose up to resist.
At this moment, thanks to the joint effort of two Sun Nation warriors and several archers in the rear, a Hellhunter was shot down.
When that Hellhunter died, a beam of white light shot out from the front of the light curtain, straight up into the sky.
Around them, whenever a Hellhunter was killed, a corresponding white light would fly out from the instance entrance.
This made everyone realize, "Only by killing them can we rescue the people they dragged into the Tomb of the Empire!"
"My big brother was just pulled in, I'm going to cut them down and save him!"
Thus, a great battle broke out outside the instance.
———
And inside the instance—
Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin were preparing to face the imminent ultimate challenge.
Accompanied by a violent trembling of the earth, from all directions, suddenly a number of colossal beings emerged.
World-destroying Demon Dragon!
Three-headed Giant Serpent!
Flame Phoenix!
One-eyed Troll!
They burst forth from underground like monsters.
Only, at this moment they were in a statue state, seemingly unable to move.
Looking at these giant beast statues standing on the earth, Chen Zijin and Zhang Yue both tensed up, not daring to relax.
Because it was clear: although these things were currently sealed by dust, beneath the stone were extremely high-grade super Big BOSSes.
Just as Zhang Yue wondered why the statues had no movement at all, suddenly streams of white light began to fall from the sky.
Seeing those floating streaks of light, Chen Zijin frowned slightly, feeling suspicious.
"Looks familiar, these white lights contain life cores. Those only appear when a professional dies, right?"
While the two found this strange, suddenly one of those beams of white light drifted down into the body of a Dragon statue on the ground.
The next moment—
Crackle! Crackle!
The stones on that dragon began to fracture and fall away, as if life had been bestowed upon it.
In moments, once all the broken stone fell off, the dragon statue shockingly regained vitality.
ROAR!
A mighty dragon roar split the sky.
The red-tinged murderous eye suddenly turned and fixed on Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin.
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