Within a single day, eight of the nine Nightmare Difficulty Arenas in the World 32 were cleared.
During this period, the gains were considerable.
Basically maintaining the pace of one level per arena, by the end of the eight rounds of challenges, Zhang Yue's level had already risen from the initial level 160 to level 168.
Combining with the equal amount of experience absorbed by the demon contract, Zhang Yue raised his own level to 170, and used the remaining experience to raise the average level of his pet team to 166.
As for the earnings in gold coins and Energy, they could be directly ignored by Zhang Yue, who didn't lack either.
During this period, the greatest harvest was none other than the eight sets of equipment.
Uniformly level 170, 28-star quality.
Reaper Set, focused on offense, with low defense and vitality bonus, set skill effect is summoning a reaper to assist in battle.
Ghost Set, focused on defense, set skill effect is that when the wearer launches an attack, a ghost can be summoned, which can block damage for the wearer.
Bloodbath Set, oriented toward offense, set skill causes all attacks to inflict unremovable bleeding damage on the enemy.
Desperado Set, balanced attribute bonuses in all aspects, set skill effect is the lower the user's remaining HP, the higher the damage.
Angel Set, a support buff set, set skill effect is that attacks can restore HP to self or teammates.
Devil Set, a debuff support set, set skill effect is that attacks can weaken the enemy's attributes.
Slaughter Set, focused on offense, set skill effect is gaining short-term output bonus for each enemy killed.
Destruction Set, focused on defense, set skill effect is damage reflection, allowing the wearer to reflect a large amount of the damage received back to the attacker.
These eight sets of equipment each had their own merits.
Zhang Yue himself didn't need them.
According to the characteristics of the five pets.
The Bloodbath Set was chosen for the Thirty-Six-Winged Armageddon Black Dragon, because all of Armageddon Black Dragon's attacks belonged to the AOE mode, and its killing power wasn't very remarkable. Plus, with the monster levels becoming increasingly higher later, when it could no longer directly one-shot enemies, it could just make use of the bleeding from the Bloodbath Set to make up for the missing damage, thus achieving the effect of a one-hit kill on the enemy.
The Apex Predator was equipped with the Slaughter Set. Killing enemies grants an output bonus, and it can stack, this skill is most suitable for the Apex Predator, which excels in single-target executions.
Armageddon Skeleton King used the Reaper Set.
Ice-Sealed War God was equipped with the Destruction Set, defense + damage reflection, which could push Ice-Sealed War God's pressure-resistance capability to the extreme.
Cherry was assigned the Devil Set. Although the Devil Set's appearance didn't match Cherry's naturally beautiful looks, its set skill, which weakens enemies, was quite suitable for Cherry to deal with tough enemies, such as high-level lords and bosses.
As for Zhang Yue himself, the attribute bonuses from a 28-star set were obviously much higher than those of a 25-star.
The main issue was that he was reluctant to replace the Transcendent Set.
After all, the eight set skills possessed by the Transcendent Set, let alone 28-star, even a 30-star set couldn't compare.
Just as it happens, from the Reaper Arena to the Slaughter Arena, through the eight Nightmare Difficulty Arenas, aside from the eight sets of equipment rewarded for clearing them, during the process of conquering these arenas, Zhang Yue also harvested a lot of high-star gear by hunting a massive number of lord monsters and bosses.
He used those 25-star and 26-star equipment as fodder, refining them all in one click to the Flowing Gold grade, then fed them to the Transcendent Set.
This raised the quality of the Immortal·Transcendent Set from 25-star to 26-star.
As a unique, infinitely-growing set, the attribute bonuses of the Transcendent Set were far superior to ordinary equipment.
The bonus effect of the 26-star Transcendent Set already rivaled that of a 28-star set.
In this way, Zhang Yue felt mentally balanced.
In addition, each arena's clearance reward also included an SSS-grade rare skill book + an epic-grade treasure.
As for the skill books, Zhang Yue selected a few suitable ones, either learning them himself or giving them to his pets.
After all, these were rare-grade skills that were hard to find in the marketplace and were of high value.
As for the treasures, Reaper's Eye, Ghost's Eye, Devil's Eye, Angel's Eye, Slaughter's Eye…
These treasures all seemed to have a common trait, not only were they of the same quality, all being epic-grade, even their names followed the same pattern, just like they came from the same manufacturer.
Their effects: some weakened the enemy's attack power, some weakened defense, some weakened speed, damage, resistance… all kinds of effects were present.
Individually, the bonus effect wasn't obvious, but if all these effects could be combined, just like the Demon Contract, they would make for an excellent treasure.
Unfortunately, the conditions didn't allow Zhang Yue to possess the effects of so many treasures at the same time.
Because under the current Tier 4 class state, Zhang Yue could only carry up to five treasures simultaneously.
Currently, he already had the Heart of the Demon God, Reaper's Eye, Holy Grail, Void Stone, and Demon Contract.
No extra slots were available to load more treasures.
So Zhang Yue temporarily stored them in his storage space.
At this moment, Zhang Yue lit up the eight badges in his hand.
Each first-time clearance of a Nightmare Arena would grant an exclusive seal.
These eight badges corresponded to the eight seals.
Just then, the eight seals suddenly floated into the air and formed a circle.
However, the circle had a gap.
Upon seeing this, Chen Zijin said, "There should be nine badges in total to form a complete circle. Now one is missing."
"There were a total of nine Nightmare Difficulty Arenas that appeared in the World 32. We cleared eight of them. The remaining one, the Annihilation Arena, was already conquered a few days ago by professionals from the Beacon Nation, meaning the Annihilation Seal is in the hands of the Beacon Nation…"
It was clear that the key to unlocking the Hell Arena was these seals.
All nine seals must be gathered to open the Hell Arena.
"We need to obtain that Annihilation Seal."
As Zhang Yue's words fell, Chen Zijin thoughtfully said, "Shall we go to the Beacon Nation now? We can directly invade their Death Territory, avoiding their national territory, that way, their high-level professionals won't be able to catch us. Within the Tier 4 domain, we are invincible."
"Mm," Zhang Yue said, "No rush. Before that, there's one more important thing."
Upon hearing this, even the Flowing Gold Warrior's curiosity was piqued, "What else do you have to do?"
Zhang Yue checked the time and said, "Eat."
"Let's meet again tonight."
After speaking, Zhang Yue immediately left with Chen Zijin, leaving the Flowing Gold Warrior alone… in the wind, disoriented.
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After logging off, Zhang Yue found Ouyang Ling'er.
One had to say, Ouyang Ling'er had become increasingly clever.
Without Zhang Yue needing to speak, she already understood what Zhang Yue wanted, "You want the specific whereabouts of the Annihilation Seal, right?"
Zhang Yue: "Of all who know me, none knows better than Ouyang."
"OK, I'll check it right away. I'll tell you after dinner!"
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