As one fleshy worm after another was peeled away and killed, the flesh that made up Muller Muller's body was steadily decreasing.
Muller, lurking in the shadows, gritted his teeth, his heart filled with resentment.
Where did the reinforcements come from?
Where did this mad dog-like lich come from?
Apart from that old man who had already committed suicide, none of these guys had the ability to send out a Psionic Energy signal for help!
Why is the lich here?
Weren't these guys already wiped out by the three great masters of the Demon Realm?
And what kind of question is this?
Does she have a grudge against the Wens Lineage?
But I'm not in the Wens Lineage either...
Electricity surged forth, and Muller dodged it while cursing inwardly.
He could already feel the power of the spell dissipating; he only needed to hide a little longer before he could jump out and negotiate.
That lich was clearly a Middle Tier cultivator, and such a powerful spell must have taken a toll on her.
Damn it, if only I could replenish some flesh and blood, but unfortunately the container full of Blood Corpse (the damaged chariot) is too far away, and there's an empty space in between without any Shadow, making it really difficult to move over using the ability to Shadow Jump.
Thinking this through, Muller suddenly had a flash of inspiration—
Having killed so many humans, and having tasted their blood before, I found the flavor utterly unpalatable.
But at this point, having anything to eat is good enough; taste is not a consideration at all.
With that thought in mind, Muller dodged a lightning snake that had found him, turned a corner, and dashed toward the nearest player's corpse.
Meanwhile, Willow in the air had calmed down from her initial frenzy. She took the seed that Ed had flicked away from her clothes and tossed it to the group of players below who were adoring her.
[ Pond Fish and Old Abyss ] reacted swiftly, his vine-like tendrils grabbing the seed before anyone else could.
She was quite strong, and had just returned from the Fitz Province. She was thinking of gaining some experience, so she was recruited by [ Howling Pothos ] for a second wave of reinforcements. She never expected to see such a scene.
As a fundamentalist plant-based Soul Returner, [ Pond Fish and Old Abyss ] only had one immediate thought upon receiving the unexplained seed:
Plant!
She immediately buried the seed in the scorched soil that had been heated by the electric snake, and almost instantly sensed the signs of it taking root and sprouting.
"It's still too slow..."
She muttered to herself, then suddenly remembered something, took out three bottles of Nutrient-Rich Resin from her pocket, and poured them onto the newly sprouted buds.
Seeing this, other players also took out their inexpensive "health potions" and splashed them on.
The golden, transparent resin seeped into the ground, and the newly sprouted plant buds seemed to have been injected with hormones, instantly entering a burst mode.
The plant's tender stems burst through the soil, growing upwards at a jaw-dropping speed, as if it weren't growing but simply standing up from a crouching position.
Beneath the ground, many players felt the earth tremble as the plant Spread its enormous root system.
Valhalla, Little Green's voice came again:
"The temporary Teleportation Tree has been connected to the Root Network."
"Good."
Ed stretched, a smile playing on his lips as he watched the live stream.
"We need to hurry, or Muller will die."
In the Crypt of Klaf City, players watched as a towering tree rose from the ground, its bark thick and wrinkled, with a hole appearing in each of its four sides near the ground.
The towering tree that had sprouted from the ground was none other than the teleportation and Resurrection Tree that they were all intimately familiar with and used almost every day.
A rustling sound came from the middle of the tree, and a long, thin cocoon appeared in a tree hole.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, the outer shell of the "cocoon" quickly cracked open, and a young man with white hair, one eye, and a blue half-crown, wearing the robe of the Tree Worship Church, walked out.
Ed smiled and looked around at everyone, his voice gentle and clear:
" Soul Returner, you have worked hard. This expedition encountered an unexpected enemy, and everyone's reward will be settled at the highest tier."
Amid the cheers of the players, he quickly approached a player whose head had already been severed.
[ Vitality Touch Mark ] activated instantly. He reached out and ran his hands over the severed ends on both sides, piecing his head and neck back together.
"Wow, it's a revival of an ancient method only recorded in 'historical books'!"
One player exclaimed in surprise, explaining that he joined the game relatively late, by which time the fixed-location Resurrection Tree and the Tree of Rest that everyone had were already implemented. He thus missed the days when Ed personally reassembled corpses.
Watching that guy wake up under Ed's gaze, he wished he wasn't the one who had just had his head chopped off.
The [ Easily Soluble in Water ] character, who had been resurrected intact, leaped up from the ground with a somersault and happily stood with the other players.
After seeing that he was alright, Ed simply nodded and walked towards the next player in the "human-machine separation" situation.
At this moment, Willow was watching the shadows from the air, while Ed was personally casting a resurrection spell on the players on the ground.
The temporary teleportation point has been set up, and it seems that other players have already discovered this suddenly appearing temporary teleportation point and are planning to come here to try it out.
In less than a minute, the players seemed to be freed from that hellish despair.
The reversal of fortunes happened so quickly that Silvis hadn't even finished the resurrection process.
A player who was doing a hospital internship in real life looked at Willow in the sky, then at Ed on the ground, and suddenly thought of that joke on the internet—
The most cost-effective appointments at the hospital are actually with interns, because when they encounter problems they can't solve, they really do call on their mentors and grandmasters for help...
At this moment, not only him, but all the players wanted to shout from the bottom of their hearts:
"Calling for backup is so damn satisfying!"
In the shadows, Muller dodged two dying bolts of lightning and charged toward the corpse he had sliced in two.
The lich was more powerful than he had imagined. He had already lost too much flesh. If he could just eat that corpse, he could struggle for a little longer.
With the corpse right in front of him, Muller gathered his strength in the shadows, then burst out and began to tear at it like a man-eating shark with its jaws wide open.
"Crack!"
His upper and lower teeth collided, but no flesh or blood entered his mouth.
When Muller opened his eyes, he saw a boy with trees growing out of his eyes quickly pulling the two halves of the corpse to the sides, causing him to miss his target.
Looking at this one-eyed man, Muller felt a surge of nameless rage—who dared to steal his food?
Ignoring the electric snakes that were tightening their encirclement, he bit the boy's arm with lightning speed.