["Ding~ Welcome to Nightmare Abyss Floor 100, please kill the ultimate boss of Nightmare Abyss, Demon Hunter · Belial!"]
With the system prompt falling, in the boundless vast wilderness ahead, a humanoid monster with a pair of antennae on its head, wings on its back, green-glowing eyes, and exuding an aura of evil darkness all over its body tore through a crack in space and materialized.
The ultimate boss, finally arrived.
The result of Appraisal showed that the opponent's rank was Level 115 Emperor-level BOSS.
Zhang Yue raised his extraordinary staff, preparing to face the battle.
The first-clear reward of Floor 100 of the Nightmare Abyss was something he was determined to get.
Standing several hundred meters away, Demon Hunter Belial stared at Zhang Yue, exuding an all-encompassing desire to devour him.
"YOUR LIFE, SHALL END BY MY HANDS!"
As soon as the words fell.
The Demon Hunter suddenly let out a long howl towards the sky.
The next moment, within the domain between the two, countless small demons burst from the ground, their faces ferocious, baring fangs and claws as they charged at Zhang Yue and Athena.
It no longer mattered how much experience value these small demons could provide to the passive of Ghost Eye.
This battle began with full firepower.
"ROAR!"
The Thirty-Six Winged Armageddon Black Dragon soared through the air, the scorching dragon flame from its mouth pouring down, instantly engulfing the large group of small demons on the ground.
With a round of 150 million+ AOE damage, dozens of small demons in a large area were instantly cleared.
That's right, this is the power of the Nightmare Set.
After switching from the 18-Star Monarch Set to the 20-Star Nightmare Set, the Armageddon Black Dragon's damage skyrocketed from 900 million.
At the same time, the Apex Predator charged with the Shadow Legion.
SWISH! SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!
One swing one kill.
Relying on massive critical hits of over 700 million, each strike was like slaying a child.
The damage of the Ice-Sealed War God was slightly lower, after all, it was positioned as a knight.
However, with single strikes of 130 million+, slaying these small demons with only 110 million HP was more than enough.
Of course, the main output of the Ice-Sealed War God came from reflect damage.
[Special Effect God of Icebound (Lv5): Every time the Ice-Sealed War God receives an attack, it deals true reflect damage to the enemy based on 10% of its current HP (when shielded, shield value can also count as current HP for reflect calculation).]
After switching to the Nightmare Set, Ice-Sealed War God's HP cap soared to 540 million+.
In the fully stacked state of Void Shield's max 12x HP, that's a virtual HP of over 7 billion.
In this state, every time the Ice-Sealed War God is attacked, it reflects over 700 million damage directly to the attacker.
Basically, after taking two attacks from the small demons, they were instantly counter-killed.
And the Ice-Sealed War God's skill [Icebound Miles] can taunt enemies within a large area, forcibly directing their attacks to itself for 3 seconds.
Basically, once taunt activates, it recognizes no one.
As for Cherry, since her equipment was still the 19-Star Icebound Set and hadn't been upgraded, her damage remained between 250 million–300 million.
With the operation of Radiant · Undying Physique, relying on the no-CD, infinitely castable AOE skill Infinite · Blizzard, she slayed sky, earth, and air alike.
There was simply no need for Zhang Yue to act personally.
With just a few of his pets, the entire demon army was wiped out in an instant.
This scene even shook the confidence of Demon Hunter Belial.
It knew: this time, it had run into a tough one.
Still on its own turf, it didn't feel right to show weakness.
Grabbing a Death Scythe, it charged straight at Zhang Yue.
After killing pseudo-King-level BOSSes, in Zhang Yue's eyes, all beneath King-level were ants.
This Emperor-level BOSS's momentum wasn't weak, but in Zhang Yue's eyes, it was like a clown jumping on stage.
SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!
Just as Demon Hunter Belial approached, it suddenly released dozens of clones.
Unconcealed laughter revealed its pride and confidence.
"So flashy," Zhang Yue lightly muttered, swinging his staff.
Thundercloud Storm!
Lightning and thunder!
Necro Storm!
DOOM! DOOM! DOOM!
Three AOE skills unleashed, instantly engulfing Demon Hunter and all its clones.
-330 million!
-340 million!
-330 million!
All the clones were instantly eliminated, only the original body remained.
CLANG!
Ice-Sealed War God appeared before Zhang Yue, holding an ice shield, blocking the attack from Demon Hunter.
The next second, Apex Predator, Armageddon Black Dragon, and Cherry simultaneously locked on to Demon Hunter and launched a fierce assault.
Ice-Sealed War God focused on reflect damage taunt + freeze control, making the Demon Hunter helplessly stuck on him, unable to shake free.
Armageddon Black Dragon transformed into a bomber, repeatedly bombing from above.
Cherry continued output with single-target burst skills.
Apex Predator circled behind the Demon Hunter, sneakily stabbing its butt.
Even as a Level 115 Emperor-level BOSS with a total HP of 10 billion, Demon Hunter could not withstand this constant stream of 200–300 million damage.
Even under such overwhelming strength, the awareness and operations that an Emperor-level BOSS was supposed to have were completely ignored.
After the pet team heavily damaged the BOSS, Zhang Yue stepped in with a combo of skills and easily harvested Demon Hunter Belial.
"How… is this possible!"
With a thud, Demon Hunter Belial knelt to the ground.
At the moment of death, it was clearly unconvinced about Zhang Yue.
At the same time, a system prompt sounded in his ears.
["Ding~ Congratulations on killing [Demon Hunter · Belial], EXP +30 billion, Energy +50 trillion!"]
["Ding~ Congratulations on clearing Nightmare Abyss. As the first-clearer of Nightmare Abyss, you receive the unique reward: Dream Gem +1!"]
A unique reward.
Wasn't reaching Floor 100 of the Abyss all for this?
Zhang Yue opened his inventory and saw a crystal stone emitting waves of red light lying quietly inside.
Zhang Yue took it out.
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[Dream Gem] (Legendary Treasure)
[Type: Support Type]
[Effect: Can be used on any skill to freely change the skill's properties and upgrade the skill's quality (quality upgrade limited to below Unique Skill level)]
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Seeing the usage of this thing, Zhang Yue felt joy in his heart.
"This is a good thing!"
Thus, Zhang Yue opened his skill list.
Although this Dream Gem had no restrictions, it could be used on any skill.
But its best use target was none other than rare skills.
Because skill quality can be divided into: Normal Skill, Rare Skill, Unique Skill, Forbidden Spell Skill.
The Dream Gem had the effect of upgrading skill quality, but only below Unique Skill level, meaning the highest it could boost to was [Unique] quality.
Currently, the rare skills mastered by Zhang Yue included: Light of Doomsday, Hell Judgment, Necro Storm, Eye of Death, Grip of Thunder, Thundercloud Storm, and Lightning and Thunder.
Lightning skills were immediately passed on, because the Dream Gem had the effect of altering skill properties, best used to turn a non-lightning skill into a lightning skill.
After weighing the options, Zhang Yue finally chose...
["Ding~ You have used the Legendary Treasure [Dream Gem] on SS-grade Rare Skill [Eye of Death], current property is [Shadow Type], please choose alteration direction!"]
["Lightning Type."]
["Ding~ Congratulations! Your SS-grade Rare Skill [Eye of Death] has evolved into SS-grade Unique [Eye of Death · Thunder God]!"]
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