14: Chapter 14: Insane monster-killing speed, level 7

Silence hung in the observation room for several seconds.

Robert was the first to break. He turned to look at Advisor Jiang Lan beside him and grinned, "Hey, hey, hey, Young Miss Jiang Lan, what's your analysis now?"

Feng Lide and the others all turned to look at Advisor Jiang Lan.

Advisor Jiang Lan lowered her head slightly, her eyes flickering as she tapped her fingers gently on the edge of the table.

After a moment, she slowly spoke, "At least Legendary, perhaps even... higher."

As her voice fell, the observation room fell silent for an instant.

Even though everyone present was a high-level planetary official with vast experience, their pupils shrank slightly, and they subconsciously gasped.

The white-haired, hot-tempered old man from earlier couldn't help but speak up first, "Advisor Jiang, higher than that would be a Demigod Rank Soul Talent. Are you serious?"

This old man was Ian Montague, the vice president of Silver Moon Oath, one of the top guilds on Yunmeng Star.

As a top guild, Silver Moon Oath had dealt with Advisor Jiang Lan many times. They had even cooperated when pioneering new dungeons in the Yunmeng Star System, asking Advisor Jiang Lan for strategy suggestions.

Ian Montague had always respected Advisor Jiang Lan greatly.

But right now, he still found it hard to believe.

After all, a Demigod Rank Soul Talent was simply too terrifying.

In the thousands of years of the Blue Star Alliance's history, such a grade of Soul Talent had never appeared!

If one truly appeared, it would be recorded in the history books!

Most importantly, as long as someone with this level of Soul Talent didn't die young, what level of powerhouse could they grow into in the future?

Currently, the strongest human was at Tier 6, which was referred to as a Galaxy-class combat professional in the Universe.

A powerhouse of this caliber could casually destroy a star system. Unleashing their skills with all their might, a single strike would be enough to reduce everything within a range of several light-years to nothingness.

Even in the entire Milky Way, such a powerhouse would be a top-tier existence.

If it were a Demigod Rank talent, could they perhaps reach Tier 7 or even Tier 8?

If the Blue Star Alliance truly possessed a Tier 7 powerhouse, the landscape of the Milky Way would no longer be a coexistence of four top powers, but rather the absolute dominance of the Blue Star Alliance!

The Blue Star Alliance might even have hope of charging out of the Milky Way to seek development in a broader Star Domain!

If Lu Yang really possessed a Demigod Rank talent and could achieve this, he would be leading the entire Blue Star Alliance to complete a true civilizational leap!

Throughout the thousands of years of the Alliance's history, such leaps had only occurred a handful of times!

Everyone's eyes flickered as they stared intently at Advisor Jiang Lan, as if waiting for her to take back her words, or perhaps waiting for her to confirm that all of this was true.

Advisor Jiang Lan merely shrugged, her lips curving slightly, "I'm not sure, which is why I said it might just be higher. However, what is certain is that it must be at least a Golden Legendary-grade talent."

She paused, her gaze sweeping over everyone as she said calmly, "You should all know how high the difficulty of a Nightmare-grade dungeon is. For a professional with no background and no support to solo a Hero-grade boss during the novice period, you should know how unbelievable that is."

Everyone looked at each other; no one refuted her.

Feng Lide took a deep breath, breaking the silence first, "It should be a Golden Legendary talent. I will notify the higher-ups."

This time, the others did not move.

Because a Golden Legendary talent had already exceeded the limits of what the Yunmeng Star circle could accommodate.

The higher-ups Feng Lide was notifying referred to the upper echelon of the Blue Star Alliance.

It was easy to imagine that powerful experts would inevitably come to Yunmeng Star to protect Lu Yang.

Although Yunmeng Star was located deep within the territory of the Blue Star Alliance and was safe enough.

However, during every Awakening period, informants from other races would inevitably keep a close eye on the performance of all novice professionals.

Lu Yang's performance today would almost certainly be reported back by the informants of other races.

Without a powerful expert guarding him, let alone Lu Yang himself, the entire Yunmeng Star could be wiped off the star map.

Of course, wiping out a human planet deep within the heartland of the Blue Star Alliance would carry a heavy price for other top powers.

But to nip a top human powerhouse prospect with a Golden Legendary-grade talent in the bud, that price was worth it.

In fact, it wasn't just the other three top races that would do this to the Blue Star Alliance.

The Blue Star Alliance would do the exact same thing to the top geniuses of the other three races.

No one was nobler than anyone else.

After all, no race wanted to see more top powerhouses emerge from hostile factions.

The starting point of all this was merely the instinct of racial survival.

It was purely a matter of stance, having nothing to do with right or wrong.

Unless a Tier 7 powerhouse was truly born, completely suppressing the other three top powers and forcing them to submit.

Otherwise, this covert slaughter would never stop.

Just as Feng Lide walked to the corner and turned on his personal terminal, the atmosphere in the room quietly grew heavy.

Zhu Changye looked around at everyone, his voice as cold as ever, yet carrying a blade-like resolve, "Next, we might have a hard battle to fight. If the high-level powerhouses don't arrive in time, even if we fight to the death, we must protect Lu Yang's safety!"

Everyone present had solemn expressions and nodded slowly.

Not a single person hesitated, nor did anyone object.

The Blue Star Alliance had struggled for thousands of years from a weak civilization to get where it was today, relying on internal unity and this fearless, bloody courage.

To these high-level officials of Yunmeng Star, the value of Lu Yang surviving was far greater than their own lives.

That was enough.

Even if they died in battle, it would be worth it.

"It's starting again!"

Advisor Jiang Lan had been keeping a close eye on the stone tablet. Seeing that Lu Yang's monster-killing record on it was refreshing again, she immediately alerted everyone.

Hearing this, everyone immediately raised their heads to look at the stone tablet.

However, very quickly, everyone noticed that something was off.

The usually expressionless Zhu Changye couldn't help but widen his eyes, his pupils filled with shock, "How is this possible?! Why is it so fast?"

Ian almost ripped out his own beard. He scratched his white hair irritably and said frantically, "This monster-killing efficiency is wrong, isn't it?! It wasn't this exaggerated earlier!"

If even they were this shocked, let alone the novice professionals in the dungeon lobby below.

At this moment, the dungeon lobby below had already erupted into chaos.

Over a hundred people had their heads tilted back, their mouths wide open enough to fit an egg, as their buzzing discussions bounced off the walls.

"Are you kidding me?! Killing five or six elite monsters per second?!"

"This is too fake! How on earth did Boss Lu Yang do it?! How could he kill a boss and seven elites at the same time?! This is too ridiculous!"

"Yeah, this is just absolutely, outrageously ridiculous!"

"Is this really still the novice period... Are we really running the same dungeon as him?!"

Someone murmured, "No... we're playing on Normal difficulty, while he's on Nightmare difficulty..."

Everyone: "????"

The reason everyone was shocked to the point of nearly breaking down was that Lu Yang's current mob-grinding efficiency was simply too exaggerated.

Although Lu Yang had been grinding monsters non-stop earlier, his efficiency had at least been within a comprehensible range.

But right now, it was simply unscientific!

Almost every second, the kill count for elite monsters would jump by five or six, and sometimes even by more than a dozen.

There was even a boss-tier monster mixed in from time to time!

You have to realize, it's only the novice period right now!

Everyone has just awakened, and we haven't even touched the threshold of Tier 1 yet!

Why are you the only one who is so outstanding?

If it weren't for the fact that this was a real, digitized Universe rather than a game, some might even suspect that Lu Yang was hacking!

...

Deep within the Nightmare Forest.

Lu Yang was in an incredibly good mood right now.

After a few attempts just now, he had confirmed a crucial piece of information.

After he died and resurrected, the stacks of War Frenzy would not disappear!

Since that was the case, what else was there to say?

Just do it!

Dragging his Flame Aura along, he dashed wildly through the dead trees. Wherever he passed, dry branches burned, skeletons shattered, and ash-gray dust was kicked up by the heat wave before dispersing.

As his kill count continued to climb, the stacks of War Frenzy piled up layer upon layer, and the range and damage of his Flame Aura also snowballed rapidly.

By the time Lu Yang's War Frenzy stacked to 100 layers, his attack power had reached a terrifying 260 points!

This meant that the Flame Aura covered a full 260-meter area, and its burning damage per second reached 260 points!

Even a Rank 7 undead elite could only last three seconds at most!

After three seconds, the skeleton would collapse to the ground with a clatter, the eerie green fire in its eye sockets snuffed out, leaving behind only a pile of charred bone fragments and a few wisps of drifting smoke.

With this kind of mob-grinding speed, how was it any different from flying?!

What was even more exaggerated was his defense.

Once War Frenzy was fully stacked, Rank 7 and even Rank 8 elite monsters hitting him would deal exactly zero damage.

They couldn't break through his defense at all!

Lu Yang didn't even need to die anymore.

He only had to pull a group of monsters and run a few steps, and they would burn to ashes on their own.

Occasionally, when he got tired of running and stopped to catch his breath, he would look back to see a path of charred skeletons paved behind him.

Even boss-tier monsters were no longer enough to challenge the current Lu Yang.

With Flame Aura, double basic attacks, and Mighty Strike, he could easily deal with them.

The boss's damage to him was barely over ten points. For Lu Yang, whose health had already broken through to four digits, it was practically just a scratch!

He stood his ground and tanked it, not even bothering to move. In just over ten seconds, the boss monster's health bar was completely depleted.

Counting from when he entered the latter half, in just over ten minutes, Lu Yang's newly raised Rank was once again filled to the brim by a massive amount of experience.

Reaching Rank 7!