Chapter 384: One Month! Black Dragon Corps Five-Star Squad!

Screech—

A thick golden lightning, as wide as a bowl, shot out from the crystal core at the top of the Glorious Thunder Staff!

It struck the largest of the White Bone Wind Wolves, a fifth-rank mid-tier beast.

The beast had no time to react before it was instantly obliterated!

Immediately afterward, the slightly dimmed lightning lashed out at another nearby White Bone Wind Wolf!

Thus, this thick lightning bounced through the beast pack a total of twelve times!

Only after slaughtering all the beasts did it slowly dissipate into the air.

'Ding~~, slain one fifth-rank mid-tier White Bone Wind Wolf, Ability Points +500!'

'Ding~~, slain one fifth-rank low-tier White Bone Wind Wolf, Ability Points +450!'

'......'

A string of system notifications rang in his mind, instantly bringing a smile to Xu Jingming's face.

'This is the A+ rank combat technique Lightning Chain—its power is truly formidable!'

Fifth-rank White Bone Wind Wolves possess intelligence comparable to an eighteen-year-old youth.

When facing a strong enemy, they do not charge recklessly like mindless common beasts; instead, they scatter and flee.

Remember, White Bone Wind Wolves command wind-elemental power and move at incredible speed.

If one approached with the Flowing Cloud Golden Blade Spear in close-combat form,

without using Lei Long Wings to pursue, killing six out of twelve beasts would be considered excellent.

But using an Elementalist's methods is different—you can obliterate them from hundreds of meters away!

And with instant-killing power!

'Compared to training room performance, Lightning Chain's power has increased by roughly 30%.

No wonder—it's a high-grade elemental weapon; this boost is terrifying.'

In essence, with the Glorious Thunder Staff in hand, Xu Jingming might as well have had Gu Wan, the support-type Ability user, right beside him!

Constantly enjoying the boost!

Moreover, compared to the Warrior path, using Elementalist techniques to kill beasts is vastly more efficient.

The dozen fifth-rank beasts he wiped out in one go granted him a total of 5, 50 Ability Points!

'Though fifth-rank beast packs aren't common even in the No. 4 Demon Cave, they appear roughly every few days.

If so, over this period, I should harvest a massive wave of Ability Points.'

Xu Jingming, wielding the Glorious Thunder Staff, his body wreathed in golden lightning, walked smiling into the depths of Nankang Ruins...

Compared to close-quarters combat, the Elementalist path is an entirely new way of fighting!

Elementalist combat emphasizes precise control over spell-based techniques, movement, and accurate spellcasting.

Thus, during this period, Xu Jingming rarely used his Flowing Cloud Golden Blade Spear.

Instead, he switched entirely to fighting with the Glorious Thunder Staff.

Undeniably, the Elementalist's long-range obliteration ability is terrifying.

Most beasts never even saw Xu Jingming's figure before being instantly killed!

Nankang Ruins housed roughly five to six hundred beasts.

About half were fourth-rank or higher; the rest were low-rank beasts.

Xu Jingming spent eleven days there, nearly wiping out every single beast.

In the end, he gained 120, 00 Ability Points.

Immediately after, he headed straight to the next location to continue his slaughter.

This location yielded slightly less.

After spending twelve days nearly eliminating all beasts, he gained only 100, 00 Ability Points.

Even so, the combined total of 220, 00 Ability Points met the promotion requirement.

Xu Jingming ultimately spent 180, 00 Ability Points to advance from fourth-rank high-tier to fifth-rank low-tier.

With his power surging, Xu Jingming immediately headed to the next location to continue his killing...

On July 26th, over a month later, at 11 a. .

A six-member Ability user squad was rapidly sprinting through the urban ruins of the No. 4 Demon Cave.

They wore uniform black combat suits, each bearing on the back a massive Eastern dragon emblem.

They appeared young, all under thirty, yet each member's strength reached sixth-rank!

On the left chest of each was five glowing pale-yellow five-pointed stars.

Black Dragon Corps!

A powerful military force with official backing from Great Xia!

Within the Corps, besides its vast army of Ability soldiers, there were many elite Ability squads!

These squads were ranked from one-star to seven-star, totaling seven tiers.

The five-star emblem on their chests meant they were among the most formidable five-star squads even within the Black Dragon Corps.

'Boss, we just got back from Senbai Gorge—why are we being sent out again? What's the mission this time?'

One slightly short member of the squad complained.

Since the peace treaty between beasts and humans decades ago, large-scale wars had ceased.

But small-scale conflicts continued without end.

Senbai Gorge was a frontline battlefield in Great Xia, directly facing beast horde assaults.

The daily combat intensity was terrifying!

Having just returned from there, they naturally wanted rest—but now they'd been assigned another mission.

'This mission is simple.'

The squad leader smiled. 'A mysterious lightning-element user has appeared in the No. 4 Demon Cave.

In just one month, he has completely wiped out all beasts in three urban ruins.

According to the latest intel, he's currently at Hengyang Ruins.

We just need to go capture him.'

'Wiped out three urban ruins in a month? He must be a sixth-rank Ability user!'

A tall, thin youth snorted. 'Great Xia has long banned sixth-rank and above Ability users from indiscriminately slaughtering low-rank beasts in any wilderness or demon cave. Yet someone still dares to break it!'

Great Xia's wilderness areas were numerous, some even harboring terrifying eighth-rank peak beasts!

But for Great Xia, which possessed over a dozen ninth-rank masters, that was nothing.

A single ninth-rank could easily erase these wilderness areas from Great Xia's map in a few months.

They hadn't done so because they needed to preserve these zones as training grounds for low-rank Ability users.

Only through such life-or-death trials could enough strong warriors emerge.

High-rank Ability users needed beast materials—killing beasts of their own rank was acceptable, no one would question it.

But if a high-rank Ability user wiped out all the low-rank beasts, what would the low-rank users kill?

Thus, Great Xia's high command had issued explicit bans to prevent this exact scenario.

'Slaughtering low-rank beasts carries no life risk and yields money faster than printing it—hardly surprising that some high-rank users risk it every year.'

'Let's go. Move fast. Capture him quickly, and we can return to rest sooner.'

Slaughtering low-tier ferocious beasts carries no life risk whatsoever and yields money at an astonishing rate—it's no exaggeration to call it a money-printing machine!

The rest nodded and sped up, racing toward Hengyang Ruins.

PS: I spent the whole day driving on the highway back home and just finished writing—apologies for the delay.

The captain smiled and said.

The remaining members all nodded, speeding up as they rushed toward the Hengyang Ruins.

PS: I drove on the highway all day to return home and just finished typing this; please forgive me.