This battle, aside from rescuing the Bear Nation survivors and dealing a heavy blow to the Seven Great Nations, also brought Zhang Yue another not-so-small harvest.
In the Nightmare Abyss, each time a floor is cleared, a 20-star Nightmare Set Equipment Box is rewarded.
This is the 42nd floor.
Which means: the people from the Seven Great Nations just killed, almost all had full sets of Nightmare Equipment on them.
On the field, a glance around revealed equipment scattered everywhere, all uniformly 20-star Nightmare Set equipment.
To repay Zhang Yue's life-saving grace, the rescued Bear Nation professionals quickly cleaned up the battlefield and respectfully delivered all the battle spoils to Zhang Yue.
A casual count.
Just as Zhang Yue expected.
A total of over three thousand pieces of equipment, among which more than two thousand were Nightmare Set equipment.
You have to know: Zhang Yue had painstakingly climbed to the 42nd floor of the Nightmare Abyss, and so far through his own effort, had only obtained 41 pieces of Nightmare Equipment.
Originally, Zhang Yue was still troubled that after opening all 41 boxes, he still hadn't assembled even one complete Nightmare Set.
Now it's settled.
With over two thousand Nightmare Equipment pieces contributed by the Seven Great Nations, combining them casually, he assembled dozens of complete Nightmare Sets.
The equipment was set.
Unfortunately, the professionals of the Seven Great Nations, who were only around level 110, simply didn't have enough energy resources to cultivate these pieces of equipment.
The Nightmare Equipment they dropped were almost all purple or orange refined, and there were even some flat, unrefined white attribute ones.
Zhang Yue selected one set each of Nightmare Set Equipment for Knight, Archer, and Assassin classes, and instantly refined them to full Flow-Gold grade.
Then, he used them to replace the Sovereign Sets on Ice-Sealed War God, Armageddon Black Dragon, and Phantom Predator.
The 18-star Sovereign Sets were replaced by 20-star Nightmare Sets.
For Armageddon Black Dragon and the others, it was like replacing a rifle with a cannon.
Stats and strength clearly increased again by quite a bit.
The Nightmare Set skills are straightforward and not complicated.
They vary depending on the class.
The Knight set greatly boosts vitality and resistance.
The Archer set greatly boosts attack speed and attack power.
The Assassin set greatly boosts movement speed, crit rate, and crit effect.
While the set skills are excellent, compared to the seven skills absorbed by Zhang Yue's Transcendent Set, these overly crude skills still fall short.
The current 21-star Mythical·Transcendent Set has only 7 skill slots in total and can't accommodate an eighth.
So, the Nightmare Set skills were directly passed over.
Next, he continued exploring the Nightmare Abyss with Athena.
At full firepower, going from floor 35 to 42 took only about a minute.
However, to let the Ghost Eye passively gain experience and level up, Zhang Yue had to slow down again.
He recalled his pets, leaving only the Armageddon Black Dragon.
Then, Zhang Yue used single-target skills to kill monsters, triggering Pursuit Kill to gain experience.
This method still allowed clearing a floor in about 3–5 minutes.
During the slaughter in the Nightmare Abyss, he directly killed anyone he saw from the Seven Great Nations or their allied countries.
The reason was Zhang Yue had considered: no matter how strong he alone was, he ultimately couldn't control the situation of the entire Otherworld.
Because the power of professionals is spread across various Otherworlds.
Zhang Yue could only control the Death Territory of the World 20 Otherworld.
People from the Seven Great Nations could still attack Dragon Nation's professionals in the Death Territories of other Otherworlds.
In most cases, both sides were evenly matched.
But once war broke out, there would always be casualties.
The Allied Forces of the Seven Nations had strength in numbers. In the end, the biggest losses would still be Dragon Nation's.
To change this situation, Zhang Yue suddenly thought of a way…
During dinner, Zhang Yue called the Ice Emperor.
Coincidentally, the Ice Emperor brought up the same issue Zhang Yue had in mind, ["After you posted those videos of counterattacking the Seven Nations on the international net, the people of the Seven Great Nations shifted their hatred and revenge onto our other professionals from Dragon Nation."]
["In various Otherworlds, they've gathered all their allied forces and are specifically targeting our Dragon Nation people in the Death Territories."]
["The Seven Great Nations are all top-ranked powers in the Otherworlds. Their strength is immense, and they have too many allied countries. Right now, most Death Territories in the Otherworlds no longer have a place for our Dragon Nation. Not being able to seize resources in the Death Territory means our future development will inevitably fall behind other nations."]
Zhang Yue didn't say much but directly asked, "Can you give me a list of chief members representing Dragon Nation's guilds across the major Otherworlds?"
To Zhang Yue's request, the Ice Emperor showed no hesitation or suspicion, immediately saying, ["Okay, wait a moment. I'll have someone organize it according to your instructions and send the list to you shortly."]
After hanging up.
Zhang Yue logged into the international net on his phone and saw that Cold Nation, Eastern Nation, Bachia, and others were also copying Ning Tiantian, posting videos of killing Dragon Nation professionals in the Death Territories of the Otherworlds.
And the titles of those videos were extremely exaggerated.
[Death Territory of the World 19 of Otherworld: Seven Great Nations Brutalize Dragon Nation Monkeys!]
[Elite Troops of Dragon Nation's Top Guild Longteng Crushed by Seven Nations!]
[Dragon Nation Kneels and Begs for Mercy from the Seven Nations!]
The war between the Seven Nations and Dragon Nation had completely broken out.
But not every Otherworld was dominated by the Seven Nations.
They just cut out the parts where they were humiliated. What they posted were all videos of them defeating Dragon Nation.
In the comment sections of each video, the "internet army" comments were unbearable to look at.
[This is the power of the so-called No. 3 Dragon Nation in the Otherworlds? What trash!]
[Without the Necromancer Zero, the rest of Dragon Nation is nothing! A bunch of losers!]
[Tut tut, such a tragic beating. As a fried bean vendor from Batan, I can't bear to watch. Advertising break, anyone want to buy Batan's signature fried beans? Cheap and tasty. Everyone welcome to order, except Dragon Nation monkeys!]
The water army of the Seven Nations even went under Ning Tiantian's videos to provoke Zhang Yue:
[Zero, so you can fight? Big deal! If you've got guts, come fight me in the World 20 Otherworld, idiot!]
[See what's happened to your Dragon Nation people? This is all your fault. Regret angering our Seven Nations yet?]
[Now that you've seen our Seven Nations' power, right? If you post a video kneeling and begging, maybe we'll consider giving your Dragon Nation some land in the Death Territory.]
Even Athena, after reading the comments, was outraged and went to fight back in the comment sections on behalf of Dragon Nation against the Seven Nations' water army.
In contrast, Zhang Yue just calmly ate his meal.
Soon, the Ice Emperor sent over a list.
The list recorded the representative guilds of Dragon Nation across the major Otherworlds, along with the in-game IDs of their frontline members.
Zhang Yue looked at the list, casually picked up a glass of orange juice on the table, downed it in one go, and revealed a meaningful smile, "Good show, about to begin."
As the words fell, he unintentionally looked up and saw Athena, sitting across from him, staring at him.
Zhang Yue asked, "What's wrong?"
Athena: "The drink you just had… that seemed to be mine…"
Zhang Yue looked at the empty glass he had just finished and saw clearly at the rim, there was a lipstick mark.
The atmosphere on the scene instantly turned awkward…
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