Storm Abyss - A7 District frontline, Flame Canyon.
The deafening cries of battle drowned out the roar of flowing magma.
A vanguard force of ten thousand players followed closely behind five thousand Silver Wing Sentinels, driving like a sharp wedge into this canyon that had been deemed a forbidden zone.
"Watch the left flank! It's full of Explosive Throwers! Who's going to take them out?"
"Dawn Guild takes the job! Three squads of Hunters, follow me!"
On the battlefield, Dawn Guild displayed a level of dominance that left solo players speechless. They did not compete for the main assault routes. Instead, like a firefighting crew, wherever dangerous monsters appeared, their paid services would follow.
At the very front, the Silver Wing Sentinels fought in an even more dazzling manner.
They moved in groups of three, their light blades whirling into silver storms. When facing massive Lava Trolls, they did not confront them head-on. Instead, they used the exoskeletons' mobility to instantly sever the trolls' hamstrings, allowing the players behind them to swarm forward and hack the creatures to death.
[System Notice: The battle line has advanced to 80 kilometers.] [Gene Shop updated: "Titan Blood (Diluted Version)" stock +1.]
"It spawned!!"
Someone shouted in the voice channel.
Almost within the same millisecond.
[Current stock: 0.]
"Holy shit! Who was that fast?"
"Was that a script? I didn't even see the purchase button!"
"Over there! That rich guy called Money Power got it! He posted a screenshot in the public chat to show off!"
The appearance of a single vial was like pouring water into boiling oil.
The players who had missed it turned red-eyed, while those who got it were ecstatic. The enormous contrast sent everyone's adrenaline soaring to its peak.
"Kill! Keep killing! There's another one after we push ten more kilometers!"
"Even for that one-in-ten-thousand chance, I'm throwing this life into the grinder!"
Driven by desire, the player army erupted with combat power even more terrifying than the NPCs'.
At the end of Flame Canyon.
As the last gatekeeping Lava Troll fell, the canyon's exit finally appeared before them.
Yet when the first players charging out of the canyon saw the sight before them, everyone instinctively stopped.
Even Vanguard Across the Realm, who had seen plenty of grand spectacles in games, could not help holding his breath.
This was a spherical cavity so enormous it could not be measured by sight—an Alveolar Sac.
Its dome rose thousands of meters high, like an independent underground world. But at this moment, that world was burning.
The ground was covered in flowing black-red poisoned blood and magma.
At the center of the cavity floated a burning black heart. Countless thick, blood-vessel-like tentacles were embedded deep into the surrounding lung walls, and with every pulse, they drew vast amounts of life energy from the rock.
Beneath that heart crouched a terrifying demonic shadow over a hundred meters tall.
It was no longer an ordinary elemental creature. It possessed twisted flesh and burning bones, like a demon clad in flaming armor. It had no legs; its lower body had fused with the Magma Sea, and every breath it took spewed poison mist that blotted out the sky.
[Warning: Entering a high-concentration infection zone.] [Area Lord: Heaven-Burning Flame Demon] [Level: LV.25 (Boss-class)] [Description: It is not life. It is destruction made manifest. It is attempting to burn through this boundary and make the gods suffocate.]
"A level 25 boss..."
Brute Force Yields Miracles swallowed. "That health bar... I can't even count how many zeroes it has."
"This is a mechanics boss."
Data Maniac adjusted his glasses as analysis data flooded through his vision. "Its energy source is that black, heart-like object above it. If we don't cut off its power supply, it's invincible."
"And," Li Zihan said, pointing around them, "look at those tentacles. Every one of them is continuously pumping magma into it. We need to sever the tentacles first, then attack the heart, and only then can we touch the main body."
Vanguard Across the Realm nodded and took a deep breath.
At that moment, a pop-up appeared before everyone.
[Subjugation Battle Triggered] [Boss: Heaven-Burning Flame Demon]
Before the sea of players, the burning demon slowly opened its eyes—
High-Dimensional Perspective: Titan Divine Body.
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Gu Yuan looked at the colossal creature coiled in the depths of the alveoli, his brow slightly furrowed.
It was a super lesion formed from interstellar drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus mixed with multiple inflammatory factors. On the microscopic level, it was absurdly powerful and had even developed a rudimentary "hive intelligence." In fact, it was equivalent to a mother body; those Living Flames and Lava Trolls were organisms directly driven by it.
"Although the Silver Wing Sentinels are strong, their numbers are limited. Once they get bogged down in the Magma Sea, the losses will be heavy."
Gu Yuan glanced at his Bio-Energy balance.
That previous wave of summons had cost ten million. He still had more than seventy million left.
"You can't catch a wolf without risking the bait."
Gu Yuan's gaze sharpened. "Since the players are fighting a siege battle, I'll give them some heavy firepower support."
With a light tap of his finger, he unlocked a special battlefield skill authorization for the Life Weaver class.
[Server-Wide System Announcement:] [High-risk environment detected. Temporary skill authorization has been issued to all Life Sage classes—"Purification Rain (Group Channeling)".] [Description: By combining the power of over one hundred Life Sages, a small-scale Purification Rain may be summoned, greatly weakening the armor and activity of viral organisms.]
At the battlefield frontline.
Cloud Pomelo's eyes lit up when she received the system notice.
"Girls! It's time for us to play mages!"
She raised the Life Scepter in her hand. "All Life Sages, gather around me! Take your positions! Channel!"
"Divine Guard Corps! Protect the healers!"
Brute Force Yields Miracles led several thousand heavily armored Divine Guards, forming an iron wall around the Life Weavers.
"Rise!"
At Cloud Pomelo's command, five hundred Life Sages began chanting at once.
Countless streams of green light converged in the sky, forming a pure white cloud beneath the poison mist-filled dome.
Crash—!
A torrential downpour glowing with fluorescent light poured down.
This was not ordinary water, but a broad-spectrum disinfectant transformed from Titan divine power.
"Awooo—!!!"
When the rain fell upon the Heaven-Burning Flame Demon and the surrounding tentacles, it hissed with corrosion as thick clouds of black smoke rose.
The once-indestructible flame shield began to dim and weaken beneath the cleansing of the "antibiotic rain."
[BOSS all attributes reduced by 30%!] [Tentacle defense reduced to zero!]
"An opening!"
Vanguard Across the Realm roared, "Stay close to the Silver Wing Sentinels! Attack!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Five thousand NPC soldiers activated the thrusters on their backs amid the downpour, turning into five thousand silver meteors as they lunged toward the twelve massive tentacles.
"Cut off those tentacles!"
Several thousand players outside the healer formation followed close behind.
It was a spectacular hunt.
Within the vast Alveolar Sac, players as tiny as ants charged beneath the lead of the silver guardians toward the mountain-like flame demon.
At one corner of the battlefield, Thunder King set up his Thunder Magnetic Floating Cannon.
"Big guy, have a taste of this."
He aimed at one of the Flame Demon's eyes.
Charging.
Fire!
A bolt of violet lightning tore across the battlefield and struck the Flame Demon's eye socket with perfect precision, exploding into a burst of blood. Yet in the blink of an eye, the wound healed completely.
"Good lord, that thing's tough."
The great battle had truly erupted.
Every second, hundreds or even thousands of players turned into white light within the magma. Yet the next second, even more emerged from the Respawn Point in Black Stone Fortress.
The diluted Titan Blood available for advancing the battle line ten kilometers was already this outrageous. What about the reward for eradicating this bronchial lesion entirely?
For the first kill, charge!
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