Chapter 40: Chapter 40: Lu Yunsheng’s Shock—Such a Huge Gap?
Under such intense pressure, everyone in the team had their nerves stretched to the limit.
The only one who remained relatively relaxed was Lin Ye.
For him, maneuvering at this level was too easy, not even challenging, even though he had to look after the health of his teammates.
However, the other three novices found it like a race against death, unable to relax in the slightest.
Li Fei was manageable, being an S-Level talented warrior, putting her stamina at the top tier among beginners.
Although Han Dong was slightly inferior, he could barely keep pace.
As for An Xinmeng, who had been coasting along at first and was a mage class, this scenario was essentially hell-level difficulty for her.
If Han Dong was racing against death, then she was already bound by death, only able to twist and evade the descending scythe!
In such an extreme challenge, An Xinmeng endured for nearly twenty minutes, but she had clearly reached her limit.
Dazed, she accidentally tripped over herself during a maneuver and fell to the ground.
At this moment, a beam was already shooting towards her, about to instantly kill her.
In a flash, a figure appeared in front of her, taking the hit from the beam directly.
Then, this figure raised the magic staff in their hand, and with the flashing of Holy Light, An Xinmeng felt that familiar sense of safety, healing her body and mind once again.
"Get up! Retreat! Get out of the whirlwind’s attack range! Han Dong, Li Fei! If you can’t hold on anymore, retreat immediately!" Lin Ye quickly instructed.
"No... we’re not fighting anymore?" Han Dong was shocked!
In these twenty minutes, although they fought very hard, they had managed to scrape off half of the boss’s health with scratch-like damage.
Now being told to retreat, he felt somewhat reluctant.
"Boom!"
-2310!
Once again, Lin Ye raised the magic staff in his hand, and the Holy Light of Healing Technique fell on the boss, causing a blood-red figure to float above its head!
So violent!
Seeing this figure, Han Dong almost kneeled to Lin Ye.
He never imagined Lin Ye’s Healing Technique to be so outrageous!
No wonder every time Lin Ye used Healing Technique, they were fully healed, even when their Life Value was bottomed out, he could completely refill them!
Who couldn’t be fully healed by such a Healing Technique?
Han Dong quickly understood, and without another word, retreated as Lin Ye instructed!
Lin Ye had them retreat not to give up killing the boss, but because Lin Ye was about to take action to kill the boss!
If they didn’t retreat, Lin Ye had to watch over their health; where would he find the time and energy to fight the boss?
The fact that they were made to wear down half of the boss’s health was clearly part of a meticulous calculation...
Perhaps Lin Ye could only take down half of the boss’s health alone, hence he needed teammates to chew down the other half!
Lin Ye was going to solo a half-health boss!
This was too thrilling, too awesome, too cool!
Han Dong was both running and energetically imagining!
As for Li Fei, upon hearing Lin Ye’s instructions, she immediately turned around and ran.
As she was about to run out of the Resentful Spirit Storm, she glanced back and saw that Lin Ye’s magic staff had already changed into a bright blue one.
"He really had a backup plan..."
Seeing this, Li Fei was finally relieved and stepped out of the storm.
"Haha..."
The three of them almost collapsed to the ground, breathing heavily, heartbeats racing.
At this time, they had all evidently reached their physical limit.
Looking back, the platform where the boss was now shrouded in the storm, the battle conditions were unclear.
Only the continuous bursts of light proved Lin Ye was relentlessly bombarding the boss!
...
In another Secret Realm of the Black Stone Mine.
A giant digger boss over three meters tall collapsed to the ground with a thud!
"Took six hours and over thirty minutes... damn it! We didn’t even make it into the top hundred in history!" The warrior cursed.
Clearly, he wasn’t too pleased with such results.
The expressions of the other team members all showed a hint of discontent.
"If we hadn’t gone to that Undead Mine at first, we would be at least in the top fifty now!" complained the archer.
"Exactly! Wasting those twenty minutes in that labyrinth was really baffling..." another mage added.
To be honest, it usually takes a team over ten hours to clear Black Stone Mine, and they had done it in just over six hours, already an extremely excellent result.
But evidently, this did not meet the expectations of some members of the team.
Ke Jue’s expression was somewhat awkward; if not for her insistence on entering that mine, perhaps the ranking wouldn’t have been so poor this time.
"Forget it, let’s settle! Don’t invite me to team up again!" The warrior waved his hand, turned away, and spat on the ground.
Although the others didn’t speak, their expressions probably held the same sentiment as the warrior.
Ke Jue said nothing more and directly chose to settle.
Soon, the group appeared on the plaza.
Lu Yunsheng, the principal of Experimental Middle School, had been waiting there for some time.
The team members, upon arriving on the plaza, departed without a word, leaving Ke Jue alone.
Seeing this, Lu Yunsheng seemed to understand; it was likely because Ke Jue insisted, leading to poor Secret Realm ranking results...
"It’s okay, at worst, discuss with them to strive for a better result next time! Now that you have experience, aim for the top ten!" Lu Yunsheng comforted.
Ke Jue looked up, revealing a forced smile.
To get top ten, wouldn’t that mean squeezing another hour off the time?
Honestly, she felt it was impossible...
Even without wasting time in that Undead Mine, reaching that level was out of reach.
The difficulty was simply too high.
[’Forest Squad’ cleared ’Black Stone Mine (Abyss)’ in five hours and twenty-six minutes, achieving an SSS rating, setting a new record!]
[’Forest Squad’ became the first to achieve an SSS rating in ’Black Stone Mine (Abyss)’, earning a realm-exclusive reward!]
At this moment, two announcements appeared before everyone’s eyes in the plaza.
Ke Jue was completely stunned...
She couldn’t even make it into the top hundred, yet Lin Ye directly claimed first place and received an SSS rating?
Lu Yunsheng had clearly also seen these two announcements.
At this point, he was utterly stunned, unable to believe Lin Ye’s results were so extraordinary.
And with Ke Jue, whom he’d placed high hopes on, compared to Lin Ye’s results...
No, rather, there was simply no comparison between their results!