Shen Chi shook off the goblins pursuing him and returned to the city once more. As expected, he saw another force of roughly three thousand goblins rushing out of the city and heading south.
“Another group just left. I suspect there’s either an item in the city that can detect the surrounding area, or some kind of special goblin monster.”
As Shen Chi analyzed the situation, he wanted to gather more information. He decided to approach the city and investigate.
The next moment, a beam of white light shot out from the most luxurious beast-hide tent at the very center of the city.
The beam was a full meter in diameter and pierced straight through Shen Chi’s mecha.
Boom!
Smoke billowed from the mecha. A huge hole had been blasted through the center of the cockpit, and it crashed to the ground.
In party mode, everyone could see the icon representing Shen Chi’s ID—a Rocket on a Wheelchair—instantly go dark, signifying his death.
Shen Chi had been killed in a single blow!
Fortunately, his ID lit up again in less than a second.
Shen Chi had used a Resurrection Scroll.
“Metal Manipulation!”
Shen Chi quickly flung out the materials in his backpack and repaired the mecha.
[Mechanical Overload]
With a boom, Shen Chi sprinted away at 200% speed.
Thankfully, the monster did not pursue him.
“What happened to Wheelchair Brother? Why did he die?” Chu Fu asked anxiously.
Shen Chi explained what he had encountered.
“I was killed by a monster called the Goblin Divine Emissary. However, it didn’t come after me, so it should be a spellcaster. Its skill has a range of one kilometer, but I’m not sure whether that was an instant-kill ultimate.”
This was the first time Shen Chi had died since entering the game.
However, he was too far from the main force, and he was worried that even Suture Saint would be killed instantly if she came over. Shen Chi had therefore made the decisive choice to use a Resurrection Scroll.
Besides, Resurrection Scrolls were no longer much of a burden for him.
Safety came first.
A Divine Emissary?
Generally speaking, anything called a Divine Emissary was at least Level 70!
No—Werewolf Tuge was also a Divine Emissary, but he had only been using a clone, which was why he had been so weak. This Divine Emissary, however, commanded an entire goblin city.
Still, the Goblin God should be considered a relatively weak deity. This Goblin Divine Emissary was unlikely to be Level 70; Level 60 seemed more reasonable.
Even so, a Level 60 monster was still far beyond what Chu Fu and the others could handle.
If it were Level 50, however, they might be able to risk fighting it.
Players had to complete a class advancement quest at Level 30, transforming from ordinary professionals into master-class professionals. At Level 60, they had to complete another advancement quest and be certified as grandmasters.
An ordinary professional might still be able to contend with a master through the strength of their talents.
But no matter what, they could never defeat a grandmaster.
“Did it come after you?” Chu Fu pressed.
“No. But it should be the boss. It seems to be able to detect our movements.”
“If I could get within one kilometer of it, I could see its attributes,” Feng Huimin said. “But the Mechanical Elder was also attacked from within one kilometer. Of course, it’s possible he was hit because he was an easy target in the air. On the ground, obstacles might make it harder for the boss to detect us.
“Still, all of that is just speculation. Even if we knew the details, there’s nothing we can do about the boss right now. There are too many monsters. We need to clear out the weaker ones first before we can deal with the boss!”
Chu Fu agreed.
“Fine. Let’s clear out these goblins first and get more dark-gold equipment! Wheelchair Brother, come back and share the experience. You don’t have any Resurrection Scrolls left, so it’s too dangerous for you to be on your own!”
“Understood. I’ll scout while I’m on my way back.”
Shen Chi planned to return. His damage output made up a significant portion of the team’s total, and without him, their killing speed would slow down.
However, as Shen Chi was making his way back to the team, he had no idea that the three thousand goblins heading toward the east of the city—who were originally destined to find nothing—had just happened to run into a feast delivered straight to them.
At the spatial rift east of the city, a human team emerged.
It was the Star Alliance.
The moment they landed, they saw the imposing goblins charging toward them in the distance.
“Roar!”
The three thousand goblins were tall and powerfully built. They charged straight at the five thousand players of the Star Alliance.
In a single clash, they smashed through the Star Alliance formation with overwhelming force.
“Yo! Yo! Yo!”
The goblins waved their weapons excitedly. They believed they had completed the mission assigned by the Divine Emissary and eliminated the invaders. Then they carried the invaders’ heads back with them and devoured the bodies on the spot.
Many Star Alliance players simply could not endure the brutality of the scene and logged off one after another.
But once they logged off, it meant their accounts had died.
Anyone who died inside the Origin Instance had to wait one hundred days before they could create a new account.
Jiang Yixing naturally had no desire to die. He immediately opened the map channel, hoping to call Plantman for help.
He could pay in gold coins—even one hundred gold coins if necessary.
[System Notification: You are in a special map. Other channels cannot be used except for the guild channel.]
“What?”
“Why didn’t anyone tell us this sooner?!”
“No! I don’t want to die! I have an S-rank talent!”
Jiang Yixing was frantic.
“Mia, find a way to contact Plantman! Get them to come save me!”
“I’ll have the fans leave messages on their official page and ask them to come rescue you!” Mia, his agent, was also panicking. She hurriedly replied.
Mia immediately contacted the players who had already logged off. Since they were already dead, they might as well make one final contribution—raising as much of a fuss as possible so that the people from the Thorn Guild would learn what had happened and be forced to come to their rescue.
…
Completely unaware of all this, Chu Fu led her team toward the goblin camp south of the city.
They had only fifteen minutes. Otherwise, reinforcements would arrive.
But Chu Fu and the others had already made a plan.
Chu Fu brought along a Taoist-class player who possessed an area-wide stealth ability.
They released a Charm Mushroom every one hundred meters.
When they finally reached a point one hundred and fifty meters from the enemy, they released another Charm Mushroom.
She attracted roughly two hundred goblins.
The first group of goblins was drawn to the first Charm Mushroom. After destroying it, they were immediately attracted to the next one, located one hundred meters away.
This created a chain reaction. The goblins were continuously lured away by the Charm Mushrooms, gradually separating from the main force.
With twenty thousand players attacking two hundred goblins, the battle could be settled in five minutes.
This method was indeed extremely efficient.
After killing that wave, they did not linger. They immediately fled.
The three thousand goblins chasing them were furious and howled in rage. Among them, the goblin wolf riders possessed tracking abilities and followed Chu Fu’s trail.
Chu Fu did not let them off easily either. She planted Creeping Vines along the route, then used her S-rank talent, Venomous Human, to turn the Creeping Vines poisonous.
When the wolf riders came after them, the poison struck the wolves first.
Chu Fu also discovered that Shen Chi was not the only one capable of taking to the air to scout for information. Feng Huimin was even more formidable.
At Level 15, Feng Huimin could monitor the surrounding area and use a telescope-like function. At Level 20, she gained an even more astonishing ability: battlefield simulation.
