[Shadow City]
As Karen, Ono, and Cloros, the three leader-level captains, led the cavalry, infantry, and archer units, a total of a thousand NPC soldiers, into the city, infantry and cavalry opened the path, while archers focused fire from a distance.
Without any effort, they wiped out the group of Shadow Cavalry surrounding Lin Mo and Ning Xi.
Taking advantage of the NPC army restraining the Shadow Cavalry, Lin Mo and Ning Xi quickly broke through and charged toward the BOSS.
Whoosh!
Beating the Dark Ruler to it, Lin Mo shot an arrow that killed Wang Junjie, preventing him from dying to the BOSS again and stacking more buffs for it.
At the same time, Ning Xi locked onto the BOSS and unleashed full firepower.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
One skill after another, enhanced tenfold by the SSS-rank talent Nine-Five Supreme, slammed into the BOSS.
Yet shockingly, each hit only dealt 10,000 to 20,000 damage.
"Wang Junjie stacked the BOSS's damage reduction way too high!"
Indeed. Before they even realized it, the Dark Ruler's S-rank Dark Devour had already stacked over fifty layers.
The BOSS had gained more than 50% increased damage and damage reduction.
On top of that, its defense had increased by 30% in berserk state.
Even with Lin Mo unleashing a full combo of SSS-rank skills, all he could produce was a string of ten-thousand-level damage numbers.
But fortunately: "The BOSS doesn't have much HP left. Let's increase firepower and finish this quickly."
"Okay!"
As they spoke, the two of them locked onto the BOSS and went all out.
———
[Meanwhile, On the Outskirts]
As countless bystander players entered the city and saw the NPC army clashing with the Shadow Legion, and Rulebound and Liuli, the top two on the Heavenly Rankings, duoing a Level 50 Tier 5 BOSS, they were all utterly shocked.
"Holy crap! It really is a Tier 5 BOSS! I've been in Divine Oracle for so many days and haven't even seen a Tier 4 BOSS yet, and now there's a Tier 5 one!?"
"Wait! Am I seeing things? Rulebound and Liuli are taking down a Tier 5 BOSS together? What the hell?"
"The BOSS is actually… about to die! Rulebound and Liuli are insane!"
"There's someone lying under the BOSS's feet. Who's that? Why does it look so much like Wang Junjie?"
"Not 'looks like', that is Wang Junjie!"
"What the hell! Why is Wang Junjie level 0 again? What did he even do?"
Just watching the grand scene inside the city was enough to make people's blood boil with excitement.
———
On the battlefield, as Wang Junjie revived on the spot again and saw that under Lin Mo and Ning Xi's assault, the Dark Ruler's HP had already dropped to single digits, he immediately panicked.
"Damn it! I've already fed it so many times and stacked its damage reduction so high, and you two bastards can still hurt it?"
"As long as I'm here today, don't even think about killing this BOSS!"
As he spoke, Wang Junjie turned his gaze toward the bystander players watching from the outskirts.
He shouted at the top of his lungs, "I'm Wang Junjie, the richest man in Ning'an!"
"Everyone, come feed the BOSS! Whoever does it, every time you feed, I'll reward you with 100,000 yuan!"
As the saying goes, money makes even ghosts push the mill.
Before Divine Oracle descended, money was still the most tempting thing in this world.
These bystanders had already come in hoping to see if they could pick up some scraps and make a bit of extra cash.
The moment they heard Wang Junjie's words, the entire crowd erupted.
Bystander A: "Holy crap! 100,000 for dying once? That rich?"
Bystander B: "Just a random passerby here, don't know Wang Junjie. Honest question, does anyone know if he really is the richest? Does he actually pay? Is that 100k real money or ghost money?"
Bystander C: "Wang Junjie! Famous for being dumb and loaded. He really pays. I used to be in his Chaotic World Guild. Got killed back to level 0 by Rulebound in Death Valley, and he compensated me 130,000 yuan, hehe!"
Bystander D: "Damn! He actually pays? Say no more, brothers, I'm going in first!"
After a quick discussion among themselves, without caring why Wang Junjie wanted them to feed the BOSS, the next second, they all rushed toward the Dark Ruler like they didn't value their lives at all.
Seeing so many humans charging at it one after another, the fury buried deep within the Dark Ruler finally erupted completely.
"A bunch of insects, daring to seek death!"
"All of you, go to hell!"
With a roar, the Dark Ruler raised its sword toward the sky.
The next moment—
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
Countless sword shadows rained down from above, piercing a vast area around the Dark Ruler.
Those bystander players who stepped into the attack range had no way to withstand the damage of a berserk Tier 5 BOSS stacked with over fifty layers of damage buffs.
All of them were instantly killed by massive damage numbers ranging from 40,000 to 50,000.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
In an instant, dozens of beams of white light shot into the sky.
The Dark Ruler activated its S-rank Dark Devour, devouring all those players.
In a flash, the skill stacks surged to over ninety layers.
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
With the skill range expanded by 90%, a single sword-shadow storm from the Dark Ruler now covered a massive radius of nearly 100 yards.
Not just Lin Mo and Ning Xi, even several NPC infantry on the outskirts were caught in it.
-27352!
-26849!
-26899!
The absurdly high damage was something even Level 50 NPC soldiers couldn't withstand.
[Ding~ Please note! Your hired NPC infantry has died!]
[Ding~ Please note! Your hired NPC infantry has died!]
[Ding~ …]
Several NPC infantry swallowed by the shadow storm died instantly on the spot.
Seeing this, Wang Junjie couldn't help but burst into wild laughter, "Hahahaha! Rulebound, you're done!"
"Cocky, huh? Weren't you so damn cocky before?"
"Fight me? Today I'll ruin you completely and make sure you never recover!"
As he spoke, Wang Junjie continued shouting at the bystander players on the outskirts, "Keep going! All of you, get in there and feed it!"
Right in front of everyone, Wang Junjie began transferring 100,000 yuan one by one to the players who had just been killed by the Dark Ruler, based on the private messages they sent him.
"Holy crap! He's serious?"
"Die once and you really get 100k?"
"Boss Wang is insane!"
With Wang Junjie's real money stimulation, those bystander players became even more reckless, charging at the BOSS without caring about their lives.
Ning Xi shifted her attacks toward the players approaching the BOSS, killing them to prevent them from continuing to stack the BOSS's buffs.
At this moment, Lin Mo said, "Ignore them. Let them feed it. Kill the BOSS first."
But Ning Xi looked extremely anxious, "The BOSS's skill effect also increases its attack range. If we let it keep stacking like this, your NPC army will suffer heavier and heavier losses."
Lin Mo had already taken on a fearless, all-or-nothing attitude.
His gaze burned as he said, "It's fine. Even if the entire NPC army gets wiped out, it doesn't matter."
"At worst, I drop back to level 0. Levels can be trained again!"
"But this BOSS, no matter what, we have to take it down!"
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