[World 32, Death Territory, lv175 Reaper Ruins]
Chen Zijin looked at Elfa, who stood opposite her with sword in hand, yet had not made any move all along, growing increasingly confused, "This Elfa, what on earth is he doing? Not fighting, not leaving, performing acrobatics?"
"What is he waiting for?"
On Zhang Yue's side, he was receiving messages from Hidden Dragon, Xuan Lan, and others one after another.
["Master, where the hell are you? Report your location, we'll come over immediately. With your current strength and level, you can't handle this Elfa!"]
["Brother Yue, think of a way to hold him off first, wait for us to get there."]
["Don't come,"] Zhang Yue immediately replied to Xuan Lan's message, ["Once you come, you'll fall completely into his trap."]
["Setting off from Dragon Nation, even with full-speed flight, it would take at least an hour to reach here."]
["He won't wait that long. At most, he'll make a move after you enter the Death Territory."]
Zhang Yue looked like he had seen through everything, ["You won't be able to save me, but you'll have to pay the price of forcibly stepping into a lower-level World's Death Territory, and with that, he achieves his goal of killing two birds with one stone."]
Hearing Zhang Yue say this, Xuan Lan on the other end of the dialogue box suddenly had a realization.
She grabbed Hidden Dragon, who was busy preparing to head to the World 32 Death Territory to aid Zhang Yue, and said in a deep voice, "Wait!"
"Wait for what?", Hidden Dragon was full of urgency, "If we wait any longer, Master will be dead."
Xuan Lan was calm and rational, "Once we all go in, we will permanently lose the qualification to enter the Death Territory. At the same time, we will also lose the qualification to compete with other empires. Have you thought about what this means?"
"Losing the development rights to the High-Level World Death Territories, and without rare resources from the high-level World Death Territories as support, will directly lead to the decline of our entire Dragon Nation. And even if we go in now, it'll be too late. Elfa is just waiting for us to enter."
Hidden Dragon of course understood this reasoning too, he just didn't want to accept it, "Then what do we do? Just watch Master get killed?"
For a moment, even Xuan Lan was at a loss.
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On the other side, Ice Emperor and the others, who originally planned to advance into the World 32 Death Territory to support Zhang Yue, were also forced to abandon the plan.
This was one of Elfa's traps.
Seeing that there was no movement from the Dragon Nation side for a long time, Elfa seemed somewhat disappointed, "Looks like in your Dragon Nation, you're not very significant."
"Rather let you die, not a single person is willing to come in to save you."
"Put away your tricks," Zhang Yue stared indifferently at Elfa and said, "You think you're clever, don't you?"
Through the blood-colored ghost armor covering his face, Elfa's deep eyes locked tightly onto Zhang Yue, without saying a word.
However, even through the armor, one could feel the anger in Elfa's heart.
Having not achieved the goal he desired most, Elfa comforted himself with another idea, "Killing you is my ultimate goal."
Zhang Yue habitually rested his magic staff on his shoulder, looking at Elfa casually and said, "The precondition is, you must be able to kill me."
Elfa smiled calmly and said, "I know you have the ability to counter-kill. You think I don't dare kill you."
"You think that I must do it personally to kill you?"
"Of course, you can leave me severely injured and let someone else deliver the final blow," Zhang Yue had long seen through Elfa's sneaky intentions. However, since he had already guessed everything and still dared to come here, it meant Zhang Yue had prepared.
And his preparation was, Demon Contract.
One of the effects of the Mythical Demon Contract, Death Contract, under the premise that resurrection scrolls can be used, it can ignore all permanent death effects.
So, the "death cannot be revived, face permanent death directly" effect inside the Reaper Ruins was ineffective against Zhang Yue.
After activation, the duration of the seal was only ten minutes.
Now, five minutes had already passed, and with the remaining five minutes, the Reaper Ruins would return to normal.
Elfa clearly couldn't wait any longer.
"Since no one cares whether you live or die, then prepare to go to hell!"
The livestream was still ongoing.
Under the gaze of thousands, Elfa held his ghost sword and approached Zhang Yue step by step.
Zhang Yue, who originally was fearless, suddenly thought of a question...
Chen Zijin.
Zhang Yue could use the Demon Contract to ignore the death effect of the Reaper Ruins map, but what about Chen Zijin?
He actually forgot about Chen Zijin.
At this moment, Chen Zijin obviously hadn't realized the severity of the situation. Or perhaps, she had long since put life and death aside.
Right now, she still stood firmly guarding in front of Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue looked at the time.
Block Elfa for five more minutes, delay until the seal ends.
Seems a bit difficult, but it was also the only way to save Chen Zijin.
So, Zhang Yue gripped his extraordinary staff and reversed roles, placing Chen Zijin behind himself for protection.
"Then let's settle this," In terms of aura, Zhang Yue never lost to anyone.
Facing him, a gleam of cold light flashed in Elfa's eyes.
The next second, he suddenly "whoosh", instantly teleported from a hundred meters away to Zhang Yue's front.
Swish!
Sword raised and fell, Zhang Yue reacted with extraordinary reflexes, quickly blinked, and perfectly dodged Elfa's attack.
But Elfa's reflexes were no worse than Zhang Yue's.
Almost 0.1 seconds after the first slash, he struck again at Zhang Yue's side.
Without Blink available, and not fast enough to dodge, Zhang Yue swiftly activated Magic Shield while using his staff to block the attack.
But how could a mere level 170 Tier 4 mage withstand the attack of a level 500 Tier 9 warrior?
Elfa didn't even use full strength. Just a casual slash easily broke through Zhang Yue's block, instantly chopping his full health bar down to 1 HP.
Elfa didn't dare kill Zhang Yue directly, because he was also afraid.
He knew Zhang Yue had the death counter-kill ability, which could deal equal counter-damage to the killer at the moment of death.
Last time, Elfa had suffered this from Zhang Yue.
So this time, Elfa had activated blood-lock protection mode in advance.
After maiming Zhang Yue, he used Ghost Shadow Sword Formation to bind him, putting Zhang Yue in a state where he couldn't heal or move.
Then he turned to a mage behind him and said, "Kill him!"
That little mage clearly hesitated.
Because he also understood, once he killed Zhang Yue, he would also face permanent death from the counter-kill.
Equivalent to life for a life.
Seeing the little mage hesitate, Elfa raised the stakes, "Kill him, and I'll guarantee your family's lifelong peace, and reward your family with fifty million cash!"
In the end, family outweighed everything. That little mage went all in, raised his staff and aimed at Zhang Yue...
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