In the Arena Level-2, killing any monsters that are not related to missions grants no point rewards.
So, when the Armageddon Black Dragon wiped out that strange and bizarre cattle-horse hybrid monster group at the street entrance for its master, Zhang Yue did not gain any rewards.
His target was: [Venomous Spiders].
He chose a ruin area where there were more bugs. Sure enough, he spotted the figure of the Venomous Spiders.
Several large green spiders, mixed among a massive swarm of bugs, crawled within the ruins.
There was no need for Zhang Yue to issue a command.
The Apex Predator, together with its Shadow Army, directly rushed into the ruins.
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
Like flashes of lightning, they darted through the bug swarm in the ruins. In an instant, dozens of bugs in the ruins were completely wiped out.
After equipping the 28-Star Flowgold-grade Slaughter Set, the Apex Predator's critical strike damage skyrocketed to over 5 billion, used against these Level-175 bugs with only 2 billion HP, it was basically using a cannon to kill ants.
System stats: 56 kills, of which only 4 were Venomous Spiders.
[Mission progress: 4/20]
Back in the Arena Level-1, at least killing 100 small monsters would give 1 point.
Here, it sounds better since only 20 monsters need to be killed to get 1 point.
But in reality, it's impossible to only kill Venomous Spiders. During the process, one must face a large number of non-mission monsters. Even if you don't provoke them, they will actively attack you.
Judging from the clearance of this ruin alone, it takes killing at least 200–300 small monsters to complete this mission and earn 1 point.
And going from 2-star to 3-star requires 5× the points as 1-star to 2-star.
Hard, too hard.
Just transitioning from the Arena Level-1 to the Arena Level-2, the difficulty increased tenfold.
After clearing the bugs in the ruins, Zhang Yue immediately moved on to the next area.
Fortunately, the monsters in the Arena Level-2 were abundant and densely packed.
In just a short while, he encountered another large monster-gathering zone.
Zhang Yue sent the Armageddon Black Dragon in again, using ultra-wide-range AOE damage to clear the area easily, harvesting another 3 Venomous Spiders.
And during this round of slaughter, Zhang Yue also gained an extra reward.
That is, he picked up a mission scroll from within the monster group. Thanks to the viewers' reminders in the livestream chat.
Otherwise, given Zhang Yue's usual nature, he would have just walked past and moved on to the next zone.
Facts proved: The eyes of the masses are bright.
Through this mission scroll, Zhang Yue obtained a B-rank mission!
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[Kill Crawfish] (B-rank Mission)
[Description: Please kill 20 Spicy Crawfish in the Arena Level-2 (Progress: 0/20)]
[Mission Reward: +3 points]
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The quality of a mission doesn't affect its difficulty, only the reward points increase.
This B-rank mission was exactly the same as the previous D-rank mission [Kill Poison Spiders], just kill 20 monsters.
But the reward points were three times the previous one.
Have to admit, this setting was fairly user-friendly.
Professionals in the Arena Level-2 could hold up to five missions at a time.
So, Zhang Yue carried two missions at the same time and continued wandering through the Arena Level-2.
Perhaps because the number of people who entered the Arena Level-2 was still small, and it was still divided into 100 battlefields, the average number of players per battlefield was less than three digits.
In this vast Arena Level-2 map, Zhang Yue wandered for quite a while, and didn't encounter a single other professional.
Along the way, however, he did encounter all kinds of strange monsters and came across various mission scrolls of different ranks.
With Zhang Yue's strength, he didn't need to waste time selectively killing only mission monsters while avoiding non-mission ones.
As long as there were monsters in his attack range, just kill them all.
Whether they were mission monsters or not, tall or short, fat or skinny, wipe them all out.
Through this large-scale slaughter, completing one mission after another, he harvested the most rewards...
["Ding~ Congratulations! You've completed D-rank mission [Kill Poison Spiders], +1 point!"]
["Ding~ Congratulations! You've completed B-rank mission [Kill Crawfish], +3 points!"]
["Ding~ Congratulations! You've completed C-rank mission [Kill Mutant Bear], +2 points!"]
["Ding…"]
The mission volume was the same, and the time and effort required to complete each mission were also the same.
In such a situation, naturally the higher-level the mission, the better for collecting points.
Unfortunately, high-level missions weren't that easy to obtain.
Most of the missions people got were in the D to A range.
There wasn't any shortcut to gain points quickly, it had to be done step-by-step.
Meanwhile, the competitions in other battlefields were also getting intense.
Every single participant, for the sake of points and rankings, threw themselves wholeheartedly into this contest.
It seemed everyone had already forgotten their original purpose, which was to clear the Hell Gladiator Arena and stop calamity from descending on the real world.
To earn points and fight for ranking, some people started resorting to extreme measures.
As Zhang Yue's pace gradually stabilized, a strange topic suddenly surfaced in the livestream chat.
["Damn! Did you see the stream next door? That guy Inoue Amano from Eastern is seriously full of himself now!"]
["What happened? What did he do?"]
["Go see for yourself. Room number: 543838438."]
Suddenly, the viewer count in Zhang Yue's livestream dropped drastically.
Everyone jumped over to Eastern contestant Inoue Amano's stream.
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Through a third-person perspective, they saw that Inoue Amano wasn't honestly doing missions or killing monsters. Instead, he was going around killing other contestants.
Ssszzz!
With his warblade piercing through the body of a Thracian mage, the massive damage wiped out the mage's remaining health bar.
Seeing the option panel that popped up, Inoue Amano burst into laughter, "Haha! As expected, this is the fastest way to earn points."
"Just kill people! Why even bother searching for mission scrolls and working so hard?"
As the corpse of the Thracian mage turned into white light and floated away before him, Inoue Amano sneered in disdain, "This is the so-called 'one-in-ten-thousand' elite from Thracian? Pathetic and powerless."
"Truly birds of a feather flock together. Anyone who allies with Dragon Nation must have similarly low standards!"
Viewers in the chat started to get fed up.
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In a Thracian college dorm, a bunch of students watching the livestream on their phones were burning with rage.
"Damn it! That Inoue Amano is such a poser!"
"Yeah, I wanna jump in and slap him in the face twice!"
"But to be fair, his strength is real. Even after being reset to level 175, his power isn't weakened. After all, he's got a legendary-class profession, Ghost Blade Dancer. Regular professionals can't beat him."
"If only he runs into the Necromancer from Dragon Nation. Zero would stomp him like squashing an ant, let's see him act cocky then!"
"Don't bother. I checked, Zero is in Battlefield 96, Inoue Amano is in Battlefield 28. They're not even on the same battlefield. Inoue probably knew that too, that's why he's acting so arrogant."
In the dorm, a bunch of passionate college students were powerless against Inoue Amano's cocky display.
Just then, the livestream view suddenly showed a new figure.
"Look! It's a professional from Dragon Nation!"
"Dragon Nation? Could it be..."
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