It is temporarily not completely confirmed that this is the method to enter the King-level secret realm Hell Gladiator Arena, but it's more or less certain.
That is, through the thunder and lightning in this Thunderfall Zone, one gets teleported into a dedicated challenge domain, completing the challenges within the domain.
Obviously, merely passing one challenge is still not enough, Zhang Yue did not perceive any obvious change.
So, Zhang Yue used a potion to restore his HP to full value.
The next moment, another bolt of lightning struck down, directly hitting Zhang Yue.
Just like before, Zhang Yue disappeared along with the lightning.
Chen Zijin to the side was still somewhat puzzled, "Why didn't the lightning attack me?"
After hesitating for a moment, Chen Zijin seemed to understand something.
Immediately she took out a bottle of red potion and drank it down, restoring her lost HP.
Just as she recovered to full HP status, a lightning bolt fell from the sky and took her away.
Turns out, the lightning in the Thunderfall Zone only attacks full-HP professionals.
According to the lightning's teleportation, Zhang Yue indeed entered another new challenge domain.
The opponents were still Thunder Bats.
With the experience from last time, this time Zhang Yue took only 5 seconds to eliminate hundreds of Thunder Bats, easily ending the battle and passing the challenge.
After killing all the Thunder Bats, Zhang Yue was teleported back to the Thunderfall Zone, and the HP bar above his head was fixed at 95%.
After repeatedly completing a few challenges, the rules were roughly figured out.
It could be confirmed: once teleported into the challenge space, all monsters inside must be killed before one can exit.
Moreover, in the challenge domain, professionals lose 1% of max HP automatically per second, and during this period, cannot recover HP by any means.
Also, only in full HP status can one be transported via lightning into the challenge domain.
So, following this rule, Zhang Yue repeatedly transported in and out of the challenge space, and after completing ten rounds of challenges.
Suddenly, a Starshine Card appeared in Zhang Yue's hand.
Taking a glance, he saw the front of the card engraved with a few golden characters.
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[Contestant: Zero]
[Current Rank: 1-Star Arena Novice]
[Current Arena Points: 10]
[Current Ranking: Unknown]
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On the back of the card, it displayed: [With this voucher, you can enter the Hell Gladiator Arena]
This was indeed the method to enter the King-level secret realm Hell Gladiator Arena.
However, Zhang Yue also received a prompt: [Since the number of professionals currently qualified to enter the Hell Gladiator Arena is below 100,000, entry into the Hell Gladiator Arena is temporarily unavailable.]
Not long after, Chen Zijin also completed ten rounds of challenges.
She also obtained a Starshine Card exactly identical to the one in Zhang Yue's hand.
However, on Chen Zijin's card, it recorded her own data information.
After finding the way to enter the Hell Gladiator Arena, Zhang Yue immediately informed Ice Emperor of this secret.
Then Ice Emperor issued a national announcement, inviting strong individuals to go to the World 32 to take on the challenge.
Discovering the method to enter the secret realm within one hour after the King-level secret realm opened was originally something to be happy about.
However, what followed was disaster.
Although Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin easily completed the challenges,
For ordinary people, to kill over 200 monsters of the same level as oneself within 100 seconds without taking damage is practically impossible.
Within Dragon Nation, professionals from all the major nations rushed to the World 32, searching for Thunderfall Zones within the national territory, and then used the thunderfall to enter the challenge space.
But in the end, they were eliminated one after another, going in vertically and coming out horizontally.
Either they were surrounded and beaten to death by monsters inside, or they failed to complete the challenge within the time limit and were drained to death by the 1% per second bleed damage.
Because regardless of the professional's level, the challenge targets encountered inside were all of the same level.
So, having a high level does not provide an advantage.
Once a professional enters the challenge domain, the death rate reaches 99.999%.
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As time passed second by second, in Dragon Nation, Dragon City, inside the high-level meeting hall—
Ice Emperor, Moon Mark, Seraph, and the others who had already completed the challenge and obtained vouchers to enter the Hell Gladiator Arena were observing nationwide challenge data from professionals across all provinces and cities.
"Within one hour, the total number of challenges nationwide exceeded 5 million, but only 452 people passed the challenge..."
"There must be 100,000 people qualified before we can officially enter the Hell Gladiator Arena, this... is too far off!"
Moon Mark asked, "How about over in Bear Nation?"
Ice Emperor had just ended a call with Emperor Resis and said, "Nationwide over there, 330 people passed the challenge."
"In addition, some of our allied countries, the Sevian Nation passed 156 people, Thracian 126, Argenine 89..."
Upon hearing this, all the congressmen in the meeting hall fell silent.
At this moment, Ice Emperor said in a deep voice, "Announce this entry condition to the entire world."
"But...", one of the congressmen said, "If we let people from hostile countries like Beacon Nation, Cold Nation, or Eastern enter the Hell Gladiator Arena, wouldn't that add competitors for our Dragon Nation?"
"Then the ranking rewards in the Hell Gladiator Arena could be snatched by them."
Seraph said, "At this rate, relying only on our few countries to gather 100,000 passers is as hard as climbing to the sky."
"Right now, we can only gather the power of the entire world, quickly reach this required number, break into the Hell Gladiator Arena first, and everything else is secondary. Otherwise, if our Dragon Nation fails to break into the Hell Gladiator Arena, we will also face a world-level disaster."
So, following Ice Emperor's proposal, in addition to some neighboring allied countries, Dragon Nation began to announce the entry conditions for the Hell Gladiator Arena to the entire world!
After the various countries in the world learned of the entry conditions for the Hell Gladiator Arena, they all scrambled to enter the World 32 and went to the Thunderfall Zones to carry out the challenge.
Once professionals from the whole world got into motion, the number of participants recorded in real-time on the card began to skyrocket at a visible speed.
No doubt, people like Elfa, Kwon Ji-hyun, and Inoue Amano also completed the challenge.
And during this process, Inoue Amano also discovered a problem, ["In the World 32's secret realm, we high-level professionals can also participate. At that time in the arena, we can use our level suppression to eliminate low-level professionals from other countries first, reducing the competition. This way, the champion reward Myth-level Profession Scroll is definitely ours."]
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Just as Inoue Amano finished speaking, Elfa said, ["King-level secret realm is not as simple as you think."]
["However, the champion reward definitely belongs to us, that is beyond doubt."]
["Everyone, from here on out, just give it your all."]
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