Chapter 155: Chapter 142 99.99% Mortality Rate! (5/5)_1 With Chen Mo’s decision to continue the challenge, the four-star Brave Challenger’s Trials began promptly. This time was somewhat similar to the two-star Brave Challenger’s Trials, also having five stages. The reward choices were almost the same. However, because Chen Mo’s title had an additional effect, he could choose a few more rewards each time. In the end, the four-star Demon King, just like the three-star Demon King, didn’t even get to finish his lines before he kicked the bucket. Chen Mo even felt as if The Heavenly Path’s Hint had been messing with him when it warned him of an 80% death rate before the challenge started. But if he carefully considered it from the perspective of an ordinary person undertaking the challenge, it would indeed be a life-or-death situation. This four-star Demon King even had summoning skills and could summon Elite Beasts and minions. Facing the BOSS alone was already troublesome enough, and to make matters worse, Elite Beasts and minions kept interfering. Needless to say, this significantly increased the difficulty of the challenge. Chen Mo, however, didn’t afford him the opportunity. He had already set up the Skeleton Formation; the moment the BOSS appeared, they dogpiled it and finished it off in a flash. A swift finish, truly delightful! Chen Mo loved this feeling. [The Heavenly Path’s Hint: Congratulations, you have successfully slain the Four-Star Demon King. Your S-level title has been upgraded to the SS-level title "Golden-Grade Brave Challenger." Do you wish to continue with more difficult Brave Challenger’s Trials?] [SS-level Title — Golden-Grade Brave Challenger] [Title Effect]: During Brave Challenger’s Trials, you gain a 100% All Attributes bonus, a 10x life value bonus, a 10x energy value bonus, 75% increased damage to Demon Kings, 75% damage reduction from Demon King attacks, and a 75% reduction in the effectiveness of crowd control and abnormal effects from Demon Kings. During the reward phase, you can reroll rewards five times and can directly obtain all rewards presented. [Title Introduction]: A Brave Challenger possessing this title is a glorious existence among Brave Challengers. They are just one step away from the pinnacle. Please continue to strive forward. As his title upgraded from S-level to SS-level, its effects changed massively as well. He was only able to choose a few rewards before, but now he could directly receive all the rewards. This truly is a case of ’children make choices; adults want it all.’ Moreover, the other effects had also seen a significant boost. Looking at the 75% damage increase and damage reduction alone, along with the doubling of All Attributes, the power increase was massive. With such a mighty title in hand, could the five-star Brave Challenger’s Trials still have such a high death rate? Chen Mo found this hard to believe. As he chose to continue, he saw that The Heavenly Path’s Hint now warned of a 99% death rate. [The Heavenly Path’s Hint: The trial you are about to challenge is the Five-Star Brave Challenger’s Trial. Historically, 99.99% of professionals have died while challenging it. If the challenge is successful, a special SSS-level title can be obtained! Please confirm whether you are ready to accept the challenge!] This warning made Chen Mo, who had been confidently clearing trials up until now, feel a pang of doubt. Considering how powerful his title effects already were, yet the death rate was still so high, just what kind of entity was this Five-Star Demon King? After some indecision, Chen Mo ultimately chose to seek fortune in danger. With so many life-saving measures at his disposal, he genuinely didn’t believe this BOSS could be so outrageously difficult. [The Heavenly Path’s Hint: You have accepted the Five-Star Brave Challenger’s Examination. The Examination is about to begin with ten changes of scene, divided into ten stages! The first-tier officially begins!] As The Heavenly Path’s Hint concluded, the scenery before Chen Mo’s eyes changed rapidly. He found himself back on the previous grassland. This time, The Heavenly Path’s Hint, which would usually announce how many monsters he needed to fight for each tier, made no mention of it at all. Just as Chen Mo was in doubt, The Heavenly Path’s Hint suddenly rang out. [First-tier, please endure the monsters’ assault and survive for 5 minutes!] Good heavens, has it turned into a survival mode now? Before he even had time to react, monsters began to spawn densely all around him. Luckily, only about a hundred appeared at once, which wasn’t an overwhelming number. The moment Chen Mo’s Skeleton Monsters sprang into action, they instantly wiped out the first wave of freshly spawned monsters. Meanwhile, monsters continued to sporadically emerge from the ground, though not as many at once as in the initial wave. However, their relentless, unending stream was quite troublesome. If it were anyone else, this would mean forcing them to grind monsters for five minutes straight. Even if one’s body didn’t tire, their Spirit would. After all, these monsters were appearing from all directions. If one were alone, they would need to be vigilant in all directions, or risk being ambushed. One would have to avoid taking damage while fighting off monsters, all while constantly guarding against newly appearing ones. The survival difficulty was indeed considerable. And this was only the first-tier of the Five-Star Demon King Challenge. Now Chen Mo somewhat understood how this 99.99% death rate came about. However, he had a whole bunch of minions, so he wasn’t particularly concerned about this. He even wished more monsters would spawn so his attributes could increase further. The 5 minutes quickly passed. Chen Mo roughly estimated that about 2,500 monsters had appeared during these 5 minutes. His attributes had been boosted immensely. [The Heavenly Path’s Hint: The first-tier is over. Based on the influence of your title effects, you will be able to receive rewards from all the reward options of this tier. If you are not satisfied with the current five rewards, you still have the opportunity to reroll for new options five times.] [Choice One]: Life Absorption (Each time a unit is killed, life value increases by 1 point.) [Choice Two]: Attribute Absorption (Every one hundred units killed, All Attributes increase by 1 point.) [Choice Three]: Energy Absorption (Each time a unit is killed, energy value increases by 1 point.) [Choice Four]: Life Recovery Absorption (Each time a unit is killed, life recovery increases by 0.01%.) [Choice Five]: Abnormal Resistance Absorption (Each time a unit is killed, abnormal resistance increases by 0.01%.) Life recovery and abnormal resistance didn’t seem very useful to Chen Mo, so he decided to reroll. This time, he actually rolled a rare option, and its effect was rather good. [Choice Four]: Invincible Shield (Rare reward. Every 10 seconds, gain an invincible shield that lasts for 3 seconds. While the shield is active, you are immune to all damage, abnormal effects, and crowd control.) Seeing this effect, Chen Mo didn’t bother checking the other four and immediately locked in this set of rewards. After all, 3 seconds of invincibility every 10 seconds was already incredibly powerful. What more could he ask for?! As Chen Mo locked in his rewards, the surrounding scene immediately changed to a 100-meter square arena, and the second-tier started immediately after that. But compared to the first-tier, the second-tier was surprisingly lenient. It was simply a matter of killing ten Elite Beasts; there was no survival time limit. Of course, ’lenient’ wasn’t quite the right word from his perspective; in fact, it felt like a raw deal. Although there were fewer monsters, making it seem easier, for him, fewer monsters meant fewer attribute points to gain—a very bad deal indeed!