Chapter 41 : Chapter 41
Chapter 41: Double Boss Kill! Level 10! Class Advancement Quest!
The moment Thunderwing was targeted by the mantis, he was already on the verge of death. There was no way he could take another hit.
At once, Thunderwing used every last bit of strength he had left.
Ghostly blue lightning flickered all around him as countless bolts of violent thunder blasted outward indiscriminately!
Heavenly Punishment Lightning Strike—his strongest offensive skill—completely engulfed the mantis!
And yet— The mantis did not move at all. It merely stood there watching him, letting out a chilling low laugh.
Those streaks of thunder, each carrying a destructive aura, passed straight through the mantis’s body as though through empty air, unable to inflict even the slightest damage.
Within that forbidden zone of heavenly punishment, spread out beneath rolling thunder, the mantis simply stood there in silence.
At that moment, Thunderwing completely broke down.
Not even the Fiends had ever made him feel such terrifying pressure.
The instant that thought struck him, Thunderwing hurriedly pleaded in Ye Ze’s direction:
“Human! Don’t kill me!”
“I’m willing to help you fight the Fiends!”
The most stunned by those words were students like Lin Ke, who had actually read the guides.
Trying to persuade the Storm Dragon clan to fight the Fiends was practically impossible.
That much was obvious from the fact that even when the original human race of this world was wiped out to the last, they still had failed to convince them.
And now...
It was clear that strength was the best diplomacy.
If Ye Ze nodded, they would gain at least one more Elite Commander-level combatant.
But Ye Ze clicked his tongue twice and shook his head.
“The greatest help you can give me right now is to die sooner.”
The moment he finished speaking, the mantis raised its Arm Blade.
A dark violet fissure of the Void cleaved straight from dragon head to dragon tail, splitting Thunderwing cleanly in two. He could not have died more thoroughly.
【Elite Commander Thunderwing killed. Experience +1600!】
【Level: 9 (5860/7300)】
【Hunter — Crimson-Eyed Mantis has slain a powerful enemy and can evolve one body part once!】
A full 1,600 experience. As expected of a Mini-Boss in a Hell Group Dungeon!
It left Ye Ze not far from his first Class Advancement.
He only needed 1,440 more experience. If he killed one more Mini-Boss...
Ye Ze’s gaze turned toward Panda.
But just then, with a loud boom, a ground dragon wreathed in lightning burst out of the earth.
Yet instead of choosing to fight, the Thunderstorm Drake turned and fled without even looking back!
What a joke. The Storm Dragon clan never fought battles they were already losing!
It had thought that it and Thunderwing were here to crush weaklings. Who would have thought the two monsters they ran into would each be more terrifying than the last?
How was this fight supposed to continue?
The Thunderstorm Drake used the skill Lightning Flash Thrust, pushing its speed to the limit as it tried to escape.
Ye Ze, however, did not care in the slightest.
He knew the map well. Storm Dragon Valley was divided, from nearest to farthest, into four areas: Dragon Valley Frontline, Thunder Forest, Storm Gorge, and Storm Peak.
The final boss was at Storm Peak.
And since the Thunderstorm Drake had come all the way from Storm Gorge to Dragon Valley Frontline, it would not be so easy for it to run back and call for help now.
That stretch of road was enough for the mantis to kill it ten times over.
“If I kill it, the mantis should be able to evolve twice in a row.”
At Ye Ze’s command, the mantis vanished from the spot.
Since Thunderwing, as an Elite Commander, had provided one evolution chance upon being killed, the Thunderstorm Drake naturally should as well.
At that moment, the Thunderstorm Drake fled desperately back toward the gorge, not daring to slow down in the slightest.
After taking that palm strike from Panda, it was already severely wounded. It could not defeat Panda even in a one-on-one fight, much less now that its ally was already dead.
If it could just make it back to the Dragon King, there would still be a chance to turn things around!
That was its final thought.
The space above the Thunderstorm Drake suddenly twisted. A fissure of the Void slashed straight down from above, tearing open the earth— and tearing through the Thunderstorm Drake’s head and body as well.
Already gravely wounded, it could not withstand even a single Void Slash.
【Elite Commander Thunderstorm Drake killed. Experience +1600!】
【Hunter — Crimson-Eyed Mantis has slain powerful enemies consecutively and has accumulated two evolution chances!】
【Ding! Your level has risen to: 10!】
【Talent — You have gained one ‘Infinite Golden Traits’ draw chance!】
Several more notifications popped up before Ye Ze’s eyes in rapid succession.
But what Ye Ze cared about more was Class Advancement...
The gap between a rank-0 Class User and a rank-1 Class User was enormous.
At this moment, he could see that an advancement button had appeared in the class section of his personal panel.
【You have reached Level 10. You may now choose the difficulty of your rank-1 Class Advancement Quest —】
【1】Ordinary Advancement. Reward: Growth of all four attributes +2.
【2】Advanced Advancement. Reward: Summoned Beast Space +1, Growth of all four attributes +3.
【3】Perfect Advancement. Reward: Exclusive Skill Chest (Fine ~ Outstanding) ×1, Summoned Beast Space +1, Growth of all four attributes +4.
【4】Supreme Advancement. Reward: Summoned Beast Space +2, Exclusive Skill Chest (Outstanding and above) ×1, Growth of all four attributes +5!
(Note: Once the quest difficulty is chosen, it cannot be changed!)
When Ye Ze saw the rewards for Class Advancement, he was immediately overjoyed.
“Summoned Beast Space, and an Exclusive Skill Chest!”
There was no need to explain the value of Summoned Beast Space. It determined how many summoned beasts a Summoner could contract, directly raising the Summoner’s upper limit.
And the only ways to increase the number of Summoned Beast Spaces were through Class Advancement or through extremely rare items.
An item that could increase Summoned Beast Space would sell for at least twenty million.
It was even more expensive than a Summoner Class Card.
As for the Exclusive Skill Chest, it could randomly open a Summoner-exclusive skill book!
It was just as precious, and it could greatly increase a Summoner’s overall combat strength. Its types were also varied.
For example: Telepathy, Gigantification, Fusion, and more...
For top-tier Summoners, such skills could play an enormous role in battle.
Tempting as those rewards were, when Ye Ze looked at the quest interface, he still fell into deep thought.
That was because the various types of advancement quests for the Summoner class were all things only the Elite Class had been taught...
Once the difficulty was chosen, the quest itself was random. He really had no idea what kind of quest he might get.
Still, given his strength, there was not much point overthinking it.
Max out the difficulty!
If even his current strength could not clear it, then just how absurd would Supreme Advancement have to be?
Besides, even if he failed to complete the quest, he could still continue leveling up. He would simply remain rank 0 forever.
With that thought, Ye Ze made his choice directly:
“Supreme Advancement difficulty!”
【Ding! You have chosen rank-1 Class Advancement difficulty: Supreme!】
【Supreme Advancement Quest successfully rolled: ‘The Summoner on the Offensive’!】
Seeing that name, Ye Ze was utterly baffled.
Still, he carefully opened the quest description:
【The Summoner on the Offensive】
Quest requirement: Within any single day, defeat head-on rare Class Users of five types—Warrior, Assassin, Mage, Archer, and Swordsman—who are rank 1 or above.
—Who says Summoners cower? I will take the offensive!
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Defeat five rare Class Users of rank 1 or above in a single day?
This quest... it truly deserved to be called Supreme difficulty.
Not only did he have to defeat five rank-1 opponents while still rank 0,
he had to do it against rare classes!
Rare classes usually belonged to people with strong family backgrounds, and their class abilities were never weak.
For example, Ruan Xiaoyou’s Dark Spirit Assassin was a rare class of the Assassin type.
And he had to beat five rare classes like that in one day!
More importantly...
“Where am I supposed to find five rare classes?”
Ye Ze fell silent in confusion.
Fortunately, an advancement quest did not have to be completed immediately. It only had to be completed within any one chosen day.
After a moment of silence, Ye Ze decided he would think of a solution after leaving the Group Dungeon.
For now, the priority was to finish the dungeon as quickly as possible!
Ye Ze stopped wasting time and decided to draw the Trait first...