87: Chapter 87 Mission Reminder

Just as Qin Ce was doing his best to eliminate the ravens outside the city...

The Raven Flock changed their tactics once more.

They no longer entangled themselves with the Outer City walls.

Instead, under the caw of the Raven King, they collectively bypassed the Outer City walls and flew toward the city interior!

It was as if the attacks just now were merely to verify the effectiveness of their strikes against the city's defensive facilities.

From now on, the official general offensive truly begins!

Qin Ce's expression turned ashen instantly.

Because...

There, it was the most critical core battlefield.

There, the main force of mid-to-high-tier vicious beasts was being suppressed by the advantage of the city defense system.

There, lay the deciding factor for the fate of the entire city.

Qin Ce's pupils suddenly contracted.

He abruptly looked up, watching that black torrent crossing the Outer City walls, and then looked at the fortresses, arrow towers, and crystal core weapons within the city that were frantically spewing firepower.

Once the Raven Flock charged in and those city defense systems were paralyzed on a large scale...

The Inner City defenses, which had just barely stabilized, would face an absolute catastrophe!

"Damn it!"

Qin Ce gritted his teeth and patted the Qingluan's neck:

"Chase them!"

The Qingluan let out a clear, high-pitched cry, flapped its wings, and frantically pursued that black torrent.

Behind him, on the Outer City walls, the turrets that had been saved were still firing frantically.

Ahead, in the direction of the Inner City, an even greater crisis was descending.

...

At this time, the city had also observed the movements of the ravens.

They also realized the magnitude of this crisis.

The next moment.

Beep beep beep—!

A series of notification sounds suddenly vibrated frantically from the squad badge on Qin Ce's wrist.

The vibration was so intense that his wrist felt a bit numb.

Qin Ce looked down, and his pupils shrank.

The entire squad badge interface was blood-red.

Countless emergency tasks were being brushed out frantically like snowflakes:

[Global Emergency Task · Update]

[Description: The Raven Flock has broken through the Outer City defense line and is advancing toward the Inner City core area. Their talent 'Ink Feather' can paralyze power facilities, posing a fatal threat to the crystal core defense system. If the Inner City defense system fails on a large scale, the battle situation will spiral completely out of control!]

[Military Merit Coefficient Update: Raven-type vicious beasts base military merit ×6 (doubled again on top of the original triple merit)]

[Current Kill Military Merit Benchmark:]

[bronze low-grade Raven: 120 points]

[mid-grade bronze Raven: 300 points]

[Upper Bronze Rank Raven: 600 points]

[Silver Low-grade Raven: 3000 points]

...

Qin Ce's breath hitched.

Sixfold military merit.

A bronze low-grade raven was worth one hundred and twenty points.

What did this mean?

It meant that the two hundred-plus ravens he had worked so hard to kill before, if done now, his military merit would double again!

But what made his heart race even faster were the dense additional tasks that followed:

[Support Task · Protect Orange-grade Crystal Core Turret]

Description: Proceed to the designated coordinates and protect the turret from being destroyed by ravens.

Task Reward: For every wave of raven attacks successfully repelled, an additional +500 military merit.

Can be completed repeatedly.

[Regional Joint Defense Task · Main City Triangle Defense Zone]

Description: Assist in the defense of the Main City Triangle Defense Zone, killing as many ravens as possible.

Task Reward: Settled based on kill count, regional coefficient ×1.5.

[Core Task · Protect Red-grade or higher crystal core weapons]

Description: The seventy-two Red-grade Crystal Core Turrets in the main city are the core of the defense; their normal operation must be ensured.

Task Reward: For every red-grade or higher turret protected through this round of attacks, an additional +3000 military merit.

[Special Task · Kill the Raven King]

Description: The Raven King is the core of this crisis. The killer will receive an additional +100,000 military merit (stackable with base military merit).

...

One after another, all red, all urgent, all about the ravens and city defense facilities!

One could see how great the danger of the Raven Flock was.

However, Qin Ce's eyes lit up.

Not because of the tempting military merit, but because—

These tasks were practically tailor-made for him!

He had Nine-Star Insight, allowing him to precisely lock onto targets in the chaotic battle!

He had Spider-Web Wind Blade, allowing him to control ravens in an area!

He had Flowing Wind Wave, which could accumulate energy to deal limit-breaking damage!

He had the Qingluan, whose speed was unrivaled among its rank!

More importantly, he had been fighting to the death against the Raven Flock and already knew their tactics, weaknesses, and attack patterns like the back of his hand!

Qin Ce hardly hesitated.

Mental energy surged out like a tide, sweeping over those red tasks—

[Accept]

[Accept]

[Accept]

[Accept All]

The system notification sounds rang out frantically, but he no longer had time to listen.

Because the Raven Flock had already crossed the Outer City walls and was spreading into the city!

"Xiao Qing, let's go!"

The Qingluan flapped its wings, carrying Qin Ce as it chased after that moving black cloud!

The wind whistled, and the buildings below receded rapidly.

Sitting on the Qingluan's back, Qin Ce stared fixedly at the Raven Flock drawing closer ahead, energy circulating within his body as Nine-Star Insight was activated to its full potential.

However, the moment he truly crossed the Outer City wall and entered the Inner City battlefield—

A fatal sense of crisis suddenly rose from the depths of his heart!

Whoosh—

A black shadow swept past from the side!

Its speed was so fast that Qin Ce could barely see its trajectory!

The Qingluan instinctively made a sharp turn, narrowly avoiding it!

That black shadow brushed past the Qingluan's tail feathers, and the Wind Blade it generated sliced through the corner of Qin Ce's clothes.

Qin Ce's pupils shrank, and Nine-Star Insight instantly locked onto that black shadow—

[Vicious Beast]: Shadow Falcon

[Rank]: mid-grade silver

[Potential]: Upper Gold Rank

[Attribute]: Dark, Wind

...

mid-grade silver!

Qin Ce's heart pounded wildly.

In the brief moment Qin Ce was dazed, three more attacks came at him!

One was a feather arrow from the Shadow Falcon, one was a wind cord from a Gale Gloomy Wolf, and another was a gaze from a Moon-Gazing Rhino!

"Left! Up! Right!"

Qin Ce shouted three times in succession!

In the Wind Riding state, the Qingluan's speed increased threefold, making it as agile as a Roaming Dragon!

It made three consecutive sharp turns in the air, forcing its way through the gaps between the three attacks!

Cold sweat instantly poured down Qin Ce's back.

He hadn't expected that with only a wall in between, the inside and outside of the city would be two completely different worlds.

The vicious beasts in the Outer City were mainly of the Bronze Rank, with the Silver Rank being rare.

But inside the city—

The dense auras of vicious beasts flickered frantically in his Nine-Star Insight vision like countless bright lamps.

Silver Ranks were everywhere.

Gold Ranks could be seen at any turn.

But this was only the beginning.

Because even more attacks were surging toward him!

Lightning, fire snakes, frost, stone spikes, vine whips...

It was overwhelming!

At this moment, Qin Ce finally understood deeply just what kind of intensity the tragic scene he had observed from the air earlier really was.

To put it bluntly, this was not a battlefield for someone of Qin Ce's level.

Even if his classmates were here, they would all be inside fortresses, fighting with the help of city defense weapons.

There wasn't a single person like him, scurrying all over the battlefield.

And specifically seeking out the Raven Flock at the core of the battle to hunt them.

So, when all the vicious beasts of Upper Bronze Rank and above saw such a little Bronze, if they didn't attack him, who would they attack?

Moreover, these vicious beasts were already full of pent-up rage from being hit by the city defense weapons.

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