Chapter 461: Classification Of Dark Monsters

In the end, aside from the lack of powerful Light Bearers, Elas’s power as the World’s Strongest was lacking.

If he were a Starlight rank powerhouse, he could have used sheer force to deal with the Perpetual Darkness and eliminate all the Dark Monsters. Even solving the Perpetual Darkness’s corruption wouldn’t be as difficult as before.

After all, Elas was a powerful light attribute mage, so if he were to become a Starlight rank powerhouse, he could just create his own sun to illuminate the Elf World and drive away the Perpetual Darkness.

In fact, Zayne could also do the same and solve the Perpetual Darkness in Main World Terra easily.

Not only could he solve the Perpetual Darkness in Terra, but he could also do the same to the Perpetual Darkness in other worlds.

The source of the apocalypse wasn’t even at Divine rank, which meant that if Zayne wanted to, solving the Perpetual Darkness was easy.

’Unlike the Doomsday Life Simulation, doing that wouldn’t cause me any benefit. In fact, such actions would be tantamount to obstructing the purpose of the Monthly Apocalypse World Update Era.’

’Although I can do that and can likely get away without any punishments due to my status as someone with a high perfection percentage, such immunity wouldn’t be limitless.’

’Moreover, Hint Prompt had already confirmed that if I were to solve the apocalypse, it wouldn’t trigger another Monthly Apocalypse World Update. Instead, the world would return to a normal pre-apocalypse state, and the Terran Survivors and I would have to wait for the month to end for the next world update to occur.’

’Since solving it wouldn’t completely stop the Monthly Apocalypse World Update Era, there’s no point in doing that. The Main World Terra being this weak and predictable to me is, in fact, an advantage.’

’It’s an advantage I’ve gained for myself and Jade, which was acquired from grinding and working my ass off in the Doomsday Life Simulation. Hastily concluding the Monthly Apocalypse World Update and potentially making it more unpredictable would only be shooting myself in the foot.’

’Moreover, the Light Bearer Path has the potential to reach Heaven rank according to the hint prompt. So, giving up the Perpetual Darkness World is what I need. Gambling for a new Monthly Apocalypse World Update Theme would be unwise, as it might be useless to me.’

While Zayne’s thoughts had digressed to that matter, he didn’t forget to reply to Elas, "I’ll keep that in mind. Moreover, if you want to repay me, just inform me of everything you and the elf race have known and discovered about the Perpetual Darkness."

Elas immediately nodded, "Leave that to me. No matter what, the Elf World has experienced two years of Perpetual Darkness, so our experience is greater than most worlds."

"Although it can’t compare to the in-depth research of those worlds who have powerful Light Bearers, it is still qualified to serve as an introduction to what the Perpetual Darkness is."

Waving his hand, Elas dismissed the Magic Council Elders and led Zayne and Jade to his magic research laboratory.

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After using teleportation magic, the three of them left the royal place’s underground treasury and arrived at Elas’s residence, which served as both his home and his magic research laboratory.

Elas’s magic research lab was located underground and was sealed off with countless magic formations and restrictions.

Led by Elas, Zayne and Jade entered Elas’s magic research laboratory.

Inside the magic research lab, there were glass containers that contained preserved corpses and body parts of Dark Monsters.

Dark Monsters’ physiology was quite similar to the Eternal Winter’s Winter Spawns. The only difference between the two was that the former was rich in dark attribute, while the latter was based on huge amounts of winter element.

But in essence, the two of them were quite similar. For example, like Winter Spawns, Dark Monsters could also be naturally generated and spawn in areas with Perpetual Darkness.

Most Dark Monsters appeared in this way. As for the other method, it was for the Perpetual Darkness to corrupt an existing living being into becoming a Dark Monster.

Standing in front of a glass container that was filled with the body parts of a certain Dark Monster, Elas continued his explanation, "From what we discovered, Dark Monsters are divided into nine ranks, which, from weakest to strongest, are called First Order Dark Monsters to Tenth Order Dark Monsters."

"Tenth Order Dark Monsters are as powerful as a Ten Circle Mage like myself, but they are even more troublesome for even me to defeat."

"A Light Bearer of the same rank might have better odds in fighting against a Tenth Order Dark Monster, but my light attribute Ten Circle Magic spells aren’t that advantageous against it."

"As for Dark Monsters above Tenth Order, they certainly do exist, but fortunately, the Elf World didn’t have Dark Monsters that powerful yet."

"In fact, there weren’t even Tenth Order Dark Monsters yet in the Elf World. At least, not one that has spawned in the Elf World. Only a badly injured Tenth Order Dark Monster had arrived from the World Borders due to a spatial turbulence."

"That Tenth Order Dark Monster likely came from another world that has experienced the Perpetual Darkness even longer than the Elf World. In short, the strongest Dark Monster in the Elf World is only at Eighth Order."

"A Ninth Order Dark Monster had only appeared once due to an accident where one of our Nine Circle Mages had been corrupted by the Perpetual Darkness due to experimenting with it haphazardly, causing him to become a Ninth Order Dark Monster."

"But due to this, the resources we have that are related to the Perpetual Darkness might only be at Eighth Order, with a few instances of it reaching Ninth Order."

From the looks of it, even Elas didn’t know much about the Perpetual Darkness World. However, that was to be expected.

Although the Elf World survived for two years, that was merely due to them having a huge power rank advantage at the start.