Hearing Ouyang Linger's analysis, Zhang Yue finally understood.
No wonder his Death Servants suddenly became so much weaker.
When he first saw that the so-called "God's Apostles," despite being lord-class monsters, only had one skill, Zhang Yue had already found it strange. It didn't make sense.
Now he realized, their skill was used in stacks like this.
According to Ouyang Linger: even if there were only a thousand God's Apostles on the first floor of this Divine Tomb, and each of their [God's Awe] effects could only stack by 0.01% each time.
If all one thousand God's Apostles cast God's Awe simultaneously, that would mean the effect could stack a thousand layers at once, reducing enemy damage by 10% and increasing the damage they take by 10%.
The most terrifying part was, if God's Awe had no stacking limit, it could theoretically be stacked infinitely.
Once it reached ten thousand layers, it would reduce the target's damage by 100%, while increasing the damage they take by 100%.
The extra damage taken wasn't the big issue, it was the damage reduction that mattered most.
A 100% reduction in final damage meant completely losing the ability to deal any damage at all.
Without being able to deal damage, you're basically done for.
Fortunately, there weren't that many God's Apostles in this chamber, roughly about a thousand.
And according to Ouyang Linger's analysis, their [God's Awe] skill had a 30-second cooldown.
That meant, if each God's Apostle cast God's Awe once every 30 seconds, it would take 300 seconds, or 5 minutes, to reach a full 10,000 stacks.
["So that means, I only have five minutes of fighting time?"]
["In theory, yes,"] Ouyang Linger said, ["If you can't kill all the God's Apostles within five minutes, then after that, you'll lose all combat ability. At that point, you won't be able to kill them at all."]
["And the effect of God's Awe cannot be dispelled by any means, unless you exit the Divine Tomb itself!"]
In front of the computer screen, when Ouyang Linger said this much, even she found it unbelievable.
"Holy crap! Kill a thousand level-300 lord monsters in under five minutes? That's insane!"
"And this is just the first floor of the Divine Tomb? Oh my god, how are you even supposed to deal with what comes after?"
Even just thinking about it made Ouyang Linger's scalp tingle.
She simply couldn't imagine, if someone somehow cleared the first floor, how could they possibly handle the challenges that followed?
But Zhang Yue didn't dwell on that.
In his mind, there was only one thing that mattered, clearing this first floor. And to do that, he had to kill all the God's Apostles within five minutes.
With that goal in mind, Zhang Yue started a 300-second countdown.
The next instant, he summoned his pet army and activated his soul command.
Fatal Locks!
Hands of Hell!
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
Seven nebula-like chains shot out like seven blades, extending from around Zhang Yue, freely attacking the nearby God's Apostles.
Those indestructible blades pierced through large groups of Apostles in an instant, inflicting heavy damage upon them.
By now, Zhang Yue's level had reached 290, Tier 6, and the attack power of Fatal Locks had risen to an astounding 1800% attack coefficient.
The killing power of Fatal Locks far exceeded Zhang Yue's own.
One lightning skill could only inflict around 60 billion+ damage on an God's Apostle.
But the damage from Fatal Locks reached over 100 billion+.
Unfortunately, even that wasn't enough to pose a truly fatal threat to the God's Apostles.
After all, they were lord-class monsters, level 300, no less.
Each God's Apostle had a massive 420 billion HP.
Even with Zhang Yue's average output of 60 billion per hit, it would take six or seven attacks to bring down just one Apostle.
Of course, in practice, it wasn't quite that bad.
With the Death Legion and his pet army working together, Zhang Yue could easily wipe out large groups of God's Apostles at once.
To maximize his damage, Zhang Yue didn't hold back.
He immediately unleashed the forbidden ultimate skill, Secret Art: Thunder Summoning Art!
At once, all lightning skills gained +50% final damage, plus no cooldowns, for 60 seconds.
Under the power of the Thunder Summoning Art, Zhang Yue's single-target damage soared to over 80 billion+.
Countless SSS-rank lightning skills rained down like a thunderstorm, blasting into the God's Apostles across the battlefield.
They were slaughtered one after another in a storm of lightning and destruction.
At first, things went smoothly.
Since the God's Awe stacks hadn't yet built up, Zhang Yue and the Death Legion weren't being heavily weakened, they could almost ignore the debuff.
But as time went on, the God's Apostles cast God's Awe every 30 seconds, continuously stacking the effect. Zhang Yue's damage gradually dropped.
In just three minutes, his attacks were only doing about 70% of their normal damage.
That was only because he had already killed a large number of Apostles during those three minutes.
Otherwise, at the original stacking speed, 1000 layers every 30 seconds, the God's Awe buff would've reached 6000 layers by now, cutting his damage by 60%.
So actually, there was no need to insist on finishing within five minutes.
The pressure eased a bit.
Zhang Yue continued his slaughter, and finally, after about seven minutes, wiped out every last God's Apostle.
Looking around, he saw that the vast chamber was now completely empty, no living God's Apostle remained.
Only then did Zhang Yue finally let out a long breath.
"The difficulty of just the first floor… is this high."
At that moment, Ouyang Linger's voice came from the other end of the video call, ["The strategy for this Divine Tomb is way too hard, big bro. Are you sure you don't want to think it over again? If it really doesn't work, maybe we should just pull out. We can find other ways to get stronger. If you die in there, you've got no revive chance, it's game over for real!"]
Zhang Yue's eyes were firm, ["I'm doing this."]
["You handle the strategy. Live."]
Ouyang Linger sighed helplessly, ["Alright then. If you're going to be this stubborn... fine. I'll do a real-time strategy guide for you!"]
["We'll keep the video on the whole time. Anything I can't see, you describe it to me. I'll list out every possible option as fast as I can!"]
["One computer isn't enough!"]
———
At the Heavens Hall Guild Headquarters, Ouyang Linger turned to Wu Haotian beside her, "Mouse, go get a few more computers for me, fast ones!"
Wu Haotian puffed up his chest, "You tell me to move computers and I just do it? Wouldn't that make me look bad?"
Then Zhang Yue's voice came from the computer screen, ["Ten thousand bonus per computer."]
"Holy crap!", Wu Haotian bolted out at lightning speed, his shoes flew off mid-run.
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