Chapter 342: The Trash-Picking Duo

By exploiting the "loophole" in the Otherworld's mechanics, Zhang Yue could achieve the goal of choosing multiple races within World 15.

According to the Otherworld's settings: once a professional player is killed by the World Boss, they won't face death penalties, nor do they need a resurrection scroll to revive. Instead, it resets the world mission progress, essentially letting them start over.

Zhang Yue took advantage of this mechanic. After completing a mission for one race and obtaining its corresponding document fragment, he would switch to another race.

He would keep doing this until he collected all the fragments.

This time, Zhang Yue chose the Hell Shadow Clan.

The process was quite similar to the one for the Hell Ghost Clan.

For the world mission, he needed to complete ten tasks for the Hell Shadow Clan and contribute 1,000 points to them.

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At 1 p.m., Zhang Yue logged off for a meal and immediately logged back in to begin his mission.

In the Hell Shadow Clan's main city, Shadow City, Zhang Yue accepted a mission to kill 200 Undying Divine Guards. Then, he left the city.

At the same time, he messaged Nightshade and Crimson Chain:["Are you guys free? If so, send me your location. Let's regroup."]

After that, Zhang Yue sent the mission coordinates to Crimson Chain.

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Meanwhile, Nightshade and Crimson Chain, completely unaware of the situation, were still waiting for Zhang Yue by the resurrection spring in Ghost City.

Upon receiving Zhang Yue's message, Nightshade was surprised,"What's this about? He's not dead?"

Crimson Chain quickly messaged Sakura and found out: "Zero already completed the Hell Ghost Clan challenge and deliberately let the World Boss defeat him. Now he's switched to the Hell Shadow Clan to start a new mission."

"This guy… is seriously tough!"

Nightshade began to question his life. "Are we really here to assassinate Zero? Why does it feel like we're just helping him complete his missions?"

"If it weren't for our Mark of Death, how could he have completed the Hell Ghost Clan's challenge in under half an hour?"

Nightshade looked at Crimson Chain incredulously. "Are we really going to help him again?"

Crimson Chain hesitated for a moment and said, "Only by staying close to him will we have a chance."

"If we don't help him, it'll make us more suspicious. Let's build trust with him first. Once we gain his complete trust, we'll have plenty of opportunities to take him out."

Nightshade: "Like… what kind of opportunity?"

Crimson Chain's eyes gleamed with killing intent,"He needs to rely on getting killed by the World Boss to refresh World 15's progress and collect the fragments of the four clans' documents, right?"

"That's our chance!"

"The next time he finishes a world mission and is about to challenge the World Boss, we'll secretly place the Mark of Death on him. Then, we'll let the World Boss take him out for us."

Following Zhang Yue's coordinates, the four of them regrouped about twenty minutes later in the Lv87 Holy Forest.

Zhang Yue said to Nightshade and Crimson Chain, "You guys have great aggro-drawing skills. Your help in the last mission was crucial."

"You two should do the same as before and lure the mobs for me."

Hearing this, Nightshade and Crimson Chain, who had previously died while drawing aggro, turned pale.

"Drawing aggro is too risky. We'll do something else…"

"Fine," Zhang Yue said. "Then you guys can pick up trash. That's safer."

With that, Zhang Yue began the mission.

He summoned the Armageddon Black Dragon and Phantom Predator to draw aggro.

Before long, a large group of Undying Divine Guards gathered from all directions.

Meanwhile, Sakura used the Mark of Death skill, embedding it into her attacks to mark the Guards.

Zhang Yue targeted the marked Guards for permanent kills.

In less than ten minutes, 200 Undying Divine Guards were wiped out, and the mission was easily completed.

Nightshade and Crimson Chain, on the other hand, were still struggling to pick up trash at half the speed Zhang Yue killed monsters.

By the time Zhang Yue had completed the mission, the duo had only collected half the trash.

Zhang Yue told them, "This is communal loot. Once you're done picking it up, hand it over."

"I'll take Sakura to the next location. Once you finish, meet us there."

Then, Zhang Yue stepped onto the dragon's back, spread its wings, and prepared to leave.

He said to Sakura, "Get on."

Although Sakura was clearly afraid of the Armageddon Black Dragon, she mustered her courage and cautiously climbed on.

Moments later, the two flew away on the dragon.

Nightshade was about to explode. "What the hell! He's treating us like free labor."

Before Crimson Chain could say anything, Nightshade cut him off. "Don't even start. I know what you're going to say. Endure the hardship for now, stay close to him, and we'll eventually get our chance to strike, right?"

Crimson Chain shook his head and said, "I heard Heavens Hall members earn a monthly salary of 100,000."

Nightshade froze for a moment, then suddenly became excited. "I don't care about the money. Honestly, I just really love picking up trash!"

———

Elsewhere.

After returning to the city, Zhang Yue submitted the mission.

He immediately triggered the second mission.

With Sakura, he flew on the dragon and reached the next location within five minutes.

Without a word, he started the mission again.

With Sakura's Mark of Death assistance, another 300 Undying Divine Guards were permanently killed in under ten minutes, completing the mission.

By this time, Nightshade and Crimson Chain had only just arrived.

When they got there, Zhang Yue and Sakura were already flying off on the dragon again.

The two continued to bury themselves in picking up trash…

Zhang Yue quickly tackled the third, fourth, and fifth missions in succession.

The missions in World 15 were mostly about killing Guards, with a few exceptions requiring the search for jade seals. Even then, hunting Guards often sped up these missions.

Although the number of kills required for each mission wasn't high, the kills needed to be permanent. For most professional players, killing Undying Divine Guards with a 90% resurrection chance was nearly impossible.

For an average player, completing a single mission could take three to five days.

Even with Zhang Yue's speed, without Sakura's help, it would take him at least an hour per mission.

With Sakura's assistance, however, Zhang Yue averaged just ten minutes per mission.

Including travel time, it only took twenty minutes to finish a mission.

The efficiency was astonishing.

Meanwhile, Nightshade and Crimson Chain trailed behind Zhang Yue, running around and picking up trash everywhere they went.

All for the chance to eventually take Zhang Yue down, they gritted their teeth and kept at it.

Oddly enough, having these two around made things much easier for the Skeleton King.

In just over three hours, Zhang Yue completed ten missions for the Hell Shadow Clan—tasks that would take an ordinary person over thirty days to finish.

During this time, the missions and monster kills granted him a huge amount of experience points, pushing Zhang Yue to Level 83.

After completing two more world missions in World 15, Zhang Yue went to the Hell Shadow Clan's leader, Shadow King Jie, to take on their challenge mission.

Similar to the Hell Ghost Clan's challenge, the Hell Shadow Clan's required him to kill 1,000 Undying Divine Guards within thirty minutes.

With Sakura's assistance, Zhang Yue completed the challenge in just twenty minutes.

[Ding~ Congratulations on completing the hidden mission [Hell Shadow Clan's Challenge]. Rewards: Level +1, 500 billion Energy Points, 1,000 Gold Coins, Epic Treasure [Counter Bracelet], and Equipment [Sovereign's Hell Boots] (Lv80, 14-star, Gold)]

[Ding~ Congratulations! You've leveled up to Level 84...]

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