After equipping the Frozen Set, Cherry's data strength increased by a huge margin.
The combination of Radiant · Immortal Physique + Infinity · Blizzard destined Cherry to become Zhang Yue's strongest "killing machine".
The previous Soul Hunter Set, although it had the trait [Restores 5% of max mana with each enemy killed], which was very helpful for Cherry who had high mana consumption, but the Frozen Set's trait was in no way inferior to the Soul Hunter Set.
[Set Skill – Frozen: Passive. All of the wearer's ice-type skill damage +700%, and when successfully killing an enemy with an ice-type skill, 80% of the mana consumed by that skill is refunded.]
The mana recovery may not be as fierce as the Soul Hunter, but since the original skill only consumes 50%, reducing another 80% on that basis means Cherry's total mana consumption for all ice-type skills is only 10%.
As for [Soul Hunter], this skill is a divine skill for Zhang Yue who depends on skills to fight.
So before discarding the Soul Hunter Set, Zhang Yue transplanted the Soul Hunter skill into the seventh skill slot of the Transcendent Set, squeezing out all its value.
The 17-star Soul Hunter, fused into the 21-star Transcendent Set, saw a huge effect boost.
[Soul Hunter: Each time the skill holder kills an enemy, they restore 12% of their max mana.]
[Special Effect: When mana is full, the restored mana stacks, up to a maximum of 12 times the mana cap. The excess amount: every 1% can be converted into 1% skill damage increase.]
It's similar to Void Shield's effect, except one steals HP and one steals mana.
Both can stack.
With this Soul Hunter skill, Zhang Yue basically no longer has to worry about mana consumption.
At 12x stacked mana cap, it even grants 1200% skill damage boost.
'Nice, super strong.'
In addition to Blizzard and the Frozen Set, the Ice-Sealed War God also dropped a lot of top-tier materials, premium potions, tons of gold, and other priceless loot.
This wave was a huge harvest.
At this moment, Night Owl looked excitedly toward the Ghost Tower ahead and said to Zhang Yue, "Boss, the Ghost Tower's clear rewards should be amazing, right?"
"This is a super rare map that no one has entered for over a hundred years," Ouyang Linger chimed in, "Top-tier rewards are a given. Myth-grade treasures and forbidden spell skills are totally possible, right?"
With those words, everyone turned their eyes full of expectation and curiosity toward Zhang Yue.
Indeed, as the final boss of the Ghost Tower map, after killing the Ice-Sealed War God, Zhang Yue also cleared the entire Ghost Tower.
But in reality, even Zhang Yue himself found it hard to believe that, "There's no reward."
"What? No reward?", Everyone around expressed disbelief, "How could there be no clear reward?"
You know, from the first to the ninth floor of the Ghost Tower, Zhang Yue received extremely generous rewards on each floor, including [Ghost Stones].
The clear reward should only be more generous than the earlier floors. At the very least, it shouldn't be completely absent.
"There's only one truth," Lin Tian suddenly pointed at the Ghost Tower, pushed up his glasses, and said seriously, "The reward is still inside the tower."
Zhang Yue thought the same.
He planned to return to the Ghost Tower to check again.
With the tower broken through, the original restriction that allowed only one entry per person was also lifted.
Not only Zhang Yue, now anyone could freely enter and exit the Ghost Tower, although only through the Dragon Nation side entrance.
However, at this moment, Soul Devourers were still pouring out from inside the Ghost Tower.
To get in, they'd have to clear out this beast tide first.
So, Zhang Yue raised his staff and led his pet team toward the Ghost Tower.
ROAR! ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!
Amid endless howls and roars—
Countless Soul Devourers surged forward in a sky-darkening tide.
"Brothers, come with me and fight the beast tide!"
Under the command of Dark War General Sparta, the army of several hundred thousand professionals from Thracian charged at the beast tide.
At the same time, armies from Bear Nation, and other allied nations also joined the battle.
Led by Zhang Yue, the Thirty-Six-Wing Armageddon Black Dragon took the lead, soaring over the crowd and unleashing a scorching dragon flame over the land.
A massive 90 million+ AOE damage wiped out waves of beast groups.
Cherry, with her skill [Infinity · Blizzard], insta-killed the entire battlefield.
After equipping the Frozen Set, Cherry's damage skyrocketed to 250–300 million, easily killing Soul Devourers that only had 50–60 million HP.
Each kill refreshed her skill cooldown.
Which allowed Blizzard to be cast infinitely.
Each Blizzard could instantly wipe out hundreds of Soul Devourers in one area.
With just the Armageddon Black Dragon and Cherry, half the battlefield was cleared.
Apex Predator and the Ice-Sealed War God were responsible for finishing off the stragglers. Even the armies of the great empires were just supporting cast.
Zhang Yue didn't even need to act personally.
With the pets and allied armies' cooperation, the beast tide was soon crushed.
Zhang Yue then followed the breakthrough path and entered the Ghost Tower.
Starting from the first floor.
There were still some remaining Soul Devourers. But upon seeing Zhang Yue, they all avoided him.
Under the intimidation of the Ice-Sealed War God, they didn't dare approach Zhang Yue at all.
After all, they were the Ice-Sealed War God's minions.
If even the Ice-Sealed War God served Zhang Yue, how could they dare resist the killer of their master?
Zhang Yue advanced unimpeded, from the first floor straight to the tenth.
All around him, corpses were scattered, Soul Devourer remains killed earlier by Zhang Yue, piled up like mountains.
Zhang Yue looked around.
Suddenly, he noticed: a light was glowing from a certain spot ahead.
Thinking back, that was the place where he was once killed by the Ice-Sealed War God Weikano.
So, Zhang Yue headed toward the glowing spot.
As the light grew clearer, finally, a silver-glowing stone appeared in sight.
"Ghost Stone?"
Didn't really look like it.
Zhang Yue walked up and picked up the "stone."
[[Nether Dark Stone] (Special Item): Effect unknown]
"This…", Zhang Yue slightly frowned.
'What's this thing even for?'
'Forget it, better hold on to it for now.'
After all, existence is reasonable.
Just then, a system prompt suddenly descended from above—
["Ding~ Congratulations on successfully clearing [Ghost Tower]. Based on your overall performance score, your final clear rating is: SSS-Rank (Highest)!"]
Upon hearing the prompt, Zhang Yue was overjoyed.
'The ultimate reward, finally coming?'
Just as Zhang Yue thought that, more system prompts followed.
[Ding~ Congratulations, you have received the Ghost Tower SSS-Rank clear reward…]
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