Chapter 559

With dry, short hair, she looked heroic.

She wore a special cape representing the deputy-captain level over one shoulder.

Wearing a cape like that only served as decoration;

it couldn't activate the equipment's effects.

She did this to tell others

that she was a deputy captain,

and she had better equipment for the cape slot.

"Captain Tang Menglei? Why is she here?"

"Is she trying to 'steal business' from Li Yao?"

"I think that's right! This is great; if they fight, we're the ones who benefit!"

"It's best if they argue and both lower their prices!"

Tang Menglei ignored the gossip around her

and walked straight to Li Yao.

"May I ask, Captain Li Yao, how can you guarantee a clear?"

"Could it be that leading a team to clear 【Sea Labyrinth】 gave you the illusion"

"that you can clear any purgatory-level dungeon in Jingyu Martial Mansion?"

"Hiss!"

As soon as these words were spoken,

the sound of people gasping in shock rang out repeatedly.

Too exciting!

Tang Menglei's expression was calm, seemingly very polite to Li Yao,

but the content of her words showed no mercy!

Li Yao frowned slightly.

He didn't remember ever offending this woman.

"Student Li Yao, she is from the Power Gate Guild,"

Shang Yana whispered in Li Yao's ear.

"If Student Li Yao is comfortable with it, just leave it to me."

"Hmm."

Shang Yana was good at this.

Li Yao had no worries about leaving it to her.

Power Gate—

Li Yao had heard Xiao Hei introduce it before.

It was one of the five major guilds of Jingyu Martial Mansion.

Being called one of the five major guilds meant their presidents were all captain-level!

Li Yao didn't remember the specific name of that captain.

The five major guilds each had their own areas of expertise.

Power Gate was mainly responsible for leading dungeon teams, lending, and buying/selling monster materials.

That's right.

That deputy captain owed a point loan to Power Gate.

Looking at it this way,

it wasn't without reason that this Tang Menglei came to find fault.

His leading people to level up was all in purgatory-level dungeons,

which just happened to conflict with the 'elite route' Power Gate took!

The more popular he was, the greater the impact on Power Gate's interests!

Shang Yana ignored the students' discussions around her

and walked in front of Tang Menglei without changing her expression.

"Captain Tang, before answering your question, I would like to ask one."

"Go ahead."

Tang Menglei crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes slightly.

She recognized this young girl.

the second young lady of the Shang family, not someone easy to fool.

"Captain Tang just talked about Sea Labyrinth."

"I would like to ask, is the second-place clear time for purgatory-level difficulty held by the seniors of Power Gate?"

"Yes, but so what?"

Tang Menglei's expression changed slightly, probably guessing what the other party was going to say.

Shang Yana smiled softly: "Then who is in first place?"

"Li... Li Yao."

Tang Menglei couldn't hide this point.

It was hanging high on the leaderboard;

Li Yao was not only first, but first by a landslide.

Shang Yana pressed on: "The seniors of Power Gate are powerful and have even left their names on the Abyss Fortress purgatory leaderboard for us freshmen to look up to."

Shang Yana paused,

using the softest tone to say the sharpest words:

"Then why does Captain Tang think that the person who surpassed you in Sea Labyrinth would be unable to clear Abyss Fortress purgatory level?"

"That's different!" Tang Menglei said quickly, "That record in Sea Labyrinth was set when we were level 40."

"Only after leveling up and upgrading our equipment were we barely able to clear Abyss Fortress purgatory level."

"And Captain Ge was there too."

Ge Qiu, a captain-level student and president of the Power Gate Guild.

"Hmm, I acknowledge that," Shang Yana nodded unhurriedly.

"But Captain Li Yao has also leveled up, hasn't he?"

Tang Menglei seemed to be annoyed by Shang Yana, saying angrily:

"Stop talking nonsense. These flowery words cannot prove that Li Yao can lead a team to clear purgatory-level difficulty."

"Leading nineteen people, even captain-level students couldn't do it when they were low-level!"

"Is Captain Li Yao weaker than captain-level students?" Shang Yana asked weakly.

"You!"

Even Tang Menglei had to admit

that as long as Li Yao's level came up,

he would 100% be able to surpass captain-level students!

This was an undeniable fact!

"Captain Tang, just as you said, Captain Li Yao is leading nineteen people."

"In Sea Labyrinth, he was leading thirty-nine."

"The more people who enter the dungeon, the higher the dungeon difficulty."

"Even if Abyss Fortress is rarer and has higher difficulty than Sea Labyrinth,"

"the number of people entering is half that of the forty people in Sea Labyrinth!"

"One in, one out; the difference in difficulty between the two dungeons won't be too great."

"Why is the difficulty of Abyss Fortress so terrifyingly high for us students that only six teams have cleared it so far?"

"The most critical reason is that only twenty practitioners can enter the dungeon!"

"But Captain Li Yao has always been solo-grinding dungeons!"

"Does the reduction in the number of people entering have any impact on him?"

Shang Yana asked softly again: "Captain Tang, do you think it has an impact?" ===== CHAPTER 561 =====