Under the command of Chaotic World Zhuge, the players of the Chaotic World Guild changed their tactical strategy.
They gave up fighting the BOSS, the Dark Ruler, and instead began breaking out of Shadow City through the four gates, east, south, west, and north.
At the same time, the NPC soldiers stationed at the four exits followed Lin Mo's orders.
"Anyone who forces their way through will be killed without mercy!"
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
At each city gate, there was a tight defensive line formed by two hundred cavalry and infantry.
Behind the line stood around fifty archers, bows fully drawn, ready to fire at any moment.
The strength of these NPC soldiers was in no way inferior to the Shadow Cavalry under the Dark Ruler. The Chaotic World players simply couldn't break through and were all intercepted inside the city.
"Loose arrows!"
At the captains' command, the archers launched their attack.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
A rain of sharp arrows flew over the heads of the front-line cavalry and infantry, raining down on the Chaotic World players trying to break out.
The extremely high damage wiped them all out inside the city.
The Chaotic World players not only had to deal with the NPC soldiers outside the gates, but also the Tier 5 BOSS Dark Ruler and his Shadow Cavalry inside the city.
It was like wolves in front and tigers behind, enemies on both sides.
The entire Shadow City echoed with the miserable screams of the Chaotic World Guild players.
The scene was no different from slaughtering pigs during the New Year.
Even the bystander players outside the city who had come just to watch couldn't help but change expression at the sound, a chill running down their backs.
"Tsk! The Chaotic World Guild is getting locked in and beaten like dogs by Rulebound. That's brutal."
"But didn't I hear Wang Junjie spent huge money recruiting people this time and prepared for several days? Their whole guild is made up of top-tier players from Blazing Ember City, all with top-level gear! How are they still losing to Rulebound?"
"As if they could win! Even if they're top-tier players from Blazing Ember City, they're still under level 35. How could a bunch of level 35 players beat those level 50 NPCs under Rulebound? If they could, wouldn't the game's balance be broken?"
"True. The Divine Oracle devs always emphasize balance. Talent is the only thing that can break it. Unless every one of them had an S-rank or higher talent, maybe then they could pull off a miracle."
"S-rank talent? For everyone? Keep dreaming! Our whole Blazing Ember City probably doesn't even have a few S-rank talent users."
"In the end, Rulebound is just on another level. I've played so many games, this is the first time I've seen a top whale getting beaten by a regular player."
"Wang Junjie is too stupid! He had such a good hand and played it into the ground! If I were him, I wouldn't go against Rulebound. I'd use all that money to win him over instead!"
"Sigh! With things like this, looks like we won't even get a chance to sneak in and pick up scraps."
———
At the same time, at the east gate of Shadow City—
Watching teammates rush forward one after another like moths to a flame, Chaotic World Zhuge steadied himself and commanded on the spot, "Take them down one by one. Don't attack randomly! Wizards, control them. Everyone else, focus fire on one target first!"
Flash! Flash! Flash! Flash!
Under the alternating control of dozens of Light and Dark Wizards on the field, one of the NPC cavalry guarding the east gate was completely immobilized.
At the same time, a large group of Chaotic World archers and mages seized the opportunity and focused all their attacks on that controlled cavalry.
Blizzard!
Gale Arrow Rain!
They opened with their ultimate skills right away!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
A massive number of arrows and magic orbs slammed into the cavalry, bringing up streaks of blood-red damage numbers above his head.
-98!
-133!
-198!
-118!
The cavalry was thick-skinned and tough.
A level 50 cavalry unit had roughly 80,000 HP.
But still, under Zhuge Jie's command, that coordinated wave of attacks from the Chaotic World players actually shaved off several percent of the cavalry's HP.
So Zhuge Jie continued issuing orders: "Keep focusing this target!"
"Wizards, chain control!"
"Mages and archers, keep the focus fire!"
"As long as we don't treat them like normal mobs and treat every NPC like a BOSS, that's enough!"
Seeing that this tactic was actually working, Wang Junjie gradually became excited.
"Killing one NPC is the same as killing Rulebound once!"
"I want to see just how tough your troops really are!"
The excitement didn't even last a second.
Flash! Flash! Flash! Flash!
Suddenly, a rain of arrows descended from the sky, instantly covering a large area inside the city where the Chaotic World mages and archers were gathered.
Soul Archer ultimate, SSS-rank Annihilation: Storm Arrow Rain!
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
-23652!
-22986!
-22999!
In an instant, dozens of Chaotic World players were all killed.
Amid dozens of beams of white light shooting into the sky, outside the east gate stood a Soul Archer glowing with golden light in full combat mode, holding a bow, positioned in front of the NPC soldiers.
That terrifying destructive power drew everyone's gaze to the level 45 Soul Archer, Lin Mo.
Seeing Lin Mo again, Wang Junjie ground his teeth.
The anger he had suppressed for so long finally exploded at this moment.
"Kill Rulebound for me!"
Zhuge Jie immediately gave the order:
"Wizards, control him! Mages and archers, focus fire! Kill Rulebound!"
The moment his words fell—
Flash! Flash! Flash!
Several dark red beams of light descended onto Lin Mo, continuously enveloping him.
Around him, more than a dozen Chaotic World wizard players locked onto Lin Mo and kept casting.
Dark Wizard ultimate: Soul Suppression, suppresses a single enemy for 3 seconds. During this time, both the caster and the target cannot move, cannot be cleansed, and the enemy takes 50% magic damage per second.
Unremovable control. A full 3 seconds of hard crowd control.
More than a dozen Dark Wizards took turns casting.
Watching Lin Mo stand there, unable to move, Zhuge Jie pushed up his glasses, completely confident.
"No matter how skilled you are, you still fear a kitchen knife."
"With over a dozen Dark Wizards maintaining Soul Suppression, even if Zhuang Zhou had cleanse, it wouldn't matter. No matter how strong Rulebound is, he'll just have to stand there and take it."
As Zhuge Jie finished speaking, Wang Junjie burst into laughter.
"I was thinking killing a few NPCs would be enough to cripple you. Didn't expect you to walk right into this, and even turn on full combat mode. Then I'll just kill you directly."
"As long as I kill you once, you'll drop 10 levels instantly and all your gear will explode."
"Hahaha! Rulebound! If you can even move a little before you die, I'll count it as your win!"
As Wang Junjie's laughter faded, taking advantage of Lin Mo being controlled, a large group of Chaotic World archers and mages locked onto him and unleashed their attacks.
Ice Arrow!
Fire Arrow!
Ice Spike!
Fireball!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
A barrage of attacks landed on Lin Mo, producing a series of shocking damage numbers—
-27!
-29!
-31!
-38!
The smile on Wang Junjie's face froze instantly.
"Damn it!"
"This is what you call top-tier players from Blazing Ember City?"
"I spent so much money to equip you all with purple Venom sets, and this is the damage you're giving me?"
But in the very next second, an even more unbelievable scene appeared.
Those archers and mages who had attacked Lin Mo suddenly dropped dead on the spot, without being attacked at all.
The Soul Suppression effect surrounding Lin Mo also vanished completely.
The Dark Wizard players who had been controlling Lin Mo all died as well.
Flash! Flash! Flash! Flash!
Every Chaotic World player who attacked Lin Mo was crushed to death instantly by some unknown force.
"W-what's going on?"
"What the hell! How did they die? No one even touched them!"
"Damn it, this is freaky!"
The remaining Chaotic World players were all terrified, looking like they'd just seen a ghost.
Meanwhile, Lin Mo remained completely calm.
Even though these Chaotic World players were all top-tier experts from Blazing Ember City.
Even though they were all equipped with level 30 Tier 2 purple Venom sets, in front of Lin Mo, level 45, wearing a full level 45 Tier 3 golden Venom set, they were nothing.
And Lin Mo had the protection of the Ancestral-grade Black Gold Strong-Maned Pig.
It was precisely because of Strong-Maned Pig's support talent that all the damage Lin Mo had just taken was reduced to only 10%.
The remaining 90% was transferred to Strong-Maned Pig, triggering its damage reflection talent at the same time.
That's right, all those Chaotic World players who attacked Lin Mo just now were killed by Strong-Maned Pig's reflection effect.
One of the effects of the Ancestral-grade talent, Marshal March: whenever Strong-Maned Pig takes damage, it deals true damage to the enemy equal to 1% of its maximum HP (this also triggers when taking damage on behalf of its master).
Right now, Strong-Maned Pig had already been raised by Lin Mo to level 40.
With a full set of level 40 Tier 3 golden Venom gear, combined with its terrifying growth as an Ancestral creature and the SSS-rank passive skill Bloodbath: Iron Wall granting 100% bonus HP, Strong-Maned Pig's HP had reached a terrifying 300,000.
Even 1% reflection meant 3,000 damage per hit.
And those Chaotic World mages and archers had been desperate to kill Lin Mo, each landing three or four consecutive hits, triggering the reflection effect multiple times.
Accumulating over 10,000+ reflection damage.
Strong-Maned Pig's reflection wasn't very noticeable against monsters, since monsters generally had higher HP than players of the same level.
But without exaggeration, at this stage, aside from second-class advancement knights, no player could withstand this kind of reflection.
Killing fragile classes like archers, mages, and wizards was more than enough.
Clearly, the Chaotic World players still hadn't figured out how their teammates had died.
And at this moment, in Lin Mo's eyes, the players inside the city were nothing more than walking stacks of cash.
A smile suddenly spread across Lin Mo's face, one that sent chills down every Chaotic World player's spine.
"Thanks for nature's generous gift."
"Next, I won't hold back."
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