Chapter 122
Chapter 122 Two Billion Monsters
Nighthowl blinked.
In that instant, every sea monster that showed its head was sliced apart, as if space itself cut them in half. Their bodies broke, turning the black seawater red.
In seconds, hundreds of thousands of sea monsters that could be seen were all dead.
The Star Domain’s leaderboard updated right away.
“First Place: Joanna Lane. Points: 1,238 p>
Most of the students inside the city didn’t see any monsters.
But some students near the edge of the city were hit by a terrifying tsunami.
Millions of tons of water crushed buildings. People were swept into the flood. Before they could even start fighting, sea monsters hidden in the water swallowed them whole. They turned into white light and were teleported out.
Those contestants probably only knew how scary monsters were. They had no idea how lethal natural disasters could be. If your stats weren’t high enough, the tsunami just wiped you out.
In an instant, over 100,000 students were gone.
Remaining students: 4.98 million.
As the water poured into the city streets, it turned into a muddy mess.
There were fewer sea monsters in the water than expected.
Their vision didn’t reach far enough.
They couldn’t see the massive moon in the sky, using spatial power to slice the monsters apart.
They also didn’t see the small, blazing sun circling Wilford, moving at terrifying speed and shining brightly.
That was Alwyn.
Alwyn used Lightspeed Leap and Gamma Ray to patrol above the sea, killing every sea monster that dared to surface.
The sea monsters were pouring into the city, but not faster than Nighthowl and Alwyn could kill them.
1/3.
The monsters that actually made it into the city were just the ones that slipped through.
Joanna’s score now depended entirely on how many monsters the public dungeon spawned.
At the same time…
In the Space Alliance’s high-level meeting room, the real top leaders were discussing this interstellar trial.
“Twenty hours. Two billion monsters. That’s 100 million an hour. Isn’t that too intense p>
“When has it ever not been intense? Every year, new geniuses show up. We keep expanding into new parallel universes, and we get more resources each year. Last year’s limit isn’t this year’s limit. High intensity is normal p>
“We’ll see if all these parallel universes can give us some surprises. The pressure from above is huge. Exploring high-level dimensions is dangerous work p>
“Yeah. Many powerful cosmic races don’t play fair at all. Humans are still too weak p>
“This year alone, we found hundreds of dimensional universes destroyed by ancient evil gods. Even just the aftershocks from those gods wiped out billions of people on a planet. There are probably millions more like that. We don’t have enough people to save them all p>
“We need new blood. We need stronger geniuses. Humanity needs to create its own gods p>
“Let’s hope this batch surprises us p>
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Of course, public dungeons consumed an enormous amount of energy.
So 100 regions were merged into a Star Domain, each one used a different theme, only the monster count was the same.
In the end, only the top 10 scorers were chosen to enter the Divine and Demonic Training Program, where they would be tested again.
Different regions produced different kinds of talent.
Last year, the Chromatic Star region got a poison-type battlefield. The enemies were the Swarm. Weak, but highly toxic. The environment was filled with poisonous fog, and points didn’t come from killing the Swarm, but from finding and destroying poison tanks.
Because of that, detectors, healers and tanks were the ones who came out on top last year.
This was also a way to filter different types of genius.
Obviously, this year, the combined trial was to find the best Damage Dealers.
And it was solo DPS-that was the only way to rack up points.
There were two billion monsters. Split evenly, that was only about 400 monsters per person, worth 4 points each.
But when one person killed a lot more, others got less. With the harsh environment, most people could only focus on staying alive.
Inside the Wilford Tsunami public dungeon.
Half an hour had passed.
Joanna was crushing the leaderboard with 360,000 points.
The other teams’ scores were hard to look at.
The team in second place had only 30 points.
That was only because they had picked a building near the coast and could attack the monsters that slipped through first.
Teams trapped in the city center didn’t get a single monster.
“This won’t work. If this keeps up, we’re definitely ending up at the bottom p>
“That Joanna… Is she an SSS-rank monster or something? How is she killing so many sea monsters p>
“She’s not leaving anything for us p>
“Quick! Buy a boat and head to the outer area p>
“No money? Then swim p>
“At least buy a life jacket p>
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