The moonlight tonight was very unusual.
Instead of its usual pale, translucent white, it had now become as crimson as blood.
It looked deeply unsettling!
Looking at the sky, Soren Park felt a faint sense of unease in his heart.
Something was likely going to happen tonight!
Just as the thought surfaced, a line of small text appeared before every contestant's eyes.
[SPECIAL EVENT!]
[TONIGHT IS A BLOOD MOON. ZOMBIES WILL BE MORE NUMEROUS AND STRONGER. PLEASE BE PREPARED!]
A special event had indeed been triggered!
Taking a deep breath, Soren Park's expression shifted repeatedly.
"I knew the zombies had been acting strange lately. A Blood Moon, huh?"
He cast his gaze into the distance, as if he could see a dense sea of zombies within the resource zones.
Regardless, this had nothing to do with him!
No matter how many zombies there were, they couldn't use Ender Pearls or build with blocks.
Could they actually hurt him?
"Let those fools slaughter each other with the zombies!"
He only needed to lie back on the Mushroom Island, where monsters never spawned, and enjoy eternal peace and tranquility!
On the other side.
Having finally stopped hearing the sounds of monsters, he crawled out from underground.
Ronan Mountwell had just put away his resources and was preparing for a new round of adventure.
A blood-red moon appeared.
[THE FIRST BLOOD MOON HAS DESCENDED. RANDOM REWARDS WILL BE GIVEN BASED ON THE PERFORMANCE OF EACH NATION'S CONTESTANTS!]
Having rewards was good, of course, but hearing that the zombies were stronger and more numerous gave him pause.
Ronan Mountwell hesitated for a long time before finally swallowing hard and retreating back into his home.
'My abilities lean toward support and scouting. With Oakmoor handling the combat, that should be enough, right?'
A tactical retreat!
As the news spread, the reactions of the contestants varied.
Many who knew the horror of the zombies hid in fear, but quite a few were also unafraid of the hardship and prepared to step out for the rewards.
Bullet comments flew across the screen.
"The moon is so terrifying, it looks like fresh blood!"
"Staring at it makes me feel like the abyss is descending!"
"Could this be part of the Crisis content too?"
"The zombies are already powerful enough; are they going to keep changing?"
"How can this be happening? Who could possibly withstand a monster onslaught like that!"
"Damn it, Mountwell, you bastard, what kind of monsters did you release?"
At the Research Institute.
Headmaster Quill's expression was very grim.
The previous deduction had come true!
The intensity of the Crisis did not stop here; the zombies would become even more powerful!
The Blood Moon event was the best proof of that.
This was not good news for anyone.
'Stronger zombies mean that surviving and gathering resources will become increasingly difficult in the future.'
Currently, as long as they didn't enter other dimensions and stayed safely within their chunks, the zombies would still spontaneously combust when daylight arrived.
This gave the contestants time to develop.
What if, in the future, the zombies evolved to the point where they no longer feared the sun?
Just because it hadn't happened yet didn't mean it wouldn't. Imagine zombies being everywhere during the day...
He could only pray that the Crisis wouldn't grant the zombies such overwhelming power.
At the Lich Tower.
After a full day of training, finally...
The two slowly learned to identify the orb attacks and mastered the timing to parry them.
With the five shields broken, the second stage was very simple.
Hiding in the corners to kill the zombies first, they then joined forces to strike.
「Killed the Mini-Chunk Lord, the Lich!」
It was done!
The audience of the Nine Provinces did not acknowledge the duo's strength.
"I almost fell asleep watching; they finally won!"
"I'm embarrassed for you. Does it really take this long even with a walkthrough?"
"Let me let you in on a secret: the great Galen Yu has already defeated the third boss, the Minoshroom."
"He's leagues ahead!"
Mark couldn't see the bullet comments, but he could see the Lich's loot.
[ZOMBIE WAND]
It possessed magical power capable of summoning zombies to fight for the wielder!
"I have the Lich's magic now. What's a Blood Moon compared to that?"
He would take on the challenge again. This time, he would surpass Galen Yu and claim the top spot!
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