16
Su Mu glanced at that number, then said, "I haven't activated field communication. Let's add each other as friends when we get back."
Ye Qingxue nodded, "Alright, I'll transfer it to you then."
Su Mu glanced at his experience again.
Clearing the Hell dungeon this time only increased his experience by fifteen percent.
The experience required from Level 17 to Level 18 was too much; even the five BOSSes from the twenty-fifth wave of الجهنم... wait, Hell dungeon were only enough to push it forward by a tiny fraction.
Furthermore, the College Entrance Examination was tomorrow.
He needed to rest and convert all the resources in his hands into combat power.
Those materials, cards, and money all needed time to be digested.
He couldn't continue grinding dungeons here.
"I'rather... I'm getting ready to go back," Su Mu said.
Ye Qingxue glanced at him, then glanced at the dungeon behind her.
She was currently Level 16, one Level lower than Su Mu.
She thought about it and decided to stay and continue grinding, leaving a bit later.
Su Mu nodded and didn't say much else.
The two walked out of the dungeon.
The bright red light curtain spat them out.
Outside the entrance, the crowd was a bit smaller than before, but there were still thirty or forty people scattered everywhere.
The difference was that some familiar faces had appeared.
A few newly arrived students were forming a party; some were organizing their equipment, while others were flipping through electronic manuals.
Seeing Su Mu and Ye Qingxue emerge from the dungeon, several gazes were cast over.
"Those two people are out. Did they come out of a normal dungeon or a difficult dungeon?"
"Who knows. Look at their Level; the guy's can't be checked, and the girl is Level 16. It's a bit wasteful for a Level 16 to play a normal dungeon, so it must be a difficult dungeon."
"To be able to party with an SSS-rank, I really envy that guy. Having someone carry you is great indeed, leveling up fast."
"However, the College Entrance Examination is tomorrow, and he's still grinding dungeons today. He's really pushing himself."
"It's the last day, so every bit you can grind counts. A single point difference in the College Entrance Examination eliminates a thousand people; who wouldn't want to improve a little more?"
The discussions quickly dissipated.
Most people's attention was focused on their own dungeons and equipment, and they didn't pay too much attention to Su Mu and Ye Qingxue.
The only difference was that in a distant corner, a tall figure was leaning against a bone pillar, staring gloomily at Su Mu's receding back.
Wang Hao.
Watching the scene of Su Mu and Ye Qingxue walking out side by side, his fists clenched so tightly they cracked.
They were really forming a party.
He had just arrived.
As soon as he arrived, he saw Su Mu and Ye Qingxue emerge from the dungeon.
He could imagine.
The two of them had been together these past few days.
Thinking of Su Mu and Ye Qingxue entering the dungeon together and coming out of the dungeon together, Ye Qingxue's face would even occasionally reveal an expression he had never seen before—that slightly flushed cheek, that appearance of turning her head away and pretending not to care.
He had never seen Ye Qingxue treat anyone like that.
"Consider yourself lucky," Wang Hao gritted his teeth and muttered softly, "My dad won't let me deal with you."
But he quickly took a deep breath and suppressed his emotions.
It didn't matter. He had the support of his Clan.
These past few days, the Clan had given him a large amount of resources, coupled with a special card customized specifically for his Martial Soul theme; his Level had already reached Level 14.
After grinding here today, he would be able to reach Level 15.
Tomorrow during the College Entrance Examination, he would definitely astound the world with a single brilliant feat.
Wang Hao withdrew his gaze and turned to walk toward the dungeon entrance.
...
Su Mu left the Land of Buried Bones and walked along the route he came, heading toward the city wall.
With a thought in his mind, a grayish-white stream of light flashed out from his dungeon space, and White Bone Demon appeared at his side.
After the plain-robed girl landed, she tilted her head slightly. The bone whip around her waist was quietly coiled, and those deep black pupils swept across the surrounding wasteland before quietly following by his side.
Leaving the matter of grinding monsters to White Bone Demon was fine.
All the way south.
White Bone Demon's bone whip flickered in and out of sight in the night, and every time it swung, it took away the lives of a patch of monsters.
Along the way, the Goblin Scouts, scattered Skeleton Soldiers, and occasional rotting corpses fell in batches within the grayish-white Fire Curtain.
The experience bar slowly rose, and the aura value steadily accumulated.
Su Mu didn't need to command; he only needed to walk.
Seven hours later, the outline of the city wall appeared at the end of his vision.
Su Mu looked into the distance, his footsteps pausing slightly.
Compared to when he first left the city, the city wall gave him a completely different feeling.
At that time, he was just a newly awakened Level 6 Dungeon Master, and standing under the city wall, he only felt it was tall, oppressive, and out of reach.
But now, he was already Level 17, with Little Drill-Wind and White Bone Demon in hand, and having cleared the Hell dungeon, yet he instead felt that this wall was even more shocking.
The grayish-black wall rose from the horizon, extending outward to both sides without a visible end.
The hundred-meter-high wall surface was densely covered with runes, and the deep blue light meandered like a long dragon in the night.
Those cracks of varying depths and the overlapping new and old patches on the wall were clearer in his eyes than before.
Every crack was left by monsters, and every patch was repaired by humans.
This wall had witnessed life and death far too many times.
Su Mu withdrew his gaze and first put White Bone Demon back into the dungeon space.
This was the rule.
When leaving the city, one could summon cards to accompany them, but when entering the city, they must be taken back.
It was said that a long time ago, intelligent monsters from lares would use Spirit control to manipulate humans to bring them along, sneaking into the city disguised as monster cards and destroying the defense from the inside.
Later, this rule was established, and all Dungeon Masters must recall their summoned entities before entering the city.
As for those people under Spirit control, as long as they stored the lair monsters into their own dungeon space, the Spirit control would be lifted, which was why this rule was truly effective.
Su Mu walked into the city gate.
The moment he passed through that pale blue light curtain, the cold and gloomy aura of the wasteland behind him was isolated outside, and the lights and human warmth of the city rushed toward his face.
He didn't go straight home, but instead walked directly toward the West City Gate Professional Service Hall.
There weren't many people in the hall. In the early morning hours, there were only staff members on night duty and a scattering of Dungeon Masters who had just returned from outside the city.
Su Mu walked up to the mission terminal and submitted the collection missions he had accepted earlier one by one.
Bone essence, decayed bone fragments, undead dust, intact skulls—he had already completed more than half of these basic collection missions back in the Land of Buried Bones, and the remaining materials were enough to make up the rest.
After the submission was completed, the Contribution Points were credited.
A total of 1300 Contribution Points.
Just as he was about to continue operating, a round-faced boy looking at the screen nearby suddenly let out a suppressed exclamation.
"It dropped? Someone got it?"
Su Mu tilted his head and glanced over.
That round-faced boy was staring at an announcement on the screen, full of envy and annoyance.
The content of the announcement was very simple...
【Rare Collection: Bone-Burrying Corpse King · Core Soul Flame... Completed. Completed by: Anonymous. Reward: 1 Million Alliance Coins + 500 Contribution Points.】
Su Mu slightly raised an eyebrow.
A one-million mission had been completed by someone.
He didn't care too much either.
He had been grinding for so long without it dropping, so it was normal for someone else to pick it up.
The refresh probability of the Bone-Burrying Corpse King was already extremely low to begin with; it only had a probability of appearing under Nightmare and Hell difficulties, and moreover, one had to kill it to obtain the Core Soul Flame.
This kind of thing was naturally something that could only be met by chance and not sought through force.
Besides, his harvest this time shouldn't be bad either.
Su Mu continued operating, selling all the materials and cards he had obtained this time in batches to the official authorities, except for the few ghost-type cards that dropped from that assassin.
Eight Class C Class cards—Iron-Crowned Bone General, Poison Bone Priest, Golden Bone Guard; two sets of skill cards—Golden Bone Guard's Steel Skeleton and Shadow Bone Hunter's Shadow Raid, plus a large amount of Hell-grade materials, Nightmare-grade materials, and various scattered equipment cards and creature cards.
The official acquisition price was ninety percent of the market price, but its advantage lay in fast processing, no dilly-dallying, and immediate cash arrival.
If sold to private shops, the price might be slightly higher, but he might also get scammed, especially under his circumstances where he urgently needed money and had no time to slowly look for buyers.
Final settlement: Four million three hundred and seventy thousand.