Chapter 765 - 735: Total Score Surges (Part 2)

Shi Anzhi and his team quickly returned to the military’s main camp and submitted their mission.

Then came a period of rest and waiting. Of course, this break wouldn’t be very long—generally only two or three minutes.

As soon as twenty teams returned, Little Fatty and his staff would instantly merge them into a single batch and send them out to accept their next missions.

Under this system, even if some teams in the same batch were delayed for some reason, it wouldn’t affect the overall operation.

After all, at the start, each batch of teams was dispatched at five-minute intervals. So, even if a team was delayed, they would only have to wait five minutes at most before the next batch of teams returned.

The entire East Sea Academy was operating with this incredible efficiency.

At first, the students from the other two academies didn’t pay much attention.

After all, it seemed that East Sea Academy was just accepting and completing missions as usual. Perhaps the only major difference was that all their students were concentrated in the same area.

However, as time went on, the students from the other two academies gradually discovered that East Sea Academy was completing missions at a speed that was almost unimaginably fast.

On average, the teams from East Sea Academy were finishing missions in only about half an hour.

This was practically unthinkable for the other two academies. Under normal circumstances, completing a single mission took about an hour.

If they ran into trouble during a mission, it was perfectly normal for the time to extend to an hour and a half.

It wasn’t that they couldn’t complete missions in half an hour; they could also finish simple missions efficiently. The problem was that simpler missions inevitably meant smaller rewards.

So, after noticing this, the students from the two academies immediately checked East Sea Academy’s Point acquisition efficiency.

They suspected that East Sea Academy was sacrificing difficulty for speed by only taking on simple missions.

But when they actually investigated, they were instantly dumbfounded. The missions East Sea Academy was accepting were not only no simpler than usual—they were actually more difficult.

What shocked them even more was that East Sea Academy’s teams were progressively increasing the difficulty of their missions, starting from the second one.

For example, an ordinary Second Level Team that had dared to take on a 30,000 Point mission at the start would then aim for a 50,000 Point mission on their second run.

After discovering this, the students from Capital University and Modu University instantly realized something big was happening.

And as time passed, their fears were gradually confirmed.

Over the next half hour, they observed that the rate at which East Sea Academy was accumulating total Points had increased by nearly four times compared to before.

East Sea Academy was completing missions twice as fast and earning twice the Points. The combined effect was a four-fold increase.

It was important to remember that while Capital University and Modu University had previously been stronger than East Sea Academy overall, the gap wasn’t that large.

For instance, Capital University’s overall strength was about 1.3 times that of East Sea Academy, while Modu University’s was only 1.1 times.

A gap like that wasn’t impossible to overcome.

But now things were different. This was a full four-fold disparity. They couldn’t possibly compete, even if they threw everything they had at it!

After realizing this, the students from the two academies couldn’t sit still any longer. They immediately found a way to contact their student leaders, Wan Feiyang and Xu Chengwen, who were still out on missions.

「...」

An hour and a half after East Sea Academy successfully implemented its plan, the student leaders of Capital University and Modu University were finally forced to sit down together and discuss the crisis.

"I believe everyone understands the situation. Feel free to share any thoughts you have," Wan Feiyang said, speaking inside a room at the main camp.

There were only three people in the room. Besides him, the other two were Yi Hao and Xu Chengwen.

Clearly, this was a meeting that only experts of the Divine Demon Realm were qualified to attend.

Although Wan Feiyang posed his question as if for open discussion, his real target from start to finish was Xu Chengwen.

He and Yi Hao had already discussed the matter after receiving the news. They couldn’t come up with a good counter-strategy, which was why they had asked Xu Chengwen to meet, hoping he might have a solution.

Xu Chengwen picked up the teacup from the table, took a sip, and then began to speak. "To be honest, I never would have imagined they’d use a method like this."

"You probably already know that I once said—in an effort to boost our students’ morale—that we could imitate any method they came up with. But it was only after understanding the situation that I realized some things can’t be copied just because you want to."

"Later, I also considered whether I could contact the two of you, and the three of us could jointly take on the role of ’rescuer’ like Lin Xinghai."

"But after careful calculation, I found it wouldn’t work. I don’t know what method he uses to rescue everyone so quickly, but none of the three of us are Speed-focused. We’ve all just broken through to the Divine Demon Realm, and our Speed is only a little over 10,000—not even 20,000."

"Even if we split up to perform rescues, our combined speed might not match Lin Xinghai alone. Moreover, if our two schools were to operate jointly, we would need to cover an even larger area just to have enough missions available."

"Besides the issue of rescue speed, just facing a Third Level Mutated Zombie, we can’t one-shot them. That alone dooms us to fall short of him," Xu Chengwen said with a hint of helplessness.

Hearing that last sentence, Wan Feiyang raised an eyebrow. He wanted to retort but found that he couldn’t.

Third Level Mutated Zombies could already use special abilities. If they encountered one with weak Defense Power, it wouldn’t be a problem. But against types like the "Giant Arm," "Death Claw," or even the "Armored Corpse," with their tenacious Life Force, a Divine Demon Realm Early Stage expert like them simply couldn’t kill them instantly.

Against a "Giant Arm" or "Death Claw," it would take at least twenty to thirty seconds to kill one safely. As for an "Armored Corpse," taking a full minute wouldn’t be surprising at all.

Even if they desperately cut that time in half, the gap between that and Lin Xinghai’s instant kills was still immense.

"Xu, you don’t have to keep spouting such demoralizing talk. Do you have a solution or not? If you do, spit it out. If not, then let’s just adjourn this meeting and figure things out on our own," Wan Feiyang said, his voice laced with impatience.

"Ahem!" Xu Chengwen cleared his throat. "I don’t have a good solution, but I do have one... unrefined idea."