Chapter 1 The Dense Forest

In the dense primeval forest, the demon player squad watched in stunned silence as the demon patrol team lay defeated on the ground, transformed into a massive amount of experience points.

"Who exactly are they?"

At this moment, each member of the demon player squad was filled with curiosity and shock towards Shi Feng and the others.

The demon patrol team was a very solid defensive barrier leading to the City of Demons, existing like city NPCs. They not only possessed many powerful magical skills but could also fight as a team, completely different from ordinary demon monsters.

Yet, in front of Shi Feng and the others, they were like ordinary monsters, slaughtered at will…

If they hadn't seen the demon patrol team drop a pile of items on the ground, and some of the experts in the Hell Legion emitting a purple-gold light of leveling up, they would have suspected that the demon patrol team before them was fake.

"Captain, are we still waiting for those large adventurer teams?" A level 105 Tier 2 Ranger couldn't help but ask the Tier 3 Assassin leading the team.

Being able to wipe out the entire demon patrol team so easily, their combat power alone was probably more than those major adventurer teams could handle. The merit they would receive would definitely be very little, and they still had to risk following Shi Feng and the others, waiting for the arrival of the major adventurer teams.

Although they were demon players, their perception distance of human players was very far, but accidents could happen. If they were discovered, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Wait! The reward offered by the Demon's Heart this time is exceptionally high. As long as we kill one person, even if we only get 10%, we can get a Demon Crystal. As long as we can collect 120 of them, we can directly go to the city to apply for a title challenge. If we rely on ourselves to grind, I don't know how long it will take to collect so many Demon Crystals." The Tier 3 Assassin, as the captain, said with certainty, "Of course, we also need to be careful and keep our distance from these people. We don't have to follow them closely, just follow the traces they leave behind."

The members of the demon squad nodded silently, feeling that the captain's method was feasible.

Their demon players originally had an extraordinary perception of human players. If they only followed the traces of Shi Feng and the others, even if Shi Feng and the others were powerful, it was impossible for them to detect them.

However, just as the Tier 3 Assassin finished speaking, a cold and sharp short sword suddenly pierced out from the captain's heart, and a critical hit damage of over 900,000 points appeared above the captain's head.

Before the captain could say anything, a gleaming dagger sliced across the captain's neck, taking away the last of the captain's health points, directly killing him.

"Captain?!"

The remaining five Tier 2 members were stunned.

What was going on?

The captain, who was still lively and imagining the future a second ago, was dead the next…

This was a Tier 3 Assassin, even a famous expert in the City of Demons, but now he suddenly died.

As the captain fell to the ground, the members of the demon squad finally saw a hot-bodied woman appear from behind the captain.

"An assassin?"

"Not good, we've been discovered!"

"Run!"

Just as the remaining five demon players reacted, the hot-bodied woman disappeared again like a ghost.

When she reappeared, the hot-bodied woman was already standing beside the five people. Immediately afterward, a flash of white light streaked past, directly slicing through the five demon players, causing a series of damage points of over one million, taking away all the health points of the five demon players…

"How foolish! Emitting such a strong magical power, it's like a beacon in the dark. And you dare to follow us like this?" Fire Dance glanced at the demon squad lying on the ground with a bewildered expression and couldn't help but shake her head, feeling that these demon players were simply joking with her.

However, Fire Dance didn't know that in the present day, where Tier 3 professions were rare, everyone was still exploring the use of Tier 3 magic skills, let alone the more profound control of their own magic power.

"Guild Leader, all the demon players around have been cleared." After confirming that there was no magic power reaction from other players around, Fire Dance reported to Shi Feng.

"Okay, continue to be vigilant around. If there are too many demon players, let the Hell Legion's assassins go over as well." Shi Feng nodded, and his gaze couldn't help but turn to the items dropped by the demon patrol team around him.

Originally, in his opinion, the demon patrol team shouldn't have any good drops, just like those NPCs in the town. Even if they were killed, they wouldn't drop anything good.

But what he didn't expect was that the items dropped by these demons were quite good.

Although they didn't drop any good weapons or equipment, just some 110-level or higher formulaic mithril-grade and fine-gold-grade set parts, in addition to weapons and equipment, these demons in the demon patrol team even dropped Dark Magic Gold.

Dark Magic Gold was a very rare epic-level material, which could not only increase the success rate when making weapons and equipment, but also had a certain chance of attaching the power of darkness to it. It was a forging material dreamed of by all forging masters.

This wave of demon patrol team members dropped as many as fourteen pieces. If those forging masters of the previous life knew about this, they would probably wipe out the demon patrol team from the world…

However, compared to Shi Feng's joy at obtaining the items, the members of the Hell Legion were truly ecstatic.

Not only because these demons from the demon patrol team could bring a lot of experience points, allowing their leveling speed to skyrocket, but also because fighting these demons could improve their understanding of controlling magic power.

Although these demons' control of magic power was not as good as those NPCs, it was much stronger than those monsters.

Usually, they could only fight those monsters. Fighting NPCs was almost impossible, but now they could fight demons that were almost comparable to NPCs. This was a good thing they had always wanted but couldn't get.

This made the members of the Hell Legion, who were not too keen on going to the City of Demons, become active.

For a time, the members of the Hell Legion were not only trying to avoid the demon patrol team, which was feared by the experts of the major super forces, but were actively looking for them…

On the other side, in the inner area of the Burning Forest, a team of a thousand people was besieging a monster nest led by a level 110 legendary Boss.

Although the number of people in this team was only a thousand, there were as many as eighty Tier 3 professionals. Even first-rate guilds might not be able to produce such a team. Moreover, the leading figures didn't need any help from other players to suppress the level 110 legendary Boss, allowing others to catch their breath and deal with the surging high-ranking Grand Lords and Grand Lords.

"Good! The rushing monsters have been suppressed, all Tier 3 professionals focus fire on the Boss!" A heroic man with a black robe, a golden scepter, and a level of 108, who was constantly entangled with the legendary Boss, shouted.

Following the heroic man's order, all the more than eighty Tier 3 professional experts in the field focused their fire on the Boss. In just six or seven minutes, the Tier 4 legendary Boss, which everyone feared at the moment, fell to the ground, dropping a pile of items.

The large number of items dropped made the free teams watching from a distance envious, but none of the teams dared to go up and grab them.

Because the team in front of them was one of the few large adventurer teams in the City of Demons, second only to the two major guilds in the City of Demons. Anyone who dared to go up and grab them could forget about getting along in the City of Demons in the future.

"Guild Leader, Hei Xiazi just sent a message saying that the people wanted by the Demon's Heart have arrived." A level 107 Tier 3 Assassin walked respectfully to the side of the heroic man and whispered to report.

"They've arrived?" The heroic man smiled. "Then notify everyone, we'll go over now. That Hei Xiazi is very shrewd. He must have notified more than just us. If we're late, we'll get nothing."

"But according to the information from Hei Xiazi, that group of people is very strong. They can gain the upper hand even when encountering the demon patrol team," the Tier 3 Assassin said.

"They can fight the demon patrol team and gain the upper hand. It seems their strength is indeed good. No wonder the Demon's Heart offered such a high reward." The heroic man nodded. "So, where are those people now?"

He was very clear about the strength of the demon patrol team. Ordinary Tier 3 hundred-man teams were not their opponents at all. Being able to gain the upper hand meant their strength was very strong.

"I don't know…" The Tier 3 Assassin said somewhat awkwardly.

"Didn't Hei Xiazi follow them?" The heroic man asked strangely.

He knew Hei Xiazi very well. Not only was he very strong himself, but he was also a top assassin in the City of Demons. There was no reason for him to give up this opportunity.

"He… is already dead."