[[System Announcement] (Hell Gladiator Arena): "Ding~ As the total number of participants who have reached the 2-Star Arena Expert rank has exceeded 10,000, the Arena Level-2 is now open. All participants who have reached the 2-Star Arena Expert rank may enter the Arena Level-2!"
10:00 AM sharp.
With the arrival of the announcement, a panel appeared in front of all 2-Star Arena Experts.
There were two choices on the panel:
Stay in the Arena Level-1 and enter the Arena Level-2 at any time.
Enter the Arena Level-2 immediately but be unable to return to the Arena Level-1.
To this, basically everyone would choose to enter the Arena Level-2.
Because the 90% reduction in points was truly too ruthless.
After the Arena Level-2 officially opened, the corresponding benchmark was the 3-Star Arena Master rank, which required 500 points to upgrade.
Even Zhang Yue, at his current point-earning speed in the Arena Level-1, would need four to five hours to collect 500 points.
As for others, wouldn't they need several days?
It's already hard enough to obtain a spot in the Hell Gladiator Arena as one of the one-in-ten-thousand elites, of course they didn't come just to slack off.
Especially since every participant had livestreams turned on, under the eyes of the entire public, there might even be their personal idols watching. Who dared to mess around?
Zhang Yue also immediately chose to enter the Arena Level-2.
Whoosh!
With a flash of white light, Zhang Yue's vision went blank for a moment. When it cleared again, he found himself teleported into a city shrouded in darkness.
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["Ding~ Welcome to the Hell Gladiator Arena · Arena Level-2. Your current battlefield is: Battlefield 96!"]
Looking around, the vast city had long since become ruins.
Buildings had collapsed, streets and alleys were in chaos.
The pressure in this domain was far more intense than in the Arena Level-1.
After arriving at the Arena Level-2, the corresponding rules also appeared.
Like in the Arena Level-1, this area was also divided into 100 battlefields, and professionals would be randomly assigned to one of the 100 different arenas.
The rules of the Arena Level-1 mainly involved killing monsters to earn points.
The Arena Level-2, however, was mission-based.
Professionals needed to search for mission scrolls within the arena and activate them to receive tasks. Completing tasks would grant points.
Tasks were ranked by quality from D to SSS.
The higher the quality of the mission, the greater the point reward.
In the Arena Level-2, a professional could execute a maximum of five missions at a time. If all five slots were filled, no new missions could be obtained from scrolls, and scrolls could not be carried around.
In this situation, there were two options:
1. Discard an existing mission scroll.
2. Use the new scroll to overwrite a lower-ranked mission on the list with a higher-ranked one.
Additionally, another rule in the Arena Level-2 was that killing other professionals no longer granted points, but allowed one opportunity to loot one of the opponent's missions, and there was a chance to upgrade the looted mission's quality.
If a professional died in the Arena Level-2, they would lose 2 points, then respawn in a random location. If their points fell below 0, they would be eliminated.
This rule was the same as in the Arena Level-1.
After understanding the rules, Zhang Yue began his exploration in the Arena Level-2.
Meanwhile, viewers in his livestream followed his journey into the Arena Level-2.
["We wasted so much time in the Arena Level-1 waiting for others to get ready, finally in the Arena Level-2!"]
["The Arena Level-2's setup looks way more interesting, but killing people apparently doesn't give points anymore, that kinda sucks~"]
["But you can steal other people's missions by killing them! Isn't that cool enough?"]
[Liu Yao: "Big bro, go for it! I'm gifting another hundred Carnivals to you!"]
[Passerby A: "Holy crap! That dude above is crazy! He really just sent Carnivals!"]
[Passerby B: "A Carnival costs 5,000… Damn rich. Can you V me 5k? I've been eyeing a weapon in the auction house…"]
Amid all the attention, Zhang Yue began exploring.
He had already accumulated 125 points in the Arena Level-1, so now he needed only 375 more points to level up to 3 stars.
Zhang Yue walked down a dark and quiet alley.
It was utterly silent.
However, after walking some distance, he didn't detect anything unusual.
Just then, Zhang Yue suddenly received a message from the guild.
[[Wu Haotian]: "Big bro, at least look at the chat! Everyone's losing their minds over here!"]
Reading the message, Zhang Yue instinctively glanced at the barrage of messages in his stream, and immediately saw a flood of rolling texts:
["Behind you to the left!"]
["Left-rear of your screen!"]
["Zero-god turn around! There's something to your left-rear!"]
["You're killing me here, big bro, look at the chat already!"]
Zhang Yue turned around, and sure enough, he spotted something resembling a scroll tied to an electric pole behind him to the left.
Zhang Yue walked over and reached for it.
["Ding~ Congratulations! You've obtained a [Mission Scroll]!"]
'Damn! Almost missed a million-dollar opportunity.'
As the saying goes: "Those in the game are lost; those watching are clear-headed."
Being caught up in it, Zhang Yue really did overlook something obvious.
Facts proved, sometimes the power of the masses is strong.
Zhang Yue spoke to the livestream, "Thanks for the heads-up."
He opened the scroll.
["Ding~ Congratulations! You've received a D-rank mission: [Kill Venomous Spiders]!"]
'Just a lowly D-rank mission.'
Zhang Yue felt a little disappointed.
He opened the mission panel.
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[Kill Venomous Spiders] (D-rank Mission)
[Description: Please kill 20 Deadly Venomous Spiders in the Arena Level-2 (Progress: 0/20)]
[Mission Reward: +1 point]
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'One mission actually gives a full 1 point? So generous!'
'Still, a mission's a mission. It's the only way to earn points in the Arena Level-2. Better get started!'
After accepting the mission, Zhang Yue began to search for prey.
No exaggeration, the number of monster types in the Arena Level-2 was dozens of times greater than in the First-Level.
At least over a hundred distinct types, completely jumbled and mixed, with no fixed territory for each.
Obviously designed to increase the difficulty of finding mission monsters.
He didn't find the venomous spiders required for the quest yet, but upon stepping out of the alley, Zhang Yue instead ran into a group of Bramble Pigs, Mutant Demon Bears, and Spicy Crawfish.
'What kind of bizarre combination is this?'
As soon as those monsters spotted Zhang Yue, they charged straight at him.
However, before they could get close, they were swallowed in a breath of dragon flame by the Thirty-Six-Winged Armageddon Black Dragon.
A massive 1.5 billion+ AOE damage scorched them badly.
Then came another mouthful of phlegm.
Under the second AOE attack, that weird monster mix was completely scattered.
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