Facing monsters with higher and higher levels, Lin Mo, wearing nothing but a level 20 Venom set, felt that powerless, middle-aged kind of fatigue.
Of course, it was only because he had been driving fast for so long. Suddenly being forced to slow down naturally brought some mental gap.
One-shotting level 40 monsters, in Xia Wanwan and the others' eyes, Lin Mo was basically no different from a monster himself.
At the same time, Ning Xi quickly got into the zone.
As she advanced forward, she waved her staff and launched attacks at two Death Warriors still in their "dormant" state ahead.
BOOM!
BOOM!
-33825!
-29132!
One C-rank Fireball plus one D-rank Ice Spike instantly killed two Death Warriors.
Ning Xi's damage was, as always, terrifying.
It even made Lin Mo want to blurt out, "Damn! Are you hacking or what?"
Ling Xiao and the other two were already completely numb.
They had long stopped treating Lin Mo and Ning Xi as normal human beings.
"Death Warriors in dormant state take 30% extra damage. Only by using this dormant state can I deal one-shot skill damage to them."
"Otherwise, one skill isn't enough to kill a Death Warrior. I'd have to add extra damage, and that would affect the kill speed."
After calculating her own damage and the Death Warriors' HP, Ning Xi quickly came up with the tactic that suited her best.
These Death Warriors would stay dormant when no one approached.
But once someone entered within 50 yards of their attack range, they would awaken after 3 seconds.
Ning Xi seized those 3 seconds, using skills combined with the 1.3 times damage bonus to one-shot them, or even two basic attacks were enough to finish them off.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM!
Under Ning Xi's self-made strategy, one Death Warrior after another was killed instantly beneath her golden Venom staff.
Without anyone guiding her, Ning Xi had already quietly entered her best combat state.
At this moment, from Ning Xi, Lin Mo faintly began to see the shadow of the number one female emperor of the Dragon Nation server from his previous life.
Of course, they couldn't just rely on Ning Xi alone.
Lin Mo also went all out, killing Death Warriors with full firepower while searching through Death Valley.
Because this advanced assessment mission wasn't just about killing Death Warriors.
It also required killing the Shadow Clan minions hidden within Death Valley, namely the Shadow Shamans who refined these Death Warriors.
———
At the same time, on the other side—
Inside a wild abandoned city far from Death Valley, the battle between the Dragon Soul and Chaotic World guilds was in full swing.
Dragon Soul players occupied the houses in the city, using terrain advantages to desperately resist the Chaotic World players constantly pouring into the city.
But in the end, they still couldn't withstand Chaotic World's human wave tactics. Because Dragon Soul only had a little over a thousand members to begin with.
The main force had escorted Lin Mo to Death Valley.
On the abandoned city side, there were actually only five hundred troops and Chaotic World had their entire army of ten thousand present.
One could imagine.
Even with terrain advantage, even with magic scrolls, even though their average individual strength far surpassed Chaotic World, how could a mere five-hundred-man team possibly fight against an army twenty times their size?
In the end, after desperately holding on for ten minutes, the abandoned city was breached.
All five hundred Dragon Soul players were slaughtered. Not a single one remained.
Only after the battle ended did Wang Junjie, who had been hiding outside the city the whole time, dare to enter.
Looking at the post-battle mess inside the city, he couldn't help but burst into wild laughter, "Trash Dragon Soul! A bunch of losers! And you dare fight me?"
"Is Rulebound dead?"
"Who killed Rulebound? Show me the kill record and I'll give him ten million! I, Wang Junjie, always keep my word! I never shortchange my brothers!"
However, as soon as he said that, the people around him looked at each other in silence.
Faced with the temptation of ten million, not a single person stepped forward to claim it.
"Hm?", Wang Junjie still hadn't realized something was wrong. He even thought, "What? Too little? Ten million and nobody wants it?"
"Wait!", Strategist Chaotic World Zhuge seemed to react a bit late and asked, "Did anyone see Rulebound during the fight just now?"
As soon as he said that, the surrounding people all shook their heads.
Chaotic World Zhuge frowned, "Count all the kill records."
Hearing this, everyone thought the bonuses were about to be handed out.
Chaotic World players were more enthusiastic than ever.
In just half a minute, the numbers were tallied, "A total of 521 Dragon Soul players killed."
Hearing this number, Chaotic World Zhuge's head hurt, "Something's wrong!"
"This is bad! We've been tricked again!"
"Damn it!", Wang Junjie's face changed, looking as if he had just swallowed crap, "What kind of trick is it this time?"
Chaotic World Zhuge pushed up his glasses and said in a deep voice, "Sneaking across in the dark."
"I'll sneak your ass!", Wang Junjie slapped him so hard his glasses flew off, "Don't think just because you're the strategist I won't hit you! Why do you only realize we've fallen into a trap after we've already fallen into it?"
"Why the hell can't you figure it out earlier?"
"You useless strategist! What do I even need you for!"
Chaotic World Zhuge covered his face like a beaten concubine, "People who play tactics all have dirty hearts. This must be that Dragon Soul Whisper's plan."
"Dragon Soul Whisper, I hate you!"
Wang Junjie was also fuming, "Playing mind games with me all day! Rulebound, you make me sick!"
Trying to restore his image and status, Chaotic World Zhuge said to Wang Junjie, "They deliberately sent out one third of their forces to create the illusion that they were cornered and trapped in this city by us, using this abandoned city to hold us back."
"Their main force must have escorted Rulebound to the place they really wanted to go from the start."
"These five hundred people left behind were prepared to sacrifice themselves from the very beginning. For Dragon Soul to go to such lengths again and again to protect Rulebound, there must be some priceless treasure on him, or an extremely rare hidden mission."
"Dragon Soul's guild leader, Dragon Soul Aoshi, is a businessman. If Rulebound didn't have something worth his attention, he would never protect him at such cost."
Wang Junjie gritted his teeth, "So what do we do now?"
"At any cost, find Rulebound' location! Seize the mission on him!"
"Because according to Divine Oracle's settings, any hidden mission has one chance to be transferred. Force Rulebound to hand over his hidden mission."
Wang Junjie's teeth were grinding from hatred.
"Rulebound!"
"Where are you!"
"Where the hell are you!"
"I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!"
"AHHHH!"
Burning with rage, almost driven mad, Wang Junjie immediately opened the Blazing Ember City regional chat channel and, at the cost of 3 gold coins, posted three consecutive pinned messages —
[Chaotic World Hero (Level 28 Warrior, Wealth Ranking No.1): "From this moment on, whoever finds clues about Rulebound and tells me will get a ten million reward."]
[Chaotic World Hero (Level 28 Warrior, Wealth Ranking No.1): "From this moment on, whoever finds clues about Rulebound and tells me will get a ten million reward."]
[Chaotic World Hero (Level 28 Warrior, Wealth Ranking No.1): "From this moment on, whoever finds clues about Rulebound and tells me will get a ten million reward."]
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