EFB Chapter 99 Cleaning Up the Crystal Beasts
Chapter 99 Cleaning Up the Crystal Beasts
Chapter 99 Cleaning Up the Crystal Beasts
"What a coincidence, Chen Yuan, the elite."
A streak of purple light descended from the sky, and a Star-level warrior dressed in second-tier battle armor landed lightly, a friendly smile on his face: "I didn't expect you to be the one who discovered the problem with the secret realm."
"By the way, my name is Como, just call me by my first name."
"Hello, Cuomo."
Chen Yuan smiled and pointed to the five adventurers lying on the ground: "These are the adventurers who came from Dark Blue Star."
"These are the people."
Como crouched down and took out several bracelets that shimmered with a ghostly blue light from his spatial ring. He skillfully put them on the adventurers one by one: "All done. With these specially made bracelets sealing off their genetic energy, we won't have to worry about them escaping."
Chen Yuan watched Cuomo's movements, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Are these people—in danger?"
"How is that possible!"
When Cuomo heard this question, he chuckled and said, "We are soldiers, not space pirates. Everything will be done in accordance with company law."
"These people stumbled into the secret realm by mistake and didn't commit any major offenses. At most, we'll take them back for questioning. Once the company has control of the rift passage on Dark Blue Star, we'll release them."
As Cuomo spoke, he observed Chen Yuan's expression and then said, "If you're really worried, you can come back with us."
"With your status as a top-tier elite, you are fully qualified to supervise the entire interrogation process."
"No need, I trust you."
Chen Yuan shook his head and declined. In his telepathic sense, the goodwill emanating from Cuomo was clearly discernible, and he was indeed not deceiving him.
"My life-and-death experience mission is not yet complete, so I cannot leave without permission," Chen Yuan explained.
"The secret realm is about to collapse and you still have to do the mission. Your teacher is so strict."
Cuomo couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.
Chen Yuan realized that Komo, as an ordinary soldier, was unaware of the inside story of the secret realm's decay period, so he gave a brief explanation, telling him that the secret realm would not collapse in the short term.
"I see-"
Como suddenly realized, then chuckled self-deprecatingly: "It seems that if I don't break through to the cosmic level, I'll never see the collapse of the secret realm in my lifetime."
While the two were talking, the second team member arrived, and in the following ten minutes, the rest of the team members also arrived at the meeting point.
"Alright, Chen Jingying, let's take these people with us."
Como told his teammates to help the unconscious adventurer up, and before leaving, he waved to Chen Yuan: "I wish you a successful journey and a safe return."
Watching them leave, Chen Yuan turned his gaze to the valley.
"It's time to continue with the mission."
The next second, Chen Yuan soared into the sky, like a streak of blue lightning piercing the heavens, and in an instant, he landed in the center of the valley.
With a roar, his domain power was unleashed, and his figure moved like a ghost through the beast horde, each sword light precisely shattering the energy core of the crystal beast.
With Chen Yuan's current strength, dealing with these planetary-level crystal beasts is like entering an empty field.
In just one minute, thousands of crystal beasts were reduced to ashes by his sword!
Roar!
Such a large-scale massacre immediately alarmed the star-level crystal beasts in the valley.
A crystal beast mimicking a saber-toothed tiger leaped into the air, its body radiating dazzling energy, and pounced on Chen Yuan with the force of thunder.
However, this saber-toothed tiger crystal beast was only at the second level of the Hengxing star level. Especially after entering Chen Yuan's domain, its strength was compressed again, and its flight speed was greatly reduced.
"Too slow."
Chen Yuan's lips curled up slightly, and his figure suddenly rose, instantly appearing beneath the belly of the saber-toothed tiger crystal beast.
Before the opponent could react, the cyan sword light pierced its abdomen, precisely hitting the hidden crystal core. "Ming Yi—"
The saber-toothed tiger crystal beast let out a mournful cry, and its massive body suddenly disintegrated in mid-air, turning into countless specks of light that vanished, leaving only a few cubic meters of energy crystals behind, which Chen Yuan casually put into his spatial ring.
In the distance, several more roars of beasts could be heard.
Dozens of enormous figures flew into the sky; they were all star-level crystal beasts!
"Good timing."
Chen Yuan's fighting spirit intensified, and with a sweep of his mental power, he instantly ascertained the true nature of these crystal beasts.
There were a total of 82, most of them hovering around the first or second level of the Hengxing star, which was not much different from the saber-toothed tiger from before.
Therefore, Chen Yuan not only did not flee, but instead charged towards the herd of beasts.
The pale blue domain was activated to its maximum, instantly enveloping the entire horde of beasts.
"Storm Shadow!"
Chen Yuan's figure suddenly split into two, leaving behind afterimages in the air that were difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion.
These brute-force-only crystal beasts have neither domain resistance nor mental power assistance, and they lack basic intelligence. How can they distinguish which one is the true form?
They frantically pounced on the afterimages, some even colliding with each other, creating a chaotic scene.
With a flash of azure light, several crystal beasts perished instantly, and the energy crystals they blasted out were collected by Chen Yuan before they even fell to the ground.
With their overwhelming speed advantage, the group of crystal beasts couldn't even touch Chen Yuan's clothes and could only be slaughtered at his mercy.
In less than three minutes, all the star-level crystal beasts were slain, and Chen Yuan pocketed all the crystals that dropped.
After carefully storing the last crystal, Chen Yuan looked down and watched the planetary-level crystal beasts on the ground flee in panic.
As an energy life form, the Crystal Beast has forgotten its instincts due to long-term mimicry, completely regarding itself as an ordinary wild animal, even forgetting its ability to fly at the planetary level.
And since this is a valley, these planetary-level crystal beasts ran around aimlessly for a long time, only to end up going in circles.
In Chen Yuan's eyes, they were just walking killing spots, and points too.
With a slight smile, Chen Yuan immediately rushed down to continue harvesting!
Ten minutes later.
As the last crystal beast vanished into thin air, the entire valley returned to silence, with only Chen Yuan standing alone, sword in hand.
Chen Yuan bent down to pick up the last crystal, and just as he was about to put it into his spatial ring, he was surprised to find that the space inside the ring was already completely saturated.
The spatial ring, a gift from Luo Hai, with a capacity of one thousand cubic meters, is now completely filled.
"It's time to upgrade the ring."
Chen Yuan muttered to himself, his gaze sweeping over the data displayed on the system panel:
Kill Points: 7.8 million!
Before entering the valley, he had less than 100 million killing points. This means that in just over ten minutes, the crystal beasts in the valley contributed an astonishing 680 million killing points to him!
Meanwhile, Chen Yuan's experience points also climbed to 2316 points, and the mission progress was about a quarter complete.
With plenty of kill points, Chen Yuan couldn't resist the urge to spend them. You see, he hadn't dared to waste a single kill point before, in order to reserve them for the evolution potion!
Now that he has a large sum of money, Chen Yuan naturally doesn't need to be frugal.
Moreover, the capacity of the spatial ring has indeed reached a point where an upgrade is absolutely necessary.
So Chen Yuan opened the panel: "System, optimize the space ring, optimization direction: increase capacity, fully bind it to me."
[Task established, optimization objective: spatial ring, optimization direction: increase capacity and bind to the host.]
[This optimization is estimated to cost 50 kill points. Should we proceed with the optimization?]
"Only 50? Let's optimize it."
Chen Yuan didn't even consider this small amount of consumption a threat.
[Optimization task has been created, estimated completion time: 10 hours]
Chen Yuan felt he hadn't seen such a fast mission in a long time, so he spent another 150 million to shorten the time to 2.5 hours.
"Okay, let's keep optimizing the system for now."
Chen Yuan's gaze swept across the valley. Theoretically, areas that could give birth to a large number of crystal beasts were all energy-dense regions.
In other words, there is a high possibility that a large number of cosmic crystals are buried underground in this valley.
And now that the company has relaxed its mining restrictions, then—
With a thought, Chen Yuan extended his mental power underground to carefully sense the surroundings.
Suddenly, he sensed a strong energy reaction 5300 meters underground.
"Huh? There really is."
This discovery thrilled Chen Yuan, and he continued to explore further, wanting to see how much cosmic crystal deposits were in this area.
A moment later, Chen Yuan opened his eyes, his pupils filled with a hint of shock.
"The cosmic crystals below—there are at least over a million cubic meters!"