Chapter 617: Defending the City

Ahead, thick black mist came howling in.

As the first group of players was swallowed by the black mist,

screams rose in moments.

Then, inside the black mist,

whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

dozens of white lights flared!

Three lucky players had just come tumbling out of the mist, scrambling to run.

Slash, slash, slash, slash!

A Ghost Swordsman in black armor from head to toe, with blood-red eyes, chased out of the black mist and threaded between the three of them at lightning speed.

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Hit by damage in the high six figures, the three Level 76 players were killed in one hit.

The players behind them saw damage this terrifying and were horrified!

“Holy crap!”

“Run! Run!”

The near-perfect realism of the game made people forget it was a game. Faced with a scene like this, their bodies’ instinctive fear kicked in, and the players all turned and ran!

But the black mist behind them spread out at terrifying speed.

The slower Mages, Priests and Wizards were swallowed quickly.

Even the faster Assassins and Warriors couldn’t escape, and were swallowed one after another.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

White lights shot up from the black mist one after another, back to back.

The several thousand players who had rushed out of the city first to meet the enemy had almost no power to resist and were wiped out in moments.

Like a tornado tearing through a trailer park.

The black mist, carrying the white lights of the dead players, kept spreading toward Purgatory City.

But it wasn’t enough to drown the players’ blood.

Up front, the first wave of players was wiped out.

At the rear, the second wave of players quickly moved up.

“Damn it! You bastards, coming into my turf to throw your weight around! You’re dead!”

“I’ve been waiting for a chance like this to go to the battlefield and defend my country. I regret not joining the army in real life, but now I can finally live out my dream in the game!”

“Brothers, this is our chance to show off in front of the goddesses! Let the girls in the city see how brave and charming we guys are!”

“Charge!”

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thousands upon thousands of players grabbed their weapons and charged at the black mist ahead!

Brave as they were,

the enemy’s strength this time was far beyond anyone’s expectations.

Just as the players reached the black mist,

ahead of them, Ghost Swordsmen in full black armor, greatswords in hand, burst out of it.

Clang, clang, clang, clang!

The defensive line formed by hundreds of high-level Paladins and Demon Knights was easily broken in just three seconds by the Ghost Swordsmen charging out of the mist.

Before the Archers and Mages in the rear could lay down covering fire,

the Ghost Swordsmen who had broken the line had already charged in, greatswords in hand!

Slash, slash, slash, slash!

It was like hungry wolves bursting into a sheep pen.

Every hit the players landed on the Ghost Swordsmen did a forced -1, unable to break their defense.

The Ghost Swordsmen, with huge damage in the hundreds of thousands, ran wild across the field.

The players had almost no power to resist and were cut down one after another beneath the greatswords!

Hundreds of Ghost Swordsmen tore into the crowd.

Nothing was left standing where they passed.

Amid nonstop screams,

countless white lights rose, one after another.

Moments later,

the second wave of charging players was all dead.

No survivors.

At the rear, the third wave of players, rushing to reinforce, stopped their charge in spite of themselves.

All the players inside the city had their eyes wide and their mouths hanging open.

“Ghost Race monsters! A legion of Level 100 Ghost Race monsters!”

“And a Level 100 Ghost King too!!”

Then confirmed word came from the Resurrection Spring, from players who had been killed by the Ghost Swordsmen and revived.

In an instant, all of Purgatory City fell into chaos.

Player A: “Holy crap! Level 100 Ghost Race monsters? No wonder the damage is so terrifying! So many people gone in a second!”

Player B: “One hit took 150k of my HP! Even a Level 77 Paladin at full health couldn’t take one slash from those Ghost Swordsmen!”

Player C: “Then what the hell are we supposed to fight with? Going out there is just suicide! Who the hell brought this bunch of nightmares down on us?”

Player D: “Like we’d live if we stayed in. When those Ghost Race monsters break into the city, we’re all dead anyway.”

Player E: “Well said! So I’m logging off. Bye, guys, you hold the line, my wife’s calling me for dinner!” Visit novelping dot com for the full chapter.

Player F: “Damn it! Coward! A game shows your character! You’re this scared of dying even in a game, so it figures you’re the same in real life! When your wife gets bullied, all you’ll be able to do is stand there and watch!”

Player G: “Where do you think you’re running? Everyone defend! If we don’t hold now, when the monsters break through Purgatory City none of us gets away and everyone gets punished!”

Player H: “But we can’t hold it! The average level in Purgatory City is only 75. How are we supposed to fight a legion of Level 100 Ghost Race monsters?”

Just as the players felt helpless and desperate,

a booming voice rang out from the crowd.

“You don’t have to kill them!”

Ning Fei stood out from the crowd and shouted to the players, “Under Divine Oracle’s game rules, when a safe zone is attacked, it automatically starts a defense mechanism, but the mechanism takes six hours to finish starting up.”

“So if we hold out for six hours, once the system’s defense mechanism kicks in, these monsters can’t get into the city!”

The moment Ning Fei said this,

the players’ confidence shot up again.

“I checked, and this guy’s right! Divine Oracle really does have that defense mechanism in its rules!”

“Then no problem! Purgatory City has over ten million players. Even if we can’t beat those Ghost Race monsters, we can throw bodies at them and stack up a meat shield to hold them off for six hours!”

“Right! Under Divine Oracle’s rules, if a Level 2 Main City is breached, every player gets a 10-level penalty, plus a 30% cut to all stats until the main city is repaired!”

“Better to die once or twice now and lose a level or two than to get punished together when Purgatory City falls!”

“Brothers, hold on! No matter what, we have to hold Purgatory City for six hours!”

“Charge!”

In the city, players of every stripe quickly united.

They poured out of the south gate,

and launched an assault on the Ghost Royal Guard sweeping toward them!

Of course, some cowards hid.

But Purgatory City had ten million players in all.

Take away those at work or in class and not online,

and by the system’s count, there were a full 6.35 million players online in the city at that moment.

Even if only a million of them were willing to step up,

that was enough to form a huge line of defense in an instant!

And as it turned out, far more than a million were willing to step up.

At Purgatory City’s south gate,

wave after wave of players fought to get out, swarming toward the outside of the city.

“Brothers of War Dragon, it’s time to win glory for the guild! Let the people of Purgatory City see the strength of our War Dragon Guild!”

“All Phantom Night Guild members who die fighting outside the city, come to me and I’ll cover your losses. Plus two hundred yuan each in compensation!”

“Tell Ma I’m no coward!”

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