"Goddammit, what the hell now?"
"What happened? What happened?"
"Looks like the Shadow God split up, turning from one into over a hundred thousand!"
"That terrifying?"
The forum was in an uproar. A crowd of spectators who couldn't see the frontline reports kept asking questions, but unfortunately, no one had time to explain things to them in detail.
On Dawn City's frontline battlefield, the situation had descended into utter chaos. Countless Shadow Fiends landed amid the tightly packed player formations. Though they were far smaller than the Shadow God, each was still a giant compared to the players!
These Shadow Fiends had no intelligence either. They knew only slaughter and didn't choose their targets, attacking whoever was beside them. Their astonishing destructive power instantly killed large numbers of low-level players.
[Ghost Ship Captain: Everyone, stay calm! This is another of the Shadow God's abilities, 'Shadow Army,' a self-preservation ability that activates automatically when it has only 10% remaining. Its main body transforms into large numbers of Shadow Fiend doubles. You must kill over 50% of these doubles before the Shadow God will merge and appear again. Note that these Shadow Fiends don't have God's Devour, so there's no need to keep attacking once every ten seconds. Everyone can fire at will!]
Amid the chaos, Mu You's City Lord message appeared before everyone just in time.
In fact, these Shadow Fiends varied widely in strength. The strongest reached Epic Tier, while the weakest were only on par with wild monsters below level twenty, nowhere near as powerful as their size made them look.
The players had fallen into disarray mainly because the creatures had appeared so suddenly. The vast majority of players had been unprepared, and they were still following their previous routine against the Shadow God, counting