Question: Zhang Yue achieved such extremely fast world-clearing results in the Otherworld, who feels the greatest threat from this?
Answer: The Beacon Nation, and the Cold Nation.
As one of the three current myth-level professionals in the world, the Ghost Sword Master Elfa of the Beacon Nation is unquestionably the strongest, followed by the Frost Mage King Kwon Ji-Hyun of the Cold Nation.
Because of these two, the Beacon Nation and Cold Nation have long held top positions in international standing.
Ever since the total invasion of the Dragon Nation failed, Elfa has been secretly plotting and thoroughly investigating the background strength of those few revived professionals from the Dragon Nation.
He's been preparing for a decisive blow to completely wipe out the Dragon Nation next time.
So, facing this matter, Elfa is actually under the most pressure.
"The Hell Dragon Knight of Bear Nation has always been fully supporting the Dragon Nation. Because of his influence, it was already hard for us to break through the Dragon Nation. And now, the Dragon Nation has revived five legendary-level powerhouses."
Picking up Elfa's words, Kwon Ji-Hyun said, ["I know, I also investigated those five. Among them, God Lu Bu, Hu Yanzhou, and Cappuccino aren't worth worrying about. None of them have reached Tier 9, they're simply not strong enough to stand against us. The only ones to watch out for are the two old ones."]
In Elfa's deep gaze, there was a trace of disappointment, "The key lies in those two old ones. Do you know what their identities are?"
Clearly, Kwon Ji-Hyun hadn't investigated as thoroughly as Elfa, "What identity? At most just a bit stronger than regular legendary-level professionals. Don't tell me… they could really rival us myth-level pros? Besides, they're so old already, just a few sickly geezers, hardly worth worrying about."
"Heaven and Earth Mage, Arrow Emperor, and Witch Ancestor, these three professions are unique in the Otherworld," Elfa said, "A legendary-level profession, once marked as unique, means it already has one foot in the myth-level. Those three from the Dragon Nation are far beyond ordinary legendary-level strength, they've already reached demigod-level."
"When the three of them join forces, their strength is in no way inferior to you and me. And add to that the Hell Dragon Knight of Bear Nation, if we hadn't withdrawn in the last battle and had kept fighting them, our chances of victory would've been less than thirty percent."
Hearing Elfa's precise analysis, Kwon Ji-Hyun on the other end of the phone was immediately stunned.
["Those old undyings… are actually that strong?"]
Elfa said in a deep voice, "They are from the same group as the Asura who, a hundred years ago, singlehandedly crushed a Tier 9 Beast Tide in the Dragon Nation. If Asura had not died, they would be calling him master."
These words instantly snapped Kwon Ji-Hyun completely out of his daze.
["So you're saying… we really have no way out now? We're just going to watch the Necromancer grow stronger, and then lead the Dragon Nation… to come after us?"]
"Unless there's a way to turn the Hell Dragon Knight against them," Elfa said, "But with the friendship between the Dragon Nation and Bear Nation, it's absolutely impossible for Bear Nation to side with us against the Dragon Nation."
["So, we really have no way."]
At this point, the two fell into silence simultaneously.
At some unknown point, the call disconnected.
It wasn't just the Beacon Nation and Cold Nation.
The Seven Great Nations, and even those countries that once assisted the Seven Nations in resisting the Dragon Nation, all became emotionally crushed because of this piece of news.
They could already imagine the future scene: someday soon, the Necromancer of the Dragon Nation would grow into a level-500, Tier 9 powerhouse, and lead the Dragon Nation in a sweeping invasion of their nations.
———
On the other side—
Within the Dragon Nation.
At the moment the boss of the World 31 was defeated and the gate to the World 32 opened, Zhang Yue let out a long breath of relief, "Finally."
After a whole day of hard work, he had finally succeeded in breaking through the World 31.
And the Hell Arena was in the next world: World 32 · Super God Arena.
However, by now, it was already past 8 PM.
After a full day of intense combat alongside Chen Zijin, Zhang Yue was completely exhausted, as if his body had been hollowed out.
He truly no longer had the energy to continue conquering the World 32 right away.
———
Most importantly: it was now dinner time.
Chen Zijin stretched her limbs and said to Zhang Yue, "Let's go! Zhang… Brother Asura, log off and get dinner!"
"Sure," Zhang Yue asked, "What do you want to eat? My treat."
Zhang Yue still understood gratitude and repaying favors.
In fact, based on Zhang Yue's own strength, clearing six worlds in one day was still unlikely.
The reason this outrageous level of world-clearing efficiency was possible, Chen Zijin's contribution was absolutely crucial.
If not for her Crystal Love, Zhang Yue's monster hunting speed and world mission execution speed would've been at least cut in half.
Besides that, don't underestimate Chen Zijin's own strength.
Among all the monsters killed throughout the day, the ones killed by Chen Zijin accounted for thirty percent.
She undeniably created tremendous benefits for Zhang Yue.
Thus, on the way back to the safe zone of the World 31, Zhang Yue tallied up his various gains.
Zhang Yue's monster hunting had been full-coverage style.
Normally, if a world's mission required killing ten thousand monsters, Zhang Yue would slay at least ten times that, 100,000 or even several hundred thousand monsters.
Because the world missions don't just ask professionals to kill ten thousand small fry.
They usually have an additional attached requirement about what kind of monsters must be killed.
During this process, inevitably, they also hunted many monsters not part of the mission's conditions.
And it was these monsters that provided large amounts of EXP, enabling Zhang Yue's rapid level-up.
At present, it looked like one world corresponded to 5 levels.
The World 31 corresponded to a level range of 166–170.
Of course, a professional's level is limited by a world's maximum level, not its minimum. As long as you can survive and conditions allow it, even a level-1 professional can enter the World 31.
Currently, Zhang Yue's level had frozen at level 160.
Although he was still 10 levels behind the World 31's max level, leveling up from 145 to 160 in a single day, gaining 15 levels, was already heaven-defying.
For ordinary players, at this stage, leveling once every 3 to 5 days would be normal.
And to promote balanced development, Zhang Yue used the equivalent experience stored by the Demon Contract to level up his pet team to level 160 as well.
If he had used the Demon Contract experience on himself, Zhang Yue might already be level 165.
Of course, in the face of sufficient strength, level difference actually doesn't matter much.
With Zhang Yue's current level of 160 and average 2.5 billion+ DPS output, he could still easily one-shot level-170 monsters in the World 31.
As long as this condition is met, that's enough.
Putting level aside, as for other gains, like pet harvesting and skill proficiency increases, those were also quite considerable.
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