"A lunatic! A lunatic!"
"There's a lunatic over there! Run, hurry!"
One Calamity Beast had nearly wiped out their elite team of twelve.
Summoning three at once? Ha!
Only a lunatic or someone courting death would do that!
Once Calamity Beasts descended, they indiscriminately attacked every human nearby. Humans were their only targets.
If those three Calamity Beasts discovered them, they would surely die.
"Help me up! Don't leave me behind, please!"
The man with the broken leg sat on the ground, shouting helplessly. Even his voice trembled, showing just how terrified he was.
"Fuck, who the hell is this reckless? I'm not dying along with him!"
Everyone present, no matter how badly injured, had to muster their last ounce of strength and flee for their lives.
If they were too slow, they might get caught up in it!
Reality wasn't a game...
"But what do we do about those three Calamity Beasts?"
"What else can we do? Report them to the Law Enforcement Department, of course! We absolutely can't let them enter the city!"
"I wonder if heavy weapons work on Calamity Beasts... even first-tier Calamity Beasts aren't something most ordinary players can fight..."
Three blood-red pillars of light shot into the sky.
These were the first-tier "Calamity Beasts" Chen Nian had summoned with his blood.
Boom, boom, boom!
The ground shook rhythmically as three black beasts of different shapes slowly stepped out of the red pillars of light.
They resembled no particular animal, yet their bodies bore features of various animals and humans, like alien creatures cobbled together by a mad scientist...
One had eyes growing on its wings, another had a face between its legs, and another had eight legs and three heads.
Their only similarity was that they were all pure black, like monsters descending from the depths of hell.
But now, Chen Nian discovered a chilling fact.
Calamity Beasts were different from ordinary monsters that respawned...
They-or rather, these beings-possessed consciousness and intelligence!
"Heh, to think there are humans this bold in the world."
"Opening three Gates of Calamity at once, yet there's only one person. It seems he's come seeking death."
"Since he summoned us, let's reward him with the most gruesome death..."
"Tearing a human apart alive and eating him must be quite entertaining. Heh!"
The three demons already regarded Chen Nian as a lamb awaiting slaughter.
Meanwhile, the hundred-plus undead warriors behind Chen Nian had also gathered. Their target was likewise Chen Nian.
Over a hundred high-level monsters, plus three exceptionally powerful Calamity Beasts.
Anyone who witnessed this scene would probably have their legs go weak with fright on the spot, including the elite players in that earlier group, the experts leading the pack in levels.
Yet Chen Nian gave a contemptuous smile, golden light slowly kindling in his pupils...
His brilliant, dazzling pupils looked like flowing gold, making all three Calamity Beasts shudder.
"You seem... to think far too highly of yourselves."
His quiet words seemed to carry the authority of a monarch, with an arrogance that looked down upon the world.
"Humans are nothing but our food. Die!"
One Calamity Beast reached a hand toward Chen Nian, dozens of bloodshot eyes growing on it.
The hand was severed.
Before it could reach Chen Nian, it split in two in midair without any warning.
"Aaargh!!!!"
The Calamity Beast let out a throat-rending scream.
At that moment, all three Calamity Beasts stared at Chen Nian in disbelief, their eyes stretched wide.
They discovered a golden phantom flickering behind Chen Nian.
It was as though a deity held a greatsword, passing judgment on all things in the world.
All who were guilty would be slain!
Sequence 121: Word Spirit-Golden Sword of Judgment
Chen Nian advanced step by step, a contemptuous smile curling his lips, the golden light in his pupils as blinding as the sun.
"I hear you consider humans food?"
"Sorry, but you're no different in my eyes."
"Kneel."
The moment he finished speaking, the Golden Sword of Judgment swung, seemingly cleaving even the space before Chen Nian!
Whether they had legs or not, all three monsters had their lower bodies split apart.
Chen Nian had never imagined that "Calamity" had actually developed a consciousness of its own.
It seemed this world was not as simple as a mere fusion of game and reality.
But that didn't matter.
Just then, the undead warriors behind him lunged at him.
But they met the same fate. Before they could touch Chen Nian, their bodies split in two on their own. The sight looked rather eerie...
"Why aren't you talking now, you cripples?"
With both hands in his pockets, Chen Nian ignored the undead warriors surging toward him like a tide from behind and smiled at the three Calamity Beasts before him.
"No, impossible..."
"How can a human be this powerful..."
The next instant, one of the Calamity Beasts had its neck severed.
Its head lost its support and slid off, only to be sliced into countless fragments in midair that scattered across the ground.
"Who would have thought slaughtering Calamity Beasts would be so much more fun than killing ordinary mobs?"
"..."
"Next."
In just ten minutes.
Not a single living soul remained in the valley apart from Chen Nian.
The three Calamity Beasts had been reduced to countless fragments, left to nourish the earth.
Only then did Chen Nian let out a breath of relief. The golden light in his pupils slowly faded as he deactivated his Word Spirit.
Dealing with so much trash in one go had taken quite a toll.
But the rewards were also exceptionally plentiful.
For every undead warrior he killed, Chen Nian received over a hundred Genetic Energy.
Wiping them all out in one wave gave him over ten thousand experience points!
And killing Calamity Beasts yielded even more Genetic Energy: three thousand apiece!
After that wave, he had gained nearly twenty thousand experience points.
Chen Nian smoothly rose to level 68!
"That efficiency is barely acceptable, but the drain is too great. I can't keep it up for long."
Aside from large amounts of Genetic Energy, the ordinary undead warriors also dropped a pile of ordinary materials, equipment, and skill scrolls for Chen Nian.
But none of those were the main point.
What mattered most was what the Calamity Beasts dropped.
A Calamity Gem!
Killing Calamity Beasts had a chance of dropping Calamity Gems. These were the most enticing rare rewards, the ones that drove countless players wild.
[Calamity Gem "Attack and Defense Reversal": converts all defense into an equivalent amount of attack]
For Chen Nian, this effect was simply fantastic.
His defense was already absurdly high, while his attack was somewhat lacking. With this Calamity Gem, he could sacrifice his defense at a critical moment to send his attack skyrocketing.
It was quite practical.
That's about enough. Time to leave and find somewhere to rest for a while.
A long while later.
The lights of two helicopters illuminated the valley.
The people who had fled earlier returned, accompanied by elite troops from the Law Enforcement Department, as well as aerial units.
"This is where you said three Calamity Beasts appeared?" Li Yunwei asked.
"Y-yes! We saw it with our own eyes. Some lunatic summoned three Calamity Beasts at once..."
"He must be dead by now..."