Breakthrough and Advance

Southern Seleucia, Doomsday Forbidden Zone.

"Roar—"

An earth-shattering roar echoed across the land, whipping up violent winds that sent sand and stones flying and dust swirling through the air.

On this lava-covered wasteland, an incomparably massive serpent coiled its body and let out a long cry toward the sky. Nearly a hundred meters long, its scales and horns were jagged, and its entire body was covered in hard rock. From afar, it resembled a winding mountain range.

More than ten thousand players surged around it like a tide, wielding all manner of strange and unusual weapons as they surrounded it like a swarm of ants.

Some of the bolder players had even climbed onto the monster's body, scrambling and running across its hard scales as they dodged and maneuvered.

"Keep attacking!"

"Don't just stand there! Scrub its back hard!"

"Where's the Dragon Slaying Cannon? Blast it!"

"The explosives are in place! We stuffed them all into the gaps between its scales! I'm about to detonate them!"

"Don't blow them yet! I'm still inside the blast radius, wait—"

"Boom!"

"Boom! Boom!"

Explosions erupted across the giant serpent's body one after another. The flames and smoke nearly swallowed its enormous form whole. The serpent roared and bellowed, twisting its body madly and instantly crushing hundreds of nearby players into paste.

Yet the players eagerly rushed forward all the same, launching attacks at the giant serpent. Bullets, shells, arrows, fireballs, beams, and rockets battered its body in a raging storm, leaving the serpent, whose defenses were astonishingly high, covered in wounds.

"Roar!!"

The giant serpent roared again. Its eyes turned scarlet, fury blazing from its pupils. The ground itself seemed to ignite as scorching magma burst from the earth and shot into the sky, instantly drowning more than a thousand players.

But the