The eruption of the monster tide deep within the Strange City startled the players who were still immersed in adventuring and panning for gold.
They each used their own methods to investigate the situation at the city center. When they saw the monsters that resembled a black tide, every one of them paled.
"I knew this ancient city's appearance was suspicious. There was bound to be some great disaster!"
"Earlier, I saw the Divine Glory Empire's Blaze Gun Mercenaries heading for the city center. They even forcibly drove away the other players and occupied the entire city center... Damn Fak, it must've been those accursed bastards who did something!"
"The Blaze Gun Mercenaries? The mercenary group that once excavated an ancient ruin and obtained a large amount of technological data?"
This was no obscure mercenary group!
After all, almost every player capable of venturing deep into the Strange City was a veteran. Yet the Blaze Gun Mercenaries had still been able to forcefully and tyrannically monopolize the area, which was proof enough of their strength.
Their mercenary equipment was also quite special. Every member carried a Burst Firearm.
However, at this moment,
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
Before the black tide,
players in uniform combat suits, each holding a silver-and-red firearm over half a meter long, were fleeing in panic.
The troops left behind to cover their retreat and take the hits had already been slaughtered, with only a few remaining.
Occasionally, a player would turn around and pull the trigger, firing dazzling rays. Each shot could kill more than a dozen monsters and blast a crater over two meters in diameter into the mottled ground. Yet against these seemingly endless black monsters surging from the depths of the earth, such damage was like losing one or two drops of water from