Was it because the Empire's Investigation Bureau mbers were blind, or was Zhang Yue's route so perfect that it completely avoided the Bureau's patrol zones?
Zhang Yue traveled unimpeded from the chanical City to the Wodemar Plains, not encountering a single mber of the Bureau along the way.
Zhang Yue wasn't about to disturb them either.
"Let them keep looking!"
To Zhang Yue, completing the task of collecting the Flying Mantis Illustrations was far more important than dealing with those Bureau people.
Once the task was done, there'd be ti to deal with them.
Soon, Zhang Yue arrived at the Wodemar Plains.
The vast sky above the plains was still teeming with countless Flying Mantises, resembling swarms of locusts.
Last ti, it had taken him two hours to barely kill just over 200 Flying Mantises.
Let's see how the efficiency compares now.
Zhang Yue summoned the Twenty-Four Winged Extinction Black Dragon to standby.
He picked a densely populated area of Flying Mantises and unleashed an SS-grade Thunderstorm.
A massive hurricane erupted at the center of the swarm.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Under the sweeping force of lightning, the aggro of over a dozen nearby Flying Mantises was drawn, and they imdiately flew toward Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue cast Hell's Judgnt and Necrostorm, using them to restrain the group of mantises. The sustained damage of a few thousand points might not have been significant, but the control effects of the skills stunned and slowed them continuously.
The next mont, the colossal figure of the Fourteen-Winged Twenty-Four Winged Extinction Black Dragon soared overhead.
ROAR!
With an earth-shaking dragon roar, the Black Dragon unleashed a sonic wave from its mouth, engulfing the group of Flying Mantises ahead.
This was none other than the Black Dragon's newly mastered S-grade skill: World-Destroying Dragon's Roar.
After reducing the group's physical defense by 30%, the Black Dragon followed up with S-grade World-Destroying Dragon Fla and S-grade World-Destroying Dragon Breath.
Scorching flas and silvery-gray breath engulfed the mantises in all directions.
Monts later, massive damage numbers ranging between 100,000 and 110,000 floated above the mantises' heads.
With just two skills, those Flying Mantises lost three-quarters of their HP instantly.
The 30% defense reduction from Dragon's Roar, combined with the 80% armor penetration from the 8-Star Eternal Set, allowed the Black Dragon to deal pure, defense-ignoring true damage to the mantises.
Couple that with the Eternal Set's 100% damage boost, and the final damage output was explosive.
At this point, Zhang Yue used S-grade single-target spells in tandem with the Black Dragon to swiftly finish off the weakened mantises.
BOOM! BOOM!
The corpses of over a dozen Flying Mantises crashed heavily to the ground.
Compared to before, the efficiency of killing had increased tenfold in an instant.
For the Black Dragon, though, this was rely a warm-up.
The real battle was about to begin.
The Lv5 World-Destroying Effect increased the Black Dragon's damage by 30% for every enemy killed, stacking up to five tis.
In the previous battle, the Black Dragon hadn't been able to enjoy the stacking effect.
But now, with the effect fully stacked, the Black Dragon's damage was boosted by 150%.
After waiting for the cooldown of its skills, Zhang Yue repeated the process: luring a large group of Flying Mantises and using Hell's Judgnt and Necromantic Storm to control them.
The Black Dragon followed the sa sequence, opening with Dragon's Roar to reduce their defenses, then unleashing Dragon Fla and Dragon Breath for two rounds of AOE damage.
This ti, the Black Dragon's damage skyrocketed to 180,000–200,000.
With just two AOE skills, the group of mantises with 350,000 HP each was instantly obliterated.
BOOM!
The massive figure of the Twenty-Four Winged Black Dragon landed heavily on the ground, roaring at the piles of mantis corpses. Even the other mantises in the distance were visibly intimidated.
With the World-Destroying Effect active, the Black Dragon truly lived up to its na: World-Destroying.
Even Cherry couldn't help but appear and marvel, "Master, your giant bird is incredible."
The Black Dragon glanced at Cherry and instantly fell silent.
Seeing the Black Dragon's overwhelming power, Zhang Yue felt a sense of satisfaction.
It seed that sparing the SSS-grade Eternal Set for the Black Dragon, instead of using it himself, had been the right choice.
If Zhang Yue had worn the set, he might not have been able to wipe out a group of Flying Mantises with just two AOE skills.
Thus, the subsequent battles beca extraordinarily simple.
The Black Dragon's two AOE skills had cooldowns of about 15–20 seconds.
Factoring in the ti it took to lure monsters, Zhang Yue could wipe out over a dozen mantises every 30 seconds.
Seeing how much his master valued him, giving him the best gear, the Black Dragon seed determined to prove himself.
During skill cooldowns, the Black Dragon didn't idle either.
It went on a rampage with basic attacks.
Don't underestimate the power of the Black Dragon's basic attacks.
With a 50% critical chance from the Eternal Set, combined with Lv5 Dark Frenzy's 50% crit chance and 100% crit damage, the Black Dragon's basic attacks had a guaranteed 100% crit rate.
In a lower-level world like the Ninth World, monsters lacked advanced attributes like crit resistance, ensuring the Black Dragon's every basic attack would crit.
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Lv5 World-Destroying Body: 100% attack speed and 100% basic attack damage.
Lv5 World-Destroying Effect: 150% damage.
Eternal Set: 100% attack speed and 100% damage.
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With all these buffs stacked, the Black Dragon resembled a machine gun, firing energy balls at extre speed to annihilate the surrounding mantises.
Each crit from its basic attack dealt over 140,000 damage, taking down a mantis every three hits.
And with an attack speed of three hits per second, the Black Dragon effortlessly eliminated 30 mantises during each 30-second cooldown period.
Skeleton King could barely keep up with looting the drops, so Zhang Yue summoned the Shadow Predator to help.
As for Zhang Yue, he hardly needed to lift a finger, enjoying the rewards effortlessly.
At this mont, Zhang Yue deeply realized: 'Beastmaster is such an aweso class!'
With an average of 70–80 monster Illustrations collected per minute, this was beyond satisfying.
Within just two hours, Zhang Yue had collected 8,400 Flying Mantis Illustrations.
He even spent so extra ti killing a total of 10,000 Flying Mantises to complete the world quest: Kill 10,000 monsters while wearing the Eternal Set!
Another world quest, Collect a full Eternal Set, had already been completed earlier.
Now, with the tasks in the Ninth World finished, Zhang Yue could challenge the world boss!
But Zhang Yue wasn't in a rush.
He first crushed a Return Scroll to teleport back to the chanical City.
Handing over 10,000 Flying Mantis Illustrations to the Beast rchant Lord, Zhang Yue generously gave away the extra 1,600 Illustrations.
Receiving 10,000 Illustrations within just two hours, Lord was so thrilled he almost fainted.
Looking at the ti: 11:15 AM.
The Empire's Investigation Bureau had yet to make a move, causing Zhang Yue to frown slightly.
"They still haven't found after half a day? Useless!"
Just as he finished speaking, an unfamiliar friend request popped up on Zhang Yue's communication interface.
The note read: "Your people are almost all dead. Aren't you coming to take a look?"
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