10: Floating artillery legion!

Lin Ye stood before the Void Rifts, feeling the chaotic and tyrannical aura emanating from within, yet his eyes remained exceptionally calm.

"Since I'm going to grind, I should naturally choose the one with the most generous rewards and the greatest challenge."

With a thought, the two extraordinary floating cannon squads that had been farming monsters autonomously outside immediately transformed into streams of light and returned, merging with the escort squad by his side and hovering silently around him.

"Enter dungeon, Hell Mode!" Lin Ye made his selection toward the invisible entrance at the core area of the Void Rifts.

[System Prompt: You have chosen to enter the dungeon "Zombie Tide (G617 - Aita District 003)", Difficulty: Hell. Teleporting...]

[Hell Mode Clearance Condition: Annihilate the source of infection in this area — The Abyss Zombie King!]

After a slight sensation of spatial distortion, Lin Ye found himself standing on the rooftop of a ruined high-rise building.

What greeted his eyes was a dead city in the true sense of the apocalypse.

Its former prosperity had long been eroded by war and time; skyscrapers were reduced to broken walls and ruins, the streets were littered with abandoned vehicles and obstacles, and dead, silent gray was the city's primary color.

And within this silence lay an endless black torrent—the zombies that filled every street and every corner, tens of thousands of them, dense and packed, stretching as far as the eye could see!

They varied in form, ranging from ordinary Level 1 Slow Zombies and Level 3 Healthy Zombies, and one could even spot the shadows of quite a few Level 5 Elite Zombies.

But without exception, under Hell Mode, each of them was surrounded by an ominous dark red halo on their bodies, emitting an aura that was more than a grade stronger than their counterparts outside.

[Truth Sequence] swept over them, and the information feedback made Lin Ye slightly tense: under Hell Mode, the base attribute values of all ordinary and elite zombies had multiplied by 10!

This meant that the Level 1 Slow Zombie, which originally had 120 HP, possessed 1200 HP here, and its 15 attack power had also turned into 150!

And those Level 5 Elite Zombies had become terrifying existences with nearly 30,000 HP and nearly 1,000 attack power!

"Good grief, attributes directly multiplied by ten, and this quantity... no wonder it's Hell Mode." Lin Ye was not alarmed but delighted, "However, this is exciting! It's perfect for grinding the progress bar of the xiao dingdang modifier!"

He took a deep breath, "With me as the center, summon m-1 type miniature floating cannon, fill them up in formations of 10!"

Standard floating cannons continuously appeared around him, rapidly replenishing the three squads.

Soon, each squad expanded from the original 5 units to 10, and a total of thirty floating cannons formed a denser and more powerful firepower net around him.

But facing that zombie tide of tens of thousands that feared no death, Lin Ye knew that this alone was not efficient enough.

His gaze hardened, and he raised his hands in the air. "【Integrated Polarization Shield LV3】, cover everyone!"

Consuming 100 Mana points, a brilliant energy halo suddenly expanded from Lin Ye as the center, covering himself and all thirty floating cannons surrounding him and on the battlefield!

Each floating cannon was wrapped in a polarization shield capable of absorbing damage, flickering with a reassuring glow.

"Not enough!" A sharp glint shot from Lin Ye's eyes. "【Tactical Command - Alpha Band LV3】, full army overload!"

Consuming another 150 Mana points, an invisible command pulse swept through all floating cannon units like a storm.

In an instant, the energy light at the muzzles of the thirty floating cannons surged several times over, and their internal energy cores emitted a high-pitched hum, as if each one had transformed into a bloodthirsty war beast!

Their attack power and attack speed would gain a terrifying 1000% boost for the next 150 seconds!

"Squad One, maintain escort formation. Squad Two and Squad Three, target — the street below, indiscriminate firepower coverage, begin the purge!"

"Shoo — Boom!!"

The moment the order was given, twenty floating cannons, like a torrent breaking a dam, dove down from the edge of the rooftop, targeting the densest part of the zombie tide on the street below and launching a devastating attack!

The scene was spectacular to the extreme! Thirty deep blue energy beams, like thirty grim reaper scythes, reaped wildly through the black "ocean" composed of tens of thousands of zombies below with astonishing rate of fire.

Every second, hundreds to thousands of devastating energy blasts poured down.

Explosions rang out one after another; the dark red energy halos were constantly torn apart, and severed limbs flew across the sky.

Even the thick-skinned zombies under Hell Mode were as fragile as paper in the face of this absolute firepower.

Wherever the extraordinary cannons passed, rows upon rows of zombies were instantly evaporated or paralyzed and then focused-fired to death, and the true damage made their defenses completely ineffective.

"-16320!" "-352300!" "-27330!" "-24640!" "-343219!"...

Countless damage numbers kept appearing, among which terrifying damage figures as high as over 300,000 occasionally appeared; that was the 15x damage caused by the floating cannon's 【Energy Overload】, and under this damage, even elite monsters were killed in seconds!

Lin Ye stood at the edge of the rooftop, overlooking the symphony of destruction he had directed, his experience bar skyrocketing at an unprecedented speed, and the progress bar under the xiao dingdang modifier was also climbing rapidly.

After a good while, when the originally crowded and zombie-swarming wide street below became empty, leaving only a mess and curling black smoke, three golden upgrade prompts sounded in succession in Lin Ye's ears!

[Congratulations! Level increased to LV4! All attributes increased! HP and Mana fully restored!]

[Level: 4 (0/20000)]

[Congratulations! Level increased to LV5! All attributes increased! HP and Mana fully restored!]

[Level: 5 (0/40000)]

[Congratulations! Level increased to LV6! All attributes increased! HP and Mana fully restored!]

[Level: 6 (0/80000)]

Three levels in a row! Soaring directly from LV3 to LV6! The tens of thousands of zombies obviously provided extremely generous experience points.

Lin Ye discovered that after he reached Level 4, killing Level 1 Slow Zombies only gave 1 experience point; it seems that when the level is 3 levels higher than the monster, it basically gives no experience points.

Fortunately, the Level 3 Healthy Zombies and Level 5 Elite Monsters were temporarily unaffected.

What made him even happier was that on the "xiao dingdang modifier" interface, that tiny progress bar had finally reached 100% as he wished!

The original text "Remaining uses: 0" also flickered and changed to "Modification uses: 1"!

"Finally... I can use it again!" A sharp glint shot from Lin Ye's eyes.

Lin Ye prepared to wait until this dungeon ended before considering how to use this modification opportunity.

At the same time, 【Miracle Law】 once again demonstrated its heaven-defying power. After clearing out these tens of thousands of Hell Mode zombies, the dropped items almost filled Lin Ye's personal storage space.

Various Black Iron and Bronze level equipment were countless, and all kinds of materials were piled up like mountains. Besides a large amount of Black Iron and Bronze level materials, the previously scarce core modification materials — 【charge crystal】, 【Void Essence】, and 【Demonized Tendon】 — each reached a shocking 3-digit quantity! It was enough for him to arm a massive legion!

The number of 【Primary Skill Books】 also reached 273!

"Nearly 300 Primary Skill Books... The drop rate brought by 【Miracle Law】 is simply outrageous!" Even Lin Ye himself was a bit tongue-tied.

He made a prompt decision without the slightest hesitation; it was time to expand his Floating Cannon Legion!

"Summon m-1 type miniature floating cannon, quantity 70!" With a thought, Lin Ye began to frantically summon the Floating Cannon Legion.

70 units plus the previous 30, exactly reached the capacity limit of the 【Portable Subspace Dock】!

Then, he consumed a total of nearly 300 Extraordinary Modification materials, accumulated previously and just obtained, to perform the same three 【Extraordinary Modification】s on these 97 standard floating cannons as he had on the previous three!

When the final modification was completed, one hundred ferocious and powerful floating cannons floated silently in Lin Ye's Subspace Dock, waiting to be summoned at any time. One hundred units, each one an Extraordinary Modification of Bronze level!

An unprecedented sense of power and confidence filled Lin Ye's heart.

His Floating Cannon Legion had finally taken shape!

Next, it was time to go meet the final BOSS of this Hell-level dungeon!