Ke Meng set a fire, engulfing the entire Sky Island in flames.
The inferno raged, but its light could not penetrate the thunderclouds. The players below knew nothing of what was happening above, and the flames could not burn through the ground, stopping abruptly at its surface.
The players had already dropped to Level 800, losing a full twenty levels. If their team banner had not protected their levels, they would have been killed down much further.
The humanoid monsters kept killing, and the players kept reviving.
The Humanoid Dust only thrust their hands through the players' abdomens without destroying their corpses, so the players could revive on the spot-also commonly known as returning to life through one's corpse.
The NPCs in the city gave them strange looks when they saw this, then shut their doors and refused to see them.
The players sought out several NPCs in succession, but none would receive them.
Some max-level skill mentors frowned at the sight. Although they did not shut their doors on them, their attitudes were hardly friendly.
"Young man, you've gotten yourselves into serious trouble. This curse won't stop until you're dead-until it kills you and becomes you." An archmage NPC wore black robes, his aged beard seemingly long enough to trail along the ground.
This mage was a hundred-year-old resident of Gray Castle Main City. His magical might was earth-shattering, enough to kill players instantly, yet even someone like him dared not claim he could break the curse from the sky unscathed.
"Sir, how should we break this curse, then?" the player Blood on the Blade asked anxiously.
There were not many dust figures pursuing them. Some of the Humanoid Dust had already burned to death, though the players did not know that. Only those that had chased them out