Born Sacred-Chapter 46: Clearing The Beginning of the Cataclysm (Difficult)

"Perhaps after a few years, the new generation of Awakeners will have learned high-quality skills, equipped powerful gear and items, and have extremely high attribute values when they are First Order. For them, will the Difficult instance still be Difficult?"

"When looking at instance difficulty, you have to look from a higher and longer-term perspective. First Order only has one difficulty, First Order has three difficulties, and perhaps later instances will have more and higher difficulties. Those high-difficulty instances might be prepared for the increasingly strong new generation of Awakeners. It’s impossible for us, the first generation of Awakeners, to clear all the difficulties, right?" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

After listening to Rose’s words, the three fell silent.

"Captain, what you said makes a lot of sense, but why does it sound so strange? It always feels like we’ve become stepping stones." Zara complained.

"The meaning of civilization lies in inheritance. It’s normal development for each generation to be stronger than the last." Rose smiled, "Besides, it shouldn’t be called stepping stones, but rather becoming giants who shoulder the new generation."

"Uh, I think even the Difficult Instance can’t stump Noah," Claire offered a different opinion.

"I’m talking about the vast majority of people. A very small number of exceptionally outstanding Awakeners are not included, especially Noah. He’s an exception among exceptions," Rose said with an awkward smile.

She inwardly thought, how could the future Great Demon King be measured by common sense?

"We First Order Awakeners also have our advantages. At least the first clear of most Instances won’t fall to the new generation. Even for those overly Difficult Instances, it’s not impossible to clear them using unconventional methods."

"What unconventional methods?" Zara immediately asked. Claire and Smith were also filled with curiosity.

Rose shook her head and said nothing more.

While they were talking, Noah had already dealt with the second Boss and was heading towards the location of the third Boss at an astonishing speed, disappearing from their sight in the blink of an eye.

"Let’s go, let’s go take a look."

The four of them couldn’t sit still and all headed towards the target residential area.

"So many small monsters." Even before they got close, Claire and Zara, who had teleported to a nearby tall building, saw the residential area inside and out covered with dense infected creatures. There were at least one or two thousand of them, with even more infected creatures rushing in from the city.

"So it turns out that as long as one Boss is attacked, the other two Bosses will also summon small monsters," Claire suddenly realized. No wonder she always felt that the small monsters at the second Boss came a bit too quickly.

This mechanism undoubtedly made the Boss fight more Difficult.

Other top teams, even those with SSS-grade Talent Awakeners, would probably despair when facing so many small monsters.

But Noah wouldn’t.

Zara and Claire saw Noah charging towards the residential area, which was surrounded by infected creatures, with an extremely violent momentum. Infected creatures blocking his path were either knocked flying and killed, or sliced in half.

The main gate of the residential area was cut down by Noah’s sword. The two women behind him couldn’t see what was happening inside, only the infected creatures and cars on the residential area’s roads being lifted up dozens of meters high and crashing heavily back to the ground.

The two women exchanged glances, both seeing the shock in the other’s eyes.

"Without us, he’s even stronger..."

Noah certainly couldn’t handle hundreds of thousands of infected creatures in Senhai City all at once, but a mere one or two thousand infected creatures couldn’t stop him.

With his speed, it was Difficult for the infected creatures to attack him. Even if the infected creatures were too dense, one Stomp would stun a large area, leaving them at his mercy.

It had to be said, the area control skill Stomp was really useful. It was enough to stun Ordinary infected creatures for three seconds and also had a certain amount of damage itself.

The skill itself had no cooldown and could be used freely.

The only disadvantage was that it consumed a lot of energy. Even with Noah’s powerful attributes, he couldn’t use it frequently.

Two and a half minutes later, the system prompt indicating the Instance clear sounded.

Noah pulled back and quickly broke away from the encirclement of infected creatures, walking away with his head held high.

With all three Bosses eliminated, the infected creatures in Senhai City seemed to have lost their backbone and returned to wandering aimlessly.

The five of them quickly gathered together.

"We made a fortune. I didn’t expect the rewards for the Difficult Instance to be so good," Zara said, her face full of excitement.

"After all, it’s currently the highest difficulty," Rose wasn’t surprised.

"I got a B-grade evaluation. What about you?" Claire looked surprised. She had thought her Instance evaluation would be very poor, but unexpectedly, it was quite decent.

Zara said, "I also got B-grade."

Rose: "A-grade."

Smith: "A-grade."

Compared to the Ordinary Instance, their evaluations dropped by two grades. Claire was okay, only dropping by one grade.

The four of them weren’t surprised by the lower evaluation. After all, their contribution in this Difficult Instance was far less than in the Ordinary Instance. This was still Noah giving them a chance to boost their evaluation, otherwise it would have been even lower.

Noah, on the other hand, looked at his gains.

[Congratulations on clearing the Trial Instance: The Beginning of the Cataclysm (Difficult). Your evaluation is SS. You have received the following rewards: Growth Value * 30, strength crystal * 270, agility crystal * 270, constitution crystal * 270, spirit crystal * 270, Excellent-grade Item - Aberrant Serum]

[Since this clear is the first clear, your contribution is unparalleled. You have additionally received strength crystal * 280, agility crystal * 280, constitution crystal * 280, spirit crystal * 280, Excellent-grade Skill - Blood Defense Conversion, Excellent-grade Material - Meteorite Fragment]

No wonder Zara and the others said the rewards for the Difficult Instance were good. Putting aside everything else, the attribute crystals alone were extremely numerous. If it were the highest SSS-grade evaluation, the full attributes would be as high as 300, three times that of the Ordinary Instance, while the growth value was only 1.5 times.