BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As Zhang Yue unleashed a combo of ultra-high burst lightning-type skills, he beat the Deep Sea Dragon King Gonia into uncontrollably performing a deep-sea disco dance.
A Level 105, 17-star normal BOSS, at best, it's equivalent to a Level 100 god-tier BOSS.
Of course, this refers only to its stats, not its consciousness.
Zhang Yue dealt with god-tier bosses with instant kills.
Let alone this kind of clueless, dumb normal BOSS.
As a result, Gonia basically had no chance to resist.
Finished dancing disco, and then died on the spot.
["Ding~ You have slain the Level 105, 17-star BOSS [Deep Sea Dragon King · Gonia], reward obtained: EXP +3 billion, Energy +300 billion!"]
["Ding~ Congratulations on defeating the Deep Sea Maze sub-dungeon BOSS [Deep Sea Dragon King · Gonia], special reward obtained: Level +1!"]
WHOOSH!
Golden light rained down.
["Ding~ Congratulations, you have leveled up. Current level: 100… Next level requires 18 billion EXP!"]
This special reward for the first sub-dungeon BOSS kill was quite good.
It directly granted 1 level, which if converted into EXP, would be equivalent to five or six times the BOSS kill experience.
Before Zhang Yue could go pick up the pile of golden loot stacked beside the BOSS corpse, Another system announcement descended from the sky—
[World Announcement](World 18):
["Ding~ Congratulations to the Dragon Nation player [Zero] for clearing the Nightmare-level sub-dungeon [Deep Sea Maze]!"]
As this announcement, audible to all players currently in World 18, was released, all countries in the world became restless.
Especially Cold Nation, Eastern Nation, Batan, and the other top seven nations.
In the Allied Forces chat group, representatives of various countries were furious.
[Mumu Si (Okaman): This bastard wiped us out and then took all the sub-dungeon rewards for himself!]
[Vicks (Batan): Daring to snatch food from the mouths of us seven great nations. I'd say the Dragon Nation is asking for death!]
[Higashino Shinjō (Eastern Nation): Didn't I say it already? That dragon-riding beastmaster from Dragon Nation is really strong.]
[Clumbia (Sun Nation): So what do we do next? How do we retaliate?]
[Famous Through the Ages (Cold Nation): Whatever he swallowed, he must spit it out!]
With that, [Famous Through the Ages] shifted to the world public channel.
At the cost of 10,000 gold coins, he issued a World 18 announcement.
[Famous Through the Ages](Cold Nation)
["Zero from Dragon Nation, listen up. You have three days to spit out all the spoils of war from the Deep Sea Maze sub-dungeon! Otherwise, it won't just be the seven great nations that hold a grudge. Dragon Nation will become the enemy of the entire world!"]
Zhang Yue wasn't going to put up with Famous Through the Ages.
He immediately replied on the world public channel:
["Then let me see just how capable you seven nations really are."]
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Inside the Deep Sea Maze—
After killing the BOSS, Zhang Yue cleaned up the loot dropped by Gonia.
A 17-star BOSS's drop value was extremely high.
High-grade materials and gold coins were numerous.
He acquired several pieces of top-tier 16–17-star equipment, and even a rare skill book.
Just as Zhang Yue was about to leave, he suddenly noticed: under Gonia's curled-up corpse, there was a chest.
Zhang Yue was delighted.
Just now, he was thinking, 'If the rewards were only these, it won't be worthy of a Nightmare-level sub-dungeon.'
Now it seemed, its true value was about to show.
So, he had the Armageddon Black Dragon lift and throw Gonia away, then Zhang Yue picked up the chest.
Opened the chest.
["Ding~ Congratulations! You have obtained the SSS-grade unique skill book [Divine Punishment · Extreme Cold Domain]!"]
"An SSS-grade unique skill, huh?", Zhang Yue picked up the skill book from the chest and sighed lightly, "This Nightmare sub-dungeon was worth the trip."
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[Divine Punishment · Extreme Cold Domain](SSS-grade Unique)
[Skill Effect: Releases an Extreme Cold Domain, intimidating the battlefield. Enemies within the domain have their final attack speed and final movement speed reduced by 30%, and the skill user, while inside the domain, gains a 500% ice-type damage bonus and 300% ice-type damage resistance.]
[Passive Effect: All of the wielder's ice-type skills have their damage coefficient increased by 30% on top of their base.]
[Cooldown Time: None]
[Cost: While the skill is active, consumes 1320 mana per second]
[Class: Universal for all classes]
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The skill was indeed an excellent top-tier skill.
Especially its passive effect. Increasing ice-type skill damage coefficient by 30%, meant that an S-rank "Icebound World" could go from 500% to 650%.
It was like upgrading the skill quality by a tier.
Because normally, only an SSS-grade "Icebound World" would have a 650% damage coefficient.
However, it wasn't suitable for Zhang Yue, whose main focus was lightning-type skills.
This skill was only suitable for someone with many ice-type skills.
And by that logic, there was a perfect candidate.
That was... Cherry.
This little girl, naturally exuding cold aura, eight or nine out of her ten skills must be ice-type.
This [Divine Punishment · Extreme Cold Domain] was practically tailor-made for her.
So, Zhang Yue immediately gave this market-valued-over-a-hundred-million SSS-grade unique skill to Cherry to use.
With that, Cherry's output ability would surely rise even higher than before.
Thus, this sub-dungeon journey could be considered a complete success.
Zhang Yue then parted ways with Athena, My God Asura, and the others, and led the Heavens Hall members out of the sub-dungeon and returned to within Dragon Nation territory.
It was just past 3 PM. Zhang Yue hastily logged off.
Wu Haotian and the others were baffled.
"It's not even dinner time, why did big bro log off so early?"
"Did he not eat enough for lunch?"
After logging off, Zhang Yue immediately dialed a number.
After a moment, the call connected.
An elderly and rich voice came from the other side, ["Master, do you need something?"]
This respectful voice toward Zhang Yue belonged to—Wolong.
"Yes," Zhang Yue said to Wolong, "Go take a look at the World 60, Infinite Abyss."
["Infinite Abyss…"], Hearing that somewhat familiar name, Wolong paused in silence, then said thoughtfully, ["Isn't that the place where we sealed the Three Main Gods back then?"]
["What's…"]
"I can't go for now. You go and check," Sensing Zhang Yue's heavy tone, Wolong seemed to have a bad premonition.
He quickly said, "Alright, I'll go to the World 60 right away!"
Hanging up the call, Zhang Yue felt restless.
Even though he already had the answer in his heart, he still hoped it wasn't what he thought.
With this uneasy feeling—
About ten minutes later, Wolong called back.
This time, Wolong's tone carried a hint of panic, ["The seal on Infinite Abyss has been broken. The Three Main Gods… are gone!"]
Hearing this confirmed answer, Zhang Yue's heart jolted violently, "Looks like… we're in trouble."
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