Night fell. Darkness covered the world of Divine Oracle.
[Inferno City, Tavern]
Tyrant and Tyrannosaur came here to meet up with the High Priest, Nether, who wore a blood-red cloak.
At this moment, Chen Jun suddenly took out a large number of magic scrolls from his backpack and handed them to Nether.
"My lord, I've already followed your instructions. I privately contacted every buyer and bought back all the D-rank Promotion Scrolls they had at three to five times the original price."
"I did the math. That kid selling scrolls in South City sold more than five hundred scrolls in total. Right now, no one would guess that 420 of them are already in our hands."
"Tomorrow, we can use these scrolls to form twenty-eight Silver teams and enter the Divine Tomb dungeon at the same time as Rulebound. I've already found the manpower, so there's no need for you to worry."
"That way, more than eighty percent of the players inside the dungeon tomorrow will be ours! And with you there as well, Rulebound will be outnumbered. He definitely won't be our match."
A sharp look appeared in Chen Jun's eyes as he said, "Once we kill Rulebound in the Divine Tomb tomorrow and you take his SSS-rank talent, he'll be nothing but a cripple."
Beneath the blood-red cloak, Nether's gaze was deep as he said in a low voice, "The Boss has high expectations for us."
"So this alone isn't enough. We need to make more preparations."
"To ensure tomorrow's operation succeeds without fail."
Chen Jun immediately replied, "Please give your orders, my lord!"
"Follow the list I'm sending you. No matter what method you use, lure them out tonight."
As he spoke, Nether sent Chen Jun a game message.
The message contained a long list of player IDs and information, Ruffian · A Promising Tomorrow (Lv57 Assassin · Heavenly Ranking #199)!
Source of Magic · July Rain (Lv56 Elementalist · Heavenly Ranking #258)!
Guardian · Silent Years (Lv57 Paladin · Heavenly Ranking #97)!
Crowd Control Master · Ironblood Ruthless (Lv58 Dark Wizard · Heavenly Ranking #24)!
When Chen Jun and Zhang Long saw the names on the list, both were shocked.
"These... are all experts from Inferno City's Heavenly Rankings?"
Although he didn't know what Nether intended to do, the repeated failures had left Chen Jun increasingly lacking confidence.
Somewhat nervous, he said to Nether, "My lord, although you granted me the S-rank talent Origin of All Things, and my strength has recovered quite a bit because of it..."
"I'm still far weaker than these Heavenly Ranking experts. I'm worried that if I can't handle them, I'll end up affecting your plan instead."
Under the blood-red cloak, Nether's voice remained calm.
"You don't need to deal with them. Your task is only to lure them out of the city one by one."
"Leave the rest to me."
Hearing this, Chen Jun relaxed.
"Alright!"
"Don't worry, my lord. Leave it to me!"
———
[North of Inferno City]
Under the moonlight, a young man and woman walked hand in hand along the road.
The man's ID was A Promising Tomorrow. He wore black assassin gear and was as high as level 57. Behind his ID was the mark of Heavenly Ranking #199.
His strength was obvious at a glance.
The girl was named Keqi.
A level 55 little mage.
After leaving the city, the young man followed where the girl was leading him.
Along the way, A Promising Tomorrow finally couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked, "Baby, where exactly are you taking me?"
The mage girl Keqi put on a mysterious expression.
"You'll know in a minute."
As soon as she finished speaking—
Whoosh!
A person suddenly appeared ahead and blocked their path.
The other party wore a blood-red cloak. His bearing was imposing, and his presence was powerful.
Sensing trouble, A Promising Tomorrow immediately drew his blade and stepped in front of his girlfriend, Keqi.
Staring at the blood-cloaked figure, he shouted, "Who are you?"
Beneath the blood-red cloak, a trace of coldness appeared in Nether's deep eyes.
Without saying a word, he directly entered combat mode.
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
At the same moment a golden book appeared in Nether's left hand, he rapidly completed a spell and summoned dozens of rays of golden light from the book, scattering them across the surrounding ground.
The golden lights turned beans into soldiers. As soon as they touched the ground, they transformed into level 57 Skeleton Warriors, A-rank Talent, Undead Summoning.
At the same time, Nether activated several other talents.
A-rank Talent, Tactical Amplification!
A-rank Talent, Defense Amplification!
A-rank Talent, Life Amplification!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Rings of light spread from Nether's body and flowed into every Skeleton Warrior.
"Kill."
With Nether's command, the Skeleton Warriors, strengthened to the limit, charged at the Heavenly Ranking assassin, A Promising Tomorrow.
A Promising Tomorrow drew his blade and launched a counterattack.
He clasped his hands together and activated his talent skill.
The next moment—
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Six level 57 assassin clones appeared around him, each possessing the same level, equipment, and skills as A Promising Tomorrow himself.
Seeing this, Chen Jun and Zhang Long, who were watching from the shadows, couldn't help being surprised.
"This is... the A-rank talent, Shadow Clone Technique?"
"Did Lord Nether ask us to lure him out to.. to take his talent?"
———
[On the Battlefield]
A Promising Tomorrow led his six clones and immediately engaged the Skeleton Warriors summoned by Nether.
Although his A-rank talent Shadow Clone Technique was extremely powerful, his own strength wasn't high enough, causing the clones he summoned to be less powerful as well.
They were completely unable to stand against the Skeleton Warriors that Nether had summoned and then enhanced with three A-rank strengthening talents.
Amid flashing blades and weapons, all six clones were quickly cut down by the Skeleton Warriors.
A Promising Tomorrow was also personally killed by Nether's magic.
With a thud, he dropped to his knees and turned into a beam of white light that flew away.
Watching her boyfriend die before her, the mage girl Keqi, A Promising Tomorrow's girlfriend, felt upset, yet she showed no surprise, as if she had already expected this outcome.
She turned around and ran back toward Inferno City.
Nether did not pursue her and simply let her leave.
After returning to the city, the girl immediately went to the Resurrection Spring and met up with her boyfriend.
Instead of caring about his death or lost level, she happily showed him a payment notification from Alipay.
"Baby! One hundred thousand yuan! We made one hundred thousand yuan in one night!"
A Promising Tomorrow finally understood.
He looked at his girlfriend in disbelief.
"So you deliberately lured me out so that person could kill me?"
"You sold me out for money?"
The girl still didn't think she had done anything wrong.
"He said he'd give me one hundred thousand yuan as long as I brought you out and let him kill you once."
"My dad already said that as long as there's a bride price of 380,000 yuan, he'll agree to let us get married. But with your income alone, when will you ever save up 380,000?"
"Who do you think I did this for? Wasn't I trying to help you marry me sooner?"
"Besides, it was only one death in a game. It's not like you'd really die!"
"Why do you think he'd pay you one hundred thousand yuan just to kill me once?"
A Promising Tomorrow opened his talent panel and showed it to the girl.
The panel was completely blank.
In despair, he said, "He stole my talent!"
Only then did the girl begin to panic, "I... I didn't know this would happen!"
"I'll go find him right now. I'll give the money back and tell him to return your talent!"
A Promising Tomorrow violently shook off her hand, "All you care about is money!"
"Your whole family only cares about money!"
"Let's break up."
The girl fell to the ground.
Watching her boyfriend log off and disappear before her eyes, she was left with endless regret and self-blame.
———
Meanwhile, after killing A Promising Tomorrow, Nether arrived at the spot where he had disappeared.
Whoosh!
A stream of golden light flowed into the golden book.
[Ding~ You have stolen player A Promising Tomorrow's A-rank talent: Shadow Clone Technique!]