After clearing the giant bear den.

Lu Cang then led the team to continue clearing the other two dungeons in Xionglin.

[Congratulations to players: Azure Sky, Brave Warrior, White Deer, and Cold Qingying for clearing the level 15 Nightmare difficulty dungeon - Terror Bear Forest]

Congratulations to players: Cang Qiong, Yong Zhe Wu Wei, Bai Lu, and Leng Qing Ying for clearing the level 16 Nightmare difficulty dungeon - Gray Bear Cave!

Leng Qingying also joined them and got two more first kills in the dungeon for free.

Unbeknownst to her, Leng Qingying had become a little thicker-skinned and more comfortable in her new environment.

It feels good to win without lifting a finger.

On the way to the next dungeon, Cang Qiong showed no airs of a big shot and taught the brave warrior how to operate in an easy-to-understand way.

"Fearless, you must always remember to weave in normal attacks during skill execution to maximize damage."

"Your Five-Stage Power Slash has a multiplier of 6, and your normal attack has a multiplier of 4."

"If you can weave in a normal attack during the Five-Stage Power Slash, it's equivalent to increasing your damage output by 1.6 times."

"Moreover, if you start with Dragon Slash, and then follow up with five consecutive slashes and normal attacks, you can immediately reset the cooldown of Dragon Slash."

"But if you only use the Five-Slash combo, you can't immediately reset the cooldown of the Dragon's Fury. The difference in output efficiency between weaving in normal attacks and not weaving in normal attacks is at least twice as much."

...

Lu Cang explained the operating techniques to the fearless warrior.

The brave and fearless man memorized the techniques Lu Cang had taught him.

Beyond this basic understanding of damage interspersed with normal attacks, Azure occasionally explains some deeper concepts.

Even a master like Leng Qingying would find Lu Cang's explanation very helpful.

At the same time, Leng Qingying probably also gained some understanding of Bai Lu and the abilities of the fearless warrior.

The most important ability of the Fearless Warrior seems to be that he can unleash charged skills without needing to charge them up.

Bai Lu's main ability should be to store skills and amplify their effects, although the amplification factor is unknown.

Compared to them, my assassination-type talents don't really offer much of an advantage when it comes to clearing dungeons.

As for this person named Cangqiong, his innate abilities are unknown.

However, it seems to possess a similar ability to "copy," allowing it to borrow the equipment and abilities of its teammates. If it can consistently cooperate with the holder of an S-level talent, it will indeed be S-level, and its potential could even be higher.

In just twenty minutes, Leng Qingying had already leveled up to level 16.

Lu Cang and the others even reached level 18.

Running dungeons doesn't take much time; most of the time is wasted on travel.

However, at this rate, they probably won't have enough dungeons to farm near Maple City.

This team doesn't seem to have any intention of repeatedly running dungeons; they simply finish one dungeon and immediately move on to the next.

I would get the first kill in each instance and leave.

There are only 11 dungeons around Maple City that are for players below level 20.

The Godslayer Guild has already completed 6 dungeons, and the remaining number of dungeons is less than half.

Judging from this pace, it's estimated that in about half an hour, all the dungeons near Maple City will be marked with the name of the Godslayer Guild.

In a normal development scenario, these instances should be a vibrant hub where various guilds compete fiercely for dominance.

But now, it has become a completely one-sided situation.

In the guild rankings, the God Killer guild has already reached a high score of 100 points.

World's first kill +5000 points.

After that, you can get 1000 points for each first kill of a dungeon.

Following the Godslayer Guild, the second place went to [Brilliance] with 1000 points, the third place to [Drunken Moon], and the fourth place to [Gentle Water]... These guilds all had 1000 points and secured the first kill in a dungeon. The Godslayer Guild's ranking can be described as a crushing defeat.

As for the uses of guild points, they have many uses: upgrading the guild, redeeming prizes, and unlocking the guild skill tree all require points.

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【Outside Maple Forest City - Xionglin】

A team from the Hidden Origin Guild is still searching for Cang Qiong's whereabouts.

As I followed the dungeon through, all I saw were the clear records of the Godslayer Guild.

13 seconds, 21 seconds, 15 seconds, 9 seconds...

Looking at these records, [Black Crystal] swallowed hard: "Hey... isn't the Godslayer Guild going a bit too far?"

Beside him, Obsidian, who was on the mission with him, replied, "S-rank should all be around this level, right?"

"Bullshit, when we were fighting for the second server record, Shadow Twilight didn't set such a terrifying record, did he?" Black Crystal is a veteran player with accounts in both the first and second servers, and can be considered a founding member of the Hidden Origin Guild.

Shadow Twilight is an S-rank player recruited by the Hidden Origin Guild in the second server.

"I remember it was about a minute."

"One minute and nine seconds, that's a huge difference."

Obsidian hummed in agreement: "That guy named White Deer should have a talent that's perfect for dungeons, but the fact that they've managed to achieve this kind of record at this time is truly terrifying."

At this moment, a newcomer who was with them asked, "Don't we have any records like this that are in the ten-second range?"

Upon hearing this question, Hei Jing sneered, "Ten seconds? Our records are all over a minute."

The newcomer was a little confused: "Huh? Why? Aren't we all S-rank?"

"There are also differences between S-rank talents, and the primary task for S-rank talents is to level up first."

"Dieying, you're a newcomer to the Illusionary Realm, right? It's normal that you don't understand."

Hei Jing thought for a moment, considering how to explain, and then said, "Okay, then I'll ask you a question: do you think S-rank players level up faster, or ordinary players?"

Without hesitation, Dieying replied immediately, "It must be S-rank! They used the entire guild's resources."

"Hehe, then where did their equipment come from?" Black Crystal asked again.

Dieying stroked his chin, pondering, "The equipment... the guild bought it from other players..."

"Oh, I understand what you mean, senior!"

"Hehe, it's good that you understand." Hei Jing explained, "There is a huge gap between S-level players and ordinary players, and such strategic-level beings would not lower their level just to break a dungeon record."

"It's like the Ash Forest. They reached level 10 after clearing it once, and then they lost the right to clear the Ash Forest again."

"Even with better equipment, I can't come back to break the record."

"The same applies to other dungeons. Although S-rank talents are powerful, without good enough equipment to match them, they cannot unleash their full potential, and their records will naturally not improve."

Good records are achieved through good equipment; all eight guilds have players with S-level talents.

If the equipment is fully upgraded, the record won't be much worse than Bai Lu's.

The problem is that it's not enough to keep everyone engaged.

Who the hell can pull out gold-quality equipment and a custom weapon with special effects at level 10?

Nightmare difficulty dungeons drop equipment of silver quality at most.

To obtain gold-quality equipment, you need to farm insane difficulty dungeons or defeat world bosses.

At this stage, the equipment of other players is inferior to that of the Godslayer Guild.

That's the difference between a modern army and primitive people.

Therefore, the records set by Bai Lu are simply an unsurpassable legend for other guilds.

While they were exchanging messages, another global announcement popped up.

Congratulations to players: Cang Qiong, Yong Zhe Wu Wei, Bai Lu, and Leng Qing Ying for clearing the level 16 Nightmare difficulty dungeon - Raging Bear Den!

I saw this world announcement.

Cold sweat trickled down everyone's foreheads: "Hey... another one."

"In twenty minutes, they have already gotten six first kills."

"The Berserker Bear's Den is just ahead. Let's speed up and get there. We should be able to intercept them. Let's prioritize completing the task the guild leader gave us."

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[Bear Forest Dungeon - Rampaging Bear Den]

Lu Cang and the others emerged from the Berserk Bear Den dungeon.

In less than ten minutes, Cangqiong, Yongzhe Wuwei, and Bailu had already changed into full sets of silver equipment.

Headgear, wristbands, belt, pants, clothes.

Two rings, one necklace, boots, and a weapon.

There are ten equipment slots in total, all of which are silver equipment, and all of them are silver equipment of level 10 or above.

The equipment rankings have even been dominated by them.

Of the top 50 pieces of equipment, nearly 40 were worn by them.

The first and second best equipment is naturally two exclusive weapons.

They didn't hide it, and Lu Cang didn't make any demands on them, since this thing couldn't be hidden anyway.

As long as you can see the name, but not the effect, that's fine.

The third, fourth, and fifth pieces of equipment were none other than the gold equipment they were wearing.

Further on, there was a row of silver equipment. Looking around, the entire leaderboard was filled with the names of these three people.

Fifth Equipment Holder: Azure Sky

Sixth equipment holder: White Deer

The seventh equipment holder: Fearless Warrior.

...

Even some outdated and obsolete equipment is on the leaderboard.

Leng Qingying had certainly heard of dominating the charts.

Occasionally, a particular guild will dominate three or four of the top ten spots on a certain leaderboard.

But Leng Qingying had never heard of such a domination of the rankings.

In one guild, just three members occupied more than forty of the top fifty spots in the rankings.