Challenge the Lord!

Waiting for the system to approve the request took time, so the first battle would be between Gu Ce and William, scheduled for twelve noon the next day.

With the time left, Gu Ce tried out the Gravity Chamber, and it proved very helpful for tempering his body.

The evening banquet went ahead as planned.

Those who attended were all Huaxia students, and Chu Qiang, ranked third in the Training Camp, was among them.

With only half a year's difference, the Training Camp rankings had not changed much.

Gu Ce did not hide his strength, which reassured them quite a bit. Chu Qiang was even a little excited. Getting to watch those people bleed heavily was a rare happy occasion!

At noon the next day.

A large crowd gathered in front of the Challenge Room, watching as Gu Ce and William entered.

"Thanks for giving me money," William said with a smile.

"I should thank you too," Gu Ce said, also smiling, and even more brightly.

William froze for a moment, then shook his head and put on the virtual helmet.

"Please select your weapon and combat suit." A grand voice echoed over the entire arena.

Although Gu Ce had tested his Combat Power Amplification at the Lightning Martial Arts School, the data was not shared, so the pillar displayed his Combat Power Amplification as beginner level, adding a little more confidence to William.

"You pick the battlefield," William said with a smile.

Gu Ce casually chose a battlefield, and William showed a look of surprise.

"Battle, begin!" The electronic voice echoed above an island.

Waves surged around them, the sea constantly pounding against the reefs on the shore, while fierce wind howled with tremendous noise.

William made the first move, launching an attack at Gu Ce!

Both of them used swords. Gu Ce's power multiplier was much lower than William's, so in William's eyes, he was just a green newcomer, and William looked down on Gu Ce completely.

Gu Ce's face was deathly pale. Facing William's offensive, he could only counter every now and then, which only further stoked William's arrogance.

"I say, you might as well admit defeat!" William laughed wildly.

"Is that so?"

Gu Ce still wore that deathly pale look. Facing William's constant attacks, Gu Ce displayed only the level of an ordinary newcomer. Several times he nearly lost his life on the spot, only to barely salvage the situation.

Taking advantage of the moment when William was making threats, he found an opening, suddenly erupted, and stabbed out with his sword!

"Challenge, Gu Ce wins!" The electronic voice echoed over the island, and the island's phantom vanished.

"What?" William's face was full of shock. He had never thought he would lose to Gu Ce.

Gu Ce secretly let out a breath.

Trying to throw the fight without letting it show at all was still somewhat difficult.

If he had instantly killed William right from the start, the others probably would not continue challenging him.

"Next!" Gu Ce said with a smile.

In the following challenges, Gu Ce always made it look like an even fight, or even as though he was being suppressed.

Most of the losers felt that they had been careless, which was why Gu Ce had ambushed and killed them. Only a small number of people noticed something was wrong.

"Even the one ranked 71st was taken down by him." Among the European Union Countries faction, a tall, thin man, only a hair shorter than Gu Ce and with the appearance of a legendary vampire, spoke.

"His strength is definitely not simple. He can at least make it into the top fifty! No wonder those Huaxia people didn't stop him."

"Candice, are you going to try him?" a brown-haired girl asked.

"No." Candice's expression was ugly. "I'm probably not his match right now, but..."

"Renatus is very interested in him," Candice said with a smile.

"I found out that Gu Ce seems to have ninety hours of Gravity Chamber time. A newcomer—what right does he have to receive the same treatment as the one ranked first? Just wait. In a few days, Renatus will challenge him!"

"This Gu Ce is hiding his strength and has bad intentions!" Candice snorted coldly.

September 21st.

Over these past few days, aside from training in the Gravity Chamber, Gu Ce had been in the Challenge Room facing challenges from those students. The money he earned reached over a hundred billion in a very short time!

Although that money was not very useful to Gu Ce, at least he no longer had to trouble his eldest uncle. He directly bought himself a full set of SS-class Equipment.

It was also on this day that Gu Ce followed Luo Feng for the first time into the hunting zone.

"Luo Feng, are there any Lord-level Monsters in City No. 1001?" Gu Ce asked impatiently.

"There are." Luo Feng hesitated. "But if you kill Lord-level Monsters and get assessed as a War God afterward, you'll have to leave the Training Camp. Didn't you only just get here?"

Killing two Beginner Lord-level Monsters would be enough to be judged a Beginner War God, so Luo Feng was a little worried that Gu Ce would graduate straight from the Training Camp.

As for whether Gu Ce could kill a Lord-level Monster, Luo Feng was not worried in the slightest.

"It's fine," Gu Ce said with a smile. "The only thing in the Training Camp that's of any use to me is the Gravity Chamber."

He felt that he was only one step away from comprehending Conception.

If fighting the Lord-level Monsters here could let him break through, that would be best.

Even if it did not, after leaving the Training Camp, he would go to the Wilderness Area to look for even more powerful monsters and fight them, searching for an opportunity to break through.

Compared with the facilities in the Training Camp,

Gu Ce was even more curious about the Ancient Civilization Ruins in Antarctica that Thor had promised him, belonging to the Lightning Martial Arts School.

"All right, then." Luo Feng nodded and no longer hesitated, telling Gu Ce the locations of several Lord-level Monsters he knew.

They were two Beginner Lords, and one monster suspected to be a High-level Lord.

In the Training Camp, almost no one would be stupid enough to hunt Lord-level Monsters.

And these Lord-level Monsters usually would not actively attack the Training Camp's students either. Having evolved to this degree, they had at least some brains.

Gu Ce took the map. After confirming the monsters' locations, he carried the Eternal Life Sword on his back and leaped across the tops of the city's high-rises, vanishing from Luo Feng's sight in the span of a few breaths.

"Perfect Level Movement Technique... I can do it too!"

Luo Feng looked at Gu Ce's departing back, secretly clenched his fists, then threw himself into slaughtering monsters.

Kill!

The first target was in a shopping mall at the center of the city.

A Blood Scale War Bull, its body like a small mountain, occupied the place. Around it were many herds of bull-type monsters at the Soldier and Commander levels.

Standing in front of the mall, Gu Ce did something astonishing.

He drew the longsword on his back and charged at the herd with extreme speed!

Swish!

The blade pierced through the skulls of one Blood Scale War Bull after another, chopping off their horns.

SS-class Equipment was meant to match up against King-level Monsters.

Using it to deal with these ordinary Commander-level monsters was truly overkill.

"Moo~~~"

The herd fled in terror, and the scene fell into chaos. Very soon, it alarmed the Lord-level Blood Scale War Bull in the deepest part.

When it strode out of its lair, it saw that its descendants had been nearly slaughtered clean by Gu Ce. Its original thought of not provoking humans vanished in an instant.

"Moo!!"

The Blood Scale War Bull let out a roar, its eyes blood-red, and charged at Gu Ce with its enormous horns!

"Perfect timing!"