CHAPTER 629: CHAPTER 629: ARENA LEVEL-3 OPENS!

Because he was suspected of being the "Ghost", the originally already-popular Zhang Yue’s livestream room exploded with popularity the moment it reopened after eight hours.

The number of live viewers instantly exceeded 2 billion.

Little Raccoon snack noodles exploded with 50 million orders...

As long as someone still disappeared during Zhang Yue’s livestream, then it would prove: Zhang Yue was not the Ghost.

Therefore, everyone stayed in Zhang Yue’s livestream room, waiting to witness the truth.

Following Zhang Yue’s point of view.

Not long after Zhang Yue entered the Hell Gladiator Arena, a system notification suddenly descended from the sky—

[[System Announcement](Hell Gladiator Arena): "Ding~ All professional contestants currently in the Hell Gladiator Arena please note: As the number of participants ranked as 3-star Arena Masters has exceeded 10,000, the Arena Level-3 has now opened. All contestants at 3-star Arena Master rank may now enter the Arena Level-3 for challenge!"]

["Ding~ System has detected that your rank has reached 3-star Arena Master. Would you like to immediately enter the Arena Level-3?"]

Whoosh!

A curtain of white light materialized in front of Zhang Yue.

Without hesitation, Zhang Yue stepped into the light.

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["Ding~ Welcome to the Arena Level-3. Your current assigned battlefield is Battlefield No.19. Please begin your challenge."]

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Yue appeared in an endless city.

Looking around, the streets and alleys were all in ruins.

The surrounding skyscrapers were all in a half-collapsed state, seemingly about to fall at any moment.

According to the rules for the Arena Level-3 announced by the system: professional contestants must kill monsters to collect Monster Medals, then find a Monster Merchant to hand over the medals in exchange for points.

Medals are divided into eight tiers by value:

Black Iron Medal, worth 1 point.

Bronze Medal, worth 2 points.

Silver Medal, worth 3 points.

Gold Medal, worth 5 points.

Platinum Medal, worth 7 points.

Diamond Medal, worth 10 points.

Star Glory Medal, worth 15 points.

King Medal, worth 20 points.

The higher the level of the medal, the lower its drop rate.

In the Arena Level-3, killing other contestants allows you to loot the medals they carry.

When a contestant dies, 10 points are deducted. If there are not enough points remaining to deduct, they are eliminated directly.

At this moment, Zhang Yue took out his contestant card to take a look.

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[Contestant: Zero](Dragon Nation)

[Current Rank Stars: 3-star Arena Master](0/2000)

[Current Gladiator Points: 0]

[Current Ranking: NO.10002]

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Just slightly careless, and he dropped out of the top 10,000.

Meanwhile, the one ranked first, Elfa, already had 300 points.

Looks like Zhang Yue needed to catch up in the rankings.

Raising his staff, Zhang Yue began searching the ruined city for prey.

As long as he killed monsters, medals would drop, allowing him to accumulate points.

The rules of the Arena Level-3 were relatively simple, not complicated.

Just then, ahead in the ruins, a swarm of huge black spiders were scuttling around.

Level 175 Dark Spiders.

Target locked.

Zhang Yue held his staff and was about to approach.

Suddenly, before Zhang Yue could make a move, a black shadow darted into the ruins like lightning.

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!

With a burst of rapid slashes, relying on extreme lethality, the shadow wiped out the dozen or so Dark Spiders in the ruins in an instant!

Zhang Yue’s spellcasting movement came to a sudden halt.

He casually rested the staff on his shoulder.

"My prey, and you dare steal it?"

"Not bad," The key point was: that assassin was from the Sun Nation.

Upon realizing the person belonged to one of the Seven Nations, Zhang Yue didn’t hesitate, and instantly teleported onto the field.

The assassin from the Sun Nation, [Kadiwa], who had just cleared the monsters and was about to claim his loot, looked up and saw the Death Mage, Zero, standing before him.

"Must’ve woken up too fast... Did I just see Zero?", Kadiwa laughed nervously... then burst into tears, "F*ck me! Zero?"

BOOM!

Zhang Yue unleashed a thunderous strike, sending Kadiwa straight to heaven on the spot.

Right in front of 2 billion livestream viewers, Zhang Yue said, "You all saw it, he came to me himself. I didn’t deliberately go after him."

At this time, a viewer from Eastern deliberately began fanning the flames:

["Everyone saw it! Zero is the Ghost! All the people who disappeared were killed by Zero!"]

["Quick! Go check the livestream of that assassin from the Sun Nation who just got killed, he must be gone now!"]

Just then, other viewers in the livestream started calling out the nonsense:

["What a dumbass. Anyone who participates in the arena, who hasn’t killed before? The rules explicitly allow contestants to kill each other. If killing someone makes you the Ghost, then every contestant in the world is the Ghost?"]

["I just checked Kadiwa’s livestream room from the Sun Nation, he didn’t disappear! He’s still there! His livestream is still going!"]

["The previously killed contestants, before they died, their livestreams automatically shut off. It’s so obvious, Zero can’t be the one who did it!"]

Zhang Yue paid no mind to the audience’s arguments in the livestream.

He sent the Armageddon Skeleton King and Apex Predator to collect all the drops from the dozen Dark Spiders that were killed in the ruins.

Unexpectedly, he found: from the 12 Dark Spiders, only 1 medal had dropped, and it was the lowest-grade Black Iron Medal.

As for Kadiwa, since the Arena Level-3 had just opened, it was clear he didn’t have any medals on him, so none dropped from him either.

"Is the drop rate really that low?", Zhang Yue frowned slightly.

Still, it wasn’t a big deal.

Zhang Yue immediately moved to the next area.

The current main mission was to kill monsters, not players.

However, if he saw professionals from the Eight Nations, Zhang Yue would still gladly hand them a free plane ticket.

As for Zhang Yue’s monster-killing speed, there was no doubt.

He sent out five pets in five different directions.

Under the ruthless slaughter of Armageddon Black Dragon, Apex Predator, Ice-Sealed War God, Armageddon Skeleton King, and Cherry, Zhang Yue simply received a non-stop stream of kill records.

Followed by the loot brought back by Armageddon Black Dragon and the others: medals.

Zhang Yue hardly needed to fight himself, he just sat back and enjoyed the rewards.

In his hand, Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and other various medal grades were all accounted for.

Zhang Yue’s current task was to find a Monster Merchant and hand over these medals to exchange for points.

Only redeemed medals could be converted into points.

Holding them did not count as points.

Because there was always a risk of being killed and losing them.

At the moment, for Zhang Yue, there was no need to worry about being killed and dropping medals.

He just didn’t want to carry so many medals and increase his weight burden.

Just as Zhang Yue was killing monsters to collect medals and searching for a Monster Merchant, some viewers in the livestream suddenly noticed a problem.

["The Ghost... has stopped moving!"]

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