Chapter 384 - 170: Speedrunning the Game World! Obtaining an Unparalleled Reward
Then, it pierced straight through the Ant Queen’s massive head.
BOOM!
The beam of light, its momentum unchecked, continued onward and carved another tunnel through the ceiling to the surface...
[Ding!]
[You have killed the strongest being of the Sixth Ring world—the Black-haired Ant Queen!]
[Ding! Reward obtained—Ant Power God x1.]
[Ding!]
[Please open the Celestial Gate as soon as possible and enter the next Game World!]
[Ding!]
[Experience Bar detected as unlocked. 1,000,000,000 experience gained!]
As the unstoppable beam of light shot out and annihilated the massive Ant Queen, everyone’s personal panels opened once again, and lines of text began to scroll across them.
BOOM!
With the Ant Queen slain, the Scorpions, giant snakes, and massive, several-meter-long Centipedes under its Command all turned in terror and fled for their lives. However, the various ants swarming out of the burning nest seemed to have gone Bloodthirsty, screeching as they charged forward with reckless abandon.
BOOM!
Ignoring the chaotic battlefield, Shen Fei used the Detection Tower to spot a cylindrical object with a health bar that had appeared beneath the Ant Queen’s corpse. Without a word, he fired another Cluster Attack!
[Ding!]
[Key item of the Sixth Ring Game World has been destroyed!]
[Ding!]
[Sixth Ring of the mandatory Heaven-Opening Gate mission is complete!]
[Ding!]
[Randomly entering the Seventh Ring mission Game World!]
Another attack was fired. Then, the entire world suddenly trembled. Before Shen Fei and the others’ eyes, the hundreds-of-meters-thick layer of earth above them was ripped away. A massive amount of sunlight instantly flooded into the subterranean space, which spanned over a thousand square kilometers.
TSSSS! TSSSS!
The intense sunlight blasted down, instantly scorching most of the creatures who had lived in the underground space for who knows how long.
CRACK!
As the creatures were rapidly scorched, the sky of the sunlit world above—a world of birdsong and fragrant flowers—cracked open once more.
WHOOSH!
The Ant Kingdom Game World was now also linked to other Game Worlds.
And after the two Game Worlds were connected, Shen Fei and the others found their vision blurring as they reappeared in a new environment. A moment ago, they were in a pitch-black underground space. Now, with the mission notifications still on their panels, they had already appeared in another new Game World.
The Seventh Ring of the mandatory mission had begun! The previous ring, the Sixth Ring, had taken the mission team twenty minutes...
"Old Zhao!"
"Find someone!"
"Young Master Void! Quickly, tell us if you recognize this Game World!"
Having figured out the mission’s pattern from the Sixth Ring, Shen Fei immediately began issuing orders the moment they landed in the new Game World. To complete the mandatory Heaven-Opening Gate mission as fast as possible, they had to fight for every second. The Sixth Ring had been Shen Fei’s first full participation in the mission, so it had an element of testing things out.
Now, with the 20-minute test run over, Shen Fei was done with experimenting. He wanted speed. He wanted efficiency. He wanted to fight his way to the eighteenth ring’s Game World as quickly as possible.
"Understood!"
"Understood!"
Shen Fei took charge without hesitation, and the others, unsurprised, immediately carried out his commands.
Soon, the group in the Seventh Ring Game World began their work with a clear division of labor. Zhao Li, with his long-range Divine Sense Detection, was responsible for scouting the entire world, coordinating with Young Master Void to see if they could recognize the name of the game and quickly deduce the identity of the strongest being in this Game World.
As for Huang Yi, who possessed a Defense Tower of the same origin as Shen Fei’s, his job was to use his own tower to buff Shen Fei’s, assisting him when necessary.
Father Shen, the original captain of the five-person team, was tasked with setting up his chessboard to establish defenses and provide security for the group.
The last member, Succubus’s Tear, who had inherited a Succubus bloodline, had a mission... which was to have no mission! The team composition was so well-balanced that there was nothing more for her to do. All she could do was provide support to the others when she had a free moment, or just cheer them on by spamming "666"...
WHOOSH!
WHOOSH!
WHOOSH!
After one test run, the team, now officially in speedrun mode, quickly began to operate with high efficiency.
Meanwhile, Shen Fei, who had summoned his Defense Tower and was preparing to unleash his strongest attack at a moment’s notice, observed his surroundings. He opened his inventory and looked at the new item he had obtained:
[Ant Power God: Special Potion. Upon use, increases the target’s size, endurance, and strength. The enhancement multiplier can be freely selected from 2x to 20,000x. Duration: 30 minutes...]
Shen Fei examined the item he had received for clearing the Sixth Ring. After killing the Ant Queen, he had been rewarded with this thing called [Ant Power God]. The power of this item was no less than the Resurrection Peach he had acquired earlier. Its enhancement ratio could be freely chosen, and what’s more, the maximum multiplier was a staggering 20,000x. Plus, there were no restrictions limiting its use to a Secret Realm.
An item like this left Shen Fei very satisfied. Although the item had its limitations—a 30-minute duration and a cooldown allowing only one use per six hours—it was still an incredibly powerful item.
Shen Fei understood that players who inherited their abilities from role-playing games would have an insatiable craving for an item like [Ant Power God]. This was especially true for players who had inherited defensive Close Combat abilities, like Warriors or Knights.
The Ninth World’s resources have just gotten another major boost!