Chapter 347 – Rating: Unique

“Your unit ‘Uta’ annihilated a hundred-meter flesh amalgamation monster.”

“Your unit ‘Red Robe’ trapped and eliminated 16 third-order and fourth-order intelligent monsters.”

“Your Hero ‘Deadbone’ ambushed and killed 1 Legendary Realm enemy, ambushed and eliminated 30 fourth-order BOSS-level monsters, ambushed and killed…”

“Your Hero ‘Dolai’ destroyed 1 Legendary Realm enemy.”With his Mental Link talent and at least one Hero unit in each squad, Mu Yuan could maintain instant communication regardless of distance or whether they had entered barrier zones or interference zones.”

Each squad gradually achieved some results.

After all, this was merely a Trial Realm, specifically for advancing from Level 4 Lord to Level 5 Lord. Legendary Realm enemies here were practically background decorations. Mu Yuan contemplated that if he couldn’t find a breakthrough solution, perhaps simply killing enough monsters would naturally resolve this crisis?

Taking a step back, even if slaughtering Legendary monsters couldn’t trigger early clearance, eliminating sufficient enemies would drastically reduce the pressure on the Pure White Kingdom.

Mu Yuan prepared two strategies.

The first was naturally to break the rules and clear the trial rapidly.

If that proved impossible, weakening the enemies enough would make “assisting the Pure White Kingdom to persist for 10 days” no longer difficult—perhaps they could coast through the final days.

By then, even if external situations intensified with multiple Legendary Realm invaders, Deadbone and Dolai could withdraw first.

As long as Mu Someone remained inside the Trial Realm, his trial wouldn’t be interrupted or fail.

Moreover, even clearing through the “persist 10 days” method, given their extravagant combat record from relentless slaughter, his trial rating was guaranteed to be high.

This was his optimal dual-purpose plan.

“Boom—”

The dual-headed ogre Legend with a 1600-meter Domain radius knelt before him, glaring fiercely at Mu Yuan. “To possess such combat power without reaching the Legendary Realm… The Pure White Kingdom actually has a prodigy like you… You… must not be allowed to live!”

With his dying breath, the dual-headed ogre Legend let out a roar, seemingly transmitting some message.

In his massive pupils, he seemed to witness this Pure White Kingdom prodigy’s death.

He could rest in peace.

“Thanks for the parting gift, old pal.”

Mu Yuan hadn’t expected this bonus.

He welcomed it—welcomed it eagerly. He’d be delighted to encounter more Legendary monsters.

When Deadbone and Dolai slew Legendary monsters, none had transmitted messages before death. Of course, they eliminated them too quickly for any final tricks.

Given their demonstrated power, if Legendary monsters could send messages, it would more likely be: “Don’t look back! Run!”

“Huff—”

Mu Yuan gasped for breath.

The peacefully departed ogre Legend’s massive body rapidly decayed, dissolving into wisps of smoke in the wind.

This was the effect of Desolate Kingbone.Mu Yuan’s borrowed power was limited. Forcing Legendary Realm strength while still in the mortal realm came with great inconveniences, with his power being discounted again and again. Even so, the Desolate power he currently possessed was stronger than Deadbone’s peak Fourth Order period.

Mu Yuan employed similar tactics, taking advantage of the ogre legend’s attack and insufficient vigilance to wound it with the Desolate Kingbone.

This strike output a massive amount of Desolate power, originally enough to kill the unprepared ogre legend. However, this two-headed ogre seemed to possess two lives, forcibly preserving one at the cost of one head decaying.

After that, it became Mu Yuan chasing and the ogre legend fleeing, but there was no escape.

Under the pincer attack from him and Xiliu, this Legendary Realm monster perished in the Wilderness.

The entire process wasn’t easy.

During the ogre’s death throes explosion, he suffered considerable injuries. The main tank Xiliu had her scales shattered all over, looking utterly miserable. Laney was nearby healing both of them.

“As expected of a Legendary Realm existence, simply… terrifying to this extent…”

Mu Yuan expressed lingering fear.

His decision to act this time was also with an experimental attitude. He would be advancing to Legendary soon anyway – before entering the Legendary Realm, he had to experience what it was like to slay a legend with mortal capabilities.

His first experience was that it was very difficult.

Legends were too strong and too hard to kill. If he hadn’t gotten close enough initially, he wouldn’t have had the ability to keep a Legendary Realm being here.

And the two-headed ogre was just a combat unit-level Legendary Realm at that.

“Next, perhaps other monster legends will come looking, which is somewhat beyond my ability to handle.”

So Mu Yuan checked the positions of various squads and moved closer to where Deadbone was located.

…

Night fell.

Within the Capital of Pure White Kingdom, Golden Lion Prince and others were still running around everywhere.

Leaving the city, executing missions, entering the city, exchanging intelligence.

And trying every means to request audiences with various legends, making themselves familiar, building relationships.

Their own nine commanders were also divided into one to three squads, going out to execute some missions they had the ability to complete with relatively low risk.

Even so…

“I’ve already lost one commander, with three others severely injured.”

“Haha, I’ve had it worse – one squad was completely wiped out.”

“Catwoman almost died, I heard? They say she was swallowed by a flesh tentacle monster, and when her commanders rescued her, she was soaked in blood water with vacant eyes?”

Catwoman might not recover for days.

Cooperative lords directly -1!

Glasses Man, Magician and others were somewhat questioning their life choices.

Was this reasonable?

Each of them was among the top students among their peers. During the novice trial period, they could at least rank in the top three of the regional gold list, some even first.

Their troop combat power, especially their commander units’ strength, surpassed that of many veteran lords.

Before entering the Trial Realm, they hadn’t felt particularly tense, thinking it was just a routine trial mission. Surely no excellent lord would actually fail the promotion trial, right?

But now it seemed there really was, and that person was themselves.

Judging by the current situation, their trial was in danger, even though among the trial-takers there was someone like Golden Lion Prince – an ultra-top-tier second generation.

“Is this the terror of historical trials?”

“Fortunately, this is just a trial, and not reality.”Glasses Man murmured, which was the root of why he could still remain calm.

After all, this was just a trial.

If they had truly transmigrated back to the old era, facing the approaching Filth and monster hordes like the Pure White Kingdom did, how despairing would that be?

Now, even if they failed, they wouldn’t truly die, and the price of the trial admission ticket was something they could afford.

Trying once more, as long as they entered an ordinary trial, Glasses Man, Magician, and the others still had sufficient confidence.

They would still give their all to attempt to clear the trial, but if they failed… then so be it.

They would feel regret, lament their misfortune, but wouldn’t be overly unwilling.

However, the Golden Lion Prince was unwilling—he would absolutely not give up.

“This opportunity is the only one!”

He didn’t care about the 500 Soul Crystal admission fee; such a small amount wasn’t even enough for one or two of his daily meals.

But the chance to enter a historical trial likely existed only this once.

If he missed it, he could only go through the motions in an ordinary trial.

He refused to accept failure, refused to remain an insignificant titled prince.

This was his chance to change his fate! Even if he could be chosen to enter the historical trial, didn’t that mean destiny favored him?

“To obtain the highest reward in the historical trial, first, one must rank first among the trial Lords, but that alone is far from enough…”

After all, someone always takes first place.

Being first among the mediocre is still first.

“In addition, one must have contributions surpassing the mission objectives, which could also be called completing ‘hidden tasks.’ Only by combining both can one receive the highest reward from heaven and earth.”

The Golden Lion Prince possessed a wealth of information.

He thought frantically, making judgments by combining various historical trial cases.

“This historical trial’s difficulty is extremely unreasonable, so there must be some key point we haven’t discovered.”

Their strategy approach was unlikely to be wrong.

He noted the fact that ‘the Pure White Kingdom was sealed.’ To clear the trial by meeting hidden conditions, they probably needed to identify the key nodes of the sealing ritual and request the assistance of the Pure White Kingdom’s Legendary Realm experts to jointly destroy the nodes.

The Golden Lion Prince could even guess which types of blood sacrifice methods the monster forces used to enact the heavenly and earthly seal.

The strategy chain wasn’t flawed.

But they must, must, must have overlooked something.

Suddenly,

the Golden Lion Prince received a message. He had planted informants in the hall where emergency missions were issued and several other intelligence sources.

They were informants he had brainwashed using special means.

Glasses Man had made similar arrangements.

Both men’s expressions shifted slightly at the same time, showing surprise mixed with joy.

“The monster horde’s assault has been halted, and it seems many high-tier monsters have been slain. Even one or two Legendary Realm monsters might have fallen? Hiss—”

“From the looks of it, a mysterious powerhouse has intervened. Are they reinforcements from the Holy Radiance Empire?”

“I knew it—the trial couldn’t be too outrageous. This makes sense now, though we advanced too quickly in our strategy and suffered significant losses because of it. Regardless, clearing the trial, achieving a perfect clear, is now within reach.”

Watching the excited group, the Lord shrouded in massive silver armor hesitated, ultimately keeping her speculation to herself.

She… her subordinate had glimpsed from afar the shattering of space and the Blue-haired Girl annihilating a Legendary Realm being.She thought that perhaps, possibly, probably… there had never been any mysterious powerful reinforcements, only unreasonable trial-takers.

If the difficulty of this trial was arranged according to their overall strength, then their constant setbacks made perfect sense.

……

Deep in the wilderness, in a place already devoid of human traces.

Mu Yuan, Deadbone, and their group traveled through it.

They had ambushed and killed two Legendary Realm beings using the ‘Mu Yuan Bait’ tactic, but that was the extent of it.

Legendary monsters were not fools; they wouldn’t come one after another to be slaughtered.

The enemies didn’t even attempt to call for reinforcements or surround them. Instead, they lay low, plotting other schemes.

Mu Yuan had no choice but to take the initiative.

Through ambushing enemies, using Illusion to search souls, and other methods, he employed simple, crude, yet highly efficient means to quickly piece together fragmented intelligence.

After all, when it came to intelligence, what could be simpler and more direct than extracting it from Legendary Realm monsters?

Mu Yuan loaded the Dolai and Red Robe templates, attacking with Red Robe’s abilities.

This alone was not enough.

But the Legendary Realm being before them was already on the verge of death, eroded by the power of decay. Nearby, Deadbone used ‘King’s Authority’ to shatter the monster’s Willpower Light, breaking down the enemy’s last resistance ability.

Searching the soul and reading memories became effortless.

Even though the scenes he extracted were fragmented and chaotic, they were enough to uncover some highly valuable intelligence.

Half an hour later, Mu Yuan arrived at the mouth of a deep valley shrouded in Crimson Mist.

The place looked ominous and dangerous at a glance.

Yet they hesitated not in the slightest, charging straight in as if possessed by Bone Two’s recklessness.

“Jiejiejiejie—”

The Undead Holy Mountain manifested, countless undead creatures pouring out from its slopes, and over twenty Bone Dragons took to the skies.

Deadbone stood atop a half-step Legendary Realm Bone Dragon, flamboyant and far removed from his usual cautious demeanor.

After all…

In reality, Deadbone was completely unwilling to use undead creatures in battle. These were resources he had painstakingly cultivated—losing even one meant one less. Even with resurrection abilities, he couldn’t revive thousands of fallen units in a short time.

Thus, in reality, Deadbone was meticulous, never allowing even a single Little Skeleton to fall in battle.

He never dared to use the Undead Holy Mountain to its full extent.

But in the trial space, he could.

Here, no matter how many undead creatures were lost, it wouldn’t affect reality.

He could experience the thrill of overwhelming force without caution or constant calculation.

Of course, after indulging in this pleasure, he would have to reflect on all the imprudences in this process and examine himself thrice upon returning to reality.

Black mist spread.

The undead within the mist surged forth, forming a black tide that tore through the enemies blocking their path with even greater ferocity than the monsters themselves.

Three hundred-meter-tall Flesh amalgamation monsters rose from the ground.

They fell.

Three monstrous Legendary beings brimming with killing intent charged forth fiercely.

They fell.

The surrounding space began to shatter.

The crimson barrier broke apart, revealing a blood-red Altar standing at the deepest part of the valley.Around the altar, countless human bones were piled high, and at its core, an exceptionally large Root of Filth grew out, piercing toward the clouds like a heavenly vine. Yet before the barrier shattered, they had failed to notice this strikingly conspicuous Filth Heavenly Vine.

“This place must be one of the key nodes of some ritual or the world’s barrier.”

If following the normal procedure, trial lords might need to continuously search for traces, investigate clues, and after gathering sufficient evidence, use it to summon the legends of the Pure White Kingdom to assist them in destroying this node.

Mu Yuan declared to skip it all, everything could be skipped.

A few minutes later, the Filth Vine turned to ashes under the purifying radiance.

No treasure rewards appeared, but a world prompt echoed in Mu Yuan’s ears.

「Prompt: You have obtained a major clue. Current world lockdown lifted: 1/3.”

……

“Prompt: A trial lord has broken the world’s seal.” Other trial-takers, please continue your efforts.」

In the capital, hearing the sudden prompt in their ears, the Golden Lion Prince and the other three were all stunned.

They looked at each other in disbelief.

Among the six trial lords, four were present, and the Catwoman lord was already severely injured, so…

Who wasn’t one of them?

……

Even without this rule prompt, Mu Yuan had extracted this information from the monster’s Legendary Realm memories.

There were three Filth Altars.

He couldn’t obtain the exact locations of the other two through soul reading.

However, from fragmented memory images, he roughly pinpointed their general locations.

The rest was just to continue charging ahead.

He and Deadbone formed one team.

Uta and the others joined up with Dolai.

Mu Yuan loaded the Isloria template and, through fate weaving, tracked traces from some Fourth Order monsters, subsequently finding the location.

Dolai was straightforward and brutal—it blasted its way through and luckily hit the invisible barrier.

In just three hours, before the hidden monster forces could make other arrangements, the other two world sealing altars were successively destroyed.

“Bang~!”

A sound like shattering glass seemed to echo in their ears.

Before them, a blood-mist-filled world faintly appeared.

Within this world, only two majestic figures stood.

One was several thousand meters tall, with a serpent tail reaching to the heavens and earth.

「Serpent-Man God」

The other had a small body but spread white wings several thousand meters long.

「Pure White God」

The blurred figure enveloped by the wings suddenly turned its gaze toward Mu Yuan.

Their eyes met.

Crack—

Space shattered.

……

「Ding!”Prompt: As you have broken the three world seals, the Pure White God has been freed, and the crisis of the Pure White Kingdom has been resolved.” The trial ends early.」

…

「Prompt: You have completed the promotion trial. Trial rating: Unique」

(End of chapter)