There is One New Rule Every Month Globally

"Another second-tier."

Chen Yi's brow furrowed as he withdrew his gaze from the dense demon horde below. After searching for a full hour, he had encountered plenty of first-tier Mothers of Demons, and second-tier Mothers of Demons weren't too rare either.

But so far, he had not seen a single third-tier Mother of Demons, let alone the Matriarch of the Mothers of Demons.

There were simply too many demons, swarming and nearly blotting out the sky, and there was no good way to search for the Mother of Demons. He had no choice but to keep looking in this dead-end way.

Just then—

"Over there!"

The Tuberculosis Rabbit's eyes shone as he pointed excitedly toward a noticeably taller demon in the distance and spoke rapidly, "Yi, check the information of this demon?"

"This demon is clearly bigger than the second-tier one we encountered before!"

"Let me take a look."

Hope surged once more in Chen Yi's eyes as he focused his gaze.

A moment later, he shook his head slightly in disappointment, "No, it's just a third-tier Mother of Demons. If I'm not mistaken, the fourth-tier Mother of Demons must be the ultimate progenitor of all demons."

"We have to find the fourth-tier Mother of Demons."

"Sigh!"

The Tuberculosis Rabbit sighed dejectedly, lighting a cigarette with a hint of fatigue and putting it to his lips, "My eyes are starting to hurt from looking at all these swarming demons."

"Let's keep searching."

...

After a full three hours.

Chen Yi and his group stood on the sled, eyes filled with anticipation, looking down upon a massive demon.

"Confirmed."

Chen Yi slowly took out his Snow Eagle Sniper Rifle from his embrace and aimed the muzzle at the giant demon below, revealing, "I can confirm that this demon is the Mother of all the demons here."

"Bang!"

With no nonsense, a bullet shot forth.

They had spent a full four hours to locate this Mother of Demons, definitely not for a reunion, but to bury the bullet harshly into the demon's body.

A burst of blood bloomed atop the demon's head, no damage numbers burst forth, just the enraged roar of the Mother of Demons.

But aside from the roar, there was nothing else.

None of the demons on this map had the means to fly, nor did they have any countermeasures against aerial attacks, even the bosses among these demons were the same; they just had thicker health bars, higher defenses, and stronger attacks.

As bosses, they had no way to retaliate against players in the air.

And the rules didn't allow these demons to use ladders, so they were utterly helpless.

"Bang, bang!"

Chen Yi fired shot after shot after shot, thoroughly enjoying himself as if he was shooting at targets.

Without a health bar on the boss, he could only watch its bodily condition deteriorate, counting silently in his head how many shots it would take to kill it.

But as the saying goes, rules are rigid, people are flexible.

Under Chen Yi's relentless and storm-like assault, the Mother of Demons in the horde couldn't take it any longer. With an angry roar, it picked up a Little Demon by the feet, spun it around in the air a few times, and then hurled it directly at Chen Yi's sled below!

"Whoosh!"

The speed was so fast it even created a sonic boom!

If captured by a high-speed camera, one could even see a faint blue flame caused by the high-speed air friction around the Little Demon!

Chen Yi quickly controlled the sled to dodge the strike with no hesitation, continuing to aim his Snow Eagle Sniper Rifle at the Mother of Demons below and pulled the trigger again.

An unartistic battle.

Rudimentary and brutal.

But practical.

The Mother of Demons below barely struggled for less than ten seconds before it fell to the ground with a wail, eyes full of tears and injustice!

"Bang!"

As the last bullet fired off, the C-level skill "Violators, Annihilate Nine Clans" activated!

Dozens of crimson beams, like red threads, shot towards the third-tier Mothers of Demons in the distance, and almost at the moment the red lines reached them, these third-tier Mothers of Demons also died a violent death!

And the instant these third-tier Mothers of Demons perished, more red lines shot out from their corpses, targeting the second-tier Mothers of Demons in the distance!

First-tier Mothers of Demons, Demons.

It was like this—

In just three seconds, countless red lines spread instantaneously through the bodies of all the demons below them, much like a laser grid.

"Bang!"

The next second.

All the demons froze in place and, after a second's pause, simultaneously exploded!

Countless streams of crimson blood burst in the air like magma!

Strikingly gorgeous!

Even the moon hanging in the sky seemed to be tinged with a faint blood-red hue.

With one shot, the entire field was cleared!

One shot, soul extinguished.

"So beautiful..."

Standing beside the sled, the Tuberculosis Rabbit gazed down at the scene below with a look of rapture on his face, resting his arms on the railing and murmuring, "Seeing such a beautiful view makes the more than four-hour run worthwhile."

Next to him, Sword Without End, with a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth, looked at Chen Yi's back and then down at the sea of blood and mountain of corpses below, muttering under his breath.

"What a perverted skill."

The Three-Foot Qingfeng, which had been coiling around him, quivered slightly, as if agreeing with what Sword Without End had said.

At that moment—

'Ding, the "Rabbits Do Not Kill" squad, led by squad leader Chen Yi, has successfully cleared the "Destiny's Adversary" map, and it has been detected that you are the first squad to clear this map.'

'All squad members individually receive the following first-clearance rewards!'

'Points*5000, Level 1 Enhancement Stone*20, D-Rank Random Skill Fragment*2.'

'Below is the squad map evaluation—'

'You spent 5 hours clearing the map and did not choose to survive for 24 hours but chose to kill all the monsters, which is an extremely extreme and highly strength-and-luck demanding way of clearing.'

'It's hard to believe, but you actually did it.'

'As a reward, you will receive a 100% map evaluation, and since it has been detected that the squad has obtained a 100% perfect reward for this map for the first time, each squad member will receive a Star Fragment as a special reward.'

'And as a regular clearance reward, each player will receive the following rewards.'

'Points*5000, Protection Stone*5, D-Rank Random Skill Fragment*1.'

A prompt sounded in the ears of every squad member, accompanied by a blackout and a sudden intense feeling of weightlessness. When everything returned to normal, they were standing on the rooftop of a building in the residential area.

And another prompt sounded in their ears.

'Ding, it has been detected that every member of the "Rabbits Do Not Kill" squad owns more than 3 C-Rank props, more than 10 D-Rank props, more than 3 C-Rank skills, has a prop enhanced to +12, and has cleared a squad-exclusive D-Rank map.'

'All promotion conditions are met.'

'Congratulations to the "Rabbits Do Not Kill" squad for successfully advancing from lv.1 to lv.2!'

'And for successfully making it onto the "Global Squad Leaderboard"!'

Chen Yi arched an eyebrow and looked up at the "Global Squad Leaderboard." Currently, theirs was the only squad listed, which seemed to indicate that, so far, no other squad had cleared a D-Rank map.

And with the squad leveling up, they had gained a new function.

'New function for Squad lv.2: Injury Sharing.'

'Injury Sharing: When a teammate suffers a severe injury, the squad leader can choose to distribute the injured member's wounds among the remaining teammates, pulling the injured member back from the brink of death. The cost is that all squad members will sustain a certain degree of injury.'

'PS: This new function cannot be used in the event of instant death.'

This function was newly added after the squad's advancement, and it could play a vital role in a life-saving situation under special circumstances.

"100% evaluation."

Tuberculosis Rabbit looked at the map evaluation panel with a satisfied air, unable to stop himself from grinning, "Spending five hours killing all the demons in the map to get a 100% evaluation score—when those other squads that clear by surviving 24 hours come out and see their map scores are only 2.30, they might wonder why there's such a huge gap."

"Indeed."

Sword Without End also nodded in agreement, "When I first entered the map, I never imagined annihilating all the demons. I thought it was about using the props obtained from the House of God to survive a challenging 24 hours."

"Wasting an hour on a special event without acquiring enough map props, I thought the survival would be difficult."

"But we just forcefully cleared it."

"Now it seems that this isn't a map that absolutely requires cultured people. As long as one is brutal enough, even if one's cultural knowledge is somewhat lacking, a perfect clearance is possible."

As Sword Without End and Tuberculosis Rabbit were enthusiastically discussing,

Chen Yi shook his head slightly with a trace of dissatisfaction on his face, "It's not enough."

"The speed was too slow. It took us a full 5 hours to annihilate all the demons in the map."

"We wasted too much time looking for that Demon Matron."

"If I were to go in again, knowing the location of the Demon Matron and including the time spent in the House of God, we would need less than 20 minutes to clear this map perfectly."

"Then, we can raise the upper limit of the map evaluation scores even higher."

"Um..."

Somewhat bewildered, Tuberculosis Rabbit hesitated and touched his nose, saying, "But each squad map only offers rewards on the first clearance. There's no reward for clearing it a second time."

"I know, but there's no loss, is there?"

"We can perform stronger, better, and more perfectly on this map. It would be a bit regretful if we stopped here."

"Okay, no need to talk further." Enjoy new adventures from empire

"Everyone prepare to enter the map again, and this time, let's aim to annihilate all the demons within 20 minutes. When we aim for a map, we go for the highest evaluation score!"

"To be the best, we have to do our best."

Sword Without End and Tuberculosis Rabbit exchanged glances and did not continue talking. As Tuberculosis Rabbit basically followed Chen Yi's orders unconditionally, he wouldn't object, and Sword Without End, who had just joined the squad and greatly admired Chen Yi, naturally would not object either.

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PS: My girlfriend bought a cake yesterday and we didn't finish it, so we'll continue eating it tonight. I'll revise the next two chapters after finishing the cake.