Volume 5, Chapter 43 – The Fight Broke Out!

Just an NPC little girl, what kind of storm could she possibly stir up?

That was the last thought in the minds of the players charging at Tianyin.

Because the moment they laid eyes on Tianyin, their consciousness vanished in an instant.

And in just the blink of an eye, the world in those players’ field of vision became the all too familiar respawn point shrouded in holy light.

“Huh, how did I die…”

“What happened, I was just riding on my horse, wasn’t I?”

“What’s going on?”

In just a single second, hundreds of white lights flashed at the respawn point.

Once the white light faded, the figures of player after player appeared.

“Guys, we got wiped…”

A few seconds later, the trusted player who had led the charge appeared at the respawn point with a heavy expression.

“That little girl isn’t an ordinary NPC…”

“Don’t tell me that in just a few seconds that little girl finished us all off?”

“Hiss… is that really just a little girl? Isn’t she some old monster pretending to be young?”

The players at the respawn point all started talking at once.

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“Don’t bring this up again…”

The trusted player’s face was ashen.

“We should hurry up and tell Brother Fan about this. Someone log off and go report it.”

“Got it…”

Of course, by the time these players realized that their target this time was anything but ordinary, Fanster had already ordered the player army to change course.

『Seriously, and they dare come at me with this level of strength?』

From the start of the fight to the end, Tianyin had spent only a few seconds in total.

Because in her battles with the Fortress Emperor before, Tianyin had already gotten used to going all out when she fought, so when dealing with that hundred or so players who wanted to kill her, Tianyin also subconsciously used her full strength.

But what left Tianyin a little deflated was that while she had indeed gone all out, those players who had come for her were each unbelievably weak.

She had originally thought that since the players were charging at her so aggressively, they would be pretty formidable. Yet it was only after Tianyin wiped out all those players in just a few moves that she understood those players really were weak.

『Samael, are these outsiders dumb or what… don’t they know you should figure out your enemy’s info before you fight? They didn’t even scout before attacking me, isn’t that dumb?』

「Pft…」

Hearing Tianyin’s complaint, Samael let out a light laugh in her mind.

「They do seem a bit dumb, but Xiaoyin, think about it. Could it be that your not only harmless but also super cute appearance fooled those outsiders?」

『Mm… I guess you could put it that way too. But Samael, it’s not like I can help being cute… Oh, right, Samael, there has to be a reason these outsiders suddenly showed up around here. Even if I don’t get why they came at me, there must be other outsiders nearby too, right?』

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Thinking back to the neat, uniform weapons and armor on those players earlier, Tianyin faintly felt that there definitely had to be more players like that in the vicinity.

「Yeah, that’s possible, Xiaoyin. There really might be other outsiders nearby. Try expanding your sensing range first. Maybe you’ll be able to pick up traces of outsiders around here.」

『Got it.』

Samael’s words firmed up Tianyin’s judgment.

After that, Tianyin closed her eyes.

As Tianyin’s eyes shut, formless spiritual waves began spreading rapidly outward from her as the center.

And the perception of a Throne-tier was unimaginably powerful. In just a few dozen seconds, Tianyin sensed that at a distance “not far” from her, there was an enormous player army retreating in “panic”.

“Mm… so many outsiders. And I can sense several Legendary auras among them too.”

After she sensed those players, Tianyin immediately picked up several powerful Legendary auras among them as well.

「Xiaoyin, those outsiders are up to no good. I don’t know why they started retreating, but those outsiders who just attacked us have to be part of that group.」

『Mm, Samael, then let’s catch up and give them a good beating, okay?』

After spending a month and a half with the Fortress Emperor, Tianyin had not only learned the Fortress Emperor’s straightforward and extremely violent fighting style.

She had also inherited a bit of the Dwarves’ unique personality of throwing hands the moment things did not sit right.

「Pft… if Xiaoyin wants to go, then go. I’ll just watch.」

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Samael had no objections to Tianyin’s suggestion.

『Got it. Then we’ll catch up and give them a lesson, and I can ask for directions while I’m at it.』

As she said this, Tianyin’s figure vanished from where she had been standing.

At the same time, at the very front of the army that had turned around early and was preparing to take a detour under Fanster’s command, Fanster suddenly felt his heart tighten for no reason.

“Mm, just my imagination? Or is something bad about to happen?”

This feeling made Fanster very uncomfortable. As he muttered to himself, his brows furrowed on their own.

“Report. We just got word, the players who went out to deal with that NPC have all been wiped out.”

Just as Fanster was frowning hard and wondering if it was all in his head, a player ran over in a rush.

“Mm? They were wiped out? How did they get wiped out?”

“No idea. They only know that in just a few seconds, that NPC sent them all back to the respawn point…”

Hearing this news, Fanster finally understood why he had felt so uneasy.

Granted, out of caution, he had already felt that something was off about that NPC little girl they had just spotted, but still…

No matter how off she was, could she really be so off that she could send a hundred players back to the respawn point with just a wave of her hand?

Sure, with his Legendary strength, dealing with a hundred players himself would be easy, but even Fanster could not send them all back to the respawn point in just a few seconds.

Wasn’t that way too strong?

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No, that was not just strong, that was outrageously strong.

And that was not even counting the possibility that the little girl had not used her full strength.

“Wait, wait, wait… silver haired little girl…”

All of a sudden, Fanster remembered what the player who had passed along the intel earlier had told him.

“Silver hair, silver hair. Seriously, I should’ve thought of it sooner… But why would that being suddenly show up in Nature Faction territory…”

“Forget it, that’s not something I can deal with. What matters right now is speeding up the march. We need to hurry and get around her…”

Just as Fanster was thinking this, a huge rumbling exploded at the very front of the player army like a clap of thunder.

Rumble…!

“What happened? What’s going on up front?”

Hearing this sudden sound, Fanster’s face went dark.

“Re… report, up front, up front they started fighting…”

Right after, a player came running over in a panic.

“They started fighting? What happened, is there an NPC army ambushing us?”