Rose City.
According to the game's official history, this was where Donbis, the final god-tier demon and a level 200 Demonic Humanoid, resided. It had once been an incomparably beautiful imperial capital with over a million humans.
Donbis had been the king of this imperial capital. Unable to resist his thirst for power, he had fallen into the demonic path and become a Demonic Humanoid.
Donbis gained an endless stream of power, but he himself also descended into madness. Fortunately, he did not vent his rage on his subjects. Instead, he first used demonic energy to transform his soldiers into Demonic Humanoids like himself, then began waging war abroad.
The defining trait of Demonic Humanoids was that every time they killed a living being, their strength increased. Whether it was an ordinary player or a wild creature, as long as they killed it, their strength rose by 10%.
In his previous life, when a guild brought more than ten thousand players here, they had carefully prepared to clear this map, yet the Demonic Humanoids had still wiped them out. They had not thought much of it; it was just pioneering a new area, and failing to clear it was normal.
But when they returned, several hundred Demonic Humanoids had doubled in strength and advanced into Lord-class monsters. The guild players initially thought they had suddenly spawned, but when they were wiped out again and several hundred more Lord-class monsters appeared, they finally realized that the monsters here leveled up by killing people.
Before long, the news leaked out through someone among those ten thousand who could not keep their mouth shut, drawing several hundred thousand attackers from dozens of super guilds.
At the time, if the players had united against the Demonic Humanoids, they could have cleared this instance. But