Almost at the exact moment Lord Qin was delivering his blasphemous sermon to a group of devout believers—"Even without gods, we still have to fight wars"—the elite players who had received the five-wheeled order were already launching a large-scale hunt with astonishing speed on the increasingly dangerous front lines.
The absolute cream of the crop, the top 500 players on the combat rankings, had been divided into fifty hunting squads and sent out across these murky waters to carry out the ultimate hunt.
Lord Qin had assigned them two airships as rapid transport, and the groups had adopted different fighting styles.
The more straightforward ones, like the Vam brothers, would ask ordinary players on the battlefield to "call out enemy positions." Once a player squad spotted Dagon's Spawn and confirmed its coordinates, these berserkers would leap from the sky into the water and throw themselves into a hearty brawl.
The students, who had a natural advantage in speed, simply flew around above the sea in the battle zone. They spread out, then quickly gathered to hunt whenever they spotted signs of the Spawn. Silver-ranked Blood Vulture Vampires could really fly. They were nowhere near Lord Murphy's "Scarlet Comet" level, but flying at supersonic speeds was still a piece of cake.
But none of the above could hold a candle to the Big Bird Squad, who had "technology" on their side.
In the three hours since the hunt began, the Vam Brotherhood had taken down four Spawn, the students had found only two, and the Silvermoon Squad had it even worse, with just one. But the girls had scored a crystal of excellent quality: they had killed the raid boss-level Fallen Whale Shark that had crushed the merfolk vanguard and obtained a head-sized Tainted Crystal.
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