Chapter: Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
“Brothers, this forest is so eerie…”
Sun Piercing Steel Plate felt a chill looking at the twisted and strange tree shadows around him.
The other players weren’t doing any better. They were clinging tightly together, feeling like they were playing a horror game.
“It was fine before, but I don’t know what happened all of a sudden. The trees are all crooked.”
“Demi-human brother, you’re so calm…”
The forest grew denser, and the sunlight was blocked by the lush branches and leaves, leaving only a hazy dimness.
Silence enveloped the surroundings, even the chirping of insects and birds was stifled.
Sun Piercing Steel Plate followed the map, winding around a cliff face, and finally reached his destination.
It was an open space that had been cleared by hand, with some strange symbols drawn on the ground. Other than that, there was nothing remarkable about it.
“We’re finally here?” Sun Piercing Steel Plate breathed a sigh of relief.
The road before was too eerie. If it weren’t for the demi-humans beside him appearing calm from beginning to end, he would have thought this road led to hell.
“Thank you very much for your help, brave adventurers. This is where the sacred artifact once appeared, and we will search in this vicinity.”
“You may leave now.”
The young demi-human had a smiling expression, with a hint of fake gratitude.
“Oh, oh, no problem, hahahaha! If you need anything in the future, you can still ask us for help!”
Sun Piercing Steel Plate grinned at the words, signaled the other players, and turned to leave with them.
However, they didn’t go far. Instead, they circled back using the dark bushes.
“You guys also feel something’s wrong, right?”
Sun Piercing Steel Plate stealthily observed the demi-humans’ movements while communicating with several players around him through the team channel.
“It’s definitely not right. Their smiles are too fake, and everyone is smiling. I don’t know what’s so happy about.”
“Indeed, seeing them smile sends shivers down my spine…”
“There’s movement! Look quickly!”
In the players’ vision, the demi-humans who were standing still suddenly moved in unison. They cut their fingers and skillfully smeared strange symbols on the ground and on themselves.
One player was about to intervene but was pulled back by Sun Piercing Steel Plate, his mouth covered.
“Don’t rush, let’s see what happens first. We can see their health bars anyway.”
“We’re not taking this mission anymore. Notify Frog Brother and the others to come over.”
Sun Piercing Steel Plate said this in the team channel and noticed new movements from the demi-humans not far away.
They gathered together, holding hands, kneeling on the ground. The surrounding symbols were painted with blood. If viewed from high above, it clearly formed a ferocious goat’s head.
They remained still and silent for a moment.
Suddenly, one of the demi-human girls spoke:
“Great Lord of the Abyss, Felton, your loyal servant, Sina, dedicates this to you, begging you to open the gate to the Abyss… эюъщчэБяВэыц…”
The demi-human girl finished with a string of incomprehensible words, and as soon as she spoke, the ground began to tremble.
An eerie scarlet blood-red light ignited from the strange symbols on the ground. An Abyss Gate, carved with demons and bones, emitting a smell of sulfur and the stench of blood, slowly rose.
【Abyss Teleportation Gate】
Seeing the information obtained by Appraisal technique, Sun Piercing Steel Plate knew he couldn’t wait any longer. He leaped out from the bushes, running towards the demi-humans, and shouted, “Brothers, stop these demi-humans! Don’t let them get into that gate! They’ve most likely been brainwashed!”
The players reacted quickly and followed Sun Piercing Steel Plate. At the same time, Avatar and Scheming Frog were also on their way with other players.
Their movements attracted the attention of the demi-humans. The fake smiles on their faces disappeared, replaced by blank expressions.
“Adventurers, what do you intend to do?”
“What do we intend to do?”
Sun Piercing Steel Plate blocked the demi-humans and roared, “Do you know what you’re doing? This is an Abyss Teleportation Gate! Are you going in to feed the demons?”
“I do not understand what you are saying,” the demi-human girl replied coldly. “We are simply on our way home, returning to the kingdom of the great Lord Felton.”
You’re returning to the demon’s gullet!
Sun Piercing Steel Plate was too lazy to retort. He stepped forward to knock out the demi-human girl and drag her away, but a thick demonic arm reached out from the Abyss Gate and punched him flying.
A Horned Demon Commander, with curved bull horns, a ferocious face, and a tall, muscular body covered in red muscles, stepped out of the Abyss Teleportation Gate, treading on lava and flames.
The smell of sulfur in the air intensified to its limit at this moment.
The Horned Demon Commander, with a level of forty, was an almost insurmountable existence for a single player.
It raised its giant claw and leaped, aiming to smash down on Sun Piercing Steel Plate, who was still on the ground, unable to get up.
If another player hadn’t reacted quickly and rushed out, rolling to dodge the Horned Demon’s pounce with Sun Piercing Steel Plate, he would have been sent back to the respawn point by that one blow.
“Mages, cast shields! One person go knock out those demi-humans, we’ll stall for time until Fan Ge and Frog Brother arrive!”
Sun Piercing Steel Plate got up from the ground and immediately issued commands.
Although players often joked about him with vulgarities, Sun Piercing Steel Plate was considered a skilled player. Therefore, at this moment, no player objected to his commands and immediately followed his instructions.
The warriors stepped forward to confront the Horned Demon Commander. The six warrior players, whose levels had returned to the twenties, under the cover of the mages, engaged in a stalemate with the Horned Demon Commander by taking turns blocking damage with their shields. They could even inflict some damage on the somewhat clumsy Horned Demon Commander occasionally.
“Cut its legs, cut its legs!”
Sun Piercing Steel Plate commanded as he swung his greatsword, channeling his Qi, and slashed at the Horned Demon Commander’s thigh.
【-375】
The Horned Demon Commander let out a pained roar, changed direction, and began to pursue Sun Piercing Steel Plate.
Seeing that Sun Piercing Steel Plate had pulled aggro, the other players followed behind the Horned Demon Commander, unleashing their attacks madly.
“Hiyah hiya! Eat my Thousand Years of Death!”
A warrior player roared, sticking his sword into the Horned Demon Commander’s backside with a malicious move, gripping the hilt with both hands and twisting it fiercely.
【-769】
“Roar!”
The Horned Demon Commander was in so much pain it almost jumped up. It abandoned its pursuit of Sun Piercing Steel Plate and turned to swat at the player who performed the Thousand Years of Death, but it was easily dodged by the player who was prepared.
“Holy crap! Brothers, critical hit!”
“This is a weak spot, everyone stab it here!”
Before the Horned Demon Commander could chase for long, its backside was hit with another piercing pain, accompanied by the players’ lewd giggles from behind.
The players took turns stabbing it.
In this way, a powerful but not very intelligent Horned Demon Commander was toyed with by less than ten players. Its health gradually decreased, and it became increasingly dispirited.
On the other hand, the players became more and more relaxed.
“Trash!”
As the Horned Demon Commander, whose backside was pockmarked with attacks, fell to the ground in humiliation, an enraged roar came from within the Abyss Teleportation Gate. However, it was spoken in the abyssal language, and the players did not understand it.
But the players could guess with their toes that the elite monster had likely died, and a BOSS was about to spawn.
As expected, a figure even larger than the Horned Demon Commander emerged from the Abyss Teleportation Gate.
However, when the players saw its full appearance, they were dumbfounded. Sun Piercing Steel Plate exclaimed:
“Holy crap, this… this is a three-headed husky?”
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