BOOM! BOOM!
Above the sky, lightning flashed and thunder roared, rain pouring down in sheets.
But, it couldn't stop the charge and passion of the Chaotic World players.
"Brothers! Charge!"
"Five thousand compensation for dying! Drag one down with you and that's another ten thousand! Kill two and you're making a killing!"
"Get rich overnight! It's today!"
"Kill!"
Amid shouts that shook the clouds, the Chaotic World Guild braved the heavy rain and charged toward Death Valley.
With Divine Oracle's 99% realism, it was already impossible to tell game from reality.
At this moment, it felt like a real battlefield of life and death beneath their feet.
Right now, guarding outside Death Valley were fewer than a thousand Dragon Soul Guild players.
Facing a Chaotic World army more than ten times their number, their backs turned cold, legs trembling uncontrollably.
"They're coming!"
"Brothers, anyone still got magic scrolls? Give me one! I'm out!"
"These past two days we've been clashing with Chaotic World too often. I've used up all my scroll charges on them!"
"All gone? Then we're screwed!"
Just as panic began to spread, a deep voice suddenly rang out from the back of the crowd, "If there are no magic scrolls, then we fight with strength."
As the words fell, everyone turned toward the speaker and shouted in awe, "Boss!"
Fully clad in black heavy armor, a greatsword on his back, second on the Blazing Ember City Sky Ranking, the level 29 warrior Dragon Soul Aoshi had arrived in person.
Clang!
The moment he drew his greatsword, he stabbed it into the ground.
He barked, "All Dragon Soul members!"
"Fight to the death. No retreat!"
The personal arrival of Dragon Soul Aoshi, the guild leader, greatly boosted morale.
In an instant, confidence surged among all Dragon Soul players present.
Their response shook the sky, "Yes!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
As Su Muqiu, the level 28 archer who had dropped from second to third on the rankings after being killed and losing levels in the Black Mine, unleashed a combo of arrows and shot down a level 25 Chaotic World warrior charging at the front.
The moment white light rose, the battle officially began.
"KILLLL!"
With roars that pierced the heavens, Dragon Soul players launched their charge and collided with the Chaotic World army.
At the rear of Chaotic World, Wang Junjie, covered in footprints, climbed up from the ground, spat out a mouthful of mud, and couldn't help cursing, "Your—"
Before he could finish—
Ding!
Wang Junjie suddenly received a private message:
[Chaotic World Drug Lord (Level 25 Assassin): "Brother Jie! I found the thing you asked us to look for! It's in the hands of a small-time studio boss in Blazing Ember!"]
["They say it took nearly a hundred people from their studio, grinding for a whole day and night, each dying more than five times, and they only managed to kill a Tier 3 BOSS with huge losses. It dropped by pure luck."]
["So they're asking for no less than two million!"]
"Only two million?", Wang Junjie smiled dismissively, ["Buy it! Push his friend contact to me."]
Then Chaotic World Drug Lord continued, ["Brother Jie… about what you said earlier, whoever helped you find this would get a bonus…"]
Without a word, Wang Junjie transferred one million to Chaotic World Drug Lord.
Chaotic World Drug Lord was so excited he practically wanted to take a dump in the middle of the street, ["Thank you, Brother Jie! In this life I live as Brother Jie's man! In death I'm Brother Jie's ghost!"]
Soon, Wang Junjie's mailbox flashed.
[Ding~ You have paid 2,000,000 RMB and retrieved a mail sent by player Wangdao Supreme. Obtained A-grade Magic Scroll · Death Lockdown +1!]
He picked up the magic scroll in his hand and glanced at it, excitement surging instantly.
Then he looked at the Dragon Soul players ahead, fighting desperately against his guild members. The corners of his mouth lifted as he chuckled, "You Dragon Soul dogs love being Rulebound's lapdogs, huh?"
"Then today, I'll let you be dogs to your heart's content."
With that, Wang Junjie ordered the Chaotic World players, "Don't kill them yet. Drive them into Death Valley."
Seeing his men ignoring his command, still scrambling to kill Dragon Soul players for bounty money,
Wang Junjie grew furious, "Damn it!"
"Anyone who kills Dragon Soul outside the map doesn't get paid!"
"Kill them inside Death Valley and the bonus goes up to twenty thousand per head!"
Though confused, Chaotic World players obeyed.
As long as Wang Junjie paid, whatever he told Chaotic World to do, they would do.
So, at Wang Junjie's command, even though they could have easily wiped out the few hundred Dragon Soul players with sheer numbers, Chaotic World did not kill them.
Instead, they kept pressing forward until they forced Dragon Soul into the Death Valley map.
This move left Dragon Soul players utterly baffled.
"What are Chaotic World trying to do?"
"It feels like they're deliberately driving us into Death Valley?"
"I've got a bad feeling about this…"
Just as Dragon Soul players were filled with suspicion and guesses,
suddenly, a system announcement descended from the sky and echoed across all of Death Valley—
[Map Announcement (Death Valley): "Ding~ All players currently inside the Death Valley map please note: Due to player Chaotic World Hero using A-grade Magic Scroll Death Lockdown, the scroll effect has taken effect. For the next 60 minutes, all players who die inside Death Valley will trigger an on-the-spot revival effect and will no longer respawn at the main city resurrection fountain."]
Hearing this map announcement, everyone's throat dried.
They finally realized Chaotic World's true intention.
"Damn! They're trying to lock us down and slaughter us inside the map?"
"Where did Wang Junjie even get an A-grade magic scroll? How would a third-tier main city even have something like that??m"
"Forget that! We need to break out! We absolutely cannot get worn down in here, or every single one of us will be killed all the way back to level 0."
However, the moment Dragon Soul was driven into Death Valley, they had already lost their way out.
The instant the magic scroll's effect activated, Chaotic World Guild players flooded crazily into Death Valley.
In their eyes, every Dragon Soul player was a walking twenty thousand yuan bounty.
Their eyes were filled with greed for the reward.
Like hungry wolves, they pounced toward Dragon Soul players.
The strategist, Dragon Soul Whisper, immediately issued the highest combat order, "All members enter level one combat readiness."
"All first-line core members use return scrolls. The rest, cover them with everything you've got."
As the strategist, he had to weigh pros and cons and make the most beneficial decision for the guild at any moment.
Given the current situation, the best plan Dragon Soul Whisper could think of was to sacrifice some people to protect certain core members from being killed back to level 0, minimizing losses as much as possible.
However, just as Dragon Soul Whisper finished giving the order, Dragon Soul Aoshi suddenly shouted, "No one retreats! Everyone stays and holds off Chaotic World Guild until Rulebound finishes his mission and withdraws safely."
[🎉 Shoutout to Asriels, LN and Slashdog for joining p@treon. Thank you very much.🤗]
═❀═❀═❀═❀═❀═❀═
[email protected]/AmbitiousTranslator
🥳Joining P@treon keeps me motivated and eager to work diligently, so please consider joining.🥰 You can access upto 20 advance chapter through P@treon.