Chapter 852: Even Black Smoke Group Failed the Raid!?

"There are still newcomer gift packs and returning veteran gift packs available on the official website to claim. Have you guys gotten yours yet?" At this time, a group of newly joined elven players at the Canglan City branch had finally reached the maximum level.

Sera asked as she accepted the quest for her second awakening.

"I got them, I got them! This game gives away so much stuff!" Beside her, Lorrain said with great joy. "There are so many gift packs, I can barely keep up with claiming them all!"

"I claimed a lot of fatigue recovery potions, leveling vouchers, experience capsules, and a set of purple gear!" Helen had also been drawn into the pit by a few elves recently. Although she spent most of her time playing World of Warcraft, she would occasionally play this as well. After all, unlike others who played multiple characters, if one only played a single character, a bar of fatigue would be completely drained in an hour at most.

"Are you all at max level yet?" Elder Cywei called out. "Once you are, let's go do the awakening quest together later!"

"Alright!"

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Unlike these green newcomers, the veteran shops like Yuanyang City, Half-City, and Jiuhua City recalled the old days in the Dark Thunderland Ruins. Back then, they had been surrounded by large hordes of zombies, encountering danger at every turn, nearly losing their lives.

And now, when they faced a similarly blotting ocean of monsters...

The edge of Anton's colossal head was like standing on the brink of a towering, massive mountain cliff. A blotting black mist, accompanied by endless monsters, flew out from Anton's mouth, forcing these adventurers onto the very edge of the precipice.

The black ocean of monsters was nearly enough to submerge them.

Gabriel, controlling his Blood Evil Demon God, exchanged a look with the Black Light Sword Saint, Zhu Yanxiao, beside him.

Almost simultaneously, a sphere of blood energy capable of swallowing heaven and earth began to spread out. Following closely was a massive impact, swallowing everything around like an ocean wave: "Blood-Drenched Fury!"

"Draw Sword Slash that Pierces the Sky!" A flash of sword light pierced through the air, surging out from the blood explosion.

In an instant, the chilling sword light used this location as its center, sweeping across almost the entire expanse of land atop Anton's head!

"Phantom Sword Array!"

"Extreme Ice Feast!"

The powerful ultimate moves of the others fell simultaneously in almost a single instant.

Ice and fire converged, and sword energy surged through the wilderness!

All the monsters, like autumn leaves swept by the wind, were completely cleared away!

One could see in the hand of the Black Light Sword Saint a blood-red, giant lightsaber, while beside him, Gabriel held a chilling, giant blade gleaming with golden light, recognizable at a glance as no ordinary object.

"Watch out for the Tog!" Before the words could fully fall, a dark shadow shrouded down. That massive and hideous body landed amidst the crowd in nearly the blink of an eye. Not only that, they saw that there were four such Togs in total!

It crashed into the horde of monsters, right into that devastating explosion caused by magic and sword light.

The game panels of all the players who attacked it displayed: "You have dealt 1 point of damage to Tog."

It was as if it were bathing within the violent attacks of these adventurers. Aside from leaving a few shallow white marks on its hideous scales, almost no one could cause even a shred of damage to it!

The empty black hole in its abdomen opened, and a terrifying suction force drew almost everyone toward that dreadful vortex.

The fire it spewed from its mouth was even more like a volcanic eruption. More importantly, when it spewed fire, that powerful energy dissipated across its body's surface, and any attack would be deflected. Attacks at this time, let alone 1 damage, were not even 0!

"Act according to the plan!" Zong Wu glanced at the Empyrean fighter jets circling in the sky. "Send the signal!"

The adventurers served as the main force, while the Empyrean military acted as support.

(In DNF, Empyreans refer to those technology-based races like male and female gunners)

In fact, in the previous main storyline quests, the players had already carried out a complete set of surveying work, and the military had then formulated a plan. The main force and the support both showed extremely vital roles at this moment.

Monsters like Tog, let alone ordinary attacks, could not be harmed even by naval cannons.

Perhaps it possessed the same nature as Anton, capable of devouring all energy.

Jiang Xiaoyuan bit into a freshly bought peach while watching the battle on the screen in astonishment: "How do we fight this?"

"There is a way to deal with it." Nalan Mingxue and her group of raid team members were clearly prepared, saying, "This monster's elemental defense across all attributes is extremely high, almost nearing complete immunity. The damage reduction rate for attacks without elemental attributes also reaches 99.5%."

Just then, the reinforcements in the sky dropped four light orbs radiating faint energy light: light, fire, ice, and shadow.

In the night sky, they were exceptionally conspicuous.

"Keep light!" Zong Wu shouted fiercely, and the long blade in his hand gradually lit up with a white, piercing glare.

"Fire!" In the night sky, Nalan Mingxue raised the long sword in her hand high. Upon that blood-colored greatsword named Heaven Demon Chop, a raging blaze instantly ignited.

Leaping up, the blade drew an arc in the sky like a meteor shower of fire, striking the burning fiery orb in the sky right into that hollow abdomen.

At this moment, a scorching aura spread from within Tog. The massive demon creature's scales gradually turned red all over, just like a cooked lobster.

It wailed and roared, crashing fiercely toward Nalan Mingxue.

With a clean and agile dodge, she evaded the monster's collision almost perfectly.

A blazing fiery sword light slashed out, and the sword light cleaved by the blade was finally able to leave a shallow scorch mark on its scales.

"See, now it can be attacked with the same attribute." Nalan Mingxue explained.

As if because the temperature around her in the game was too high, she wiped her forehead and spoke, "I've been researching this lately."

"Hiss... so troublesome..." Song Qingfeng said. "Then since only your weapon carries the fire attribute, doesn't that mean you have to fight this Tog all by yourself?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

Amidst their words, a terrifying black storm whipped up on the screen, centered around Tog.

The storm connected to the thunderclouds in the sky, looking just like a massive pillar reaching the heavens!

All attacks were torn to shreds by this storm. A few teammates nearby who didn't manage to dodge in time were sucked into it almost instantly.

Even Nalan Mingxue was engulfed within.

"Holy crap... it's a team wipe!" Song Qingfeng hastily shouted.

"My goodness—!"

On the screen, Anton suddenly raised its head from the great ocean.

After resolving these most annoying "flies" entrenched atop its head, next, terrifying lava erupted from its mouth like the fires of doomsday. The entire sea surface, everything including the warships and the supporting air force, was all reduced to ashes!

In the various shops, everyone slapped their thighs and cried out in succession: "Holy shit!"

"Be careful, you guys!"

"The raid blew up!"

"Black Mist blew up the raid?!"

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PS: In the original version, failing phase one causes it to blow up like this, but after all, in the system version, any monster possesses intelligence.

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