[Ding~ Player Rulebound, welcome to the exclusive God-Creation trial area. The second-stage trial has begun: Please survive in the trial area for more than ten minutes!]
As the system prompt fell, Lin Mo was teleported to a dense primeval forest.
Unlike the first-stage trial: kill ten monsters with no time limit.
The trial in this stage required surviving in the trial area for ten minutes.
It looked difficult.
Actually, it wasn't simple at all~
Looking around, the huge forest was filled with terrifying monsters.
On the ground were deadly poisonous spiders as big as bathtubs.
In the trees were giant man-eating pythons with mouths big enough to swallow an elephant.
In the air were blazing firebirds with flames boiling all over their bodies.
Although the levels of these monsters were still determined according to the level of the person taking the trial, thereby ensuring the balance of the trial for every participant.
Just like Lin Mo, who was level 79, all the monsters in the area he was in were level 79.
When other low-level players entered the trial area, the levels of the monsters they encountered would also be lower.
But the biggest difficulty was: there were too many of these monsters.
And they automatically locked onto enemies.
As long as a player appeared within 50 yards, they would pursue the player with all their strength.
So, wanting to survive for ten minutes in this kind of environment, the difficulty was no less than the apocalypse arriving, with everyone in the entire residential complex except you turning into zombies, and you having to safely escape from such an environment.
Ordinary players, either they were fast enough to kite these monsters, keeping the monsters from catching them and buying time.
Or they were tough enough, using potions and recovery skills to endure for ten minutes.
Or they used control + restraint tactics.
Of course, that was for ordinary players.
For Lin Mo, naturally, there was no need to go through so much trouble.
ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!
Rustle~
Facing the countless monsters around him, Lin Mo neither dodged nor avoided them.
Silently, he took Illusory World · Wrath of Thunder from his back.
Boom!
The set skill Thunderous Might was activated.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Dark Gold • Strong Maned Pig.
Divine Descent Seraph · Xiya.
The two Ancestral-tier pets were summoned forth.
In Lin Mo's eyes, his sharpness was fully revealed.
Powerful killing intent instantly swept across the entire trial area!
The next ten minutes would be the ten minutes the monsters in this trial area would find the hardest to forget in their entire lives.
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[Northern Inferno City]
[Lv76 Ghost King City]
Inside the city, blades flashed and swords clashed, with the flames of war flying everywhere.
Three thousand elite players from the Divine Nation Guild were spread throughout the city.
In teams of five, they engaged in desperate battles with Divine Guards and Two-Winged Angels.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The knights and warriors gripped their heavy shields tightly, with their defenses fully activated.
They charged into the front, drawing fire and pulling aggro, creating an excellent output environment for the archers and mages in the back.
With the priests' buff healing, and the wizards' full-field control.
Even when facing level-76 Divine Guards and Two-Winged Angels, who were pure-blooded members of the Divine Race and Angel Race, the two supreme races of Divine Oracle, they were still more than capable.
But, looking at those Divine Guards and Two-Winged Angels lying in pools of blood caused every Divine Nation Guild player present to feel a strong sense of unease.
Especially whenever they killed a Divine Guard or Two-Winged Angel, a prompt would pop up in front of them...
[Ding~ Because you maliciously killed a Divine Guard of the Divine Race of the Light faction, Divine Race faction Sin Value +1 (when faction Sin Value reaches 100 points, you will be permanently placed on the Divine Race blacklist)!]
[Ding~ Because you maliciously killed a Two-Winged Angel of the Angel Race of the Light faction, Angel Race faction Sin Value +1 (when faction Sin Value reaches 100 points, you will be permanently placed on the Angel Race blacklist)!]
All the Divine Nation players were terrified.
Divine Nation Player A: "I checked. The difficulty of clearing this faction Sin Value and the death EXP penalty are a hundred times that of ordinary Sin Value!"
Divine Nation Player B: "Holy crap! Doesn't that mean that to eliminate 1 point of faction Sin Value, you need to kill a hundred monsters whose levels are not lower than your own? And if you die while carrying 1 point of faction Sin Value, you have to lose 1 extra level? With 2 points, you lose 2 extra levels?"
Divine Nation Player C: "The price is way too high! Brothers, try to balance it out as much as possible. Let each person carry a little less faction Sin Value! Brothers with high Sin Value, pay attention to your own safety. If you die while in this state, the loss will be way too great!"
Through the united efforts of the elite players of the Divine Nation Guild.
The Divine Guards and Two-Winged Angels spread throughout Ghost King City, including the Ghost Beasts, were finally killed off one after another.
At the same time...
Boom! Rumble!
Accompanied by a sudden earth-shaking tremor.
At the center of Ghost King City, a dark-black beam of light suddenly shot into the sky.
At once, everyone's gaze in the city was drawn to this black beam.
Even Lin Miaomiao, Sun Yang, and the others couldn't help but feel surprised.
"What is that?"
"Let's go take a look!"
Saying this, the few of them quickly rushed toward the center of the city.
As the black beam that had shot into the sky disappeared in an instant.
Only a black vortex formation, resembling a black hole, remained on the ground.
And beneath this vortex, waves of dense black aura kept rising.
Around it, the players from the Divine Nation gathered around the vortex one after another, filled with doubts.
"What is this thing?"
"Could it be the entrance to some hidden map, or some hidden dungeon secret realm?"
"We cleared all the monsters on the entire map, and only then did this thing appear. Judging by Divine Oracle's usual bullshit, there really is a good chance!"
"But why is there no reaction when we stand on it?"
"Solid through and through?"
A Divine Nation Paladin player jumped onto the vortex and stepped on it several times, but the vortex beneath his feet showed no reaction at all.
And at this moment, looking at the mysterious vortex before her.
Lin Miaomiao couldn't help but say suspiciously, "This investor had us come to Ghost King City to clear the map, and even had us kill nothing but members of Divine Oracle's supreme races, the Divine Race and Angel Race!"
"To go this far just to activate this vortex, what is the purpose?"
Ling Xue's beautiful eyes seriously examined her surroundings.
She wasn't as puzzled as Lin Miaomiao.
Because she simply didn't care what this thing in front of them was.
She only hoped that this time, that mysterious investor would show themselves, so that she could see the other party's true face!
But there was no figure among the surrounding crowd that Ling Xue wanted to see.
She didn't get the investor to show themselves.
Instead, Ling Xue suddenly received an urgent message from the outskirts: "President! There's an enemy attack outside Ghost King City! The brothers on the outskirts have already engaged them in battle!"
As soon as the words fell, looking up, she indeed saw the southern gate of Ghost King City.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Quite a few white lights symbolizing players' deaths shot into the sky.
Seeing this, Ling Xue's expression immediately turned stern, and she asked, "Which guild?"
The next second.
A definite message came from the outskirts, "Genesis Guild!"
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