Chapter 1 A Commander's Achievements Are Built on Countless Bones

There's a saying: when you encounter a bear in the forest, you don't need to run faster than the bear, you just need to run faster than your companion.

The same was true for the battle between Fang Senyan and Legolas. Fang Senyan didn't need to kill Legolas, he just needed to survive longer in the fight. Legolas, eager for battle and already exhausted, certainly wouldn't fight a battle of attrition as Fang Senyan wished.

So, the series of events in the battle was within Fang Senyan's calculations, but even he didn't expect Legolas to launch a desperate counterattack, using a divine artifact as the ultimate finishing move! Fortunately, Fang Senyan's unparalleled talent ultimately secured the final victory.

Therefore, when facing the "backdoor" left by Gandalf, Fang Senyan coldly remained unmoved, seemingly helpless. But, in the distance, Zi could be seen with her eyes closed, suspended in the air.

With her as the core, several fierce rays of light shone from behind her. The light looked extremely dangerous, like molten steel, with a frightening heat and crimson glow. However, that light passed through several Contractors and story characters, and their expressions remained calm, as if nothing had happened.

The only explanation was that the light originated from Zi, but its effects were on a different plane! And the wraiths moving Legolas' corpse, as well as the inexplicably floating Black Arrow and Bow of Lothlórien, suddenly let out shrill screams! Then they turned into green smoke and vanished into the wind!

The backup plan arranged by Gandalf and the Maiar was to use creatures from another plane to take away the spoils, trying to recover some of their losses. However, Zi already possessed the ability to interfere with space-time teleportation, even invalidating items with spatial power. Now that she had obtained legendary equipment, she was even more powerful.

As Zi coldly retracted the magic dagger in her hand, the area around the White Tower trembled violently, as if space was undergoing intense fluctuations. There was even a terrifying sound, similar to a knife scraping harshly across glass, amplified a hundred times, making people want to cover their ears to avoid having their souls tormented.

Those Maiar could only send their will here, not their power. A whirlwind swept through, like their angry roar.

Immediately afterward, the upper levels of the White Tower burst into terrifying flames that did not belong to this world, directly burning the white stone into red-hot lava! Without a doubt, none of the people remaining above could survive, but their souls were taken away by the angry Naya, and then went to Aman, the Blessed Realm, the Elves' holy land, where the World Tree would protect their souls and then reshape them.

(Note: The Valar are ancient gods. After they subdued the Dark Lord Morgoth, they went to a higher plane. Their power was greatly hindered by the plane barrier, so Morgoth's subordinate Sauron could dominate Middle-earth, while the Valar, who had already left, could only glare from the higher plane and could not directly intervene. They could only send subordinates like Gandalf, a Maia, to carry out their will.) This ending was not surprising to the Contractors of the dark side, because the Dark Messenger had already warned them of this possible consequence. Now they began to swarm forward, first to completely destroy the base of the White Tower, and then to clear out the remaining forces near the White Tower, in order to achieve final victory.

At this moment, Fang Senyan suddenly closed his eyes, obviously receiving some kind of notification about the relevant spoils. Immediately afterward, black light shone from Legolas' corpse. Then, that incredibly powerful Black Arrow, like a trapped beast, frantically darted left and right in the air, as if unwilling to accept this fate. But in the end, it was helplessly bound by an invisible force and sent to Fang Senyan!

To be honest, this situation seemed too coincidental. Fang Senyan killed Legolas and directly looted the most valuable thing on his body. After all, in most previous adventures, high-level story characters often only dropped worthless items. But combined with the deeper meaning behind this battle, it didn't seem abrupt at all.

This was a contest of multiple spatial wills, a war in which space used its rules to the limit!

Both sides in the war benefited greatly from it, not just Fang Senyan alone, but almost everyone. Whether it was the Human Alliance or the dark side, if they killed someone, it was unlikely that they would get nothing. If Fang Senyan hadn't already had a big loot when he killed Aragorn, Legolas would definitely have had a big loot too. Precisely because of this, those who participated in the spatial war and survived must have fully absorbed the nutrients of others, and often had a strong transformation.

Despite how unwilling the divine artifact Black Arrow was, and how it twisted and turned, it ultimately couldn't escape Fang Senyan's clutches, and he grabbed it in his hand. Immediately, a series of prompts came:

You have successfully plundered a lower-grade divine artifact: Black Arrow/also known as the Dragon-Slaying Arrow/Smaug's End. A layer of mist covers the divine artifact. You have not yet gained the approval of the artifact spirit, so you cannot obtain its detailed attributes.

This is a strange and powerful weapon. It possesses the noble bloodline of a powerful weapon used by the ancient god Valar. If you forcibly use it without sufficient ability, it will cause extremely strong trauma to the user.

Basic Equipment Requirements (can only exert up to 50% of its power): ???

Advanced Equipment Requirements (can only exert up to 70% of its power): ???

Full Equipment Requirements (can exert all of its power): ???

Origin: Brief (see previous text for details). This weapon can be used in two ways: melee or ranged. In melee, you can hold the arrow tail and use it as a short spear. In ranged, it is shot out. Usually, the power of melee is less than that of ranged.

Ancient Power: The power of the ancient Valar still remains in this weapon. The enemy's blood may stimulate and trigger this powerful divine power, granting a special effect of +15 to all attributes when attacking the enemy (melee state) / reducing all enemy attributes by 15 points (ranged state).

Ancient Power can be stacked three times, lasting 30 minutes.

*Dragon's End: The Black Arrow is haunted by the miserable screams of the dragon Smaug, which will directly affect the opponent. When your opponent is not a dragon, their defense is reduced by 20%. When your opponent is a dragon, the enemy's attack power against you is increased by 50% due to anger.

This effect can only be obtained after you have the advanced equipment requirements.

*Capture Weakness: After you enter combat, the Black Arrow's artifact spirit has already begun to analyze and capture the enemy's weaknesses at any time, and begins to increase the effect as time passes.

After entering combat for 30 seconds, you gain the first increase effect: your critical strike damage changes from the default 2x critical strike to 2.5x. After entering combat for 90 seconds, you gain the second increase effect: your critical strike damage will become 3x. After entering combat for four minutes, you gain the fourth increase effect: your critical strike damage will become 3.5x. After entering combat for ten minutes, you gain the fifth increase effect: your critical strike damage will become 4x! After entering combat for half an hour, you gain the final increase: your critical strike damage will become five times!

Reminder: The Black Arrow must be equipped to obtain this increase effect. It cannot be obtained by placing it in a private space. This effect can only be obtained after you have mastered 100% of this weapon.

*Wrath of the Valar (active ability): Mobilize the divine power of the ancient Valar to unleash a shocking double attack. The first arrow fired is the Black Arrow's body. After the enemy is hit, they will take a large amount of damage, be silenced, and all passive/active abilities will be temporarily lost, and they will be stunned for three seconds.

The second arrow fired is the Black Arrow's artifact spirit, which will deal five times the damage of the first arrow. If the enemy's remaining health is judged to be less than 20% after being hit, they will be instantly killed.

Cooldown time: 24 hours. The silence on the enemy will last for 24 hours or be解除掉 by the Black Arrow holder.

Reminder: The Black Arrow must be in a ranged attack state to obtain this increase effect. It cannot be obtained by placing it in a private space. This effect can only be obtained after you have mastered 100% of this weapon.

*Warning: Because the Black Arrow's artifact spirit is currently in a hostile state, you are currently unable to obtain the right to use this equipment, only ownership. You must fight the artifact spirit in the Black Arrow and conquer it before you can sign a soul contract with it and use it.

Reminder: You must collect all the relevant materials before you can open the teleportation array to fight the artifact spirit. There, you can only choose to face the artifact spirit alone, and there may be a risk to your life if you fail the challenge.

Looking at this very detailed information and data, Fang Senyan understood that although the difference between dark gold level and legendary equipment was huge, it was still not as huge as the gap between legendary equipment and the quality of a divine artifact! There is a saying that only the virtuous can possess a divine artifact. Specific to the rules in the Nightmare World, that is, equipment at the level of a divine artifact has a two-way choice, that is, people choose powerful equipment, but powerful equipment must also choose its owner at the same time!

And this is the biggest difference between divine artifacts and legendary equipment.

After holding the Black Arrow in his palm, Fang Senyan felt like he was holding a burning snake! Hot, scorching, and full of stubborn power. Everyone should have felt the feeling of catching a fresh fish, the Black Arrow's struggle was like that, but ten times more stubborn.

However, when the G-spot quietly deformed, and its silver metal tentacles greedily covered the Black Arrow, the Black Arrow suddenly stopped twisting, as if giving people an illusion. The weapon suddenly shrank by one-tenth, and then the G-spot's silver tentacles emitted a burst of smoke, and immediately shrank back.

Both sides suddenly became honest, but looking at the confrontation, it clearly said that there will be plenty of time in the future. At this time, the G-spot, with the identity of top legendary quality, was still unable to devour the divine artifact. However, the divine artifact was also afraid of this terrible metal life that could assimilate everything, because the G-spot only needed to be a little stronger to cruelly treat it as food.

At this time, the remaining White Tower could no longer withstand the violent hammering of several ferocious ogres, and let out a strong groan, collapsing颓然! In the midst of flying dust, this landmark building of Minas Tirith, a continental雄城, finally collapsed.

In this instant, although many people cheered, there were even more Contractors who knelt down, covered their faces with their hands and cried loudly, tears flowing happily from the gaps between their fingers.

The sunlight finally tore through the阴云 and shone down. Orcs and ogres hid in the shade, but now it was meaningless. Fang Senyan stood on the top of the city, overlooking the devastated Pelennor Fields, and the ruins and black smoke in the city. He suddenly felt the desolation of "one general's success is built on countless bones."

After all, he was still a twenty-six-year-old youth. Although his mind was mature, he still inevitably felt desolate.

Looking at the distant sunlight, and the thick smoke emerging from Mount Doom, which was faintly visible in the clouds, Fang Senyan received a long-delayed prompt:

"The golden main mission:灭国 is successfully completed."

"You successfully destroyed the White Tower, and the Human Alliance was completely annihilated. The members of the Fellowship of the Ring were reduced by at least 50%."

"Mission completion evaluation: Basically excellent (don't be surprised, although you did a good job, the heavy casualties of the dark side's army are the ultimate negative factor affecting this rating)"

"Mission description: You completely annihilated the people guarding him when you destroyed the White Tower. You did a great job."

"Hint: Your team level is not high enough, so your Silver Team Leader status cannot affect the results of the reward."

"Your contribution value is increased by 40+3 points (legend degree extra +3). "You have obtained 300,000 general points."

"You have obtained seventy potential points."

"You have successfully completed the golden main mission! Team level +1!!"

"Public reward a: Your all attributes are additionally increased by 15 points + 3 points (legend degree extra reward)."

"Description: This increase will be directly added to the attribute points, without the need for allocation."

"Public reward b: Interstellar Journey Certificate (one-time consumable item)."

"Description: After using this item, you will not be attacked by Contractors (in a broad sense: including Colonizers, etc.) during your stay in this world, and you will not be able to attack other Contractors."

"Public reward c: Waiver Authorization (this item can waive mission penalties below difficulty level B 3 times, and mission penalties below level A 1 time, but cannot waive mission penalties of higher difficulty."

"Description: After using this item, you will be exempt from the penalties for mission failure. Of course, you must also obtain mission rewards. Please use this item before the mission penalty comes."

*"Public reward d: Sauron's Horn."

"Description: Blow it, and the powerful Dark Lord will use his divine power to send his subordinates through the distant space-time tunnel to appear in front of you to fight for you. You will gain a small team (eleven people) of combined power, including a Uruk-hai, five Orc arsonists, four Orc warriors, and one Orc priest. They will be protected by Sauron's divine power and will not die in battle. They will return to the Lord of the Rings world after entering a dying state or after twenty-four hours."

"Hint: Every time you blow Sauron's Horn, you must inject it with dark energy. There are two ways to inject dark energy:屠戮 two hundred souls or recharge in space."

Looking at this series of prompts, all the Contractors let out exclamations of amazement. Such a generous reward was beyond their expectations. The next thing was the highlight that made everyone's blood boil:

"According to your contributions in this battle, you will receive varying amounts of gold general points to purchase special rewards for the following gold main missions! Regardless of whether there are any gold general points left after leaving this world, they will disappear. Gold general points can be traded. Your remaining contribution points from before will be exchanged for gold general points at a certain ratio."

"Contractor 1018, your performance in this battle is worth one hundred and thirty-three gold general points. Do you want to exchange your remaining contribution points?"

"Yes!"

"Contractor 1018, you currently have one hundred and ninety-four gold general points. Please choose the equipment/items you like from the special rewards for the following gold main missions. Please choose carefully, because most of the equipment/items that appear here will only appear in the rewards for the gold main mission. Because the data mobilized from the database is too large, please wait patiently for the data to be entered..."

"The estimated read-in time is seventeen minutes and thirty-one seconds. Please wait patiently. You can sit down, have a drink, bandage your wounds, or relax. This is already a completely safe area."

At this time, the Ace Team also spontaneously gathered around Fang Senyan, proactively gathering the gold general points that would expire once they expired. The current Ace Team was already integrated as one. The originally unruly Azi was also rapidly integrated into the team in the experience of blood and fire and life and death, as if he was originally a member of this team.

Of course, at this time, the Contractors were as noisy as a vegetable market. Everyone wanted to get more gold general points. After all, the equipment/items that appeared had already clearly stated that the only way to obtain them was to draw them after completing the gold main mission. This kind of equipment was at least超阶 (meaning that dark gold equipment had the strength to contend with some legendary equipment).