Inside the Stoneclaw Mountain Range.
Surrounded by mountains, an ancient city ruin of unknown age stood amid the peaks. Corpses of players and beastmen lay scattered all around the city, numbering over ten thousand.
Before the ancient city's crumbling gates, only several hundred players remained standing. Every one of them was gasping for breath, their bodies drenched in blood.
"Flame Blood, go revive all the healers first. We'll enter after we've had time to recover," ordered a middle-aged man wearing dark blue chainmail and carrying a longbow on his back.
Flame Blood, whose white robes had long since been stained red, nodded and immediately ran off to revive the healers.
"Guild Leader, these monsters respawn so quickly. We put in so much effort to clear out these beastmen. If we don't hurry inside now, it'll only become harder to enter the city later," Misty Glow said anxiously, exhaustion written across her face.
To enter this ancient city, the Heavenly Burial Guild had deployed all its elite forces.
Over twenty thousand elite players in total.
After several hours of fighting, they had finally cleared the beastmen surrounding the ancient city. Just dealing with the tens of thousands of elite beastmen guarding the city, one Grand Lord Grade beastman, and five High Lord beastmen had cost the lives of over twenty thousand elite players. If they did not hurry inside now and the monsters respawned, they would not even have a place to cry.
"It's fine. Even if they respawn, that Level 45 Grand Lord won't respawn. At most, it'll be those High Lords. To complete that quest, we must first stabilize the situation outside the city. Otherwise, even if we enter the city, we'll soon die and be forced back out," said Yi Xiao Duzang, the Heavenly Burial Guild Leader clad