In the World 45, aside from scattered units, most mechanical soldiers operate in teams and with organization.
Generally, twenty to thirty mechanical soldiers can form a D-rank mechanical squad.
A C-rank mechanical squad can reach about 100 mechanical soldiers.
B-rank mechanical squads range from 300–500 mechanical soldiers.
A-rank mechanical squads can scale up to a thousand mechanical soldiers.
One of the tasks for World 45 professionals is to annihilate 100 A-rank mechanical squads.
Wiping out the millions-strong mechanical army within the entire Mechanical City would be more than enough for Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin to complete the world task.
In just ten minutes, the huge Mechanical City before them had become a graveyard.
Inside and outside the walls, not a single living mechanical soldier could be seen.
Endless piles of mechanical corpses stacked into small hills.
This scene made those solo players surrounding the mechanical soldiers question their lives.
"Zero is just too terrifying!"
"Seriously perverted power…"
Normally, a five-player team of above-average strength would need at least half a day to finish off an A-rank mechanical squad.
For them, completing the task of eliminating a hundred A-rank mechanical squads would take at least one to two months.
But Zhang Yue finished in just ten minutes what would take ordinary people two months.
That was, of course, beyond godlike.
In fact, it wasn't that others were slow.
Finishing two world tasks in about three months, and clearing one world every four to five months while also fighting World Bosses, is already common for professionals tackling the 40–50 Worlds.
By Zhang Yue's pace, he could finish two world tasks in half an hour and clear a world within an hour.
His speed was simply too fast.
Sweeping through the mechanical soldiers, Zhang Yue led the undead army into the Death Territory.
There was also a world task to "accumulate the annihilation of ten SSS-rank mechanical squads," and clearly that could be executed better in the Death Territory.
Within national domains, even S-rank mechanical squads are rare.
But in the Death Territory, S-rank and even SSS-rank mechanical squads are everywhere.
Soon, the two arrived at the Death Territory.
A thick breath of death filled the entire realm.
Just after arriving, Zhang Yue was immediately attacked by a mechanical squad.
Ahead, in a vast, empty, dark Territory, countless mechanical soldiers swarmed like ants, rushing toward Zhang Yue with an all-consuming momentum.
Zhang Yue casually assessed the situation and a trace of delight flashed in his eyes.
"The first wave is already SSS-rank. This is the charm of the Death Territory," he said.
If it were ordinary people, they'd have to use terrain, lure and pick off enemies one by one, and make use of outside forces to gradually dismantle such a massive mechanical squad.
After all, an SSS-rank mechanical squad can contain tens of thousands of mechanical soldiers.
With ordinary strength, no one would dare to charge head-on.
Yet Zhang Yue showed not a hint of retreat.
He stood firm, raised his Transcendent Staff, locked onto the approaching mechanical squad, prepared to annihilate them in one fell swoop.
As soon as the enemy drew near, under Zhang Yue's command, five thousand Tier Three Death Servants charged like a storm, surging toward the mechanical squad.
Very quickly, the two forces collided.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Swish! Swish! Swish!
A hail of bullets and beams, flashes of blade light.
From the onset, the battle erupted into a fierce climax, mechanical soldiers dropping in waves.
The Death Servants sliced with blades, trampling over the fallen bodies from the front ranks to strike the rear.
Under the unstoppable charge of the undead army, the mechanical squad suffered a devastating blow in an instant.
Front-line mechanical soldiers fell by the rows.
It was like a wave smashing against a hard fortress wall.
At the same time, Chen Zijin moved like a shadow, dashing into the front ranks at extreme speed, twin blades in hand, slaying wildly.
Zhang Yue flapped his angelic wings and attacked from the air.
Using flight he passed over the front lines, striking the rear ranks of the mechanical squad.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
A series of fierce attacks hammered the clustered rear-line mechanical soldiers, each hit dealing colossal damage exceeding 55 billion, erasing life in an instant.
Wherever he went, nothing survived.
Even tens of thousands of mechanical soldiers could not withstand the combined blows of the Necromancer + Shadow Dancer + undead army.
In a blink, the entire mechanical squad was almost annihilated.
["Ding~ Congratulations, you have successfully annihilated an SSS-rank mechanical squad…"]
Zhang Yue only circled once in the air and saw heaps of mechanical corpses below.
After finishing one round of battle, he immediately searched for the next target.
Now that Zhang Yue's Transcendent Set had reached 47 stars, at his current strength it would be more than sufficient for the next ten Worlds, no problem.
So power was no longer a concern.
What Zhang Yue needed to consider now was clearing the other Worlds as quickly as possible.
World tasks, the faster the better.
Only results matter.
That's why the Death Territory is both dangerous and valuable.
The more dangerous the place, the more valuable the exploration reward.
Across the entire Death Territory, there were no scattered units to be seen, and you rarely saw any mechanical squad below S-rank.
Everything encountered was at least S-rank.
After bypassing several S and SS mechanical squads, Zhang Yue locked onto another massive SSS-rank mechanical squad.
He dove down, leading the undead army, and unleashed an earth-shattering assault on that squad.
After eliminating the second squad, he continued searching nearby for the next target.
In this way, in an extremely short time, Zhang Yue successively destroyed nine SSS-rank mechanical squads.
Only one remained to reach the task target.
But the nearby regions seemed to have no more suitable targets.
"It seems like they spawn too fast, those SSS-rank squads don't even have a chance to form!", Chen Zijin said, looking at the scattered corpses around, "Looks like we need to expand the area."
At that moment, Zhang Yue saw a message on the World 45 channel from a professional of the Sun-Never-Sets Empire.
[[Kno Slough] (Sun Nation · Lv245 Tier 6 Holy Crossbowman): "Zero, you're in the Death Territory, right? I heard you're looking for high-rank mechanical squads. I found traces of an SSS-rank mechanical squad here, want to come take a look?"]