Chapter 147: Removing the Hidden Top Rank

It lives up to its name as a training ground.

The number of small monsters is large.

Su Sheng roughly understood that the core difficulty of this dungeon might not be the monsters themselves.

With only over 400 attack and defense, these newcomers' stats are pretty weak; even a normally equipped level‑30 knight could easily withstand them.

At first, Su Sheng was a bit puzzled.

Now I know…

The real difficulty should be the time limit.

The monsters, there are too many.

With a four‑hour limit, an ordinary knight can easily hold out, but definitely lacks that much attack.

Also, it's fortunate that Su Sheng and Li Wenwan are here this time.

The output is really not bad.

Besides, although Lin Huan is just a regular archer, Su Sheng has supplied Huakai with plenty of gear lately, including many good archer equipment.

So, Lin Huan's gear is not necessarily inferior to that of the chairmen of the top ten guilds, and may even be more luxurious.

With the gear's boost, Lin Huan's output is also not bad.

As for Chen Guan, needless to say, he is a renowned great assassin, with skill and gear up to standard.

Plus a logistics supporter, Huang Mingxin.

The five of them clear monsters quickly as well.

For these numerous monsters, under the time limit, they may be a difficulty for others.

But for Su Sheng's party, it's practically a boon.

More monsters mean more experience and more gear.

Swish~

A flash of golden light.

Level 33!

Su Sheng leveled up first.

After submitting Demon Suppression III, Su Sheng's experience was already near the threshold.

At the same time, upon logging in today, Su Sheng immediately disabled the hide function on the level ranking list.

Top Rank,

Nickname: Mo Wen Qianchen

Level: 33

Class: Lion Tooth Knight

"Holy crap, Mo Wen the god is level 33."

"Siege battle rewards, plus contribution list rewards—you didn't notice? In the siege battle, Mo Wen should be the only melee player who didn't die."

"Huh? When did Mo Wen the god unhide? I didn't even notice."

"Indeed, although everyone knows Top Rank is surely Mo Wen the god, not hiding it directly is surprising."

"I suspect Mo Wen the god probably wants to do something."

"I'm just curious—what exactly is this Lion Tooth Knight?"

While Su Sheng leveled up, outside players looked at the ranking list and chatted incessantly.

…

"Looks like we're out of luck with this Founding Alliance Token." Shen Wang naturally also noticed the change in the level ranking list.

The level‑33 Top Rank left the level‑29 second‑place Shen Wang far behind, after all, Shen Wang's town didn't experience a siege.

Proper leveling speed is no longer slow.

Further down are Crimson Rose and Jasmine Tale, the nicknames of Lin Huan and Huang Mingxin respectively,

Dawn Chairman and Twelve‑winged Angel have been pushed down to fifth.

"I'm also quite surprised—this time he came back and actually plans to start his own guild." Li Xiao shrugged.

Others don't know the details, but they know Su Sheng holds a Founding Alliance Token.

And Su Sheng suddenly unhidden, undoubtedly releasing a signal.

He needs reputation!

Knowing it's him, putting it out openly is not the same thing.

And why does he need reputation?

To build a guild!

"I guess then we'll have another strong opponent."

Shen Wang said with some feeling.

"It's not a big problem; in the short term, our development direction doesn't clash with his."

Li Xiao answered with a smile.

The town where Su Sheng is located is Wutong Town, subordinate to Zhuque City.

And the location of Hanyu is a town subordinate to Qinglong City.

Qinglong, Zhuque, Xuanwu, Baihu—these are the four main cities.

Hanyu will surely go to Qinglong City; even if Su Sheng builds a guild, it should also be in Zhuque City.

Probably only when they reach the final main city will their two guilds intersect.

But that final main city is already a matter after level 80.

Level 80, who knows when it'll be the year of the monkey and month of the horse?

According to the reference experience of 《Heroes》, reaching level 80 takes about half a year; at a slow speed, even a year might not be enough to reach it, so rushing to level for advantage is only this early period; in the mid-to-late game, leveling up one level is too hard—if you're not careful and die once, ten days to half a month of effort goes to waste.

On Su Sheng's side, even though Su Sheng and Li Wenwan's output is relatively high, but AOE skills are relatively few, so we can only clear them one by one, and it took nearly an hour and a half to clear the first batch of demon recruits.

However, the gains are also quite substantial.

Even Chen Guan, whose level is relatively low, was almost ready to level up; in the Assassin Alliance's siege, including Chen Guan, everyone died once, although later rewards gave back a level, Chen Guan's level is still only 27.

Now, what lies before everyone is the first dungeon boss!

Demon soldiers. Centurion (Normal BOSS)

Level: 35

Attack: 700

Defense: 800

HP: 400000

Skills: Swing Blade, Split Earth, Deploy New Soldiers Formation

Description: omitted

Centurion, among the earlier new soldiers were mixed some squad leaders and team leaders, etc., elite monsters.

I didn't expect the centurion to be a mini boss.

The stats can be said to be decent, but he ran into a monster squad.

If nothing unexpected happens, at this point Su Sheng's team can almost be said to represent the highest level of team at this stage.

They didn't even bother to study the mechanics, just steamrolled through; even when the ultimate ability summoned 20 demon recruits, everyone easily crushed them.

It took less than 20 minutes to easily push through this boss.

Three pieces of equipment dropped.

Centurion's soft armor, leather armor (blue)

Defense: 120

Bonus: Agility +60

Bonus: Strength +40

Level: 35

Description: omitted

This can be considered the only blue equipment with relatively decent stats.

A level 35 blue leather armor; leather armor's defense is relatively low, but the added agility and strength are quite good.

Huan Jie and Chen Guan can both use it; Su Sheng let the two of them decide the distribution themselves.

As for the remaining two green equipment, their stats are also okay, so we kept them.

Immediately after, we continued advancing.

The upcoming small monsters are all level 35; demon race throwing recruits, a bunch of ranged monsters—it's not hard to see that they are basically the basic form of those earlier normal demon soldiers.

High attack, low defense; their numbers aren't as many as at the start; high-attack ranged monsters—if it were others, they'd have to be extremely careful not to make a mistake.

But because of Su Sheng's abnormal stats, this is completely not a worry; they likewise cannot break Su Sheng's defense.

Everyone clearing them actually ended up faster than at the beginning.

This time, in less than 40 minutes, we saw the second boss.

Indeed.

Demon soldiers. Chiliarch

A level 39 normal boss—it didn't take much effort; roughly just over 20 minutes we easily pushed through it.

By now, the dungeon's time limit still has about an hour and a half left.