Awoke As A God After Auto Battling For 1000000 Years

Heavenly Fire Scorches the Plains!

Frozen Wasteland!

Thunderclap Roar!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

A series of S-rank skill combos exploded on the Flying Mantis, dealing roughly 15,000 damage per hit.

The 80% suppression effect made Zhang Yue's output drop to just 20% of its full potential.

This feeling... it was truly suffocating.

Even after unleashing several S-rank skills, the Flying Mantis barely felt a scratch.

At this moment, the enraged Flying Mantis charged straight at Zhang Yue.

Zhang Yue countered with an SSS-rank skill: Voidless: God-Slaying Curse, dealing 35,000 damage.

Ever since acquiring the SSS-rank God-Slaying Curse, Zhang Yue had begun to despise his collection of S-rank skills.

That's right. The S-rank skills that 99.999% of the world's job holders—especially older veterans—dreamed of were now nothing more than discarded trash to Zhang Yue.

He was desperate to reach Level 70 and unlock a flood of SS-rank skills.

Under normal conditions, Zhang Yue's combination of three S-rank skills and one SSS-rank skill could obliterate a Level 60 mob without a trace.

But now, the extreme suppression effect left the Flying Mantis's health bar only one-quarter down after all that effort.

Using Phantom Shift, Zhang Yue created distance to avoid the Flying Mantis's Leaf Cutter Attack, then countered with Divine Fire Tribulation, Hell's Judgment, and Necro Storm to chip away its health.

Using AOE skills on a single enemy was definitely wasteful.

This Flying Mantis was living in luxury.

Fortunately, a Beast Tamer's skill cooldowns, like a Mage's, were fairly short—just a few seconds each.

Nine seconds later, Zhang Yue's second God-Slaying Curse brought the Flying Mantis's health down to one-third.

Another nine seconds later, the third God-Slaying Curse hit for 59,000 damage, clearing the Flying Mantis's health bar.

It took half a minute just to deal with one Flying Mantis.

For Zhang Yue, who was used to instantly wiping out waves of monsters with AOE skills, this was frustrating, to say the least.

If not for the SSS-rank Eternal Set, Zhang Yue would've given up long ago.

From that point on, Zhang Yue had to grind solo.

In these conditions, farming groups of mobs was meaningless.

At a rate of one Flying Mantis every half minute, his progress was painfully slow—barely two entries into his codex per minute.

After two hours, Zhang Yue finally managed to gather 250 Flying Mantis Illustrations, adding them to his existing 800 universal Illustrations for a total of 1,050.

Realizing how much this method slowed his progress, Zhang Yue frowned.

Although completing this round of tasks would leave only two more rounds to finish the seven-task chain, requiring just 2,100 Illustrations in total, at this pace, it would take 17.5 hours of nonstop grinding.

What should've been a one- or two-hour task had been dragged out for far too long.

"Unacceptable. This is unbearable!"

Thinking this, Zhang Yue stopped farming and teleported back to Mechanical City with a Return Scroll, carrying his collected Illustrations.

He found the wandering monster merchant, Lord, and submitted his task.

The 14 million experience points from the task, combined with his previously accumulated experience, allowed him to level up his Shadow Predator to Level 60.

Now, only two pieces were missing to complete the Eternal Set.

Zhang Yue turned to Lord and said, "I've got a proposal for you."

Stuffing the Illustrations into his pouch, Lord asked, "What is it?"

"Give me the last two Eternal Equipment Chests now, and I'll collect extra Illustrations for you."

"No way!" Lord immediately refused. "That's like... a human's idea of getting married first and falling in love later. What if you stop loving me someday?"

Both of them—and the surrounding passersby—fell silent.

"Uh, I mean, how can you take the reward before completing the task?"

Zhang Yue insisted, "I'll gather extra Illustrations for you. Twice as much, how about that?"

Lord shook his head. "It's not about the amount. It's about principle."

"Three times."

"Ugh! Why are humans so stubborn? I said it's about principle—"

"Four times."

"Deal!"

At that moment, a passing B-rank monster merchant sneered at Lord, saying, "You're such a pushover."

Lord sighed. "I don't want to be, but the offer was just too good!"

After doing the math, Lord said, "Based on the original 1,050 Illustrations multiplied by four, that's 5,000 Illustrations. Adding the double requirement for two tasks, it comes to 12,000 Illustrations. If I give you the equipment now, you owe me 12,000 Flying Mantis Illustrations."

"Stop doing math next time," Zhang Yue said. "8,400 Illustrations, and I'll deliver them today."

For Zhang Yue, obtaining the SSS-rank Eternal Set early was worth even 10,000 Flying Mantis Illustrations.

Reluctantly, Lord handed over two Eternal Equipment Chests to Zhang Yue.

Now, with all seven chests in hand, Zhang Yue had completed the set.

For the profession selection, Zhang Yue didn't choose the Beast Tamer set.

Instead, he opted for Bowmaster.

That's right—he planned to equip this ultra-rare Level 60 8-star SSS-rank Eternal Set on his Extinction Black Dragon. [T/N: BRUHHHHHH.....]

Zhang Yue himself already had a 7-star Eternal Set.

Switching to the 8-star set would make the 7-star set obsolete. Since a Beast Tamer's pets couldn't wear gear, Zhang Yue decided to use the 7-star set temporarily while giving the 8-star set to the Twenty-Four Winged Extinction Black Dragon. This would increase his combat power and farming efficiency.

Spending 50 million energy, Zhang Yue reforged the Eternal Set to perfect stats, then equipped it on the Twenty-Four Winged Extinction Black Dragon.

The dragon's stats received a massive boost:

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[Twenty-Four Winged Extinction Black Dragon] (Legendary)

Level: 60

Physical Attack: 16,780

Physical Defense: 6,800

Magic Defense: 6,500

HP: 137,000

MP: 32,500

Skills: Apocalypse Dragon Flame (S-rank), Apocalypse Dragon Breath (S-rank), Apocalypse Dragon Roar (S-rank), Apocalypse Dragon Burst (S-rank)...

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The stats showed that the Twenty-Four Winged Extinction Black Dragon now surpassed Zhang Yue in every way.

The 8-star Eternal Set's attributes were far superior to Zhang Yue's 7-star set, with a 1.7x multiplier compared to standard 8-star gear.

The set bonuses were incredible:

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1-piece bonus: +100% damage

2-piece bonus: +100% attack speed

3-piece bonus: +80% movement speed

4-piece bonus: +80% armor penetration

5-piece bonus: +100% physical attack

6-piece bonus: +100% MP

7-piece bonus: +50% critical hit rate

Set skill: SSS-rank Anti-Suppression (Reduces monster suppression effects by 150% in the Ninth World)

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It was hard to imagine the Twenty-Four Winged Extinction Black Dragon's current destructive power.

It was certain, however, that its damage output now far exceeded Zhang Yue's—and not just by a little.

At 10 a.m., Zhang Yue immediately headed to the Wodemar Plains to continue farming Flying Mantis Illustrations.

Meanwhile, outside Mechanical City, the Imperial Guild began a carpet search for Zhang Yue's whereabouts…

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