Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 97: Hundred-Man Killing (1)
I suddenly invaded, appeared briefly but quickly disappeared, and lost the whereabouts of the hostile target. After a burst of wild whistles, the police whistles in Tiancheng suddenly fell silent again. According to the observations of the two ghost kings who were summoned at the same time as the ground-walking night shadow, the area that had been in turmoil due to my appearance had quickly restored order after the return of the nearby light players and NPC guards responsible for maintaining public order in the city. Many players continued to do their own things and walked through the busy streets. There was no adverse effect from the "enemy invasion incident" just now. It seems that it should be because of the "Light Festival" that the neutral forces and players from all sides gathered in Tiancheng. The leaders did not want to mobilize troops for an enemy and cause too much turmoil. At least before I took "excessive" actions and worsened the situation, they probably would not upgrade Tiancheng from the usual "safe mode" to "alert status" and create a tense atmosphere myself, affecting the normal holding of the "Light Festival".
Of course, by asking the guards around the teleportation array, they can piece together the appearance of the intruder. With my ability to transform into a bat, they should be able to easily determine that the intruder is me, the famous "world's number one necromancer". Judging from their arrangements, they obviously did not take it lightly and ignore my existence - the protection situation in the city is loose on the surface but tight on the surface. On the surface, the bright guards are still only with their pets, without summoning angels, in a normal "security patrol state", and have not increased the number of guards, but in fact they have sent a lot of "secret guards" to patrol the crowd. No streets or alleys are spared, and a strict "search network" is soon laid out, and quickly expanded to all parts of the city, showing the quick and efficient response of the management agency of Tiancheng.
My threat mainly comes from the summoned undead creatures. The more there are, the greater the threat. Judging from their actions, they are on guard against this. They monitor everywhere, so that I can't hide. There is no way to accumulate too many undead creatures to cause chaos in Tiancheng. However, in addition to being able to hide and sneak, I now have new undead soldiers. The ground-walking night shadow and the crouching night shadow are both able to avoid the opponent's not very detailed exploration. This trick is no longer so effective for me. Before the spies of the light side arrived at this alley, I had summoned another ground-walking night shadow, and then urged the "Touch of Death" again to almost drain the spiritual power of Red Star and send it back to the "Dead Space". On the surface, the whole alley was still empty, and there was no sign of abnormality.
Several light players did not explore deeply, but just stood at the alley and took a glance, then turned and left, continuing to search other places. However, I still chose to stay put and be patient for the time being - the people in charge of the Sky City are the powerful rivals of the Supreme Honor, Holy Heaven and Angels on Earth, and their management ability cannot be ignored. I must also act more cautiously and not easily expose the purpose of invading the Sky City. Therefore, I still have to accumulate some undead subordinates first, and then suddenly attack. Before they notice, I must try to kill as many targets as possible.
In the three hours since my invasion, the "search network" throughout the city has been in operation. This inconspicuous alley where I hid has been repeatedly explored no less than ten times. On average, every ten minutes or so, a few Light players passed by, looked over here, and turned away when they found nothing unusual. Just for an enemy like me, they dispatched so many people and conducted a three-hour strict search throughout the city. I was really "flattered".
However , after I understood the pattern of their search, I did not sit around and wait passively. I arranged for the Ghost King to be on guard, and I began to activate the "Touch of Death" to absorb the spiritual power of the ground-walking night shadows in turn. Anyway, with their strength of the eighth intermediate level, they can meet 80% of my spiritual power needs, and it shouldn't cost much. The time between the current explorations was enough for me to perform a "summoning of the dead" and use the "golden healing medicine" to restore the lost health points. In addition to the effect of the "mental potion", in three hours, while effectively avoiding the enemy's search, I summoned a total of eleven ground-walking night shadows and six crouching night shadows, which can be regarded as accumulating a considerable strength. Although the person in charge of Tiancheng knew that it was me who invaded, he did not know my specific purpose and new means of attack. He still took conventional preventive measures, which only added a little trouble to me and could not stop my attack.
According to the schedule of the "Light Celebration" in Tiancheng collected by Yun Wuying, at 5 pm, the special envoy appointed by the Pope of Light, a level 10 professional cardinal, should give a speech in the central square and personally announce a series of management policies to attract other forces and players to settle and invest in Tiancheng. Finally, he will show "miracles" in front of many players to show the greatness of the "Heaven" gods of light and spread their faith. If the players attending the meeting are lucky enough, they may also get "prizes" given by the Church of Light, which is the most important event of the entire "Light Celebration". Representatives of prestigious forces and players who come to Tiancheng will be invited to attend. If someone takes this opportunity to create trouble, causing riots at the venue and disrupting the normal progress of the celebration, even if there is no substantial loss, it will definitely make the Supreme Honor and the Church of Light lose face. Therefore, the central square at 5 o'clock should be the key area to be guarded. As time was approaching, the people in charge probably didn't see any action from me and couldn't figure out my purpose, so they began to gradually withdraw their spies and focus on deploying them in the central square and some important areas in the city, strengthening the guard there to prevent my sabotage.
This is the opportunity I have been waiting for. While the main players and high-level NPCs in Tiancheng are attracted to the central square, the focus of defense will definitely shift there. The defense of other areas will inevitably be weaker. I can take the initiative to attack those ordinary players and NPCs. First, the number of 100 required by the promotion task must be met, and then find those powerful opponents to challenge in order to further increase the promotion rewards. It has already taken three hours. I dare not continue to shrink here and delay. Although I can continue to accumulate subordinates, the method is too passive and may not be conducive to the completion of the promotion task. After all, the tactics I adopt are guerrilla warfare, destroying the enemy in the movement, and "fighting to support the war" should be able to achieve the goal more effectively-as long as I act carefully, try to move in remote areas of the city, don't be too ostentatious, and avoid causing a relatively large disturbance , even if the leaders of Tiancheng know my whereabouts, they are afraid that they will fall into my strategy of luring the tiger away from the mountain and making a feint to the east and attacking the west. At least before the celebration of the central square is over, there should not be too many people to kill me.
Players in Tiancheng have gradually gathered near the central square, and some main streets and places are becoming more and more lively. The remote areas are even less visited, which is just right for me to launch sneak attacks. As for the choice of targets, the initial stage should focus on the players of the Light. Although players of the same strength may be more difficult to deal with than NPCs in a head-on confrontation, when encountering sneak attacks in relatively safe areas in the city, ordinary players may lack the corresponding vigilance and their reactions will not be as fast as those NPCs who are responsible for guarding. In addition, the "terrifying" skill of the "swallowing whole" of the Night Shadow has a deterrent effect on the players' psychology, which should make it easier for me to succeed. Since we are in a virtual game world, we should be prepared to be killed in any way. I hope those "miserable" players of the Light will not blame me for being "ruthless".
I used "Stealth" and turned out of the alley, stepping onto a wider street. Not far away, seven players came out, talking and laughing, slowly walking towards the city center. Five men and two women, they should be players from the Western Continent, four of them are light professions, three are neutral professions, all are level 7 professions. One of them is a blonde cardinal. There is no way, the battlefield is not a place where you can "tenderly love women", I can only blame her bad luck, she happened to run into me. For my promotion plan, I have to let her experience the taste of being swallowed by the night shadow of the ground.
The seven players were walking and laughing, all with empty hands, without even a weapon, and not thinking they would encounter any danger, totally defenseless. The seven night shadows had already sneaked up on them, and at my command, they launched an attack at the same time.
I let the three neutral professional players go and did not launch a surprise attack against them. On the one hand, killing neutral professional players is not part of the mission requirements, which is equivalent to doing useless work; on the other hand, I don't want to create unnecessary enemies. After all, such a way of death is too "miserable" and a bit unfair. It's okay to use it against hostile light players, but it's a bit too much if it affects innocent people. As for the consideration of "killing to silence people", it is estimated that after a few battles, my attack method should be exposed, and it doesn't make much sense. If the person in charge dares to publicize that I can make all the players in Tiancheng "suspicious and suspicious of everything", it will inevitably affect the smooth progress of the "Light Celebration". I believe it will also be a big blow to the Supreme Honor and the reputation of the Church of Light. I guess they may not be willing to do so.
Silently, seven black shadows emerged from the ground near the seven players. Four of them opened their black mouths and performed the "Swallow Whole" move, rushing towards the four bright players. The other three ground-walking night shadows stood aside to intimidate the three neutral professional players next to them and prevent them from participating in the battle. At the same time, they could also quickly launch a second attack when the first wave of attacks failed, leaving the opponent no chance to fight back. The remaining four ground-walking night shadows and six crouching night shadows remained in the ground or stealth state, spread out in the surroundings to be on guard, and decide whether to participate in the attack based on the opponent's strength.
Faced with the sudden sneak attack, including the cardinal in white, the three light players all showed a look of shock, but they were all unable to dodge and were almost swallowed into the belly of the ground-walking night shadow at the same time; another light knight seemed to be quite skilled, and actually twisted his body in an instant and narrowly avoided the "swallowing alive" attack. However, another ground-walking night shadow quickly followed up, and he was still greeted by a big black mouth. He had no time to react and could not escape the fate of being swallowed. The four ground-walking night shadows that swallowed a player each suddenly had a bulge in the middle of their bodies, and they began to wriggle vigorously, and continued to make strange "jiliguru" sounds, which made it easy for people to associate what they were doing.
The other three neutral professional players who were not attacked were suddenly shocked and hurriedly retreated to the side. At the same time, they hurriedly showed their weapons. In order to fulfill the courtesy of "first courtesy, then force", I showed up before they launched a counterattack, bowed slightly and greeted them, "Hello everyone, I'm sorry to disturb your interest, but this is a fight between our two major professions of darkness and light. I hope that your position can be like your profession, remain neutral, don't interfere, and I won't take the initiative to attack you."
Of course, under normal circumstances, such rhetoric would not have any effect. In order to take into account the "friendship", they had to attack. However, with my "pretentiousness", if they attacked again, it would be considered that they took the initiative to provoke, and then the forces behind them would not be able to come forward to cause trouble for the "Resistance Alliance" or the United Alliance, and there would be less trouble. Anyway, even if I showed up openly, they were at a disadvantage in terms of strength and number. Even if they were determined to resist, they would not be able to threaten me.
Before I could finish, a knight player was already waving his spear, not even having time to summon his mount, and rushed over with a loud roar. However, his target was not me, but the Night Shadow that had swallowed the female cardinal in white. Judging from his expression and momentum, he seemed to be eager to perform the "hero saves the beauty". In contrast, the other two swordsman and archer players, a man and a woman, also seemed quite anxious. It seemed that they had a good relationship. Regardless of the gap in strength between the two sides, they resolutely decided to resist, but still maintained a certain degree of rationality, supporting each other, and summoning their pets to help in the battle according to the regular battle procedures, and did not rush over rashly.
It was not until the knight without a mount took the lead in firing the first shot at the ground-walking night shadow that I ordered my men to launch a counterattack. No matter what, in a dispute with a neutral professional player, one must occupy the word "reason". However, in order to leave room for maneuver, I still did not use "swallow whole" on him. Several ground-walking night shadows swung their thorn tails wildly and forced him to the side. He struggled hard and tried to break through by force, but was swung hard by a ground-walking night shadow's thorn tail, and fell to the ground in embarrassment. Before he could get up, the time limit of the skill had expired. The four ground-walking night shadows opened their mouths and spit out the four light players who were swallowed in their stomachs one after another, and fell heavily on the ground more than ten meters away. After more than a minute of chewing and ravaging, just like Taotao at the beginning, the four light players were covered with a thick layer of black mucus. No matter how they waved their hands and kicked their legs, they could not break free. They lay on the ground and could not get up for a while. That poor female cardinal in white, I hope she can have a stronger psychological endurance and not cry about this.
Seeing the female cardinal being spit out, the knight immediately rushed towards her, but she was destined to be killed by me, so he would not allow her to rescue him. A ground-walking night shadow stood in front of him, blocking his actions. At the same time, while the four light players lost their ability to move, several ground-walking night shadows rushed forward and swung their thorn tails to attack, killing them as soon as possible. I also took the opportunity to activate the "Touch of Death" to entangle the male cardinal in white, and took the time to replenish my mental power.
The male swordsman and female archer on the other side summoned their pets and launched an attack directly against me. Since they didn't appreciate my kindness and the three of them had already joined the battle and took the initiative to provoke the war, I naturally wouldn't let them be bullied. Even if I didn't kill them, I had to teach them a lesson. Three ground-walking night shadows rushed out from the underground beside them at the same time and directly performed "Swallow Alive". The knight who was eager to rescue the female cardinal in white was the first to encounter misfortune and was swallowed into the stomach, becoming a pair of "lovebirds with the same fate". The swordsman and archer should have been prepared and noticed the movement and avoided it in time, but the pets they summoned were all level 6, and their strength was only average, not enough to fight against the level 8 intermediate ground-walking night shadow. They were entangled in a hurry and could not take care of themselves, and they had no strength to come to me for trouble.
There was no suspense in the following battle. Out of a little compassion, I killed the female cardinal in white first, saving her from "suffering". The strongest Knight of Light who avoided the first attack of the Night Shadow was more unlucky. In order to not give him a chance to resist, after the mucus on his body completely disappeared and he could be swallowed again, the three Night Shadows attacked him in succession, making him "swallowed alive" again. As for the Cardinal in White who was entangled by the "Touch of Death", I first beat him severely, and then died with hatred after struggling in vain and having his mental power sucked out by me.
After dealing with four Light players, I followed the principle of "leniency" and did not go too far with the remaining three neutral professional players who offended me. Amid the knight's gnashing of teeth and cursing, I led my men away quietly. He was left waving his spear in the air, trying in vain to chase me. His girlfriend died tragically, and he was also eaten alive once. I guess this hatred must have been formed, but as long as I don't provoke the neutral forces behind him, I can let him have his personal grudges.
