Collect necro-energy by hunting undead knights.
Although the drop rate of necro-energy is low, fortunately: Zhang Yue's monster-killing speed is fast.
As usual, Chen Zijin is responsible for luring monsters using Crystal Love, while Zhang Yue handles the kills.
Basically in one minute, an entire map can be cleared.
On average, a map yields about 20–30 strands of necro-energy.
After half an hour, a total of 1000 strands of necro-energy had been collected.
When the 1000 strands of necro-energy gathered in Zhang Yue's hands, they automatically condensed into a large ball of light.
Then, that ball of light suddenly transformed into a green glow, scattering down before Zhang Yue, morphing into a gate emitting a ghostly glow, as if leading to the gates of hell.
This is the entrance to the Reaper Arena.
Just then, suddenly a system prompt descended from the heavens—
[System Announcement](World 32 - Death Territory): "Ding~ All professionals please note, congratulations to Dragon Nation professional [Zero] for using necro-energy to open Nightmare difficulty [Reaper Arena]. The entrance to the Reaper Arena has appeared, and it will remain open for one hour. During this time, professionals can enter the Reaper Arena by consuming 500 necro-energy."]
Turns out once this arena entrance is opened, it allows everyone to enter simultaneously.
Opening the entrance by oneself requires 1000 necro-energy, but piggybacking on someone else's entrance only requires 500 necro-energy.
Half-price discount.
If you can piggyback, it's obviously best.
Once this announcement was released, all over the world, professionals who were currently in the World 32's Death Territory were all stirred.
["The Reaper Arena is open! Brothers, quick, piggyback on the gate! You can save half the necro-energy!"]
["You're talking like I can get in with half. To be honest, I don't even have 500 necro-energy, hahaha..."]
["The gate's location is too far from me, I might not make it even in an hour, what a pity!"]
["F**k! The opener is actually that necromancer from Dragon Nation. Just like the Gate of Immortality in the World 22 a while ago, who knows if he'll set up a defensive line outside again and block us. Going would be a waste, might as well not go!"]
["That was targeted at the Seven Great Nations, what does it have to do with us from Blue Nation?"]
["That makes sense, we're not allies of the Seven Great Nations. Brothers, let's go! Time to pioneer the Reaper Arena!"]
———
On Zhang Yue's side.
Although opening the Reaper Arena using 1000 necro-energy, as the opener of the arena, Zhang Yue enjoyed a special privilege, he could freely select two other teammates to enter the Reaper Arena together.
That's equivalent to three people entering at the half-price cost of 1500 necro-energy, but now all three only require 1000 necro-energy.
Looking at it this way, using 1000 necro-energy to open the Reaper Arena is definitely worth it.
So, Zhang Yue first authorized [Cappuccino].
There was still one spot left.
Just as Zhang Yue was about to casually give that spot away—
Chen Zijin suddenly said to Zhang Yue, "Wait, the last spot must also be given to a strong person!"
"Hmm?", Zhang Yue was slightly confused, "Why do you say that?"
"The Reaper Arena requires a team of three people."
Hearing Chen Zijin say this, Zhang Yue reached out to touch the arena gate, and sure enough received a prompt, ["Ding~ System has detected that your team has fewer than three members, unable to enter Reaper Arena!"]
In the end, Zhang Yue hadn't studied the guide thoroughly enough and actually overlooked this point.
"Nightmare-level arenas in the Death Territory all require a minimum of three-person teams, and all three members must clear it to be considered a successful run," Chen Zijin said, "That's the real reason why Nightmare Arenas are so difficult."
Zhang Yue slightly frowned.
The issue he worried about the most had come at last.
No matter how strong one's own strength, it's impossible to cover the sky with one hand.
Chen Zijin gave Zhang Yue a calming shot, "I've analyzed the difficulty of every Nightmare-level arena in the Death Territory. Based on my analysis, I'm fine on my end."
After all, as a legendary class Shadow Dancer, Chen Zijin was fairly confident in her own strength.
After a pause, Chen Zijin continued, "Next, we need to find someone whose strength is on par with ours to be the third teammate. We must ensure they can solo-clear the Reaper Arena, otherwise even if we two can pass, we still won't be able to fully clear the arena!"
That's where the issue lies.
Recall that Ouyang Linger previously mentioned: At present, there are nine Nightmare-level arenas discovered within the Death Territory.
And so far, only one of them has been cleared, by Beacon Nation.
And that was only because the World 32's number one powerhouse from Beacon Nation teamed up with Cold Nation and the Sun Nation's respective number one powerhouses from the same world. Combining the power of three nations, after more than ten attempts, they barely managed to clear the [Annihilation Arena].
From this, it's clear how strong one must be to clear a Nightmare-level arena.
If they could search for teammates nationwide, that would be easy.
Not to mention Ice Emperor, Moon Mark, Seraph, or the Hidden Dragons like Wolong.
Even Hu Yanzhou and God Lu Bu, who were recently resurrected by Zhang Yue, with their strength, could easily help Zhang Yue clear the Reaper Arena.
Unfortunately, the teammate must be found within the World 32, because high-tier world professionals can't even enter the Death Territory in the World 32.
Zhang Yue immediately messaged Ouyang Linger, ["Help me compile a list of domestic professionals currently progressing through the World 32. Give me a list of strong ones, as fast as possible."]
["Okay!"], Ouyang Linger replied, ["Leave it to me, don't worry!"]
Within a few minutes, Ouyang Linger replied again, ["Based on big data calculations, currently there are 180,000 professionals from our country registered as exploring the World 32. According to profession tier ranking, the strongest among them is a legendary-class Shadow Dancer."]
["Second place is a rare-class profession: Ghost-Faced Assassin · Wu Liuqi. The rest are mostly ordinary and elite-class professionals."]
"Rare-class isn't enough," Chen Zijin, seeing the message Ouyang Linger sent to Zhang Yue, immediately said, "At the very least, they must be at epic-tier strength. Even with your infinite Energy as support, rare-tier wouldn't have more than a 20% chance to clear a Nightmare Arena."
"I know," Zhang Yue said, "But where do we find such a teammate?"
Just as the two of them were worrying about a third teammate.
A voice suddenly came from nearby, "Do you need a helper? Perhaps, I can help you."
Turning their heads.
They saw a warrior clad in fully sealed golden armor, his entire body flowing with golden light, appearing before them...
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