Chapter 64 : Chapter 64
Chapter 64: I’m Glad You Think That Way!
Meanwhile, in another stretch of ruins within the Ancient Battlefield, South China Team Four, a team made up of freshmen whose overall rankings placed them within the top twenty of the South China Region, was in a thoroughly shattered state, the chill running through all five of them.
The three boys and two girls, praised by outsiders as the “South China Prodigies,” now looked completely dazed and spiritless.
Hovering in the air before them was a dark-violet mantis that radiated an alien, terrifying aura, letting out a laugh that made one’s blood run cold.
From the way sweat was pouring off the five of them, it was clear they had already launched several attacks, all of them utterly useless.
The captain of South China Team Four had gone pale, and even the hand gripping his sword was trembling slightly.
“Where in the world... did this monster come from?”
...
After receiving the second reward from the Exclusive Skill Chest, Ye Ze was delighted at first, but then he could not help feeling puzzled.
“A Legendary-grade exclusive skill!”
“And all it does is temporarily enhance a single skill? That still counts as Legendary quality?”
Among a Summoner’s exclusive skills, enhancement-type abilities were considered fairly common, such as boosting a Summoned Beast’s attributes, increasing damage, and so on...
An ordinary temporary skill enhancement could at most only count as Outstanding-grade.
Yet this Skill Book had actually reached Legendary-grade... and that made Ye Ze curious about its true effect.
Right at that moment, a notification rang out:
【Void Hunter kills Trial Participants x5 and gains Experience +5000!】
【Level: 14 (20275/22100)】
Before dealing with those ten people, Ye Ze had sent the mantis out alone to deal with South China Team Four so he could secure the kills first.
The facts had proven one thing: an ordinary team, even a full five-man team, still could not withstand the mantis’s assault.
Even though, in this case, “ordinary” referred to the team ranked fourth among one of the nation’s five major war zones, selected out of countless high schools.
After a ripple of spatial distortion, the mantis traversed back.
Perfect timing, too. Ye Ze was just about to use Skill Enhancement to test its effect on the mantis’s Hunter characteristic...
【“Skill Enhancement - Super” takes effect!】
【Hunter — after killing a powerful enemy, the Void Mantis may evolve any one body part...】
Enhanced:
【Hunter - Super — after killing a powerful enemy, the Void Mantis simultaneously evolves all four body parts and gains the corresponding attribute increases!】
(When another skill is enhanced, the enhancement on this skill expires.)
——
After killing a single powerful enemy, it had gone from being able to evolve only one body part of his choice to evolving all four body parts at the same time!
At the same time, it would also gain all the attribute increases brought by those four body-part evolutions!
It had nearly quadrupled the effect of the skill!
“As expected of Legendary quality!”
To be able to raise the effect of a Legendary-grade skill like Hunter by four times—the benefits it brought were almost unimaginable!
The only pity was that it could only affect one skill at a time.
“But fortunately, I can control it myself. When the mantis is about to kill a powerful enemy, I just have to enhance Hunter in time.”
Now, each time it killed a powerful enemy, all four body parts would be enhanced, giving at least 80 extra attribute points!
Ye Ze was already impatient to try it.
“I just hope there are enough powerful opponents in this dungeon!”
Though the chances of that were rather slim.
After killing another fifteen trainees, five of them from East China, he had gained another 7,500 Military Merit.
Added to the 4,000 he had accumulated earlier, along with the 2,150 points he already possessed, he was already close to being able to enter the fourth level of the Demon Suppression Army Headquarters Treasury!
At the very least, a Legendary-grade treasure was almost in his grasp.
Ye Ze became even more motivated and activated the copied Hunter’s Vision once more...
Only to discover, unexpectedly, that five people were actively charging straight toward him!
His gaze shifted slightly, and he looked rather surprised.
“This time, it seems someone formidable has arrived.”
...
A ripple of spatial distortion appeared, and five people materialized out of thin air not far from the military camp.
“The scouting result wasn’t wrong, right?”
“No. There’s only one isolated person nearby!”
“Either he’s a lone wolf left over from some team, or he’s a Battlefield Guardian. Either way, we’ll get points from him!”
Liu Anran, who had asked the question, glanced at the team rankings at that moment.
Her Central China Team Two was currently in fifth place, and there was still room to climb higher.
“Good.”
Since it was five against one, the five of them did not bother making any tactical arrangements at all.
At that moment, Liu Anran wore a light-blue mage robe, and with her starry eyes gleaming faintly, she appeared all the more mysterious and elegant.
With a wave of her small hand, spatial power carried all five of them and teleported them directly to the target.
But the moment she saw Ye Ze standing there, the calm look on her face instantly changed in shock.
“Why is it you?!”
Hearing that cry of surprise from their captain, the four teammates who had been about to attack all came to an abrupt halt.
Even Ye Ze’s lips curved upward slightly.
“What a coincidence.”
She might be Teacher Liu’s precious daughter, but this was still a Central China team... an extra 300 Military Merit per person!
Making it quick would already be the last kindness he could offer.
“You’re actually a Battlefield Guardian too?”
Liu Anran looked at him with a complicated expression, utterly unable to understand why Ye Ze had been recruited as an Instructor.
Had her old man called in favors?
That should not have been the case... what benefit would there be in having Ye Ze come here as an Instructor?
Among her teammates, a slender, fair-skinned long-haired boy was staring coldly at Ye Ze.
As one of her teammates, he had never seen Liu Anran reveal such complicated emotions before.
The long-haired boy’s face turned grim... Could this be Liu Anran’s ex-boyfriend?
Aside from an ex-boyfriend, what other identity could possibly make her react so complicatedly?
...
In the Monitoring Division, when Wei Zheng saw his own Central China Team Two go up against Ye Ze, he immediately became interested and looked toward Wan Feipeng with a smile.
“Well, Old Wan? How about I bet against you this time?”
Hearing that, even Wan Feipeng, who had always been full of confidence in Ye Ze, fell silent for a moment.
Because he had already seen the strength of the five members of Central China Team Two...
Central China truly deserved its reputation as the strongest among the five major war zones. Even its Team Two was on par with the Team Ones of the other regions.
They were terrifyingly strong!
Although Wan Feipeng had lost some of his confidence, he still refused to yield and said angrily:
“If you’ve got the guts, make it one on one!”
“What kind of skill is there in five people ganging up on one?”
Wei Ping from headquarters spoke up at once. “That Instructor of yours would count as an expert even within the Demon Suppression Army. You’d have a bunch of freshmen fight him one on one and still not think that shameless?”
Wan Feipeng gave a cold snort and wore a look too disdainful to bother arguing.
At that, the others could not help bursting into laughter.
The entire Monitoring Division filled with cheerful laughter.
...
Inside the dungeon, Liu Anran had no intention whatsoever of letting Ye Ze go.
In her judgment, sparing him would only mean letting some other team harvest the points instead. She might as well take them herself!
“Let me make this clear in advance. This is the special training camp battlefield. I will not hold back!”
Liu Anran said it with an indifferent expression.
Hearing that, Ye Ze smiled just as happily.
“I’m glad you think that way!”