Chapter 342: SSS-Class Profession, Insect Emperor!

Hearing this news.

Zhou Huai's Mental Energy suffered a sharp jolt.

He had originally thought that Donghai City's three city walls being breached and large areas of the urban district being damaged

would very likely cause the System to judge this challenge a failure.

Unexpectedly, it actually succeeded.

It seemed that the System's standard for judging a successful mission was likely calculated based on the final number of people rescued in Donghai City.

This was a guaranteed SSS-Class Professional orb!

He was finally going to have his first SSS-Class Professional Clone!

Thinking of this, Zhou Huai's heart beat wildly out of control.

SSS-Class, that was an existence standing at the pinnacle of all Professionals, closest to the gods.

Zhou Huai quickly withdrew his consciousness and returned to his main body.

Inside the bedroom of the Ye Family Manor.

Zhou Huai lay on the bed and took several deep breaths in a row, only then allowing his heart, which had been beating wildly from excitement, to calm down slightly.

He slowly closed his eyes.

His consciousness sank into that familiar System space deep within his mind.

A huge gashapon machine quietly floated in the exact center of the space.

Inside the machine body, countless colorful orbs slowly circulated, flashing with alluring radiance.

Zhou Huai concentrated his intent and heavily pressed the [Draw] button flashing with golden light!

Hum—!

The gashapon machine spun at high speed!

Inside the body, those colorful orbs, under the high-speed rotation, actually turned into a brilliant river of light that was dazzling and mesmerizing.

The radiance circulated, and in the end, all the light seemed to be swallowed by an invisible black hole, converging at a single point.

Immediately after.

Swish—!

An archaic orb, pitch-black all over with its surface flowing with countless mysterious golden patterns, shot out from the gashapon machine!

It didn't directly turn into a scroll like the previous Professional orbs.

Instead, it quietly floated before Zhou Huai's eyes.

An indescribable sense of heaviness and oppression rushed forward from that small black ball of light!

Zhou Huai's breathing stagnated for a moment at this exact moment.

This feeling was something he had never experienced before when drawing S-Class or even SS-Rank Professional orbs.

"The black orb…"

Zhou Huai subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his heart accelerating out of control once again.

"What profession could it be?"

Just at that moment, the black orb flashed with light.

It slowly unfolded, turning into an archaic scroll that also had a pitch-black background but was embroidered with countless intricate patterns using dark golden threads.

The next second, the familiar System notification tone slowly sounded in his mind.

[Congratulations to the Host for drawing the profession: Unique Hidden Profession, SSS-Class Insect Emperor!]

"Insect Emperor?"

Zhou Huai opened his eyes and repeatedly chewed on this name.

"An Insect Master profession?"

In his mind, relevant information about this profession surfaced in the very first moment.

The Insect Master belonged to a type of Summoning-System profession.

It fought by summoning various Zerg exotic beasts.

Among all Summoning-System professions, it belonged to a rather mediocre category.

Most of its profession ratings were merely C-Rank.

It belonged to those with a low upper limit, and few could reach S-Class.

This was mainly because the individual strength of Zerg exotic beasts was generally not strong, and their health points were also very low.

Every time they fought, a large area would likely die off.

If one wanted to display true power, they basically could only rely on the Insect Tide tactic.

But wanting to cultivate tens of thousands, or even millions of the Insect Tide,

the money required to be spent would not be a single bit cheaper than raising a Dragon.

However, the strength that could ultimately be displayed fell far short of a true giant Dragon.

The cost-performance ratio was extremely low.

Therefore, looking across the world, there were hardly any brilliant ones among Insect Master Professionals.

Of course, there were always exceptions to everything.

It was said that Sakura Country had once produced an S-Class Insect Master.

That person came from one of Sakura Country's top wealthy families and lacked money at all.

Under the injection of massive funds, he had indeed managed to cultivate an elite Insect Tide with extremely terrifying combat power.

At his most glorious moment, it was said he once used the power of one person to simultaneously battle three S-Rank Experts of the same level without falling behind.

From then on, his reputation skyrocketed.

It was just a pity that a few years after becoming famous, for unknown reasons, that Genius Insect Master defected and joined the notorious Dawnbreaker Guild.

Becoming a disgrace that Sakura Country's upper-class Family could never wash away.

Of course, these were all digressions.

Zhou Huai quickly pulled back his thoughts.

He impatiently opened the attribute panel of the Insect Emperor.

He wanted to see what kind of Heaven-Defying attributes and skills this so-called SSS-Class Insect Master would actually have!

[Clone Panel (Unnamed)]

[Profession: Unique Hidden Profession, SSS-Class Insect Emperor]

[Rank: LV1]

[Health Points: 500 / 500]

[Mana Points: 3000 / 3000]

[Strength: 153]

[Agility: 141]

[Stamina: 102]

[Mental Energy: 555]

[Skill List:]

[1. Emperor of Insects (Passive): You are the supreme emperor of the Zerg, capable of ignoring any breed or any Rank, arbitrarily controlling all Zerg.]

[2. Zerg Space (Passive): You possess an independent space specially used to raise the Zerg, capable of accommodating trillions of Zerg.]

[3. Aberrant Insect Tide (LV1): Inside the Zerg Space, a basic Soldier Beetle is hatched every 1 second, with an initial Rank of Level 1. It can level up by devouring the corpses of other exotic beasts. During the devouring process, there is a certain chance to obtain the exotic beast's skills.]

After reading the attribute and skill introduction of the Insect Emperor.

Zhou Huai's breathing suddenly stagnated.

Immediately after, an unsuppressible wild joy, like a volcanic eruption, instantly overwhelmed all his sanity!

Judging from the skill introduction.

This SSS-Class Insect Master didn't seem as Heaven-Defying as imagined.

There were no world-destroying forbidden spells.

Nor was there the overbearingness of slaughtering a Dragon with a single sword.

But there was no doubt.

Its potential was unimaginably huge!

First was that Heaven-Defying passive skill, [Emperor of Insects].

Ignoring any breed, any Rank, arbitrarily controlling all Zerg!

What kind of concept was this?

This meant that as long as Zhou Huai was willing, he could even control that Insect Tide that had wreaked havoc at the North Gate before, or even that Hell-level BOSS that had been hiding in the dark and had never shown its face!

This was no longer simple summoning.

This was subversion!

This was seizure of power!

This was truly the power of an emperor!

Secondly, [Zerg Space].

This skill perfectly solved the biggest pain point of the Insect Master profession.

Logistics.

With this independent space that could accommodate trillions of Zerg, he no longer had to worry about the placement issue of the Insect Tide.

Finally, and most critically, [Aberrant Insect Tide]!

Bringing its own Zerg Space, it omitted the process of cultivation and hatching.

Coming out directly as adult insects.

One per second!

In one day, it could hatch eighty-six thousand four hundred Level 1 Soldier Beetles!

This speed was countless times faster than ordinary Insect Masters!

Most crucially, those hatched Soldier Beetles could also level up by devouring the corpses of exotic beasts!

Furthermore, there was a certain chance to obtain the skills of the devoured exotic beast!

This was the most terrifying part!

This meant that Zhou Huai's Insect Tide army would possess infinite growth potential and possibilities!

He could customize, cultivate, and forge a unique, terrifying army with various abilities according to his own needs!

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration sparked in his mind.

He suddenly looked in the direction of the East Gate.

That Purgatory Flame Dragon's corpse… seemed to still be there, right?

If his Soldier Beetle devoured that Hell-level BOSS's corpse…

What would the effect be?