["Ding~ Reaper Arena Phase Two Challenge begins!"]
Whoosh!
White light fell, and Zhang Yue was teleported into a mountain forest.
From all directions, [Reaper Steel Armored Wolves] with glowing ghostly eyes and green faces with fangs were staring intently at Zhang Yue, eyeing him like prey.
These steel armored wolves were also lord-level monsters.
Moreover, leading them was a 26-star BOSS-level [Reaper Steel Armored Wolf King].
Clearly, the difficulty of Phase Two was much higher than Phase One.
Not only did a BOSS-level monster appear, but the number of lord-level steel armored wolves had also increased significantly. Visually, there were at least thirty of them in the whole mountain forest.
Zhang Yue summoned Thirty-Six Winged Armageddon Black Dragons and ordered them to lure the monsters.
ROAR!
The Armageddon Black Dragon soared through the sky, opened its blood-red maw, and spewed scorching dragon flames, using AOE attacks to lure the steel armored wolves in the forest.
Facing lord-level steel armored wolves with 13 billion HP, the Black Dragon's 900 million AOE damage was ultimately still insufficient and couldn't pose a threat to them.
However, Zhang Yue didn't need the Black Dragon to deal damage anyway.
With Chen Zijin not here, the Armageddon Black Dragon only needed to serve as bait.
Taking advantage of the Black Dragon luring the mobs, Zhang Yue locked his target on the BOSS-level steel armored wolf king.
It was still necessary to prioritize eliminating this big guy.
26-star steel armored wolf king, physical attribute, possessed 4 million attack power, 2.5 million defense, and 68 billion HP.
Before Zhang Yue could launch an attack, Apex Predator and Cherry had already initiated the offensive.
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
Apex Predator, leading the shadow legion, charged at high speed to the BOSS's surroundings, surrounding the steel armored wolf king and thrusting at top speed.
Like countless silver needles piercing thighs.
To the massive wolf king, these small guys still caused it to howl in pain.
Under the exclusive effect [Glorious · Undying Maniac Body], large swathes of blood-red critical damage numbers wildly jumped above the steel armored wolf king's head—
-3.21 billion! Critical!
-3.32 billion! Critical!
-3.39 billion! Critical!
-3.47 billion! Critical…
In terms of single-target burst, Apex Predator was still the fiercest.
At the same time, Cherry's seemingly endless skills also rained down on the steel armored wolf king like a storm.
Each skill dealt nearly 2 billion damage, not as savage as Apex Predator, but still painful for the wolf king.
Under the joint fierce assault of the two mythical pets, Apex Predator and Cherry, the wolf king's HP bar was instantly chopped down by a third.
AWOOO!
A long howl to the sky.
Its body burst into a flash of red light.
Just as it was about to enter rage mode and counterattack, Ice-Sealed War God cast Frozen World, directly extinguishing the wolf king's fury.
Taking this opportunity, the Armageddon Skeleton King charged in with his giant sword, hacking at the frozen wolf king.
To be honest, the upgraded Skeleton King truly couldn't be underestimated.
After his quality ascended from Legendary to Mythical, his overall strength received a massive leap.
Under the exclusive Mythical pet effect [Nightfall · Undying Monarch], the Skeleton King's attacks ignored the defense, damage reduction, and armor-breaking resistance of enemies below his tier, dealing absolute damage.
A 26-star BOSS at best equaled a Rare tier.
Far beneath Mythical tier, suppressed under [Nightfall · Undying Monarch], in front of Skeleton King, it was nothing but cannon fodder.
Each slash from the Skeleton King easily dealt 3 billion+ damage.
This damage even surpassed that of Zhang Yue himself, nearly catching up to the third brother, Apex Predator.
One had to know, Skeleton King's role was just that of a warrior.
Though the damage was high, the Skeleton King had slower attack speed than Apex Predator, fewer output skills than Cherry, less control than Ice-Sealed War God, and less AOE than the Armageddon Black Dragon.
Zhang Yue looked at the Skeleton King for a while and sighed, "Looks like… you're still better suited for looting trash…"
Zhang Yue hadn't even made a move yet, but Apex Predator, Cherry, Skeleton King, and Ice-Sealed War God had already easily taken down the steel armored wolf king.
———
Meanwhile, on the other side—
Under the lure of the Black Dragon's AOE attacks, all lord-level steel armored wolves in the forest were aggroed and drawn in.
Once the Black Dragon grouped them all, Zhang Yue waved his staff and began casting quickly.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As usual, he started with Hell's Judgment + Necro Storm + Thundercloud Storm + Lightning and Thunder, four SSS-grade rare AOE skills to chip them all down in one wave, severely injuring them.
Then, one cast of Thunder's Wrath ignited one steel armored wolf and triggered infinite pursuit effects, instantly mass-slaughtering the dozens of wolves.
["Ding~ Congratulations on clearing Phase Two of the Reaper Arena!"]
Whoosh!
A light screen emerged before Zhang Yue's eyes, and the gate to the third-phase challenge opened.
Zhang Yue didn't hesitate and began the Phase Three challenge.
The further the challenge progressed, the harder it got.
From the initial dozen lord-level mummies, to Phase Two's thirty-plus lord-level steel armored wolves + one BOSS wolf king, to Phase Three's fifty-plus lord-level Scythe Mantises + two BOSS-level mantis leaders, and then Phase Four's over a hundred lord-level Tyrannosauruses + one god-tier T-Rex BOSS.
Each phase's difficulty almost doubled compared to the last.
The rise in difficulty was extremely obvious.
No wonder even the strongest of the Beacon Country's World 32, plus the strongest from Cold Country and the Sun Nation, three top pros from three empires, had to suffer dozens of failures before barely managing to clear the [Extermination Arena].
This Nightmare Arena's difficulty was truly absurd.
Fortunately, Zhang Yue's strength was even more absurd.
To him, all of this was child's play.
There was no need to worry about the Flowing Gold Warrior, after those two simple test exchanges, Zhang Yue already knew how powerful he was. Unless he deliberately sabotaged, clearing the Reaper Arena would definitely not be an issue.
However, Zhang Yue was more worried about Chen Zijin.
With this kind of difficulty curve, he didn't know how many stages she could endure with her strength.
As the difficulty continued to increase, by the time Zhang Yue was clearing Phase Eight, the challenge had become: slay a lord-level beast horde equivalent to Tier 1 Beast Tide scale, plus three normal BOSSes, and one emperor-tier BOSS.
A Tier 1 Beast Tide alone was terrifying.
Even worse, it was a lord-level Tier 1 Beast Tide.
That alone was enough to eliminate 99.999% of challengers.
Not to mention, soloing an emperor-tier BOSS.
This kind of hellish difficulty, it was enough to send chills down one's spine.
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