57: Monster Invasion Assessment

After arranging Gluttony, Ye Chen looked at the other demon god statues.

There were only a few potential ones in his Abyss.

Apollo mainly cultivated fear, which did not align with the Seven Deadly Sins, and aside from being somewhat lazy, the Demonic Dragon currently showed no other tendencies.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen once again conjured a statue, which was precisely the Demon God of Sloth.

He placed it in the Nine Layer Abyss and called the Demonic Dragon over to bind with it.

The Demonic Dragon reluctantly flew out of the hot spring and moved towards the Demon God statue.

It extended a claw and lightly touched the statue.

The statue remained stable, showing no changes.

Ye Chen then had it try touching other parts, but it still failed to activate the statue.

Clearly, the Demonic Dragon did not meet the requirements of the Sloth statue.

Ye Chen watched the Demonic Dragon, which had completed its task and was now crawling back to the hot spring, completely baffled.

If this doesn't meet the requirements, how lazy does one have to be?

Since it couldn't be activated, Ye Chen didn't dwell on it anymore.

With so many demonic talents in the Abyss in the future, he would surely find a suitable candidate.

Ignoring the lazy dragon, Ye Chen exited the Abyss.

The next day, the Second Expeditionary Force still returned empty-handed.

This time, they simply teleported directly to an asteroid.

Relying on their powerful strength, they managed to successfully sacrifice this asteroid back.

Ye Chen looked speechlessly at the asteroid orbiting the Abyss, too lazy to deal with it.

If enemies attack in the future, he'll just pick it up and smash them; it's simple, brutal, and effortless.

Upon arriving at school, he received news that the class would organize an invasion assessment today to test the students' strength and their ability to respond to invasions.

Such an assessment was naturally easy for Ye Chen; the environment within his Abyss alone could weaken these low-level invaders to dogs.

Due to the different ages of the students, the awakening time of their Divine Domains, and the strength of their core dependents, the assessment content also varied in difficulty.

Ye Chen was among the youngest in the class, his core dependents were ordinary-grade Tier 1, and he had awakened the latest.

Therefore, the assessment task assigned to him should have been the lowest difficulty.

However, Director Wu intervened before the assessment, raising Ye Chen's assessment difficulty to the highest level.

Ye Chen naturally didn't know about Director Wu's special attention to him, and he wasn't very interested in this assessment.

At this moment, Teacher Liu, the class teacher, walked in and announced the assessment details.

This assessment was a virtual one; students would be teleported into an assessment dungeon to face monster challenges.

Since it was their first time participating in an assessment, everyone was quite excited, as many students had never experienced combat, and their dependents at most only knew how to hunt.

They gathered together, discussing tactics, how to effectively kill enemies while ensuring the survival of their own dependents, and how to achieve high scores in the assessment.

When the time was almost up, Teacher Liu led the students directly to an assessment hall to wait.

Soon, the broadcast in the assessment hall began calling out names, and one by one, students were called, stood up, and entered their respective rooms.

Ye Chen's name was not among the first twenty people, and he wasn't in a hurry, slowly preparing his challenge configuration.

His Nine Layer Abyss was still too conspicuous; he had to hide his strength when necessary.

The vast area of just the camouflage layer alone was enough to be shocking; if the other nine layers of the Abyss were added, it would be too much.

As for the dependents to face the challenge, it was naturally the initial race—Worms.

As for why they mutated... wasn't it because he cultivated them well?

He selected one thousand Worms to face the challenge and added three hundred Vampire Bats to guard against aerial units.

Everything was ready, and the first batch of students had already completed their assessment.

Their expressions revealed how they performed this time.

"How was it? Who were your opponents this time?"

A student asked the senior who had just finished.

"Sigh, don't even mention it. My opponents were a group of 20 elite-grade Dwarf squads. I originally wanted to crush them directly with a numerical advantage."

"I didn't expect these guys to have a hidden trick of throwing axes; they wiped out over forty of my dependents before we even made contact. If it weren't for the limited number of axes, I would have been done for this time."

"I didn't gain any advantage in close combat either. These Dwarves even knew how to coordinate, killing over fifty of my dependents."

"After one assessment, the casualty ratio reached five to one. Fortunately, it was a virtual battle, so the dependents wouldn't really die, but my score this time is probably hanging by a thread."

Hearing what this student said, the other students also became worried.

Many students had no experience dealing with ranged attacks and found it very troublesome to face enemies that could fight both at range and in close quarters.

The second batch of students entered, and Ye Chen's position was still not among them.

It wasn't until the third round that Ye Chen was placed in the last slot.

He walked into his room, which contained a small teleportation array.

He stepped into the teleportation array at the Examiner's signal.

A flash of white light passed, and Ye Chen found himself in a void space, with a projection of his Abyss before him.

As Ye Chen's Divine Domain was continuously scanned, the projection gradually became richer, and the topography became more realistic.

Because he had instructed the Abyss Will to hide the other nine layers of the Abyss in advance, the projection only showed the topography of the camouflage layer.

And the scanned dependents only included the thirteen hundred that existed in the camouflage layer.

When the scan was complete, a professionally composed Orc Army appeared in the camouflage layer.

Among them were six hundred Orc Warriors, three hundred Orc Archers, and one hundred Orc Priests.

Ye Chen looked at this elite army of one thousand and couldn't help but be astonished.

No, this composition... is it something a novice can handle?

He originally thought he had been cautious enough, arranging an army of thirteen hundred, but now it seemed he had been too hasty.

His Abyssal Worms were Tier 1 Elites, and the Vampire Bats were Tier 2 Transcendent.

However, the opponent's thousand-strong army consisted entirely of Tier 2 Elites, the Priests were Tier 2 Transcendent, and the army's commander was even a Tier 3 Transcendent Warrior!

This immediately left Ye Chen's forces feeling a bit stretched.

However, the Worm Army, after all, had many talent bonuses, so it wasn't impossible to fight.

The Orc Army appeared in the camouflage layer, slowly approaching the central area.

Because it was a projected battle, without the Abyss's infinite resurrection bonus, Ye Chen did not send the Worm Army to their deaths.

He checked the Vampire Bats' skills.

Blood Shadow Assault: Instantly transforms into a blood mist and rapidly moves, dealing piercing damage to enemies along the path and absorbing some blood.

Sonic Shockwave: Emits high-frequency sound waves, dealing magical damage to nearby enemies and applying the [Tinnitus] effect.

Bloody Arrow: After flapping its wings to charge, it sprays three arrows with dark red glow from its mouth, dealing magical damage upon hitting an enemy and converting 30% of that damage into its own health.

Blood Tide Siphon: Locks onto a single target within 15 meters and continuously drains life while the skill is active. If the target's health is below 30%, the siphoning efficiency increases by 50%.

After reviewing the Vampire Bats' skills, overall, their sustain ability was quite good. Coupled with their blood talent, as long as they weren't instantly killed, they could quickly recover.

With this group of Vampire Bats, Ye Chen's confidence in passing the test greatly increased.