"Meow—ROAR!!!"
More than a dozen LV.45 Elite Monsters, each the size of an armored vehicle and covered in sharp green crystal spines, let out deafening roars!
"Fire! Mages, fire! Don't let them get near the Bone Wall!" the commander atop the cliff screamed himself hoarse.
Yet these highly agile apex predators paid no attention to the crude tower-defense fortifications on the cliff. They ignored the magical bombardment, nimbly blinking back and forth between the chevaux-de-frise and traps. Turning into streaks of green lightning, they charged straight for the very edge of the cliff!
Their target was the core stronghold below, where life signatures were densest and large numbers of players had gathered—[Hanging City]!
"Fuck! They jumped down!"
Before the stunned eyes of the players atop the cliff, the dozen enormous beasts leaped from the hundred-meter-high precipice without hesitation!
Amid the howling wind, their massive bodies plummeted under gravity's pull, hurtling toward the narrow, recessed cave platform below.
By now, the cave had been expanded considerably.
"People below, move! The monsters jumped down!"
Inside Hanging City, hundreds of players averaging between LV.30 and LV.35 abruptly looked up, only to see the rapidly expanding shadows of colossal beasts bearing down on them.
A hundred-meter free fall—if they landed directly on the players, one swipe could tear right through them!
Bi Ren Liang Mou hurriedly prepared to use the same trick again and blast them away.
But these intelligent Elite Monsters clearly weren't making suicide attacks!
When they were only twenty meters from the Hanging City platform—
"Whoosh—!"
The dozen Emerald Hunters suddenly twisted their bodies in midair, thrusting their crystal claws, gleaming with cold light, straight ahead!
"Riiip—"
Accompanied by an ear-piercing, teeth-grinding screech of friction, the claws of the dozen beasts sank deep into the perfectly vertical emerald cliff face like