150: Chapter 150 The Seventh Day: Everyone Unites to Resist! (Part 1)

The surging monsters were densely packed.

They kept coming from all directions without pause.

Some monsters were several times larger than an average person, creating a truly terrifying visual effect.

Whether in terms of quantity or Rank, they were clearly a level above those of previous days.

Outside, a massive army was about to press upon the city, while inside, a terrifying item was constantly exerting pressure on everyone within the walls.

A heavy Aura spread through the air.

Everyone's faces were filled with worry.

Hai Mengen gritted his teeth and said to Zhang Jian,

"How about you go and hold back the besieging Beast Tide first? We can keep holding on here."

Zhang Jian shook his head.

"You are the only high-end combat power in the city; you need to maintain a certain level of mobility. If your experience points are consumed too quickly and there are harmful consequences to leveling down, the loss would outweigh the gain."

"Let Donglai and Xiao Han continue to block it for a while."

The two stepped forward and took over Hai Mengen's position.

Wei Baichuan and Yan Tieshan also stood beside them respectively.

"Son, if you don't have enough experience, let us take over!"

"These old bones of ours can still hold out for a bit."

Wei Donglai rolled his eyes.

"Dad, your tone is even bigger than those two Venerables!"

Wei Baichuan's face flushed red as he snapped in embarrassment,

"You brat, how dare you mock your father? I still have over 80 million experience points on me, after all."

Yan Tieshan also said proudly,

"I still have nearly 100 million here as well."

"With our combined strength, we can hold out for ten or twenty minutes."

Yan Han had a strange expression.

"What can a few tens of millions of experience do?"

"You two should just go stay cool somewhere else!"

With hundreds of millions of experience on their status panels, their confidence was not at all inferior to the two third job change Venerables.

Amidst their banter, Zhang Jian and Wang Fei had already set out.

The monsters besieging the city today were of much higher intensity.

In the very first wave, the weakest were Rank 42 Leader-grade monsters.

They had 22,000 Attack, 11,000 Defense, and their health was as high as 800,000 points.

Within the team, the defenses of Wang Dong and Instructor Wang Weidong simply could not withstand this level of attack intensity.

They were directly prevented from entering the monsters' range of activity.

Even Ming Li, who specialized in defense, and Ye Xun, who had many tricks up his sleeve,

found it quite difficult to cope after just a brief attempt, shaking their heads as they retreated.

Only Wang Fei, with the support of various buffs, could barely manage.

With a few leaps and bounds, the two arrived in the middle of the dark mass of the monster army.

Like a god of war, Zhang Jian was bathed in endless Thundercloud Sword Qi, pouring out his violent damage.

Monster after monster was instantly torn apart and perished.

Densely packed experience notifications floated by, and various drops were scattered across the ground.

Wang Fei watched with great satisfaction.

"It has to be me to keep up with Brother Jian's pace!"

After being smug for a while and finishing picking up all the drops,

Wang Fei was preparing to rest with Zhang Jian before facing the second wave.

However, a young man suddenly ran over from the city wall, shouting at them in panic.

"This is bad! That strange thing has become stronger again!"

The two quickly stood up and ran back into the city.

Hai Mengen looked grave as he explained the current situation.

The [dark extinction resonance tower]'s attacks were not static; instead, they were constantly growing stronger based on the level of resistance from the group.

Right now, the number of shockwaves being fired was gradually increasing.

Moreover, every position required at least one person to consume experience to offset the erosion damage.

At this moment.

Aside from the high-level individuals and Wei Donglai and Yan Han, who had plenty of experience points,

resisting at the other positions was proving to be extremely difficult.

In their haste, they were constantly rotating people.

Gloom hung over everyone's faces.

Seeing Zhang Jian arrive, they all looked at him with hopeful eyes.

Zhang Jian was momentarily stunned, feeling the weight of the responsibility.

But facing this situation, he didn't have any good solutions for the time being.

If he were to resist, the experience on him was enough to last a long time.

But then who would hold back the monsters outside?

Zhang Jian was caught in a dilemma.

Is there any way to let others quickly gain a large amount of experience?

He thought frantically.

As he pondered, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind.

"Mentors, do you have any skills related to increasing experience gain?"

While resisting the shockwaves, Hai Mengen quickly flipped through his items.

"I have two excellence-grade ones and one epic-grade one."

Yun Haiyi also began to search.

"I happen to have a legendary rank one here."

Although the two didn't know Zhang Jian's intention, they still traded all of them to him.

Zhang Jian flipped through them.

In terms of quality, the epic-grade one couldn't be used yet, so the legendary rank one would surely be the most suitable.

However, this legendary rank skill only increased experience gain for a single person.

It wasn't suitable for the current situation.

On the other hand, one of the excellence-grade books could increase the experience points of team members.

Although the overall individual increase was much lower than the legendary rank one and seemed to have limited potential, Zhang Jian's eyes lit up instead.

"I'll take you!"

He quickly learned it.

"You have learned the excellence-grade skill [Weak Experience Boost]."

"[My Heart is the Sword] talent activated; this skill has been converted into a unique affix skill."

A new skill appeared on his status panel.

[Experience Ripple] (excellence-grade)

When you kill a monster not lower than your own Rank, you will gain an additional 2% experience; when your team members are within a 20-meter radius of you, they will gain a 1% additional experience bonus. (Only effective for combat kills)

(To upgrade affix effect: Accumulate 0/100 experience points using this affix)

(To upgrade affix quality: 1 legendary rank passive support skill book)

The effect looked mediocre, but Zhang Jian was not discouraged at all.

He took out a legendary rank skill book called [Light Recovery] and directly upgraded this affix skill.

[Experience Link] (legendary rank)

When you kill a monster not lower than your own Rank, you will gain an additional 5% experience; when your team members are within a 20-meter radius of you, they will gain a 2% additional experience bonus. (Only effective for combat kills)

Members who leave the effective combat range will have their experience gain efficiency halved.

(To upgrade affix effect: Accumulate 0/1,000 experience points using this affix)

(To upgrade affix quality: 2 epic-grade passive support skill books)

After the quality was improved, the skill's effect was clearly on a different level.

But Zhang Jian was still a bit unsatisfied.

He simply gritted his teeth.

He used two more epic-grade skill books to upgrade it once again!

He had originally intended to use his own contribution points to exchange for these two skill books.

However, he couldn't afford the price.

It was Hai Mengen and Yun Haiyi who had each exchanged for one using their own contribution points.

Although they said they were giving them to Zhang Jian as a gift,

he still kept this favor in mind, intending to pay them back when he was able.

[Experience Torrent] (epic-grade)

When you kill a monster not lower than your own Rank, you will gain an additional 10% experience; when your team members are within a 30-meter radius of you, they will gain a 3% additional experience bonus. (Only effective for combat kills)

Members who leave the effective combat range will have their experience gain efficiency halved.

One team member of your choice will receive an additional 10% bonus based on the total experience you gain from killing monsters.

(To upgrade affix effect: Accumulate 0/10,000 experience points using this affix)

(To upgrade affix quality: 2 epic-grade passive support skill books)

After seeing the upgraded effect, Zhang Jian became thoughtful.

In reality.

If it were a simple epic-grade skill that only increased experience, it wouldn't be unusual for it to give a 30% boost to a single person.

[Experience Torrent] seemed much inferior in that regard.

However, its diverse ways of buffing the team were rare and hard to come by.

Especially the ability to designate a team member to receive a percentage of his own experience.

This was what Zhang Jian valued most.

He immediately re-entered the battlefield.

Taking the lead, he first used a basic attack to insta-kill a monster that was about to rush in front of him.

"You have killed a Rank 43 Leader-grade monster, [Crazed Bloody Demon]."

"You have gained 14,720 (+226,688) experience points."

"[Experience Torrent] activated; you have gained an additional 24,140 experience points."

"Please designate 1 team member to receive your additional experience bonus."

Zhang Jian thought for a moment.

He designated Instructor Wang Weidong.

The other man was in an offensive class, and his resistances were among the worst in the group. He was destined to be of little use on the battlefield, so it was better to let him stay in the city and play a role there.

After selecting him, he also conveniently upgraded this skill to its maximum level.

Then, aiming carefully, he struck again and insta-killed an Elite-grade monster hiding in the monster swarm.

"You have killed a Rank 44 Elite-grade monster, [Crazed Bloody Demon]."

"You have gained 39,200 (+631,120) experience points."

"[Experience Torrent] activated; you have gained an additional 328,456 experience points."

Zhang Jian raised an eyebrow.

This experience boost is pretty good.

It seems the skill's effect has also improved significantly?

As he rushed into the monster swarm to pull more mobs, he glanced at the skill description.

[Experience Torrent] (epic-grade) (+3)

Lv 8/8

When you kill a monster not lower than your own Rank, you will gain an additional 10% (+25%) (+21%) experience; when your team members are within a 30 (+75) (+63) meter radius of you, they will gain a 3% (+7.5%) (+6.3%) additional experience bonus. (Only effective for combat kills)

Members who leave the effective combat range will have their experience gain efficiency halved.

One team member of your choice will receive an additional 10% (+25%) (+21%) bonus based on the total experience you gain from killing monsters.

Max Level Trait:

[Experience Overload]: When the experience you gain at one time exceeds 30% of your level-up experience, the entire team gains the [Overload] effect, doubling the current additional experience gained from this skill.

(To upgrade affix effect: Accumulate 154,324/10,000,000 experience points using this affix)

(To upgrade affix quality: 2 epic-grade passive support skill books)

Just two monsters had allowed the affix to level up three times in a row!

It would take 10 million experience points to reach the next level, but Zhang Jian wasn't worried at all; instead, he was full of Battle Intent.

He plunged headlong into the monster swarm.

...

Inside the city.

Instructor Wang Weidong released a portion of experience toward the black shockwave in front of him and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Currently, there were ten shockwaves, and each one had to be manned by someone.

Based on each person's Rank and the experience they possessed, Wang Fei had organized and assigned different tasks.

Hai Mengen and Yun Haiyi were both third job change Venerable-level figures with hundreds of millions of experience points needed to level up, so their tasks were naturally heavier, requiring them to release 2 million points per minute.

Wei Donglai, Yan Han, and Wang Fei, although their Ranks were far below the others,

had also amassed several hundred million experience while following Ye Feng. After learning skills and leveling up, they still had a large amount left and took on tasks of the same level.

Next.

Were the only three Second Job Change Professionals left in Ta City.

They were also each assigned a quota of several hundred thousand.

Ming Li and Wang Dong had just leveled up not long ago and didn't have much experience on them, so they were assigned the least.

They even occasionally rotated with the other group of young Professionals who were under Rank 30.

Instructor Wang Weidong was between these groups and had a task of a full 250,000.

It looked like they could only hold out for 10 minutes at most before they would need to switch people.

"You have gained 7,360 (+5,152) experience points."

"Team member [Zhang Jian]'s skill [Experience Torrent] activated; you have gained an additional 2,102 experience points."

The pop-up notification left Instructor Wang Weidong incredibly surprised.

"I'm in the city, not next to Zhang Jian, and I can still gain experience?"

He asked the others, and it turned out they were receiving it too.

If the others were merely surprised that Zhang Jian could let his teammates gain experience from such a distance after learning a skill,

Hai Mengen and Yun Haiyi were truly shocked.

Isn't this distance a bit too exaggerated?

Ordinary legendary rank skills don't have such an effect.

What kind of secrets does that kid Zhang Jian have on him?

However, even though they had an extra source of experience,

aside from Wei Donglai and Yan Han, who had a high 230% bonus for over-leveling and gained a bit more experience,

the effect was very weak for the others, including Professionals like Instructor Wang Weidong who was already Rank 36.

Instructor Wang Weidong didn't pay it much mind.

But in the next moment, his eyes nearly bulged out of his head.

"You have gained 19,600 (+12,800) experience points."

"Team member [Zhang Jian]'s skill [Experience Torrent] activated; you have gained an additional 5,443 experience points."

"Team member [Zhang Jian]'s skill [Experience Torrent] designated effect activated; you have gained an additional 559,314 experience points."

The first two notifications were still somewhat normal; Instructor Wang Weidong guessed that Zhang Jian might have killed a higher Rank or higher quality monster.

But the third one made him cry out in shock.

"Holy crap!"

Everyone else looked at him with strange expressions.

Instructor Wang Weidong felt a bit embarrassed, his old face turning red.

He asked Ye Xun beside him, only to find that Ye Xun hadn't received an extra 500,000 experience points like he had.

He asked everyone one by one and found that only he had received such treatment.

Although Instructor Wang Weidong didn't know what was going on, he was a little excited.

When these gains continued to pour in, it turned into pure joy.

As expected, my beloved disciple knows how to take care of his teacher!

He even stepped forward and volunteered.

"The experience quota you assigned me earlier was too low; raise it for me!"

Wang Fei was surprised.

"Then raise it to 500,000?"

He thought this would be enough to shut up the arrogant Old Wang.

Unexpectedly, Instructor Wang Weidong glanced at his status panel and his mouth curled into a smirk.

"Max it out for me!"