Summoning three Calamity Beasts at once?!
Li Yunwei's heart jolted violently when she heard that.
This was big trouble.
"When the Calamity Summoning feature officially opened, we clearly warned all players not to activate Calamity Scrolls lightly. Why was someone still this reckless?!"
"Three Calamity Beasts... I wonder if Linhai City's law enforcement forces can handle them..."
"Good thing we were given two armed helicopters for support this time. Come on, let's go down and look!"
Li Yunwei led the fully armed law enforcement team deeper into the valley.
"W-we won't be going..."
The players were utterly unwilling.
Knowing full well that three Calamity Beasts were down there, wouldn't going down mean courting death?
Alerting the law enforcement team was already their limit. They would just watch from the sidelines now rather than get themselves killed.
They had already experienced the terror of Calamity Beasts firsthand!
In the deep, dark valley, Li Yunwei and her team advanced cautiously, sweeping their flashlights around without daring to let their guard down.
"Such a strong smell of blood. Be careful!" someone suddenly said.
The warning instantly jolted every team member's brain. Adrenaline surged, and sweat had already begun beading on their heads.
After advancing another few dozen meters, they finally spotted something.
"C-Captain!"
"Look at these things..."
A team member spoke in a trembling voice.
Li Yunwei hurried over and saw large amounts of black flesh scattered across the ground, grotesquely misshapen and slowly dissolving into black mist...
One arm was covered in pupils.
There were heads with eight mouths apiece.
One leg actually had a pair of wings growing from it.
Their utterly irregular forms marked their true identity... Calamity Beasts!
"These... these are the corpses of Calamity Beasts?!"
"And more than one."
Li Yunwei sucked in a cold breath. "Their information was right. There really were three Calamity Beasts."
"What does that mean... someone killed three Calamity Beasts here?"
"Impossible!!"
"With players' current levels and combat power, how could anyone kill a Calamity Beast solo? Let alone three at once?!"
"Could an incredibly powerful team have done it?"
Li Yunwei shook her head. "Unlikely. Look closely. There are no signs of a large-scale battle anywhere around us. Almost nothing but these monsters' corpses."
"Captain, you mean..."
Li Yunwei took a deep breath and said gravely, "All three Calamity Beasts were slaughtered with practically no ability to fight back."
Everyone: ???
That was way too fucking absurd!
What kind of powerhouse could slaughter three Calamity Beasts like that?
"Calling Captain Li. What's the situation down there?" A message came from the armed helicopter overhead.
"The Calamity Beasts have been eliminated. There is no danger. I repeat, the Calamity Beasts have been eliminated. There is no danger."
After replying, Li Yunwei sent someone to bring over the witnesses.
A short while later, several witnesses arrived at the scene.
At the sight of Calamity Beast body tissue strewn across the ground, their mouths fell open!
"This?!"
They knew full well how terrifying the Calamity Beasts' combat power was.
One was enough to contend with their elite leveling party.
Yet here... were the corpses of three!
What did that mean? It meant that not long after summoning the three Calamity Beasts, the summoner had butchered Them!
"My god... what kind of freak was this?"
"Wait, have you noticed something strange... we haven't encountered a single monster since entering the valley!"
"You're right!"
Realization dawned on everyone belatedly, and a sudden chill ran down their spines.
"W-what does that mean?"
"It means the summoner didn't just slaughter three Calamity Beasts. They also wiped out every... every fucking monster in this area!"
"Holy shit!!!"
Everyone present was utterly stunned.
The monsters in this valley were all close to level fifty...
"C-Captain... what do we do?" someone asked. "Should we search the area and find that summoner?"
"No! Tracking them blindly would only anger them. Pull out."
Li Yunwei beckoned, stopping everyone from proceeding any farther.
Because she already had someone in mind.
Buyu!
During the last world boss battle, Buyu and the Red Lotus Warlock, Ye Hongling, two top-tier experts, had appeared in Linhai City at the same time.
Ye Hongling was known not to be from Linhai City, so she could be ruled out.
But what about Buyu? Could he himself be hiding in Linhai City? Other than him, she really couldn't think of anyone else...
If Buyu had done this, everything made sense. With his strength, accomplishing all this wouldn't be difficult.
"I hope that when the Blood Moon Calamity truly descends, this powerhouse will step forward to fight too."
"Yes..."
Chen Nian had left long ago.
While resting, he took stock of his gains.
After leveling up, he had learned a new basic Word Spirit.
Sequence 49: Wind-Gathering Cannon
Its effect was simple: gathering wind pressure between his fingers for a powerful single-target attack.
It was extremely similar to "Lightning Spear."
The next time he used this Word Spirit, Chen Nian could disguise himself as a wind mage.
Next, he replaced his old junk with the newly acquired equipment, then listed all his unwanted equipment in the Trading Space to sell.
As for the skill scrolls, he kept them all for himself.
Because skill scrolls could be used for synthesis. Even if none were what he needed, he could combine three into one.
Time to synthesize!
Synthesizing skill scrolls was quite a wasteful way to spend money. Combining three into one meant that if the result wasn't what he wanted, two had simply gone to waste.
And among Chen Nian's Word Spirits, the rare and high-risk ones could not be obtained by leveling up. They had to be synthesized.
So Chen Nian actually had a "late-game" talent. The more rare Word Spirits he synthesized, the stronger he would become!
"Useless..."
"This one's useless too."
Unfortunately, Chen Nian used up all his skill scrolls without synthesizing the equipment he wanted.
But the things he had sold earlier had earned him quite a lot of gold, so he went straight back to the Trading Space and bought up another batch of low-level skill scrolls, around twenty, to keep synthesizing.
A gambling addict!
But with his "Word Spirit Sage" talent, he had no choice but to gamble.
Would those rare Word Spirits simply pop up for free? No.
Just as he used up the skill scrolls he had bought, Chen Nian's eyes suddenly lit up!
[Soul Flame Palm + Flowing Light Technique + Air-Riding Technique] = Wind and Lightning Flash
Sequence 30, rare Word Spirit, Wind and Lightning Flash!
Like "Void-Escaping Spirit Snake," it was a thoroughly practical Word Spirit despite its low sequence ranking.
With this, Chen Nian could move at extremely high speeds with little expenditure!
As swift as wind and lightning, it neatly made up for his lack of mobility.
Most importantly, it was also excellent for escaping, especially when being chased by women...
With two new Word Spirits, Chen Nian's combat power had risen again. Next, he would find a dungeon to grind and test their power.
Chen Nian opened the chat channel.
A message caught his eye.
[Found a level 60 dungeon. Strong mages, DM me. Freeloaders, fuck off!]
Wasn't I a wind mage now?
Chen Nian sent a private message.