Chapter 221
The luminous spores from the Tree of Creation spread throughout the entire territory, illuminating the tranquil little town to an extreme degree.
The army of players had received their orders, ready to split their ranks at any moment to "make way" for the monsters attacking Bai Ye Town.
“Boom!”
A thunderous roar echoed through the cloudless night, tearing a golden rift across the night sky near Bai Ye Town. Instead of fading away, this golden crack remained suspended in the air.
In the next moment, accompanied by the sound of flapping wings, more than a dozen creatures with yellow-brown feathers and white plumes burst forth from the rift, shrieking sharply.
【Griffin】Elite monster, individual level 55-60.
“Boom!”
A second bolt of blue lightning struck, ripping open another spatial rift.
From within came a chilling sound of chitinous legs scuttling, as giant scorpions, each a meter long, crawled out. Each elemental scorpion's tail shimmered with different elemental glows, radiating a heart-stopping power.
【Elemental Scorpion】Elite monster, individual level 50-55.
“Boom!”
A third thunderclap, this one a chaotic red.
A sharp horn poked out from the rift.
“Roar…”
Accompanied by a long, drawn-out cry, a colossal Kodo Beast, over twenty meters long, with a head resembling a rhinoceros and a massive mouth, slowly emerged from the rift, inch by inch, into this world.
【Kodo Beast】BOSS monster, level 60.
Two waves of elite monsters, plus a level 60 third-tier BOSS—this was the trial that Bai Ye Town faced as it upgraded from a level five territory to a level seven!
When a territory advances to a city level, monsters of corresponding faction styles appear based on the extraordinary knowledge the territory possesses. Unlike the monsters that emerge from the surrounding areas during a territory upgrade, these creatures tear through space to arrive directly.
Seeing this scene, the players in the army couldn't help but stir restlessly.
Such a dramatic entrance, and these high-level monsters they had never seen before, once again reshaped their understanding.
“Is this how monsters appear when upgrading from a level five territory to a level six?” Bai Ye Town had always been ahead of all territories, and this scene immediately drew a lot of attention. Some quickly logged off to inform their think tanks, urging territories that were planning to upgrade soon to prepare.
Meanwhile, many others were fixated on Bai Ye Town, watching Bai Ye, who stood alone on the city wall—
The siege monsters had appeared around Bai Ye Town through the spatial rift, much closer than the encirclement of the player army. It could be said that at this moment, Bai Ye had no time to organize the territory's warriors for battle.
How would Bai Ye handle this situation alone?
If it weren't for the lingering impression of Bai Ye's mysterious strength, everyone would have called her arrogant. Their feelings were indescribable, a mix of anticipation for a potential disaster and a hint of doubt—“Could she really win?”
“Boom, boom, boom…”
The ground in front of Bai Ye Town trembled as the monsters roared, charging toward Bai Ye on the city wall, all of them at levels surpassing the player army.
During a territory upgrade, siege monsters are primarily attracted to the territory's creatures. With everyone inside the buildings, only Bai Ye was active outside. In this unique scenario, there was no need to lure the monsters; they all rushed toward her immediately.
The fastest were the griffins in the sky.
More than a dozen griffins flapped their wings, diving toward Bai Ye, ready to tear apart their enemies with their powerful claws—a common attack method of these high-tier flying creatures.
The scouts, using their 【Eagle Eye】 ability, saw that the weapon in Bai Ye's hand was no longer the familiar longsword, but a spellbook commonly used by magic classes.
“Whoosh…”
The black pages of the book flipped, a sign of a spell being cast.
“Caw—!!!!”
In the next moment, the diving griffins let out a shriek, and then their cries abruptly ceased.
Without any casting time, a pale beam of light shot out from Bai Ye's billowing black robe, piercing through four or five griffins in one go.
“Thud, thud, thud…”
Under the rapid-fire second-tier necromancy spell 【Death Ray】, more than a dozen griffins above level fifty-five were instantly obliterated in a single encounter.
“How is this possible… She didn’t use a magic scroll?!”
“No…”
“Contact the think tank, we need to assess Bai Ye’s attributes immediately…”
Of course, the players had never seen griffins and didn’t know their levels, but the monsters in this world had far more health than players. The fact that she could one-shot them was enough to demonstrate Bai Ye's damage output.
Eliminating the griffins was just the beginning.
As the battle commenced, Bai Ye's spellbook on the city wall never stopped flipping.
A dense swarm of elemental scorpions, at least over a hundred, climbed up the city wall, their tails brewing elemental toxins. If they managed to strike, the target would suffer from a lingering elemental damage.
However, after dispatching the griffins, a series of crimson arcane beams shot out from Bai Ye, one after another.
The 【Scythe of the Reaper】 whirled through the swarm of elemental scorpions, and during its active duration, each arcane beam could take the life of a giant scorpion.
In the blink of an eye, a thick layer of elemental scorpion corpses piled up at the base of the city wall.
It was only a matter of time before she finished the harvest.
But what about that BOSS?
The players turned their hopeful gazes toward the unusually large Kodo Beast.
The Kodo Beast charged toward the city wall, its massive body resembling an iron war chariot. Each step it took sent tremors through the ground, crushing any elemental scorpions that couldn’t dodge in its path, splattering them into a gooey mess infused with elemental power.
The elemental scorpions that were hit waved their tails, launching skills at the Kodo Beast, but their attacks merely bounced off its tough hide without leaving a scratch.
A third-tier BOSS, even at level 60, was entirely different from a second-tier creature.
The Kodo Beast barreled toward the city wall where Bai Ye stood, its tremendous force capable of collapsing that entire section of the wall.
However, in response, Bai Ye merely extended a pale, bluish finger, pointing at the Kodo Beast.
The scouts strained their eyes, barely catching a glimpse of a wisp of gray mist flying from her fingertip, silently merging with the Kodo Beast.
The high-tier necromancy spell 【Mind Plague】 struck the Kodo Beast, which had an astonishing health pool, ignoring its specific health value and causing it to lose 10% of its health per second.
“Thud, thud, thud…”
To the eyes of all the players, they saw the Kodo Beast’s charging pace gradually slow. By the time it finally stepped onto the pile of elemental beetle corpses at the base of the wall, it had taken a full ten seconds.
“Boom…”
The massive body of the Kodo Beast collapsed at the foot of the city wall where Bai Ye stood.
The entire area fell silent once more, both in Bai Ye Town and among the surrounding player army.
Before this scene unfolded, no one had anticipated that this sudden monster siege would last less than ten minutes from start to finish! Not even the nearby wild beasts had time to arrive!
But compared to the shocked ordinary players, the commanders quickly regained their composure. The think tank had fully recorded the strength Bai Ye displayed in this battle; she was powerful, more so than anyone had expected.
However, the outcome of a war isn’t determined solely by individual strength. Unlike the mindless monsters that would attack Bai Ye, the human players could strategize. As long as a portion of them acted as a sacrificial squad to hold Bai Ye back, the others could launch an assault on Bai Ye Town.
“East District Team Five, stand by… Recon team, circle around to the south…”
The commanders began issuing orders to the squad leaders in each area through their mental links. Now was the time to showcase their tactical prowess—
“Wait… What is that?!”
Just as the player army began to mobilize according to the commanders' orders, an anomaly suddenly occurred in Bai Ye Town.
Ye Bo leveled up, and the pages of the Death Codex in his hands continued to flip, consuming blue mana as it unleashed one of the artifact's skills.
【Servant Resurrection】: Consumes one's own spiritual energy and health to convert a corpse into a undead servant, with conversion costs related to the creature's level, maximum level difference of 20.
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