The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

The awards ceremony continued.

"Next up is Number 96,000, who voluntarily sacrificed five years of his lifespan. Although his combat power is utterly pathetic, it's precisely because he's so pathetic that he was able to use the Dark Balance to defeat the world boss!"

Jiuwan snatched the microphone from the host.

"What do you mean I'm utter trash! I'm a strategic unit! Do you understand?! And from today onwards, I'm number 91,000!"

"Ah...yes, yes, yes..."

The prize for the 90,000 was... nothing at all.

Jiuwan was stunned.

"You old scoundrel, are you serious?"

Song Gua said earnestly.

"I've thought it over. Starting today, stop leveling up, stop wearing equipment, stop upgrading skills, and don't come out unless necessary."

"Is that even humanly acceptable?!"

"There may be times when the Dark Balance will be used again in the future, and my new clones every day will be at the same level as me."

As you know, even without changing jobs, at level 2.0+ with a 2.0 growth rate, your base stats are incredible.

However, when using the Dark Balance, it's definitely better if our side is as weak as possible, so that on average, the enemy's combat power can be significantly reduced.

If I borrow it again, I will gain an overwhelming advantage.

Therefore, we must have someone whose combat strength is extremely weak.

"It's you I've chosen, brother!"

Ninety thousand people burst into tears.

"Didn't I do a great job?! How did I end up at the very bottom?!"

The host came to the speaker and played a song for him.

Snowflakes are falling~~~

The north wind is howling~~~

world!

piece!

Vast and boundless!

A clone of the healing sequence walked over, took off his Taoist robe, and draped it over Jiuwan, who was weeping.

When Jiuwan looked up, he saw that the man was wearing two Taoist robes and was shyly touching his temples.

"No!!!"

Song Gua kicked them both aside.

"The one walking towards us is Monkey King, who has been beaten so badly that even his own mother wouldn't recognize him, no, even we can hardly recognize him!"

In this battle, Monkey King endured the most brutal beatings and took the most damage, which is truly admirable!

With a bruised and swollen face and leaning on a cane, the monkey struggled to open his swollen eyes, babbling incoherently.

He looked very excited.

He was probably excited; he had finally stepped onto the awards stage he had been longing for.

The reward that Song Gua gave to Monkey King was more normal.

A set of level 25 rare quality armor, not a set, because rare quality sets are more difficult to collect.

Even without set bonuses, the stat boosts from rare quality items far surpass those from flawless sets.

These level 25 rare equipment items naturally come from level 25 dungeon bosses.

The final wave of attacks wiped out quite a few dungeon bosses, and Song Gua had nearly thirty pieces of rare equipment in his possession!

Unfortunately, some of them are level 5 or 10, which are not suitable for a level 20 clone. They are not as good as the level 20 flawless ones.

After all, not every rare piece of equipment is like Monkey King's Ruyi Jingu Bang, which can be upgraded.

Although we don't need it ourselves, it's still worth a lot of money if we sell it.

Some guilds and factions are happy to buy low-level rare equipment in order to climb the dungeon record rankings, so there is no shortage of market demand.

In addition to armor, Song Gua also provided Monkey King with a set of high-quality accessories.

Monkey King, as a warrior, often becomes the primary tank in battle by utilizing his talent, so it's best to keep his stats high enough.

"Grandpa! Grandpa!"

Monkey King held up a bunch of equipment and shouted "Grandpa!" to the whole audience.

He actually wanted to say "thank you," but his mouth was swollen from being hit, so the sound he made was off-key.

That concludes today's awards ceremony. We hope that next time we work together, brothers, we can continue our efforts and reach even greater heights!

After the awards ceremony.

Song Gua pulled back the black cloth in one corner of the warehouse, revealing a warehouse full of various foods, drinks, game consoles, KTV machines, and a large projection screen.

"Relax completely! It's party time!"

As an excellent business manager.

The Song hexagram deeply understands the importance of balancing work and rest.

We cannot simply exploit our employees.

After such a large project is completed, a team-building activity should be organized.

They ate and drank their fill.

A group of bandits entered a state of enlightenment.

Taking advantage of the fact that everyone was too tired to move, Song Gua gathered everyone together and formed several circles around them.

"We should take stock of what we've learned this time."

Ten people form a group, ten groups form a team, and there are five teams in total.

The group members reported to the group leader, the group leader reported to the regimental leader, and the regimental leader reported to Song Gua.

A list of recipients was quickly compiled.

Song Gua brought a lot of laptops with him for work.

Although this world boss battle was a huge success.

However, it must be said that the level 60 world boss is the lowest level among all world bosses.

The reason Yunshan City is in such a state is purely because of its poor food.

The level 60 world boss can only be commanded in the first job advancement dungeon area.

Therefore, the highest level of equipment that can be obtained is only level 25.

Of course, there are level 40 or 50 equipment items, which are dropped by wild monsters summoned by command; they are all basic.

These white and blue quality items were all thrown into the No. 1 core and melted into experience.

"Overall, we have more than 400 brothers, and we don't have to worry about equipment from level 5 to level 25."

The main force can be equipped with all flawless quality items, while the non-main force items can be equipped with all excellent quality items.

The accessories aren't the best quality, but there are plenty of them, so everyone can get fully equipped!

The bandits erupted in cheers.

Leveling up becomes very slow after level 20. Now, not only can level 20 players equip themselves with better gear, but level 25 players don't even need to worry about it anymore, saving a lot of trouble and money.

"We also gained a lot of skill books."

I estimate that leveling up all the innate skills and sequence skills of the main clone to level 5 would be enough.

Some of our top-tier main players can be allocated a bit more to level up to level 10!

Upgrading skills requires consuming a certain number of skill books of the same type.

Simply max out the proficiency level for each grade.

"The logistics department has more than enough materials for practicing skills."

I estimate I won't need to buy any more for at least six months, as materials are the most frequently needed item.

The various materials from dungeons ranging from level 5 to level 25 accounted for almost half of the weight.

The logistics department's clones cheered.

Besides the three main items: equipment, skill books, and materials.

There is also a large surplus of additional resources for enhancing combat power, such as gems and enhancement stones.

However, it's common practice for professionals not to enhance or socket equipment with gems until they reach level 30.

Not only because equipment is updated and replaced more quickly before level 30.

Also because level 30 requires a second job advancement challenge.

This challenge is very difficult, so difficult that not everyone in this world who reaches level 30 can complete the second job advancement.

Many people get stuck on this challenge their whole lives.

Stockpile resources and wait until level 30 to craft a high-power level 30 set of equipment. This will undoubtedly increase your chances of winning challenges.

Although this wave yielded great gains, there were also many family members in the Song Gua family.

For the sake of future second job advancement challenges, no extra processing will be done on anyone's equipment now—except for Monkey King's staff.

These enhancement resources are temporarily left to gather dust in the warehouse.

Speaking of warehouses, Song Gua actually has a warehouse prop now.