BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Standing atop the city walls of Skyfire City, Zhang Yue, occupying the high ground, used his vantage point to rapidly cast spells, bombarding the soldiers and giant beasts swarming toward the city gate beneath his feet.
His lightning-type skills dealt around 40 million damage per hit.
Even the damage from ordinary skills ranged between 15 to 20 million, which was enough to instantly kill these Level 95 mobs with a total health of just 15 million.
Moreover, the Forbidden Spell [Secret Art: Lightning Summon] had a passive effect that reduced the cooldown of all lightning-type skills by 50%.
As a result, Zhang Yue's skills, Thunderous Might, Shattering Thunder, and Lightning Dance, which originally had cooldowns of 6 and 9 seconds, were now reduced to just 3 to 5 seconds.
This made Zhang Yue even faster.
Unfortunately, Zhang Yue did not possess the [Armageddon Black Dragon's Eternal Demon Body] effect, which could have caused widespread splash damage. Otherwise, his kill efficiency would have been even more insane.
Each time he cast a lightning skill, it stacked three layers of [Thunder Shield] on the Armageddon Black Dragon and Phantom Predator.
With the Thunder Shield, their damage output became even greater.
ROAR—
Amidst the deafening dragon roar, the massive body of the Armageddon Black Dragon soared over the city walls, opening its blood-red maw to unleash an indiscriminate bombardment on the enemies below.
At the same time, under the dragon's cover, the Phantom Predator led his Shadow Army straight through the city gates.
Cherry suddenly blinked onto the city walls, appearing on Zhang Yue's right side.
"Boss, Cherry is here to help you!", As she spoke, Cherry waved her delicate jade-like hand.
Lightning Staff, magic brilliance overflowing.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Several powerful SS-rank spells rained down on the enemy horde. Those struck by Cherry's cherry-blossom-themed magic perished instantly under 13 to 15 million damage.
Cherry's damage output shocked Zhang Yue.
It was already close to matching his non-lightning skills.
And yet, Cherry was still only equipped with a rare Thunder Set, which was worlds apart from Zhang Yue's one and only Transcendent Set.
At this rate, in the late game, Cherry's damage potential might surpass even Zhang Yue's.
Seeing Cherry abandon her task of collecting Source of Life just to join the battle, Zhang Yue asked, "Where's the Imperial Seal?"
Cherry, enthusiastically casting spells while slaughtering Skyfire City's monsters, turned and blinked her pond-like big eyes at Zhang Yue, "I gave it to Skeleton King bro. And I taught him how to use both artifacts. Boss, don't worry!"
'Gave it to the Skeleton King...'
Hearing this, Zhang Yue had a bad feeling.
Looking down, he spotted the Skeleton King clutching the Scroll in his left hand and gripping the Imperial Seal in his right, rushing into the city like an invading army looter, eyes filled with excitement.
So far, things still seemed normal.
Just as Zhang Yue thought the Skeleton King had finally grown some brains and learned how to use the Imperial Seal to absorb Source of Life and inject it into the Scroll...
Suddenly, the scene took a drastic turn.
The Skeleton King dashed toward a Dark Behemoth's corpse and raised the Imperial Seal—
DUANG!
DUANG!
DUANG!
He repeatedly slammed the seal onto the behemoth's forehead.
This bizarre action left even the Phantom Predator, who was in the midst of battle, completely stunned.
Zhang Yue facepalmed, "I knew it. I should never have expected too much from you."
This was the difference between a normal Boss-turned-pet and a Celestial-grade Boss.
One needed no teaching.
The other... no matter how much you taught, would never learn.
Seeing the Skeleton King botching the important task, Cherry quickly rushed down to take over, continuing the collection of Source of Life herself.
Meanwhile, the Skeleton King obediently went back to his true calling—picking up trash.
That said, when it came to scavenging, the Skeleton King was truly top-tier.
Leaving the ordinary soldiers and beasts in the city to the Armageddon Black Dragon and Phantom Predator, Zhang Yue went straight for the King of the Skyfire Empire, a 16-Star Boss—the Skyfire Monarch.
"Intruders of the Skyfire Empire, shall be extermi—"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Before the Skyfire Monarch could finish his grand declaration, Zhang Yue instantly bombarded him with Thunderous Might + Shattering Thunder + Lightning Dance + Voidless: Godslayer Curse.
A single lightning skill combo, dealing over 200 million damage, one-shot him on the spot.
Then, with the Armageddon Black Dragon's squad following up, they easily wiped out the remaining forces within Skyfire City.
[Map Announcement]:
[Ding~ Congratulations to the player [Zero] for conquering the Skyfire Empire]
Each time an empire's capital was conquered, the system only announced the name of the top contributor.
However, this time, thanks to Zhang Yue, 999 other players also cleared the Skyfire Empire alongside him.
After securing the Skyfire Empire, Zhang Yue immediately announced his next target in the world chat, allowing players who needed a carry to get a head start there.
Then, Zhang Yue himself rushed to the Gana Empire's capital and turned in his quest to King Garuru.
After receiving his rewards, he immediately picked up his third siege mission.
Next target: Shadow Empire.
When Zhang Yue arrived at Shadow City, the scene was identical to Skyfire City, the outskirts were already packed with countless players frantically attacking the city.
Since this time they had started the siege before Zhang Yue arrived, the time pressure was significantly eased.
Shortly after Zhang Yue reached Shadow City, the top 1000 players on the contribution leaderboard had already surpassed 1000 points.
Without hesitation, Zhang Yue led his three men and one woman to start the siege.
This time, the difficulty had increased even further.
By now, Zhang Yue was affected by a final damage reduction of 20% and final damage taken increase of 20% debuff.
However, for Zhang Yue, this was still no big deal.
Within three minutes, Shadow Empire's capital was razed to the ground...
From this point on, with each empire conquered, the difficulty increased by 10%.
Since this was a final stacking debuff, it could not be negated by high-level attributes or damage buffs.
At first, it wasn't a major issue. But as it progressed, it became slightly troublesome.
Fortunately, Zhang Yue's Forbidden Spell: [Secret Art: Lightning Summon] provided a 50% final lightning damage boost, which counteracted the debuff.
By the time he reached the sixth empire, this 50% boost would be completely nullified.
Once that happened, Zhang Yue's lightning skills would deal 50% less damage.
By the seventh empire, he would start suffering a 10% final damage reduction.
By the eighth, 20%.
By the ninth, 30%.
By the tenth, 40%.
Even so, nothing could stop Zhang Yue's siege spree.
[Map Announcement]:
[Ding~ Congratulations to player [Zero] for conquering the Frozen Empire!]
[Map Announcement]:
[Ding~ Congratulations to player [Zero] for conquering the Wind-Seeker Empire!]
[Map Announcement]:
[Ding~ Congratulations to player [Zero] for conquering the Sky-Pillar Empire...]
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