Larted and Bayev, who were being trampled to the ground by the Armageddon black dragon, raised their heads to look at the Death Mark that Zhang Yue threw in front of them. The two exchanged glances, staring at each other in confusion.
At this moment, Zhang Yue stood like a godly figure before the two of them, "The rules are simple, use the weapons I gave you to activate the Death Mark, solo battle, the victor lives, the loser dies."
Upon hearing this, the two's expressions changed drastically.
"Or… you both die?"
Zhang Yue's added words scared Bayev into hastily grabbing the Death Mark and asking Zhang Yue, "If one of us wins, will you really let him go? You're not lying?"
Zhang Yue casually said, "Rest assured, people of Dragon Nation always keep their word."
Under Zhang Yue's command, the thirty-six winged Armageddon black dragon took a step back.
With the pressure lifted, Bayev and Larted quickly scrambled up from the ground.
In this situation, escape was impossible.
They could only follow Zhang Yue's demand, battle to the death.
The two each activated the Death Mark on their weapons, then glared at each other with hatred.
"Sorry!"
A loud shout, and they raised their weapons, charging at each other.
Zhang Yue stood calmly by the side, watching the show. At the same time, he didn't forget to activate the video recording function, recording this entertaining scene.
Knight Bayev.
Mage Larted.
The two were respectively the raid team leaders from Oil and the Beacon Nation, not any particularly strong figures.
What's laughable was: just a minute ago, they were comrades fighting side by side.
But now, for survival, both were going all out, trying to kill each other.
The desire to survive had already overshadowed the friendship between the two great nations.
Their strengths were evenly matched.
Dramatically, after a fierce exchange, their final fatal strikes landed on each other at the same time, simultaneously clearing each other's health bars.
Draw.
Double kill.
Bayev and Larted stared wide-eyed at each other in disbelief.
At the side, Athena looked on and softly sighed, "Right now, they must be thinking, why did we go against Dragon Nation in the first place?"
Whoosh!
Their bodies simultaneously turned into stardust and scattered into nothingness.
At this moment, the remaining squad leader from Eastern Nation, Goto Inji, was so terrified his face went pale. He trembled uncontrollably all over, and like a dog, he knelt on the ground, begging Zhang Yue for mercy, "Brother, let me go! Please, I have elderly parents and young kids. If I die, what will my family do!"
Zhang Yue looked at Goto Inji and let out a soft sigh, "You really are quite pitiful."
Goto Inji, upon hearing this, truly thought Zhang Yue was a saint. He thought he had grasped Zhang Yue's weakness and might be saved.
Then Zhang Yue followed with a line that made Goto Inji's expression instantly freeze, "Since that's the case, I'll hurry and find your family, send them all to hell too, so you can reunite."
As his words ended, he crushed the Death Mark in his hand. Zhang Yue then personally cast Heavenly Fire Inferno, dealing 320 million damage, enough to instantly kill Goto Inji a hundred times.
Only when Goto Inji's body turned into stardust and dispersed, Athena suddenly curiously asked Zhang Yue, "I think I saw a video online before, against the people of the Seven Nations, you also used this method of letting them kill each other. Why not just take care of them yourself?"
"Wouldn't that be faster?"
"Killing them directly only makes them feel physical pain before death," Zhang Yue picked up the longblade dropped by Goto Inji and gently stroked its finely crafted surface, saying, "Mutual slaughter allows them to feel both physical and mental torment."
"Only pain doubled can make them remember, the price of offending Dragon Nation!"
Athena nodded, "They really do need to know, whether it's your Dragon Nation or our Bear Nation, we're not the kind of weaklings they can bully as they please."
Zhang Yue sent the just-recorded video via Message to Ning Tiantian and said, [Post this video to the international web.]
Next, Zhang Yue picked up all the Death Marks dropped by the deceased from Eastern Nation on the ground.
These things were a specialty of Eastern Nation, difficult to obtain in other nations.
Though Zhang Yue's Demon Contract had permanent kill capabilities, its trigger rate was only 10%, too unstable.
So gathering more Death Marks was good preparation for future revenge against Eastern Nation.
Use their own tools to kill their people, that's satisfying.
Checking the time, these useless fools had actually wasted one full minute of Zhang Yue's time.
No time to lose, Zhang Yue immediately began raiding the fifth floor of Nightmare Abyss with Athena.
The monsters on the fifth floor were still level 115 octopus beasts.
However, the number required for the challenge increased to 1100, 100 more than on the first floor!
As usual, Athena used War Soul to lure monsters.
The Armageddon black dragon unleashed a wave of AOE to weaken them all heavily.
Then Zhang Yue used single-target skills and pursuit strikes to clean up the rest.
Maximizing passive XP gain for [Shattered: Ghost Eye].
[Result: 3 minutes 1 second to kill 1100 octopus beasts. Rewards: EXP +11 billion, Gold +5500, Energy +330 billion, Lv110 20-star Nightmare Gear Box +1!]
[Nightmare Abyss Floor 3, 3 minutes 5 seconds, 1200 octopus beasts. Rewards: EXP +12 billion, Gold +6000, Energy +360 billion, Nightmare Gear Box +1!]
[Nightmare Abyss Floor 4, 3 minutes 9 seconds, 1300 octopus beasts…]
[Floor 6, 3 minutes 14 seconds…]
[Floor 7…]
Other players all had dozens to hundreds in a team, working together just to barely complete the challenge in time.
To them, climbing the abyss was like climbing stairs, step by step.
But Zhang Yue and Athena were like riding an elevator—whoosh—straight to the top.
On the way, aside from killing monsters, if they encountered people from the Seven Nations, they would casually take care of them too.
And Zhang Yue always used the same method, have them activate Death Marks and kill each other. The winner lives, the loser vanishes.
Every battle, Zhang Yue recorded video and sent it to Ning Tiantian.
Then "editor" Ning Tiantian would do a bit of editing, maybe add some music, and post it to the international web for all the world to watch, this was truly killing the body and the spirit.
And during the process of constantly using pursuit strikes to kill monsters and farm Ghost Eye passive XP, when Zhang Yue reached the 30th floor of Nightmare Abyss.
Finally—
[Ding~ Congratulations! Your skill [Shattered: Ghost Eye] has reached 50,000 XP. The passive effect has been upgraded…]
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