Chapter 441 - 179: Speedrunning the Secret Realm

In a flash, everyone, including Shen Fei, appeared on the second floor. The area of the second floor hadn’t changed much, but the scenery was completely different...

"Here we go!"

Seeing an environment and setup that were nearly identical to the game, Shen Fei placed his 11 Defense Towers and, at the same time, triggered the monster spawn ahead of schedule. Then, a dozen or so seconds later, everyone appeared on the third floor. Under Shen Fei’s assault, they cleared it in an instant, without a single hitch.

WHOOSH.

WHOOSH.

WHOOSH.

Soon, in less than a minute, Shen Fei had led everyone to the fifth floor.

"A mini-boss?"

Seeing that only 101 mini-bosses had spawned on the fifth floor, Shen Fei attacked again without a word.

[DING!]

[Item Reward Acquired: One Packet of Plant Accelerated Growth Liquid!]

The bosses fell in an instant. Shen Fei saw an item reward appear among the floor-clear notification and the flood of experience text. This floor was a mini-boss floor.

Finally, an item reward.

This stingy? One hundred and one people and only one reward?

After asking the others and confirming no one else got a reward, Shen Fei couldn’t help but complain. Before, when they had counter-invaded the Game World, every person received a reward for completing each stage of the mission. Now, entering a Secret Realm that had manifested in reality, the rewards seemed a bit stingy...

But that makes sense. If everyone got one, and I brought a thousand people in, the items would become way too common. So, no matter how many people there are, the drop probability for reward floors in a Secret Realm is always the same...

Arriving on the sixth floor, Shen Fei continued to pull monsters while rapidly familiarizing himself with the rules of the Secret Realm. According to Sun Yu, not a single person had entered this Heaven-Reaching Tower after it became a Secret Realm. The team Shen Fei was leading was the first to enter. But based on the previous reward, Shen Fei was certain that this Secret Realm had no such thing as bonuses for first clear, first kill, or trailblazing.

Alright! Let’s keep going!

Now that he was familiar with the rules, Shen Fei’s speed instantly increased. Before the stunned eyes of his one hundred teammates, he put on a perfect performance of what it meant to speedrun. The monsters on nearly every floor were instantly annihilated by Shen Fei as soon as they appeared. If it didn’t take time for the monster tides to emerge from the spatial wormholes, everyone felt that Shen Fei could have been even faster.

Especially when they reached the 50th floor and the number of deployable Defense Towers exceeded 100, most of them could barely even see Shen Fei’s attacks.

They knew Shen Fei was incredible, which was why they were all so excited to be power-leveled by him. But seeing just how incredible Shen Fei’s power truly was, everyone still felt a little numb.

As they rapidly cleared higher and higher floors of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, everyone noticed the pattern: there was a major boss every 10 floors and a mini-boss every 5 floors. Furthermore, the type of monster would change every 10 floors. For example, there were land monsters, burrowing monsters, flying monsters, monsters with Auras, and so on.

[DING!]

[Ninetieth Floor Cleared...]

An hour later, under Shen Fei’s control, the five super Undead Knight bosses ahead were eliminated. Then, everyone heard the announcement that they had successfully cleared another floor.

"Alright, time to get out!" Shen Fei called out to everyone just before they were automatically sent to the 91st floor. "I can’t carry people through the top nine floors!"

Floor 91 is no simple matter...

Faced with Floor 91, this power-leveling session had to end.

WHOOSH.

WHOOSH.

WHOOSH.

At Shen Fei’s word, his teammates obediently exited the Secret Realm.

"Next wave! Yu, you handle distributing the items to everyone!"

After exiting the Secret Realm, Shen Fei used a Secret Realm Refresh Scroll at the entrance to reset his own entry cooldown. He then handed the dozens of items he’d just obtained to Sun Yu to distribute. With a wave of his hand, Shen Fei led the second team straight into the Heaven-Reaching Tower.

Some of the rewards from the Heaven-Reaching Tower were quite good, but when leading a team, he couldn’t just monopolize all the items. Besides, he already had six sets of super-powerful items from his time in the Game World, like the Resurrection Peach, Ant Power God, and Bisector Foil. To be honest, he really didn’t care for the peanuts the Heaven-Reaching Tower had to offer.

Now that he was familiar with the Heaven-Reaching Tower’s patterns, what he wanted to do was quickly get everyone through it. After that last power-leveling run, he had already discovered that this place was excellent for Tower Masters to lead teams and farm monsters. Unfortunately, for him, it was a bit underwhelming. This kind of generic Secret Realm offered too little challenge, and the items it gave had nothing special about them.

The only thing that piqued Shen Fei’s interest was that some boss floors in the Heaven-Reaching Tower actually dropped materials for crafting Defense Towers. And he just so happened to have empty Defense Tower slots. This was the only aspect of the Heaven-Reaching Tower that Shen Fei found useful for himself. However, he could just buy those materials from others; he didn’t need to farm them himself.

WHOOSH.

WHOOSH.

WHOOSH.

As these thoughts ran through his mind, Shen Fei’s power-leveling actions never paused. With the experience from the first round, he led the second group through even faster. Soon, he had once again guided a team through the 90th floor. Then, it was on to the third team, the fourth team, the fifth team...

Half a day later, everyone had been power-leveled through one run by Shen Fei. Satisfied, everyone returned to their respective posts.

WHOOSH.

After sending off everyone else, including his parents, Shen Fei had Sun Yu, Zhang Qiqiang, and Gun’Er stay behind. Then, he told them about the situation on the 91st floor. He hadn’t continued taking everyone to the 91st floor earlier because new rules appeared from the 91st floor onward, making it inconvenient for power-leveling...