Chapter 194

He had been at Some Jingyu Academy for two years.

It was only after much difficulty that he managed to accept a simple contribution task, which only offered about ten contribution points.

In those two years, he would do any task he could manage to snatch up.

Now he only had a little over eight hundred, still some distance away from the Team Member rank.

Yet Li Yao, who had just arrived at Some Jingyu Martial Academy, received two hundred contribution points on his very first task!

This was a reward that could only be obtained from high-difficulty third-turn tasks.

Four such tasks would equal his two years of hard work.

Truly, comparing people to one another only invites frustration!

It wasn't just Xiao Hei; the professionals nearby were also stunned into silence.

Two hundred contribution points—only tasks above the third turn had even a slight chance of offering that much!

Had there been any high-level contribution tasks announced recently?

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It was probably some low-profile senior student coming out of seclusion.

"Sorry, where were we?" Li Yao put down his communicator and asked.

Xiao Hei quickly said, "There are no contribution tasks for the Ant Disaster Cavern. If you want contribution tasks, Senior Li Yao, I can help you accept them and notify you as soon as I get one."

"I only need tasks worth over two hundred contribution points. What are your fees?"

Li Yao had figured it out: those contribution tasks that appeared on the screen and vanished shortly after were most likely being snatched up by others.

To help him accept tasks, Xiao Hei would certainly have to spend a lot of time waiting in the task hall.

"No, no, no," Xiao Hei shook his head repeatedly. "No fees needed. As long as I can help Senior Li Yao, that's enough!"

Li Yao raised an eyebrow: "I've looked into dungeon consultations; they cost thirty points."

"If accepting contribution tasks is free, then I'll just go find someone else. That would only waste my time."

Xiao Hei had explained things very clearly; if possible, Li Yao was very willing to engage in a long-term trade with him.

The prerequisite was:

Charge whatever the standard fee should be.

Li Yao didn't feel he could justify letting someone waste so much time for him for nothing.

Xiao Hei looked at Li Yao, understood what he meant, paused, and then spoke.

"The way it works for proxy-accepting contribution tasks is: for however many contribution points the task is worth, I take the same amount in points as a reward. Does that work for you, Senior Li Yao?"

Two hundred contribution points meant two hundred points.

To be honest, the price was not low.

But those high-contribution tasks undoubtedly required a massive amount of time spent camping at the task center to accept.

Li Yao was willing to spend money to buy time.

He nodded immediately.

"As long as it's a dungeon I can enter and it's worth over two hundred contribution points, help me take it."

Li Yao transferred five hundred points to the other party as an advance payment.

Contribution points were the most important thing to him right now.

Even with the massive points reward for being the national top scorer, without contribution points, there was nowhere to spend them.

Following Xiao Hei, he arrived at the second-floor room for the Ant Disaster Cavern.

Just as Xiao Hei had said,

The Ant Disaster Cavern was a very popular dungeon, and the room was crowded with a large number of professionals.

Shouts of people recruiting teammates echoed one after another.

Beside the dungeon crystal, there was a leaderboard.

For the Purgatory difficulty, there were a total of five clear records.

The first place took one hour and forty-two minutes, set two years ago.

The team that set the record consisted of six people.

An S-rank Knight, an S-rank Healer, and the remaining four were all SS-rank Mages.

Each was a level 40 third-turn professional, equipped with top-tier gear.

A four-person high-output team allowed them to push through at extreme speed.

The record had stood for two years, unable to be broken.

The second-place record was already over three hours, a gap of more than an hour—enough to prove its value!

Li Yao paid two hundred points, selected the Purgatory difficulty, and entered.

Low-level dungeon.

The point cost to enter Purgatory and Normal difficulties was mostly the same.

As soon as Li Yao entered, the dungeon room erupted in chaos.

"Holy crap! That kid who just went in, that wasn't Purgatory difficulty, was it?"

"Did you see him form a team? Alone, Purgatory difficulty? Are you kidding me?"

"Heh, you guys don't know, do you? That kid was on the first floor earlier, saying he got two hundred contribution points from a single task."

"Two hundred contribution points? And he comes here to farm a second-turn dungeon? Isn't he just trying to make me laugh?"

"Which senior who can get two hundred contribution points isn't at least third-turn? I think this kid is just putting on a show!"

"You just realized? I felt like he was posturing when he was downstairs, so I followed him here to see, and he just walks into this low-level dungeon."

"But he's soloing a Purgatory dungeon; his strength must be decent!"

"No way, you actually believe he can clear it? Maybe he'll farm some materials on the first floor and then slink out in shame."

The group completely refused to believe Li Yao could solo the Ant Disaster Cavern.

Even for those level 40 professionals who had reached the entry limit, soloing Purgatory difficulty was extremely difficult.

Even if they could solo it, the efficiency was extremely low, far less cost-effective than teaming up.

Xiao Hei stood in the back, not leaving.

Listening to the voices around him, a faint smile gradually curled on his face.

He actually wanted to see:

What kind of expressions these professionals, who usually looked down on everyone, would have when they saw Senior Li Yao successfully solo the Purgatory difficulty.

"Just thinking about it is exciting!"