Compared to the big shots, we really are trash!

An emerald-green spatial gate emerged before his eyes.

"Brother Calamity, I'll give you the party leader permissions."

Dragon Soul - Sword God turned and spoke, immediately pulling Chen Ming into the party and transferring the leader position to him.

[Ding! You have joined the party "Dragon Soul."]

[Ding! You have obtained the party leader permissions for the "Dragon Soul" squad.]

As the prompts popped up before his eyes, Chen Ming looked toward the emerald-green spatial gate.

[Sea of Despair: Dungeon Secret Realm (Team)]

[Level: 30–50.]

[Secret Realm Description: A vast ocean eroded by the bizarre and fearful, yet it nurtures a touch of ultimate vitality in its depths.]

[Clearance Requirements: 1. Kill the final boss of the secret realm—the Lord of Despair.]

2. Destroy the source of pollution.]

[Clearance Reward: Eternal Life Water (God Grade), crystal of life (Mythic Grade).]

[Failure Penalty: None.]

[Selectable Dungeon Difficulty: Normal, Elite, Hard, Purgatory, Abyss.]

[Hint: This secret realm is polluted by the power of Ancient Gods and is extremely dangerous. Please choose carefully.]

[Hint: This secret realm is a team dungeon; a minimum of 5 people is required to enter.]

[Ding! Please select the dungeon difficulty you wish to challenge.]

"Abyss."

Chen Ming made his choice decisively.

The emerald-green portal immediately burst with green light, enveloping Chen Ming and the others... A massive palace floated on the seabed, like a city of the ocean.

[Current Location—Sea of Despair. Despair Underwater City.]

"Brother Calamity, what should we do next?" Dragon Soul - Sword God asked.

Chen Ming ignored him, instead looking up at the monsters wandering ahead.

It was a group of merman monsters over three meters tall, holding bronze tridents and covered in black scales. Eerily, their bodies were covered in dense gray fur and tentacles, looking incredibly bizarre.

[Mutated Merman]

[Level: 45.]

[HP: 350,000/350,000.]

[Strength: 1,500.]

[Intelligence: 1,200.]

[Agility: 1,000.]

[Stamina: 1,000.]

[Spirit: 1,000.]

[Physical Attack: 3,500.]

[Magic Attack: 2,900.]

[Physical Defense: 1,500.]

[Magic Defense: 1,500.]

[Skills: Merman Thrust Lv3, Power of Mutation Lv3, Water Bullet Lv2.]

[Mutation Bonus: Max HP +100,000, Physical/Magic Attack +500, each attack deals an additional 200 magic damage to enemies.]

[Abyss Difficulty Bonus: Max HP +150,000, Skill Damage +15%.]

[Description: Mermen, once symbols of peace and justice, have undergone an unspeakable mutation after being tainted by the power of an Evil God!]

...Tsk tsk!

As expected of monsters from an Abyss-difficulty dungeon secret realm.

The attributes of these Mutated Mermen were truly perverse for ordinary players.

350,000 HP, and all their attributes were in the four-digit range or higher.

And most importantly, there was a massive number of these Mutated Mermen—at least a hundred of them occupied the entrance to the Despair Underwater City.

Recalling the clearance conditions for the Sea of Despair, Chen Ming turned to the Dragon Soul members. "To clear the dungeon as quickly as possible, I'll go find the boss, the Lord of Despair, directly. As for you... just wait for me here."

"Eh? You're going to kill the boss alone?"

"The Great Calamity Player, I admit your strength is great, but the monsters in this secret realm are not simple. Together, we can at least help share the burden a little."

"Great One, you're a squishy Ranger. What if a monster gets close to you? Bring us along; at the very least, we can ensure your damage output is safe."

The members of the Dragon Soul squad, including Dragon Soul - Sword God, all spoke up with suggestions.

It wasn't that they didn't believe in Chen Ming, but they had experienced the horror of the Sea of Despair before.

Furthermore, in that previous experience, they had assembled the strongest members of Dragon Soul.

The result was that they were wiped out in less than ten minutes.

In their view, the Sea of Despair secret realm was simply not a dungeon that could be cleared.

"No need. Just stay back and take it easy; coming along would only make you a burden."

Chen Ming spoke bluntly.

He had many things waiting to be done. He didn't have time to play at social niceties, nor did he want to spend time explaining anything.

The members of the Dragon Soul squad immediately became unhappy upon hearing this.

What do you mean? We are, after all, some of the strongest players in the Dragon Soul Guild.

What do you take us for, Zai E?

Trash?

Chen Ming ignored them and instead turned toward the group of Mutated Mermen, pulling back his bowstring.

"Hmph, treating us like trash. I'd like to see just how strong you can be."

"I don't believe it. Without us helping, you can really annihilate this group of Mutated Mermen all by yourself."

The Dragon Soul squad members looked at each other, all tacitly choosing not to act.

They wanted to see if this Brother Calamity was truly as strong as the rumors claimed.

Chen Ming didn't care about their little schemes at all.

Or rather... he simply didn't mind.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!!

Accompanied by the vibration of the bowstring, a dense cluster of arrows shot out like a torrential rain.

With his level soaring to 49, and with Chen Ming's current Agility attribute, he could fire nearly a hundred arrows every second.

These hundred arrows were split and split again by 'Ill Form the Arm'.

In the blink of an eye, they turned into an infinite rain of arrows.

Most terrifying of all, after [Paramita] was promoted to Epic-grade, the newly unlocked special effect bonuses also endowed these arrows with various status effects.

'Burn', 'Paralysis', 'Slow'... -2,249,280 (Poison Damage).

-3,000 (True Damage).

-8,594 (True Damage).

-14,580... Dense damage numbers floated up from the heads of the Mutated Mermen.

In less than ten short seconds, over a hundred Mutated Mermen were all instantly killed.

[You have successfully killed a Mutated Merman. EXP +7,500.]

[Title 'ill form the head' effect activated. EXP multiplied by ten. EXP +75,000.]

[You have successfully...]

A dense stream of kill notifications popped up before his eyes.

This single wave alone provided Chen Ming with millions of experience points.

However, this amount of experience was merely a drop in the bucket for him now.

After all, the experience he needed to level up now started at eight digits.

At the same time, the members of the Dragon Soul squad also received a flurry of kill notifications.

However, under Chen Ming's party leader settings, they only received one-tenth of the experience.

"Holy crap, no way. He just wiped them all out?"

"Oh my god, what kind of ridiculous attack speed and ridiculous damage is this?"

"Even using cheats wouldn't be this ridiculous."

"Uh, can someone pinch me? I feel like I'm dreaming."

"Sitting up in bed while deathly ill, turns out the clown was me all along."

"I admit I was speaking a bit loudly just now. Compared to The Great Calamity Player... we really are trash."

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