Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
From all directions, endless God's Apostles, as if sensing the tremendous killing intent radiating from Zhang Yue, moved.
They each grabbed their blades and circled in from all sides toward Zhang Yue.
The oppressive force coming from thousands of Level-300, 58-star BOSSes made those watching outside the screen, Liyue and the others, even through the screen, feel a massive pressure, to the point they involuntarily held their breath.
On the battlefield, however, Zhang Yue remained calm and composed, unshaken in the face of danger.
Watching the God's Apostles closing in from all around, Zhang Yue lifted the 60-star Purgatory·Transcendent Staff.
Rumble! Rumble!
At this moment, thunderclouds rolled above.
A blanket of black clouds pressed down, a powerful deterrent spreading outward in all directions.
Endless lightning surged around Zhang Yue's body.
The entire domain was shrouded in thunder and lightning.
At this moment, Zhang Yue seemed possessed by the Thunder God.
Waves of powerful lightning converged constantly into the staff.
The instant that group of God's Apostles stepped into attack range, before they could unleash their first round of [God's Awe], Zhang Yue launched his attack first.
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Three consecutive powerful bolts of lightning descended from the sky, striking dead center on an God's Apostle in front.
Endless lightning pierced and devoured it.
The next second, a blood-red damage number popped above the God's Apostle's head—
-512.89 billion! Critical!
-498.27 billion! Critical!
-501.93 billion! Critical!
BOOM!
The selected God's Apostle had its health bar emptied instantly.
One-shot kill!
["Holy shit!"]
The instant Zhang Yue's three consecutive shots one-shotted a 58-star BOSS-level God's Apostle, a burst of astonishment erupted from everyone in front of the screen.
["My god! What kind of terrifying damage is that?"]
["500 billion… this is way too ridiculous!"]
["Whoa whoa whoa! Who remembers the president's damage before his gear evolved?"]
["I think back then one skill at most did like 60 billion? This… directly 500 billion? How absurd is that!"]
["Damn! Almost a tenfold damage increase, this is freaking insane!"]
Everyone who saw this scene screamed.
Even Chen Zijin's eyes widened.
She had originally thought: through her own relentless effort, step by step, she was finally, finally about to catch up to Zhang Yue.
But at this moment she suddenly felt like Zhang Yue had pulled far ahead again.
Such a huge gap made Chen Zijin feel: no matter how hard she worked, she could never catch up to Zhang Yue.
Facing everyone's amazement and screams, Ouyang Linger explained, "Actually it's because the critical damage has such a huge bonus."
"Undeniably, the president's damage has increased, but it's not that exaggerated. What we're seeing is critical damage, and previously the president couldn't land criticals. Even without counting crit damage bonus, a basic critical alone can double the damage."
"If you don't count criticals, the president's combat power increase should be around threefold! Hmm… that still sounds a bit exaggerated."
Indeed, because all the hits were criticals, it looked a bit over the top.
Based on this damage value, calculating non-critical damage, Zhang Yue's damage should be around 200 billion.
As Ouyang Linger analyzed: relative to before the Transcendent set enhancement, the damage increase is about threefold.
Even so, a threefold increase is extremely outrageous.
The key point is: criticals cannot be ignored.
Because a single set skill, [Enchant], already provides Zhang Yue with 3000% critical rate.
These God's Apostles clearly didn't have enough critical resistance to block Zhang Yue's crits.
So every attack Zhang Yue dealt could directly land as critical damage.
Back when he was at 47 stars, the Enchant skill only provided 1200% critical rate.
With the other miscellaneous bonuses, his final crit rate reached around 1700%–1800%.
Facing God's Apostles with 2000% crit resistance, he simply couldn't land crits.
With Zhang Yue's current 3500% crit rate breaking through the Apostles' 2000% crit resistance, it meant Zhang Yue still had up to a 1500% chance to land criticals.
Scanning showed: a Level-300, 58-star God's Apostle only had about 1.2 trillion HP.
Zhang Yue's three skills combined dealt 1.5 trillion damage, enough to one-shot it.
And after completing the kill, a damage splash effect occurred.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Using that slain God's Apostle as the epicenter, an explosion radiated outward.
All God's Apostles within a 50-yard radius received splash attacks.
Above their heads, uniformly, massive 500-billion+ critical damage numbers popped, and each of their health bars was suddenly shaved by one third.
[Ghost's Eye(Lv max)/ 10th-level effect: when the skill holder's attack kills an enemy, it will use that enemy as the center and deal an equal attack to all enemies within a 50-yard radius.]
Although the splash damage wasn't enough to one-shot the surrounding God's Apostles, their time of death was already not far off.
Zhang Yue then locked onto another God's Apostle in succession.
Sanctum·Thunder Fire Scourge!
Abyssal Death·Thunder Might of Ten Thousand Pounds!
BOOM! BOOM!
Two more lightning-type skills struck, bringing two 500-billion critical damage numbers above that God's Apostle's head.
Weakened earlier by the splash damage, that God's Apostle's remaining two-thirds of HP was then emptied by the dual strikes of Thunder Fire Scourge + Thunder Might of Ten Thousand Pounds.
After the kill, Ghost's Eye's follow-up effect triggered again, dealing a wide round of AOE damage to all God's Apostles in range.
Again it shaved off one third of their HP.
Immediately after, Zhang Yue finished off a third God's Apostle, triggering the AOE follow-up damage three times.
In an instant, dozens of God's Apostles in a large area were wiped out.
At the same time, the surrounding God's Apostles also launched their first round of God's Awe.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Over nine hundred God's Apostles released God's Awe simultaneously, and in an instant, 930 layers of God's Awe buff stacked on Zhang Yue.
From then on, when Zhang Yue continued attacking God's Apostles, his damage dropped to around 46–47 hundred (i.e., 4,600–4,700).
Because each layer of the God's Awe buff reduces Zhang Yue's final damage by 0.01%.
930 layers of deterrence reduced Zhang Yue's final damage by 9.3%.
However, for the moment, the impact wasn't large.
Of course, Zhang Yue had to finish this fight as quickly as possible.
Otherwise, if the deterrence buff stacked to 10,000 layers, forget about Zhang Yue's current 60-star Transcendent set, even if the Transcendent set were raised to 600 stars, Zhang Yue still couldn't kill these God's Apostles.
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