Crash!
All of a sudden, the winds and clouds changed. Lightning flashed and thunder roared. An endless aura of darkness instantly enveloped the entire Dark Night Spirit City.
Everyone caught within it felt suffocated...
"What the hell is this?"
"Is a heavy fog coming?"
"Are you fucking watching Ultraman?"
As the black mist seeping up from beneath Dark Night Spirit City grew denser and denser, everyone present began to feel panicked.
Even Lin Mo sensed a threat.
Because, relying on the experience and instincts he had gained from two years of struggling through the world of Oracle in his previous life, he sensed...
"This is... the aura of the Ghost Race, one of Oracle's Supreme Races!"
Ning Xi asked in surprise, "Big Brother Lin Mo, this Dark Night Spirit City isn't the Ghost Race's territory. How could there be the aura of the Ghost Race here?"
Lin Mo looked up at the sky. The entire sky above Dark Night Spirit City had been shrouded in darkness, turning day into what looked like night in an instant.
He said in a low voice, "An ordinary Ghost Race member can't cause such a huge disturbance in the domain."
"Judging by the strength of the aura, it's at least a Ghost King!"
"Could it be that the Ghost King from the Forbidden Divine Land has been released?"
At that thought, even Lin Mo was somewhat shocked.
At this moment, he looked toward the area ahead.
Everyone was panic-stricken, while only Nether remained calm and composed.
Lin Mo became even more certain that his guess was correct.
At the same time...
"AAAAAAHHHHH!"
A burst of hysterical screams suddenly came from nearby.
Immediately afterward.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless white lights shot into the sky from within the black mist ahead.
This sight left Zhao Jun, He Xiao, Sun Yang, and the others on this side utterly stunned.
Zhao Jun: "What the hell is that?"
He Xiao: "Could a BOSS have spawned?"
Sun Yang: "Holy shit! What level would a BOSS have to be to have this kind of ridiculous killing power? Level 60? Level 70?"
Lin Miaomiao: "Why do I have a bad feeling about this..."
Wang Junjie: "Hahahaha! A BOSS is great! I love BOSSes!"
"Yoshi!"
The moment he finished speaking...
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Endless sprays of blood suddenly erupted from the black mist in every direction.
Immediately afterward, countless white lights shot into the sky.
Just as all the players throughout Dark Night Spirit City were left completely dumbfounded by this sight...
Crash!
Strands of black energy floated up from within the black mist.
Above this vast expanse of black mist, they condensed into a dark archmage dressed in a black robe and holding a staff of the dead. Dark energy flowed all over his body, and a powerful aura that made it hard to breathe radiated from him.
Above his head, a blood-red ID appeared before the eyes of every player present.
[Soul Manipulator · Zade (Lv. 100 Magic-Type · Ghost King)]!
The players from the five major guilds immediately erupted into an uproar.
"What the hell is this thing?"
"A red ID means it's a monster, right? What kind of rank is a Ghost King?"
At this moment, a player who had clearly studied Oracle's game settings shouted in shock.
"Fuck! This is a monster from the Ghost Race, one of Oracle's Supreme Races!"
"And within the Ghost Race, its status is above Ghost Beasts, Ghost Soldiers, and Ghost Generals. It belongs to the fourth rank of Ghost Race members."
Even so, many players clearly still had no strong understanding of what a Ghost King meant.
"Ghost Race? Ghost King?"
"Is it really that powerful?"
"It does look pretty powerful, but just how powerful can it be?"
Then another voice rang out...
"A Level 100 Ghost King is, at most, equivalent to a BOSS of the same level with an tier-8 rating."
The moment those words came out, the crowd instantly erupted.
"A Level 100 tier-8 BOSS!"
"Fuck!"
"Holy shit!"
"Brothers, run!"
For a moment, the players scattered in all directions like street vendors fleeing when the city inspectors came to shut down their stalls.
At the same time, over here, seeing Soul Manipulator · Zade floating above the black mist, Lin Mo and Ning Xi both felt their throats go dry.
"It really is a Ghost King!"
"Could this be the Ghost King that was sealed in the Forbidden Divine Land?"
"But doesn't it require the God-Refining Cauldron to refine the Divine-Binding Chains before that Ghost King can be released?"
"The God-Refining Cauldron is with Big Brother Lin Mo. How was it released?"
While Ning Xi was filled with questions, Lin Mo had no time to think about them.
Because no one understood better than he did: What did the appearance of a Level 100 Ghost King at this stage mean?
It meant: invincible.
While the A-rank magic scroll Death Seal was active, not only would players who died inside Dark Night Spirit City trigger resurrection on the spot, but no teleportation skills or magic scrolls could be used anywhere on the map.
Lin Mo hurriedly shouted to Ling Xue, Wang Junjie, Dragon Soul Aoshi, Han Ruoli, and the others around him, "Order everyone in your guilds to retreat outside immediately."
Wang Junjie was confused, "Brother Mo, it's just a Ghost King!"
"You and Sister-in-law are so strong, and we have so many people. Are we really supposed to be afraid of it?"
The moment Wang Junjie finished speaking...
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Soul Manipulator · Zade swung the Staff of the Dead in his hand.
Hundreds of Shadow Wraiths surged through the crowd.
-553642!
-536841!
-519191!
The six-digit damage instantly killed every player touched by the Shadow Wraiths.
Hundreds of white lights shooting into the sky right before his eyes left Wang Junjie completely dumbfounded.
After a full three seconds of silence, Wang Junjie shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Brothers!"
"RUN!"
Only at this moment did Ning Xi fully realize: the damage output of a Ghost King at this level was something even she could not withstand, despite her SSS-rank talent Nine-Five Supreme granting her 90% damage reduction.
At this moment, Lin Mo grabbed Ning Xi's little hand and retreated toward the city gate.
But when he looked back, he saw Soul Manipulator · Zade riding a black cloud and chasing after them.
This made Lin Mo even more certain: this was precisely the Ghost King that Nether had released from the Forbidden Divine Land.
Because it was acting on Nether's orders, its target was Lin Mo.
Elsewhere, seeing Qin Ming point in Lin Mo's direction, the Ghost King Soul Manipulator · Zade followed Qin Ming's command and went after Lin Mo.
Astonishment and disbelief filled the blue eyes of Super God Athena.
"You... can control this Ghost King?"
"Wait!"
Super God Athena finally realized what was happening, but found it unbelievable, "Today, the evaluation of our Super God Guild in Dark Night Spirit City was fake. Your real purpose was actually to deliberately lure the players from the Chaotic World and Divine Nation Guilds here."
"Then use them to lure Rulebound here, and use this Ghost King that had been lying in wait here for a long time to deal with Rulebound?"
Ji Ningshuang looked at the shocked Super God Athena and said casually, "Otherwise, with those pathetic skills of yours, do you think you could deal with Rulebound?"
Only then did Super God Athena fully realize: everything had long been under Qin Ming and Ji Ningshuang's control.
Even the person who used the [Death Seal] scroll wasn't Chaotic World, Divine Nation, Blood Dance, or Dragon Soul, it was Qin Ming.
There was no hatred or killing intent in Qin Ming's deep gaze.
There was only an intense desire to find his fiancée, Chu Xinran.
"This time..."
"Rulebound is destined to lose."
[T/N: MC deserves to be killed to level 0. With bullshit like, "in my past life" he was Ning Xi's general so I shouldn't kill him, he desvers every single level decrease. I say ban his ID. Braindead MC like them should be cucked.]