A Genius Indeed

Outside the entrance, the crowd erupted once again.

The people here change every day, and most of them are new faces.

After all, not everyone can challenge high-difficulty nests, nor can everyone afford the high price of clearing cooldowns.

Most dungeon raiders are nearly exhausted after completing a dungeon raid, and they need to come out to rest and meditate, or even leave altogether and return only after they have recovered.

Unlike Su Mu and Ye Qingxue, who played several rounds a day, progressing from normal to hard to nightmare to hell, with almost no breaks in between.

Therefore, even though the crowd outside the Land of Buried Bones changed batch after batch, whenever someone saw the two young people walking towards the bright red light curtain, they couldn't help but stop and take a second look.

"Those two are here again, and they went straight for Hell?"

"I saw them in Nightmare difficulty before, and now they're in Hell. Two people doing Hell? That's incredible."

"I know that woman, Ye Qingxue, the SSS-level Snow Queen from Rongcheng No. 1 High School. I don't know about the man; his information has been blocked."

"SSS-rank? No wonder. But even if it's SSS-rank, it's too much of a stretch for just two people to clear a Hell dungeon. Aren't normal Hell dungeons only accessible to five-man teams?"

"Mind your own business. Maybe they have some tricks up their sleeve. Look at them, they've been grinding every single day for the past few days, from normal to nightmare mode, without a single day off. Can their mental strength handle it?"

"That's why geniuses and ordinary people aren't the same species. After completing one round of a difficult dungeon, I'm dizzy and need at least four or five hours of meditation to recover. They do so many rounds a day, and they specifically choose the highest difficulty levels."

"And judging from their appearance, they should be this year's Awakeners, right? They've only been Awakened for a few days and they're already clearing Hell difficulty. If they were given a few more months, what would they be like?"

"This is incredible! This year's college entrance exam is going to be quite a show."

"Speaking of which, there's absolutely no information about that guy, not even his level. What kind of obfuscation equipment did he use to make it so effective?"

"I don't know. But someone who can get Ye Qingxue to run dungeons with him must be no ordinary person."

Whispers rose and fell, but no one dared to disturb them. Over the past few days, regulars had grown accustomed to the duo. Two young men, one with no information available and the other an SSS-rank, appeared precisely on time every day, clearing dungeons from low to high difficulty before quietly departing. They never teamed up with others, nor did they engage in any idle chatter; like two precise machines, they focused solely on the dungeon itself.

The crimson light curtain rotated silently, completely engulfing the two figures.

The hellish Land of Buried Bones, the dark red sky still pressing down like a red-hot iron plate, the smell of sulfur and burnt bone powder filling the nostrils.

Runes on the bone pillars flowed with molten liquid, and the ground was covered with charred bone fragments.

The first wave of monsters poured out of the crack: 150 level 20 Hell Skeleton Soldier.

Ye Qingxue immediately summoned the Snow Queen.

The long, icy dress swept across the scorched bone-powder ground, spreading frost-white wherever it passed, but it was quickly vaporized into white mist by the hellish heatwave.

The Snow Queen raised her hand, and ice shards shot out, hitting the skeleton soldiers. The slowing effect was significantly stronger than before.

Su Mu glanced at it and nodded slightly.

It has indeed improved.

In the first five waves, the Snow Queen coordinated quite well.

Ice walls intercept the flanks, and ice shards slow down the front. Although the damage is still insufficient for a quick kill, the control effect is more than twice as strong as in Nightmare difficulty.

After being hit by the ice spikes, the skeleton soldiers' movements were noticeably slowed down, allowing Little Drill Wind and White Bone Spirit Demon to take advantage of the situation and harvest them with great efficiency.

In the tenth wave, the BOSS appeared. The Snow Queen's performance remained stable; the ice wall could withstand two or three attacks from the BOSS before breaking, and the slowing time of the ice shards was extended from one or two seconds to three or four seconds.

Ye Qingxue felt much less pressure than last time.

But by the eleventh wave, the situation began to change.

The attribute increases of Hell-level monsters have begun to exceed the Snow Queen's control limits.

The icicles struck the monsters, reducing the slow effect again, and the ice wall shattered upon impact with the elite monsters. Ye Qingxue had to have the Snow Queen retreat to a more distant position, retaining only the ranged slow effect.

After the fifteenth wave, the Snow Queen's damage became negligible.

Her icicles only managed to scrape off a layer of bone dust from the level 20 elite monster.

However, the control effect is still there. Although the duration is short, each deceleration provides a valuable output window for Little Drill Wind and White Bone Spirit Demon.

In the twentieth wave, the Snow Queen was clearly weakening.

The ice wall was shattered by the boss in less than two seconds, and the slowing effect of the ice shards returned to a level similar to that of Nightmare difficulty.

Ye Qingxue gritted her teeth and retreated the Snow Queen to the edge of the battlefield, only responsible for releasing ice walls at the most critical moments to intercept the skeleton horde that tried to flank and ambush Flower-Fruit Mountain.

Su Mu watched from the side, silently sighing in his heart.

He truly is a genius.

With just one level of improvement, in just three days, the Snow Queen's control effects have grown to this extent.

If she were given another ten days or so, she could reach level 20 and clear Hell difficulty solo without any problem. By then, the Snow Queen's bonuses under the Ice and Snow World theme would make her a true battlefield master.

On the other side, Ye Qingxue was even more shocked.

She had been observing Su Mu's two cards.

The White Bone Spirit and Little Drill Wind were much more adept at conquering this hellish lair than they had been three days ago.

As the White Bone Spirit wielded her bone whip, the range and duration of the fire curtain were more precise than before. Although she was still struggling against a level 25 BOSS, she was no longer as flustered as she had been the first time.

The changes in the Little Drill Wind were the most obvious.

Three days ago, when Little Drill Wind first tried to clear the Hell dungeon, he could only barely manage to hold his own against the combined pressure from Golden Bone Guardian and Iron Crown Bone General.

But now, it alone has suppressed the two BOSSes, Iron Crown Bone General and Golden Bone Guardian. With each slash of its short sword, deep cracks were cut into the Steel Skeleton of the Golden Bone Guardian. It easily dodged the Bone Spear Throw by Iron Crown Bone General and then slashed at his shoulder blade with a backhand.

The Little Drill Wind has become significantly stronger, and it's a qualitative leap.

Ye Qingxue couldn't understand it.

She and Su Mu had been together for the past three days, and she knew exactly what resources Su Mu had acquired.

While those materials combined are valuable, they shouldn't be enough to fundamentally change a card's quality. What exactly happened to Little Drill Wind?

She was unaware that Lion Camel Ridge had expanded to eighty li, nor did she know that Little Drill Wind's attributes had increased by forty percent.