100: Chapter 100 Explosion is Art

"So many monsters..."

Following Lin Muyang all the way here, the Yama Maiden Gui Wanwan's grey eyes flickered with a hint of surprise. She hadn't expected that in this seemingly orderly world, there would be such a large-scale gathering of monsters.

Initially, observing Zhongnan City where Lin Muyang lived, she felt the surrounding environment was safe and peaceful, with everything in order, and thought the monster threat in this world was well-controlled. Now it seemed that might have just been an exception?

According to Lin Muyang's brief introduction during the journey, currently on the entire Blue Star, only within the borders of Xia Country could a decent social order be maintained. Other countries were more or less in a state of chaos. Because monsters of epic-grade and above were protected by some mysterious rule, it was difficult for high-level Class Transferees to cause effective damage to them—this was widely considered one of the root causes of global instability.

But for Lin Muyang, this posed no obstacle at all.

His gaze swept across the foot of the Ice Wall. The lowest level among the monster horde was actually only level forty-eight. Meanwhile, his level, after the morning's frantic leveling session, had already reached fifty-six. This meant that according to common logic, he should be unable to deal damage to those monsters below level fifty-three.

However, rules were meant to be broken.

Although Lin Muyang didn't have a baseball, he had cheats.

With a slight thought from Lin Muyang, the God-Tier Aura [All Beings Are Equal] quietly activated!

The moment the Aura took effect, for him, the "level tags" of all monsters in his field of vision were forcibly modified to match his own level fifty-six. Of course, the monsters' actual attributes didn't change at all, but the effect of this Aura was precisely to let Lin Muyang completely ignore the rules of level suppression—no matter what the target's actual level was, he could deal full damage.

Immediately after, the buff-type Auras lit up in sequence: Attack, Defense, Speed, Cooldown, Critical Hit and Penetration, and Skill Range Expansion!

Six powerful buff Auras were activated simultaneously.

Debuff-type Auras followed closely behind: Slow and Silence!

Counting the core [All Beings Are Equal], ten Auras were now running continuously. Additionally, the [Divine Concealment Aura], as a permanent functional Aura, remained active.

After reaching level fifty-six, Lin Muyang could now activate twelve God-Tier Auras simultaneously. At this moment, he had just used his full capacity.

"Ella, Xiao Wan, this time it's mainly up to the two of you." Standing in the biting cold wind above the Ice Wall, his robes fluttering, Lin Muyang calmly issued the command.

No one noticed that the "mysterious genius" whom the Xia Country high-level officials had placed high hopes on had already quietly arrived at the battlefield.

And the harvest was about to begin.

Ghostly Qi Pervasion!

The Yama Maiden Gui Wanwan stepped onto the void with her fair bare feet, a slightly wicked smile curling at the corners of her mouth that didn't quite match her pale face. She gently raised her slender arm and made a downward pressing gesture.

In an instant, a grey-black ghostly mist as thick as ink emerged out of thin air from beneath her feet, surging and spreading toward the base of the Ice Wall! This mist carried a bone-chilling cold and the breath of death; wherever it passed, even light seemed to be swallowed.

Originally, the range of this skill was a radius of two hundred meters. But under the terrifying enhancement of Lin Muyang's [Spell Expansion] Aura, the range of the ghostly mist exploded tenfold, reaching a staggering radius of two thousand meters!

In the blink of an eye, a vast area was enveloped by the rolling ghostly mist. Both the monsters within and the Xia Country Class Transferee teams fighting cautiously nearby were all plunged into this darkness of extremely low visibility.

Exclamations and warning shouts came from various places below the Ice Wall. The warriors instinctively tightened their formations, tensely watching their surroundings.

However, Lin Muyang had already set the friend-or-foe identification. This "Ghostly Qi Pervasion" black mist would only cause a visual obstruction effect for the Xia Country side's Class Transferees and would not cause any damage.

Following that, the real killing move descended.

Elabess unfurled her signature black wings. Holding a newly acquired Sovereign-rank dark staff flowing with dark purple light, she dove down like a shadow, vanishing into the rolling ghostly mist.

Origin Skill—Black Hole Vortex!

The next moment, at the core of the ghostly mist's coverage, a pitch-black vortex with a diameter expanded to a horrifying degree by [Spell Expansion] suddenly formed! A terrifying suction force erupted, forcibly pulling and gathering the monsters within range. Simultaneously, immeasurable pure shadow and chaotic energy frantically surged, tore, and annihilated within the vortex!

Compared to her last time soloing an epic-level secret realm, Elabess's strength had now increased several times over! The cooking buffs from Elena and the Holy Light blessings from Lilia made the damage Elabess dealt now more than several times higher than back then!

Even if the monsters below possessed all sorts of epic-grade affixes, and even if countless monsters' Aura effects stacked and influenced each other at close range, forming a complex and hostile battlefield environment...

For Lin Muyang, it could all be broken with sheer force!

A damage magnitude completely exceeding the understanding of the current level crushed everything in the most brutal way! Within the two-thousand-meter radius of the ghostly mist area, over a thousand epic-grade and even legendary-grade monsters had their bodies disintegrate and energy collapse under the dual strike of the Black Hole Vortex and Ghostly Qi erosion, turning into fly ash in swathes!

Among them, those monsters that met the BOSS evaluation standards turned into wisps of invisible but pure soul energy at the moment of death, converging against the ghostly mist toward that petite and pale figure in mid-air.

Gui Wanwan held a black scythe phantom that seemed condensed from shadows, her grey eyes calmly sweeping below. Under that combined strike just now, a few BOSS-level monsters with thick skin or special life-saving abilities still remained.

She didn't even make any extra movements, simply holding the scythe phantom and giving a gentle horizontal swipe toward that area.

Death Harvest!

The skill description said this was dark attribute damage, but in reality, the essence of the Yama Maiden's power was even more eerie, being a rule-based attack closer to the concepts of "death" and "ending." Even if a target's dark resistance was stacked to the limit, it would be difficult to completely withstand this harvest aimed directly at the soul's origin.

Furthermore... the "Death Harvest" skill possessed an extremely overbearing special effect: it dealt an "Absolute Execution" to targets with health below 30%!

The black blade light silently swept through the void.

The remaining heavily injured BOSSes below felt as if an invisible blade had slit their throats; their last bits of vitality were instantly extinguished, and they fell one after another.

Just this one wave of attacks...

"Two hundred and fifteen boss souls obtained." Lin Muyang sensed the harvest through the summon contract link and was quite satisfied. As expected of epic-grade monsters, killing one was worth three souls from an ordinary Dungeon BOSS, and legendary-grade ones were worth six! This efficiency was much higher and easier than painstakingly grinding Dungeons.

[The number of boss souls accumulated by your summon 'Yama · Gui Wanwan' has reached 200!]

[She has unlocked a brand new skill!]

[Skill 5: Nether Soul Detonation. Passive skill. Targets killed (or significantly assisted in killing) by you or your summons will have their souls undergo a violent explosion at the moment of annihilation, dealing massive area damage based on the 'Death Harvest' skill damage to all enemies within a 20-meter radius.]

Gui Wanwan had directly unlocked a brand new passive skill.

When Lin Muyang saw the description of this skill clearly, even with his temperament, he couldn't help but take a slight breath of cold air.

"This effect is a bit ridiculous." He was secretly shocked.

As long as a target was killed or assisted in being killed, the target's soul would explode, dealing area damage! What did this mean? It meant that on a battlefield where monsters were packed shoulder-to-shoulder, as long as a good start was made—killing the first monster to trigger an explosion—the explosion would kill surrounding monsters, and those killed by the blast would trigger new explosions... Such a cycle was enough to trigger a devastating chain reaction!

Originally, the flaw of this passive skill was its small range, only a twenty-meter radius. But now, with Lin Muyang's [Spell Expansion] Aura, the explosion's impact range would be expanded to a two-hundred-meter radius!

Most importantly, with the current suffocating density of monsters at the foot of the Ice Wall, as long as the first "Nether Soul Detonation" was successfully triggered, the subsequent chain explosions could almost be predicted to spread like an avalanche, becoming unstoppable!

"Very good." The corners of Lin Muyang's mouth curled up slightly, a sharp light flashing in his eyes. "It seems the speed of clearing out this 'trash' can be even faster than expected."

He didn't linger, taking the young ladies beside him and beginning to move at high speed upstream along the towering, winding Ice Wall.

By this time, the "Ghostly Qi Pervasion" and "Black Hole Vortex" that had erupted in that area had already caught the attention of many powerful experts on the wall. When they turned their suspicious and uncertain gazes toward that area enveloped in black mist—which was now slowly dispersing—the sight they saw made everyone's pupils contract and their scalps tingle!

That area, which had originally been crammed with hideous monsters, was now completely empty! Only a few charred traces remaining on the ground and ash staining the ice crystals proved what quantity of enemies had once existed there.

So many epic and legendary-grade monsters just gone? Clearing a two-kilometer radius with one attack?

Before they could recover from this horrifying sight, an even more unbelievable scene followed.

Right on the flank of that cleared area, thick ghostly mist emerged and expanded again without warning! Another staggering Black Hole Vortex formed and erupted within it!

And this time, along with the sight of monsters being annihilated in swathes, a strange and terrifying chain reaction began to spread frantically through the ocean of monsters at a speed visible to the naked eye!

At the position where each monster died, a silent and violent tremor seemed to occur. This tremor wasn't a physical impact but a terrifying explosion acting on the soul level. Although silent, onlookers could clearly see that with the death point as the center, large swathes of surrounding monsters seemed to be hit by an invisible sledgehammer simultaneously; their bodies shook violently, then they stiffened without warning, fell, and turned to fly ash!

And these newly dead monsters immediately became new "bombs." Their souls underwent "Nether Soul Detonation" upon annihilation, passing the death shockwave to more distant kin...

Once, twice, ten times, a hundred times... the chain detonations spread and diffused through the dense monster horde like a spreading plague! Because the damage of "Nether Soul Detonation" was extremely high, and monsters in the same area would suffer overlapping explosion damage from multiple directions in a very short time, they simply had no time to make any reaction before being harvested in swathes by the chain soul explosions.

Then, death triggered new explosions, and explosions created more death.

At this moment, the genius girl of the Ghost Tribe, with the support of multiple God-Tier Auras, truly displayed the terror of her name "Yama." In Lin Muyang's sensory perspective, countless light spots emitting pure soul fluctuations were like a reverse meteor shower, rising from every corner of the battlefield below and swarming toward the petite figure in the air, almost completely enveloping her in a ball of ethereal soul radiance.

Invisible yet lethal soul explosions bloomed one after another at the foot of the Ice Wall. Countless monsters, without even figuring out what happened or seeing who the enemy was, turned to dust in this desperate chain reaction, adding a new bit of power to the already rampant wave of death.

This terrifying scene, like a natural disaster descending or the Grim Reaper swinging his scythe...

Was fully taken in by all the Xia Country experts atop the Ice Wall.

At the same time, various young Class Transferee teams originally formed into battle arrays below different sections of the Ice Wall, struggling to eliminate monsters—totaling over a thousand people—were all now plunged into daze and shock. Their offensives stopped involuntarily; everyone looked up, either staring wide-eyed at the terrifying chain annihilation in the distance or looking at each other, seeing the same disbelief in their companions' eyes.

What... what's the situation? Which big shot made a move? But which big shot could deal such devastating damage to so many low-level, high-grade monsters?

At the top of the Ice Wall, surrounded by dozens of Xia Country experts with powerful Auras, was the Ice God Han Beichuan. He wore a moon-white mage robe, possessed a refined temperament, had salt-and-pepper hair, and eyes as deep as a cold pool. Just standing there, he naturally radiated a calming Aura.

But at this moment, this Nation-Guarding powerhouse known for his composure, when he looked down and saw the army of tens of thousands of monsters like a black tide beneath the Ice Wall he had constructed with a Forbidden Curse being harvested in swathes and rapidly annihilated by a strange and violent chain soul explosion...

His habitually placid expression showed a clear freeze, and his pupils dilated slightly.

He had indeed received an encrypted message from Kyoto earlier, mentioning a mysterious super genius discovered not long ago who was heading here at the official request. When he received the message, Han Beichuan hadn't paid it much mind. After all, in his view, the current situation of tens of thousands of epic and legendary monsters pressing in was not something one or two geniuses could turn around. No matter how strong a genius was, their level was there; how much could they change?

But now, Han Beichuan felt a slight shiver run down his spine. It could even be said that this scene transcending common sense gave this Nation-Guarding powerhouse, who had seen many great storms, a strong sense of shock and a hint of alarm!

Even as a Nation-Guarding Level, he had seen tides of epic and legendary-grade monsters before. But a scene like this, where monsters were being instantly killed in swathes and areas, with a monster tide of tens of thousands evaporating at a speed visible to the naked eye... he had truly never seen it! He hadn't even sketched such a picture in his boldest assumptions or dreams!

If he could deal full damage to these monsters, he could naturally achieve this. A large-scale Forbidden Curse smashed down would be enough to clear a vast area. But he couldn't do it. His level was too high; these monsters were almost in an "invincible" state to him. At most, he could use Forbidden Curses to restrict and trap them, but he couldn't kill them directly.

"Among these monsters, the lowest level is forty-eight..." Han Beichuan's mind calculated rapidly, his thoughts difficult to calm. "Now they are being eliminated in swathes, none spared... this means the one making the move definitely hasn't exceeded level fifty-one!"

"A Class Transferee not exceeding level fifty-one can possess such large-scale, high-efficiency, terrifying field-clearing capability?!"

It wasn't just Han Beichuan.

At this very moment, all the Xia Country experts standing on the Ice Wall, who were originally worried and tensely preparing for battle—whether battle-hardened veterans or well-informed advisors—were all plunged into a brief loss of words and confusion.

They watched the ocean of monsters below being rapidly erased as if by an invisible eraser, watched that inconceivable soul explosion chain spread frantically, and one by one, they began to doubt their own eyes, even slightly doubting the rules of how this world operated.

Is this really something a Class Transferee in their fifties can do?