Chapter 1 A Familiar Place

As Shi Feng stepped into the spacetime tunnel, he felt a blur before his eyes. When he opened them again, he had arrived at a place that was both familiar and strange.

System: Player has discovered the ancient Twilight Forest.

System: Player will be teleported out of the Twilight Forest in eight hours.

"Looks like luck isn't bad, I actually got teleported to the werewolf area." Shi Feng glanced around, roughly guessing his current location.

Ancient ruins were like special secret realms that opened once every so often. Each time you wanted to enter, you had to complete a key quest, and each time the teleport location would change.

The Twilight Forest was vast, no less than a leveling map in size. It had eight areas, and each teleport would send you to a random one of these eight areas. Each area also had slightly different levels of danger, with the werewolf area being a relatively easy area to pass through.

The werewolf area was mainly dangerous due to the monsters. In the swamp area, you could be swallowed by quicksand if you weren't careful. In the stone forest area, you couldn't use magic. The most unlucky were the ice rain area and the dark area. In the ice rain area, you could be killed by hailstones falling from the sky at any moment. In the dark area, the visibility was extremely low, with a maximum range of only seven or eight yards, making it easy for teams to be ambushed and lose members.

So the werewolf area was much better. The only trouble was the large number of monsters and their highly organized attacks.

However, all eight areas ultimately led to the same place: the center of the Twilight Forest. It was just that very few teams could reach there alive.

After arriving at the Twilight Forest, the group didn't move forward immediately. Instead, they adjusted the team. Feng Qianyu even had a scout team composed of assassins and rangers go around to investigate before deciding how to proceed.

Ancient ruins weren't like dungeons. Dungeons had maps provided by the system, but ancient ruins didn't have maps. You could only rely on players to explore on their own. This was why they had as much as eight hours. Many teams couldn't even reach the central area and instead ran to other areas.

After more than ten minutes of investigation, the various scout teams fed back the information they had collected.

They didn't know until they investigated, and they were shocked when they did.

"Is this a Tier 1 ancient ruin?" Feng Qianyu frowned slightly as she looked at the feedback.

The area they were currently in was very dangerous all around. According to the scout team's investigation, the surrounding area was full of werewolf gathering places, and there were many werewolves patrolling the roads. The number was astonishing, as if they had entered the werewolves' lair.

The easiest way to leave required facing twenty or thirty werewolf squads, each with about a hundred werewolves. Among these werewolf squads, there was at least one Grand Lord-level werewolf leading them. Some of the stronger ones were even led by High Grand Lords. The weakest were all Elite-level werewolves, and all of them were level 52 or higher, with the leading werewolves at level 55.

It was difficult enough to deal with just one werewolf squad, let alone twenty or thirty.

If they accidentally disturbed the nearby gathering place, it would be a nightmare.

Because there were at least ten High Grand Lords and one specialized High Grand Lord in the werewolf gathering place. If they really fought, it would be a dead end.

After several evolutions in God's Domain, even monsters of the same level had strengths and weaknesses. Some monsters, due to incomplete evolution, would first evolve some of their attributes, such as strength enhancement, agility enhancement, defense enhancement, and so on. These monsters were collectively called specialized Bosses, and their strength was a notch above Bosses of the same level, but their numbers were very small.

Even Xuan Jing, who had come to assist, was taken aback by this number and quality of monsters.

She had been to Tier 2 ancient ruins, but compared to Tier 1 ancient ruins, they were really nothing. Even the extremely rare specialized Bosses were numerous here. If they took action, a wipeout could easily occur. Although players who died in ancient ruins wouldn't directly drop a level or lose equipment, they would still lose 20% of their experience points, and dying too many times was unacceptable.

"No wonder they all say that ancient ruins are even more difficult than clearing hell-mode hundred-man team dungeons. This Tier 1 ancient ruin simply makes it impossible to move an inch." Feng Qianyu smiled wryly and couldn't help but turn to look at Shi Feng and said, "Captain Ye Feng, do you have a way to break through?"

"I don't have any way to break through here. The only thing we can do is force our way through." Shi Feng said.

Other areas might have some tricks, but the werewolf area didn't have any strategy. You just had to kill your way to the central area.

"Force our way through?" Feng Qianyu was speechless. It was because they couldn't force their way through that she wanted to ask. If they could force their way through, she wouldn't have asked. "It seems there's no choice but to use the four Tier 3 Summoning Scrolls in advance."

In order to clear the Twilight Forest, she had already prepared many trump cards, but she didn't expect to have to take them out for use as soon as they entered the Twilight Forest.

The others didn't say anything about this. Facing twenty or thirty werewolf squads in a row, the number of level 55 Grand Lords alone exceeded twenty, and there were several level 55 High Grand Lords, as well as a massive number of other monsters. Relying on the current team's strength was too difficult.

If they could have four Tier 3 summoned beasts to block the High Grand Lords, they could reduce a lot of pressure.

"Using Tier 3 Summoning Scrolls now is too wasteful." Shi Feng stopped her.

"That's easy for you to say. Without Tier 3 summoned beasts to restrain them, how easy is it to break through?" Huan Ji curled his lip at this time, but was quickly stopped by Xuan Jing next to him. Then Xuan Jing looked at Shi Feng and said, "I wonder if Elder Ye Feng has any other methods?"

"Yes, we can just charge through together." Shi Feng said.

"..." Everyone was speechless.

If they could force their way through, they wouldn't have used Tier 3 Summoning Scrolls. At this time, looking at Shi Feng's expression, he was obviously very serious, which left them not knowing what to say.

"Captain Ye Feng, then what about the High Grand Lords that charge up?" Feng Qianyu looked at Shi Feng's serious expression and couldn't help but ask.

"The High Grand Lords that charge up can be handed over to the Shura adventurer team to restrain them. The rest of us will eliminate the monsters while advancing towards the central area." Shi Feng explained.

"Hand it over to the Shura adventurer team?" Feng Qianyu looked at Jing Wuming in surprise.

Preliminary investigation showed that there were as many as four High Grand Lords, which wasn't something that a mere hundred-man team could handle, especially since there were other monsters around to interfere.

"We don't have a problem here." Jing Wuming originally wanted to say no, but Shi Feng secretly told Jing Wuming to agree, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree.

When Xuan Jing and the others heard Jing Wuming agree without hesitation, they all looked at Jing Wuming in astonishment.

They had never even heard of the Shura adventurer team, but now they could restrain four level 55 High Grand Lords. It was simply unbelievable.

Feng Qianyu looked at Jing Wuming and hesitated for a while before saying, "Alright, let's try it first. If it doesn't work, I'll immediately use the Tier 3 Summoning Scrolls to assist."

Then the group began to take action, and Shi Feng began to make arrangements in secret.

"Later, Jiu Ji, you will deal with two High Grand Lords. Kuangxiang, you will restrain one. The last one will be handed over to me. Healers, pay attention to the MT's health." Shi Feng said quietly.

"Deal with two?" Gu Jiu Ji was a little uneasy.

"Don't worry." Shi Feng smiled and said.

After all, he had already upgraded the Titan Guard to Epic rank, and now he was handing it over to Gu Jiu Ji to use. And Gu Jiu Ji was a level 53 Shield Warrior, wearing a set of eight level 45 Dark Gold equipment. It would be a joke if he couldn't block them.

Before long, the group began to take action under Shi Feng's command. First, the scout team guided the werewolf squads, attracting those werewolf squads with High Grand Lords to the Shura adventurer team, and the rest of the team directly broke through the encirclement.

The players who came to the Twilight Forest this time were all experts, and they were already very familiar with guiding Bosses. Soon, they attracted four werewolf squads.

"Go!" Shi Feng looked at the incoming werewolf squads and gave an order.

Then Gu Jiu Ji took the lead and came to a High Grand Lord-level werewolf captain, directly using a Charge, and then used a Charge on another werewolf captain, instantly stunning the two werewolf captains.

Werewolf Captain, humanoid creature, High Grand Lord, level 55, HP 72 million.

"Awoo!" The two werewolf captains couldn't help but roar and simultaneously swing down the maces in their hands.

Bang bang!

The maces accurately hit Gu Jiu Ji, directly transmitting two muffled sounds.

Two damages of more than 10,000 popped up from Gu Jiu Ji's HP in succession, and the total HP dropped by less than two-fifths. With the recovery of the four healers in the back row, the HP was restored to full value.

"How is that possible?" Feng Qianyu and the others who were charging from a distance were stunned when they saw this scene.