Night gave way to dawn.
Early in the morning, Zhang Yue received a lot of information from the guild.
It turned out that Luo Chen, Overlord Blade, Lin Tian, and Wu Haotian had ruthlessly squeezed the Eastern Nation in the Death Territories of the World 15 and World 16.
After all, Zhang Yue went through untold hardships to open the inter-world transnational passage. The original purpose was precisely to suppress the Eastern Nation.
Last night, professionals from Eastern Nation entered the Death Territory of various worlds to seize resources.
But wherever the people from the Dragon Nation's Heavens Hall saw professionals from Eastern Nation, they went straight there.
Killed their people, seized their resources and territories.
Drove them out of the Death Territory.
The people of Heavens Hall possessed unlimited energy.
Top-tier golden equipment + all SS-level skills, each with overwhelming strength, one against ten.
Eastern Nation professionals, upon encountering Heavens Hall members, could only be beaten.
They were forced to survive in the cracks.
Or retreat to their own national territories and develop stealthily.
Inside the national territories, it was absolutely safe, but the resources obtained were limited. In the long run, it would definitely lead to the overall decline of the nation's strength and status.
After logging into the World 17, Zhang Yue, carrying the hidden quest [Source of Magic], once again stepped into the Death Territory.
Today's quest was to collect 500 Tier-5 magic stones.
In the Death Territory, it shouldn't be hard to accomplish.
Just as Zhang Yue stepped into the Death Territory, suddenly, a system notification fell.
["Ding~ Your friend [Athena] (Bear Nation) has killed the world boss and cleared the World 17!"]
Only if you had added someone as a friend would you receive information about players from other countries clearing a world.
If not for the hidden quest triggered last night, by now Zhang Yue would probably have also killed the world boss and gone to the World 18.
But there was no rush, just one day at most.
He'd finish this hidden quest and enjoy a nice harvest first.
After stepping into the Death Territory and passing through many hidden-level wild area maps, he discovered that most of the maps had already been occupied by professionals from major nations.
Zhang Yue didn't try to seize these territories, because once occupied, the magic stone resources inside were basically already mined.
Even though these maps would refresh their resources over time after being mined, still, only the first wave was the most valuable.
Only by finding completely untouched new maps could one harvest a large number of high-level magic stones.
The more times a map refreshed, the fewer rare resources it would yield.
So Zhang Yue specifically chose brand-new maps that hadn't been mined.
The Death Territory was vast, and since the server merge was only on the second day, these types of maps were not few.
Soon, Zhang Yue found one.
Without another word, he immediately entered the map.
However, when Zhang Yue stepped into this [Magic Forest], he discovered: the resources here seemed to have already been mined.
Logically, in a place like this, one could reach out and obtain high-level magic stones with ease.
But the magical energy here was extremely weak.
Let alone reaching out, even if the Skeleton King stretched out his foot, it would be useless.
Zhang Yue suddenly realized: this place had already been mined.
The surrounding environment was so clean and tidy, and the signs seemed to be a deliberate illusion created by someone.
Zhang Yue's first reaction, 'This is a trap!'
Sure enough, just as Zhang Yue thought that—
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
From all directions, countless sharp arrows shot toward Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue quickly used a Shadow Shift to teleport to the rear and avoid the attack.
The arrows that were supposed to hit Zhang Yue instantly turned the unprepared Skeleton King into a sieve.
Fortunately, the Skeleton King was thick-skinned and tough. After enduring this focused heavy strike, he wasn't killed instantly.
The next moment, a large group of professionals jumped down from the trees all around and surrounded Zhang Yue.
This group of people had appearance traits extremely similar to Dragon Nation citizens.
And they were precisely the Eastern Nation professionals that Zhang Yue was looking for.
All of a sudden, Zhang Yue felt this world was so small.
The sudden prey made him feel a bit excited…
After sweeping a map clean of resources, they'd lie in ambush and wait for other countries' strategy teams to come in, then hunt them down and loot another wave of spoils.
Eastern Nation's actions, despicable and cunning.
But just now, hiding in the trees without clearly seeing who came, they only saw Zhang Yue step alone into the Magic Forest and immediately opened fire.
It wasn't until they surrounded him that they realized: the person they surrounded was actually the newly crowned Dragon Nation's No.1 powerhouse in the national server who nearly wiped out Eastern Nation before—Zero.
"Nani? It's actually him…"
"Run! Brothers, run!!"
With a shout, everyone around scattered like rats seeing a cat, turning and fleeing for their lives.
Zhang Yue casually lifted his staff, "You think you can act cool and then just run? What, you think this is your home?"
Just as he was about to act.
Suddenly, another large group of professionals charged in from outside the forest.
"Your Grandpa Haotian is here! Eastern Nation brats, don't even think about running!"
Clang!
The leading knight, clad in full fire armor, planted his spear into the ground and shook up a blaze of fire that engulfed dozens of Eastern Nation professionals.
Fire Knight, Wu Haotian?
Behind him came Ouyang Ling'er, Lin Tian, Nightless Marquis, and Glory Peerless.
Zhang Yue was a little surprised.
He didn't expect that they, without saying a word, would come this quickly and reach the World 17 already.
You should know, even the frontline new professionals of top Dragon Nation guilds like Dragon Clan, Glory, and Dragon Soar were still strategizing the World 15 and World 16 worlds.
But thinking about it, it also made sense.
After all, following behind Zhang Yue, every member of Heavens Hall had unlimited energy.
All-golden equipment, all-SS-level skills, able to farm hidden dungeons freely, and take on all sorts of rare anomaly-energy-activated instances in each world at will.
Their strength and the resources they could obtain were far greater and richer than the people of Dragon Clan or Glory.
So naturally, their Otherworld strategy efficiency was also higher.
"Killing Eastern devils, how could you leave out me, the Knight Owl?"
"Brother Hou, want to see who kills more?"
"Be careful, they've got Death Marks on them!"
The Heavens Hall professionals who arrived numbered more than a hundred.
With a wave of battle cries, they launched a focused attack on the Eastern Nation professionals on the field!
There weren't many Eastern Nation professionals in the Magic Forest, roughly more than three hundred.
Seeing the Dragon Nation professionals counterattack, they took a do-or-die attitude and quickly activated their Death Marks.
"Kill these Dragon Nation pigs!"
"Long live the Great Eastern Nation Empire!"
By activating the Death Mark's effect, they also launched a counterattack.
The professionals from both sides engaged in fierce combat.
Legendary-grade Sword Emperor Luo Chen, Epic-grade Martial Saint Overlord Blade.
Just these two vice guild leaders alone could sweep through entire armies.
Not to mention every member of Heavens Hall had strength equivalent to fighting ten at once.
Zhang Yue didn't even need to personally act. Just relying on this group from the guild, they easily annihilated the professionals from Eastern Nation.
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