After sharing lunch with his companions, Chen Luo waited until the exhausted group had returned to their rooms to rest before coming to the balcony of the City Lord's mansion alone.
The biting cold that had gripped the land for days had completely vanished. The midday sun gave Chen Luo a feeling of having passed through a lifetime.
However, Chen Luo was alone now for a specific purpose.
"System, I want to claim the rewards for the Abyssal-level challenge mission!"
The system's interface popped up before Chen Luo, its information flashing rapidly!
[Detecting player Chen Luo has completed the Abyssal-level Purgatory challenge, receiving a base D-rank evaluation!]
[Kill achievements being tallied...]
[Killed 1.73946222 billion Tier 1 Elite-grade creatures! Mission evaluation level increased to B-rank!]
The Legion Descent was Chen Luo's skill, so the kill records of all soldiers under its effect could be counted as Chen Luo's achievements.
And initially, the number of those dark Death Skeletons that occupied the entire central district was definitely not this high.
The reason they could achieve a kill count of a billion in the end was largely due to the resurrection effect of the Death Lands on the undead.
It was only through the tireless and frantic combat of his hundred thousand soldiers over these three days that such a staggering record was achieved.
[Killed 24,107 Tier 1 Lord-grade creatures! Mission evaluation level increased to A-rank!]
[Killed 7,382 Tier 1 Nightmare-grade creatures! Mission evaluation level increased to S-rank!]
[Killed 751 Tier 1 Calamity-grade creatures! Evaluation level increased to SS-rank!]
These were basically the high-level monsters that appeared with the few Purgatory-level commanders after the Death Lands first shattered.
Ultimately, they were mostly killed by the Legion Commanders.
[Killed 104 Tier 1 Purgatory-grade creatures! Evaluation level increased to SSS-rank!]
At this moment, the light blue system panel's text had gradually transitioned to a dazzling gold, but it wasn't over yet.
[Player individually killed the Abyssal-level "Great Lich - Ulquiorra"! Evaluation greatly increased!]
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[..]
The golden text began to flicker erratically, as if the system had not anticipated Chen Luo possessing the strength to kill an Abyssal-level entity in just half a month.
However, as the game that governed everything, its own underlying rules could not be violated.
The constantly flashing panel gradually stabilized,
And the dazzling golden text turned into a peculiar dark red.
[Player's mission evaluation has broken through limits! Final evaluation level is X-rank!]
[Rewards are as follows]:
1. One Perfect-grade Life Leap (limited to Tier 1 lifeforms)
2. One draw of a Racial Heritage-grade skill
3. One World Coordinate (X-rank exclusive reward)
[Mission Summary]: Turning the impossible into the possible, in legends, such existences are called heroes.
...
The midday sun shone upon the land in the afternoon. The former Donghai City had transformed into a desolate plain.
When the system's blockade barrier disappeared, further to the east of this plain,
Lead-grey clouds, propelled by some terrifying power, drifted in once more.
"It's snow!"
On Starfire Plaza, amidst an endless feast, a former resident of Donghai City exclaimed in surprise as snowflakes landed on their hand.
The sunlight was once again obscured by the clouds. The rising summer temperatures gradually began to fall amidst the descending snowfall.
Suddenly,
A crimson streak of light shot up into the sky directly from the City Lord's mansion, heading towards the outskirts of Starfire City.
Everyone in the city who saw this figure couldn't help but cast a gaze of reverence.
Chen Luo, flying beyond the Starfire City barrier, looked at the heavy snowfall that was once again drifting down, his brows furrowing slightly:
"First, I need to complete the city's upgrade. After consolidating the rear, we'll have to expand outwards. I wonder what the state of the entire Great Yan, and even the world, is now."
The appearance of the Abyssal-level monster was an unexpected anomaly.
If Chen Luo hadn't triggered the system's special mechanisms multiple times, all the monsters they encountered would have been at least one danger level lower.
And the Great Lich wouldn't even have been able to awaken its true name, merely becoming an ordinary Purgatory-level monster.
It was important to note that within the system's restrictions, it would take at least fifteen days for Nightmare-grade monsters to appear normally.
Therefore, in the normal game progression, the strongest force humanity would need to face within these fifteen days would be Lord-grade.
Well, relying on things like rockets, regular armies could easily deal with Lord-grade monsters.
Only upon reaching Nightmare-grade could they begin to disregard firearms.
Apart from the carpet bombing by regular army artillery, Nightmare-grade monsters wouldn't pose too many problems on the battlefield.
Overall, Chen Luo's game progression was completely off the charts!
Even any soldier within the city now would be considered a leading figure if placed elsewhere.
However, even without the off-the-charts game progression, humanity's plight was no less dire. Many cities were rapidly submerged in the apocalypse without even a sound.
And Donghai City, with Chen Luo's presence, was currently one of the few cities with over a hundred thousand survivors, even without the protection of regular troops.
...
After a short flight, Chen Luo returned to the airspace above the city's former central district.
The light of his Eagle Eye technique and the patterns of his Demonic Eye flickered, covering nearly ten thousand square kilometers of land within Chen Luo's sight.
His brain rapidly calculated the entire city's covered area and the placement of the upcoming landmark items.
"Over six thousand three hundred square kilometers, so I'll need to place over six thousand landmarks."
"Compare the estimated coverage space of the landmarks and calculate the throwing positions!"
With hundreds of points in his Spirit attribute, Chen Luo's brain was already superhuman.
After a brief scan, a complete plain model had been automatically constructed in Chen Luo's mind.
"Then, let's begin!"
"Establish! My city!"
A silver flag suddenly materialized in his hand. The power of his vital energy extended along his arm to the flagpole, enveloping the entire banner.
Aiming at the target location, Chen Luo casually threw it!
The air instantly warped. The membrane of vital energy protected the relatively sturdy flag, which instantly transformed into a crimson meteor descending towards the earth.
Boom!
A plume of dust rose from the distant land.
Within the dust, the power of vital energy quietly dissipated, and a silver flag fluttered in the wind!
The next moment!
Hum, a silver light rapidly spread outwards from the flag, covering a kilometer of land in a moment.
During the spread of the silver light,
More and more vital energy-enveloped crimson meteors descended from the sky. In a daze, in broad daylight,
It seemed as if a meteor shower of crimson had fallen over the former Donghai City.
Thousands of landmarks, under Chen Luo's superb control, instantly covered the entire plain. The silver light quietly connected into a single expanse.
[Marked territory has met the upgrade requirements. Do you wish to proceed with territory upgrade?]