"It's almost time, let's get ready to go back."

Alice glanced at her pocket watch and turned to speak to everyone.

Everyone nodded.

The Adventurer's Guild gave them two days to investigate the relevant information in this area.

As the 2 days are coming to an end, you must return to the safe zone in advance.

Failure to complete the game within the time limit will be considered a game failure.

Louis and his companions immediately set out on their return journey.

It’s just that the way here was smooth, but the way back was not so easy.

The closer you get to the safe zone, the more traps there are around.

"Instead of surpassing your opponent, why not torture them?"

Alice said speechlessly.

Obviously, some teams of adventurers, seeing that they had no hope of completing their basic tasks, began to harm others on a large scale.

In the Titled Adventurer preliminaries, only the top 100 will be awarded spots in the final preliminaries.

But considering that the first and second rounds are conducted as a group, there are actually not many teams that can make it through.

Since the number of members in a team must be less than 15, the number of teams that can actually enter the finals is usually less than 10.

A team of eight people like Louis, Olivia, Alice, Grace, William, and the three Fox brothers is extremely rare.

In order to increase the passing rate, many teams directly increase the number of members to 14.

In addition to the problem of the competition mechanism, generally speaking, some teams will even let some players leave the team before completing the task in order to increase the possibility of passing.

Those who leave the team will not be counted in the score.

By reducing the number of people in the team, the average score of the remaining people can be improved to a certain extent.

Does the Adventurer Guild know about this bug? Of course they do.

But no one would have an objection to this kind of thing.

Because the number of lone adventurers is scarce.

Either they are newbies who are unwanted by everyone, or they are real elite adventurers.

So the mission assigned by the guild...is actually arranged based on the premise that only one person in the entire team can survive.

As long as you have the ability to convince other people in the team, no one will say anything even if you kick everyone out except yourself.

After returning to the safe zone.

Louis and his friends saw that many teams of adventurers had gathered at the scene.

When the Moonlight Cat Group arrived, everyone's eyes turned directly to them.

Nothing else.

There are too many people left in the Moonlight Cat Group.

There was an adventurer who was returning alone, following Louis and the others, and he was dumbfounded:

"A team of eight?"

The other team, which only had two adventurers left, was speechless: "Are you kidding? Are you here just to make up the numbers?"

Someone nearby echoed: "The average age is too young, they must be here to make up the numbers."

Suddenly, a team with only five members remaining sneered: "Are you blind? Don't you realize that almost all members of this team are Paragon-level?"

This is when someone noticed something was wrong:

"Wait, isn't the average level of this team a bit too high?"

"No, could it be that some great noble is leading a team for their youngsters?"

"Bring your ass, take a good look, these people should be no more than 40 years old, which is an age when they are still improving their strength in any family."

A member of the Nine Swords professional team who also came from the Enther Empire took a look and said, "Hiss, what did I see? A young female swordsman is already at the paragon level?"

Some people are curious: "How do you know?"

Someone from the Nine Swords team explained, "The sword type used by that girl is a sword type that only the Paragon level can use. It is useless if you don't reach the corresponding level."

Another exemplary mage was surprised and said, "Not only that, pay attention to that mage who is probably not yet an adult, his professional level seems to have reached level 10."

Someone asked, “How do you know?”

The paragon-level mage said, "Her mental power is too active. Normal mages have very stable mental power before they reach the peak of their current stage. Her extremely agitated mental power is a sign that she is about to break through to the paragon level."

"Fuck, what's going on with that Nine Swordsman?"

"Let me take a look. What the hell is this?"

"Golden Adventurer? Why?"

It was the same person from the Nine Swords Adventure Group who said, "That boy is a Nine Swords professional, right? It looks like he hasn't broken through to the Exemplar level yet!"

"How can you become a Shining Gold Adventurer if you haven't broken through to the Paragon level (Note: The regular level of Shining Gold Adventurers is the beginning Paragon level)."

"It must have triggered the Adventurer's Guild's genius mechanism."

"What kind of genius mechanism is this? How come I don't know about it?"

"This is what a dishonest person is like. He knows nothing."

"You want a fight?"

"Hit me if you want!"

"Stop fighting, I know about this."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't worry, this is not an insider tip. It is a genius clause that any professional can apply for."

"Tell me!"

"It's very simple. As long as you can kill monsters with a challenge level of 11 or above by yourself under the verification of the Adventurer's Guild, it will be fine."

"???"

“Fuck!”

The scene was boiling.

This situation quickly attracted the attention of everyone in the Adventurer's Guild.

Soon, it was the turn of the Moonlight Cat Group to submit the relevant investigation report.

Still the same.

Adventurers are required to swear an oath of authenticity of the information under the witness of the God of Contract.

The guild members who were just collecting data all looked unhappy after seeing the information gathered by the Moonlit Cat Group.

"51 different types of shadow monsters?"

"Average hunting level 8?"

"Hunting number 910?"

"The highest hunting level is 16?"

…

Everyone looked at each other.

Is this really an effect that a team without a titled adventurer can achieve?

Several employees timidly took the relevant hunting evidence from Louis and others.

The situation at the scene suddenly became unimaginably chaotic.

Because there were too many pieces of evidence that Louis and the others poured out from the dimensional bag.

It can even be said to be a small hill.

There was chaos at the scene.

"Hey, hey, hey, you're not going to let the 8-person team take first place directly, are you?"

"That may not be the case. Do you see that dragon horn that is half the height of a man?"

"Hiss, the dragon horns of the Blooddrake? Fuck, why are there three pairs of dragon horns? The challenge level of that thing is 16!"

"Wait, why is there still a blood-thirsty bee sting?"

"No, there must be at least hundreds of these needles, with an average challenge level of 6. They are fighting in groups. With this number, did they wipe out the entire colony?"

…

The scene was bustling.

The little swan pushed Louis and said:

"Did you hear what they said? Look what you have done!"

Louis' mouth twitched slightly:

"It's none of my business, they're just too crispy."

This isn’t really Louis Versailles.

During this period, with the growth and development of the Mayer Chamber of Commerce, Louis accumulated wealth at an increasing rate.

In particular, Meyer Home Furnishings has already expanded into the three countries in a very short period of time.

With the endorsement of Enther, Tunisia and even the Empire of Amn, and with the intentional or unintentional connivance of all parties, the Meyer Chamber of Commerce took advantage of the friendly period among the three countries and made great achievements along the way.

Even Louis himself doesn't know the exact amount of wealth he has now.

It is precisely because the funds are accumulating more and more that the power of the Greedy Grip in his hands is getting stronger and stronger.

If we say that Little Swan's operations of transforming rocks have raised the duration of this type of spell to an astonishing level.

Then Greed's Grasp is a perfect mowing skill that goes beyond the cognition of known spells and can fully utilize Louis' talents to the limit.

The adventurers' guess was correct.

As the shadow monster that prefers to fight in groups the most, the bloodthirsty bee can be called a powerful killer of individual monsters.

Ten blood-sucking bees working together can threaten the paradigm-class.

Fifty blood-sucking bees jointly launched the Blood Source Bee Formation, which required the dispatch of LV20 professionals to resolve.

More than a hundred blood-sucking bees...

That is enough to pose a threat to any creature below the legendary level.

But Louis is different.

As Louis said, the bloodthirsty bee is too fragile.

Indeed, as a group of high-risk monsters in the shadow plane, this group possesses a deterrent power that makes everyone feel painful.

Yes, the blood-sucking bee's attack almost ignores defense.

It is precisely because of this characteristic that once you fight with a blood-sucking bee, you must always be careful not to be stabbed by it.

It would be fine if the quantity was smaller.

If there are more of them, there will be no place to hide from the attacks of this group of blood-sucking bees.

But their bodies are not actually that strong.

Facing the special ability of Greedy Grasp which can be continuously activated as long as the physical strength is sufficient, Louis was crushed without even seeing his appearance.

This battle was necessary for Louis.

The blood-sucking bee's almost impossible-to-defend-against magic was extremely useful to him.

Think about it.

The Greedy Grip can control an extremely large number of weapons and launch a throwing attack forward.

Even within the coverage of Greedy Grip, Louis can directly control the weapon as if it were a swordsmanship.

Once there is a way to apply this kind of magic to weapons, then once it is used against the enemy, a basic attack will have the ability to penetrate armor and cause a critical hit.

Louis' "blood-letting style" will become more and more outrageous.

So after discovering the blood-sucking bees, Louis couldn't control himself.

He covets the abilities of the blood-sucking bees.

Unfortunately, the stance of Greed's Grip is already strong enough to crush them.

Even more unfortunately, the Grasp of Greed is transparent and invisible to anyone other than Louis, and the Bloodthirsty Bee is not an opponent who is good at perception.

What’s even more amazing is that if there is no need for micro-management, the maximum number of Greedy Grasp that Louis can cast at one time is...

The limit is 310.

Golden Crispy Bees have always been known to inflict irresistible armor-piercing damage, making it difficult for opponents to fight them head-on.

And now, they have encountered a freak who shouts, "I am your natural enemy."

Family members, who understands! In the first second of meeting, the entire blood-thirsty bee colony, except for the blood-thirsty queen bee with stronger defensive capabilities, we were all killed instantly.

Yes.

One second.

A swarm of bloodthirsty bees, numbering only a hundred or so, faced off against the Greedy Grasp, which had a maximum limit of 310.

He had no power to resist and was killed instantly.

High attack and low defense is really painful when facing special enemies like Louis.

This led to a scene that shocked the group of adventurers.

The mechanism is really terrifying.

If you encounter someone who is restrained, you will be completely unable to resist.

So, after Louis and his team submitted the relevant data, the members of the Adventurer's Guild also entered the data into the instrument.

On the magic exhibits behind them, the prefix of "Moonlight Cat Group" and the specific list of adventurers appeared in the top 100.

As more and more new data were input by guild members, the ranking of the Moonlight Cat Group rose at an astonishing speed, as if the accelerator had been stepped on, and they started to rush up from the bottom.

Top fifty.

Top twenty.

Top ten.

ninth.

eighth.

…

The faces of those adventurer teams at the front of the line darkened.

Especially the third-place team.

It was a team with only one person reaching the finish line.

Obviously, in order to raise his own score, this person asked everyone in the team to quit, and then he took all the points for himself.

This is done because the top 3 in the Adventurer's Guild preliminaries can skip the first round of the title-conferring competition.

Of course, since the competition is conducted as a team, the scores of the remaining teams are averaged, so the top three can be more than a dozen people.

The man originally wanted to take advantage of the situation.

But unexpectedly, the Yuexia Cat Group suddenly appeared.

As he stared in amazement, the Moonlit Cat Group flew to the third place, squeezing out his team of only one person.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for his heartache to end.

Because Louis and his team easily took second place and then aimed for first place.

Finally, amidst everyone's uproar, the first-place team was defeated.

“I’ve learned a lot!”

"The first-place team is a sub-team of the 3S-level adventure team Angsu Crazy Lion."

"Most of them were the original core members of the Angsu Crazy Lions. They were squeezed out just like that. Don't they have any dignity?"

"Face? Do you think this team will give you face? To put it bluntly, this team is probably not normal adventurers."

"At this age, at this level, with this configuration, I'm afraid it's not..."

"Shh, stop talking. Who knows what their situation is? If you talk nonsense here, you're going to die!"

The crowd burst into noise again.

Angsu Lions is the premier adventure group in the Eastern Gulf.

The peculiarity of this team is that, rather than being an adventure group, they are more like the remnants of a faction that has been destroyed.

It can be said that the adventure group was the last legacy of a former kingdom.

However, because the opponents who destroyed their kingdom are now in power, if they ever think of rebuilding the kingdom, the Angsu Lions will suffer a devastating blow.

Therefore, over the past hundred years, they have basically existed in the form of large adventure groups.

By splitting up the core members and forming new sub-groups, they continue to grow their strength.

In recent years, among the titled adventurers, Angsu Kuangshi has produced several titled adventurers almost at a fixed time.

Normally, if they have sub-groups participating in the competition, they can only win, win, win.

But now, the Moonlit Cat Group has become the second team to defeat them.

Louis took a look at the rankings and said to the little swan:

“First place.”

Little Swan shook his head: "Isn't that natural? We are the Moonlight Cat Group."

Louis: ...

Little Swan, when you said this with your hands on your hips, it really didn't sound intimidating at all.

Just as he was about to say this, suddenly, his hunting senses detected something wrong.

He suddenly looked at the little swan:

"Olivia, stand back."

Flop Diary: 　　【New Year's Eve Blessings】

The new year is coming soon, I wish you all happy every day.

My hometown is in the countryside, and the Spring Festival fireworks are so loud that it’s really difficult to type.

Add to that the cold, nasal congestion, and the medicines I need to take for other illnesses, and my whole body is reeking of Chinese medicine. It looks like I'll have to spend this New Year's Eve feeling uncomfortable.

So in the new year, I wish you all good health and all the best.

The number of words is a bit small, please don't be too disgusted.

(End of this chapter)