novelslam Chapter 115 [Divine Soldiers Descend from the Sky]
Chapter 115 [Divine Soldiers Descend from the Sky]
The outer player defenses have long since collapsed. Watching from the sidelines and participating in the game are two completely different experiences, especially since the game's immersive experience is remarkably realistic.
It's not so much fear, but more reluctance. This game is so fun, it would be such a loss if the developers made it unplayable.
"What kind of bullshit hardcore game is this! I'm not playing it anymore!"
A player with the ID "Wild Big Jack" threw down his spear and turned to run wildly into the canyon to the west.
He had run less than ten meters when an inconspicuous patch of dark red fungal carpet on the ground suddenly contracted, and several slippery tentacles broke through the soil and wrapped around his ankles.
Pulling, falling to the ground, dragging.
The soul imprint of player "Wild Big Jack" has dissipated.
This line of bold black text went viral on the world channel, becoming the final straw that broke the camel's back.
The remaining dozens of players ran back like madmen, pushing and cursing, completely ignoring the NPCs still fighting to the death behind them.
Kahn spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva. He ignored the deserters and mechanically raised his already dulled greatsword, cleaving through a stitched monster that lunged at him.
"We can't hold on any longer." Kahn looked at his old friend from the same era and said it so casually.
Terra wiped the blood and grime from her face, her single eye flashing with determination as she watched the twisted figures emerging from the forest mist.
"Then die here." Terra switched the stone axe to her left hand and took out a yellowed bone whistle from her pocket with her right hand.
This is a signal of mutual destruction—
However, on the hilltop, the auras of the four figures were no longer concealed.
The once deafening battlefield was suddenly disrupted when the humanoid monsters at the forefront of the charge froze, their knees cracking with a crisp sound as they uncontrollably collapsed to their knees.
The enormous stitched monster stopped in its tracks, its entire body covered in eyeballs that darted around in terror, all staring at the mountaintop in the east.
Kahn's greatsword, about to be swung, hovered in mid-air. He looked up, his entire pupils trembling.
Terra stopped holding the bone whistle.
Even those players who were still trying to escape had their legs go weak and collapsed to the ground.
"What is that...?" All eyes were focused on it.
Chen Kai took a step forward, casually twirling the spear he held, which was called "Breath of the Sky."
A streak of blue light exploded at the tip of the spear, tearing the surrounding air into a tiny vacuum zone.
"It's a bit noisy," Chen Kai said in a low voice.
"Then shut them up." Ai Jia straightened the cuffs of her [Realm Walker] leather armor.
Wang Xuan stretched his neck, and his metal joints made a popping sound.
He looked down at the densely packed red-named units below, a smirk playing on his lips: "Is this what it feels like to be a max-level character returning to the starting village? It's a little... unfair."
Chen Kai leaped into the air, hundreds of meters high, and under the pull of gravity, he transformed into a falling meteor.
Just before he hit the ground, the air behind him twisted, compressed, and exploded.
"Boom!" Instead of landing, it hovered above the densest mass of monsters on the battlefield.
He raised his spear and made a simple downward slashing motion towards the churning sea of flesh below.
"Clear the area."
[Breath of the Heavens - Wind Pressure Cannon]
The dozens of stitched monsters directly below were instantly crushed by the violent air pressure.
Before the black blood could spread, the ensuing hurricane shattered it into a bloody mist, which then fell to the ground.
The ground was sunken, and the soil was churned up.
An extremely large, circular vacuum region suddenly appeared in the center of the battlefield.
The shockwave spread out in a ring, blowing away hundreds of monsters on the periphery like garbage.
Their shells, upon which they depend for survival, are as fragile as paper in the face of the wind blades, and severed limbs and fragments fly through the air.
one strike.
The monster horde that drove players to despair and caused the tribe to collapse has been significantly reduced.
Kahn opened his mouth wide, his jaw almost dislocated.
He glanced at the chipped greatsword in his hand, then at the spotless figure standing in the center of the pit in the distance, and let out a gurgling sound that was hard to decipher.
"It's not over yet." Wang Xuan followed closely behind, landing among the few dozen remaining warriors of the tribe.
"clang!"
The heavy plate-armored boots slammed into the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Several wolf-like beasts, attempting to take advantage of the chaos to ambush Terra, darted out from the shadows, their claws less than a foot from the old chieftain's throat.
"No crossing the line." Wang Xuan put one hand in his pocket and simply snapped his fingers lightly with the other.
The [Mirror of All Laws] plate armor on his body lit up with dark gold patterns, and a complex shield expanded from him as the center.
[Decree: Absolute Barrier]
A translucent, pale gold, hemispherical light shield rose from the ground.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The beasts crashed into the light barrier.
The parts that collided with them turned into dust.
Wang Xuan shrugged, looking at the splattered blood and gore outside the light barrier. "In this circle, I'm the one who calls the shots."
The panicked players and trembling tribal warriors were astonished to find themselves enveloped by the wall of light.
The ranged monsters outside reacted, unleashing a deluge of venom and bone spikes upon the light shield.
"Clang, clang, clang." Like a downpour hitting bulletproof glass.
The venom slid off, the bone spurs broke, and the light shield didn't even ripple.
"This is... a miracle?" A young tribal warrior threw down his broken spear, knelt on the ground, and wept.
"Miracle my ass!" A player who hadn't run far exclaimed, his eyes wide, trembling as he activated the system's recording function. "This is the official GM account coming in! Record it! Post it on the forum, it'll go viral!"
Terra looked at Wang Xuan's not-so-tall but as reliable as a mountain, and loosened her grip on the bone whistle.
The bone whistle fell to the ground with a soft thud.
"I'm saved..." the old man murmured softly.
But there were too many monsters.
The scarlet plague's characteristics make them tireless and fearless.
The front row fell, but the back row continued their charge, stepping over the corpses.
The fungal carpet secretes slime, corroding the clean soil.
The cloak behind Aija fluttered in the wind as she soared through the air, the [Realm Walker] granting her the ability to briefly remain airborne.
"Environmental reconstruction." Ai Jia extended her right index finger and pointed it at the monster horde that was preparing to launch a second wave of attack.
Definition: This refers to quicksand.
With just a single sentence, all the miscellaneous things on the ground had their physical properties altered.
The earthquake trembled, and the solid ground turned into a sticky swamp with powerful suction.
Thousands of charging monsters suddenly lost their footing, their bodies went flat, and half of their bodies sank into the hole.
The more they struggle, the faster they sink.
The fungal carpet that originally provided them with nutrients has now become their greatest constraint.
The monsters' roars turned into terrified howls as they frantically clawed at their companions, trying to climb out, only to drag more of their kind down with them.
It only lasted ten seconds.
The surging offensive turned into a struggle in the quagmire.
The battlefield has been divided.
Chen Kai stood at the front clearing out high-level units, Wang Xuan established an invincible defensive line in the rear, and Ai Jia controlled the entire map from the air.
What was originally a hopeless situation was completely reversed in that instant.
Lightning Blade, hiding in a crevice in the rocks some distance away, stared blankly at everything. The unlit tobacco in his mouth fell onto his crotch, burning him and making him shiver.
"I take back what I said earlier..." Lightning Blade patted his crotch and gasped, "This isn't just a matter of equipment superiority, it's practically a dimensional attack."
"Is this the view we see on the same server?"
A mage named "Although But" next to him swallowed hard. "That mage... she didn't even cast a spell! An instant-cast area-of-effect map editing skill?"
The monsters were stuck in the mud, their attacks couldn't penetrate the light shield, and those that got close were blasted apart by the wind pressure cannon.
This completely incomprehensible situation threw these low-intelligence creatures into chaos.
The tribal warriors and players all looked up at the sky.
As the last person, Li Yao drifted down very slowly, with an eerie sense of lightness.
She wore only a simple gray robe, an apprentice's robe she had casually found in the dwarven city-state.
But every creature that her gaze swept over felt the stare from the top of the food chain.
Li Yao landed next to Chen Kai and looked at the dark red fungal carpet that was constantly wriggling at her feet.
The thick, nauseating stench of decay lingered around her nose.
Chaos, filth, distortion.
In the past, she would have been terrified and disgusted.
But now.
"Gulp." The soft swallowing sound stood out starkly in the dead silence of the battlefield.
Li Yao clutched her chest, where the [Heart of Chaos] was colliding with the obsidian inner lining.
It is screaming, yearning, begging.
Appetite.
"It smells so good," Li Yao said softly.
These terrifying words traveled on the wind and reached everyone's ears.
This caused some players to tremble with fear...
Chen Kai raised an eyebrow, took a step to the side, and gave up the center position: "Although it's a bit strange for a girl to say this, but... it's yours now, so don't be too rude."
Li Yao raised her hand, her pale palm aimed at the boundless crimson plague.
In his pupils, the originally pitch-black abyss color swirled, transforming into a vortex powerful enough to devour light.
On the UI interface, the skill icon that was flashing red was pressed down.
[Talent Skill: Chaos Devouring (Expand)]
"Dinner is served." As these two words were uttered, a gray ripple spread across the sky, centered on Li Yao.
An invisible giant mouth covering an area of 100 meters in radius.
The still-wriggling fungal carpet on the ground melted instantly in her mouth, transforming into visible streams of dark red smoke that flowed into Li Yao's palm.
"Awooo!!!" The monsters let out a scream a hundred times more agonizing than before.
They felt their life essence being forcibly drained away—the very force that had enabled them to move, regenerate, and mutate.
It became the resources for that being...
The flesh withered and decayed, turning into a lifeless pile of rotten flesh and bones, which scattered on the ground with a clatter.
More red mist was drawn away, and a red eye of storm formed around Li Yao's body.
She stood in the eye of the storm, her originally pale cheeks now flushed with an eerie rosy hue, and her eyes revealed a morbid sense of satisfaction.
The amulet on the chest flickers, absorbing, transforming, and purifying this chaotic and impure energy, and then feeding it back to the host.
"This works?" The player inside the light barrier was so shocked that they dropped their staff. "That's a debuff! That's an instant-death plague! She's eating it like a snack?"
"It's a buff." Lightning Blade peeked out from behind the rock, looking quite helpless. "It's poison for us, but a buffet for the pros. The class balance in this game is a complete mess... The only problem is that we're not beta testers, so we can't benefit from the hidden class buffs."
Terra watched as the crimson mist was swallowed up by the seemingly frail girl, the bone whistle in her hand long since lost.
He had lived for sixty years, seen the most ferocious beasts, and heard the oldest legends.
But he had never seen such a sight before.
The plagues that nearly destroyed the tribe became as docile as weary birds returning to their nests in front of this girl.
The red fog on the battlefield is getting thinner and thinner.
The fungal carpet on the ground has withered and died completely.
Less than one-tenth of the monsters remained standing; the rest had turned into skeletons.
Li Yao lowered her hand, let out a burp, and a shockwave erupted from her body, shattering the surrounding skeletons into powder.
The light of her level-up flashed three times in succession.
She turned around, looked at the stunned crowd behind her, and gave a slightly apologetic and shy smile.
"Sorry," she said, wiping away non-existent food crumbs from the corner of her mouth, "I couldn't help it."
The golden hemisphere disappeared into thin air only after Wang Xuan removed the light shield.
"Clean up the battlefield!" Wang Xuan clapped his hands, breaking the silence. "Also, turn off that video recording on the forum; the footage is inappropriate for children."
Kahn then came to his senses, slapped himself hard to make sure he wasn't dreaming, then raised his greatsword and let out a hoarse but deafening roar.
"roar--!!!"
The tribe's warriors roared in response, expressing their ecstatic joy at surviving the ordeal.
Only then did the players who had been watching from afar dare to step out from behind their cover.
They looked at the four figures standing in the center of the ruins with deep awe.
If this is the right way to experience Asem Online...
The game they were playing before was probably a fake one.