Jiang Kai sent the news that he had successfully killed the Hound King to Lu Jun, and they quickly sent people over to pick up the three of them.
When Lu Jun saw the three of them badly injured, he immediately arranged for doctors to treat them.
Jiang Kai and Hu Yan ignored their own injuries. The first thing they did was report to Lu Jun how the Godslayer Guild had almost caused the mission to fail.
"Brother Lu, shouldn't they be punished properly for something like this?"
Lu Jun nodded, thought for a moment, and said, "Stealing a BOSS is allowed, but the military had already sealed off the area. They trespassed anyway, so the nature of the issue is different."
"This matter is extremely serious, especially for those registered War Gods. Publicly disobeying military orders is very serious in nature!"
Lying on their hospital beds, Jiang Kai and Hu Yan exchanged a glance.
The more serious Lu Jun made it sound, the happier the two of them became.
"Oh right, Jiang Kai, the three of you actually managed to solo kill the Hound King. That's unbelievable!"
Jiang Kai shook his head. "Brother Lu, please don't send us to solo things again. Just look at the three of us. We almost died there."
In fact, without the Demon-Slaying Sword, there was a very high chance that the three of them would have failed to kill the Hound King.
Lu Jun laughed loudly. "Luckily, a BOSS like the Hound King only comes in ones. Hopefully we won't see another one like that."
Hu Yan secretly glanced at Jiang Kai. Judging from Captain Kai's guilty, sneaky expression, it was obvious they were thinking the same thing.
That's right. The Hound King was not the only one. And Dongli was a map-level BOSS. Now it had even joined the Lord God Guild and become a first-tier gourmet…
If the military found out that the Lord God Guild had such a terrifying existence mixed in, who knew how they would feel about it.
"Alright. Jiang Kai, Hu Yan, and…" Lu Jun glanced at Ruan Yu, who was fast asleep. Thinking it didn't matter whether he told him or not, he simply skipped him. "You guys get some good rest. I'll go report what you mentioned."
Not long after, Zhou Ting came to retrieve her equipment from Jiang Kai.
After killing the Hound King, Jiang Kai and the others hadn't checked their damage yet. While returning the equipment, they could take a look.
The two of them watched Zhou Ting operate anxiously. Then Zhou Ting frowned and looked at Jiang Kai and Hu Yan.
"How could this be? Why are your damage points only a little over 4,000?"
"Huh?" Both Jiang Kai and Hu Yan looked confused.
Logically speaking, killing a king-level BOSS should give at least seven or eight thousand points. And they had killed the Hound King. They should have over ten thousand points, no matter what.
But the Lord God's points had only increased by a little over 4,200.
Jiang Kai suddenly thought of a problem.
Could it be that the remaining damage was done by the Demon-Slaying Sword?
The institute's equipment might have only calculated part of the damage caused by the Demon-Slaying Sword.
At the time, the Demon-Slaying Sword had been in autonomous attack mode, and this kind of special situation was very likely not something the institute had considered in advance when designing the damage calculation scheme!
"This data is obviously wrong!" Hu Yan said.
"But the record here says 4,231 points." Zhou Ting looked troubled. "I know something must have gone wrong somewhere… Jiang Kai, did you use any unconventional methods?"
Jiang Kai was instantly at a loss for words. Was he supposed to tell Zhou Ting about the Demon-Slaying Sword?
Hu Yan also realized that the problem was likely with how the Demon-Slaying Sword's damage was counted. He could only look at Jiang Kai to see what he would say.
Jiang Kai hesitated for a moment, then said, "We didn't use any unconventional methods. And even if we did, wouldn't that still count as our damage?"
"This… this is really hard to explain clearly." Zhou Ting said. "Damage calculations are public. For example, if the Hound King was already injured to begin with, or if some mysterious expert helped out, if it can't be explained clearly, we can only go by what the equipment shows."
Because of the data issue, Lord God had now only surpassed Azure Dragon, but was still left behind by Heavenly Profound.
After thinking it over, Jiang Kai shook his head. "Forget it. Let's leave it like this. There are still the map BOSSes and the Lord of the Guards. I don't believe we can't surpass Heavenly Profound."
Later that day, the military announced its punishment decision for the Godslayer Guild.
The Godslayer Guild would be forcibly removed from the BOSS battlefield. At the same time, the War God Hall War Gods who had participated in the infiltration would have their War God Hall contribution points deducted and receive warnings from the War God Hall.
Guild leader Huang Jianguo was demoted from the Huaxia War God Hall to a local War God Hall War God.
As soon as the punishment was announced, it immediately drew widespread public attention.
"This time the military's punishment is really heavy!"
"I wouldn't say it's heavy. This is a special period. If everyone acted like Godslayer, it could affect the outcome of the entire BOSS battle. In my opinion, it's not heavy at all."
"Local War Gods who've been punished probably won't have any chance of joining the Huaxia War God Hall anymore."
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Liu Yuanxiang slammed his palm heavily on the table and shouted at Huang Jianguo across from him, "Is your brain kicked by a donkey? The military sealed the area and you still dared to break in? Fine, you broke in, but you even got caught?"
"This kind of principled mistake, I can't protect you!"
Huang Jianguo had a mournful expression. "Our luck was just too bad. We happened to run straight into the BOSS. If our luck hadn't been so bad, the result would've been different!"
Liu Yuanxiang sighed. "Your bad luck is whose fault? The BOSS's?!"
"This is great now. All the War Gods Xuanwu transferred over to you got implicated. A lot of people originally had a chance to enter the Huaxia War God Hall, but now they definitely won't be able to."
"With a punishment on their record, they probably won't ever get into the Huaxia War God Hall in this lifetime!"
Huang Jianguo knew it was his own fault. He clenched his teeth hard. "Jiang Kai even got me removed from the War God Hall."
"Old Liu, I can't take this anymore. Jiang Kai steals our BOSS and nothing happens. We steal his, and we get kicked out of the BOSS battle directly. The military is obviously favoring them!"
"How is that favoritism?" Liu Yuanxiang said. "Didn't the punishment decision clearly say the reason you were punished was for trespassing into a restricted area?"
Huang Jianguo said viciously, "I don't care anymore. We must kill Jiang Kai. He can already take two people with him to fight a king-level BOSS. What kind of level is that!"
Liu Yuanxiang sighed. Although Huang Jianguo was too stupid, what he said wasn't wrong.
"Don't rush." Liu Yuanxiang sighed again, his tone easing slightly. "After this BOSS battle ends, Jiang Kai will definitely go to the Beast God Battlefield. When the time comes, I'll find a way to make him disappear forever."
"For now, hurry up and take your Godslayer people and leave. I still need to arrange manpower and prepare for the map BOSS hunts in a couple of days."
"The reward for first place is extremely important to us. Right now, Xuanwu is ranked sixth. Whether we can turn things around depends on the two map BOSSes and the final Lord of the Guards!"
"Alright."
Huang Jianguo never expected that a single decision of his would almost destroy the entire Godslayer Guild.
But with the military's orders, Godslayer didn't dare disobey.
That night, Huang Jianguo took the Godslayer members and left Zone Sixteen.
In the early hours of the next day after they left, the Turtle King hunt had already ended.
It was said that when fighting the Reflective Turtle King, other guilds constantly used experts to distract the Turtle King, while those with more average strength instead became the main attacking force.
Although this effectively countered the Turtle King's damage reflection, at the same time, low attack power meant this became an extremely long war of attrition.
Even so, the losses were already very severe.
Fortunately, in the end, they managed to grind the Turtle King down. In one week, all the king-level BOSSes in Zone Sixteen had been killed.
After resting for one day, the military issued new orders. They would simultaneously begin hunting the two map BOSSes the next afternoon!
At the same time, the current top three on the rankings, Heavenly Profound, Lord God, and Azure Dragon, all made the same decision.
They decided to give up sending elites to attack the map BOSSes, leaving the BOSSes to the military, while they chose to help the War Gods of the War God Hall deal with the guard mobs instead.
From this decision, people could already see that the battle for the Zone Sixteen damage rankings had entered its final, white-hot stage!
Not only these three guilds. The score gap between the top eight was not large at all. The eighth-ranked Demon Slayers were only 6,000 points behind the first-ranked Heavenly Profound.
Now no one dared to be sure which guild would ultimately take first place in Zone Sixteen.
And the two map BOSSes and the final Lord of the Guards were the key to the final fight!
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