Heroes' Prison

Chapter 433 - 423: Reinforcements Join the Group

Next, the group discussed the issue of Ultimate Skills.

Everyone has an Ultimate Skill, from Common Race Classes to Advanced Race Classes, and on to Rare Race Classes, each differing from the next. Among these skills, some are designed for the entire team, with very special effects, making them more important. However, these skills also have very long cooldowns, like Xiao Chunzi’s Mass Resurrection, which has a cooldown of ten days. There are no effective ways to eliminate the cooldown, so one can only wait.

In the Hero Team, both Xiao Chunzi and Overlord have skills that eliminate cooldown, but this elimination actually reduces the cooldown time, not literally removing it completely.

Overlord’s skill reduces the cooldown by ten minutes, while Xiao Chunzi’s skill reduces it by twenty minutes. For skills with a cooldown of a few minutes, this can achieve an instant cooldown wipe. However, for Ultimate Skills with cooldowns of several days, or even ten days, the effect of their skills is minuscule.

"Everyone, let’s give it our all!" Huang Yi looked around with a somewhat solemn tone, "In our Group A, the strongest teams, Yanhuang Legion and Heavenly Group, will definitely advance. The remaining 30 teams are all competing for the third and fourth spots, and the competition will be fierce!"

After speaking, Huang Yi turned his head to glance at Quick Spike, who had not spoken throughout the meeting, and his solemn face relaxed slightly, "Quick Spike, don’t hold back on your Ultimate Move tonight. Just do your best in the individual competition. It’s great if you can make it into the top 64, but it’s okay if you can’t. After all, as a player of a Common Race and Common Class, you have innate disadvantages, so making it into the top 128 is already quite impressive."

"Okay!" Quick Spike nodded, with a somewhat restrained expression. This was his first time attending such a high-level meeting, and he was a bit nervous.

"Additionally, from now on, you will be our Warrior Hall Master! Currently, a few Acting Hall Masters are in charge. If you have any questions, you can ask them." After saying this, Huang Yi used his Guild Leader privileges to promote Quick Spike to Warrior Hall Master.

With this, six of the seven Great Classes of the Hero Guild had appointed leaders: Mage Hall’s Light Demon, Priest Hall’s Prideful Death God, Assassins’ Hall’s Nameless, Exotic Warriors’ Hall’s Ghost Cloud’s Words, Knight Hall’s Supreme Overlord Flame, and the newly appointed Warrior Hall Master, Quick Spike. Only Hunter Hall was left without an official leader. No suitable candidate had been found yet, so it remained temporarily under the management of the Acting Hall Masters.

At that moment, Huang Yi suddenly received a message from his close friend—Dugu Lengcang.

He immediately opened it—

"Instakill, our Lone Army Guild’s Seed Team has just been eliminated. I want to bring some elites from our guild to temporarily join your Heroes’ Guild and fight as far as we can."

Seeing this message, Huang Yi was slightly taken aback and revealed a sincere smile.

"Big bro, why are you grinning like an idiot? Did some girl message you?" At this moment, Light Demon glanced at Huang Yi with a teasing expression, his peach blossom eyes slightly squinted, and he leaned back with his legs crossed.

"You’re overthinking it. It was a big guy who messaged me." Huang Yi said, looking around at the senior members present, "Gentlemen, I have some good news to announce. Dugu Lengcang just told me their Lone Army Guild’s Seed Team has been eliminated, and he wants to bring some elites to join our Heroes’ Guild temporarily and continue the fight."

"Ah? That’s great! Our team has grown stronger!" Upon hearing this news, everyone was initially shocked, then they all became excited.

Dugu Lengcang was the winner of the Best Fortune Award at last year’s annual festival, and he is also one of the top players in the China Region. Although he hasn’t reached the super first-class level of players like Dragon Spike and Sharp Sword, his abilities are not to be underestimated. Under his vast wealth, the Lone Army Guild had made it into the top 20 of the China Region Guild rankings. With several elite players in their Seed Team, their addition to the Heroes’ Guild would significantly enhance its strength.

"Brother, why are they willing to fight for us? Is it just because he is your good friend?" At that moment, Xiao Chunzi tugged at Huang Yi’s sleeve, looking puzzled.

"It’s not just that, it’s a win-win situation!" Huang Yi patted Xiao Chunzi’s head, explaining, "They’ve been eliminated, so they can’t compete anymore, which means they would miss out on rewards completely. If they join our team, they can continue to compete and also continue to acquire Stone Exchange. Although the Reward Vault hasn’t opened yet, and we aren’t sure what exactly the Stone Exchange can be used for, it’s definitely going to be something worthwhile. The more Stone Exchange we have, the better. If our team can win the championship, then they can also receive those fixed prizes, such as raising their level, obtaining Energy Stones, and so on."

"Right! That’s what those smaller country teams we encountered before have been doing," Qin Shiyu added, "Like the Rwandan team we met earlier, which was composed of elites from all their guilds that had been eliminated, representing their country’s last hope. The New Zealand team we’ll face next is the same. Tomorrow’s Australian Kangaroo Legion we’re up against will be no different. The further we go, the more common this phenomenon becomes."

"If that’s the case, why didn’t Dugu Lengcang and his team join the stronger Yanhuang Legion instead?" Xiao Chunzi asked again, tilting her head curiously.

"Because there are limited spots on the team!" Sunset took over the conversation and patiently explained, "The Yanhuang Legion is already the top team in our region, with all sorts of elites in it, confident enough to compete for the championship. Adding elites like Dugu Lengcang is just the icing on the cake for them. More importantly, there are only five hundred spots on the team, and the Yanhuang Legion wants its brothers to get more rewards. After all, bringing in outsiders means squeezing out their own brothers’ spots. Although it can increase the team’s strength, it may also result in some of their own brothers missing out on the rewards. There are pros and cons to this, and it depends on the specific situation of each team. Our team’s current strength isn’t sufficient, so bringing in a batch of experts would be more beneficial than not."

"Oh! I get it now! I never knew there was so much to consider; it’s really quite complicated." Xiao Chunzi stuck out her tongue as she spoke, having never considered these issues before.

"Also, let me share some intelligence we just got." Suddenly, Mysterious flashed a strange smile and said, "We’ve just received news that Unbeaten and Nonexistence, along with some of their team’s elites including the super-strong priest Lapis Lazuli, have temporarily joined Sunset’s Sun Team under Thunder God."

Upon hearing this, all the high-ranking members from the Rose Prison present suddenly had odd expressions on their faces, looking like they wanted to laugh but were trying hard to suppress it.

Unbeaten and Nonexistence probably did this because they thought that the Sun Guild was the sworn enemy of the Hero Guild, hastily joining the Sun Team under Thunder God.

But they didn’t realize that by doing so, they were actually increasing the strength of their own brothers in the Heroes’ Guild.

"This means our situation has gotten more grim, right? After Sun Team absorbed Unbeaten, Nonexistence, Lapis Lazuli, and the rest, their strength has suddenly increased a lot! More importantly, they now have the Mass Resurrection ability. We are in the same group as them, and there might be tough battles ahead!" At this point, the head of the Assassins’ Hall, Nameless, frowned and spoke with concern. As an outside expert in the Hero Guild, he was not aware of the inside story in Rose Prison and still thought that the Hero Guild and Sun Guild were mortal enemies.

"Don’t worry about it." At this moment, Huang Yi waved his hand and comforted them in a somewhat feigned manner, "What is meant to come will always come, and we can’t avoid it. Just stay calm."

Having said that, he looked around at the high-ranking guild officials, waved his hand, and said, "Alright, the meeting is dismissed! See you all tomorrow."

Everyone stood up and left the conference hall.

Huang Yi, Xiao Chunzi, and Qin Shiyu then headed to the Tower of Pantheons for level grinding.

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Now, it was time for some tough level grinding.

At the moment, Huang Yi was at Level 96 and struggling to reach Level 97. Firstly, the experience required for leveling up had greatly increased; secondly, there were few suitable monsters left for level grinding. Monsters above Level 100 were too powerful for him to defeat, while those below his level didn’t give enough experience.

The final few levels before reaching the Holy Domain Rank were destined to be a long and arduous process. However, the martial arts competition was an opportunity, where the champion of the individual matches could directly advance by 3 levels, the runner-up by 2 levels, and the third place by 1 level. Additionally, each member of the team that won the group competition could also increase by 1 level. If Huang Yi managed to win something, the time to reach Level 100 would be significantly reduced.

At present, Huang Yi was still number one on the World Rankings, but the second-ranked Miyamoto Musashi was catching up fast. Since Musashi returned from hiatus, he had been level grinding around the clock and had already caught up to Level 95, about to level with Huang Yi.

Huang Yi, Xiao Chunzi, and Qin Shiyu chose the five-person mode in the Tower of Pantheons, tackling the 89th Stage, which was the highest level they could clear. The monsters on this level ranged from Level 89 to 99, with no Level 100 monsters.

The three of them chatted as they fought.

Then, Qin Shiyu turned to Huang Yi and said gently, "After the end of the individual contest tonight, the top 64 grouping will be out. Starting tomorrow, you’ll have to fight in both the team contest and the individual contest. Don’t exhaust yourself."

"I know!" Huang Yi nodded, "Next, I will try to learn the Level 95 skill, which is a Major Skill for my class, and the last one before Holy Domain. But the challenge is too difficult, I haven’t been able to beat it before and learn it."

"Do you need my help? You got me to Level 60 yesterday! And I learned a really powerful Nefalem Skill too!" Xiao Chunzi looked up at Huang Yi and offered. (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit qidian.com to cast your Recommendation Tickets and Monthly Tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)