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Join the ServerSword Sweeping the World was in slightly better shape than Ten Thousand Souls Hall, but not by much.
Jiangu performed another side roll to dodge the boss’s attack. He was drenched in sweat, panting like a bull, his expression extremely grim.
The boss still had 2% HP.
Just 2%!
Less than 200,000 HP! Three minutes! If they could hold out for three minutes, victory was theirs!
Sword Sweeping the World would once again proclaim to the world—the king would always be the king. That golden greatsword would stand tall forever on the divine land!
“I’m leaving it to you two… You must… hold on!”
[Captain, Mage Jiangu has fallen.]
Two remained on the field: Shield Warrior Green Giant and Priest Green Dog.
A race against time.
The forum pinned post—Hard Mode First Kill Poll!
[This first round of time competition on the continent of Ader is finally about to end… Who will claim the Hard Mode first kill?]
[Sword Sweeping the World? Ten Thousand Souls Hall? Or Lingyun Pavilion?]
[We are all holding our breath, watching the world channel, waiting for the system’s triple announcement.]
[Jiangu, Dongjun… among all the major guilds, who will be the ultimate victor?]
[Let us wait and see!]
****
The boss was down to 2% HP, and by now, Yingning and I were barely holding on.
The damage was too high! Worse, the boss could still unleash area-of-effect skills. They couldn’t one-shot us, but they reduced Yingning and me to a sliver of health in an instant!
A sea of webs descended again, covering the cave in sticky white strands. Yingning and I could barely move, while the Spider Queen moved with ease, speeding up.
I sidestepped and dodged carefully, trying to avoid the clinging webs on the ground. I was the boss’s aggro target now. Yingning couldn’t pull aggro at all; she could only follow helplessly behind the boss, trying to deal damage but with little effect.
“Xiaoya! Reset!”
I knew Yingning must be panicking, afraid that the boss would take me down. If I died, I probably couldn’t be resurrected.
But I was the team leader. Only I could reset the instance. If I chose to fight to the death, Yingning had no say.
I had anticipated this scenario, so I deliberately took on the leader role… Back down? That wasn’t my style.
In my dictionary, both in my past life and this one, there was no word like “cowardice.”
Anyone I wanted to kill, I would make sure they died, even if I perished.
But I was still alive!
“Use charge skills to aim for its two legs. That’ll make it lose balance temporarily.” I quickly reminded her, since the creature wasn’t without weaknesses.
Knowing I would never give up, Yingning stopped trying to persuade me. Instead, she threw herself into the fight with reckless abandon.
“I’ll try to pull the boss and circle around you! You go all out on damage, taunt to grab aggro, and block it! But be careful—zero mistakes, or we wipe! Got it?” I shouted urgently.
“Got it!”
“Alright! Then… now! Move!”
Yingning and I brushed past each other. The boss, hot on my heels, was about to cross paths with Yingning for a brief moment!
“Ahhh! Qi Burst! Thousand-Jin Slash!” Yingning screamed, unleashing gear skills and high-damage attacks in quick succession, stunning the boss as it passed by her.
But that wasn’t enough to pull aggro. She followed up with a stabbing thrust: “Charge—Fierce Assault!”
This strike finally enraged the boss.
The boss swung its blade.
Yingning was too close to dodge; she raised her sword to block.
She was sent flying like a baseball to the edge of the arena. The boss prepared to pursue, but a blazing holy light orb landed on its head.
“Earth Control! Holy Smite!”
[Critical! Weak Point Breach! -21600!!!]
Amplified by Earth Control, plus weak point, crit, and the holy element’s quadruple damage, it dealt sixteen times the damage! Over twenty thousand!
Enraged, the boss pounced at me again. I rolled aside just in time to dodge, not greedy for damage, and then ran for my life with Earth Control’s movement speed boost!
“Same method as before! Get ready! I’m coming over!”
“Roger!”
“Prepare… Strike!”
“Qi Burst! Thousand-Jin Slash! Charge—Fierce Assault!”
Unfortunately, Yingning couldn’t grab aggro because my Holy Smite’s sixteen-times damage had generated too much hate.
Still, her attack stunned the boss, giving me enough distance to be safe.
So I kept kiting, activating my gear’s lightning skill: “Slumbering in the land of eternal thunder… Descend unto me… Ohm’s Roar!”
Scorching violet thunder burst from the void, landing precisely on the Spider Queen’s head.
[Weak Point Breach! -1500]
“Keep using this tactic. I’m low on mana. You need to seize every chance to DPS.”
“Understood!” Yingning didn’t waste words. She focused entirely, waiting for the boss to pass by her.
We had no energy left to check the world channel. We didn’t know if someone had already claimed the first kill on Spider Nest Hard Mode ahead of us.
Maybe Sword Sweeping the World, Ten Thousand Souls Hall, and Lingyun Pavilion were in the same boat.
Every second counted.
Perhaps just one second slower—but that second was the difference between heaven and hell.
The boss had less than 1% HP left—around 0.1%, maybe 10,000 HP.
[Team member Warrior Baobei has fallen.]
I was out of mana. Yingning couldn’t withstand the boss’s second normal attack and turned into a soul, floating silently above the arena, waiting for the outcome to be decided before she could revive.
Only I remained on the field.
The Spider Queen and I stood at opposite ends, facing off.
But in the next moment, she became a blur and lunged at me.
I didn’t move or dodge.
There was nowhere to run. The entire ground was covered in webs. Even if I ran, I couldn’t escape, and with no mana and low health, I had no way to resist.
I raised my staff high, closed my eyes, and began to chant the Moon Goddess’s name.
I meditated.
My mana bar slowly recovered.
Holy Smite cost 30 MP.
I opened my eyes! The Spider Queen was right in my face! I could see the saw-like serrations on its scythe, polished to a shine—and that scythe was less than half a step from my face!
“Holy Smite!”
“Critical! Weak Point Breach! -10247!!!”
It didn’t die!
“Ughhhh!”
I thrust my staff into the Spider Queen’s belly.
“Congratulations, you cleared the instance!”
Your level has increased to 41.
[Achievement Unlocked: Queen Vanquisher – Clear Spider Nest Hard Mode!]
A flood of system notifications popped up before me.
First kill? Was it a first kill? Did we get the first kill?
[Achievement Unlocked: Queen First Kill! Reward: 5 free stat points, 1,000,000 EXP.]
[Congratulations on achieving the first kill of Spider Nest. Your team receives 20 stat points and 5,000,000 EXP… Would you like your name to appear in the world announcement?]
“Yes!”
After resurrecting, Yingning, Cannon Fairy, Immovable Ming King Huo Jinjin, and Qingyu immediately surrounded me, tears streaming down their faces with excitement.
After more than ten hours of relentless effort, we finally had a result. I couldn’t help but feel a surge of emotion.
Cannon Fairy, tears covering her face, shouted at the top of her lungs: “Brothers and sisters! Show your IDs! They trapped us, didn’t they? Let the scum of Sword Sweeping the World see how an ant named Gunfire Rose bites them!”
Immovable Ming King Huo Jinjin was not to be outdone: “Damn it! Show your IDs! I’ve got a mouthful of curses, and I’ll not only say them but also paste them on your faces with three world broadcasts!”
Almost simultaneously, the teams of Sword Sweeping the World and Ten Thousand Souls Hall also received a flood of system notifications.
We cleared it. Even though only one person remained at the end, with no chance to deal damage and the health trickling down painfully… we still cleared it!
“Finally cleared! First kill! The first kill must be ours!”
“I noticed! There was no first kill announcement before! It must be us!”
“Congratulations to a certain team for achieving the first kill of Spider Nest Hard Mode!”
“Jiuhua Alliance sends warm congratulations!”
“Yeet!” The Sword Sweeping the World guild channel erupted in cheers.
“The team members are: Bingjing Dieling Q, Zi Mengxue, Ya Shangxue, Ning Beibei, Cannon Fairy, Qingyu, Immovable Ming King Huo Jinjin.”
“Wait? Those IDs seem a bit off? Shouldn’t it be Jiangu, Green Giant, Green Dog, Xi Queen, Captain A-San?”
“Ning Beibei? Cannon Fairy? Qingyu? Immovable Ming King Huo Jinjin? And that disgustingly Mary Sue name… Who the hell are they?!”
“Ning Beibei?” Jiangu was stunned.
“It’s Gunfire Rose?!”
“That… is it possible?”
“Such a small guild! At the critical moment, they snatched the first kill from us, who had prepared everything, and from the other major guilds? The ant… bit?”
“It’s Gunfire Rose! Damn! This… this, this, this…”
Jiu Ge stared incredulously at the names on the world channel. “That small guild that Sword Sweeping the World nearly wiped out… Holy shit!!!”
Dong Jun’s face was as black as a pot bottom.
“Gunfire Rose” quickly became a trending topic on the bustling forums.
A guild that never appeared on the leaderboards. An ultra-small guild that Sword Sweeping the World almost erased from the continent of Ader! Yet they brazenly stole the first kill from the major guilds, which should have been theirs!
“Oh my god, Sword Sweeping the World’s face must be swollen like a ball now, right?”
“Such a silent strike that stunned everyone and humiliated the big guilds—this rebellion is—damn cool!”
****
Resurrection point of Fuzhou City.
Seeing the names on the world channel, the Sword Sweeping the World players heading to the resurrection point fell silent. The besieged members of Gunfire Rose, on the other hand, were in tears.
They had known about today’s guild competition. They knew how much manpower and resources Sword Sweeping the World had invested in this battle.
So the guild leader hadn’t forgotten them.
So the guild leader was in another battlefield, madly slaughtering those Sword Sweeping the World bastards!
****
Joy aside, I hadn’t forgotten more important matters.
No time to waste. Quickly sort the loot. A small victory doesn’t mean final success… This battle is just the beginning!
Indeed, what awaits us next is the ultimate challenge that the big guilds truly covet!
A thousand boats vying for the crossing, but only one can survive—the cruel war has only just begun!
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