Apocalypse: Master of Soul Beasts

With the fiery development of the tiered battleground commencing, the entire world became busy.

Wen Yu’s financial chain operated smoothly. As the main city of the tiered battleground, the daily transaction volume did not fall short of the former Star of Africa. Additionally, the introduction of mutant beast groups increased the trading quota for the tiered battleground’s main city.

Corpse fruits continued to flow in, and a substantial amount of Soul Crystal stones were produced. Wen Yu himself remained quietly in command at the main city of the tiered battleground, as if forgotten by the world.

Thus, time flew by.

In a flash, three years passed.

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Three years later, the third Sequence Member-Ranking Battle was held as scheduled. The item rewards for this Sequence Member-Ranking Battle failed to catch Wen Yu’s eye. Even the skill elevation rewards for Sequence Number 1 were reduced by the Dominator to just 1 time—on the surface, the Dominator seemed to disapprove of professionists relying on such ”risk-free” competitive activities to earn rewards.

These rewards indeed didn’t interest Wen Yu. Originally, adhering to a low-profile principle, Wen Yu did not intend to participate in this Sequence Member-Ranking Battle. He was even prepared to relinquish the Sequence Number 1 position. However, the location for this Sequence Member-Ranking Battle was precisely in the tiered battleground’s main city. In this place, Wen Yu, who was in meditative seclusion, couldn’t avoid being confined by the Dominator within the competition area.

Participation was semi-compulsory—from here, it seemed that the Dominator had already risen to a suspicion regarding Wen Yu.

Speaking of which, even the protagonist chosen by the Dominator was defeated by Wen Yu, an unknown entity. If the Dominator had no thoughts about Wen Yu, that would indeed be odd.

However, from another perspective, Wen Yu had quite a network—Golden Armor was beside the Dominator, openly and covertly assisting, and Ocean was offering protection by Earth’s will, while Wen Yu’s preparation work had been mostly completed over the three years.

What remained was merely to wait.

And this third Sequence Member-Ranking Battle, nothing much to elaborate on—Tang Haofei, dressed plainly, his face sallow, looked like an inconspicuous old farmer. He had long lost the ambition to reclaim the strongest title, and didn’t even challenge Wen Yu. Meanwhile, Lin Haifeng firmly occupied the Sequence Number 3 position, with a group of military experts guarding the spots from Sequence Number 4 to Sequence Number 10, making Wen Yu seem like a mascot sitting in the box until the Sequence Member-Ranking Battle concluded.

The rewards were used by Wen Yu to elevate Star’s Dragon’s Aura Field.

The explanation for the Dragon’s Aura Field skill, upon upgrading to species-specific esoteric level, remained unchanged, only greatly enhancing the weakening of enemies, which Wen Yu was indifferent about. He merely met with Tang Haofei and chatted about some insignificant topics before continuing his meditative seclusion.

Thus, another three years passed.

The fourth Sequence Member-Ranking Battle was held as scheduled—though rewards were few, they were easy to obtain, so the once-every-three-years Sequence Member-Ranking Battle was not delayed by anyone, and unsurprisingly, Wen Yu was again Sequence Number 1.

Rewards were used by Wen Yu to elevate Victor’s Dream Shaping.

Dream Shaping (species-specific esoteric level, active ability): Forces entry into the target unit’s subconscious, creating a dreamland for the target unit, while imprinting a mental mark.

No longer invading dreamlands, but directly entering the subconscious. Wen Yu experimented briefly and found the new Dream Shaping’s effect to be explosive—Victor could even imperceptibly destroy all mental and willpower of a Limit Breakthrough Level powerful expert! However, on the front battle field, its use was rather limited.

During these three years, Wen Yu also obtained a skill scroll that suited him well.

Pitch-dark Soul (species-specific esoteric level, passive skill): Enhances host’s physical qualities by 200%, and soul strength by 500%, while transforming the host’s body into a darkness affinity constitution, rendering the host immune to damage from darkness-type ability and any negative effects brought by them.

The latter attribute was identical to Pitch-dark Dominator, but the former attribute’s enhancement for Wen Yu was so vast it was unimaginable, no need to say more, this skill replaced Pitch-dark Dominator as one of the prerequisite skills for Pitch-dark Divine Light.

In an instant, another three years passed.

The fifth Sequence Member-Ranking Battle reward was used by Wen Yu on Victor’s Night Eyes.

Night Eyes (species-specific esoteric level, passive skill): After the eyes have been transformed by unknown powers and integrated with the mysterious power of the moonlight, an evolution occurred in the eye area. Possessing Night Eyes allows detection of the target unit’s power level and detailed skill information (the greater the disparity in physical qualities between the two parties, the more detailed the data obtained), while Night Eyes also possesses powerful hypnosis, illusion, and creating illusion abilities.

The change was still insignificant, merely an embellishment enhancement, but the combination of Night Eyes and Dream Shaping could produce some bizarre effects—Victor was gradually crafted by Wen Yu into a soul pet with strong auxiliary capabilities but relatively weak in direct combat, assassin-type.

And in the tenth year since the opening of the tiered battleground, Wen Yu finally awaited the most critical time node for him...

The shattering of the seventh level lock!

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Accompanied by the surging demonic qi and a massive number of devil armies from the Demon Realm’s Gate, Yanjing for the first time exposed its fierce fangs before the world.

Countless blood and flesh puppets standing three meters tall, resembling muscular devils, covered in the micro-mecha transformed from replicas of the Mechanical Cube, charged fiercely like tanks on the main battlefield, the heavily modified heavy artillery endlessly spewed chaos on the battlefield, while the endless battle robots slammed into the demonic tide like waves.

Although individual strength was insufficient, with tactics like self-destruction and an endless amount, Yanjing’s cannon fodder troop firmly controlled the Level Seven Monster Corps within the preset battle zone, and subsequently, professionists demonstrated their prowess.

In this battle, Yanjing deployed nearly 30 Limit Breakthrough Level powerful experts with physical qualities above one hundred thousand, especially the recently formed Dark Blade Knights Cavalry, whose performance was exceptionally outstanding—they shredded army formations, captured flags, like an unstoppable sharp sword, turned the entire battlefield upside down.

Thus, without any outside intervention, Yanjing alone held its ground against the intimidating demon plague, battling the devil army vibrantly.

At a certain moment, Tang Haofei’s figure appeared at the edge of the battlefield. He merely watched the chaotic battleground, then shook his head in satisfaction, silently relocating his secluded manor to a vacant mainland bloc in District 7.

With fearless warriors, an orderly organization, and Dinghai Shen Needle-like powerful experts, mere Level Seven not only didn’t bring disaster but rather another leap in overall strength!

And Wen Yu, just hid in the main city of the tiered battleground, quietly inspecting new skills gained by his soul pets, simultaneously removing new S-class skills obtained by the small soul beast, and then tearing open the Photosynthetic Spirit Motifs (species-specific esoteric level, passive skill), accompanied by the emergence of light, Wen Yu slowly opened his eyes.

At this moment, the Pitch-dark Divine Light (species-specific esoteric level, active ability), which had accompanied him for seventeen years, finally became complete!