“They’re fine now,” the snake-woman said faintly.
She pouted and added, “That jerk is definitely strong—but he doesn’t understand how to treat women gently at all!”
The elven Sage let out a sigh of relief.
Then he glanced aside and turned naturally, saying, “Ahem, since they’re all safe, let’s head back. When we return, we can ask that little girl—someone that powerful among the adventurers can’t possibly be unknown.”
Though his tone sounded calm, if viewed from the side, one could see he was barely holding back his expression—he just didn’t dare laugh out loud.
“What are you laughing at?!” The snake-woman silently slipped behind him and spoke in a chilling tone.
“Ah… of course I’m just happy the children are safe.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
…
This time, Huang Hailing not only obtained the drops from four Lord-class monsters, but also acquired a C- grade fruit tree—truly a bountiful harvest.
She just couldn’t understand why the three Dragonfang Lords that were instantly killed only dropped a single piece of equipment.
Perhaps there was some kind of reward reduction for kills made by others?
Life really is full of ups and downs.
Just moments ago, they were on the brink of annihilation—then suddenly, everything turned around!
She also noticed the discussions in the Zone chat.
After learning that the three beams had actually been arrows shot by someone, she was shocked—and couldn’t help but speculate:
“Could it be him?”
No… suddenly, Huang Hailing seemed to realize something.
She quickly took out her map and compared the distance, then gasped sharply—
Over 6,300 meters in a straight line!
Is that even human?!
Huang Yong had already fallen unconscious due to his severe injuries and was being carried by four people.
Fortunately, with healing potions, his life wasn’t in danger.
“Sister Hailing, I’ve calculated it—17 people ran away just now, and 4 of them snuck back into the group during the chaos,” a young man walked over and said in a low voice beside her.
But his tone carried heavy anger—nothing was more infuriating than deserting in the middle of battle.
It was no different from betrayal.
Huang Hailing’s expression darkened.
She took a deep breath to steady herself and said quietly, “Don’t make a scene. Pretend we don’t know. Write down all their names and send them to me—we’ll deal with it after we get back.”
“Got it!”
It was time to clean out some parasites.
…
At this moment, in Zone 2243.
“One and Two, raise your shields and block the incoming fireballs! Three and Four, keep moving and disrupt! Five through Ten, maintain magical output—rotate your skills! Don’t leave any gaps in damage!”
Ning Xingxue shouted as she stood at the back of the formation, issuing commands to ten elite skeletons.
After testing all her summoned units, she discovered that a type of infantry skeleton had exceptionally high defense and could alter its weapon form—including blades, spears, swords, halberds, and even shields—all made of bone.
They could withstand ten D-grade attacks.
With an added layer of defense using blackwood nails on the bone shields, they could now even partially block attacks from Lord-class enemies.
To put it simply—where a Cavalry Lord could previously kill one with a single thrust, now it would take two!
Then there were the mage skeletons—their damage output was the highest.
As long as there were enough of them, they were practically a mobile artillery unit.
As for the cavalry skeletons, she only kept two—mainly for mobility and drawing enemy fire.
Because of her outstanding command and training, these skeleton soldiers were far stronger than elite monsters of the same level.
Ning Xingxue was already considering shifting her development toward cultivating undead summons.
“Whoosh! Whoosh!” Zhao Daqiang continued firing to add damage.
He had no need to worry about his own safety, thanks to the elite Thornspike Willow.
Its overwhelmingly high stats put it far ahead among elites—its durability even surpassed that of Lord-class monsters.
“Crack! Crack! Crack…”
The four cavalry skeletons summoned by Huang Qi were swept aside by the Cavalry Lord—two were instantly killed.
The remaining two were then wiped out by a massive fireball from the Wyvern Lord, pierced through and destroyed in one strike.
“Clang!”
Huang Qi slashed with his sword.
Amid the sound of metal clashing, he only managed to leave a shallow mark on the Cavalry Lord.
“Whoosh…”
A gust of wind tousled his hair as a spear swept toward him.
His expression remained calm—he simply leaned back slightly, the spear tip brushing past his nose.
Watching this, everyone couldn’t help but feel tense for him.
After waking up, he was still the same person—but his personality had changed from a drunken troublemaker to something like a carefree sword immortal.
It was also worth noting that as he continued attacking, his damage seemed to steadily increase.
What had initially been shallow cuts gradually turned into strikes capable of chopping off entire chunks of bone…
This was exactly why Ning Xingxue wanted to shift her class direction toward summon cultivation—because in a one-on-one fight, she had no chance against Huang Qi.
Being suppressed within the same class tier and in the same safe zone was something she couldn’t accept.
…
“Whoosh!”
An arrow tore through the air and struck the glass of a department store building.
The glass instantly shattered, and the arrow pierced through rows of shelves—its final stopping point impossible to determine.
Beneath the shattered glass, a disheveled man sat trembling on the ground, staring at the familiar yet unfamiliar child before him.
Zhang Shiyao let out a cold snort, flicked her hand, and threw out dozens of cards before turning to leave.
“With this, we’re even. I’ve also repaid what I owe on behalf of Mom. From now on, unless it’s in the underworld, we’ll never meet again!”
She didn’t look back.
After saying this, she stepped forward with light, agile movements and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The down-and-out man waited until she was far away.
Only then did he tremblingly pick up one of the cards.
His gloomy expression instantly relaxed.
After cautiously looking around, he quickly gathered all the cards on the ground.
All of them were D-grade—weapons, equipment, skills—everything.
And among D-grade items, they were of relatively high quality!
…
Half an hour later…
Above a city filled with towering skyscrapers, Lord-class monsters continuously descended from the sky.
Standing on the rooftop of one of the buildings, Zhang Shiyao appeared incredibly small in comparison to the city.
Above a building surrounded by those monsters, there was a massive treasure chest—red with golden edges.
The mithril shortbow in her hand glowed brightly, fully charged and brimming with magic power.
Facing the Lord-class monsters hundreds of meters away, she didn’t act immediately.
Instead, she used Azure Light to summon a clone and began chanting the incantation of her Noble Phantasm.
[I was born from error, my body and soul steeped in darkness, yet fate has shown me mercy. Holy light echoes like a forest’s whisper… Its name is—Demon-Gathering Thorn (Pseudo)!]
A powerful forest-green aura of magic swirled around her.
As she chanted, a Blackflame Spear was constructed out of thin air and appeared in her hand.
The spear was extremely long—nearly a meter taller than she was.
With a thought, the spear, brimming with Noble Phantasm energy, gradually transformed into an arrow.
The arrow was slender, dark red throughout, adorned with rings of intricate patterns—clearly no ordinary projectile…
And arrows like this—her Azure Light clones had them too!
Drawn by the intense magical fluctuations, the Lord-class monsters roared and charged toward Zhang Shiyao and her clones.
“Whoosh!”
The arrow shot out, easily striking one of the Wyvern Lords mid-flight.
The moment it pierced its body, it erupted with a blazing red light!
“Boom!”
The violent explosion instantly blew the Wyvern Lord into pieces.
Another Wyvern Lord flying too close on the side was caught in the blast—its head and most of its body were obliterated.
The shattered remains fell from the sky, dissolving into white light before they even hit the ground.
After Zhang Shiyao’s clone fired the Demon-Gathering Thorn (Pseudo), it immediately dissipated.
However, that arrow struck the Cavalry Lord squarely in the chest, blasting both it and its warhorse to pieces.
The two nearby Cavalry Lords were also affected by the explosion.
But due to the distance, they weren’t seriously harmed—only their arms were blown apart, quickly regenerating afterward.
In total, seven Lord-class Dragonfang rulers had appeared here: two Wyvern Lords, three Cavalry Lords, one Giant Lord, and one Magic Lord.
“Whoosh…”
A gentle breeze wrapped around Zhang Shiyao’s feet.
Her Gale Boots activated, allowing her to narrowly evade a blast of magic from the Magic Lord.
Unlike the other Dragonfang Lords, the Magic Lord, though still skeletal, stood only about three meters tall—smaller than any of the others.
Its body glowed with a fluorescent purple hue as it stood atop the rooftop of the building holding the gold-trimmed red treasure chest, exchanging attacks with Zhang Shiyao from several hundred meters away.
“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”
Zhang Shiyao moved through the air, stepping on the wind to dodge incoming magic projectiles while firing mithril arrows back at the Magic Lord.
The Magic Lord neither dodged nor retreated.
With a wave of its staff, it conjured a circular barrier several meters wide in front of it.
The mithril arrows exploded upon impact with the shield—but once the light faded, the Magic Lord remained completely unharmed, even having the spare capacity to fire more magic bolts at her.
“Tch!”
Zhang Shiyao glanced at a rooftop struck by a magic projectile—it had been blasted open with a hole over a meter in diameter.
Her vigilance rose.
She had to deal with it first!
While moving, she drew three mithril arrows and fired them at full draw toward the Magic Lord.
The instant she released the bowstring, she lowered the bow to dodge, then immediately drew another three arrows and fired again.
Repeating this cycle, her rate of fire far exceeded the Magic Lord’s shield-casting speed.
Soon, her arrows broke through the defense and were about to hit.
But…
Just as the arrows were less than a meter away, the Magic Lord flickered—vanishing and reappearing in an instant.
The arrows passed straight through its body and struck the building behind it instead!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Each arrow blasted a hole over half a meter wide into the building’s walls.
At the same time, the Cavalry Lords had already arrived.
Their skeletal warhorses neighed as black energy coiled around their spear tips—their piercing attacks fully charged!
The skeletal warhorses charged straight into the building Zhang Shiyao stood on.
With the combined impact of two warhorses and two fully charged thrusts, they smashed through the walls effortlessly, bursting out from the opposite side moments later.
The entire building shook violently—its load-bearing pillars had been destroyed!
Zhang Shiyao had no choice but to relocate once again.
No sooner had she moved than the building she had just been standing on began to collapse…
— The end of the Chapter–
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