"One more thing, my lord."
Xing Meng's voice rang out again. "I also sent a drone to try to approach and enter that rift."
"But the moment it came within a hundred meters of the rift's edge, a violent spatial distortion destroyed it instantly."
"I didn't try attacking the rift, in case it triggered something we couldn't control and released the monsters early."
"Good. Well done."
Su Ye nodded. "Leave the rift alone. No need to make unnecessary trouble. Our job is to establish defensive lines and hold back the monsters' assault."
Based on Su Ye's experience with instances, the monsters in this tier three, ten-thousand-player instance should have been at least tier three, and there were bound to be plenty of them.
Although the Expedition Alliance also had ten thousand members with decent equipment, most of them were only tier two.
Against a rampaging tide of tier three monsters, most players would probably be crushed the moment they encountered them.
Still, it doesn't really matter.
Let these players kill as many as they can, Su Ye thought. Consider it combat training.
I'll kill whatever they can't. I wonder if we'll encounter any of those Civilization Monsters in this instance.
Time slowly passed amid the tense preparations for battle.
Twelve hours was neither particularly long nor particularly short.
Once the final fortification had been reinforced and all the heavy weapons had been loaded, over ten thousand players took their combat positions and waited with bated breath.
An oppressive atmosphere spread across the Wastetide Plains. Even the air seemed to have frozen.
Beep, beep, beep!
The countdown on the system panel finally reached its end.
Rumble!!!
The instant the countdown hit zero, a deafening roar erupted from the distant spatial rift.
The churning purple-black mist instantly boiled over, and the spatial