Seeing that Zhang Yue's points were firmly ranked first, even leaving himself behind by a full 136 points, in Battlefield 57 of the Arena Level-2, the Ghost Sword Elfa, who was slaughtering monsters to carry out missions, stared at the current leaderboard, a trace of anger igniting in his eyes, "Why are his points rising so fast!"
On the livestream's barrage, viewers from Beacon Nation gave replies.
["I went to Zero's livestream to take a look. He has a dragon mount. Riding the dragon makes it easy to move between maps, and all his six pets are ridiculously strong. His monster killing speed is definitely way faster!"]
["The main reason is the massive power gap. Other professionals of the same level are like ants in front of Zero. Their very existence just feeds him more missions!"]
["Exactly. Zero doesn't even have to look for mission scrolls. Once he finishes a mission, he just loots from contestants of the Seven Great Nations, and the missions he snatches are always high-level…"]
Seeing these bullet comments in the livestream, Elfa was both ashamed and furious, "All a bunch of useless fools who only make things worse!"
Elfa immediately @ed everyone in the alliance group chat of the Eight Great Nations and posted:
["All contestants in Battlefield 96 of the Arena Level-2, stop all operations. Don't give Zero any more points."]
[[Leo Broye]: "Just to deal with one Zero, we're supposed to abandon the competition of our Eight Great Nations in Battlefield 96? Isn't this sacrifice too much?"]
[[Morgan Kibada]: "Yeah, even if we can't deny that Zero is getting high-level missions from killing our people in Battlefield 96, it's just him getting points. The other Dragon Nation contestants gain nothing from us."]
[[Elfa]: "Is it not enough that Zero alone is getting points? Do you want the Mythical Class Scroll to end up in Dragon Nation's hands?"]
[[Inoue Amano]: "I support Elfa-kun's idea. If Zero becomes the champion and gets the reward of the Mythical Class Scroll, once Dragon Nation produces a Mythical Class professional, we'll be finished."]
Thus, following Elfa's order, all contestants from the Eight Empires—Beacon Nation, Cold Nation, Eastern Nation, Oil, Okaman, Thracian, Scariff, and Sun Nation, completely ceased all activity in Battlefield 96 of the Arena Level-2, withdrawing from the competition midway.
According to the rules of the Hell Gladiator Arena: Contestants can exit the arena at any time as long as they're not eliminated, and they can re-enter freely.
So, on Zhang Yue's side, after finishing all the missions in his list, when he wanted to obtain new ones by killing enemy nation contestants again, he discovered, in the vast domain of the battlefield, not a single enemy nation contestant could be found.
["They've all left the Gladiator Arena?"]
["To stop Zero God from plundering missions off them, they actually made such a huge sacrifice? Wow, they really would stop at nothing to achieve their goal."]
After learning the truth through the livestream barrage, Zhang Yue only found it a bit amusing.
The Eight Great Nations thought they were clever, but to Zhang Yue, it only revealed how small-minded they were.
"Do you all actually think this will stop me from grinding points?"
"Alright, I won't lie. It does affect me a little. But it's nothing serious."
Zhang Yue immediately activated the power of his pets, sending them to different places to search for mission scrolls and then bring them back to him.
That was equivalent to: most professionals have one body's worth of power.
But Zhang Yue had six bodies' worth of power at once.
While his pets scattered to search for scrolls, suddenly, a few professional contestants from Thracian, Sevia, and the Eagle Nation appeared in Zhang Yue's field of vision.
They suddenly came up to Zhang Yue and volunteered, saying:
"I voluntarily offer my life to Dragon Nation. Please accept the A-rank mission of me, Sevia Empire's professional [Broronor]."
"I voluntarily offer my life to Dragon Nation. Please accept the B-rank mission of me, Thracian Empire's professional [Kai Leon]."
"I voluntarily offer my life to Dragon Nation. Please accept the B-rank mission of me, Eagle Nation's professional [Mo Erkona]."
Zhang Yue hadn't even reacted yet.
The three of them had already prepared for death, standing solemnly before Zhang Yue.
At the same time, the audience from various empires in the livestream began posting messages:
["Zero, please accept our missions. Dragon Nation has helped our Eagle Nation so much. We've always remembered it. Let this be a small token of our gratitude."]
["You're the one with the best chance to become Hell Gladiator Arena Champion. The Mythical Class Scroll must not fall into the hands of the Seven Great Nations."]
["Killing us only eliminates us. There's no other loss. We weren't going to reach the highest rewards anyway."]
They were well-intentioned.
But Zhang Yue had no intention of accepting.
He said to the three standing in front of him, "Thank you, all of you."
"But the path to the summit shouldn't be built on sacrificing others' interests. Reaching the top using your own ability, that's true greatness."
"I have a way to get missions. No need for you to sacrifice yourselves."
Just as everyone on the scene was wondering how Zhang Yue would collect high-level missions, they saw the Armageddon Black Dragon, the Apex Predator, and the Armageddon Skeleton King, who had been sent out, return one after another, all carrying mission scrolls.
In an instant, Zhang Yue had acquired five new missions.
His mission-gathering efficiency remained unchanged.
Only thing was: the missions obtained from scrolls weren't as high-level as the ones snatched from others.
Mission scrolls usually yielded D, C, or B-rank missions. A-rank had a low drop chance.
However, at the same time, the probability of miracles also increased.
Because the missions that could be opened from scrolls ranged from D to SSS-rank.
The higher the rank, the lower the probability. Not impossible, just rare.
If luck was good enough, one could get S, SS, or even SSS-rank missions from scrolls.
This was something that couldn't be easily achieved through plundering.
Because if someone was lucky enough to get an S-rank or above mission, they would usually go into hiding, carefully completing the task to claim points, and prevent it from being stolen.
Missions that Zhang Yue obtained by plundering from others were never below B-rank, but never higher than S-rank either.
But from opening scrolls—
["Ding~ You used a mission scroll. Congratulations, you received a D-rank mission [Kill the Demon Wolf]!"]
["Ding~ You used a mission scroll. Congratulations, you received an SS-rank mission [Biochemical Overlord]!"]
["Ding~ You used a mission scroll. Congratulations, you received a C-rank mission [Kill the Berserk Lion]!"]
Using scrolls, just two words—
"Freaking exciting!"
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