128: Chapter 128 cleared with the highest rating, breaking the Tower City record for many years!

Facing the extremely troublesome Companion Ghost Beast, a hint of interest appeared in Zhang Jian's eyes.

"It has extreme immunity to both physical and magical attacks? What a coincidence!"

"My Sky Storm Slash skill just happens to deal both lightning and Sword Qi damage; let's see if you can block that!"

As dark clouds gathered and thunder roared, his longsword descended once more.

-21632! (Immune 7571)

-21632! (Immune 7571)

As the damage numbers floated up, Zhang Jian's eyes were pensive.

The original 70% immunity effect only took effect at 35%, or half the degree.

It only dealt over 10,000 damage to the monster.

For its 200,000 health, it was undoubtedly a drop in the bucket.

But the second and third thundercloud Sword Qi strikes fell one after another.

Max-level trait [Storm Resonance] activated!

-142772!

The Companion Ghost Beast let out a shrill scream, but it was to no avail.

This heavy blow directly reduced it to critical health.

The fourth and fifth Sword Qi strikes fell, slaying it on the spot!

By now, the Companion Ghost Beasts in the field had been mostly slaughtered.

By the time the last Sword Qi strike fell, Zhang Jian didn't even need to finish them off; the dark, ghostly monsters in the field had all turned into corpses.

Only the scattered lights on the ground remained as traces of their former existence.

Wei Donglai raised his eyebrows.

"See? I told you this wouldn't be difficult for Brother Jian, right?"

Wang Fei rolled his eyes at him.

"Look at how smug you are; if I didn't know better, I'd think you were the one who killed these monsters."

As the three chatted and laughed, they quickly began to clean up the battlefield.

Zhang Jian strode toward the BOSS.

"The minions have all been taken care of, got any more tricks up your sleeve?"

The fully accumulated Critical Hit affix transformed into surging Sword Qi, striking the BOSS repeatedly.

Even though it had managed to recover over 50% of its health during that short time.

It was unable to withstand the damage from the continuous critical hits.

By the eighth strike, it was shattered and collapsed to the ground.

Ignoring the rows of experience notifications and various affix upgrades, Zhang Jian bent down and picked up the BOSS's drops.

[Summon Ghost] (legendary rank): Can summon several [Ghost Beasts] to fight for you.

[Critical Hit Mastery] (legendary rank): After learning, increases critical hit damage by 10%.

Although there were only two drops, the two legendary rank skill books still made Zhang Jian feel it was well worth it.

Summoning-type skills were fine; although rare on the market, they could still be bought with money.

Passive skills, however, were truly priceless and unavailable. If it hadn't been for the Reception Envoy's help last time, Zhang Jian wouldn't have been able to buy one no matter how much money he spent.

He picked up [Critical Hit Mastery] and immediately tried to learn it.

"Passive skills cannot be learned when the skill slot limit is reached. Please continue to increase your Rank to obtain new skill slots."

The System's prompt made him pause. It seemed he could only learn regular skills to arrange and combine them. As for passive skills, learning one occupied a slot immediately.

He wasn't too depressed about it.

In a few days, when the timing was right to level up, he would naturally be able to learn it.

"You have killed the Level 25 legendary rank BOSS [Soul-Eater Beast], you have completed the nightmare Rank clear of [Wild Grassland]."

"Team member count is less than 5, base evaluation increased."

"All team members are challenging above their Rank, base evaluation increased."

"No casualties, base evaluation increased."

"Clear time is within one hour, base evaluation significantly increased."

"Defeated BOSS summons within 5 minutes, base evaluation significantly increased."

"Challenge level difference with the final BOSS exceeds 10, additional evaluation significantly increased."

"After exiting, you will receive an SSS+++ evaluation, gain an additional 1,000,000 experience points, and can choose one piece of loot to increase its quantity or quality."

"Your team has broken the Dungeon clear record. Would you like to use the team leader [Zhang Jian] as the team name to permanently save the record?"

This Dungeon clear went quite smoothly, and all the base and additional evaluations were basically maxed out.

It was just a bit unexpected that Zhang Jian didn't receive a Heavenly Dao-Grade evaluation. He didn't know if it was because the clear time wasn't fast enough or because of the team composition.

As for the team name, he thought for a moment and named it [Galaxy Pawn]. It could be considered a small advertisement for his academy.

For the final boost effect, he chose [Critical Hit Mastery]. Although based on previous experience, he knew that the maximum quality for this level of Dungeon was legendary rank, he still wanted to test what kind of reaction it would produce.

A purple light flashed.

[Critical Hit Mastery] (legendary rank): After learning, increases critical hit damage by 10%. (Has been boosted by the team's highest clear evaluation quality; can be learned repeatedly during the First Turn stage, maximum limit: 2 books.)

The boosted skill, although the quality remained unchanged and the attributes were the same, gained a special effect allowing it to be learned repeatedly. This greatly surprised Zhang Jian.

When leaving the Dungeon, a smile was still plastered on his face.

...

Li Zhihai reached the Dungeon entrance in just a few steps.

"How is the situation?"

The middle-aged man on guard didn't quite understand what he meant and answered subconsciously.

"Nothing special?"

Li Zhihai frowned.

"Did the Dungeon warning mechanism not send an alert?"

The middle-aged man nodded.

"They should still be inside the Dungeon."

Li Zhihai's eyes narrowed. A few kids around Level 10, and they can actually hold out this long?

At this rate, maybe they could really manage to scrape by with one or two battle flags and clear a Normal or Hard difficulty?

He shook his head. Hard difficulty was probably unlikely; the Wolf Cavalry were no pushovers. If they could clear Normal difficulty, that would count as them...

A golden light suddenly erupted. Fireworks effects automatically burst forth in front of the Dungeon. The middle-aged man was stunned; he was very familiar with this scene.

"The Dungeon record has been broken?"

The figures of Zhang Jian and the other three appeared, each with a smile on their faces. Li Zhihai's expression, however, froze.

Not only did they come out alive, but they also broke the record? Am I hallucinating?

He hurriedly went to the Dungeon's statistical light screen to take a look.

[Wild Battlefield] Speedrun Leaderboard: 1. [Galaxy Pawn] Team, Members: 4, Clear Time: 37 minutes. 2. [Dragon Fighting in the Wild] Team, Members: 10, Clear Time: 48 minutes. 3. [Red River Group] Team, Members: 10, Clear Time: 54 minutes.

It was actually true! A look of fear appeared in Li Zhihai's eyes. A team of just 4 people was actually more than 10 minutes faster than the two large teams from before!

These kids, were they actually this strong? Li Zhihai refused to believe it in his heart. His face twisted in conflict.

But then he saw Zhang Jian walk up to him.

"I heard that if the evaluation is good, we get an extra chance?"

Li Zhihai gritted his teeth and said, "That's right."

A thought suddenly occurred to him. The group had just finished the Dungeon; their overall condition definitely hadn't recovered to its peak. Perhaps there was some luck involved in their clear just now.

If he forced them to go again immediately, maybe there would be a chance for things to go wrong.

He immediately added, "However, this opportunity must be used within 5 minutes; if too much time passes, the Dungeon will no longer be able to trigger this special effect."

The middle-aged man looked at Li Zhihai in surprise, not understanding why he was spouting nonsense. But he just lowered his head and didn't expose him.

Li Zhihai looked at Zhang Jian provocatively, seemingly wanting to see him recoil. Who would have thought? Zhang Jian's expression remained calm.

"That would be perfect."

"We happen to be in a hurry!"