Within one hour, kill 3000 level-230 bandits.
For any profession holder under level 230, this was simply an impossible challenge.
Even just daring to accept this mission already meant surpassing 99.999% of the world's profession holders.
After stepping into the Despair Mountains, looking out ahead, one could see bandits wearing leather armor, holding broadswords, tall and burly, wandering around the foot of a mountain.
Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin simultaneously activated the [Bandit Extermination] mission countdown manually.
The moment the countdown in front of them froze at 59:59—
WHOOSH!
Chen Zijin, like a gust of wind, swept past Zhang Yue.
In the blink of an eye, she was already at the foot of the mountain several hundred meters away.
SWISH! SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!
Before Zhang Yue even lifted his staff, Chen Zijin had already locked onto several bandits and launched her attack.
As expected of a mythic assassin.
When it came to speed, Zhang Yue admitted defeat.
Chen Zijin's attack speed and movement speed kept perfect rhythm, blades falling like rain, her figure like the wind.
Under her storm-like combo, a huge flurry of blood-red damage numbers crazily leapt above the bandits' heads.
-4.22 billion!
-4.16 billion!
-4.37 billion!
-4.51 billion!
Over the course of just one night, Chen Zijin had grown, but not by much.
Her level wasn't even as high as Zhang Yue's, currently only level 195, five levels lower than him.
Compared to these bandits, she was a full 35 levels lower.
So being able to dish out this kind of damage was already no small feat.
But against level-230 monsters, this damage clearly wasn't enough.
Because those bandits' HP had already reached 30 billion+.
Chen Zijin's full combo landed like a tickle, not painful, not itchy, not even enough to take down a single bandit.
SHOCKING!
A dignified mythic profession holder, yet her full combo couldn't even one-shot a small fry.p
Of course, Zhang Yue didn't dare laugh.
Because he understood: his current state was about the same as Chen Zijin's. Half a dozen of one, six of the other.
Swoosh!
A flash-step quickly brought him into attack range.
Next moment, Zhang Yue raised his extraordinary staff.
Annihilation · Thunder's Wrath!
Sanctuary · Scorching Thunderfire!
Lightning · Swallowing Heaven and Earth!
Thunder · Storm Dance!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
One after another, his 4S-tier lightning skills fiercely blasted into the bandits surrounding Chen Zijin.
-5.12 billion!
-5.01 billion!
-4.99 billion!
-5.23 billion!
Slightly higher than Chen Zijin's damage, but not by much.
Low levels, poor equipment.
The fact that he could even break defense was already impressive.
So, the two mythic-class profession holders, Necromancer + Shadow Dancer, unleashed their combos, yet still failed to kill more than a few ordinary level-230 bandits.
The attacked bandits all raised their broadswords to counterattack.
Chen Zijin relied on her astonishing speed to weave around them.
Zhang Yue, from behind, used ranged magic attacks to assist her melee output. In the end, the two of them managed to bring down that handful of bandits.
Cross-level kills were definitely satisfying.
But this pitifully slow efficiency was just… despairing.
"One minute to kill five bandits. At this rate, can the two of us kill 2000 bandits in an hour?", After the fight ended, Chen Zijin glanced back at Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue, "About."
Chen Zijin: "If you call a gap of 1700 'about,' then sure, I agree with you (￢_￢)."
"But seriously," Chen Zijin frowned slightly, "didn't we forget our own limits? Cross-level killing is fine, killing two thousand isn't a problem either. But add this time limit, and it's a problem!"
Clearly, at this speed, killing 2000–3000 bandits in one hour was pure fantasy.
Because last night, the two of them had been focused on breaking through other worlds and neglected their own growth.
In Ouyang Ling'er's words: President, with your current strength, pushing through to the Forty-Somethingth World is no problem, but the difficulty will only keep increasing.
If you switch ninth-level missions to fourth- or fifth-level ones, the problem solves itself.
Only… Zhang Yue had already picked up a whole set of ninth-level missions.
If he failed all of them, Zhang Yue could only go live on another planet.
"What do we do? Can the mission be returned?", Chen Zijin felt a little helpless.
Zhang Yue was silent for a moment, then said, "Don't rush. We can fight."
Chen Zijin was baffled, "How?"
Zhang Yue: "Rely on you."
Chen Zijin: "Me?"
The next second, after glancing at the Wrath God Set on her body, Chen Zijin understood.
She bit her lip and said, "Then… let's try?"
Zhang Yue cleared his throat.
Before he even spoke, Chen Zijin's face suddenly flushed red, and the Wrath Source Stone, Wrath God Set, and Thunder's Wrath's rage meter began rising.
The changes in rage were displayed outwardly as red light.
Seeing this, Zhang Yue froze.
"I haven't even started yet."
Chen Zijin was already struggling to hold it in, "But just seeing you like this, I already kind of feel it!"
'I'm such a gentle, graceful girl, how could he say such awful things to me?', Just thinking that, Chen Zijin couldn't help but get angry.
If it were someone else saying it, she could have ignored it. Or accepted it.
But she absolutely couldn't accept it from the person she liked the most.
Even before Zhang Yue spoke, the rage meter of the Wrath Source Stone and Wrath God Set had slowly climbed from its base 30% up to 45%...
The Wrath Source Stone and Wrath God Set had the same buff effect.
Base rage was 30%. Every 1% rage could be converted into an extra 1% boost to all attributes.
And they could both constantly sense the host's emotional changes, absorbing rage.
Once the host calmed down, the rage meter would naturally fall.
Apart from that, the forbidden skill Thunder's Wrath worked a bit differently.
Its rage value could stack infinitely. Even if the host calmed down, the rage already gained would not decrease.
Only when the host cast Thunder's Wrath, consuming all rage, would it reset.
Clearly, 45% rage still wasn't enough.
So Zhang Yue said to Chen Zijin, "Can you even do it or not? If not, just take off the Wrath God Set. That's one of only two infinite-growth sets in the whole world, priceless."
As his words landed, Chen Zijin saw the rage meter of the Wrath Source Stone and Wrath God Set soar visibly, from 45% up to 68%.
Chen Zijin almost laughed from anger, "Mmhm, seems like I'm feeling it."
"Alright then, more, keep going!"
For some reason, Zhang Yue suddenly felt a little afraid.
Chen Zijin said, "What are you doing? Keep going!"
"Don't worry, angry or not, I won't hold it against you after!"
Hearing that, Zhang Yue relaxed, "Okay, you said it."
And then, Zhang Yue began his unrestrained output…
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