The Invisible Wall

"What the hell is this map?" Xiao Yu looked at the description of the competition map and felt inexplicably speechless.

The Demon Lord over there was also completely dumbfounded, clearly not expecting to draw such a map.

Azathoth (Elemental King): "Looks like you're in luck, demon. It seems you won't have to face me personally this time. That must make you very happy."

Lucifer (Demon Lord): "On the contrary, I'm quite annoyed. Annoyed that I didn't have the chance to extinguish your elemental fire myself, but seeing you turn to ashes under the swords of adventurers would have been quite a sight."

The two of them exchanged a few harsh words and then went back to prepare.

Xiao Yu returned to the preparation space and called over Big Water Cunt and Leah Bloodmoon, explaining the map rules to them. "So, what do you two think of this map?"

Leah Bloodmoon said, "This is the first time I've seen a map like this either. But since we're dealing with hordes of adventurers, it seems that winning this time will mainly depend on powerful area-of-effect skills."

Xiao Yu nodded. "So, how's your area-of-effect (AOE) ability?"

Leah Bloodmoon shook her head. "I'm afraid I can't help you this time. My area-of-effect (AOE) abilities are passable, but humanoid bosses are at a disadvantage against adventurers."

Xiao Yu nodded. He naturally understood. Compared to elemental creatures, humanoid BOSSes have many weaknesses, such as being vulnerable to Taunt and various control skills, such as bleeding, Curse, poison, and weakness. If there are too many adventurers, all kinds of debuffs can be applied, and the BOSS will be useless.

Elemental creatures are much stronger in this respect, being almost immune to most negative status effects. Especially after the update, humanoid bosses have no advantage over elemental bosses of the same level. Their only advantages are that they can wear equipment and can learn more skills.

Xiao Yu looked at Big Water Cunt and said, "Then this time it's up to you, Big Water Cunt. But it seems your entrance will be a little different this time."

It's naturally quite different this time, because there's no need to arrange the lineup of bosses and monsters; that can only be decided after entering the competition map.

Moreover, the number of monsters and bosses appearing this time is astonishingly large, with no upper limit. However, you need to obtain Adventurer's Remains Fragments during battles and then exchange them with the Monster Quartermaster.

Big Water Cunt, "Don't worry, my area-of-effect attacks are no joke."

While waiting for the competition to begin, Xiao Yu began to ponder the map for this competition. Although the map was randomly selected this time, Xiao Yu always felt that things were not so simple. The reason was simple: the adventurers in this map were all real-life players. If there was no prior preparation, how could these players be put to good use?

Therefore, Xiao Yu guessed that these map cards were just for show, to give the participating BOSS players a sense of fairness and impartiality. In reality, the entire process and pace of the competition were under the control of the game officials. After all, game data is easy to manipulate. Xiao Yu guessed that the game officials probably felt that he was too strong and were afraid that the competition would lose its suspense, so they deliberately created this. However, this made it more difficult for him to win.

Finally, the time for the match arrived. With a flash of white light, Xiao Yu appeared on a wide-open grassland.

[System notification: Welcome to the Alliance Zone]

Xiao Yu scanned his surroundings. The entire map had no complex terrain, just endless flat grassland, measuring 10 x 10, a total of 100 square kilometers. At the edge of the grassland was an insurmountable mountain range, and on the other side of the mountain range was the Horde Zone.

Xiao Yu wondered if he could fly directly into the sky and cross the mountain range. With that thought, he flew towards the sky, but after flying only a few dozen meters, he crashed into an invisible wall with a loud bang.

(Holy crap, there's even an invisible wall!) Xiao Yu was dumbfounded. This was the first time he had ever seen an invisible wall in this game. It seemed that this map was just a flat box. It looked like he would have to fight the adventurers head-on today.

He looked around from a few dozen meters in the air, and not far ahead, the figure of an adventurer appeared in his sight. With a flap of his wings, Xiao Yu flew towards the adventurer.

The human Warrior, Yingxiong Wulei, watched the Chaos Dragon approaching ever closer, feeling utterly hopeless. Damn it, he'd participated in a game event, supposedly to team up with other adventurers to take down the event boss, but why was he all alone on the map? Poor him, only a level 33 Warrior who'd been in the game for a few months—what was going on?

Thinking this to himself, he still raised his shield and longsword. As a Warrior, even if he were to die, he would die on the Charge.

"Charge!" The Yingxiong Wulei, raised his longsword and charged forward with extraordinary tragic resolve.

The Chaos Dragon suddenly opened its massive maw, spewing out a cloud of black dragon breath.

Chaos Dragon Breath!

System notification: You have been attacked by the Chaos Dragon Breath of Azathoth, Elemental King. You have taken 9832 damage (5351 overdamage). You are dead.

Instant kill! A message flashed across the screen of Yingxiong Wulei: He was killed instantly by a single breath of dragon fire, without any suspense.

"It's very simple." Xiao Yu landed on the spot, thinking to himself.

[System notification: Kill the adventurer [Yingxiong Wulei], obtain 12 Adventurer's Remains Fragments.]

Meanwhile, in the neighboring Horde Zone, the Demon Lord Lucifer was also surveying his surroundings. The land was a barren, yellowish-brown wasteland, stretching as far as the eye could see. The Demon Lord's gaze, however, involuntarily fell upon the Orcs Warrior not far away. "Is this my opponent?"

The Orcs Warrior was also conflicted. He had hoped to gain some experience points by participating in this operation, but he didn't expect to find himself fighting a Demon Lord one-on-one as soon as he appeared. He thought to himself, "Damn it."

The Demon Lord was over nine meters tall, with crimson skin covered in thick keratin, a pair of huge, curved demon horns on his head, and a massive scythe in his hand. He was shrouded in an unusual red halo.

The Orcs Warrior raised his two-handed axe, wondering how he was going to fight. Suddenly, a flash of white light appeared, and a Tauren Shaman and a Troll hunter appeared beside him.

"Haha, tank, healer, and DPS are all here. This time we can finally go all out. As long as there's a healer, I'm ready to go in."

The Tauren Shaman hadn't expected things to turn out this way, but since things had already come to this, he could only bite the bullet and go for it. "Go on, I'll heal you!" the Tauren Shaman said as he cast a Rock Armor on the Orcs Warrior.

The Orcs Warrior roared and Charge forward.

The Troll hunter also drew his bow and fired Arcane Shot.

A hint of disdain flashed in Lucifer's eyes as he watched the Orcs Warrior charging towards him.

The massive scythe in his hand flashed past, Cleave! -14284 (5928 points of overdamage).

The Orcs Warrior remained in his Charge stance, a line of blood running down his forehead, cleaving him in two.