Chapter 403: Chapter 224: Rapid Progress! _1 With the little boy’s keen sense of direction, combined with Chen Mo’s Flying ability and his own extensive perception ability, Chen Mo could easily find the stronghold of the black-wind bandits, even if it was hidden deep in an old forest. When Chen Mo perceived the location of the bandits’ lair, the other two teams, in their respective dungeon worlds, had only just found the little boy and begun their journey. After all, Chen Mo’s method was to directly perceive and teleport, then take the boy and fly off, all in one smooth sequence. This efficiency was remarkably high. Normally, first-transition professionals could not use Flying. This point alone put them a fair bit behind Chen Mo. 「At this time, outside the instance, the relevant progress was also displayed synchronously on the feedback screen.」 It could be seen that among the three teams, only the Solar System team had a x2 marker displayed next to its name. This indicated that Chen Mo had used the ’designate’ function. Right from the start, Chen Mo gave the spectators an unexpected surprise. "So brave! He directly designated the Yongming Star System. A Level 30 first-transition professional, racing against five Level 40s, and he even paid double the cost to designate them! It seems he truly is that contestant from the survival challenge." "If he really is that person, Student Chen Mo is probably going to make a killing! The other two teams each have five Level 40 participants in this Speed Competition Dungeon. Just their bets combined will amount to ten shares!" "But he still has to actually win in terms of speed. Individual strength is one thing, but some dungeons also have high requirements for intelligence gathering. With more people, they can spread out and collect information more effectively. It’s really not certain who will be faster or slower." "I think he should be fine. Since he dared to come, he’s obviously done his research on the Speed Competition Dungeons and should have the necessary scouting abilities. Besides, even if he loses, the loss isn’t that substantial. According to the betting rules shown in the feedback, wagers are related to Level. For Student Chen Mo, a Level 30 professional, even a doubled cost isn’t a huge deal. The others, however, are staking the equivalent of ten Level 40 professionals." "That’s true. If Student Chen Mo’s strength is truly extraordinary, he can indeed achieve high returns with minimal risk." While the two were discussing, they saw the progress on the feedback screen change. Finding the little boy was 10% progress, and finding the Bandit Village was another 10%. When others were at 0%, Chen Mo was already at 10%. When others reached 10%, Chen Mo was already at 20%. In terms of progress, Chen Mo, playing solo, was somehow consistently ahead of the other, larger teams. This made the people outside find it rather incredible. If Chen Mo’s combat power was exceptionally strong, far beyond that of ordinary first-transition experts, it would be understandable if he caught up in the latter half of the dungeon. But the first half is usually a search process. How could he be completely surpassing them even in the first half? "He’s too fierce, completely dominating them in the first half! How could they possibly compete on speed in the latter half? If Student Chen Mo truly possesses the strength he showed as a zeroth-transition, when he insta-killed a full-level-full-star second-transition expert, then now, after his first transition, clearing first-transition monsters should be as easy as drinking water for him." "Looks like those five Level 40 players from the Yongming Star System are going to have to cough up! Haha." "It’s a pity there’s no mechanic where low-level players can crush high-level ones; otherwise, if they could be made to pay double, that would be even sweeter!" 「While the people outside were discussing.」 「Inside the dungeon.」 Since it was a Speed Competition Dungeon, any change in a team’s progress was synchronized and shared with all other squads. At this moment, the members of both the Yongming Star System and Sanyang System teams were stunned. When they saw this lone Level 30 professional from the Solar System effortlessly leaving their five-person squads far behind in terms of progress, they too felt this speed was utterly outrageous. And what came next would only show them that there was no such thing as ’most outrageous,’ only ’more outrageous.’ 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺 Shortly after Chen Mo’s dungeon progress reached 20%, it instantly made a huge leap, jumping directly from 20% to 50%. This left the other two teams, who had just found the little boy and were following him towards the Bandit Village, completely dumbfounded. "What’s going on? Why did this guy from the Solar System’s progress suddenly jump by 30%?" "He only reached 20% a few seconds ago, right? What the hell?" Before they could fully process their shock, The Heavenly Path’s Hint sounded close behind. [The Heavenly Path’s Hint: Congratulations to the professional from the Solar System for being the first to complete Speed Task (1) — ’Eliminate the Head Chieftain of the Black Wind Village.’ Other teams need to step it up!] [The Heavenly Path’s Hint: Congratulations to the professional from the Solar System for being the first to complete Speed Task (2) — ’Eliminate the three Chieftains of the Black Wind Village.’ The Solar System professional’s progress in this Stars Speed Competition Dungeon has now reached the 50% mark! If other teams don’t hurry, they will likely lose this speed competition. If you have any interference tools, you can try using them to affect your opponent.] In the Stars Speed Competition Dungeon, although each team performs their dungeon tasks within their own independent Dungeon Space, during the course of these tasks, some protection tools and interference tools can be picked up. Interference tools can be used to remotely harass other dungeon teams. They can decrease output, increase Cooldowns, pause spacetime, inflict Silence or Disarm, and apply other debuffs to disrupt the other teams’ operational rhythm, thereby slowing their task completion speed. Protection tools, conversely, counter interference tools. Once used, they can provide immunity to specific types of interference effects for a period. This is the only means of direct competition within the Stars Speed Competition Dungeon. However, these tools appear randomly throughout the dungeon. If teams don’t encounter them during their missions, no one will deliberately search for them. Otherwise, it would be putting the cart before the horse, sacrificing their own task completion speed to go after such items. Moreover, there’s never just one opposing team in these competitions. Target one team, and there’s still another to worry about. Targeting two teams at once means attracting hatred from both. If they then decide to gang up on you, the losses would far outweigh any gains. Since Chen Mo had been flying with the little boy earlier, he hadn’t picked up any tools on the ground. The other two teams, however, had traveled the mountain paths with the little boy. Along the way, they had managed to pick up some tools. Seeing Chen Mo’s insanely fast speed, the leaders of the two teams naturally made an immediate, decisive call to interfere with him. Otherwise, they feared the opponent would have already completed the entire mission before their own two teams even found the Bandit Village. 「On Chen Mo’s side.」 A Speed Competition Dungeon, true to its name, is all about one thing: speed. After Chen Mo found the Bandit Village, he didn’t hesitate for a moment, directly summoning a massive swarm of Skeleton Monsters. Their primary targets were the three Chieftains of the Black Wind Village. With millions of Skeleton Monsters, each possessing attack power comparable to a fourth-transition professional, all attacking at once, how could first-transition-level BOSSes possibly withstand it? In an instant, the three Chieftains were effortlessly and utterly annihilated by Chen Mo’s Skeleton Monsters. This caused Chen Mo’s dungeon progress to skyrocket directly to 50%. At this point, less than five seconds had passed since he had reached 20% progress. A 30% surge in progress in just five seconds! Seeing this, how could the other two teams possibly tolerate it? All sorts of interference tools were immediately hurled towards Chen Mo. The Heavenly Path’s Hints exploded madly in Chen Mo’s ears!