Chapter 129: Blasting the Man-Eating Python, Contracting the Super Energy!
[Fifth World, North of the Dawn Sanctuary]
[LV40 Primeval Forest]
Upon reaching the mission location, Zhang Yue's group of five began executing their mission.
Looking around, the dense forest shrouded in darkness revealed black giant pythons, each over ten meters long and as thick as a barrel, slithering back and forth.
The two girls clung tightly to each other in fear.
"Snakes! I'm most afraid of snakes!"
Wu Haotian, carrying a blazing spear, laughed heartily: "What's there to fear about snakes? Watch me catch one and roast it for food."
"Boss, don't compete with me. I'll kill the first snake."
As he spoke, Wu Haotian, eager to show off in front of the girls, charged into the forest with his spear.
Moments later, Wu Haotian came tumbling out of the woods, scrambling on all fours, panic written all over his face: "DAMN! I hit the jackpot!"
Looking ahead—
Good grief!
A leader-tier man-eating python slithered out, chasing after Wu Haotian.
Not unusual.
Wu Haotian's equipment level was too low. He wasn't a match for the level-40 leader monster.
The leader python was nearly twice the size of an ordinary man-eating python.
Longer! Darker! Thicker! [T/N: 🤫]
With speed far surpassing Wu Haotian's, it rapidly closed the distance.
With a loud roar, it opened its bloody maw, ready to swallow Wu Haotian whole.
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
From the rear, Zhang Yue suddenly raised the [Demon • Death's Eye], leveraging his 386 points of agility to unleash a rapid barrage of spells.
Infernal Judgement!
Frozen World!
Thunderstrike!
Divine Fire Catastrophe!
One after another, S-tier single-target burst skills were hurled at the leader python.
In the next moment, a series of invigorating crimson damage numbers appeared above the leader python's head—
-4892! -734 (Burn)!
-6971 (Critical)! (Freeze)!
-5137! (Paralyze)!
-2752 (Critical)! -2752 (Critical)! -1835!
A cumulative 24,000+ damage instantly wiped out one-fifth of the leader python's HP.
The leader python turned its attention to Zhang Yue.
At that moment, the Dark Skeleton King and the Apocalyptic Black Dragon appeared under Zhang Yue's summoning.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Both instantly activated their dark set skills:
Fear Domain!
Slaughter Domain!
One red, one blue—the dual domains enveloped the battlefield.
Using deadly taunts to draw the python's aggro, the Skeleton King charged at the leader python, combining S-tier Shadow Sword Array, Heavy Slash, and Ultra Light Slash into a powerful combo.
-3980!
-1325! -1325…
-4231!
-4139!
Simultaneously, the Black Dragon soared over the python's head, opening its bloody maw to unleash a devastating sequence of attacks:
S-tier World-Ending Dragon Flame!
World-Ending Dragon Breath!
World-Ending Dragon Explosion!
A jaw-dropping series of damage numbers emerged—
-11340!
-10958!
-10583!
At the rear, Wu Haotian gasped in shock: "This damage… is freaking terrifying."
Ouyang Ling'er: "Let me ask, has our guild leader always been this overpowered?"
Lin Tian: "I used to think our leader's own power was broken, but it turns out his pets are even crazier."
Ning Tiantian: "Brother Zhang Yue is amazing!"
After equipping the level-35, four-star full-gold dark set, both the Dark Skeleton King and the Apocalypse Black Dragon's combat power had greatly increased.
Especially the Black Dragon.
With over 2600 attack power, combined with the archer's dark set bonuses of 30% armor penetration, 20% increased damage, and 15% bonus damage from the Slaughter Domain, the damage it dealt was simply insane.
Even Zhang Yue himself felt outshone by his own pets.
Thus, after one set of combos from Zhang Yue and his two pets, the level-40 leader python lost nearly two-thirds of its HP in an instant.
Terrified, the leader python turned to flee.
Letting such juicy prey escape? Impossible.
Boom!
The Black Dragon descended from the sky, blocking the python's retreat.
As the python turned its head, it was greeted by Zhang Yue and the Skeleton King's S-tier rare skills—
Hell's Judgment!
Death Storm!
Sword Shadow Storm!
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
Beams of death light, accompanied by black skeletons and sword shadow hurricanes, swept over the leader python.
With the Black Dragon's explosive combo and piercing fire attacks piling on, the python's remaining HP was obliterated, killing it outright.
[Ding~ Congratulations on killing the level-40 leader-tier [Man-Eating Python Leader]. Experience +35,000 (base 50% for five-man team, 20% for final blow), Super Energy +12,000,000]
[Ding~ Your treasure [Demon Contract] ability [Energy Contract] has activated, gaining +600,000 Super Energy (5% of obtained Super Energy). Demon Contract upgrade progress +1]
A mere 600,000 Super Energy was enough to refine a four-star piece of equipment to gold quality.
However, for the Heavens Hall's four members who needed comprehensive upgrades in gear and skills, this was still far from enough.
After collecting the leader python's loot—a level-38 four-star piece of equipment, 80 silver coins, and over 30 pieces of level-5 materials—
Zhang Yue and his group began searching the Primeval Forest for survivors while slaying man-eating pythons.
Even leader-tier pythons couldn't survive more than ten seconds against Zhang Yue.
As for ordinary pythons?
With far lower attack and defense stats than leader-tier ones, their 35,000 HP couldn't withstand the Black Dragon's onslaught.
With five-digit damage per hit, the Black Dragon's three S-tier skills could instantly kill a single python.
Even Zhang Yue's combos were enough to easily finish them off.
For slackers like Wu Haotian and Ouyang Ling'er, envy was an understatement.
"It feels like we're just freeloaders following the guild leader…"
"Be confident. Drop the 'feels like.' We are freeloaders."
"When I was vice leader of Infinity Guild, I was full of ambition. Now, in Heavens Hall, I just want to lie down…"
"When can we be as powerful as Brother Zhang Yue?"
Zhang Yue checked the [Demon Contract]'s energy collection quota, glanced at the four freeloaders, and said, "Soon."
Thinking that Zhang Yue's words were merely to comfort them, Wu Haotian and the others didn't take it seriously.
They naturally couldn't imagine that it wouldn't take long before they could be like Zhang Yue, possessing endless energy.
A regular level 40 giant python could normally provide 40 points of energy. Zhang Yue, with his ten-thousand-fold amplification buff, could obtain 400,000.
The Demon Contract extracts 5% each time, meaning he could get 20,000 energy for each python killed.
"Sure enough, collecting by killing monsters is still too slow," Zhang Yue sighed.
He could only pin his hopes on mission rewards.
The current mission he was carrying out, [Rescue Operation], offered a reward of 50,000 energy. With the ten-thousand-fold amplification, he could get 500 million. Extracting 5% of that would instantly allow the Demon Contract to gain 25 million energy—enough to upgrade six D-level skills to S-level.
Thus, under Zhang Yue's tofu-cutting-style farming, 300 man-eating pythons were quickly slaughtered.
The mission was completed.
By killing 300 monsters, the purity of Zhang Yue's [Demon • Death's Eye] demon blood had already reached 48%
He was one step closer to meeting the activation requirement for the hidden event.
Meanwhile, on Wu Haotian's side, they managed to drag five survivors out of the primeval forest.
And so, each of the five led one survivor back to Dawn Sanctuary.
They submitted the mission to NPC guard Ezio.
[Ding~ Congratulations on completing the mission [Rescue Operation]. You have received the following rewards: Experience +500,000, Gold +1, Energy +500 million, Equipment [Heroic Leg Guards] (Level 38, Four Stars), Energy Battery +10]
[Ding~ [Demon Contract] Energy +25 million]
'Wow!'
Under the shroud of golden light, Zhang Yue leveled up to 39.
At the same time, after turning in the 100 energy batteries from the mission reward, Zhang Yue's Fifth World mission was officially completed.
Next, he only needed to defeat the Fifth World Boss to proceed to the Sixth World.
Before that, Zhang Yue could select one of Wu Haotian, Ouyang Linger, Lin Tian, or Ning Tiantian to undergo a full-scale evolution and transformation.
As for which of them would be the lucky chosen one…
Zhang Yue pondered for a moment before suddenly posing a question to the four: "If I and the Tian family young master fell into the water at the same time, who would you save first?"
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