Chapter 68: Completed 10,000 Kills!

That curse power…

Zhou Huai's consciousness trembled violently within Gandalf's body.

There's no mistake!

Definitely no mistake!

This power comes from the exact same source as the curse that turned him into a cripple!

That man is very likely the chief culprit of the attack back then!

He is the murderer who killed his mother and ruined his entire life!

Zhou Huai's heart pounded wildly, and an inexplicable excitement crazily stimulated him.

It takes no effort at all to find what one has been searching for.

He had originally thought finding the murderer from back then would be a very difficult matter.

He never expected the other party to appear in the flesh just like that.

Then the question now is.

Who is he?

The other party was able to fight side by side with that powerful Dragon Rider.

Clearly, the two of them had a very good relationship.

They likely came from the same guild.

Zhou Huai's consciousness spun rapidly, his gaze sweeping across the chaotic battlefield below.

Controlling Gandalf, his figure flashed as he arrived beside a sturdy man who was struggling to swing a battle axe, splitting a wolf-shaped alien beast in half.

The sturdy man was killing to his heart's content when he was unexpectedly pulled from behind, instantly flying into a rage and turning around to curse fiercely.

"Which blind bastard…"

Yet when he saw clearly who had come, the rest of his words were abruptly swallowed back down.

That face, flushed red with anger, instantly piled up with awe and ingratiating smiles.

"Brother, it's you!"

The sturdy man's attitude immediately underwent a 180-degree turn.

"Is there something you need?"

Gandalf didn't waste words, raising his staff and pointing at the two figures high in the sky who were besieging the Sky Storm Falcon.

"What is the background of those two?"

The sturdy man looked in the direction he pointed, and an expression of supreme reverence and yearning immediately appeared on his face.

"Brother, you don't even know them?"

He lowered his voice, his tone filled with a sense of showing off.

"The one riding the Silver Dragon is called Li Qiu."

"The other… the one wearing gray robes and looking lazy, is called Luo Ming, and his profession is a Calamity Curse Master!"

Fervent light flashed in the sturdy man's eyes.

"Both of them belong to our Donghai City's top adventurer guild, the Tianyu Guild."

"They are the two Prodigies of the Tianyu Guild!"

"So his name is Luo Ming…"

Calamity Curse Master…

"It matches up… everything matches up."

Zhou Huai muttered to himself.

Yet immediately after, another huge question popped up in his mind.

Tianyu Guild?

Isn't that the guild of the Sun Family in Donghai City?

Zhou Huai clearly remembered Mo Yu saying before that after the attack, Zhou Feng believed the other party belonged to the Sun Family.

And this Luo Ming was a member of the Tianyu Guild.

Yet why?

Why had the Zhou Family never suspected that Luo Ming was the murderer of the initial attack?

That's not right.

It wasn't just a lack of suspicion.

They had never even taken any action to find this murderer.

It was as if they had deliberately suppressed this matter.

This was too defying of common sense.

The Zhou Family's attitude towards the attack on his mother and himself had something intriguing about it from the very beginning.

Perhaps the events of back then were far less simple than they appeared on the surface.

Zhou Huai shook his head, temporarily suppressing these chaotic thoughts.

Thinking more was useless.

Without strength, everything was empty talk.

The most urgent task was to enhance his own power as soon as possible.

When the day came that he was strong enough to ignore any schemes and plots, strong enough to trample Zhou Feng and that Luo Ming beneath his feet together—

All truths would naturally come to light!

Zhou Huai's gaze once again became cold and resolute.

He glanced at the sturdy man who was still endlessly chattering away, introducing the glorious deeds of those two "Prodigies", then controlled Gandalf to turn and leave, throwing himself back into the slaughter of the alien beasts.

At this moment, the situation on the battlefield was already clear.

As one Boss-class alien beast after another was successively slain, the beast horde completely lost its command and turned into loose sand.

More and more Professionals and City Guards charged down from the city walls, like sharp daggers fiercely piercing into the alien beast horde, beginning the final harvest.

The balance of victory had completely tipped towards the human side.

Gandalf stood at the edge of the battlefield, calmly chanting an incantation.

"[Forbidden Spell: Meteor Fire Rain]!"

This was the last forbidden spell he released today.

The meteor burning with the Soul-Devouring Nether Flame whistled as it smashed into the final batch of stubbornly resisting alien beasts, turning them completely into flying ashes.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host, you have completed the challenge quest: Beast Horde Hunter!]

[Quest Objective: Kill alien beasts 10000 / 10000 (Completed)]

[Quest Reward: Profession Orb Draw Chance X1!]

[Ding! Congratulations to the host, Clone 'Gandalf' has leveled up to LV19!]

A hint of a smile appeared on Zhou Huai's face.

The generous quest rewards were in hand, and his Rank soared once again.

He glanced at the chaotic battlefield and those Professionals cheering for victory and hugging each other in celebration.

Without the slightest bit of nostalgia.

He controlled Gandalf to turn around silently, his figure quickly submerging into the distant shadows and disappearing.

…

"We won! We won!"

"Hahaha! We held it! We held Donghai City!"

On the battlefield, the Professionals who had survived the disaster burst into earth-shaking cheers.

They threw away their weapons, slumped onto the ground, panting heavily with weary yet satisfied smiles hanging on their faces.

"That's right! Where is that white-robed mage! Where is that Great Master?"

Someone shouted out.

Everyone's cheers came to an abrupt halt.

They suddenly remembered that this hero who had turned the tide was still on the battlefield.

"Quick! Go find the Great Master!"

"We must thank him properly! If not for him, we would all have died here today!"

"Right! Today was all thanks to his existence!"

Everyone immediately scrambled up from the ground, starting to search everywhere for that tall, upright figure dressed in white robes.

However, they searched the entire battlefield, even rummaging through the piles of alien beast corpses.

They still couldn't find him.

That mysterious and powerful white-robed mage had long since vanished without a trace.

…

Above the city wall.

A City Guard squad leader trotted quickly in front of Zhang Chiming, bowing his head to report.

"Report, Commander! We… we didn't find any trace of that white-robed mage."

Zhang Chiming widened his eyes, wearing an expression of "what use do I have for you".

"Trash!"

"A bunch of trash! So many people couldn't even keep an eye on a living person!"

"Go find him again! Even if you turn the entire battlefield upside down, you must find him for me!"

He was extremely anxious in his heart; if he could rope this formidable deity into the City Guard, the City Guard's strength would definitely rise by a tier.

"There's no need to look."

Beside them, Chairman Sun spoke indifferently.

"He has already left."

Zhang Chiming loosened his hand, looking at him with dissatisfaction.

"You noticed he left? Why didn't you send people to stop him?"

On Chairman Sun's perpetually unchanging iceberg face, an arc rarely curved upward, which seemed to be a smile.

"Since he wanted to leave, he naturally had his reasons for wanting to leave."

"Why should I stop him?"

Zhang Chiming stared at him suspiciously: "Chairman Sun, you couldn't possibly be thinking of… secretly roping him into your Tianyu Guild?"

"Your guild already has those two perverts Li Qiu and Luo Ming, are you still not satisfied?"

"A person cannot be too ungenerous!"

The smile on Chairman Sun's face grew even thicker.

He nodded magnanimously, admitting it.

"There's nothing about being generous or not."

"As for talent, there is never a time when one has too much of it."

"Don't you agree, Commander Zhang?"

…

At this moment, that searched-for "hero" Gandalf was walking across the wilderness heading toward the Shadow Swamp Demon Cave.

There were less than three days left until the National College Entrance Examination.

He had to get his hands on the last blueprint of the Star-Moon Set as soon as possible, and then have Ou Yezi forge the entire set of equipment.

After all, he still had an uncompleted challenge quest.

Although with Gandalf's current strength, securing the championship of the college entrance examination should not be a big problem.

With the Star-Moon Set, things could be foolproof.

Securing absolute certainty upon certainty.