[Inferno Forest]
War raged everywhere.
After fully stacking his talent, Black Night gained a 50% boost to all attributes. As a result, the Shadow Sword Puppets that inherited all his attributes were also extremely powerful. Against these level 50–51 players, they were more than enough.
On top of that, with Lin Mo and Ning Xi, both ranked number one on the Heavenly Rankings, personally guarding him, players from the five guilds had no chance to get close to Black Night, and were all cut down fifty yards away.
However, the five guilds ultimately had overwhelming numbers.
Together, they had more than five thousand players.
With such a scale, how could a mere hundred sword puppets possibly hold them back?
Although every time a Shadow Sword Puppet was destroyed, Black Night could resummon one by absorbing Shadow Breath, under the relentless human-wave assaults from all directions by the five guilds, the defensive line of the sword puppets was being forced to shrink rapidly step by step.
Watching the three of them about to be swallowed up, on the outer edge, Tyrant crossed his arms and sneered, "Killing three birds with one stone today. Not only will we take back the S-rank skill book, once we cripple Rulebound, the guild creation token in the King's Championship won't be his anymore either."
At this moment, the other guild leaders began thinking about how to split the loot.
Originally, Tyrant had planned to keep the skill book for himself no matter what, since he intended to use it later to set a trap for Lin Mo.
But now that Lin Mo was about to be finished, the book had no more value to him.
So Tyrant said in front of his allies, "How about we roll for all the spoils later?"
"Whoever gets lucky takes the treasure. Fair and square."
As soon as he said this, Heaven Hell, Bloodthirsty Dragon, Emperor General, and Martial God Zhao Zilong all became excited.
"Good! We'll go with Brother Tyrant's plan."
"End this quickly and kill them, in case anything unexpected happens."
"What else could happen? I've already sent people to scout. Chaotic World Guild is in the east of the city, Blood Dance is in the north. Even if they find out Rulebound is surrounded, by the time they get here, they'll only be collecting his corpse."
"Haha! Perfect! With no reinforcements, let's see how Rulebound escapes this desperate situation."
"Yesterday he killed us so happily. Today it's his turn to taste what it feels like to be crushed."
Just as they were talking, from behind, a wave of screams suddenly rang out.
When Tyrant and the others turned to look, they saw a shocking scene outside the Inferno Forest. Dozens, even hundreds of beams of white light shooting into the sky.
In an instant, their expressions changed drastically.
"Damn! What's going on? What's happening outside?"
"What happened?"
Several rogue subordinates guarding the outside of the forest hurried over to report, "Guild leader! This is bad, enemy forces are attacking!"
"They have huge numbers, and they're strong. Their assault is fierce, we can't hold them."
"Aren't Blood Dance and Chaotic World supposed to be unable to get here for a while?", Tyrant shouted, "Where are these people from?"
"Don't recognize them!"
"But their ID prefix is all 'Divine Nation'!"
———
Outside the Inferno Forest—
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Sharp arrows rained down like a violent storm, landing among the five guilds' crowd.
Amid a series of screams, over a hundred warriors and knights from the five guilds were wiped out in a single wave.
The area beneath their feet was instantly cleared.
Through this huge opening, one could clearly see inside the forest, Lin Mo, Ning Xi, and Black Night being besieged by players from the five guilds.
At the forefront of the vast army of the Divine Nation Guild, a tall, slender girl in silver armor, with a high ponytail and a cold, stunningly beautiful face, [Ming Yuexin], had a chill flash across her eyes.
"The people under my Ling Xue, you dare touch them?"
"Kill them. Leave no one alive."
"Yes!"
With Ling Xue's command, all the Divine Nation guild players behind her drew their weapons and charged toward the Inferno Forest like a tidal wave.
At the same time, inside the forest, Tyrant gritted his teeth, "Victory is right in front of us. We're about to take down Rulebound, we can't let them come in and mess things up."
"Stop them at all costs!"
"Our five guilds have five thousand elite players, who do we have to fear?"
"This Divine Nation Guild, could they really be as strong as Wang Junjie's Chaotic World Guild?"
"Brothers, kill!"
Amid the battle cries, the five guilds' players quickly split into two groups.
One group continued attacking Lin Mo and the others.
The other rushed out of the forest to block Divine Nation.
Players from both sides fell into a fierce, heated battle.
Seeing the fight erupt outside the forest, with shouts and screams rising nonstop and white lights flashing one after another, inside the forest, Ning Xi, who was guarding Black Night together with the Shadow Sword Puppets while resisting the five guilds' attacks, said with joy, "Is it people from the Dragon Soul Guild?"
"Probably not," Lin Mo said, "Dragon Soul only has about a thousand people. Even if they came, it would just be an even fight."
"But judging from the scale outside, one side is clearly being completely suppressed. The strength gap is obvious."
"If nothing unexpected happened…"
"It should be Divine Nation."
At this moment, Lin Mo felt a sense of relief.
Because he knew very well what level of strength the Divine Nation Guild currently had.
Divine Nation had arrived.
Which meant the end of the five guilds had come.
Outside the forest, at first, the five guilds didn't take this unheard-of guild called Divine Nation seriously. They thought it was just some random guild from Inferno City trying to compete for Rulebound.
But as the battle went on, they increasingly felt something was wrong.
"Something's off! Damn it! Why are these Divine Nation guys so strong? They're even stronger than the Chaotic World Guild we fought yesterday."
"And why do they have so many people? Weren't they supposed to be some random guild? What kind of random army is this strong?"
"Damn! What the hell is that Divine Nation Pangu? Ranked 98 on the Heavenly Rankings?"
"I've got one here ranked 125!"
"Rank 241… rank 338… rank 149…"
"Holy shit! Every one we grab is a Heavenly Rankings player! How does their guild have so many top players?"
"Did we just run into a Heavenly Rankings guild?"
For a moment, the morale of the five guilds began to waver.
Under the overwhelming assault of Divine Nation, the five guilds couldn't defend at all.
One minute, the outer defensive line was broken.
Two minutes, the inner defensive line collapsed.
Three minutes, Ming Yuexin personally led Divine Nation's main force straight into the core!
"Damn it! What the hell?"
"Capture the leader first, take out their guild leader!"
Bloodthirst Guild's leader, the thief Bloodthirsty Dragon, gripped his dagger and, thinking he was unnoticed, sneaked through the chaos toward Ling Xue.
Just as he got close—
Whoosh!
Ling Xue tilted her body slightly. What looked like a lucky dodge was actually a perfectly calculated move, effortlessly avoiding Bloodthirsty Dragon's attack.
Slash!
-18583!
With a backhand strike, her sword fell cleanly, and without any effort at all, she instantly cut down the full-health Bloodthirsty Dragon into white light.
At a stage where ordinary players could generally only deal two to three thousand damage at most, the surrounding players from the five guilds were stunned.
"So much damage!"
"Wait, what the hell? Isn't that Ming Yuexin ridiculously beautiful? She looks like a female lead straight out of a manga!"
"Are you serious? You're still staring at girls at a time like this? Are you a spy or something?"
"Now that you mention it… she really is pretty! If I could die under a beauty like her, I'd have no regrets. I envy Guild Leader Dragon!"
"???"
"What's wrong with you guys!"
"Don't block me! Let me take a look too!"
"Holy shit! She really is good-looking! If she'd be my girlfriend, I'd even go kill Guild Leader Dragon again!"
"??? You guys are out of control!"
For a moment, Ling Xue's breathtaking beauty completely overshadowed the fear of the five guild players being slaughtered.
Yet under everyone's gaze, Ling Xue showed no interest in anyone else. There was only one person in her eyes.
Through the crowd, her clear gaze landed on Lin Mo, who was firing arrows and cutting down enemies ahead.
She smiled faintly.
"Rulebound."
"I've finally met you!"
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