213: Chapter 213 The Sword Puppet is the real powerhouse; our backer is Professor Zhang Jian!

Compared to Li Wei's surprise, Wang Donghai's mindset was much calmer.

"It's just Nightmare difficulty, right?"

He was wearing epic-grade armor and a growth-type legendary rank shield.

Not to mention that he had just rented several level 50 epic-grade pieces of equipment from his Family, which he had just equipped on his [Fearless Sword Puppet].

Clearing a Nightmare difficulty Dungeon 5 Ranks above his own—wasn't that just a piece of cake?

And as soon as the battle began.

The two newcomers were dumbfounded.

Wang Wei and Li Wei's [Guardian Sword Puppet]s took the lead and charged to the very front.

After both Sword Puppets simultaneously released [Absolute Taunt], they instantly drew over a huge crowd of monsters.

After He Zhongtang held off the Leader Rank monster among them.

Wang Wei attacked directly, with He Zhongtang's [Fearless Sword Puppet] following closely behind.

Bolts of lightning fell from the sky.

A Sword Dance bloomed on the ground.

In the blink of an eye.

The group of monsters was instantly wiped out.

Only the experience acquisition notifications flooding the screen and the glowing drops on the ground.

Reminded the two of them that the scene they had just witnessed was not an illusion.

Li Wei hadn't even entered his combat stance yet.

Wang Donghai held his shield, having only taken a single step.

Looking at the other two, who wore calm expressions, their faces were filled with disbelief.

"Big Brother, in just this short while, have we become people from two different worlds?"

Wang Wei and He Zhongtang looked calm, but they were already overjoyed inside.

"Level 75 monsters, they don't seem that scary, do they?"

They were instantly filled with confidence about clearing the Dungeon and obtaining a high evaluation.

While fighting, Wang Wei also observed the performance of the other two's Sword Puppets.

After several consecutive waves of battle.

Although the Dungeon progress was advancing extremely quickly, and Li Wei and Wang Donghai felt as if they had won the lottery—a mix of surprise and shock.

However, Wang Wei's brow furrowed.

"These two's Sword Puppets are a bit weak!"

Of course.

He also knew that just a few hours ago, his and He Zhongtang's Sword Puppets weren't much different from theirs.

It was entirely thanks to Zhang Jian's generous help in upgrading them that they possessed their current combat power.

If these two wanted to rely on their own experience to reach the level of him and He Zhongtang, it would probably take forever.

Thinking of this, he no longer had any expectations for the two of them.

He simply instructed Wang Donghai, who still had some resistance, to coordinate with He Zhongtang and the other two [Guardian Sword Puppet]s to properly lure the monsters.

As for himself, he familiarized himself with this combat style, moving forward step by step.

Under his calm command, this Dungeon trip was exceptionally smooth.

Naturally, he didn't need to worry about the two level 80 Sword Puppets.

Their damage could one-shot monsters, and their defense was all MISS.

Even the BOSS could only deal very limited damage to them.

He mainly focused on exploring his own strength and his coordination with the Sword Puppets.

Especially after equipping the necklace crafted by Zhang Jian.

Every time he attacked, it brought him the effect of Spell life-steal.

With his super-high damage, the 22.5% life-steal ratio exerted an extremely terrifying effect.

In terms of his health, it was simply a super restorative pill!

He even felt that not even the top-tier healing classes could achieve this recovery effect.

And the 45% mana recovery speed attribute attached to the necklace was also very useful in actual combat.

Basically, during the intervals when the Sword Puppets were dealing damage and the waiting time while others lured monsters.

His mana would continuously recover.

The monster-grinding efficiency had improved significantly compared to before.

And this was just the initial attribute of the necklace.

Once its Rank grew, the effects would be even more terrifying!

Wang Wei subconsciously glanced at the growth progress of the necklace.

3768 / 43000

This number made him freeze subconsciously.

"It's this much already?"

If he remembered correctly, after coming out of the last Dungeon, the thousands of monsters in the Dungeon only contributed a corresponding amount of growth progress.

At that time, he thought that if he ran the Dungeon two or three times a day.

He estimated that in ten days or so, he could level up the necklace.

But now.

After entering the Dungeon, he had only killed at most 200 monsters.

How did it suddenly increase by more than 2000 points of progress?

He looked around.

Just then, in a corner, there was a hidden monster that hadn't been lured over.

He stepped forward directly, used a single-target Spell, and instantly killed it.

After checking the growth progress again.

He found it had become 3778 points.

Wang Wei was instantly shocked.

"10 points of progress per monster?"

"Killing monsters above my Rank actually has such benefits?"

He only knew before that killing monsters above his Rank would have related experience bonuses.

Only now did he realize that even the kill progress for growth-type equipment had such a large bonus effect!

He immediately became excited.

"Then, once I clear this Dungeon, wouldn't I be able to gain nearly 10,000 points of kill progress?"

"A few more times, and I could level it up directly!"

He waved the staff in his hand even faster.

The four of them worked together and plowed through everything.

Although Li Wei and Wang Donghai didn't play much of a role.

As Wang Wei and the other's coordination with the Sword Puppets became increasingly skilled, things went even smoother.

After killing the final BOSS, both of them had an illusion.

"This level 75 Dungeon seems even simpler than the level 70 one?"

Li Wei and Wang Donghai were so excited that they shouted on the spot and hugged each other.

They hadn't expected that a non-full party of four could actually clear a Nightmare difficulty Dungeon above their Rank.

And.

It was an SSS-Rank evaluation!

The extra rewards from the Dungeon evaluation alone reached 185 million!

Usually, in a level 70 Dungeon, even if they obtained an S-Rank evaluation at Nightmare difficulty, they only received an experience reward of 25 million or so.

They had never seen such a generous harvest!

Plus.

Killing over 2000 monsters in the Dungeon, with the level-up bonus, gave them a full 100 million experience points.

The harvest from one Dungeon run was enough to level up directly!

Li Wei's expression was somewhat dazed.

In normal times, this would take at least a week.

Now, it only took a mere 8 minutes!

Yes.

After exiting the Dungeon, seeing their names on the speed-running leaderboard in third place, the two could hardly believe it.

Was it that simple to beat the records held by a crowd of Seniors, mentors, and even professors for years, jumping directly to third place?

He Zhongtang, on the other hand, still looked somewhat dissatisfied.

"How is the ranking getting lower and lower?"

He looked at the two with an unfriendly expression.

"It must be these two who held us back!"

Being stared at by him, Li Wei and Wang Donghai looked uncomfortable and tried to hide their embarrassment.

"Brother He, I didn't expect you guys to be so powerful now. We've really benefited from tagging along with you."

"We won't participate in the distribution of all the drops this time. Just the experience alone is already a huge profit!"

The two's attitude made He Zhongtang's expression look a bit better.

Wang Wei, on the other hand, softened his heart and still distributed one piece of level 70 epic-grade equipment to each of them.

For some reason, after equipping the Sword Puppets, he found that the Dungeon drops seemed to have increased significantly.

He had this feeling during the last Dungeon run.

This time, he was even more certain.

Wang Wei usually loved researching theoretical data.

He was relatively knowledgeable about the Dungeon drop mechanism.

Generally speaking.

Dungeon drops of the same level were affected by difficulty.

Take the level 70 Dungeon as an example.

At Normal difficulty, the highest it would drop was legendary rank items, and no more than three.

At Hard difficulty, there was a chance to drop epic-grade items, but the probability was very low; you would only have a chance to get one after running it several times.

Normally, dropping three to five legendary rank items was quite standard.

And at Nightmare difficulty, the drop situation began to rise significantly.

It almost always had a high probability of dropping epic-grade items, and there was a chance to drop two.

Once, there was a lucky person who had three epic-grade items drop, whom they called a Child of Luck.

And through the description during the last Dungeon evaluation.

Wang Wei discovered that having an incomplete party also had corresponding bonuses.

Challenging above one's Rank naturally also had some bonuses.

But no matter the bonuses, he felt that dropping more than three, or four or five epic-grade items would be considered Heaven-Defying Luck, right?

But just now, after counting all the drops, he was shocked to find.

That a full ten epic-grade items had dropped!

Among them were three skill books and seven pieces of equipment.

This number completely confused him.

Was his Luck too good, or had he triggered some hidden bonus?

He felt a bit uneasy inside.

So, although Li Wei and the other didn't make much of a contribution, he still distributed two pieces of equipment to them.

Otherwise, it would really make him seem too stingy.

Most importantly.

Ten minus two still left a full eight.

He and He Zhongtang could still split four each, which was already a huge haul!

And during the distribution, he and He Zhongtang actually argued.

Both of them wanted the only passive-type skill book out of the three.

Wang Wei spoke up first.

"I can give you one more piece, just give me this skill book."

He Zhongtang did not show weakness.

"Then give me the skill book, you can have two extra pieces!"

Wang Wei narrowed his eyes.

This guy had also gotten smart, knowing that passive skills were needed by Professor Zhang, it wasn't as simple as it looked on the surface.

But he had already made up his mind and naturally wouldn't back down.

"I only want this skill book, you can have the rest!"

He Zhongtang was stunned.

After struggling for a moment, he said helplessly.

"Fine, you win!"

Among the remaining epic-grade items, there were defensive skills and a warhammer suitable for him to wear.

And a recipe for a stamina recovery potion.

Not to mention the value, for someone like him from an ordinary Family, who also had a younger brother about to undergo the third job change.

It was too useful!

Even if that skill book could allow him to talk to Professor Zhang again.

He couldn't bring himself to give up the seven tangible items, with a cumulative value of over 700-800 million huaxia coins, just for one opportunity to interact.

The other two were dumbfounded.

"Giving up the original four pieces of loot for one skill book?"

Li Wei couldn't understand and was also deeply shocked.

Wang Donghai, however, kept an eye on things.

"This thing, it doesn't just seem valuable; does it have other uses?"

This Dungeon trip was exceptionally smooth, and Wang Wei and He Zhongtang had completely let go of their previous worries.

It seemed that the Sword Puppet's strength could completely crush the level 75 Dungeon.

If, at 5 levels higher, the monsters only increased in strength to this extent.

Then they were fully capable of conquering even level 80 or even higher-level Dungeons!

The other two thought the same.

After tasting the benefits, their attitude towards Wang Wei and He Zhongtang was ridiculously good; they were just short of calling them 'Foster Father'.

But how could Wang Wei be moved by a few nice words?

Even if the two offered to give up all their loot and pay an extra 100 million fee every time they ran the Dungeon.

Wang Wei didn't even blink.

Finally.

It was a sentence from Wang Donghai that made him stop in his tracks.

"Then what price do we need to pay, or what conditions must we meet, so we can team up again?"

Wang Wei pondered for a moment.

"Unless you can immediately raise the level of your Sword Puppets."

He Zhongtang also nodded and said.

"Don't even talk about raising them to our level; at least reach level 70 so you can bring substantive help to the team."

Li Wei's face immediately twisted in bitterness.

"This thing consumes way too much experience!"

"All the experience I had saved up only got it to level 50, and even with such a huge harvest from this Dungeon, it wasn't enough to level up even once more."

"To reach level 70, it's impossible without one or two months."

Wang Donghai directly corrected him.

"The experience for leveling up Sword Puppets is ten times ours. I just calculated it: to go from level 50 to 70, you need 25 billion experience."

"Even if you could hitch a ride with Brother Wei and Brother He every day, it would still take nearly three months."

"If we go by our usual daily gain of tens of millions of experience, it would probably be hard even in a year!"

Li Wei shook his head, "Then I give up."

"I can't meet these conditions, wish you good Luck."

Although he was very eager to continue holding onto the thighs of Wang Wei and He Zhongtang.

But the conditions set by the two were too harsh and impossible to complete in a short time.

It was better to just be steady and develop according to his own plans.

Li Wei left, but Wang Donghai remained by their side.

Wang Wei was a bit surprised.

"You can do it?"

Wang Donghai smiled bitterly, "Brother Wei, you're joking."

"Tens of billions of experience, even a level 99 Saint Rank big shot couldn't farm that in a short time."

"Even with mythical level experience pills, one only gives 1 billion experience, and each person can only use 3, which is still far from enough."

"I can't think of any way to reach this goal either."

Wang Wei's face darkened.

"Then are you messing with me?"

"Our time is precious, and we don't have time to waste with you."

Wang Donghai's expression became serious, and he hurriedly stopped him.

"Don't, don't!"

"Brother Wei, I was wrong!"

"Although I can't quickly boost experience, I have ways to get epic-grade or even mythical level passive skills. I don't know if you can take me along?"

His words made Wang Wei's expression change.

"Do you know something?"

Wang Donghai shook his head desperately, "I don't know anything."

"But I suspect that you two experts might really need this stuff, and I can try to find a way to get some!"

Now, He Zhongtang was also a bit hesitant.

If this kid was telling the truth, it would definitely be of great help to Professor Zhang.

But if that were the case, wouldn't one more person know about the secret that the two of them were enjoying exclusively?

He subconsciously looked at Wang Wei.

He found that the other's eyes flickered, as if he held the same thought.

However.

Wang Wei only pondered for a moment before making a decision.

Their rise was entirely due to the help of Professor Zhang Jian.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say he was their second parent.

Although the three skill books they contributed last time were of high value, compared to what Professor Zhang Jian gave back to them, it didn't amount to much.

Now, having the opportunity to give back to Professor Zhang.

What did their little bit of self-interest and selfishness matter?

Thinking of this, he nodded.

"If what you say is true, then the two of us will bestow upon you a Heaven-Defying fortune..."

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