Opening a mission scroll is like a gamble.
But as long as you draw a special-level mission, it’s worth it.
D-rank mission: 1 point
C-rank mission: 2 points
B-rank mission: 3 points
A-rank mission: 5 points
S-rank and above are defined as special-level missions.
S-rank mission: 8 points
SS-rank mission: 12 points
SSS-rank mission: 20 points
A single SSS-rank mission is equivalent to four A-rank missions. Therefore, Zhang Yue is gambling.
To the average person, they wouldn’t dare gamble, or rather, most people can’t afford to gamble.
It’s hard enough to obtain a high-level mission, and it’s also easy to have it stolen by others.
But to Zhang Yue, no matter what rank of mission he gets, it’s his.
Who dares to steal from Zhang Yue?
Following this thod, after Zhang Yue obtained five missions, he prioritized executing the higher-level ones and left the low-level ones behind.
At the sa ti, he dispatched Armageddon Black Dragon and the others to continue searching for mission scrolls.
After all, Zhang Yue alone is enough to kill monsters. When it cos to this, keeping Armageddon Black Dragon and the others nearby doesn’t help much.
In the Arena Level-2, professionals can hold up to five missions at a ti.
When the mission list is full, any extra mission obtained via scroll can replace one of the existing missions in the list.
When the pets bring back scrolls, Zhang Yue uses them to obtain extra missions to overwrite the low-level ones.
Since they’re already low-level missions, even if the new one is still low-level after replacent, it doesn’t matter.
But if luck is good, and he gets a high-level mission, then it’s like coming back from the dead.
As a result, using this approach, Zhang Yue’s speed at earning points beca even faster.
Just earlier, Zhang Yue had just over 350 points.
Now, looking again, Zhang Yue already had 400 points.
In an instant, Elfa was stunned.
"What’s going on? Why is Zero’s point accumulation rate increasing? Didn’t he already lose access to sources of high-level missions?"
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On Zhang Yue’s side, knowing there were definitely "spies" from Beacon Nation in his livestream room, he deliberately spoke to them, "Go tell Elfa, thanks to his idea, I’ve found the right thod."
Originally, he thought that snatching high-level missions from other professionals by killing them was the fastest way to gain points.
But in fact: searching for mission scrolls and doing the tasks himself was a thod more suited to Zhang Yue for gaining points.
When the "spy" in the livestream faithfully reported Zhang Yue’s words to Elfa, Elfa beca so angry he sliced a skeleton warrior in half with one strike.
Just then, Inoue Amano sent a ssage, slightly calming Elfa’s mood, ["Zero has five pets that can help him find scrolls. By using that thod to eliminate low-level missions and farm high-level ones, he gains an advantage. anwhile, we don’t have such help. So this Arena Level-2’s design just happens to suit Zero. When we reach the next arena, you can catch up to him."]
Thinking that way, it kind of made sense.
Elfa clenched his fist and said, ["Then let’s settle the score in the next arena. Or, if I encounter him on the sa battlefield, I’ll cripple him right there!"]
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On the other side, Zhang Yue, through continuously farming and completing high-level missions, rapidly accumulated points.
Very soon, he had saved up 500 points.
["Ding~ System detects your points have reached 500. Do you want to imdiately spend 500 points to advance to the [3-Star Arena Expert] rank?"]
Unless sothing unexpected happened, after Zhang Yue ranked up, he’d need to wait until a certain number of contestants also reached the 3-star rank before being allowed into the Arena Level-3.
And in the Arena Level-2, once you reach 3 stars, your point gain efficiency would be reduced by 90%.
However, whether he ranked up or not, it would affect Zhang Yue’s efficiency in gaining points moving forward.
Because by the rules: not just after reaching 3-star rank, even if your points exceed 500 while still below 3 stars, the point gain rate would also decrease.
So, Zhang Yue still chose to rank up.
[[System Announcent](Hell Gladiator Arena): "Ding~ Congratulations to Dragon Nation contestant [Zero] for being the first to upgrade to the [3-Star Arena Expert] rank!"]
According to the leaderboard’s real-ti record, Zhang Yue being the first to reach 3-star rank was actually expected.
Sure enough, after ranking up to 3-Star Arena Expert, Zhang Yue still couldn’t enter the Arena Level-3 right away.
According to the requirents: only when the number of 3-star professionals in the entire Hell Gladiator Arena exceeds 10,000 people will the Arena Level-3 be unlocked.
Until then, Zhang Yue must remain in the Arena Level-2, and the point gain rate is indeed reduced by 90%.
At his current rank, completing a D-rank mission only yields 0.1 point, ten D-rank missions are needed just to get 1 point.
Even an SSS-rank mission only gives 2 points.
Continuing to farm points in the Arena Level-2 was now aningless.
The effort he puts in here for a whole day could be matched with just one hour’s work in the Arena Level-3.
Moreover, stockpiling points in advance didn’t offer much benefit either. Once in the Arena Level-3, breaking through to 4-star rank would still be rate-limited.
So, Zhang Yue decisively chose to log off.
———
At that mont, the ti happened to freeze at exactly 11:30 a.m.
"Damn! Lunch ti already passed?"
Right then, Zhang Yue blad himself deeply, for not being a proper rice-eater.
After logging off, Zhang Yue imdiately went out to eat.
While eating, he scrolled through the Otherworld International Forum on his phone.
Even before the Hell Gladiator Arena began, it had already gained a lot of popularity and traffic due to the "invitation letter" and "ranking rewards."
Since it opened, the hype had exploded.
All over the world, internet users were fiercely debating the Hell Gladiator Arena on the forums.
["At this rate, the champion of the Hell Gladiator Arena will definitely be Dragon Nation’s necromancer!"]
["Don’t jump the gun. We’re only at the Arena Level-2. Who knows how many total arenas there are in this King-level Secret Realm? You’re already naming the champion? It’s just that Zero happened to encounter a track that suits him. Judging from the rules of the first two arenas, every arena might have completely different rules. Next round, maybe Zero will be overtaken!"]
["Eh? Why has Zero’s point count stopped moving? His livestream is also offline? What’s he doing?"]
["Probably attending to nature, or eating..."]
Zhang Yue exited the forum and casually glanced at the Hell Gladiator Arena’s points leaderboard, he saw Elfa, ranked fifth, was still chasing hard.
Zhang Yue scrolled further down and couldn’t help feeling more and more confused.
"Why hasn’t he appeared yet?"
Since this was clearly a trap, or rather, a setup, then as the one who laid it, why hasn’t that Flowing Gold Warrior made any moves?
’What exactly is he waiting for?’
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