Chapter 193: Chapter 192: Epic, Predator • Taotie!
Late night, darkness covered the land.
In the Slime Empire, everything was eerie.
[Lv48 Slime Forest]
A figure wielded a staff, blasting the Forest's numerous visible slimes.
Even back when Zhang Yue wore a 5-star Reaper Set, dealing with slimes was already a breeze.
Now, equipped with a 7-star Void Set, Zhang Yue's current strength made defeating Lv48 slimes even easier.
With the Void Set providing 40% spell penetration and the Death's Eye adding 30%, Zhang Yue now had a total of 70% spell penetration.
Coupled with 5,560 points of magic attack, a single S-rank skill could deal over 30,000+ damage to a slime.
The damage from his SSS-rank unique skill, Voidless: God-Slaying Curse, could reach a staggering 70,000+.
So, basically, a combination of an ordinary single-target skill and God-Slaying Curse could instantly kill a Lv48 slime with 100,000 HP.
Upon killing a target, the God-Slaying Curse immediately refreshed, no cooldown needed, allowing Zhang Yue to seamlessly move to the next target...
Thus, in Zhang Yue's hands, these slimes were nothing but cannon fodder.
By slaughtering a massive number of Black Iron-grade slimes, it promoted the spawning of Bronze, Silver, and even higher-level slimes.
Hence, Zhang Yue summoned the Twenty Four Winged Extinction Black Dragon and activated mass farming mode.
The Dark Skeleton King handled taunting and drawing the monsters.
Zhang Yue unleashed Hell's Judgment and Necrostorm in tandem with the Twenty-Four Winged Extinction Black Dragon's Dragon Flame and Dragon Breath.
Easily, dozens of slimes in a large area were instantly wiped out.
The staggering kill efficiency made other professionals in the same map, who were staying up late to farm slimes and collect medals, question their life choices.
After wiping out this batch of slimes...
Sure enough, a Bronze Slime and two Silver Slimes spawned in front of him.
Zhang Yue happily took them down.
The experience gained from hunting slimes was entirely allocated to the Predator.
Due to the Necromancer class effect that inherently reduces a pet's XP requirement for leveling by 50%, combined with the effect of the legendary artifact Void Crystal, which reduces the pet's XP requirement by an additional 30%.
This meant: the Predator • Taotie only required 20% of the normal XP to level up, making leveling it feel incredibly fast.
From 1:00 AM to 6:00 AM, Zhang Yue killed an uncountable number of slimes.
Finally, he completed the "Guard the Tribe" quest, which required killing 200 Silver Slimes.
As the morning sunlight filtered through the trees and illuminated Slime Forest, Zhang Yue breathed a sigh of relief: "As expected of a quest with a historical completion rate of only 0.1%."
Such a quest would have been impossible without someone of Zhang Yue's power level.
Historically, the 0.1% who completed this quest were typically guild leaders of major guilds, leveraging a large number of guild members to farm Silver Slimes for them to finish the kills.
For Zhang Yue, if not for hunting 100 Silver Slimes in the Slime Forest secret realm earlier, completing this quest would have been just as difficult.
Along with completing the quest, Zhang Yue used the XP gained from killing slimes to level up the Predator • Taotie from Lv0 to Lv30.
The 20% XP requirement made leveling the Predator • Taotie feel as smooth as silk.
Zhang Yue returned to the Ottiman Tribe and approached Chief Ottiman to submit the quest.
[Ding~ Congratulations on completing the quest [Guard the Tribe]. Rewards: XP +4,000,000, Gold Coins +20, Energy +8 billion! Equipment: [Guardian's Robe] (Lv45, 6-star)]
The Demonic Contract could extract 15% of Zhang Yue's earned XP.
By now, it had accumulated over 12 million XP.
Zhang Yue allocated all this XP to the Predator • Taotie.
Only to see...
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Golden light beams continuously fell on the Predator • Taotie.
Its level rose rapidly from Lv30 to Lv31, 32, 33... 44, 45.
"So smooth! So unbelievably smooth." Zhang Yue couldn't help but exclaim as he watched the Predator • Taotie rise from Lv0 to Lv45 overnight.
From his storage space, Zhang Yue retrieved the Lv45 6-star Predator Set, spent over 25 million Energy to refine it to all-gold stats in one click, and equipped the Predator • Taotie.
The rare skill Night Reaper? Equipped!
Opening the status screen, it was clear that, as a god-tier boss, the Predator • Taotie's growth far surpassed that of the Skeleton King and the Twenty-Four Winged Extinction Black Dragon—
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[Predator • Taotie] (Physical, Epic Tier)
Owner: Zhang Yue
Type: Assassin
Level: 45 (XP: 250,000/1,000,000, calculated at 20%)
Physical Attack: 4,580
Physical Defense: 2,102
Magic Defense: 2,008
HP: 22,480
MP: 8,600
Skills: Night Reaper (S-rank rare), Shadow Assault (S-rank), Fatal Shadow Strike (S-rank), Chain Backstab (S-rank)…
Special Effect 1: Shadow Hunt (Lv4, increases single-target damage by 120% when the Predator • Taotie's attacks hit.)
Special Effect 2: Fatal Crit (Lv4, increases crit rate by 50% and crit damage by 100%.)
Special Effect 3: Speed Demon (Lv4, increases movement speed by 100%.)
Special Effect 4: Ultimate Harvest (Lv4, increases armor penetration by 50%.)
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Strong!
This was incredibly strong!
Despite being just epic-tier, the Predator • Taotie's stats and special effects were already comparable to same-level mythical pets.
With a werewolf-like form draped in a black shadowy cloak, it exuded an overwhelming presence.
Zhang Yue couldn't wait to test the Predator • Taotie's combat strength.
Unfortunately, this was a safe zone, and there were no monsters.
After some thought, Zhang Yue turned his attention to the Dark Skeleton King nearby.
"Sorry, Skeleton Bro."
Upon Zhang Yue's command, the Predator • Taotie vanished like lightning.
In the next second—
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
The Skeleton King on the other side was struck by a series of mysterious rapid attacks before it could react. Several massive damage numbers floated above its head:
30,824
78,246 (Crit!)
76,458 (Crit!)
29,073
With a total HP of over 200,000, the Skeleton King's health bar was instantly reduced to a sliver, and the Predator • Taotie even knocked out ten of its lives.
"Holy crap, that's insane!" Even Zhang Yue couldn't help but marvel.
The Predator • Taotie's greatest strength lay in its single-target burst damage.
However, because of this, its ability to handle groups was relatively weak, lacking any AOE skills—all its abilities were single-target.
Compared to the Extinction Black Dragon's group attack power, the two pets had their own strengths and weaknesses. It was hard to determine which was stronger.
But one thing was certain: among the three pets, the weakest in combat was undoubtedly the Skeleton King.
At this moment, Zhang Yue turned his attention to Chief Ottiman again.
"Chief, I've collected some Slime Medals and want to exchange them for a title."
Having heard this line countless times, the indifferent Ottiman lazily asked, "Adventurer, do you have Silver or Gold Slime Medals?"
Zhang Yue pulled out a dark red medal and held it up to Ottiman.
"Hell-level Slime Medal."
For someone like Ottiman, who had only ever seen King-tier Slime Medals in over a hundred years, he was utterly shocked.
Even the way he addressed Zhang Yue changed: "Hero, how did you obtain this medal?"
Zhang Yue was only concerned with one question: "Can I exchange this medal for a title?"
"Yes, you can," Ottiman replied, accepting the medal and waving his hand in front of Zhang Yue.
Golden light descended.
[Ding~ Congratulations, you have obtained the Hell-level title [God-Slayer]]
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