Chapter 482: Death Territory, Nightmare Abyss!
[SSSS-level unique skill: Shatter · Ghost Eye]
[Original passive effect: After all single-target attacks kill an enemy, it will trigger 50% pursuit damage to another nearby target, with a maximum of three pursuit triggers]
After effect enhancement, it upgrades to 60% pursuit damage, and the number of pursuit triggers increases to five.
The improvement in effect is quite obvious.
However, the experience required for the next upgrade directly rose to 50,000, showing a fivefold increase.
Of course, to Zhang Yue, the higher the difficulty of the improvement, the more challenging it is.
At the same time, it also means: the rarity of this passive effect is extremely high.
Back to the main topic.
In less than half an hour, he perfectly cleared five layers of the abyss.
Next, Zhang Yue and Athena advanced to the sixth layer of the Endless Abyss.
In the first five layers, the opponents were all level 111 Blood Wolves.
By this layer, the opponents started to strengthen.
Inside the sixth layer of the Endless Abyss, all around, what came into view was a uniform type of level 112 monsters: Dark Griffins.
They possessed the shape of a lion, with a pair of giant wings growing from their bodies.
They looked like they weren't easy to mess with.
"As long as you achieve ten perfect-level clears, you can complete one of the world missions, and from there you can advance into the Death Territory of the World 20."
Athena analyzed, "It's said that the Death Territory of the World 20 is also structured in the form of a hundred-layer abyss. However, compared to the Endless Abyss of the National Territory, the abyss in the Death Territory has a higher difficulty to conquer, and the rewards are even rarer."
Zhang Yue agreed, "Then let's make it a swift battle and quickly advance to the Death Territory."
"Mm," Athena continued, "Over in the Death Territory, currently the raiding squads of the seven major nations occupy the largest sovereignty. Many raiding teams from other countries have been driven out by them. At present, their highest raiding progress is up to the 42nd layer of the abyss."
Hearing this, in Zhang Yue's seemingly calm gaze, a trace of killing intent emerged.
Then, he casually uttered four words, "In that case, very well."
ROAR! ROAR!
All around, several Dark Griffins flapped their huge wings and soared into the air.
With aggressive momentum, they flew toward Zhang Yue and Athena.
As usual, he didn't summon his pets.
Athena took the initiative, releasing the War Soul, and combined with her own military strength, severely wounded all the Dark Griffins that approached.
Right after, Zhang Yue struck down with a thunderous blow, dealing 320 million damage and killing the leading Dark Griffin.
Pursuit triggered.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
-190 million!
-120 million!
-69.12 million!
-41.47 million!
-24.88 million!
Five pursuit attacks, all successfully killed.
In an instant, the Ghost Eye skill gained 5 experience points for its passive.
Even though the skill's effect had been enhanced, raising pursuit damage from 50% to 60%.
If the Griffins hit by the pursuit were all at full health, then by the third pursuit, the 69 million damage might no longer be able to kill, and the next two pursuits could not be triggered.
Looking closely, you'd find: the remaining health of the five Dark Griffins hit by Zhang Yue's pursuit skill was all different.
And in the order they were pursued, their HP went from high to low.
This indicated one issue…
Zhang Yue looked at Athena, "So meticulous?"
Athena glanced back at Zhang Yue and said, "Was I?"
Athena knew that the passive pursuit effect of Zhang Yue's skill, the more times pursuit was triggered, the lower the damage.
She even discovered: the primary target of pursuit for this skill is determined by proximity to the skill caster.
So, Athena predicted the five Griffins that were about to be pursued by Zhang Yue in advance and analyzed the distances between them and Zhang Yue to judge the pursuit sequence.
From there, the later the Griffin in the pursuit order, the more she dealt damage to it ahead of time, ensuring that each Griffin hit by Zhang Yue's pursuit could be directly killed.
"She even analyzed my damage," Zhang Yue sighed softly, "Truly impressive."
With Athena as such a considerate teammate, Zhang Yue fought more and more smoothly.
Basically, every skill cast could trigger five perfect pursuit kills.
Equivalent to a single-target skill killing five Dark Griffins simultaneously.
Such a swift kill speed not only greatly increased the experience gained by Ghost Eye's passive but also sped up the challenge progress in the Endless Abyss.
["Ding~ Congratulations on killing 100 Dark Griffins. Time taken: 17 seconds. Within the 20-minute requirement. Current rating: Normal!"]
["Ding~ Congratulations on killing 300 Dark Griffins. Time taken: 49 seconds. Within the 20-minute requirement. Current rating: Good!"]
["Ding…"]
["Ding~ Congratulations on killing 2000 Dark Griffins. Time taken: 4 minutes 42 seconds. Within the 20-minute requirement. Current rating: Perfect (highest grade)!"]
Due to the monsters' level increase and boosted strength, so by the sixth layer, the number of monsters required to be killed was reset to the amount required in the first layer.
Yet in the end, comparing the sixth layer to the first layer, it turned out the sixth layer took even less time.
After claiming the perfect-clear reward for the sixth layer, Zhang Yue and Athena successively advanced to the seventh layer.
Mythical-level Necromancer and Legendary-level Saber.
Under the joint efforts of these two top-tier powerhouses, they achieved perfect ratings on layers seven through ten, with times of 4 minutes 55 seconds, 5 minutes 11 seconds, 5 minutes 25 seconds, and 5 minutes 39 seconds respectively!
["Ding~ Congratulations on completing the world mission [Achieve at least ten perfect clears], obtaining the qualification to enter the Death Territory of the World 20!"]
Zhang Yue discovered, within the National Territory's Endless Abyss, even if every layer was perfectly cleared, the final rewards were still quite average.
Of course, the so-called "average" is from the perspective of someone with high expectations like Zhang Yue.
For ordinary professionals, those are top-tier rewards they could only dream of.
"It's time to head to the Death Territory's Endless Abyss and take a look."
In less than an hour, after completing the world mission, he immediately entered the Death Territory.
———
Swoosh! Swoosh!
White light descended, and Zhang Yue and Athena simultaneously landed in the abyss of the Death Territory.
Upon reaching the Death Territory side, the Endless Abyss was directly upgraded into the Nightmare Abyss.
["Ding~ Welcome to the first layer of the Nightmare Abyss. Challenge mission activated: Kill 1000 monsters within 20 minutes!"]
"The difficulty increased tenfold right away?", Zhang Yue felt a touch of delight.
That's right, not surprise but delight.
Back in the National Territory's Endless Abyss, the challenges he faced were honestly far too simple.
You have to know, in the first layer of the Endless Abyss, the normal-level challenge only required killing 100 monsters within one hour.
Now in the Death Territory, finally, a real challenge appears.
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