Chapter 60 : Chapter 60
Chapter 60: The Fourteenth Trait: Hunter’s Vision!
Inside the dungeon, Ye Ze showed no mercy at all and specifically targeted the most valuable equipment.
Aside from the captain who had been eliminated earlier, none of the remaining four members of the team escaped.
In total, he took three Epic-grade pieces and one Outstanding-grade piece.
Even with their affluent backgrounds, they could not help feeling a pang of pain.
After all, equipment above Outstanding-grade was scarce to the point of being nearly impossible to buy on the open market. Truly exceptional pieces could not be bought at any price.
Of course, Ye Ze still had at least a trace of morality. If it was class-exclusive equipment or gear of great personal significance, he would not take it.
Once the equipment was in hand, the mantis sent the other four to elimination with a single slash.
【You kill Trial Participants x4 and gain Experience: 4000!】
【Ding! Your level rises to: Level 14!】
【Talent — You gain one draw chance for “Infinite Golden Traits.”】
【Advancement Quest Progress: Warrior 0/1, Assassin 1/1, Mage 1/1, Archer 0/1, Swordsman 0/1.】
At the same time, Ye Ze silently noted that his Military Merit had reached 2,000.
The experience bar that had already been close to leveling up finally tipped over after the kills on the Inferno Behemoth and the five trainees.
The only pity was this: among the remaining four, only one was a rare Mage-type class.
There had originally also been an Archer-type class, but unfortunately, it was only an advanced one.
Still, that did not matter.
Among the trainees in the special training camp, the one thing in no short supply was rare classes!
Right after that, Ye Ze began drawing his next Trait.
His fourteenth Golden Legend Trait!
【Ding! You draw a Golden Legend Trait: Hunter’s Vision!】
【Hunter’s Vision: Creates a special field of sight that sees through all things, captures every minute movement of prey, and reveals prey through any terrain or obstacle.】
“Good Lord... it can see through things?”
What else could that be if not X-ray vision?
And on top of that, it matched the mantis’s Compound Eyes perfectly.
Compound Eyes already provided a 360-degree panoramic field of view and extremely long-range sight. Now, paired with Hunter’s Vision, which could see through all terrain and obstacles...there would be no prey capable of escaping.
Until now, Ye Ze had still been wondering how he was supposed to find people on a battlefield map as vast as the Ancient Battlefield.
Now, that problem was solved in an instant!
“Excellent. I’ll leave it to the mantis...”
【Trait “Hunter’s Vision” bestowed successfully!】
【Summoned Beast: Void Hunter (Legend☆) advances → (Legend☆☆)】
Ye Ze asked curiously, “Can you see anyone nearby?”
Threads of red light shone from the mantis’s compound eyes, and it revealed an excited expression.
“So many... people!”
Hearing that, Ye Ze could not help growing excited as well.
So it really worked. Using Hunter’s Vision to find people on the battlefield was practically cheating!
“Where is the nearest team?”
Ye Ze asked eagerly. The mantis stretched out an arm blade and pointed behind a nearby hill.
“There. Six people!”
Six people?
A team was only supposed to have a maximum of five members. Was the sixth person a lone straggler from another team, or an Instructor?
But that was not important. Once he had the direction, Ye Ze moved out immediately.
...
【Current remaining Trial Participants: 95/100】
Looking at the change in numbers on their personal panels, the other trainee teams were all taken aback.
The dungeon had only been open for ten minutes, yet five trainees had already fallen... and not a single team had earned kill points!
In Central China Team Two, Liu Anran was leading her team in search of a boss.
When she saw the scores of the other teams, she could not help feeling puzzled.
“Five people have been eliminated, and no team killed them.”
“Could there be some extremely difficult boss in the Ancient Battlefield, or some instant-kill trap?”
In the past, some dungeon mechanisms had indeed been fatal the moment they were triggered.
But in a PvP dungeon where trainees were supposed to fight one another, there really should not have been many such lethal traps.
After thinking it over, Liu Anran reminded her team, “We need to be more careful as well.”
Liu Anran’s position within the team was a special one. She was the captain, the Tactician, and also a Hidden Class user.
So even though, by special training camp standards, her family background was considered fairly ordinary...
none of the other four on the team disregarded her words.
“Let’s continue. First, we’ll secure the points from the Magical Beast boss.”
“When the next layer of the Ancient Battlefield opens and the map shrinks, that will be when the real fighting begins!”
As she spoke, Liu Anran drew a circular spell formation beneath the feet of her teammates.
In the next instant, the five of them were teleported to another location!
...
Meanwhile, Ye Ze reached the target team’s location in a flash.
Once the mantis found the opponent, it first used Void Traverse to reach a nearby point. Ye Ze then used Swap to switch places with it, and the mantis arrived alongside him with a second Void Traverse.
On the plain before him were five trainees and Hu Ming, the Instructor Ye Ze had met before.
It was impossible to tell whether they had run into one another by chance.
Of the six, four trainees stood at a distance while only their captain dueled Hu Ming one-on-one.
That interested Ye Ze somewhat.
Hu Ming was, after all, a level-23 second-advancement Fighter, while the trainee captain was only level 13. Yet in a one-on-one fight, the latter actually held the upper hand!
“So this is North China Team Two...”
“Too bad. North China again.”
Ye Ze felt a trace of regret. He would much rather have run into teams from Central China or East China.
And this North China Team Two was clearly far stronger than the North China Team Four from before.
The black-haired, black-armored boy leading them was a rare Warrior-type class user, and the fiercer the battle grew, the stronger he seemed to become.
“Instructor, your second-advancement Fighter doesn’t seem all that impressive!”
The boy laughed loudly, both fists glowing faintly red as every blow landed solidly.
Hu Ming, badly wounded, felt his heart jolt.
“These freshmen this year are far too monstrous!”
He had only dared exchange a few moves because this was merely Team Two.
He had never expected a first-advancement Class User from Team Two to be able to duel him, a second-advancement Fighter, one-on-one!
As expected, even Team Two was still Team Two among geniuses...
The black-haired youth threw his final punch and killed Hu Ming!
“Amazing, Captain!”
The four teammates watching from afar could not help praising him.
Killing an Instructor also awarded points of varying amounts, which would raise their team’s ranking as well.
At that moment, the black-haired youth who had just killed Hu Ming turned his head.
When he saw Ye Ze standing on the hillside, his battle intent surged, and he bared his teeth in a grin.
“Another one?”
“I wonder how many points an Instructor like you is worth.”
...
Inside the Monitoring Division,
the projected images were no longer focused solely on Ye Ze. The other teams had all begun their own battles as well.
But Wan Feipeng was still staring fixedly at Ye Ze’s side of things. Seeing this, he dragged Wu Ming over again.
“Well? Want to bet this time?”
“The one facing him is North China Team Two!”
Seeing how confident Wan Feipeng was, even Wei Zheng could not help growing curious.
“Tell me, Old Wan. Does the person you brought actually fit the Instructor strength requirements?”
“Of course! He is absolutely below a third-advancement Class User!”
In the Battle Royale, Instructors were only meant to increase the difficulty slightly. If the Instructors were too strong, it would affect the essential PvP nature of the trainees’ battle.
So the special training camp had set a rule that Instructors could only be below the third advancement.
Wan Feipeng naturally gave that assurance with complete confidence.
After hearing that answer, Wei Zheng nodded, and the North China regional head, who had been sitting silently, stood up.
“Brother Hunter King, how about I take that bet instead?”
The North China regional head was a middle-aged man who did not speak much, but he still had great confidence in the trainees he had brought.
Especially because this was his Team Two. Compared to the Team Four that had been eliminated first, they were stronger by several levels!
At the same time, he wanted to use this chance to wash away the humiliation brought by Team Four earlier.
Wan Feipeng was delighted, accepting all challengers without hesitation.
“Gladly!”
“Then let me think about our wager—”
Before he could finish speaking,
a tremendous crash suddenly sounded from Ye Ze’s projection!
Everyone immediately turned to look.
They saw that the black-haired captain of Team Two, who had been full of battle intent only a moment ago, had somehow already been closed in on by the panda and struck with a single punch!
The sheer concussive force of that punch produced a thunderous blast.
It sent the captain of Team Two flying a full hundred meters!
He smashed straight into a distant hill.
“He got one-shot just like that?!”
Someone cried out in shock.
The North China regional head felt as if his heart had stopped, as though that punch had landed squarely on his own chest as well.
“Damn it all!”
Wan Feipeng anxiously smacked his fist into his palm.
“Couldn’t this Ye Ze have waited just a little longer before making his move?!”
He had not even had time to name the wager yet!