ROAR!
With a deafening, violent dragon roar, a super dark demon dragon that had recovered from its statue form beat its wings and lunged toward Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin.
At the same time it spewed a ball of purple dragonfire from its mouth, blasting the ground.
Clang!
The Ice-Sealed War God appeared before Zhang Yue, releasing a massive ice shield that blocked the dark dragonflame attack.
At this moment Zhang Yue noticed: that dragon was, astonishingly, a level-230 BOSS, the Shadow Demon Dragon.
"The very first appearance is a BOSS, level ten challenge really is exciting, huh?"
Although the Ice-Sealed War God's level was far lower than the Shadow Demon Dragon's, it still had no problem blocking the dragon's attack.
After all, it was a legendary-level pet, and was only one step away from the mythic threshold.
As long as Zhang Yue, its master, made a bit more effort, that goal would soon be within reach.
Taking advantage of the Ice-Sealed War God holding off the Shadow Demon Dragon, from the rear Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin launched their attack.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Zhang Yue swung his staff; a string of 4S-grade lightning spells violently struck the Shadow Demon Dragon, exploding over its head with a cluster of damage around 5 billion each hit.
That kind of damage for a level-230 BOSS was barely a scratch.
The Shadow Demon Dragon's HP bar hardly budged.
Still, Zhang Yue was used to it by now, no big surprise.
After all, Chen Zijin was the main combat force; he was only a supporting role.
He was realistic about that.
Then the Shadowdancer's figure dissolved into a shadow and flashed past Zhang Yue like a gust of wind.
In an instant she was at the dragon's side.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Daggers rained down on the Shadow Demon Dragon.
-28.72 billion!
-27.79 billion!
-28.03 billion!
-27.98 billion!
With the Wrath Source Stone and the God of Wrath set driving her Wrath Value sky-high, Chen Zijin's combat power was practically off the charts.
It had to be Chen Zijin.
Her combo struck the Shadow Demon Dragon with a long string of ~30-billion-level hits, instantly cutting off nearly half of the dragon's HP.
As a 42-star ordinary BOSS, the Shadow Demon Dragon was indeed powerful, but not invincible.
With a total HP cap of 300 billion, it clearly couldn't withstand Chen Zijin's onslaught.
When Chen Zijin consecutively unleashed another combo, the Shadow Demon Dragon's remaining HP was wiped to zero.
ROAR!
A wailing howl erupted.
The next moment, the dragon's massive body crashed to the ground.
At the same time, a beam of white light drifted up from the Shadow Demon Dragon's corpse and floated into the air.
This scene left Chen Zijin puzzled again, "So… what does this mean?"
———
Meanwhile, outside the Tomb of the Empire instance, the major nations' professionals gathered around the entrance were still fiercely battling the Hellhunters.
The level-230 lord monsters continuously pouring out of the instance had overwhelming strength and numerical advantage, pressing down on the human professionals.
Their hunting operations were meticulous.
The first wave of Hellhunters that came out of the instance quickly spread outward, surrounding the entire forest and forming an outer wall, trapping all the professionals inside that woodland!
The nations' professionals rose up to resist, cutting down Hellhunters, but themselves dying rapidly.
The corpses of the killed professionals did not respawn.
The survivors had to watch their fallen teammates being dragged by Hellhunters and thrown into the light curtain.
Although no one knew what the Hellhunters intended by this, one thing became indisputably clear: those killed by the Hellhunters here would not revive.
That fact alone plunged the whole field into panic.
["F*ck! Why don't they revive after being killed by them?"]
["Why are they dragging professionals' corpses into the instance, what are they trying to do?"]
["I don't want to die, I don't want to die yet!"]
As countless people fell into despair and panic, someone suddenly saw a beam of white light drifting out of the light curtain and floating away into the distant sky.
"Life core! There's a life core in that white light!"
"What the hell is happening? Did someone inside respawn?"
On the other side, inside the instance, as Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin defeated the first BOSS, the Shadow Demon Dragon, more consecutive beams of white light appeared in the air.
Those white lights automatically sought targets and entered the numerous statues scattered around.
After being nourished by the life cores, the statues gradually regained vitality and came back to life.
And every single statue revived was without exception a level-230 BOSS monster.
At the same time, Zhang Yue received a message from Ouyang Linger outside, ["Guild leader, are you in the Tomb of the Empire instance?"]
["I've been told a large number of lord monsters have crawled through the instance fissures and attacked the professionals around the entrance. They drag the corpses of killed professionals into the instance so they can't respawn. Just wanted to make you aware, this might affect you."]
Hearing Ouyang Linger, Zhang Yue suddenly understood.
"Looks like these statues are drawing life force from living people outside."
Chen Zijin pondered, "So the people we encountered at the entrance earlier were being used as a food source?"
Zhang Yue replied to Ouyang Linger, "Tell them to evacuate the instance area as quickly as possible."
["They can't evacuate,"] Ouyang Linger said, ["The number of monsters that came from the instance is huge, and they're all lord-level. They've formed a siege perimeter around the instance area and turned this place into a hunting ground. The local professionals in the World 42 can't break out."]
While Zhang Yue and Ouyang Linger were talking, Chen Zijin had already slain two more BOSSes in quick succession.
Their terrifying strength made even those BOSSes feel ashamed.
Without exception, white lights floated out from the corpses of those two slain BOSSes.
Putting everything together, it seemed that the professionals killed outside would be used to activate the BOSS statues inside the instance.
And only by killing those BOSSes could the professionals absorbed by the BOSSes be released to the safe zone to revive.
"Looks like this is an unavoidable battle."
Closing the chat with Ouyang Linger, Zhang Yue dove back into the fight.
His guess had proven correct.
Each beam of white light could activate one statue.
And those statues were all BOSS-level monsters, none were below BOSS rank.
A statue activated by a single beam of white light became a 42–44-star ordinary BOSS.
At that moment, multiple white lights were seen in the air, each drifting into a different statue…
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