187: Chapter 187 A series of bizarre moves: Has the provincial capital become a tourist city?

The day after the siege.

After meeting with the Reception Envoy who arrived on a flying vessel, Zhang Jian embarked on his journey.

Although he had successfully changed classes, he had not yet raised his Rank.

He planned to take advantage of his current Rank to clear several Level 30 Dungeons that could activate Hell-grade difficulty.

The Reception Envoy had been sent over by Xuan Jizi specifically to serve Zhang Jian.

The first stop: Long Province, Lanhe City.

This place was relatively close to Ta City and happened to have a Level 30 Dungeon, [Terrifying Cave].

Most of the monsters inside possessed Spell-type attack effects, and the BOSS was famous for its powerful crowd control skills.

It was known as one of the most troublesome Level 30 Dungeons.

Although the entry fee for the Dungeon was not expensive, very few people went to challenge it.

After Zhang Jian entered, he simply plowed through everything.

Even a legendary rank BOSS could not block a casual strike from his sword at all.

In less than 3 minutes, he easily cleared the Nightmare-grade and successfully activated the Hell-grade.

Due to clearing it solo, he received a Heavenly Dao-grade evaluation.

However, the privilege was merely a negligible effect, and Zhang Jian couldn't be bothered to waste time on this Dungeon, so he immediately entered the Hell-grade.

Although the number of monsters increased and the difficulty rose, these monsters of the same Rank, no matter how much they were buffed, could not pose any threat to Zhang Jian.

His speed in clearing the stage was almost no different from the previous difficulty.

Even with the final epic-grade BOSS, whose skill priority had been increased, under the effect of his current powerful Mental Energy, the BOSS's two consecutive crowd control skills failed to take effect on Zhang Jian, which meant this battle had no suspense.

4 minutes and 18 seconds, another perfect Hell-grade difficulty Dungeon cleared!

When Zhang Jian sat down on the flying vessel and urged the Reception Envoy to make the next trip, the latter hadn't even reacted yet.

Less than 10 minutes, and it was done?

The flying vessel sped through the air at maximum power.

In less than half an hour, they arrived at Lanhe City, the capital of Long Province.

Here, there were two other qualified Level 30 Dungeons.

As for the types of these two Dungeons, one had monsters with powerful attacks, requiring strong defense to hold out.

The other had monsters with strong defense, requiring armor-piercing methods and violent output.

Actually, these were considered relatively simple types, the most likely Hell-grade Dungeons to be conquered.

Generally, Level 30 Professionals, even with the best equipment and maxed-out skills, would not find it too difficult to clear the Nightmare-grade.

But reaching the limit speed to clear the Hell-grade was not easy.

Even with a well-coordinated team to complete the activation, achieving a high evaluation to get bonuses for the Dungeon was still a huge stretch.

Over the years, there had been many young Prodigy Professionals from Long Province and even other provinces who came here.

Some were lucky enough to clear it, but let alone the limit-grade difficulty, they were still a huge distance away from the perfect-grade.

The Long Province Combat Control Bureau had even specifically organized a team.

They gathered two Divine-Grade Professionals and three top-tier Professionals for special training, wanting to conquer these two Dungeons.

The result? They spent nearly half a year and conducted over a dozen challenges.

They only managed to push it to an A-grade evaluation.

It was still quite far from S-grade, let alone the perfect-grade that could obtain resource bonuses, and the limit-grade that could Breakthrough the Rank cap.

The five members of this team, because they wasted so much time here, were actually surpassed in strength by other Professionals of the same cohort.

Later, because of this half-year of wasted time, they lost many good opportunities.

This action by the Long Province authorities was also widely mocked by the public.

Afterwards, such behavior became rare.

If anyone wanted to challenge it, they would usually do it three or five times, wasting at most a month, and then give up.

So when Zhang Jian tried, he did not attract anyone's attention.

It wasn't until he cleared the Nightmare-grade and Hell-grade of the Dungeon in succession that the monitoring System of the Combat Control Bureau sounded an alarm, and someone noticed.

When the official in charge rushed over, they discovered that the person who had succeeded in clearing the stage had already disappeared, leaving a group of people looking at each other in dismay.

"No way, for such a big event, couldn't you wait for us to arrive and take some rewards before leaving?"

Zhang Jian didn't know that someone was rushing to give him things.

Even if he did, he wouldn't care.

The harvest at this stage wasn't of much help to him anymore.

Even with two Dungeons cleared four times in a row, the drops under various bonuses meant a single run was comparable to ten runs by an ordinary team.

But the best among them were just a few epic-grade skill books.

Zhang Jian barely managed to pick out one passive skill that increased agility.

Everything else was packed up and mailed directly to Wang Fei for him to handle.

The only things he cared about slightly were the three Heavenly Dao-grade rewards for completing the Dungeons.

Except for the first time, where he obtained a passive effect that increased potion recovery which was useless to him, the next two were quite good.

One increased the coefficient of agility points, and the other increased the coefficient of stamina points.

Both were like the [Mana Surge] that Wang Fei had once obtained—both practical and full of huge potential.

These two Heavenly Dao rewards put Zhang Jian in a very good mood.

Taking advantage of the early hour, he urged the Reception Envoy to pilot the airship, and they made another trip to the outskirts on both sides of Lanhe City.

They cleared two Level 35 Dungeons, [Gloomy Mine] and [Ghostly Swamp], respectively.

Because the environment of these two Dungeons was harsh and the monsters mostly possessed some attribute-type attack effects, they were quite troublesome.

Generally, few people came to challenge them.

Zhang Jian spent 15 minutes clearing them both.

Half an hour later, the staff from the Combat Control Bureau who rushed over upon hearing the news looked helpless.

"Big brother, are you running that fast?"

After reporting to the superior leaders, the other party also gave instructions.

"It seems this mysterious expert doesn't care about our rewards at all. In the future, if this happens again, there's no need to go out of our way to curry favor."

"We can, however, use the news that the Hell-grade difficulty of these Dungeons has been broken to properly promote our Lanhe City."

The staff member who hung up the phone had a strange expression.

Judging by that tone, is our Lanhe City going to become a tourist city?

Could this mysterious clearer be one of our own Long Province people, silently clearing several Dungeons in a row just to contribute to their hometown?

Zhang Jian boarded the flying vessel again, ignored the astonished gaze of the Reception Envoy, and asked directly, "Where are there other qualified Dungeons? Let's clear them all today!"

The Reception Envoy was startled.

"My little ancestor, you've already cleared five Hell-grade difficulty Dungeons in a row, don't you need to take a break?"

Zhang Jian shook his head.

With the 6440% stamina recovery bonus on the galaxy badge, this level of combat had no impact on him whatsoever.

At most, it counted as a warm-up.

He prepared to finish it in one go, using up the remaining two chances for Dungeons that could Breakthrough the Rank at Level 35.

Since he was doing it, he might as well do it quickly!

The Reception Envoy was also stimulated by Zhang Jian and kept checking data, starting to look for suitable targets.

What the two people, who had become addicted to grinding Dungeons, didn't know was that the outside world was completely shocked by this series of actions by Zhang Jian.