CHAPTER 631: CHAPTER 631: 4-STAR ARENA GRANDMASTER!

["Ding~ Congratulations to Dragon Nation’s participating professional fighter [Zero] for being the first to reach 4-star Arena Grandmaster rank!"]

When this system announcement descended from the sky, instantly, countless people were shocked.

"What?"

Just after handing over all his medals, and ascending to the first place on the leaderboard with 1256 points, Elfa hadn’t even had time to feel proud, when he watched with wide eyes as his ranking was overtaken and dropped to second place.

Instantly, the smug smile on his face came to an abrupt stop, replaced by endless shock.

"How could he possibly be that fast?"

You have to know, in order to secure the number one throne in the Arena Level-3 and shake off Zhang Yue, Elfa had spent tremendous effort and cost.

He knew: according to the rules of medal drops from monster kills in the Arena Level-3, if it was a public duel, his speed in collecting medals and gaining points would definitely not match Zhang Yue’s.

So in order to obtain more medals and gain more points, from the moment he stepped into the Arena Level-3, Elfa issued an order, rallying all the participants from Beacon Nation and the Seven Major Nations in his battlefield 45, having them assist him in collecting medals together.

In the Arena Level-3, medals cannot be directly traded, only dropped upon death.

Therefore, Elfa’s tactic was to unite participants from eight nations, and after they collected their own medals, come to him and offer their lives to him.

He would kill them and explode medals from their bodies.

Although professional fighters don’t drop all their medals upon death, only 10% to 20% of the total medal count.

But the probability of monsters dropping medals is only 10%.

Whereas the probability of exploding medals from killing professional fighters is 100%.

Equivalent to combining the strength of dozens of people together, which allowed Elfa to gain over 900 points in such a short time.

However, what Elfa never expected was: even after joining forces with dozens of people, and considering the 300 initial points he accumulated with a 10% yield rate back in Arena Level-2 before the match started, he still couldn’t surpass Zhang Yue.

["That Zero must be cheating! In just one hour, he went from 3-star to 4-star? How is that even possible!"]

["Lord Elfa gathered the strength of dozens of participants from eight major nations, and still couldn’t beat Zero? Could it be that Zero also used the same method, sacrificing teammates to quickly collect medals?"]

["However, I just came from Zero’s livestream room, and he didn’t do that at all. He collected medals purely by killing monsters himself, occasionally plundering from participants of enemy nations."]

["Then how could he be that fast? 2000 points! Lord Elfa only gained 900 points in one hour!"]

Looking at the leaderboard, seeing [Zero] leap from over rank 13,000 straight to the top, Elfa’s eyes couldn’t help but burst with endless anger, "ZEROOO!"

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Zhang Yue’s performance could truly be described as silent for a long time, then astounding the world in one move.

From noon until now, his points had stayed at 0 in the 3-star Gladiator Expert rank, even dropping to over 13,000 in ranking.

Then suddenly, he directly ascended to the top with the 4-star Arena Grandmaster rank, no doubt setting off a huge global storm.

["Whoosh! he just shot from over ten thousandth place straight to first? Damn... that’s gotta be modified data, right?"]

["Damn! That’s insane! I can only say, the guy definitely has some kind of special permit in the Hell Gladiator Arena. After all, this secret realm was opened by Zero, so he must be the only one with this permit!"]

["Listen to how sour you all sound. I’m from the Beacon Empire, even though we have grudges with Dragon Nation, I’ve never looked down on Dragon Nation because of that. Let me speak a fair word here. I’ve been watching in Zero’s livestream for a whole hour. He killed monsters with his own strength to get medals, then exchanged medals for points to climb to first place. You guys just have to say he’s cheating. If Otherworld could really be hacked, what’s the difference between that and God? The world would’ve already fallen into Dragon Nation’s hands. Is it really that hard to admit someone else is stronger?"] [T/N: Bro’s spitting facts.]

And in fact, Zhang Yue really had only handed over all the medals he collected to the monster merchant.

When he first encountered the monster merchant, Zhang Yue learned: when a professional fighter submits more than 10 Black Iron-grade medals in one go, the points earned increase by 10%. If more than 20 medals are submitted, the points additionally increase by 20%.

Which means: normally, 1 Black Iron-grade medal = 1 point, but if you submit 10 at once, you get 11 points. Submit 25 at once, and you get 30 points.

And so on, with a cap of 100% extra.

So, Zhang Yue submitted a total of 202 Black Iron-grade medals, and gained 404 points.

For Bronze, Silver, and Gold-grade medals: submitting more than 10 at once gives +20% extra points, more than 20 gives +40%, and so on, capped at +100%.

For Platinum and Diamond-grade medals: submitting more than 8 at once gives +25% extra, capped at +100%.

For Starshine and King-rank medals: submitting more than 5 at once gives +50% extra, capped at +100%.

So, the medals Zhang Yue possessed, if exchanged at the regular point rate, would’ve only gotten him 1245 points.

But counting in all the extra percentages, the final points earned were 2121.

Continuing the rules from Arena Level 1 and Arena Level-2, When a participant’s points exceed 2000, or rank advances to 4-star Arena Grandmaster, the point yield in arenas below Tier 4 is reduced by 90%.

In the end, Zhang Yue advanced to the 4-star Arena Grandmaster rank, with 12 points remaining.

In the Arena Level-3, monster merchants are everywhere.

Most people don’t have the courage or strength to store up medals, so they submit them whenever they see a monster merchant.

Such people can only receive the lowest guaranteed reward.

Only strong fighters like Zhang Yue, who fear nothing, can taste the top-tier cake.

1245 points turned into 2121 points, maximizing the benefits.

As a result, after raising his rank to 4-star, Zhang Yue once again faced an age-old issue: in the Arena Level-3, point yield now reduced by 90%.

The Arena Level-4 will only open when the number of participants who reach the 4-star Arena Grandmaster rank exceeds a certain threshold.

Only, this time the opening requirement has been lowered.

Previously, it required 10,000 qualified participants to open.

But this time, the Arena Level-4 only requires 7000 to qualify for the 4-star Arena Grandmaster rank.

Of course, even 7000 is not a small number.

For ordinary professional fighters, the higher the arena tier, the greater the difficulty.

Clearly, it will take at least half a day to hit that 7000 qualified rate.

Zhang Yue didn’t mind.

Perfect, he could use the time to go farm the Gate of Immortality in World Thirty-Three. [T/N: 😑 Remember, you can only enter Gate of Immortality once.]

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