Chapter 295
“No,” Blaise replied, his expression somewhat strange. “The teacher just said it’s time to make that guy who’s been slacking off do some work.”
Felix ran through all the possible candidates in his mind but came up empty. “Who… could that be?”
…
The tenth-level territory, as the ultimate destination for player territory construction, would undoubtedly face monsters stronger than any encountered before during this upgrade.
The scattered players who had also been expelled from the city, though fewer in number due to the divine summons, still included many interstellar agents stationed at their posts, watching the latest upgrade of Baiye City unfold.
In this atmosphere thick with impending storm, the residential area of Baiye City remained eerily quiet.
Only beside the bakery, a donkey stood with its head raised to the sky, yawning.
**Chapter 203**
“Boom!”
As night fell, a deafening sound echoed through the sky, and an ominous crimson lightning bolt appeared above the tranquil city.
This red lightning was, in fact, a rift in the void, and players familiar with city-level territory upgrades were no strangers to it.
The first rift in the void was forced open, and a massive hand made entirely of flames reached out, tearing the rift wider to reveal its form.
“Fire Elemental Lord!”
Players in the distance immediately recognized the first monster to descend from the rift. This was the ultimate boss that appeared in the Chaos School’s dungeon during the Void Capture, and now, at the very beginning of Baiye City’s upgrade, such a high-level monster had already made its appearance…
So, just as some had speculated, Baiye City’s level had indeed surpassed nine? Had the last upgrade actually been a double jump?!
The terrifying rating of Baiye City, along with the prosperity of its territory, had long led interstellar players to speculate, but without concrete evidence—and perhaps a reluctance to admit it—they had remained in the realm of conjecture.
After all, even though other players’ territories had developed rapidly during this time, the highest level was only eight. Baiye City had always been ahead of all player territories, but whether it was just one level or two levels ahead remained unclear until it was truly confirmed…
But now, this scene seemed to speak for itself.
“Boom… Boom…”
The first rift was just the beginning. Following it, a series of thunderous roars erupted, and bolts of lightning in various colors struck down, creating more rifts in the sky above Baiye City.
With a powerful aura and overwhelming pressure, it was as if a boss exhibition had opened above Baiye City, with all sorts of formidable monsters—some familiar, some not—emerging from the rifts.
Even the Fire Elemental Lord, which required fifty elite players to defeat in the Void Capture, became an ordinary foe in this context.
Even from a distance, players watching this spectacle felt their hearts race. For the first time, they were intensely curious yet afraid to approach, fearing that if they ventured too close, they might inadvertently step into the attack range of these bosses.
The third job change had also brought a boost in mental strength to the interstellar players, as the first batch of players who had cultivated the game in the myriad realms had begun to reap their rewards. Many who were originally C-level mentalists had broken through to B-level alongside their game levels.
It could be said that the overall mental strength of the interstellar players had taken a significant leap, and it was only a matter of time before B-level became commonplace.
However, the higher the level, the greater the cost of dying in the game. Although dying in the game wasn’t true death, it still resulted in experience loss and a drop in rank, making players more cautious about their lives than they had been in the early days of the game.
This powerful aura was felt not only by the nearby players but also by the ordinary beasts around Baiye City. In past territory upgrades, the usual wild beasts would have attacked madly, but this time, the overwhelming pressure from the powerful bosses had eclipsed the allure of the Tree of Creation.
Giant elementals, chimeras, kodos, stitched behemoths… each of these bosses was massive, and one could only imagine the kind of terrifying destruction they would wreak if they truly landed in Baiye City.
—How would Baiye City respond to such a terrifying army of bosses?
Watching Baiye City, which had yet to deploy any military units, players were filled with the same question, speculating whether Baiye would once again transform the undead to fight. However, those who had been active in Baiye City had seen the Elf Queen and heard of the Hell Demon, yet it had been a long time since they had seen the figure of this first lord.
“Roar… Awooo!”
Then, in the next moment, the players suddenly heard a series of continuous, anguished howls rising from the bosses emerging from the rifts.
“What’s happening?”
The cries were so tragic, and it wasn’t just one or two; all the bosses about to descend were howling in unison.
They hadn’t seen Baiye City launch any attacks… Wait, the players soon noticed something strange!
In the sky, the bosses emerging from the rifts, which had been moving outward, suddenly froze in place, their invasion halted as if someone had pressed the pause button—forcefully.
Because in the next moment, the players saw the parts of the bosses’ bodies that had emerged from the rift plummet uncontrollably downward. Their bodies, not fully out of the rift, were severed by the abruptly closing rift—
It was as if a door that had been opened normally was suddenly slammed shut with great force just as these bosses were halfway through!
The force that closed the rift was so sharp, akin to the rules of space, ignoring normal magical and physical defenses, indiscriminately slicing through the bodies of these bosses.
The players, who had been speculating endlessly, could never have imagined that the defense of Baiye City would unfold in such a manner.
They weren’t even fighting; they were simply using the ‘door’ to crush the invading bosses!
Who was it? How did they manage this?
As the players stood in shock and confusion, amidst the terrifying screams of rage, the bosses’ still-living limbs fell from the sky, seemingly about to crash into Baiye City, when another change occurred.
“What is that thing?!”
Long, crimson tentacles emerged from a spatial passage within Baiye City, wrapping around the severed limbs and pulling them back.
The tentacles seemed to possess some kind of suction, not a drop of blood spilling onto the ground of Baiye City, as everything was efficiently dragged into the spatial passage where all the tentacles converged, disappearing completely.
At first glance, players thought these red tentacles belonged to some powerful siege monster, but as they fully observed its actions, they realized this massive entity clearly belonged to Baiye City.
But what kind of enormous soft-bodied creature was this? Did it also come from the divine realm? How could it be so large?
The Kraken had always appeared as a little girl in the Void Capture, primarily responsible for restraining Walsh and cleaning up the battlefield. Players who had encountered Baiye City’s team had never survived the Hell Demon’s attacks long enough to recognize the Kraken, so they naturally had no impression of her.
“Hiss…”
At this moment, seeing the Kraken’s tentacles, the players couldn’t help but gasp. The monsters emerging from the rifts were already top-tier in the myriad realms, and this creature, clearly far superior, was something they had never heard of—likely from the divine realm.
The Elf Queen, the Hell Demon… Baiye had at least summoned three entities from the divine realm, so what else had she brought forth from there?!
“Boom…”
“Roar!”
Three different colored bolts of lightning continued to strike above Baiye City. Compared to the initial surge of over a dozen bosses, the number had slowed considerably, but their aura and might were even more formidable.
However, the defenders of Baiye City seemed to possess limitless power; any boss that emerged from the rift met an inevitable fate of being ‘snapped’ in half mid-journey.
Many of the powerful bosses, similar to the Serpent Demon Lord, could still fight as separate entities even if their bodies were severed, but in Baiye City, a multitude of tentacles awaited, acting like the most intelligent and efficient garbage collectors, ready to clean up the battlefield.
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