Chapter 1198 The Retreat

The sudden order to retreat completely confused everyone present.

The humanoid unicorn monsters in front of them numbered only eight. Although their levels were a bit high, all above Level 50, the strongest was only at the Lord level. Their health points were generally lower than monsters of the same level, and they were not invincible.

However, everyone began to retreat immediately.

"Want to run? Do you think you can escape?" A man in a black cloak, wrapped in bandages from head to toe, walked out of the stone house and sneered, "You should all stay here as sacrifices for me!"

Although the black-robed man's voice was not loud, everyone heard it clearly and felt a chill run down their spines.

The most surprised were the rangers in the team. They had almost always been using Eagle Eye, which allowed them to easily scout players and monsters within a certain range. It was one thing that they couldn't scout these humanoid unicorn monsters, but they hadn't even noticed a living person right under their noses.

Before everyone could run a few steps, the humanoid unicorn monsters revealed a hideous sneer on their faces, and they all rushed towards the retreating Zero Wing members, their speed leaving only afterimages.

A distance of less than 30 yards was only a few steps for these fiends.

"So fast!"

"Do you really think we're afraid of you?"

Seeing these fiends rushing up, three Level 40 Shield Warriors and one Level 41 Guardian Knight went to meet them.

Voice of Anger!

Righteous Roar!

With the group taunt skills activated, it was impossible for the eight fiends to attack other players in a short time.

"Foolish!" The black-robed man sneered.

The sharp claws of these fiends suddenly emitted a faint gray mist as they launched a barrage of attacks against the Shield Warriors and Guardian Knight who were blocking with their shields.

The moment the claws touched the shields, they seemed to cease to exist, passing directly through them and piercing into the armor.

With just one strike, the high-defense, high-health Shield Warriors lost more than 13,000 points of damage, their health dropping sharply. Before the healers in the back row could react, the other fiends' claws landed on the Shield Warriors and Guardian Knight.

More than a dozen gray glows bloomed, and the four MTs with nearly 40,000 health points were instantly killed...

This stunned everyone present.

However, several of the more composed Elementalist and Ranger immediately launched attacks.

Dozens of fireballs and arrows flew out, completely engulfing the eight fiends. But in the next second, these fiends moved like agile assassins, dodging most of the attacks. The remaining attacks were all blocked, leaving them unharmed.

Even more unbelievably, the distance between the two sides did not widen; it actually decreased.

A Level 54 Lord-ranked fiend jumped into the center of the crowd, and the gray mist on its claws turned into blades. It immediately swung them at the surrounding healing classes.

Instantly, a gray arc appeared in the crowd, covering a radius of 15 yards.

With just one strike, the cloth-armor classes with low defense and health were instantly killed. Some of the faster-reacting Elementalist used Blink to dodge, but all other cloth-armor classes perished on the spot. Nearly half of the fifty-person team was lost, and the disparity in strength caused everyone to tremble.

"Escape! Everyone, scatter and run!" The Ranger, as the team leader, shouted in the team chat.

Upon hearing this, everyone could only grit their teeth and scatter. This made it less likely that the eight fiends could catch up to all of them at once.

However, the speed of the eight fiends was astonishingly fast. Even with everyone scattering, the vast majority were still killed. Only a few assassins skilled at self-preservation and players with teleportation scrolls managed to escape.

"Brother Yi Tao, are you just going to let them leave like that?" At this moment, Yan Xue, wearing a black cloak and holding a black wooden staff, walked out of the forest. He glanced at the fleeing Zero Wing members and asked curiously, "If you let them go, Zero Wing Guild will definitely be on guard, and capturing Shilin Town will become more troublesome."

"That's exactly what I want." Qi Yi Tao, wrapped in a black robe and bandages, sneered, "I want Zero Wing Guild to concentrate a large amount of their forces in Shilin Town, so that destroying Shilin Town will be even more worthwhile. By the way, how is your side coming along?"

"The Evil Beast army is fully assembled and not far from here," Yan Xue said with a smile. "But is it really necessary to send them all at once? After all, this is an army of 500,000 Evil Beasts, not to mention the fiend army you personally control. It's enough to destroy two or three Shilin Towns at the same time."

Although there were many Evil Beast armies to deal with Shilin Town last time, this time was different. Both the number and the individual strength of the Evil Beasts were much stronger than the previous Evil Beasts. The weakest Evil Beast was a Level 60 Elite, with nearly 40,000 Level 60 or higher Leader-ranked Evil Beasts, more than 3,000 Lord-ranked, and 200 Great Lord-ranked, with more than 40 High Great Lords.

But that's not the most important thing.

In order to make sure Zero Wing Guild was finished off and to prevent the accident that happened last time, resources were gathered to create five Level 70 Legendary Evil Beasts.

In the face of such power, the defense of Shilin Town was a joke.

Not to mention the fiend army that Qi Yi Tao had been working so hard to cultivate. Although the number was not large, only more than 6,000, their threat to players was probably no weaker than the Evil Beast army.

"Good, let's slowly proceed this way and let these Zero Wing people experience what despair is like," Qi Yi Tao couldn't help laughing loudly.

He had endured for too long for this moment.

It was all because of the existence of Zero Wing Guild that his plan to control Star-Moon Kingdom had fallen short. But this time, he would not give Zero Wing Guild the slightest chance. As long as he destroyed Shilin Town and proved his strength to the consortium, he would definitely be able to restore his previous position in the Blackwater Consortium.

On the other side, the sudden appearance of the Evil Beast army immediately attracted the attention of all major forces in Star-Moon Kingdom.

After all, the number and strength of these Evil Beast armies were extraordinary. They could easily crush any guild town. If it were their turn, it would be a tragedy.

Especially the guilds in Star-Moon City. Although they already knew that there were many Evil Beast activities in Star-Moon City, causing them considerable losses, they did not expect it to reach this point.

"What? You said these monster armies are heading towards Shilin Town?"

"This is interesting. Faced with so many monsters, even Zero Wing Guild is probably no match."

"Hahaha, heaven is helping me! If Zero Wing Guild doesn't have Shilin Town, what if they have guild mounts?"

...

After the major forces sent people to investigate the movements of the monster army, they all gloated.

The sense of crisis that Zero Wing Guild had brought before was completely gone.

The players in Shilin Town were even more in an uproar.

"Why are these monsters coming here? Damn it! What do we do now? Our adventure team spent so much money to finally buy a house, is it just going to be gone like this?"

"Fortunately, the residential sales in Shilin Town are tomorrow, otherwise, we would have lost a lot."

"It's such a pity. We finally had such a good town, and it's just going to be gone like this."

"With so many monsters, I don't know if Zero Wing Guild can hold on."

"I don't think it's possible at all. You haven't seen the scene. It's a dark mass of monsters. No player can survive wherever they pass. An assassin friend of mine wanted to record a video, but he was discovered and killed. Those monsters are extremely strong. Moreover, any player killed by a fiend seems unable to log into God's Domain in a short time. My friend was killed by a fiend and is now regretting it."

...

The players in the town were discussing animatedly. Many players were already planning to run away. Some wanted to stay, and others wanted to watch the show. After all, a monster siege like this was not something you could easily encounter.

At the Zero Wing Residence in White River City, the atmosphere was quite tense, and a group of Zero Wing's higher-ups were gathered in the Zero Wing conference room to discuss how to deal with the problem.

After all, there were too many monsters this time. Even if their Zero Wing Guild had Shilin Town as a base, it would be difficult to resist. It wasn't a matter of being afraid of death, but of not being able to log into God's Domain in a short time after being killed by those fiends.

Seeing that the monster army was getting closer and closer to Shilin Town, if they didn't prepare early, it would be really over.

But the Guild Leader had told them to wait here, so their inner anxiety was palpable.

At this moment, in the solemn conference room, the door suddenly opened, and Shi Feng walked in slowly.