71: Chapter 71 The Beast Tide Arrives (Part 2)
The first to reach the battlefield were level 20 Ghost Monsters and level 25 Skeleton Elites.
Everyone was familiar with these two types of monsters.
They were the monsters from the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, the map that most players loved the most.
But today, the Ghost Monsters seemed much more formidable than usual.
Not only was their health much higher than before, but their attack power had also increased significantly.
"Damn, have you guys noticed that these Ghost Monsters are harder to kill than before?"
A player shouted in the middle of the battlefield.
"Are you stupid? Look at its head."
Only then did the player who had just shouted notice that every monster had a glowing blue rune mark floating above its head.
Upon checking it virtually, he was nearly scared to death.
[Beast Tide Badge]: Increases health and attack by 20%.
"Holy crap, isn't this cheating? They even come with buffs?"
"Stop the damn chatter and kill them quickly."
Just then, someone beside him reminded him, and as the player snapped back to reality, two Skeleton Elites lunged at him.
But his reaction was still too slow; his health dropped by more than half in an instant.
But the next second, a green light flashed over his head.
His health recovered a little.
At this moment, at least several thousand Priests were standing on the city walls, keeping a close eye on the battlefield the entire time.
Whenever they spotted a player with low health, they would immediately cast a skill.
But even with such a large number of them, they couldn't prevent deaths.
At this moment, the death notifications in the chat channel were constantly scrolling, showing no signs of stopping.
But this also boosted the players' fighting spirit.
Death didn't matter; they would just respawn in the city and immediately rush back out to continue fighting.
The battle lasted for ten minutes.
The number of player deaths reached the tens of thousands.
The Ghost Monsters weren't doing much better; their only drawback was that when they died, they were truly dead and couldn't respawn.
And judging by the numbers, it seemed there were only about a third as many as the players.
Currently, there were about a million players in the entire Chang'an City.
Even so, tens of thousands of players from the Novice Village continued to enter the city every day.
Nowadays, in the game "Xianyu," the number of players in the Xia Kingdom alone had reached 600 million.
Although there were four main cities to accommodate players, only a small portion were currently able to enter them.
It was estimated that in another half a year, every main city would be overcrowded.
The battle lasted for fifteen minutes.
It was clear that the player faction had suffered much heavier losses.
Death meant losing levels and equipment.
Some were even killed all the way back to the Novice Village.
Gu Qingming stood in the distance casting spells while observing the situation on the battlefield.
The group of players before him was just fighting chaotically.
The high-level players thought they were tough and charged into the monster horde alone, only to be devoured until not even a scrap was left a few minutes later.
The lower-level players were relatively better off; they knew to stick together, with several people attacking one monster.
But the monsters weren't stupid either; they had teammates too.
Most of the time, while they were fighting, a group of low-level players would be lured into the monster horde and wiped out completely.
But no matter how much he roared and commanded the players, at this moment, no one was listening to him.
They all had bloodshot eyes from the killing.
The fact that they had managed to keep the beast tide away from the main city so far was entirely due to their human-wave tactics.
But this wasn't a long-term solution.
When players died, they lost levels, which also meant a reduction in combat power.
At the same time, some players were killed back to the Novice Village, which reduced the overall number of people. Even if they survived this wave of attacks, what about the next? And the one after that?
By then, there would be no need for the main city to fall; the players would have already been forced back to the Novice Village, or everyone would have likely returned there early.
Just as he was at his wit's end, several low roars suddenly erupted from the battlefield.
He saw giant monsters, four or five meters tall, walking out from behind the beast horde.
Holding iron rods, with green bodies, they looked like enlarged versions of goblins?
[God of the Pagoda · Odell (Level 25)]
"Holy crap, look! Is that the top-floor BOSS of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda?"
They were no strangers to this monster; ten-man teams often specifically waited in the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda for it to respawn.
Although it was a level 25 BOSS, it was quite difficult to deal with given the overall combat power of the current players.
But that didn't matter; after all, there were many players now.
But what surprised them was...
Why were there more and more of these BOSSes?
At first, only a few walked out, but now they had turned into dozens, even hundreds.
The Ghost Monsters and Skeleton Elites, which already had their attributes boosted, were hard enough to deal with.
And now, hundreds of BOSSes had appeared?
How were they supposed to fight this?
Seeing that 10 minutes remained on the countdown.
Gu Qingming immediately guessed that this was the final push.
He hurriedly shouted: "Hold the line! Even if you die, you must hold the line! You absolutely cannot let the BOSSes rush into the main city, otherwise, we're all finished."
Immediately after, he took the lead in attacking the BOSSes.
Gu Qingming had now reached level 40 and was wearing a full Star Set.
Soloing this level 25 BOSS was still very easy for him.
But the annoying part was the mob of smaller monsters; although they couldn't deal much damage to him at the moment.
They had the advantage of numbers.
Because his spell cooldowns were limited, he tried to dodge the small monsters as much as possible, focusing all his limited skills on the BOSSes.
But this way of maneuvering attracted hundreds of Ghost Monsters and Skeleton Elites.
In an instant, he was surrounded by monsters.
"Damn it," Gu Qingming cursed.
"If I die, so be it. I'll fight you all to the end."
He chose to give up resisting and started bombarding the BOSS group in front of him with everything from his lowest-level Fireball Technique, Frost Spell, and Lightning Strike Technique.
Even if he was going to die, he wanted to deal as much damage as possible to the BOSSes before he went down.
Just as he was about to be engulfed by the monsters.
Suddenly, several red fireballs scattered from the sky.
Immediately after, beams of Healing Spell landed on him.
Seeing this familiar attack method, Gu Qingming breathed a sigh of relief, then immediately cursed:
"Damn it, why are you only just getting back?"
Jiang He flashed a few times, charging into the monster horde to his side.
"The distance was too far; I ran all the way back."
As soon as he finished speaking, he swept his dagger across.
The Ghost Monsters in front of him fell in a row.
Gu Qingming thought to himself: How did this guy get even stronger again?
But he didn't have time to dwell on it, so he hurriedly pointed to the BOSS group not far away and said: "Stop them."
Jiang He looked over; at this moment, due to the appearance of the BOSS group, they were already pressing toward the city with the monsters.
Seeing that 7 minutes remained, at their current speed, they would definitely be able to reach the city walls.
"You're a mage, retreat to the rear; I'll figure something out." After Jiang He finished speaking, he flashed away.
Soon, he reunited with Zhao Yun and the others.
"Da He, how should we fight?" Zhao Yun asked.
"Kill the BOSSes first; don't worry about the small monsters, other players will clear them."
The next second, they all charged toward the BOSS group together.
They were all level 40 players now, and they were even wearing full Wind and Rain Sets.
Killing these level 25 BOSSes was incredibly easy.
But even so, due to their numerical advantage, the enemies were still advancing toward the main city at an extremely fast speed.
"Damn, this isn't working; there are too many of them, I can't keep track of them all," Blood Blade shouted.
Jiang He turned his head to look at Old Demon: "You, withdraw from the battle and guard the city walls. If any BOSSes slip past, you are responsible for controlling them."
Old Demon nodded, immediately withdrew from the battle, and sprinted toward the city walls.
At the same time, he shouted loudly: "Xiao Yao, catch the stragglers."