Chapter 422: 16 Stars, Transcendent Set!
It could be seen that this Soul Hunter named [Mu En] truly harbored immense hatred toward the Soul Devourers.
"If you don't believe me, I can give you my underpants right now to prove my attitude."
As Mu En spoke, he was about to take off his pants, but Zhang Yue hurriedly stopped him, "I believe you!"
At this moment, Mu En suddenly squatted down, holding his head with both hands, and began to cry loudly in pain.
"My father, mother, wife, son, daughter, younger brother, and sister-in-law... all had their souls sucked away by Soul Devourers. I'm the only one left, and I can't see any meaning in living anymore."
'Good grief!'
'An entire family wiped out by Soul Devourers?'
If Zhang Yue had come any later, Mu En would've been killed, and he wouldn't even have been able to accept the quest.
"I just want to kill all the Soul Devourers here and rescue all my family members!"
As Mu En's words just fell.
A system prompt followed, ringing in Zhang Yue's ear.
["Ding~ Congratulations! You've triggered the hidden quest [Vengeance for the Family]. Do you want to accept it?"]
Zhang Yue was slightly surprised.
To think that it was actually a hidden quest.
No wonder it's called the "Treasure Land", the Death Territory!
Zhang Yue immediately accepted the quest.
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[Vengeance for the Family] (Hidden Quest)
[Difficulty Rating: 7820]
[Description: Soul Hunter Mu En was hunted by Soul Devourers and suffered their revenge. The beast horde attacked his camp, and in a single night, all of Mu En's family were killed by the beasts. Only Mu En, who had gone out to gather firewood, narrowly escaped. Please eliminate the Soul Devourers in the Wraith Forest to help Mu En rescue his family.]
[Quest Progress: 0/12]
[Quest Reward: Unknown]
[Time Limit: 48 hours]
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It meant this quest required rescuing 12 people.
Zhang Yue looked around.
This Wraith Forest was indeed vast in map size.
Looks like a prolonged battle was ahead.
Zhang Yue grabbed his Transcendent Staff.
"Let's begin!"
ROAR!
The massive body of the Thirty-Six Winged Armageddon Black Dragon soared overhead past Zhang Yue.
Every time they faced combat, the Armageddon Black Dragon always seemed even more excited than Zhang Yue himself.
Within the Wraith Forest, all were uniformly level 106 regular Soul Devourers.
With over 32 million HP, they still couldn't withstand Zhang Yue's damage.
Even Cherry could easily one-shot Soul Devourers with around 40 million damage.
Each skill kill would instantly reset all skill cooldowns.
Under the effect of [Radiance · Undying Immortal Body], Cherry gently waved her magic staff, and wherever the skill light shone, not even a blade of grass survived.
Even Zhang Yue had to concede defeat in front of Cherry.
Affected by the forbidden spell passive [Secret Art · Thunder Summon Formula], although Zhang Yue's lightning skills had their cooldown reduced by a full 50%, compared to no cooldowns at all, it was still too far off.
Zhang Yue had over a dozen skills in total, and with his casting speed, he could unleash them all within three seconds at best.
Even with a 50% cooldown reduction, the shortest cooldown among them was still 3–4 seconds.
Basically, after one combo was done, Zhang Yue would enter a downtime.
Although a Beastmaster mainly relied on their pet, with themselves being secondary, Zhang Yue forcibly played it in reverse, making himself the main, and the pet secondary.
So just like a mage, Zhang Yue also relied on skills to deal damage.
Without skills, relying on that pitiful normal attack damage, he couldn't even make a dent.
Watching Cherry cast skills endlessly, Zhang Yue couldn't help but feel a bit envious.
'If only I had infinite cooldown too!'
Cherry was good in every aspect, except for the fact she had no AOE skills.
All her skills were single-target.
Killing one Soul Devourer per skill might be exaggerated enough, but for Zhang Yue who pursued ultimate farming speed, it still lacked a bit of edge.
'If this hidden quest can reward a mage's AOE skillbook, preferably an ice-type one, that will be perfect,' Thinking that way, Zhang Yue also joined the battle.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Thundercloud Storm!
Thunder and Lightning!
Two lightning AOE skills down, and the waves of Soul Devourers drawn in by the Armageddon Black Dragon and Phantom Predator were completely wiped out.
Total kill count was only around thirty beasts.
Without Sword Emperor to draw aggro, Zhang Yue's farming efficiency dropped sharply.
He missed his disciple Luo Chen's skills...
The time for this quest was a full two days.
For average players, rescuing twelve designated souls in two days would be quite difficult.
But for Zhang Yue, that was more than enough time.
Under the extermination of Zhang Yue and his pet squad, in just half a day, all the Soul Devourers in the Wraith Forest were eliminated.
And Zhang Yue, through the rich combat EXP, also smoothly leveled up to 102.
In addition, the twelve designated souls required for the [Vengeance for the Family] quest were all released by Zhang Yue.
When Zhang Yue saw Soul Hunter Mu En again, Mu En held his son in his left arm and his daughter in his right, while his wife, parents, younger siblings all surrounded him.
The whole family, reunited and joyful.
Compared to when Zhang Yue first saw Mu En, who looked as though he wished he were dead, now, it was like a complete rebirth.
Upon seeing his benefactor Zhang Yue, Mu En quickly put down his children and ran over.
"Warrior, thank you so much!"
"Thank you for saving my whole family, I thank your ancestors through eighteen generations!"
Zhang Yue was silent for a moment.
'Why does that sound kind of like a curse?'
"A small favor, not worth mentioning."
As Zhang Yue's words fell.
A pleasant system prompt sounded in Zhang Yue's ear.
["Ding~ Congratulations on completing the hidden quest [Vengeance for the Family]! Reward obtained: EXP +10 billion, Gold +3000, Energy +900 billion, Soul Hunter EXP +1500! Equipment obtained: [Heartless · Soul Hunter]!"]
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Three consecutive silver beam lights descended from the sky, enveloping Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue jumped from a Tier 1 Soul Hunter to a Tier 5.
A Tier 5 Soul Hunter could enter higher-level maps and gain even greater rewards for hunting Souls.
But at the same time, leveling up now required much more EXP.
Next upgrade to Tier 6 would require 800 EXP points.
Hidden quest rewards truly were high enough.
Too bad he didn't get the ice AOE mage skillbook he'd been hoping for, Zhang Yue looked at the [Heartless · Soul Hunter].
It was a level 100, 16-star golden mage weapon.
Its attached effect was extra damage bonus against Soul Devourers.
Pretty good gear, even higher in raw stats than Zhang Yue's 15-star Transcendent Staff.
However, it still didn't catch Zhang Yue's eye.
Coincidentally, from the large amount of equipment collected previously in the World 18 Death Territory, the evolution value for the Transcendent Set through gear devouring was just a few hundred points short in the weapon slot from full evolution.
This weapon could be the finishing touch.
He immediately fed it to the Transcendent Staff.
In the next moment, Zhang Yue's full-body Transcendent Set shimmered with golden light...
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