Chapter 524: The Nine Lost Dragon Domains (2/2)
That changed immediately after the entrance opened, however. Directly ahead of us, thousands of players from a smaller guild ofVanished God City rushed toward their entrance like their lives depended on it. They vanished the second they stepped through the door. Clearly, they had entered a different zone.
I raised my arm and shouted, “Wait a moment!”
Li Chengfeng, Gui Guzi, and the others kept their cool despite the absolute chaos around us. They didn’t rush in recklessly.
I put my hands to my ears and opened my nostrils, and a few seconds later I heard the sound of people screaming and caught the scent of fresh blood as expected. The undead race was especially good at sensing something like this. Unless I was sorely mistaken, the first group of players to enter the Wood Dragon Domain had taken huge losses. They might even be wiped out already for all I know.
“What happened? It sounds like a lot of people have died in there…” He Yi exclaimed in surprise.
I smiled and said to Gui Guzi, “Little Gui, come with me. Everyone else, wait until we give you the signal!”
“Okay!”
Gui Guzi followed behind me on his Armored Steelback Dragon. The moment we entered the Wood Dragon Domain, I immediately felt a horribly-smelling wind blowing against my face. The silent valley was vast space with little vegetation in it, and directly in front of us was an entire floor of dead bodies. As I thought, every player who had rushed into the Wood Dragon Domain without a care for the potential danger had died!
Gui Guzi felt goosebumps crawling over his skin as he watched the floor of corpses and blood. “What do you think happened here, boss? It’s only been less than a minute, and thousands of players were killed just like that!”
Frowning deeply, I said, “There must be a mob ambush of some sort. Let’s move forward slowly. Be ready to Guard at any moment.”
“Got it!”
The two of us cautiously stepped over the bodies. The sky was unusually bright and clear, but I couldn’t stop my heart from beating in trepidation. I just couldn’t calm down knowing that the thing that killed thousands of players in one go was hiding somewhere.
Not long after we walked ahead, Gui Guzi suddenly let out a cry of alarm. “There’s something in front of us!”
It was just as he said. Small bumps had suddenly risen from the ground about a hundred yards away in front of us, and when the soil fell away we saw an entire row of round creatures the size of a mini tank. Their backs reminded me of sea urchins because they were covered in sharp spikes, and the cyan eyes peeking out from between the spikes were staring directly at us!
The stats screen of the closest mob appeared inside the party channel—
Wood Porcupine (Shadow)
Level: 155
Attack: 1780~1950
Defense: 2200
HP: 170000
Skills: Poison Thorn, Rock Crushing Assault, Spike Rain
Introduction: The guardians of the Wood Dragon Domain. The Wood Porcupines possess incredible strength that terrorizes any foe at any range.
……
Their Attack was insane. Could they be the one who killed those players? But something still didn’t quite make sense to me. How did they kill so many players in one go?
“Boss!” Gui Guzi suddenly cried out in alarm. At least a hundred Wood Porcupines were growling in low tones and shaking violently. A moment later, spikes burst out of their backs and soared into the air. It was an AoE attack! Black spikes were literally raining down from the sky and striking everything in its path!
“Fuck, is this how they died?” My eyes widened. “Little Gui, use your Knight God and Guard immediately!”
“I know. Don’t die, boss!”
I put my arm in front of me and Guarded. The next moment, countless spikes hit my body and dealt varying amounts of damage. Although the damage I took was massively reduced, it was still an incredibly close thing—
271!
172!
428!
230!
……
I was hit at least 50 times and lost almost 17k HP by the time the rain of spikes was finally over. It was no wonder that all the players who went ahead of us were killed!
“Gui Guzi, retreat!”