"Kill!!!"
With hundreds of guards and townspeople from Fog Town joining the fray,
the Cultists' defensive line, already teetering under the players' suicidal charges, suddenly came under attack from both sides.
Seizing the opportunity amid that wave of chaos,
Jiahao, Ma Lou, Lu Ziye, and [Kindergarten Boss], who had just charged excitedly down from Sighing Heights,
finally forced their way over the carpet of corpses and into the heavily guarded, dilapidated courtyard!
The five players from the first closed beta regrouped inside!
But the moment they stepped through the courtyard gates,
a stench of blood and rot so thick it almost felt solid slammed into their faces like an invisible wall.
"Die, you bastards... holy shit?!"
Lu Ziye raised his axe, ready to go on a killing spree, but the instant he saw the scene inside, the frenzy froze on his face and his pupils contracted sharply.
It wasn't just him. Every player who rushed into the courtyard, and even the Fog Town Guard Team members who arrived afterward, froze in place.
There weren't hundreds of Cultists standing ready for battle in the spacious courtyard as they had imagined!
Instead, the ground had become a hellish, blood-soaked slaughterhouse!
Over a hundred mutilated corpses in dark red robes lay piled haphazardly around a massive altar of flesh and blood in the center of the courtyard.
Severed limbs mixed with blackened, clotted blood covered every inch of the once-level ground.
The entire courtyard was terrifyingly quiet. Even the passing wind carried a heavy, bloody stench.
Apart from the high priest standing beside the altar, where was there any sign of a living person?
At the very center of the altar
stood a massive, five-meter-tall golem assembled entirely from blackened bones and twisted flesh.
The golem's form was utterly horrifying.
It had no