Zhou Chan leaned close to her sister and whispered, "Sis, how much damage can they even grind? They probably can't catch up to Tianxuan, right?"
Zhou Ting shook her head and said decisively, "Almost impossible!"
Seeing how certain her sister was, Zhou Chan asked in confusion, "Sis, how are you so sure?"
Zhou Ting spoke unhurriedly. "There are three reasons."
"First, when this damage statistics system was designed, the damage dealt to minor monsters and the damage dealt to BOSSes were converted into final scores differently."
Seeing Zhou Chan's half-understanding expression, Zhou Ting explained further. "For example, the same amount of damage might count as 10 points if it's dealt to a BOSS, but only 1 point if it's dealt to a small monster. After all, what we need are summoning skulls. If you can't kill the BOSS, killing more small monsters is meaningless."
"Second, Jiang Kai's attack power is extremely exaggerated. I've never seen such terrifying single-target damage in the database. But this also causes his attacks to 'overflow' when hitting small monsters."
"And our statistics are based on the wild monster's age, type, and past data to assign a score. For example, a normal-grade, 30-year-old snake demon like this, based on past data, we rate it as '1 point.'"
"So no matter how strong your attack is, killing one snake demon only gives you 1 point."
"Because of that, Jiang Kai's insanely strong single-target damage actually ends up wasting a lot of attack power when fighting small monsters."
Zhou Chan nodded involuntarily. "So that's how it is… Sigh, honestly, I was really hoping Jiang Kai and his group could improve their ranking."
Zhou Ting continued, "There's also the third point. Look at the rankings."
Zhou Chan switched to the guild ranking interface.
After Qingyun and Lord God made it onto the list, guild damage data was updated in real time, and the leaderboard only displayed the top ten guilds.
Over the past two days, Lord God and Qingyun had been resting and traveling. Their rankings had actually dropped out of the top ten and were no longer on the leaderboard.
Meanwhile, the guilds ahead of them were still seeing their numbers rise nonstop.
Tianxuan, ranked first, had already reached over 32,000 damage points!
The other guilds were also neck and neck, their damage scores refreshing rapidly like a stopwatch!
Seeing this, Zhou Chan finally gave up hope and let out a sigh.
"Sigh, I actually really like these two guilds. Two guilds this small managing to kill a King-tier BOSS is amazing! It's just bad timing. They ran into Ghost Star increasing the difficulty. Otherwise, back in the past, Lord God and Qingyun definitely could've played a huge role in developing Ghost Star."
Zhou Ting also sighed softly in regret. Her sister was absolutely right.
"Jiang Kai and his teammates have only just grown up, and the Lord God guild was only established last year. Ghost Star didn't give them much time. What a pity."
Just as Jiang Kai and his group were about to start the battle, seven or eight figures appeared on the hillside and sprinted toward Lord God's position.
These were researchers who had been camping near the BOSS nest in advance. When they saw a guild opening a BOSS, they immediately joined to conduct statistics.
The seven or eight people quickly regrouped with the Zhou sisters.
They had just run over and hadn't even caught their breath yet when one of them panted heavily and exclaimed, "Is this for real? Just over two hundred people and they're opening a BOSS? Are they insane?"
The others were equally unable to understand.
"Are these people brainless or what!"
"It's bad enough they're losing their minds themselves. We finally hid properly, and now because of these lunatics, we have to run out and record data for them! Hurting others and themselves!"
Zhou Ting was already used to this kind of reaction. After all, putting herself in their shoes, if she were a stationed researcher seeing this scene, her reaction wouldn't be any smaller.
Doubts aside, the researchers still had to do their job. They immediately took out their equipment and prepared to record.
While recording, someone suddenly cried out, "Is that guy crazy? One person tangling with a King-tier BOSS? He, who is he!"
Zhou Ting glanced up and immediately knew who he was talking about.
"China's number one Wine God, Ruan Yu!" Then she casually added, "But in the Lord God guild, he's not the only one who can contend with a King-tier. Earlier, China's number one Executioner dragged a BOSS into the valley by himself."
"What?"
Zhou Ting focused on collecting data and replied perfunctorily, "Anyway, just keep watching."
At the same time, Ruan Yu was getting all lovey-dovey with the Dragon Python Snake King.
"Ruan here has seen countless women, but young lady, your beauty has left me unable to break free, tossing and turning all night! Beauty, big brother is coming! Slurp…"
Sun Yuan and the others were dumbfounded. When they fought the Great Banyan Demon King before, they really didn't have time to pay attention to Ruan Yu. But this time, they stared wide-eyed as Ruan Yu was actually flirting with a King-tier BOSS!
"Damn, I was already completely convinced by Jiang Kai's strength lately and thought he'd be the person I admired most. But now, sorry Jiang Kai, Brother Ruan takes the crown!"
"He can actually bring himself to do that. Brother Ruan is a real man!" Liu Xuefei said in shock.
"Before Brother Ruan, I, Wang Zhong, willingly admit defeat!"
But while everyone was stunned by Ruan Yu's true nature bursting out, they were also shocked by his utterly inconceivable movement techniques.
The King-tier BOSS's stats far surpassed Ruan Yu's, yet relying on his bizarre footwork, he weaved back and forth at the BOSS's side, occasionally even jumping up to touch the Snake King's body!
"Wow, this feel is simply incomparable!"
Everyone's nerves kept swinging back and forth between being shocked by Ruan Yu's outrageous dirty talk and being shocked by his exquisite movement skills…
While Ruan Yu was having intimate contact with the BOSS, massive numbers of King-tier BOSS guards were already charging toward the entrance.
There was only one entrance, and it wasn't very wide, making it easy to defend.
But at the same time, that also meant this single entrance would face an unimaginably violent impact!
Ding Jian swallowed hard, his breathing involuntarily quickening, eyes locked onto the dark mass of snake demons ahead.
"This… this is even more terrifying than a beast tide!"
A beast tide was fierce, but it covered a wide area and had many defenders. Now, just over a hundred of them had to block this gap. The pressure they would have to endure was unimaginable.
They said they came to grind damage, but every single person here, even the War Gods of Qingyun Guild, was so tense they could barely breathe!
"We can't hold it!"
At that moment, Jiang Kai suddenly rushed out of the entrance and shouted to those behind him, "Kill anything that slips past me!"
As soon as his words fell, the snake demon army slammed toward Jiang Kai.
Countless snake demons practically swallowed Jiang Kai whole!
Facing the snake demon horde, Jiang Kai's gaze burned like a torch. He instantly flicked out a card.
"Tempering, Earth God's Decree, Earth Eruption!"
With a thunderous boom, the ground beneath the snake demons about to pounce on Jiang Kai suddenly exploded like a volcanic eruption. A pillar of fire shot skyward, blasting hundreds of snake demons into the air and mercilessly scorching them with flames!
"Divine Might Aura, Tempered Pursuit of Fate!" Jiang Kai barked.
A beam of golden light descended from above his head, stopping in front of his chest and rapidly expanding until it reached a diameter of ten meters!
After ten Pursuit of Fate blades completed tempering, they attached themselves to the Divine Might Aura.
The entire aura instantly upgraded into a ring of fire enveloping Jiang Kai.
"Tempering, Light God's Decree, Ricochet!" A golden card shot out in response, wildly bouncing back and forth through the snake demon horde.
"Tempering, King Yama's Decree, Wrath of the Lord God!" The King Yama Decree blasted straight toward a commander-grade snake demon.
"Tempered Pursuit of Fate!"
The remaining dozen or so Pursuit of Fate blades formed what looked like a fiery sword-blade storm around Jiang Kai, crazy attacking the surrounding snake demons!
He Shishi, Zhou Chu, and the others waited a full two minutes, yet Jiang Kai didn't let a single snake demon slip through!
He Shishi's face was filled with shock as she looked at Jiang Kai's back, momentarily dazed.
After a long while, she slowly said…
"One man guards the pass…"
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