Chapter 62 : Chapter 62
Chapter 62: You Alone Are Going to Surround the Ten of Us?
The conditions for each layer of the battlefield to open were different.
As for the second layer, the moment twenty Trial Participants had fallen, it would open immediately...
This layer’s battlefield was ten times smaller than the first one!
The frequency of combat would obviously be much higher than on the previous layer!
In South China Team One, Song Qiaoqiao looked at the team rankings and could not help feeling puzzled.
“What is going on?”
“Twenty people have died, but the rankings only show kill points for ten of them?”
As long as a trainee was killed by another trainee, kill points would be generated. Otherwise, no kill points would appear.
At that moment, Fu Wanjun felt his scalp go numb. “Even North China Team Two died that fast!”
“It has to be that Instructor. He definitely didn’t suppress his strength!”
A heavily built Shield Guard boy on the team asked curiously:
“Captain, we’re South China Team One! What Instructor could possibly make you this afraid?”
At that moment, Ye Ze’s figure surfaced once more in Fu Wanjun’s mind, and he said with absolute certainty:
“That person is at least a third-advancement Class User!”
“At least third advancement? That’s outrageous!”
The others on the team were all stunned. “Could this be a test arranged by headquarters?”
Fu Wanjun thought for a moment, then made up his mind.
“That’s possible... but if we run into him right now, we still need to stay away.”
“Without the combat strength of two strong teams combined, there’s absolutely no way we can take him down!”
...
Elsewhere in the second layer of the Ancient Battlefield, the five members of North China Team One were seated atop a giant turtle, advancing slowly forward.
Chu He, the Hidden Class user whose class was marked confidential, wore a cultured and refined expression touched with anger.
“Who exactly is targeting our North China teams?”
“Exactly. Our Team Two and Team Four were both eliminated in only twenty minutes!”
Beside him, a tall girl in a green robe was also full of confusion.
“Could it be... someone is provoking me?”
“No matter who it is, North China ought to strike back!”
Chu He’s expression darkened.
He took out a scroll from his backpack and unfurled it. Painted on it was a vividly lifelike dragon.
“From here on, no matter who we run into, we fight immediately!”
The rest of his teammates were likewise fired with battle intent. The moment he said it, all of them prepared for combat.
And it was not just them.
Across the entire Ancient Battlefield, although the full melee state had not yet begun, chance encounters between two teams were happening one after another.
One could already sense that the number of surviving Trial Participants was about to drop sharply.
Ye Ze realized that as well:
He had to start racing for kills!
Each trainee Trial Participant was worth 1,000 experience points and 400 Military Merit!
If the trainee teams slaughtered one another first, would that not mean a massive loss for him?
With that thought, Ye Ze directly sent the mantis out on its own to deal with a South China Team Four it had scouted in advance.
Against an ordinary team, even a full team of five, the mantis could deal with them effortlessly.
As for Ye Ze, he copied Hunter’s Vision for himself.
Then, with his remaining Summoned Beasts, he headed to a ruined military camp structure amid broken walls and rubble.
The prey on his side numbered a full ten people!
Two full five-man teams, West China Team Two against East China Team Three.
And Ye Ze saw the main target he had been looking for: the captain of West China Team Two, Wang Jingyu, a rare Swordsman.
“At last, I can advance.”
Ye Ze made no attempt to hide his arrival, with the result that both teams on the battlefield instantly noticed this “third party”!
The two teams immediately pulled apart and stopped fighting at the same time.
One of the people in the East China team exclaimed in surprise, “Damn it! It’s him!”
“You know him?”
“That’s Ye Ze! The one who ranked first in the group dungeon. I caught a glimpse of him from outside the crowd that day...”
“Which team is he from? No, wait, that’s a Battlefield Guardian. He’s an Instructor?!”
“Why would they make a rookie an Instructor? Isn’t that just sending him here to die?”
“Maybe nobody was willing to be an Instructor!”
Once the members of East China Team Three saw that it was Ye Ze, they did not take him too seriously.
Most of their attention remained on the West China Team Two in front of them.
After all, in their eyes, Ye Ze was only one person. There was no way he posed more of a threat than the five members of West China Team Two.
Meanwhile, Wang Jingyu, the captain of West China Team Two, frowned slightly, unable to gauge Ye Ze’s depth.
“Good. Thankfully neither of these two teams has suffered any deaths yet. Otherwise it would’ve been a loss.”
Ye Ze smiled in satisfaction. “Make your move. Don’t let them run.”
Hearing such outrageously arrogant words, all ten people on the field were momentarily stunned...He was alone, yet he was planning to surround all ten of them?
But in the very next moment, they realized that he might not be joking.
With a flash of white light, the little fox was summoned out.
The orb floating beside the Three-Tailed Demon Fox burst with intense violet light.
In an instant, thunderclouds filled the sky, and the pressure they exuded was overwhelming.
Heavenfall Thunder!
Accompanied by deafening roars, the heavens split apart, and huge blazing-white bolts of lightning struck down upon the ground like divine punishment.
Wang Jingyu, captain of West China Team Two, saw his pupils contract sharply.
A sturdy boy beside him holding an enormous shield roared at once:
“Stand by me!”
The sturdy boy raised his shield. A layer of barrier light spread over its broad, heavy surface, resisting the heavenly thunder for the team.
At the same time, the Mage and Priest kept layering buffs and healing on him, and only then did they barely manage to hold out.
As for East China Team Three on the other side...their team composition had gone too far down an extreme path.
It seemed they had decided that they would lose in a frontal clash, so their lineup consisted entirely of classes like Assassins and other stealth-killer types.
Without a Shield Guard, no one could withstand the heavenly thunder, and it was already too late to run.
“Squirrel! Hurry and snatch their equipment!”
“If we’re any later, they’ll be struck to death!”
Ye Ze shouted at once. This was no time not to be anxious!
The heavenly thunder spread and turned into countless serpents of lightning. Wherever they passed, the earth was blasted into great pits and blackened to cinders.
The Assassins of East China Team Three did not even survive the second wave of Heavenfall Thunder.
Fortunately, however, the squirrel had Shadow Meld and astonishing speed, and it successfully used Treasure Seizure to take five pieces of equipment!
【You kill Trial Participants x5 and gain Experience +5000!】
...
Inside the Monitoring Division, the few higher-ups who had taken an interest in Ye Ze all fell silent.
“Besides that panda with first-rate strength and speed, and that mantis that can teleport...”
“he actually has another one with spell damage this high!”
Each of those Summoned Beasts possessed strength on the level of the third advancement!
Everyone looked toward Wan Feipeng again. “Hunter King, this Instructor really isn’t a third-advancement Class User?”
“If I say he isn’t, then he definitely isn’t!”
Wan Feipeng was already starting to enjoy himself greatly. Especially after seeing Ye Ze wipe out East China Team Three, he could not help arching a brow at Wu Ming.
At that moment, one of headquarters’ senior officials made a judgment:
“For a Summoner below the second advancement to have Summoned Beasts this strong, there is only one possibility...”
“His talent—or rather, he is exceptionally skilled at nurturing Summoned Beasts!”
For Summoners, exchanging for a high-tier Skill Book was far easier than raising a Summoned Beast to a high tier.
That was why the path of cultivating one’s Summoned Beasts was not common among Summoners.
The headquarters official praised him openly: “If a talent like this could come to headquarters, he might be able to train even more first-rate Summoners in the future!”
The instant those words were spoken, Wei Zheng could not help laughing.
Wan Feipeng’s expression froze awkwardly, then he flew into a rage:
“Damn it, Wei Ping! Are you trying to poach my talent right in front of me?”
“Calm down, Hunter King. I just think putting someone like him on Instructor duty is a bit of a waste of his abilities...”
“That’s right, Old Wan. Bringing this Instructor to headquarters would also be a contribution to China’s future. At the very least, it’s better than keeping him in the Demon Suppression Army, isn’t it?”
“What utter nonsense are you spouting...”