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Join the Server“How are the two saints? I’ve already reported your jailbreak to the Alliance judges… Why aren’t you waiting for their summons, and instead coming to my Minos City?”
Xue Li smiled mysteriously. “Guess~”
Without hesitation, she unleashed a Heaven’s Punishment.
Aksiya raised her sword, turning into a streak of light as she followed closely!
“The city lord is fighting?”
“Who’s that crazy strong?”
Such discussions erupted everywhere.
In the sky, the three saint-rank fighters exchanged blows, their forbidden spells clashing in a spectacular display. But that kind of battle was only for distant observation by the players, so they turned their attention to the massive barrier before them.
Yuli took the lead with a fireball. Even if the other players didn’t understand the situation, they unhesitatingly followed suit, bombarding the barrier.
The pace of the battle escalated rapidly. Spells of all kinds rained down on the barrier, while below, melee fighters crowded around, slashing wildly at the barrier…
“What is this thing, so hard?”
“Can we break it?”
“Who are those people inside? Why are they blocking us from completing the city lord’s quest? Are they crazy?”
Because the barrier was transparent, our figures were fully exposed to the surrounding crowd. Many players directed suspicious and jealous gazes at us, their attacks growing faster.
The forums started livestreaming again. This time, it was a video feed from inside rather than images, as Minos City had a large player base, many of whom had journalist players with permissions for live video broadcasting.
Dozens of livestreams popped up on the forums instantly. Such an anomaly naturally attracted attention from busybodies—so many streams suddenly appearing meant a massive group event was happening in the game!
What could it be? A major guild tearing into each other? Sword Sweeping the World, Ten Thousand Souls Hall, or Zhaoge? Or the mage association and the berserker association—that pair of bros? Who had the courage to break the deadlock?
Hey oh oh oh! So exciting! Can’t wait!
The cameras naturally focused on the largest city lord-level PK since the server launch, and soon people recognized Aksiya and Xue Li as saints—meaning this was a saint-rank PK!
Are you kidding? It’s only been a few days since the server opened, and top players appear this early?
Of course, we were also recognized—it’s the Sword Sweeping the World’s nemesis five-man group! Those five really stir up trouble wherever they go!
We didn’t know or care about the online attention, nor did we have the energy to care.
Facing the endless, countless dark mass of player troops, the barrier’s HP dropped far faster than expected!
Strange… Why did the players assemble so quickly? It was as if they had been prepared, starting to attack the barrier as soon as it appeared.
At this rate, lasting three minutes was really a stretch!
Three minutes—long or short—but the barrier shook violently under the barrage of countless spells, shaking us with fear.
One minute passed in a blink, but in that single minute, the barrier’s HP had dropped by a full third! That’s impossible! Minos City is huge; unless they had already assembled and prepared to bomb the barrier, they’d need at least a minute to gather at the bell tower.
As players continued to arrive, the barrier’s HP would only drop faster. We simply couldn’t hold out for three minutes!
Moreover, the elite squads of the major guilds had already withdrawn from Minos City. In theory, this shouldn’t be happening!
What went wrong?
Mid-air, Aksiya and Xue Li, two against one, were not gaining the upper hand!
Facing two saints, Shermi had to go all out, his aura further confirming Aksiya and Xue Li’s suspicions.
Aksiya raised her sword and pointed fiercely at him, “What are they, exactly? Where did they come from? Shermi, confess and you’ll get a lighter sentence…”
“Lighter sentence?” Shermi sneered, interrupting. “You should be the ones surrendering. Your armies are already deep inland. Resistance is futile… But out of respect for your saint-rank strength, if you pledge allegiance and sign a contract, we might spare your lives!”
“Who are they?” Aksiya demanded.
“You don’t need to know!” Shermi shook his head, then raised his staff, knowing Aksiya’s nature made this battle inevitable.
The next second, something familiar appeared behind him, shocking us—yes, shocking us.
An eye, blazing with fiery flames. Its gaze seemed to pierce through time and space, projecting onto the battlefield. Even a glance from it made players’ legs feel weak.
Of course, we remembered it. This was the thing that allowed our weak attacks to slap Sword Sweeping the World in the face—the final boss of the Spider Nest on Hell difficulty, name: ??
“So it’s these guys… Is this its true body?” Aksiya gritted her teeth, then turned to Xue Li with a serious look. “Protect me for a minute. They can’t hold on below any longer. If the bell is rung and the city’s defensive arrays activate, we’re dead!”
“You want to…” Xue Li looked back worriedly.
“End it quickly! Remember to protect the barrier below!” Without waiting for Xue Li’s reply, Aksiya gripped her sword with both hands in front of her, the blade pointing upward, entering a solemn meditation stance.
Aksiya’s words reached our ears too.
So it would be decided in a minute? we on the ground thought.
Win, big shots! You have to win!
While inside the barrier with nothing to do, I cast buffs on all of us, even on the pea in my pocket. Even if it might not help, we had done our best.
Fifty seconds until the decision. My gaze inadvertently swept across the crowd and caught a familiar figure—Damn it, didn’t you leave?
Looking again, there was Bai Li Mie Tian, right beside Jiangu.
Their team was at the back of the crowd, quietly casting spells.
How did these bastards end up together?
No wonder the barrier’s HP dropped like crazy! It was these two groups of animals!
What to do? We definitely can’t hold out until Aksiya finishes her big move!
Call back the Ten Thousand Souls Hall? Even if they could make it in time, they wouldn’t dare face 50,000 players head-on!
No wonder the players assembled so quickly. If I’m not wrong, Bai Li Mie Tian is Shermi’s lackey. He must have gotten the city defense quest from Shermi in advance, predicted our arrival, and joined forces with Sword Sweeping the World to quickly gather most of the city’s players.
Thirty seconds until Aksiya’s ultimate. But we could only last fifteen seconds at most.
Though I didn’t know what would happen if the bell was rung, or if we’d have any chance of winning after that, regardless of the outcome, we had to prepare for the worst!
If the two saints won, we’d become heroes of the Alliance, our reputation skyrocketing. If we lost, we’d become traitors, never able to enter a main city again.
But it seemed we could only wait for the result.
Having our fate determined by others was utterly frustrating!
Win! Win! At least let me give birth to this child first! Or at least tell me the side effects of the Mother-Child River before you die!
Barrier HP: 50100406/90000000
Could hold for less than a second.
Aksiya’s sword had already burst into a dazzling azure light. A chill spread across the land, even frosting the eyebrows of players outside the barrier. More incredibly, the cold froze even the players’ fireballs into popsicles, extinguishing them!
Though fire magic damage was gone, the ice spears were twice as thick. The exchange didn’t slow the barrier’s HP loss.
Hard to imagine how cold it was outside.
Barrier HP: 34988392/90000000
Barrier HP: 2898104/90000000
Too fast! In the sky, Aksiya still had her eyes closed; the icy blue sword’s energy was still building. Obviously, it wasn’t time to decide the victor!
“Give up, Aksiya. It’s too late,” Shermi wore a victorious smile. “I knew you were coming. But do you know why I didn’t have those adventurers ring the bell early?”
Then he answered himself, “Because if I rang it, why would you fall into the trap? I didn’t want to defend this place… I wanted to capture you alive!”
The difference in objectives highlighted Shermi’s immense confidence. He laughed loudly, “I truly thank the True God for granting me power. Not only did it allow me, a talentless fool, to experience the might of a saint, but in the future, I may yet rule this continent alongside the True God! Instead of being a pitiful border city lord forever accompanied by blizzards!”
“And even if you enter Extinction Sword mode, so what? Heh heh heh, the legendary strongest attack state that can cut through anything… I know all about you!”
“You talk too much. Really fitting for a villain,” Xue Li rolled her eyes at Shermi.
“Heh, the ultimate sword art~” Shermi waved his hand, retracting into the fiery eye. “Come! Show us mainlanders the True God’s power! Mere Extinction Sword…”
Leaving aside the saint fight.
Barrier HP: 23400918/90000000
Could hold for less than a second.
So unwilling! To just be a helpless spectator?
“Xiaoya!” Yingning’s voice suddenly called from behind.
Our gazes met in the air. No words were needed; we separated with a tacit understanding.
“Understood!”
I gently stroked the azure rhombus crystal on my necklace.
Yingning crossed her hands and raised them above her head, forming a tower shape. At the same time, the rhombus crystal on her wrist emitted a faint blue light.
Barrier HP: 10300481/90000000
Adventurers had to climb the bell tower to ring the bell; fireball attacks were ineffective. So next, they would start climbing—just seconds, a warrior could charge right up.
Our task was to keep them away from the bell tower.
We had two choices. One: use a large-area shield skill to block the bell tower. But we didn’t have one.
So we had to choose two.
Kill them all!
Though I didn’t want to use this skill, which seemed from a past life’s game and might force people into awkward dances, we were out of options.
We needed a large-area, high-damage skill—something that could kill everything instantly.
We could only think of one.
Barrier HP: 4000002/90000000
Hope Xue Li wasn’t exaggerating when she described it.
“Even if fifty thousand!”
“We will never surrender!”
Barrier HP: 0/90000000
“Kill them!”
“We’ve broken through! We win!”
Several warriors were right in front of me, sneering as they raised their swords.
Boom!
The barrier exploded. In the split second before the explosion, just as players were about to cheer victory, they felt a terrifying tremor from the ground.
Rumble—
Then, to the players’ terrified amazement, a massive ice pillar rose from beneath my feet!
“What the hell is this skill?”
Rumble rumble—
I shot up to five stories high, level with the bell tower, but the ice pillar kept rising!
“What? Is this some kind of descending palm technique from the sky?”
The icy pillar glittered in the sunlight, like a beautiful crystal pillar.
The pillar kept growing! I kept rising!
“How high is this going?!”
The surrounding players were stunned. Even if the pillar did nothing else, if it fell, it’d crush a bunch!
Fifty meters!
One hundred meters!
One hundred fifty meters!
Two hundred meters!
In an instant, I rose three hundred meters! By then, the barrier had shattered. A flood of players poured through, rushing for the bell tower without hesitation!
Qingyu and Huo Jinjin reached the bell tower first, defending from above. But there were too many attackers; they lasted less than two seconds before being turned to white light.
Fairy Sister cast an ice barrier on Yingning, then herself turned to white light.
Players had already occupied the bell tower, their hands touching the bell’s lever!
At that moment, Yingning’s crossed hands slammed forward together—smash!
[Link Skill Released!]
[Z—Raging Ice Across Ten Thousand Miles!]
A massive beam of light, two meters thick, crashed violently into the ground from the sky! The light spread like liquid, instantly covering an area a kilometer wide!
The skill’s effects were explosive! Flame storm, blizzard—they weren’t even fit to hold its shoes!
Standing atop the ice pillar, looking down at the ant-like people below, a surge of pride welled up in me. I recalled a line from a past life and shouted it without thinking!
This cry echoed across the entire battlefield, reaching every player’s ears, and was recorded in the continent’s history.
“Endure the frosty sky! Ice Wheel Maru!”
Later, they all thought my real name was Ice Wheel Maru.
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