Chapter 215: Novels Don't Even Dare to Write This!

Upon the Bone Throne.

The Lich King slowly rose to his feet.

The staff embedded with a massive black skull in his hand slammed heavily onto the throne.

Boom!

A wave of deathly pressure instantly swept across the entire field.

Those two undead bone dragons also raised their huge heads, staring fixedly at Lin Mo and his group.

The Lich King looked down from a high position at Lin Mo and the others.

"Foolish, ignorant humans..."

"Since you have come to my domain, hand over your souls... and become my most loyal slaves beneath my seat..."

The Lich King raised his staff high.

Below, Lin Mo frowned slightly.

"So much unnecessary talk."

"Minions, kill it."

Boom—!!

Behind Lin Mo, special effects erupted instantly!

Firelight shot into the sky!

Thunder roared!

Extreme cold raged!

The earth cracked apart!

No probing, no dodging.

The opening move was an ultimate bombardment of firepower!

The soul fire in the Lich King's eye sockets suddenly jumped violently.

It didn't even have time to finish its lines before being completely overwhelmed by this terrifying firepower.

Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom—!!!!

The entire Bone Throne area erupted in a cataclysmic, world-destroying explosion.

Those two undead bone dragons, which looked extremely majestic, didn't even get to spit out a single breath of dragon fire.

The moment they came into contact with the mixed beating of the four elemental skills, their massive skeletons directly shattered and vaporized...

As for the Lich King.

"Aaaah—!!!"

Accompanied by a terribly shrill and brief scream.

Not even a single scrap remained.

【Congratulations, you have successfully slain the final BOSS 'Skeletal Lich King'!】

A dazzling golden light of level-up enveloped Lin Mo.

【Your level has increased!】

【Current Level: Lv. 33 (20%)】

Lin Mo stretched his muscles and bones, the corners of his mouth rising slightly.

Leveled up again.

Awesome!

In the skill bar.

【The 'Fireball' skill, with flames surging all over its body and a face full of disdain, sneered: "Hmph! It's one thing for the third brother to show off, but do you even qualify to show off before me?"】

【The 'Ice Spike' skill, arms crossed, let out a cold laugh: "Tch, just this? You don't even have the qualification to be my Young Lady's minion, so what are you showing off for?"】

【The 'Lightning Strike' skill, with Lei Guang flashing on its body, remained aloof: "Trash."】

【The 'Earth Shield' skill poked out its round head and ranted: "Exactly! What the hell Lich King? Second brother hasn't even had a chance to act and it's already dead!"】

Hearing the skills' remarks.

Lin Mo also smiled.

Showing off in front of my four Elemental Spirits? Isn't that asking for death?

At the same time,

A series of notifications popped up in everyone's panels.

【Congratulations, you have successfully cleared the Team Fuben: Shadow Withered Bone Forest (Hell Difficulty)!】

【Final Clear Time: 59 seconds!】

As soon as the clear time appeared, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

They stared unbelievably at that number on the panel.

"Holy crap! 59 seconds?!"

Wang Dawei's voice even trembled.

Ye Kong also gripped the Tang sword in his hand and swallowed hard.

"This... less than a minute?"

"Crazy..."

Han Mengyao's mouth opened slightly.

This was an unprecedented clear in under a minute!

This was a Hell Difficulty Team Fuben!

……

At the same time.

In a wilderness leveling zone within the highest institution of Ying Country.

This is a forest shrouded in thick fog.

Blades flash and sword lights dart wildly; the roar of skills never ceases in the ears.

The members of Ying Country's strongest genius organization, "Oni-Gumi," are furiously slaughtering each other in the forest, covered head to toe in mud.

Everyone is venting the humiliation and rage in their hearts.

Since the record has been broken.

Then continue working hard to improve skill proficiency, continue working hard to raise levels, and in the War of Ten Thousand Nations, tear Long Xu Ban to shreds!

And at the rear of the squad.

Tiancao Zongyilang appeared extremely distracted.

His gaze remained fixed on his phone screen.

He kept refreshing the school forum.

His thumb frantically swiped down on the screen, refreshing.

Generally, for a Hell-level Team Fuben like this, if there was even the slightest change in the record, it would be rushed up to the forum by someone.

Tiancao Zongyilang stared fixedly at the screen.

Suddenly.

The screen froze for half a second.

Immediately after, a post marked in red entered his field of vision.

【EXPLOSION!!! Our Ying Country's third record has been snatched back by Long Country again! Is the Long Country's Long Xu Ban of this session actually this terrifying?】

The instant he saw this title.

Tiancao Zongyilang's thumb, which was swiping the screen, froze.

"Heh..."

He let out a laugh that was half-cry.

"As expected..."

"It's been broken again..."

In fact.

Before this, even though Long Country had consecutively set records that left people in despair, a sliver of wishful thinking still lingered in his heart.

What if?

What if Long Country really just got incredibly lucky and happened to find loopholes in two Team Fubens in a row?

But now, the third Team Fuben record has been taken again.

Three times is the limit.

Long Country shattered all his illusions in the most ruthless way.

Tiancao Zongyilang clicked into that post.

He wanted to see.

Just how despair-inducing a record Long Country had set this time.

Did they shave off another two minutes?

In an instant, the page finished loading.

A large image was slapped right in front of Tiancao Zongyilang's eyes.

It was a high-definition screenshot of the Team Fuben rift, with a row of completion records hanging prominently on it.

【Completion Time: 59 seconds.】

"..."

The instant he saw this number.

Tiancao Zongyilang was stunned.

He even forgot to breathe.

"59... seconds?"

"No way?"

He suspected he was having a hallucination.

He abruptly ripped off his glasses and rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand.

He put them back on.

Looked again.

It was still, 59 seconds!

"Impossible!!!"

Tiancao Zongyilang let out a cry of shock, causing Yagami Kenichi and others who were killing monsters ahead to turn around in fright.

"What's wrong, Tiancao?"

Yagami Kenichi asked with a frown.

Tiancao Zongyilang ignored his teammate's question.

He just stared fixedly at the screen, his eyes filled with confusion.

"How could it be 59 seconds..."

"How could this possibly be a score a human could achieve!"

"Even if Dragon Nation really produced a dungeon-specialized class, there's no way they could push the record this far, right?"

"Could it be that…"

In Tiancao Zongyilang's mind, the third guess—one he himself found absurd—suddenly leapt up.

The moment the thought arose.

He shook his head hard.

"That's not possible either."

"No matter how strong, how strong could they possibly be?"

"Could he really pull out a high-tier skill at level 30?"

"Even if he really had a high-tier skill, theoretically he couldn't speed-run it in 59 seconds… after all, high-tier skills all have very long cooldowns."

"The final boss's HP is incredibly thick; a single high-tier skill couldn't possibly one-shot it…"

"Unless…"

"Someone in Dragon Nation is holding five or six… or even seven or eight high-tier skills at once? Or, alternatively, several people who know high-tier skills appeared at the same time?"

Thinking to this point.

Tiancao Zongyilang couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh.

"I'm truly crazy, treating high-tier skills like cheap cabbage…"

"Seven or eight high-tier skills? Level 30? Even novels wouldn't dare write it that way, right?"

"Looks like Dragon Nation's dungeon-specialized class might be even more terrifying than I guessed—maybe it could even… directly create dungeon exploits?"

Just at that moment.

"Tiancao?"

Liu Sheng Jianyi sensed something was off, slashed back the monster before him with one strike, and shouted.

"What's wrong? What are you spacing out for!"

Tiancao Zongyilang shuddered all over, snapping back to himself with a jolt.

He took a deep breath, stuffed his phone into his trouser pocket, and forced out a smile.

"N-nothing!"

Tiancao Zongyilang replied:

"The record no longer matters!"

"No matter what underhanded tricks Dragon Nation used, before absolute power, every mechanic is a paper tiger!"

"We have to work twice as hard, push our levels up, push our skill proficiency up, wait for our chance, and tear them apart with our own hands!"

Hearing Tiancao Zongyilang's rallying words.

The fighting spirit in Liu Sheng Jianyi and the others' eyes once again skyrocketed.

"Kill!!!"

In the forest, earth-shaking sounds of slaughter erupted once again.

And Tiancao Zongyilang, though his mouth was shouting loud enough to shake the heavens, his hands were still trembling slightly.

He was afraid.

A fear born of the unknown.