There were plenty of other players like them in the city, and Chen Lun was used to seeing them.
Through his own senses and the owls circling overhead, he could easily track the players' every move.
After three months of transition, aside from casual players experiencing life in the game, the "adventurer" players in the open beta who aspired to become Beyonders had all acquired some degree of combat strength.
Although the Fallen Believers were no weaker than Sequence 9 Beyonders after turning into "tentacle monsters," the players could still just barely carry out targeted hunts by ganging up on them in the name of justice.
These turbulent "Red Calamity" zones were the players' high-difficulty hunting grounds.
As long as they proceeded carefully and avoided the clergy of the Red Apple Church, they could kill monsters and level up quite effectively. The gaming experience was fairly good.
Chen Lun rounded a street corner, then headed down a slope and arrived at a square.
This should have been the park in central Snow Crystal City, but the statues and sculpted plants that had adorned the cityscape had all been destroyed, losing their former beauty and tranquility.
The garden square lay in ruins, every corner stained with blood and tiny scraps of flesh.
It was a chilling, horrifying sight.
A tall, thin figure stood with his back to Chen Lun beside the fountain in the center of the square.
He wore a deep crimson bishop's robe, and the fountain before him was filled with thick, sticky blood.
Bodies lay scattered around him.
In the cold, the corpses and the scraps of flesh scattered across the ground had all frozen stiff, a layer of ice crystals coating their surfaces.
Only the blood in the fountain remained scalding hot, boiling and giving off thick