Chapter 208 – Moretta Reappears (1/2)

The sea of monsters crawled out from the underground and drowned all the remaining Ice Rose players in the blink of an eye. Caught off guard, the hundreds of players were pounced and gnawed on them until there wasn’t even a bone left.

“Get into a defensive formation! Retreat to the center hall!” Facing the grave crisis, Rosethorn resolutely ordered.

The 2,000 members left all gathered together and left with difficulty. Under Rosethorn’s lead, they slowly withdrew toward the main hall located in the base’s center.

The only requirement to successfully pass the siege defense battle was to block ten waves of monsters from destroying this Hall of Administration. In this moment of despair, Rosethorn had decided on this place as their final battlefield.

The shift of battlefield and whether the Ice Rose Alliance could stop the last wave became the new topic of interest amongst the onlookers.

The Ice Rose members were resolved to keep fighting till their death. They went in an endless cycle of dying and returning from the respawn point to add themselves to the defensive line. Some even attacked the monsters from the outside or died before they could gather with the main force.

“Go! Everyone, go! We can definitely do it!” Rosethorn shouted in a hoarse voice. Ice Witch looked as frigid as ever as she unleashed all kinds of skill at the charging monsters.

At this moment, the members of the Ice Rose Alliance only had fighting left in their mind. Even the priests were haphazardly throwing out every offensive skill in their possession.

However, this still couldn’t hinder the monsters’ steps. With each passing moment, the players’ defensive line shrank little by little. The monster army got closer and closer until they were about to reach the hall at the center.

“Victory or defeat, it’s all gonna come down to this last effort!” Rosethorn shouted as she led the players to block the monsters’ attack tightly.

These underground mobs weren’t high-level, ranging from 30 to 40. However, their number alone was enough to fluster the players. If the situation came down to it, the Ice Rose alliance still couldn’t hold on with all of their members, let alone only having two thousand people left now, and this number was still decreasing.

Boom, boom! One powerful spell after another exploded in the middle of the monster army, leaving empty spacing in their wake. At this moment, the players couldn’t care less about checking the skill cooldown. They simply cast out every skill available. Their current priority was to overcome this plight at whatever cost.

However, there were just too many monsters. After countless mobs were slaughtered, another herd would just fill their spots; there seemed to be no end to them.

Inside the base, several fissures formed in the ground. Akin to the entrance to a military camp, the rifts continued to gush one wave of after another. The number of monsters that emerged from each gush hadn’t dropped once since the start of the tenth wave. Instead, it kept increasing.

“Kill! Kill!” The players’ eyes had turned red from all the murder. There was a mage who had no time to replenish her exhausted mana, and she just charged forth with her magic staff in hand to tussle with the monsters.

“What a tragedy…” the onlookers sighed.

Die, then run back, then die, then run back again. In just several hours, all of the Ice Rose members had lost several levels. Some even back dropped back to level 30.

Finally, the number of monsters crawling out started to ease up, until only a thin circle was surrounding the Hall of Administration. As for the Ice Rose Alliance, they were left with roughly one hundred long-ranged players, all in dire straights.

The archers took out their daggers, and the mages gripped their magic staves. If they were to fall in the end, they wanted to fail with no regrets.

“It’s really hard to believe that all of them are female players.”

“What courage! They aren’t any less than the best man out there. Us men should be ashamed.”

“Ahh, what a pity. So are they really gonna fail at this very last stage?”

Many people sighed; however, that was all they did. No one would say that they could help or anything. The two of the same trade were still competitors. The guildless players wouldn’t dare to aid; the guilds even less so, because it was a failure that they were happy to witness happen.

Rosethorn and Ice Witch stood at the very front. Behind them, the members, holding daggers and staves, automatically aligned in proper formation, ready to fight. The two guild masters had both died twice. Right now, Ice Witch’s face was no longer its usual cold. Like Rosethorn, she had put on a tough and resolute expression.

“Aii, Lan’er, have you spotted the boss?” Fatty suddenly asked.

“I haven’t.” Liu Lan was surprised as well. “There has been no sign of the boss. Maybe it was killed during the chaos?”

“That’s impossible,” Fatty shook his head and observed with worry. “They’re very likely to fail this time.”

“Don’t worry, sisters of Ice Rose Alliance. Us Rainrevelers are here!” All of a sudden, a team of players parted a way through the crowd and headed right for the center hall. This team had at least five hundred people. Leading them were the Rainrevelers Guild Master, RainbowWatcher, and vice-master, Qian Xiaoqian.

“Why did they come?” Not only the onlookers were dumbstruck, but even Ice Witch and Rosethorn were also bewildered.

“Sis Rainbow, you guys…” Rosethorn spoke up.

“Let’s talk about this later. You guys only need to protect the hall and watch your sister clear out these mobs for you,” RainbowWatcher waved her arm. The team of five hundred dismounted at once and formed a proper formation, before racing at the monsters.

With a strong force at their full health joining the battle, the scale immediately tipped to the players’ side. There was currently less than two thousand monsters left, and they couldn’t hold on against such powerful momentum. Slowly, the monsters were annihilated.

The players of Rainrevelers walked around the vicinity and easily cleared out the scattering mobs. Then, they found the boss under a crack on the ground. It was almost relaxing to deal with a boss with a hundred versus one. The boss was slain in a few rounds of attack.

“It’s ended? Just like that?” Everybody looked dumbly at one another.

“Thank you, thank you so much! If it wasn’t for you guys, we…” Rosethorn and Ice Witch strode to their helpers. Rosethorn was so emotional that she didn’t know what to say.

“Don’t worry about it. You guys could have passed even without our help.” RainbowWatcher dismissively waved her hands with a smile.

“Sis, you don’t need to keep up appearances for us. If you guys hadn’t come, we would have all been dead,” said Rosethorn with a bitter smile.

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“It’s over. Let’s go.”