nucmednet Chapter 384 Setting Off Again in the Central Region
Chapter 384 Setting Off Again in the Central Region
Ultimately, the rift energy contracted, triggering a massive explosion. The blinding starlight engulfed everything, completely erasing the area from the basin's topography, leaving only a larger, smoking crater and countless scattered white lights.
This is just the beginning.
Lin Tian's figure blurred in the air as he activated [Star Leap] repeatedly over short distances.
He appeared on the flank of a group of players in the "Iron Torrent" who were trying to escape around the stalagmite. With a flick of his finger, the "Star Ray" transformed into the pointer of death. The blue-purple beam swept across, and dozens of people were cut in half as they ran, turning into white light.
He teleported above another group of remnants of the [Glory Banner] hiding under a huge rock slab, pressed his palm down, and activated the smaller but more concentrated [Universal Pull]. The heavy rock slab, along with the twenty-odd people hidden below, was crushed and pulverized by an invisible force, turning into a pool of blood, flesh, and white light mixed with pixel fragments.
He locked onto the fastest thief (possibly a high-ranking official) who was about to rush into the narrow crevice at the edge of the basin. He instantly marked him with [Spatial Mark], and the next second [Pursuit] was activated. His figure appeared out of thin air behind the thief. Before the thief could fully develop a look of horror, a normal attack with the mental shock of [Dominator's Eye] plunged his consciousness into complete darkness.
Highly efficient, precise, and ruthless, it's like a pre-programmed ultimate killing machine.
Every time he appeared, it was accompanied by utter silence in an area.
No matter what methods those players used—speed-up skills, invisibility potions, earth-遁卷 (earth-遁卷), or even kneeling and begging for mercy—they were all meaningless in the face of Lin Tian's mental perception of up to 300 million and the absolute power of his S-rank skills.
Their struggles, their fear, their despair couldn't even stir the slightest ripple in Lin Tian's cold gaze.
The massacre did not last long, but the process was enough to drive any bystander (if any) to a mental breakdown.
When Lin Tian returned to the center of the basin with his final [Star Leap] and slowly descended, the area below was an absolute dead zone.
The wind, carrying a heavy smell of blood and burnt flesh, howled as it passed through the riddled rocks.
The once bustling basin, teeming with over two thousand players, was now eerily quiet.
Everywhere you look, there are charred craters, shattered rocks, crystallized ground, and scattered orbs of equipment and potions that represent the items dropped when players die.
The legendary, seven-colored treasure chest still stands alone on the central stone platform, shimmering with light, but no one dares to look at it again.
Zhao Tieshan, the leader of the "Iron Torrent" guild, died from a "Star Ray" that pierced through three layers of rock.
After using Flash for the third time, Zhou Wenyuan, the leader of the [Glory Banner] guild, was grazed by the edge of the [Starry Sky Storm] that fell from the sky. His shield shattered instantly, and his body melted away in the star fragments.
The two guilds, with a total of more than two thousand players, were wiped out, except for a very few lucky ones who were extremely fortunate and managed to escape into the complex cave system at the edge of the basin and completely conceal their presence (estimated to be less than twenty people). This became another terrifying jump in numbers on Lin Tian's leaderboard.
Lin Tian stood quietly in the center of that death basin, the wind whipping his clothes.
He glanced at the points that had surged again in his mind; the number was so large that he felt somewhat numb.
He felt nothing about it.
Lin Tian didn't linger. His repulsive force field increased slightly, and he transformed into a straight stream of light. Ignoring the tragic scene below, he flew unhurriedly toward the center of the final battlefield and soon disappeared into the horizon where the sandstorm and the blood-red sunset intertwined.
......
Lin Tian flew at low altitude, like a gray lightning bolt that ripped through the blood-red sky.
Below lies the increasingly grotesque core landscape of the Gale Canyon, with its crimson rock walls steeper as if cleaved by the axe of a giant god. Huge cracks are bottomless, and the wind howls like ghosts among the stalagmites and ravines.
Besides the ever-present smell of sand and dust, the air was thick with the lingering stench of blood and burnt flesh, along with the pungent smell of residual magical elements from various skills.
His speed isn't the fastest, but it's stable enough.
The repulsive field around him, maintained by the low power of [Shinra Tensei], easily repelled the oncoming gale and sand. Occasionally, some reckless flying monsters (such as mutated wind howling harpies or small gargoyles) would approach, but before they could even touch the three-meter radius around him, they would be invisibly shattered by the repulsive field, or turned into fireworks by a slender but deadly [Star Ray] casually cast by Lin Tian.
His points total is already a number that leaves those who come after him in despair.
Even without opening the ranking list, he could sense that the gap between himself and the second-place winner was probably greater than the gap between the second-place winner and the thousandth-place winner.
After flying for about ten minutes, he only encountered three decent "obstacles".
The first wave consisted of seven packs of level 55 elite "Lava Hounds." These monsters, whose bodies were covered in lava, were entrenched in a narrow pass and launched indiscriminate attacks on any creature that passed by.
Lin Tian was too lazy to take a detour, so he flew directly over them.
Below, the hounds tilted their heads back and spat out scorching lava projectiles, while dozens of dark red fireballs roared upwards.
Lin Tian didn't even look at them. He used a miniature version of [Divine Pull] in the opposite direction. The lava projectiles deflected strangely as they approached him, collided and exploded, or were bounced off by the repulsive field under his feet and flew back. Instead, they blasted several lava hounds that couldn't dodge in time, leaving them with torn flesh.
A thicker [Star Ray] swept across, and the pass returned to silence, leaving only a few charred, gradually cooling beast-shaped rocks and a few faint points of light from the accumulated points.
The second wave consisted of a group of about thirty remnants.
Judging from the equipment and the remaining guild insignia, it appears to be the remnant of a previously defeated mid-sized guild.
They hid in a sheltered crevice in the rocks, seemingly taking a short rest, each of them bearing the fear and exhaustion of surviving a disaster.
As Lin Tianfei passed by, some of them looked up and saw him.
"It's...it's that person!" A young mage's voice trembled, and he almost dropped his staff.
"Don't make a sound! Keep your head down! Don't look at him!" A warrior who looked like the leader immediately roared, and he himself lowered his head hard, wishing he could bury his head in the rocks.
The others followed suit, remaining silent and even holding their breath, for fear of attracting the attention of that ominous star in the sky.
Lin Tian's gaze swept indifferently over the crevice in the rock.
Thirty people, not many points, and in poor condition, making them easy to kill, but also not very interesting.