Affected was not only the Tomb of the Empire dungeon's domain.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Zzzt! Zzzt! Zzzt!
Outside the dungeon, across the entire World 42 Death Territory, heaven and earth trembled.
Waves of lightning flowed through the air.
Countless professionals from various nations who stood within the World 42 were momentarily alarmed.
"That anomaly just now was the birth-sign of a King-Rank BOSS, so what is this new anomaly now?"
"Something big is about to happen!"
Everyone felt lightning power coursing through their bodies.
If they reached out, they could even see tiny currents flowing across their palms.
Endless lightning filled the air.
A small grove somewhere in the World 42.
A couple who had gone out seeking excitement, getting intimate in the wild.
Caught up in the moment, they had just kissed when the man suddenly pulled back two steps, staring at his girlfriend in disbelief, "What the hell! Are you holding a battery in your mouth? You shocked my lips numb!"
"Where's this current coming from?"
"Is this, strong lightning power? Am I about to awaken some special lightning talent?"
———
As lightning covered the entire World 42.
Inside the Tomb of the Empire dungeon—
Chen Zijin still hadn't fully released her accumulated wrath.
At this moment, not only Zhang Yue, even the Demon's Eye Enno high in the sky began to feel an unprecedented awe.
"What… is this power?"
Lightning still erupted from within Chen Zijin.
When all the energy gathered to a point,
After a brief silence—
BOOM!
With a thunderous explosion that shook the clouds, countless azure bolts of lightning burst forth from Chen Zijin's body, radiating outward and spreading without bound.
SSSSS-rank Forbidden Technique, Wrath of Thunder!
Wrath of Thunder!
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Endless lightning swept across the land; in an instant, the entire dungeon domain was shrouded in electricity.
Even the most hidden corners were pierced by lightning.
Wherever the thunder passed, not a blade of grass remained.
All the monsters within the Tomb of the Empire were struck by the thunder's might, pierced by lightning.
Rumble! Rumble!
In that instant, it was as if tens of thousands of heavenly thunderbolts descended, penetrating the whole realm.
Even Zhang Yue, whose main element is lightning, had trouble holding out.
Around them came endless wails from the monsters.
After a full three seconds, the lightning gradually subsided.
When it did, in every direction, all the monsters lay charred on the outside and raw inside.
Flying monsters that had the ability to hover dropped to the ground.
Whether lord monsters, BOSSes, God-Rank BOSSes, Emperor-Rank BOSSes, or even Immortal-Rank BOSSes, all without exception, had been electrocuted to death.
The entire Tomb of the Empire fell into a deathlike silence.
There wasn't a single living thing in sight.
At this moment, even Zhang Yue was shaken.
Chen Zijin's released Wrath of Thunder had actually instantly killed Immortal-Rank BOSSes.
'Terrifying indeed.'
What excited them further: even those bosses that had been revived and were killed a second time, still had their combat experience tallied again.
Thus, countless battle notifications rang in Zhang Yue's ears one after another.
["Ding~ Congratulations, you and your teammates jointly killed Level 230 Lord Monster [Demonic Warlord] x12856, EXP +56.2 trillion, Aether +2,514.2 trillion!"]
["Ding~ Congratulations, you and your teammates jointly killed Level 230 God-Rank BOSS [Hell Twin-Headed Serpent], EXP +3,000 billion, Aether +300 trillion!"]
["Ding~ Congratulations, you and your teammates jointly killed Level 230 Emperor-Rank BOSS [Harbinger of Doom · More], EXP +8,000 billion, Aether +700 trillion!"]
["Ding~ Congratulations, you and your teammates jointly killed Level 230 Immortal-Rank BOSS [Soul-Locking Knight · Sahkai], EXP +15 trillion, Aether +12 trillion!"]
["Ding…"]
With the continuous battle prompts at his ear.
Gold light above Zhang Yue's head poured down in stream after stream.
["Ding~ Congratulations, you leveled up, current level 218…"]
["Ding~ Congratulations, you leveled up, current level 219…"]
["Ding…"]
["Ding~ Congratulations, you leveled up, current level 222…"]
After that round of drops, Zhang Yue's level had soared.
The second wave of gains pushed Zhang Yue's level almost to the World 42's maximum.
Such enormous returns were truly exhilarating.
They never expected that with just one forbidden curse from Chen Zijin they could easily finish the Tenth-Level challenge.
Even Chen Zijin herself could hardly believe it.
"Heavens! This forbidden technique is insanely powerful!"
The greatest strength of Wrath of Thunder is that it can accumulate wrath value indefinitely.
The higher the wrath value, the stronger the burst.
That it could be so devastating was because Chen Zijin had stored an enormous amount of wrath for it.
However, among the stream of battle notifications, Zhang Yue heard kill notices for lord monsters, ordinary BOSSes, God-Rank BOSSes, Emperor-Rank BOSSes, and Immortal-Rank BOSSes.
But there was one thing missing: no kill notification for the King-Rank BOSS.
'What the hell.'
'Wasn't the Demon's Eye Enno a King-Rank BOSS?'
'Why was there no notification about its death?'
Just as Zhang Yue felt puzzled.
A low, deep voice suddenly came from the sky, "Looks like I underestimated you. Humans, you actually have some strength!"
Following the voice.
He was stunned to see: that huge dark skull head still floated in the air.
The Demon's Eye Enno had somehow avoided the execution of Wrath of Thunder and had not been killed.
"What?"
Chen Zijin, seeing the still-living BOSS, was startled, "Could it be that because it's too high, the BOSS was out of Wrath of Thunder's attack range?"
"If it were an issue of range, it should be unharmed," Zhang Yue looked at the small segment of HP missing from the Demon's Eye's health bar and said, "Clearly, it was hit by Wrath of Thunder, just without taking major damage."
Wrath of Thunder's effect is absolute damage that ignores damage reduction, defense, and resistance.
Logically, a force capable of one-shotting a Level-230 Immortal-Rank BOSS shouldn't have only inflicted such minor damage on the Demon's Eye.
Obviously, the Demon's Eye had used some kind of defensive skill.
Sure enough, the Demon's Eye revealed the truth itself, "If not for the Demon Shield that absorbed ninety percent of the damage, I'd almost have been harmed by you."
A King-Rank BOSS, after all, is a King-Rank BOSS.
According to the Demon's Eye's own words.
Even without the Demon Shield's ninety-percent damage mitigation, the full damage from Wrath of Thunder would at most have taken away one-third of its HP.
Far from enough to one-shot it.
Of course, a single skill that can shave a third off a King-Rank BOSS's HP is already outrageously overpowered.
Now, looking at the land scattered with corpses of allied forces, the Demon's Eye erupted in wrath.
"Damn humans, don't you dare step out of the Tomb of the Empire alive!"
At this moment, Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin realized: the true final battle had only just begun.
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