CHAPTER 154: CHAPTER 141: DOES THE DEMON KING NOT CARE ABOUT FACE? (TWO-IN-ONE)_2

[Choice Four]: Super Crit (Rare reward, your critical hit rate increases to 50%)

Their Health was 500, and all attributes were 10 points. The only difference lay in the rare reward.

However, Chen Mo wasn’t too interested in this particular rare reward. As for Energy, he felt that his current Energy was already sufficient, so he ultimately chose the attribute reward to strengthen the Skeleton Monsters’ attributes.

He followed the same pattern for the next two rounds of challenge rewards; since the rare reward options weren’t very good, Chen Mo chose attribute point rewards for all of them.

Following the three rounds of rewards from the two-star challenge, combined with the attributes obtained from the previous one-star challenge and his title, Chen Mo’s attributes now totaled 70 points.

Next was the fourth stage.

This time, Chen Mo wasn’t facing minor monsters, but three Elite Beasts. Although their strength wasn’t low, they still posed no threat to Chen Mo. Under the siege of a large group of Skeleton Monsters, Chen Mo effortlessly slaughtered the three Elite Beasts.

[The Heavenly Path’s Hint: The fourth stage has ended. Please select two of the following four rewards.]

[Choice One]: Life Enhancement (Maximum life value increases to 1,000 points, and life recovery speed increases by 2% per second.)

[Choice Two]: Attribute Enhancement (All Attributes increase by 20 points.)

[Choice Three]: Energy Enhancement (Maximum energy value increases to 1,000 points, and energy recovery speed increases by 2% per second.)

[Choice Four]: Power of Demon Breaking (Rare reward, each time you deal damage, you can instantly clear all damage reduction effects from the Demon King, lasting for 10 seconds.)

The rewards for the stage just before the BOSS were more significant, and the choices were also more plentiful, similar to the second stage of the one-star challenge.

Upon seeing the reward options, Chen Mo immediately chose Attribute Enhancement and Power of Demon Breaking.

Damage reduction abilities were rather annoying, as they impacted the Skeleton Monsters’ output and had to be cleared.

Once Chen Mo had made his decision, the two-star Demon King soon descended.

Compared to the one-star Demon King, the two-star Demon King’s attributes had improved, and it also had one more Skill. It seemed more difficult to deal with, but Chen Mo’s Skeleton Monsters held an overwhelming numerical advantage. The poison detonation from stacking corpse poison alone was too much for the BOSS to withstand. It had barely descended when Chen Mo easily slew it.

[The Heavenly Path’s Hint: Congratulations on successfully killing the two-star Demon King. Your B-Class title has been upgraded to an A-Class title, ’Bronze-grade Brave Challenger.’ Would you like to continue with more difficult Brave Challenger’s Trials?]

[A-Class Title: Bronze-grade Brave Challenger]

[Title Effect]: During the Brave Challenger’s Trials, you gain a 30-point bonus to All Attributes. In each reward stage, you will see five reward options. You can select one additional stage reward each time and gain two opportunities to reroll the stage rewards.

[Title Introduction]: A title awarded to brave challengers with minor accomplishments.

"Oh, this Title Effect is a huge change from the previous one! I can directly choose two rewards, and the number of options has also increased to five."

Chen Mo promptly chose to continue with higher-star challenges.

[The Heavenly Path’s Hint: You are about to challenge the three-star Brave Challenger’s Trials. The historical fatality rate for professionals in this trial is 60%. If successful, you can obtain a special S-level title! Please confirm if you wish to accept the challenge!]

Just like last time, the fatality rate had increased by another 20%. It had reached a staggering 60%, but Chen Mo felt no difficulty at all. He paid no heed to the warning and directly chose to continue the challenge.

[The Heavenly Path’s Hint: You have accepted the three-star Brave Challenger’s Trial. The trial is about to begin. The trial map is changing...]

As The Heavenly Path’s Hint echoed, Chen Mo felt the scene before his eyes blur, and he found himself in a strange, somewhat dimly lit cave. Fortunately, he possessed a pioneer’s all-around perception ability, allowing him to clearly perceive his surroundings.

[This trial is divided into three stages. First stage of the trial: Kill 300 Skeleton Monsters.]

Finally, it wasn’t slimes this time. Instead, it had changed to Skeleton Monsters, the creatures he was most familiar with.

As The Heavenly Path’s Hint faded, a series of CLACKS and RATTLES immediately echoed.

Chen Mo perceived three hundred dark Arrays suddenly materializing within the cave. A large group of Skeleton Monsters emerged from these dark Arrays one after another and advanced in his direction.

"Only 300? I have 3,000!"

Chen Mo grinned and immediately sent his Skeleton Monsters to attack.

His Skeleton Monsters not only overwhelmed the enemy Skeleton Monsters in quantity but also utterly crushed them in quality. In the blink of an eye, under a barrage of projectiles, these three hundred Skeleton Monsters, which had just assembled into humanoid forms from piles of bones, were shattered back into heaps of dry bones.

At that moment, five new reward options popped up.

[The Heavenly Path’s Hint: The first stage has ended. Please choose one of the following five rewards. Due to your Title Effect, you may select one additional reward.]

[Option One]: Life Absorption (Each time a unit is killed, life value increases by 1 point.)

[Option Two]: Attribute Absorption (For every one hundred units killed, All Attributes increase by 1 point.)

[Option Three]: Energy Absorption (Each time a unit is killed, energy value increases by 1 point.)

[Option Four]: Crit Absorption (Each time a unit is killed, critical hit rate increases by 0.1%.)

[Option Five]: Fury Injury Absorption (Each time a unit is killed, Critical Damage increases by 1%.)

"Oh? They’ve all turned into growth-type rewards!"

Seeing that all five rewards had changed, Chen Mo immediately considered the potential benefits. In the end, he chose options two and three!

Upon entering the second stage, Chen Mo once again achieved swift kills! The reward options had changed slightly this time. Among the growth options, choices for increasing life recovery speed and energy recovery speed appeared.

Since this trial only had three stages, he could already choose two rewards in the second stage. Combined with the Bronze-grade Brave Challenger’s Title Effect, Chen Mo could select three rewards this time. He chose energy recovery speed, Attribute Absorption, and a rerolled rare reward, ’Demon King’s Nemesis.’

The Skeleton Monsters’ lives were effectively his own, so Chen Mo wasn’t too concerned about his own life value.

The reason Chen Mo hadn’t chosen Demon King’s Nemesis before was that he didn’t know if its true damage affected only him or if it also applied to the Skeleton Monsters. This time, since he could pick three options simultaneously, he decided to take this one and test it out. Coincidentally, the next stage involved fighting the Demon King.

Compared to one-star and two-star Demon Kings, the three-star Demon King was only somewhat stronger in terms of immunity to crowd control and status effects, but the improvement wasn’t very significant. It was still within the range Chen Mo could easily insta-kill.

However, by looking at the three-star Demon King’s attributes, Chen Mo somewhat understood where the 60% fatality rate came from.

If an ordinary person were to challenge this BOSS, its 50% resistance to control and status effects alone would be sickeningly tough. Not to mention, this BOSS also had two control Skills, each lasting for 3 seconds. Being hit by its control Skills would almost certainly spell doom.

However, encountering Chen Mo was simply its bad luck. In fact, after the three-star BOSS appeared, it seemed more like the challenger, while Chen Mo was the final boss.

This three-star Demon King emerged only to see a sea of Skeleton Monsters waiting for it. It didn’t even get a chance to speak its lines before a barrage of projectiles smashed into its face. As numerous true damage numbers appeared, within a single breath, it was utterly obliterated! A complete disgrace.

Before dying, this three-star Demon King only wanted to scream: Why would they send such a monster to fight me?! Don’t we Demon Kings have any dignity?!

[The Heavenly Path’s Hint: Congratulations on successfully killing the three-star Demon King. Your A-Class title has been upgraded to an S-level title, ’Silver-grade Brave Challenger.’ Would you like to continue with more difficult Brave Challenger’s Trials?]

[S-level Title: Silver-grade Brave Challenger]

[Title Effect]: During the Brave Challenger’s Trials, you gain a 60-point bonus to All Attributes, a 10x life value bonus, 50% increased damage dealt to Demon Kings, 50% damage reduction from Demon Kings, and control effects from Demon Kings are reduced by 50%. Furthermore, during each reward stage, you will see five rewards. You can select two additional stage rewards each time and gain three opportunities to reroll the stage rewards.

[Title Introduction]: A title awarded to brave challengers who have demonstrated exceptional performance.