Killer, Millicent!

We didn't receive any notification of being hacked, did we?

As Te Pi and his group watched the panicked adventurer captain and the female intruder relentlessly pursuing him, they felt for a moment that this world was far too surreal.

Could it be that the distance is too far and therefore there is no notification?

But no matter what, we still need to rescue the adventurer captain first before discussing anything else.

"They actually dared to invade us all by themselves, they really have commendable courage."

The adventurers grinned and drew their weapons. Although the fight with the Radahn Soldier had taken its toll, they should still be able to take on the invaders in a group.

"Why don't you guys think about why there are intruders here too?" Te Pi discovered the blind spot.

Since arriving in the Zane Dungeon Warrior Country Branch City, he hasn't encountered anything related to the invasion.

Could it be that some Soul-Sucking Ghost Oath beings have also come here? Will Prince Lanle start letting people into the dungeon?

Forget it, why think so much? Let's take down the enemy first!

The other party looked like an unremarkable young girl, unlike You Fei who was obviously a master, and she didn't have any imposing aura. She didn't seem like a strong person.

I understand. Perhaps it's because there are too few people in the Zane Dungeon right now, and the mechanism for matching invasion targets based on strength has malfunctioned, resulting in this girl being sent here.

The adventurer captain's reaction confirmed this speculation.

"Captain, catch the weapon!" Seeing that their captain was unarmed, the archer immediately threw a short sword at him.

After receiving the weapons and successfully rejoining the main force, the adventurer captain instantly gained confidence, revealing the same sinister grin as his team members, and turned to point his weapon at the female intruder.

"I only ran with you because I lost my weapon, now it's your turn to run!"

Te Pi nodded to himself. Yes, it was this arrogant attitude that made the intruder weak.

The female intruder showed no reaction to the provocation and charged forward like a stubborn child, wielding a curved sword that was a fraction longer than a normal weapon.

"Planning to grow stronger with each passing moment, Jason, you go." The captain snapped his fingers, and the archer immediately drew his bow and fired. With a few "whoosh" sounds, several arrows imbued with different elemental magic flew rapidly towards the intruders, blocking their escape routes from different directions.

These are arrows he made himself. Why not use arrows from the Zane Dungeon? Because those precious things are used to fight monsters.

He was reluctant to waste the items from the Zane Dungeon the monsters there.

As the arrows approached the intruders, she raised her curved sword to the side. As the blade slashed out, her body spun in a special way, and several simple but sharp sword energies flowed out around her like water, deflecting the arrows from all directions.

"Hmm, not bad skills." The adventurer captain was slightly surprised but not unexpected. If they couldn't even handle these few arrows, they shouldn't be trying to invade; it would be a disgrace.

Before the flowing sword energy had completely dissipated, the heavily armored Warrior charged into the battlefield with his Greatshield, completely shattering the sword energy and slamming it into the invaders!

The intruder stumbled backward, but it wasn't too late. The Sword and Shield Warrior appeared behind her at some point Shield Slam back, sending her flying like a ping-pong ball.

The assassin suddenly appeared and threw several explosive balls at them. Smoke and explosions immediately filled the land of Caelid, and all the adventurers retreated away from the thick smoke at the center of the explosion.

"Did you kill them?"

Looking at the thick smoke, the adventurer captain didn't even realize that he had done one of the classic things that should never be done in battle.

That is to ask the enemy in the smoke, "Did you take him down?"

The smoke and dust dissipated, carried away by the hot air near the Scorching Fire Wall. The intruder's red figure still stood there, even reaching out to scratch her messy hair and patting the dust off her clothes.

The adventurer captain's upturned lips subsided, and his gaze turned serious.

They used a series of quick moves for a long time, but the opponent only had a slightly dirty hem of his clothes?

Upon closer inspection, the woman who had invaded them was quite pretty, but her hair was unkempt and looked messy, and her demeanor was somewhat frantic, like a mentally ill person attacking people.

"Everyone, please take this seriously. The other side is not simple. Mr. Basque, please step back."

The adventurer captain looked serious, and his companions gathered around him like a super team, as if they were about to start calling out their names at any moment.

Te Pi obediently retreated behind the wall of fire, picked up the Image Stone to record the battle, but after a few tries it didn't work properly. He then suddenly realized that the Image Stone in his hand had reached its storage limit.

Did you buy a substandard product?

He bent down and started rummaging through his fanny pack, but then he caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye, and his hands slowly stopped moving.

"This is?"

He slowly retreated, ignoring the adventurers who were fighting the intruders, carefully examining every inch of the ground, and gradually retreated to a very far place.

As he observed, his pupils also trembled.

After emerging from the Sellia Crystal Tunnel, he ran here and witnessed how "birdsong and fragrant flowers" Caelid was along the way—grotesque giant crows, poisonous fungi mixed with red and white, Rotten Wild Dog infected with toxins by the roadside, and small flowers that walked and sprayed poison. The whole of Caelid seemed to be soaked to the bone by an unknown toxin.

There were no normal plants on the ground, not even a trace of green could be seen; it was a completely lifeless and despairing world.

But what does he see now?

"Normal grassland"

He turned to look behind him, and in the distance behind him, while it couldn't be described as teeming with life, at least normal flowers, grasses, and trees had reappeared, and the green plants that symbolized vitality had returned.

After crossing the Scorching Fire Wall, the crimson color that covered the entire Caelid began to fade slowly. The further away one was from the wall of fire, the more obvious the signs of fading became. In the end, the crimson color completely disappeared from the land, and normal land nurtured normal plants and creatures.

This phenomenon stirred a myriad of thoughts within him, and his inspiration exploded like fireworks.

"This wall of fire has the effect of blocking toxins?"

He then thought of the Radahn Soldier gathered near the wall of fire, who were holding torches and seemed to be adding fuel to the fire. As they dissipated, they would drop White Light Spot objects like pebbles, which were almost a perfect match for the material of the wall of fire.

"So, these firewalls were built by them to seal the toxins within Caelid's lands and prevent them from spreading further outwards?"

Perhaps his conjecture lacked sufficient factual evidence, but he felt it was very reasonable!

He suddenly ran forward a few steps, bypassing the adventurer group that seemed to have been pushed into a disadvantageous position by the invaders, and looked at the place where the Cleanrot Knight and the Redmane Knight had fallen.

The land there was a deeper crimson color, and fungi that had been nurtured by toxins were slowly taking shape!

He remembered that the Cleanrot Knight would spew out a pus-red liquid, just like the Swamp, from the gaps in his helmet. The substance was just as toxic as the Swamp mud, indicating that the two were of the same origin.

"I see." He subconsciously grinned, feeling a thrill of deducing the final truth from countless tiny clues. This made him tremble and even his hips twitch!

"Flames can block toxins, which is why Radahn's soldiers all use fire, while the Cleanrot Knight spew poisonous water, clearly spreading the toxins. No wonder they're fighting!"

Although there are some minor errors, his speculation is still somewhat correct.

The creatures of Caelid are more or less affected by the toxins, becoming not only enormous but also ferocious. Releasing them would spread disease. The firewall serves as both a protective shield and a cage, preventing innocent outsiders from entering Caelid while imprisoning the toxins and maddened beasts within, which are then cleared out by the Red Lion Legion.

"The War of the Shattering was so intense that I thought all demigods were vicious and ruthless ambitious men. I never expected there to be someone like Starscourge General."

If Te Pi's eyesight is correct, running over the fire wall and continuing outwards is very likely to lead to Godrick's territory.

Starscourge General could have easily ignored the poison, since it would eventually spread to someone else's territory anyway, and it would have been fine for Godrick to deal with it himself. But he still took charge, and did so responsibly.

Te Pi exhaled and sighed:

"That's impressive."

"Help!"

The screams coming from the adventurer's direction interrupted his thoughts. He hurriedly turned around and saw the adventurer being beaten down by the intruder, fighting and retreating until the intruder was almost behind him.

Nine of you were getting completely dominated by one person!?

Te Pi suddenly felt that he hadn't been paid enough and was about to join the battle when the adventurer turned around and shouted:

"No, don't come any closer! Run! Don't gather together!"

"What?"

In the blink of an eye, Te Pi witnessed the intruder swing his curved sword and cut the adventurer captain's finely crafted short sword in half!

Such strength is beyond the capabilities of these adventurers.

The adventurer captain was thrown backward by the force, pulling several panicked adventurers down with him. Almost everyone here suffered serious injuries and had no time to dodge.

A thought suddenly popped into Te Pi's mind: Could this intruder be the legendary pressure?

"Oh no, she's about to unleash that move!"

As people gathered together, the adventurer cried out in panic.

What moves terrified them so much?

The adventurer panicked and ran backward, but the more panicked he became, the less he could run, and even Te Pi was affected by the commotion.

The intruder suddenly jumped up and briefly hovered in the air, displaying a light and agile posture that Te Pi had never seen before.

In the blink of an eye, the intruder "flew" to the front of everyone. The curved sword was almost invisible as it was swung and flipped, but the sword energy that covered all directions burst out at this moment.

There's no way to hide, nowhere to escape!

This is Weapon Skill — Waterfowl Dance!

Everyone felt the sword energy swirling like the wind, and no matter where they dodged, they couldn't escape its sharpness!

This move seemed to have no flaws whatsoever!

Death followed one after another.

"What's wrong with that guy?!"

At the Blessing Point in the Sellia Crystal Tunnel, the resurrected adventurers are reviewing the battle they just fought, a classic post-battle debriefing and blame-shifting session.

But the more I review the situation, the more frustrated I become.

"That guy is definitely a villain who Level-Scaled Invasion!" the adventurer captain declared with absolute certainty.

This rating is not the same as that rating.

Adventurers who frequently engage in invasion activities know that the Zane Dungeon assigns opponents based on the adventurer's individual strength, and sometimes even matches opponents from different regions.

Some adventurers then came up with the idea of exploiting a loophole: if they crippled themselves or inflicted some negative status effects before the invasion, the dungeon would recognize them as injured or ill, thus matching them with weaker opponents.

Then the invaders can put on another show and immediately recover, thus challenging weaker opponents with even greater strength!

This method remains feasible to this day, Dungeon Lord has no intention of fixing the problem at all; on the contrary, he is quite happy about it.

"That woman seems mentally unstable; she must be doing it on purpose!"

"I slashed her and she didn't even react. What else could it be but a level cap reduction?"

"This is outrageous! I never imagined the Warrior Country would stoop to such behavior!" the adventurer exclaimed indignantly. "I thought only the despicable Anor people would do such a thing!"

"No, no, no, everyone who enters Sien will become like this," Te Pi muttered to himself.

There's nothing they can do about being killed because they're outmatched, but the most regrettable thing is that they had just reached the wall of fire and could have left Caelid if they had walked a little further. Unfortunately, they didn't remember the route in their hasty escape.

As the group left the tunnel and passed the Swamp, the captain suddenly said, "Hey boss, my third wife gave me a lucky charm that I dropped in the Swamp. Can I go in and look for it?"

"Just don't attract any more knights." Te Pi kept thinking about the Red Lion Legion.

Just as the captain, shielded by Magic Shield, dashed into the Swamp to find the amulet, another notification appeared.

[Invaded by "Millicent"!!!]

Why are they invading again?

People were furious, glaring angrily at the intruders who were slowly emerging from the Swamp.

But when they saw the whole picture, their expressions froze.

"What?! It's her again?!"

This woman named Millicent is the one who just invaded their territory!

"Oh my god—" the adventurer cried out, covering his face.

"How could those bastards who Level-Scaled Invasion be so evil!"

"Thump"

The bells rang at this moment, signaling the imminent closure of the dungeon.