60: First entry into the occupied area

【 experience points + 8,180,000 】

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【 This clear took 56 minutes and 15 seconds, surpassing 93% of challengers. Overall rating: S. 】

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The Tyrannosaurus Rex Lord with nearly ten thousand HP is just gone like that?

The seemingly plain "Soul Sacrifice" Skill was actually able to instantly kill the Tyrannosaurus Rex Lord despite various buffs—how terrifying!

True damage!

This is true damage!

Xu Le was surprised in his heart. Suddenly feeling something in his Sea of Consciousness, he reached out and grabbed, and a wisp of gray light appeared in his hand.

This was what the Little Silly Crow had sacrificed through the altar.

Scanning with "Divine Eye", the item's information popped up.

【 Tyrannosaurus Rex Lord Soul Fragment × 1 】

Crack!

As the fragment was obtained, a sound of something shattering echoed in the dungeon, and the ground began to shake.

Xu Le hurriedly threw the fragment back into the dungeon. It vanished instantly, and the quaking world calmed down, making everything before seem like an illusion.

This dungeon is the "lifeline" of the Demon Slaying Academy; he hoped he hadn't broken it.

This time, he successfully reached Level 53, unlocking another contracted beast slot.

Xu Le's goal remained finding a contracted beast that could weaken defense.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex Lord was easy to deal with now, but similar high-defense, high-damage-reduction monsters were still hard to kill.

[ Come to Training Ground No. 8 immediately. — — Hong Yuantai ]

After Xu Le arrived, he saw a familiar medal.

It was entirely black, with a silver Sharp Blade engraved on the front, a drop of blood hanging from the tip, about to fall.

A Sharp Blade medal!

Hong Yuantai smiled and said: "Are you interested in joining the Sharp Blade?"

Xu Le nodded.

"Are you willing to make killing monsters your greatest life's work?"

"Uh..."

Xu Le nodded hesitantly; it didn't say he couldn't have a side job.

Hong Yuantai handed the medal directly to him.

Xu Le looked up: "No assessment?"

"Yes! You passed," Hong Yuantai pointed in the direction of the principal's office, "He already gave you the little sword, what other assessment do you need?"

Xu Le took it, and Hong Yuantai gave him a pitch-black mobile phone and a cross-boundary teleportation talisman.

The phone was a specially made internal device; every member of the Sharp Blade had one. It could be used to accept missions, automatically record merit points, and also function as an ordinary phone.

Furthermore, it used a satellite network for communication, allowing it to be used in the Fallen Zone.

As for the cross-boundary teleportation talisman, it was a newcomer benefit that could teleport him to any safe point of the Great Wall Guard Army, serving as a life insurance policy.

Xu Le opened the phone to view the available missions; the dense cluster of red dots was shocking.

Hong Yuantai looked a bit embarrassed and cleared his throat to explain: "We've been short-handed lately, so there's a bit of a backlog of missions."

Xu Le glanced at the 9999+ missions and thought to himself: This isn't a recent shortage of manpower, this is a long-term lack of talent!

But these weren't the main point.

The main point was entering the Fallen Zone and then leveling up.

Soon, Xu Le saw a mission that caught his interest.

[ Mission ] Exterminate monsters in Zone 11001

[ Difficulty ]

[ Reward ] 200 merit points, monster kills counted separately

[ Time ] 2 months

[ Location ] Fallen Zone 001 outside the First Urban District

[ Restriction ] Limited to newcomers who have joined the Sharp Blade for less than a year or within three missions.

Obviously, this was a mission for newcomers.

Hong Yuantai opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but due to the rules of the Sharp Blade, he left directly.

He thought Xu Le's mission was thankless; for two whole months, he could earn so much merit elsewhere, yet he was restricted to this.

Xu Le didn't explain. After accepting the mission, some staff members came to process his proof for entering and exiting the Fallen Zone.

...

The next day.

Xu Le appeared in the Fallen Zone of the First Urban District.

After providing his proof to the guarding troops at the checkpoint, he finally stepped into the Fallen Zone.

The sky was gray and hazy, and the land was pitch black.

There were no trees, no grass, no insect chirps, no bird calls.

There was nothing on the ground; it was like a living Hell.

Xu Le knew this was because Devilish Qi would contaminate all living things.

As long as there was life, it would be contaminated by Devilish Qi and become one of the legions attacking humanity.

The monsters generated nearby were all killed by the nearby guard troops; deeper in, dense swarms of monsters would appear.

Continuing forward, a Cockroach the size of a sparrow appeared before his eyes.

A black lightning bolt flashed by.

The Little Silly Crow flew in front of the Cockroach and used "Light of Punishment" point-blank.

Six black shockwaves blasted out, and the Cockroach immediately collapsed to the ground.

【 experience points + 6588 】

"Not good, this black guy is too proactive!"

The Little Yellow Chicken felt a sense of alarm, hurriedly took off, and released nine Clones to search for monsters.

Actually, there was no need.

The Little Silly Crow's behavior was like opening Pandora's box.

Rustling sounds came from the ground, and countless cockroaches, like a black tide, surged over.

"Hmph hmph, now it's my world!"

The Little Yellow Chicken thought, and began to cast "Meteor Fire Rain" and "Blazing Shockwave" Skills.

Dense rain of fire fell. The cockroaches screeched "Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle", trying to avoid the fire rain but getting hit by even more of it.

How will you break this move?

It looked at the Little Silly Crow, only to see its body shake, transforming into 324 small ravens the size of red dates.

Each small raven cast "Light of Punishment", and dense black shockwaves covered the black "tide".

Black collided with black, and countless parts of the "tide" were blasted away, turning into dense experience points.

【 experience points + 6588 】

【 experience points + 6588 】

...

After one wave, the "red date ravens" sought out the "sparrow cockroaches", going one-on-one without falling behind at all.

Even if bitten by the opponent, they would immediately peck back, and under the 100% lifesteal buff, they could easily recover to full health.

On the contrary, the cockroaches had no healing Skills and soon turned into corpses.

"Danger, danger, danger!"

The Little Yellow Chicken felt alarm bells ringing wildly in its heart and killed the cockroaches even more diligently.

Xu Le frowned, looked at the demon slaying blade in his hand, felt that it was about to break, and decided to put it away and use Spells instead.

He threw an Earth Spike Skill at the group of cockroaches in the back; a large group of cockroaches was pierced through, fluids flowing everywhere.

Some Cockroach groups hatched on the spot, devoured the mother, and rejoined the battlefield.

The Cockroach army charged recklessly, actually breaking through the first line of defense formed by the Little Yellow Chicken and the Little Silly Crow.

The Little Dog sent out its Clones to join the battlefield.

However, because of its size, it often missed prey.

A Cockroach broke through all defenses and flew toward Xu Le. He hurriedly equipped the demon moth wings, flapped them, and left the survivors for the Little Dog's main body to deal with.

The Little Dog: "..."

Although the Clones were biting happily, one bite per Cockroach, it was very disgusted and pressed it to death on the ground with one paw.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle..."

The cockroaches flapped their wings like mad demons, becoming even more frantic.

Xu Le flapped his wings wildly and activated the Skill within them.

Hurricane Howl.

A huge tornado rose from the midst of the Cockroach swarm, sweeping the nearby cockroaches into the wind.