Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
Chapter 83: Today, None of You Will Escape
That’s right, resignation to death.
No matter how astonished the players looked, that was his thought. This mission had already failed.
The Lord of Eagle Territory could not be killed, Winter City could not be taken, and Saintess Ruo Yi could not be saved.
Moreover, it was highly likely that the gentle-smiling fox-eared girl was already dead.
Players would automatically respawn at the nearest crystal. Once that fiery behemoth destroyed all the crystals, they could die and return to Dawn Town.
Continue to lie low and rise again?
Avatar was not that optimistic. The Lord of Eagle Territory was not an easy person to get along with. On the contrary, he was extremely erratic and unreasonable. Perhaps as soon as they arrived in Dawn Town, the Lord of Eagle Territory would come with his troops and flatten them.
Without a respawn point, what would they players do?
Where would they respawn from? Beside Ye Hao?
Was this truly a game world?
If it was, why such powerlessness?
Avatar was somewhat lost, but he soon discovered that even returning to Dawn Town in death had become a luxury for them players.
Xi Wei stopped Sark, who was still “grunting and groaning” while smashing crystals. Holding the little maid, he faced the players who had just emerged from the respawn point, a sinister smile on his face:
“Smashing my little maid with Flame Burst, huh?”
“Today, none of you will escape.”
“Sark, leave the last crystal. We’ll block and kill them.”
“Praise you! Respected Lord Bug… cough, My Lord!”
The Hellfire leader became instantly excited upon hearing Xi Wei’s command. It had long been tired of smashing these damned crystals.
Originally, it thought there were only three, but unexpectedly, these damned bugs had placed thirty more, sprouting like beans. This made the flames on its head burn even hotter, and finally, only this one remained.
“I’ll burn you to ashes! Damn bugs!”
Sark roared and began to unleash its signature skill, Lava Strike, which had almost no cooldown.
Volcanic Eruption had already been used, and this skill could not be used again in a short period.
The players’ faces were filled with astonishment. They had all understood the Lord of Eagle Territory’s words.
Although Cain Continent was claimed to have absolutely intelligent NPCs, many players had thought of treating NPCs as normal people when entering the game.
But it was just a thought.
Habits cultivated over years of gaming made them subconsciously ignore many things. They still couldn’t get used to it immediately and would still treat these people as lines of code controlled by AI.
“They’re going to block our respawn point!”
“Scatter quickly! If you get caught by that flame, you’re done for!”
“Escape the battlefield! Escape as much as you can. It’s better than being killed and losing levels.”
The players’ fighting spirit was lost, and their retreat was cut off. The players who had just respawned didn’t even have time to speak before being instantly killed by Xi Wei’s skill on the left and Sark’s lava strikes on the right.
They would respawn immediately after the death countdown, without the right to choose the specific respawn time. This led to them being unable to collectively synchronize a respawn attempt to break through or counterattack.
Their high-end strength, Ye Hao, was completely tied down, locked in a fierce battle with the Old Knight, Clemon.
Even more terrifying was that Winter City had launched a counterattack at this very moment.
Charging at the head was the Minotaur Warrior, Carl, who was carrying a Magic Cannon. He glared with his bull-like eyes, a wide grin on his face, and aimed the Magic Cannon in his hand at a group of scurrying players, beginning to charge it up:
“Heavy Cannon Minotaur Warrior, Carl, attack! Brothers of the Bloodhoof Clan, let these Humans taste our might!”
A Minotaur Warrior threw a “howling” player into the air, then swung his axe and batted him away. Hearing Carl’s shouting, another Minotaur Warrior couldn’t help but turn back and scold, “Shut up, you’re a disgrace to the Bloodhoof Clan, Carl.”
The other Minotaur Warriors simply ignored Carl and charged into the scattered player group like tigers among sheep.
At this moment, apart from the players being slaughtered back and forth at the respawn point, the players outside the respawn point were already divided into dozens of small, scattered groups by Winter City’s army.
Their casualties increased, and the respawn point could not replenish them fast enough. In the end, they were basically unable to organize any effective counterattack.
This slaughter continued for a long time. Xi Wei’s system mission had long since indicated completion, and the players were already numb from being killed.
As soon as they emerged from the respawn point, they had looks of utter despair. They let Xi Wei and Sark kill them however they pleased; they couldn’t even be bothered to move.
They had given up, resigned to their fate.
They didn’t even want to curse anymore, let it be whatever.
The veteran players with equipment, to avoid their gear durability decreasing, simply took off all their equipment, put it in their backpacks, and emerged naked waiting for death.
The players’ average level had dropped by seven or eight levels due to being killed, and the most severely affected were killed down to level zero. What was even more despairing was that they could not log out while in a combat state.
It wasn’t that they hadn’t tried to retrieve the resurrection crystals, but Xi Wei had not given them such an opportunity.
He intended to strike while the iron was hot and use this chance to kill all the players down to level zero.
As early as the battle began, he had covered Loli’s eyes with a cloth, not wanting her to see these bloody scenes.
However, Xi Wei didn’t know that the little maid had secretly lifted the cloth slightly and was peeking through the gaps.
She was certain that her Master would experience countless battles in the future, so to be able to help her Master, adapting to the bloody battlefield was a necessary process for her.
She could not always hide behind her Master; she wanted to be able to stand in front of her Master at critical moments.
Suddenly, Loli noticed that to Xi Wei’s blind spot, to his side and behind, a man in a black robe with a hood was rapidly approaching.
The players and soldiers fighting around seemed unable to see this person.
But Loli saw him, and she immediately became alert. As an awakened one of Breath of the Wilds, she was more sensitive to environmental dangers and inconsistencies than Xi Wei.
…
Sisoca, weaving through the battlefield, approached his mission objective.
He was known as the Black Sword precisely because of his peculiar ability to approach prey silently and to directly damage the target’s essence, bypassing defenses.
However, when he saw the face of a demi-human girl, he suddenly froze.
What beautiful eyes! They were like stars in the sky!
“Dig them out, dig them out, dig them out, hehehehehe…”
“Then, we can be together forever.”
A mad, insane laugh erupted from Sisoca’s pale, sickly face. Then he noticed that the demi-human girl was being intimately held by the mission target.
Jealousy and rage contorted his face, and a hoarse voice, like that of a wild beast, was squeezed from his throat:
“Blasphemy! This is blasphemy!”
“Unforgivable, unforgivable…”
“She should belong to me, should become my collection… especially, those beautiful eyes.”
“Kill you, kill you, hehehehehe, kill you, and take her!”
Sisoca sneered, transforming into a black light, holding a short black sword wrapped in black Qi, and ghost-like, stabbed towards Xi Wei’s back.
