You've gone too far

Even under threat of death, the other party still cared about the Evil Crystals on the ground. Broken Star truly could not understand it.

Sweeping his gaze over the other figures still picking up Evil Crystals, he snapped the neck of the player before him, turned into a blue blur, and resumed his slaughter.

Yet even as he killed, Broken Star still could not resolve his confusion.

After killing all these disruptive creatures, Broken Star could not feel happy at all. Upon death, these creatures turned into black mist and dispersed.

The Evil Crystals that served as proof for his trial vanished along with them.

Taking a deep breath, he suppressed his emotions and turned expressionlessly toward the surging horde of Evil Spirits Lifeforms.

Click~ Click~ Click~

The mainspring wound with crisp clicks of engagement. His Rune Battle Armor lit up again, and Broken Star became a streak of blue light as he charged back into the tide of Evil Spirits.

While Broken Star fought, the Regional Voice Channel was bustling. Players were all discussing the warrior named Broken Star and the Evil Crystals covering the ground.

Although the nearby players had all been killed and forced out of the game, more covetous players were already on their way.

The Evil Crystals strewn across the ground were irresistible to the players. In comparison, losing 10 points of Sacrificial Power upon death seemed insignificant.

Half an hour later, players began arriving one after another.

By the time Broken Star noticed them, the arriving players had already launched into a picking frenzy, searching everywhere for Evil Crystals.

The corners of Broken Star's perpetually expressionless mouth twitched. He decisively changed direction and lunged at the players.

After killing the dozens of newly arrived players, he discovered that the Evil Crystals on the ground had noticeably dwindled. His pale skin flushed, and the fury in his eyes seemed ready to erupt.

As the finest warrior among the Against the Tide Legion's reservists, this trial of slaughter was his final step toward proving himself.

Once he completed the trial, he would be promoted to a member of the Against the Tide Legion.

He would never allow himself to fail.

After turning the energy core his father had left him to charge his Rune Battle Armor, Broken Star turned toward the approaching Evil Spirits and charged once more.

In battle, Broken Star moved with light steps, slipping like a ghost through the encircling Evil Spirits.

As his twin blades danced, sharp whistles followed their passage through the air.

Just then, a five-meter-tall Evil Spirit appeared ahead. Black mist wreathed its body, its face was hideous, and its bloated lower limbs supported a body on the verge of decay.

Broken Star did not pause in the slightest. He swept past it, and an X-shaped trace of light instantly appeared across the massive Evil Spirit's chest. Its body split into four pieces, yet not a drop of the splattering black slime touched him.

Amid the frenzied slaughter, Broken Star became a reaper, weaving freely through the Evil Spirits. His twin blades seemed to come alive in his hands, sometimes cutting like keen sword edges, sometimes tearing like a whirling storm. Every swing brought the deaths of several Evil Spirits Lifeforms.

Exhilarated, Broken Star threw back his head and roared, his long blue hair dancing in the wind.

But when he caught sight of another group of furtive creatures out of the corner of his eye, his smile abruptly vanished.

"You... deserve to die!"

The Against the Tide Legion's Reserve Soldier had not been issued any spatial storage items. All he could do was kill enough Evil Spirits, then use the Coordinate Starstone installed aboard his Shuttlecraft to summon a trial inspector from the Against the Tide Legion to check the results and certify the trial's completion.

Yet these creatures he had never seen before had become the greatest obstacle to completing his trial.

As he watched the mysterious creatures skulking in the distance, the sleazy way they occasionally glanced at him sent the fury in Broken Star's heart soaring.

Die!

He decisively switched targets and lunged at the players happily picking up money.

At the sight of Broken Star charging over, the Regional Chat Channel instantly erupted:

"Hurry up and grab them, guys! The God of Wealth is coming to kill us with two huge cleavers!"

"This God of Wealth is so stingy. We only picked up a few Evil Crystals. Why's he getting angry?"

"Buddy over there, you've thrown away all your dignity for Evil Crystals, crawling around on the ground like that. Aren't you ashamed? Get up and let me pick them up!"

Just then, Broken Star arrived.

But what Broken Star could not understand was that even with him right in front of them, these mysterious creatures remained focused on the Evil Crystals, seemingly unconcerned that they were about to be killed.

Watching the Evil Crystals disappear one by one, Broken Star abruptly accelerated his slaughter.

Within just a few breaths, he had beaten every player into black mist that dispersed.

But when he looked up into the distance, he discovered groups of mysterious creatures rushing his way.

This time, Broken Star did not choose to continue slaughtering Evil Spirits. He turned to face the approaching players.

Accompanied by the sound of meshing gears, his Rune Battle Armor burst with brilliant light, and he shot forward as a streak of blue.

In mere moments, over a hundred players had been slaughtered to the last.

"Over there! The God of Wealth is right there!"

The distant shout made Broken Star, who had been about to resume killing Evil Spirits, raise his head. What he saw were masses of players approaching from every direction.

The sight made Broken Star's scalp prickle.

To him, these mysterious creatures were far more troublesome than the Evil Spirits. Though physically frail, wherever they went, Evil Crystals inexplicably disappeared. With them interfering, he could not complete his trial mission at all.

"Kill!"

Taking a deep breath to steady his fluctuating emotions, Broken Star charged at the approaching players again.

But after killing dozens of arriving waves in succession, Broken Star became utterly numb.

The approaching mysterious creatures were not dwindling at all. Their numbers continued to grow, even surpassing those of the arriving Evil Spirits.

The more he killed, the more came. There was simply no end to them.

Most importantly, these mysterious creatures did not rush him all at once, but came wave after wave.

This meant he could not wipe them out in one fell swoop. He could only keep constant watch on their movements while slaughtering Evil Spirits.

After repelling 87 waves of players, Broken Star completely lost his composure.

He gazed at the players racing toward him in the distance, his eyes filled with profound despair. Then he leaped up, turning into a streak of light in midair and flying toward the Ancient Battlefield.

Half an hour later, north of the Ancient Battlefield.

Having rested and recovered his strength, Broken Star took out a Lure Crystal and crushed it.

As black smoke rose, the nearby Evil Spirits Lifeforms were lured in and rushed toward his location.

A new round of slaughter began.

Just as Broken Star was reveling in the slaughter, he suddenly heard a familiar voice and whipped his head toward its source.

He saw dozens of familiar figures. The one in the lead excitedly pointed toward him from afar:

"Look! The God of Wealth is right there! Charge with me, guys!"

"Hahahaha! Finally found him! Zongzi, post the coordinates in the guild chat and tell everyone to come over."

"Hiss~ I can already smell the lovely fragrance of Evil Crystals. Each one converts to at least 750 in cash. The ground is covered in the scent of money."

At the sight, a trace of despair appeared in Broken Star's eyes.

The Against the Tide Legion's trial involved random cross-dimensional deployment into scenarios ranging from Crescent Moon to Waxing Crescent.

He had firmly believed that even if he were deployed into a Waxing Crescent scenario, his strength as the strongest reservist would allow him to hold his own. He would surely complete the trial mission and continue on as the strongest when he became a recruit of the Against the Tide Legion.

But the appearance of these mysterious creatures had completely disrupted his trial of slaughtering Evil Spirits.

Choosing to retreat of his own accord was already a humiliation in his eyes, but he had endured it to complete the trial. He had never expected these mysterious creatures to push their luck and come after him again.

His fists slowly clenched, and a trace of blood-red light appeared in Broken Star's pure white eyes:

"You've gone too far!"