Treading through the snow and listening to the wind, I arrived late.

Charge, taunt.

The monster slashed him, reducing his health by a quarter.

Caesar also began to erupt.

This time, the elite team members finally witnessed the president's terror firsthand.

A barrage of fireballs rained down on the monster.

Every single one of them was a critical hit, and each one dealt over 10,000 damage!

The monsters, their hatred scattered, charged towards Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi withstood the attack head-on, but his mana was reduced by 20,000.

He used Flash to create distance and continued attacking until the monster finally fell after 5 seconds.

The monster exploded the moment it fell to the ground.

The elite groups within a 50-meter radius were wiped out.

With 29 minutes and 50 seconds left on the countdown, the progress is still 0%, and the elite team has 5 members remaining.

A single small monster almost wiped out the team.

Everyone gasped.

No wonder there's no cooldown limit; with this level of difficulty, how many times can you even attempt it in a day?

Just repairing equipment could bankrupt me.

Only then did they realize how short the 30-minute countdown had been.

Wait, how did it become 21 minutes?

They looked at the affix column and, without realizing it, a second affix had appeared.

[Challenger's Peril: Death will deduct 15 seconds of remaining time.]

Zhou Yi was also surprised.

Isn't this affix only available after level 7?

It seems that the difficulty increases exponentially in the 40-player mode.

He didn't stop to save people, but rushed forward quickly.

Bear Tank uses his ultimate to reduce damage and pull multiple enemies together.

The mobs just deal too much damage, it's impossible to withstand it.

Keep in mind that the Bear Tank currently has a complete epic Scarlet Crusade set, with maxed-out defensive stats.

The mage Caesar had no choice but to help control it.

The whole process took nearly two minutes.

Most of the time is spent on controlling the situation.

The Ascension affix will periodically drop void energy orbs. When the Snowwalker and the Windwalker pull monsters, Caesar must catch the energy orbs.

Otherwise, if the monster catches the energy ball, it will increase its attack power by 10%, and this effect can be stacked!

Zhou Yi frowned.

Does this mean we can only start playing in 5-player mode?

There are less than 19 minutes left, and the progress is only 5%.

The other members of the elite team were already lying on the ground.

It's not that they don't want to help.

Instead, upon resurrection, they will be killed by the explosion of small monsters.

Their existence actually distracts Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi simply had them lie dead.

After a moment's hesitation, he took out his demonic energy storage bag.

"It's time for you to put yourselves to use."

The next second, six pets appeared out of thin air.

One of the giant blue water elements is Glacier Frenzy, level 7.

This pet is powerful, but it's just too hard to level up!

Only Frostbolt and Glacial Surge are offensive skills.

Frostbolt requires a cast time, while Glacial Surge has a 30-second cooldown.

The system where pets gain experience is based on the pet delivering the final blow to the monster.

The other five pets include four Hornfly Nests that are as big as mountains of flesh, and one Spider Guardian, all of which are level 9.

There were originally 5 Horned Fly Mother Nests, but while leveling up in the BOSS House passage, Zhou Yi killed tens of thousands of Spider Demons, and a rare elite spawned.

It's a ranged attack class that hides among monsters and constantly unleashes control skills.

If it weren't for the pet blocking the terrain, he probably would have been controlled to death.

After Zhou Yi escaped, he immediately took control of it and summoned it as his pet.

[Spider Demon Dark Mage: Rare Elite, Current Level 9. Skills: Venom, Poison Nova, Spider Pupa, Liquefaction, Predation, Web Touch (Level 9).]

It has a human body with six eyes and four arms, and its lower body consists of an exaggerated poison sac and six legs.

The emerald green venom sac swelled and bulged, looking rather disgusting.

But anyone who sees its skill descriptions will fall for the "it's actually pretty good" phenomenon.

【Spiderweb Touch: An area-of-effect control skill that controls enemies for 0.5 seconds. It has no cooldown and does not trigger control decay.】

This skill is truly amazing. The 0.5-second control time seems short, but in reality, because it doesn't trigger the controlled enemy's resistance, as long as you keep casting it on the enemy, the enemy will remain under control indefinitely.

[Predation: Devour weakened enemies. If an enemy's health is below 35%, there is a chance to devour them.]

[Liquefaction: Melts 50% of the enemy's physical and magical defense.]

[Spider Chrysalis: Summons a spider chrysalis. Enemies destroying the chrysalis will spawn a Spider Demon Guardian. If a Spider Demon Dark Mage or its master destroys the chrysalis, they will randomly gain a buff.]

Holy crap! Where did all these bats come from?

The elite members lying on the ground gasped in surprise.

They dare not release their souls, because releasing a soul in the instance will cause the character to resurrect at the entrance.

Therefore, their field of vision is limited to the direction the corpse is facing.

Some girls even got goosebumps.

One person happened to be facing the Book of Changes.

"They're the president's pets! My god! The president has six pets! No, these bats are the president's too!"

The hunter player was completely baffled.

Are you sure you're speaking human language?

We hunters are known as the Beast Master class, and we can only bring two pets with us at any given time.

The guild leader is a mage! Where did this pet come from?

Zhou Yi commanded the bat army to rush into the depths of the instance.

Before long, a vast horde of soul-devouring ghosts surged forth.

Bats only have 10 health points; they die instantly from a single touch. When monsters unleash area-of-effect attacks, they fall one after another.

However, four level 9 hornfly nests can release 36 bats per second.

There's not much of anything, but bats are the most abundant.

The strange horde is approaching.

Zhou Yi's Fel Cloak triggered multiple Shadow Bolts.

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