This was what made the fourth catastrophe so terrifying when they had "unlimited respawns."
With no fear of death and no worries about running out of stamina, they were tireless killing machines born solely to harvest experience!
Crack!
Bossy Guy swung the Stone Axe, chopping halfway through a monster's neck.
But two monsters rushing in from the side immediately tackled him and bit through his throat.
Two seconds later, white light flashed. Bossy Guy respawned at full health and charged back into the horde, eyes bloodshot, madly grappling and slamming monsters like a meat grinder that felt no pain.
"Ashen Missile! Here we go!"
Ma Lou and Jiahao weren't sitting idle in the back, either.
Standing in relatively safe positions, they poured out their Mental Power without holding anything back.
Missiles of black smoke flecked with sparks exploded at the breach, blinding swaths of monsters and greatly easing the pressure on the three at the front.
"Fuck, there are too many of them! I'm out of mana!"
After launching his third missile, Ma Lou clutched his head as his vision went dark.
The debuffs from depleted Mental Power gave him a splitting headache and sent his combat effectiveness plummeting.
"Out of mana? Then send me back to town for a refill!"
Ma Lou gritted his teeth and steeled himself.
He charged straight out from behind cover and lunged at a Corrupted Villager that was baring its claws and fangs.
Opening his mouth wide, he bit down hard on the monster's nose and even gave it a vicious tug.
Crack!
The monster lashed out in pain, slapping Ma Lou's head and killing him instantly.
Three seconds later, white light flashed from the magic circle.
Not only were the newly respawned Ma Lou's wounds completely healed, but his exhausted Mental Power had instantly returned to full!
"Hahaha! This is my original suicide-for-mana build!"
Ma Lou shouted excitedly, raising his hand to blast another [Ashen Missile] into the horde.
"Guys, if you're out of mana or health, just charge in and feed!"
"Dying back to spawn is basically a free stay in the fountain!"
Jiahao's eyes lit up when he heard that.
He followed Ma Lou's example, charging into the horde to get himself killed whenever his mana bar emptied.
He even gouged at a monster's eyes before dying, determined to make himself a nuisance to the bitter end.
The breach in the Church had become a flesh-and-blood mill of utter carnage.
The monsters' roars, the players' crazed laughter, the wet sounds of spears piercing flesh, and the snapping of bones mingled into a grotesque symphony of death.
Under the relentless attrition of the five players' shameless "death-rush" and "suicide-for-mana" tactics.
Even the Beast Tide, over a hundred monsters strong, was forcibly held at the breach, unable to advance a single step for a full half hour!
With so many monsters packed together, the corpses piled higher and higher, actually forming an improvised defensive wall of remains at the breach!
"Holy shit... these players really are a bunch of fucking lunatics."
Watching through his god's-eye view from the altar, Lin En couldn't help swallowing.
He watched the respawn counts racing upward in the system backend.
In just over half an hour, [Passing Pure-Love Warrior] had died more than a dozen times, while [Kindergarten Boss] had died twenty-six times.
Ma Lou and Jiahao had racked up over forty deaths between them just to restore their mana!
And [Ji Luo], their commander and main fighter, had died more than ten times despite his better positioning.
This was a fully immersive, 100% holographic simulation game!
Even with reduced pain, the experience of being torn apart, chewed alive, or having their skulls smashed by a monster's slap was completely real.
An ordinary native would probably suffer a mental breakdown after dying just once.
Yet these five only grew more excited with every death. They had even developed "tactical suicide methods" to figure out how to die in ways that disrupted the monsters most!
Is this the resilience of the fourth catastrophe? They're even stranger than the horrors of this Wasteland, Lin En marveled inwardly.
But although the lesser monsters' offensive had been forcibly halted, Lin En's expression didn't relax.
Because he could clearly see it.
At the rear of the Beast Tide, the four-meter-tall Flesh Fusion had finally lost patience.
Watching its minions held back by these five stubborn little pests, with more than half already dead or wounded.
The enormous, fang-covered fleshy growth on its chest suddenly opened wide.
"ROAR!!!"
A deafening roar erupted, laden with the Evil God's overwhelming pressure.
A nearly solid dark-red sound wave wiped out the dozen or so lesser monsters remaining at the breach and slammed viciously into the blue barrier!
Crack! Crack!
Already on the verge of collapse, the barrier instantly filled with spiderweb cracks under that terrifying impact, as though it might shatter completely at any moment.
Lin En, still on the altar, felt as though he'd been struck by lightning.
Though he was a stone statue, he felt a tearing agony deep within his soul.
Fuck, this boss is too strong! If it actually charges inside, the barrier will shatter! Lin En gritted his teeth and held on.
Meanwhile, on the battlefield.
Like a moving fortress, Flesh Fusion's massive body thundered toward the tottering breach with the savage momentum to crush everything in its path!
"Guys! The big one is here!"
Staring at that terrifying mountain of flesh that nearly blotted out the sky, [Ji Luo] tightened his grip on yet another broken spear he'd picked up from the ground.
[Passing Pure-Love Warrior] wiped the blood from his face. Far from being afraid, he broke into an utterly deranged grin.
"Perfect! You're the one I've been waiting for!"
"Guys, get ready for the final battle! Let's show these Wasteland natives what unkillable wild boys look like!"
BOOM!
With unstoppable momentum, the four-meter-tall Flesh Fusion slammed into the breach in the Church's barrier like a heavy truck loaded with sand and gravel.
Before it, the half-meter-high improvised defensive wall of monster corpses might as well have been made of paper.
It was instantly crushed into scraps of flesh that flew through the air.
The terrifying force of the impact also sent Passing Pure-Love Warrior and Bossy Guy, who stood at the very front, flying backward.
Two sharp cracks rang out.
Before either hit the ground, their internal organs shattered in midair, and they turned to ash.
"ROAR!"
Flesh Fusion slowly lowered its featureless head. The enormous fleshy growth on its chest suddenly opened, revealing layers upon layers of sharp teeth like a meat grinder.
The muscles stitched together from countless severed limbs began writhing violently. More than a dozen dark-red tentacles, each as thick as an infant's arm, shot toward [Ji Luo] and the other two remaining players like venomous snakes darting from their dens!
"Scatter!"
[Ji Luo] roared and threw himself into an awkward roll, narrowly avoiding a tentacle that swept past his scalp.
But Ma Lou and Jiahao behind him weren't so lucky.
Squelch! Squelch!
Two tentacles pierced straight through their chests and hoisted them high into the air.
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