Chapter 246: Shelter Advancement Trial (3)
Soon, with their all-out effort, in less than ten minutes, they cleared all the dark beasts with over 500 million combat power at the north wall!
"We'll leave this place to you. Call us if you encounter any problems," Nash said to the seeded talents assigned to the north wall as they quickly headed straight to the east.
Knowing that every second counted, they didn't have any leisure to pause and check their harvest.
Taking everything they could carry, they quickly rushed off on their way.
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"Huh~ we survived!"
On the way to the east wall, the group heaved a sigh of relief, having removed the major thorn in the dark beast tide.
Without the lord-level dark beast, they should have smooth sailing defence for the time being.
"I didn't expect we could clear it so easily!"
"Haha, not so much. That lord-level dark beast was too cheating!"
"It's indeed different."
During the fight, while Natasha was slowly killing the Demonic Centaur King, it managed to call more mutated dark beasts to besiege them.
Initially, the battle shouldn't have taken so long, but more kept coming as Natasha couldn't quickly finish the Demonic Centaur King.
"It's still a surprise. It seems lord-level dark beasts aren't so strong after all."
"Haha, maybe we can start hunting these dark beasts next!"
"That's right, we've already marked hundreds of lord-level dark beasts. If we don't clear them, once the shelter takes another advancement trial, we might face multiple at once."
"What do you think, leader?"
Realizing the danger of the lord-level dark beasts, they couldn't help but turn to Nash for his opinion.
"Hmm, we'll hunt them after this," Nash nodded, also eager to quickly clear up these dangers.
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Arriving at the east wall, they began another round of battle.
Taking less than three minutes to clear all the stronger dark beasts, they moved on to the next.
From west to south, then north to east, they circled the shelter over and over again, clearing all the dangerous dark beasts that came.
Because the dark beasts charged continuously, even after clearing the first wave, a second wave was already on its way.
Running around the shelter's wall without stopping, clearing all the dark beasts they passed by, the day quickly passed.
Resting in the shelter, they left the remaining enemies to the other 300 seeded talents.
Although they still had abundant energy to fight, the others wouldn't get any training if they hogged all the battles.
Furthermore, finding it too tedious to fight weaker dark beasts, they grew even lazier.
Lying by the fire, they spread out all the harvest from the dark beasts they fought.
From tier 4 perfect weapons, items, and armors, there was even a tier 5 perfect weapon.
"Is this the drop from the Demonic Centaur King?" the group asked curiously.
Perfect quality items weren't just rare and powerful; they could also be processed into runic items!
Although this would weaken the item somewhat, it would become tierless, allowing weaker individuals to wield it.
A tier 5 perfect quality item was so rare that even Natasha and Hobis didn't have a runic weapon of the corresponding tier!
Even Skylar, if not for the Nova Family's foundation, wouldn't wield such an overpowered weapon at that level.
"Hehe, luck~ Now I can have a tier 5 runic weapon too!" Natasha laughed, eyeing the tier 5 blade in her hand.
"Tsk, so that's why you insisted on soloing the lord-level dark beast earlier," Hobis clicked his tongue, feeling dissatisfied.
If he had fought the lord-level dark beast earlier, wouldn't he have had that weapon?
After all, even as a bodyguard serving Skylar, he didn't have a single tier 5 runic item.
"You wish. Tier 5 perfect quality items are too rare, even for a lord-level dark beast. It was my luck that got me this!" Natasha muttered smugly.
"Alright, don't argue. We're a team," Nash interjected before they could fight.
Turning their attention to the other loot, they quickly calmed down.
Although there was only one tier 5 perfect quality item, there were eight tier 4 perfect quality items.
If they were sold without processing, they might only be worth a few trillion nova credits.
However, if turned into runic items, they could be worth tens of trillions of merits!
Earning such a large amount in just one battle made their fighting intent light up like a raging fire.
If not for the occasion, they would have ventured into the depths of the danger zone for another round or two.
"It's really profitable to fight those lord-level dark beasts…"
This wasn't just in terms of loot but also the merits.
Killing the tier 4 lord-level Demonic Centaur King provided them with 7.3 trillion merits, a thousand times more than usual.
If they could kill the hundreds of lord-level dark beasts they had marked before, breaking through to a quadrillion merits and upgrading the shelter to level 4 would be easy.
As for level 5, even Nash wasn't confident they could reach it.
To advance from a level 1 to a level 4 shelter, they only needed to reinforce the shelter and survive the advancement trial.
However, to reach a level 5 shelter, they had to divide the danger zone into a safe hunting zone for future warriors visiting the shelter.
This was usually an easy task that even level 1 or 2 shelters could accomplish.
However, alone in a five-star danger zone without the reinforcement of an army, dividing a designated danger zone was comparable to facing hundreds of lord level dark beasts at once.
Once they circled a line, the dark plane would boil, sending a dark disaster to the area.
A dark disaster would not only bring dense dark energy that could wear them down, but also countless spawns of dark beasts that would tear them down.
Depending on the size of the danger zone they circled and the various clauses they set, a corresponding dark disaster would ensue.
Without walls to defend or defensive forts to hold the line, they would face an endless tide of dark beasts alone.
Knowing they would need to face such a disaster if they wanted to advance further, Nash was already thinking of creating another universal module system to aid the team.
A module system that could sustain their fight, provide enough strength to kill, and fuel their will to endure the never-ending battle.