Nie Yan waited until all his teammates had left before summoning the golden earth dragon back and sprinting away in Stealth. Even if he didn't use a random teleport scroll, no one could stop him!

Only a moment after Nie Yan and the others left, Kuang Fa, Wu Ya, and the rest arrived. The scene here was one of utter devastation. The Mage Union's team was in complete disarray, bodies scattered everywhere. Kuang Fa felt a pang in his heart. So many elite players, all dead. Losing five levels and three pieces of equipment each, he felt his heart bleeding.

"How many casualties do we have?" Kuang Fa asked Xiao Yao Feng Tian beside him.

"About two hundred. So far, the cumulative casualties are over five hundred," Xiao Yao Feng Tian said. They hadn't even encountered the Ni Ren Tribe yet, and they had already lost a sixth of their forces. The Ni Ren Tribe's advantage was growing. If they lost any more, the Mage Union might as well admit defeat.

Wu Ya frowned and asked, "Kuang Ze Nie Yan and the golden earth dragon appeared just now. Didn't you say Kuang Ze Nie Yan was staying in that castle and hadn't come over?"

"Could the information be wrong? But my people saw Kuang Ze Nie Yan five minutes ago. It would take him at least fifteen or sixteen minutes to get here from there. Could it be... teleportation?" Kuang Fa's heart skipped a beat.

Wu Ya nodded. It was possible! He probably used a mass teleport scroll or something. The Mage Union players' hearts sank. The Ni Ren Tribe had succeeded in their sneak attack and might use the same method again. If Kuang Ze Nie Yan launched a few more sneak attacks like this, by the time they reached the Ni Ren Tribe's castle, they wouldn't have the strength to face them head-on!

Just as Kuang Fa was racking his brains trying to figure out how to deal with the Ni Ren Tribe, the thieves sent out by the Mage Union were approaching the Ni Ren Tribe's castle.

Thirty top-tier thieves were divided into six teams, each using their own abilities to sneak closer to the castle, preparing to cause some trouble for the Ni Ren Tribe's players. According to the information Kuang Fa gave them, there were some traps set up outside the castle, and the Ni Ren Tribe's players were sitting idly in twos and threes in the open space outside the castle, their defenses very lax.

To think that a few traps could stop their group of top-tier thieves was too simplistic. However, what happened next was their nightmare.

Five thieves were moving through the forest, sunlight filtering through the dense foliage.

Among the five, three were from the Mage Union, one from the Sacred Guardians, and one from Bloodfiend. The three from the Mage Union were more familiar with each other, while the thief from the Sacred Guardians was somewhat isolated. As for the thief from Bloodfiend, he had a cold expression and didn't talk to anyone.

This thief was Ming, one of the five from Bloodfiend. As he walked, he kept in contact with the other four, watching the four thieves in front of him with cold eyes, deliberately lagging behind.

"Since the Ni Ren Tribe dared to send people to attack the Mage Union, they must have some defenses. Kuang Fa might have missed something. Be careful," Ming said to Lie and the others in the team chat, coldly observing the four thieves in front.

The thief from the Sacred Guardians looked at the three thieves from the Mage Union chatting and laughing and snorted coldly, walking towards a small path to the side, with dense bushes on both sides.

He pushed aside a protruding branch, and suddenly, he seemed to sense something, his gaze turning to a tree branch in the distance. A small crossbow was set up on the branch, and a thin thread was stretched out, tied to some bushes.

When he moved the bushes, the thread was pulled, and the small crossbow clicked, firing a bolt towards him.

A flash of cold light.

His gaze suddenly tightened. It was a trap! But to think such a simple trap could kill him, the Ni Ren Tribe underestimated them too much.

He used Gale Steps to dodge the arrow and hid to the side.

He thought it was over, but it had only just begun!

The arrow shot into the bushes and hit a wooden stake.

The wooden stake happened to have an ignition rune carved on it. After being hit by the arrow, a flame burst out, igniting an explosive rune on a nearby tree, and with a bang, the rune exploded, the shockwave sweeping over.

It was a series of traps! His expression changed drastically. At the moment the explosive rune detonated, he lunged to the side, but what happened next was even more terrifying. His movement triggered more traps, and a dense rain of arrows shot towards them from all directions. Boom, boom, boom, one explosive rune after another detonated.

The five thieves immediately scattered in all directions. The combined power of countless explosive runes and offensive totems was more impressive than any special effects in a movie. Two thieves from the Mage Union barely dodged some explosive runes, but were still killed by the shockwaves from the explosions, not even having time to drink a potion.

Of the remaining three, Ming escaped first. The power of these explosive runes really shocked him. The explosive power of a single explosive rune wasn't much, and with their skill, they could easily dodge it, but such a powerful chain explosion was difficult to avoid. Ming was one of the luckier ones. He was walking behind and easily slipped away when he saw something was wrong. His four teammates, two thieves from the Mage Union, were blown to bits, and the other two thieves ran around like headless chickens.

Seeing that the situation was bad, with explosions everywhere in the forest, the thief from the Mage Union drank a bottle of intermediate instant health recovery and jumped towards an open space, when suddenly, the hard ground under his feet turned into quicksand, trapping him and slowly sinking him.

Suddenly, he realized that within a radius of thirty yards, it was all quicksand traps!

These were advanced quicksand traps! The range was huge! He had seen items for setting up quicksand traps in the NPC store. One item cost almost a hundred gold coins. The Ni Ren Tribe was really throwing money around!

He frantically tried to pull his feet out, but his body involuntarily sank, and he could only sink little by little in despair, eventually suffocating to death in the quicksand.

If someone pulled him out, he might have been saved, but the thief from the Sacred Guardians saw this and didn't dare to come over, turning around and running. He found a stream flowing downstream and plunged into the water, thinking that he should be safe now. The Ni Ren Tribe wouldn't put explosive runes in the water!

With a splash, water splashed everywhere.

He swam underwater for a while, listening to the explosions above, and breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could relax, a muffled explosion suddenly came from underwater, and a powerful shockwave swept over, hitting him hard in the abdomen. A sweet taste rose in his throat, and a mouthful of blood spurted out. His body went numb, and he sank downwards.

He had triggered a goblin water mine!

Immediately afterwards, the vibrations from the goblin water mine detonated something at the bottom of the water, and a green liquid spread out from the bottom. When he came into contact with this green liquid, a strong burning sensation came, and damage numbers floated above his head, his body also stiffening. Before long, his skin turned purplish-brown, and he became a corpse.

The thieves sent by Kuang Fa had tasted the power of the traps set up by Nie Yan. Setting up these traps alone had cost Nie Yan about five hundred thousand gold coins. Ordinary traps were easily dodged by thieves, but these traps were interlocked, making it not so simple to dodge them. Once they triggered one link, they could only wait to enjoy a storm of attacks. No matter how skilled they were, they could easily be caught out by these omnipresent traps.

Almost all six teams of thieves encountered similar situations. Of the thirty people, only eleven managed to escape in a sorry state. The traps set up by Nie Yan left an indelible impression on them. It was the first time they had seen traps set up in such a way.

Nie Yan was very particular when setting up the traps. He had a specialized mechanic calculate the data for each trap, as well as the critical point for triggering the explosion, and effectively combine each type of trap to increase their power hundreds or thousands of times. Of course, this was an expensive endeavor, and it was estimated that only Nie Yan dared to spend so much money to set up such a luxurious chain of traps.

Kuang Fa received the news from the thieves and was dumbfounded. In his habitual thinking, ordinary traps were ineffective against top-tier thieves. Thieves had extremely high Reflex Check attributes and were not easily caught out by traps. Even if they were hit by a trap attack, they would take much less damage than other players.

However, of the thirty thieves he sent out, only eleven returned. They hadn't even seen the people from the Ni Ren Tribe and had already lost more than half of their forces. What was going on? What kind of traps did the Ni Ren Tribe set up? How could they be so powerful!

Kuang Fa didn't know what to do. Kuang Ze Nie Yan seemed to have calculated every step, waiting for him to fall into the trap. Kuang Fa carefully recalled the entire process. From the moment they entered the Land of the Dead and the Ni Ren Tribe's twenty thousand elites headed towards Moonlight City with ironclad catapults, they had been led by the nose by the Ni Ren Tribe. The Ni Ren Tribe could slowly drag out the time, sending top-tier thieves to wear down their strength, everything was under their control. And the Mage Union, wanting to quickly engage in a decisive battle, couldn't find the Ni Ren Tribe's main force and was suffering from the Ni Ren Tribe's sneak attacks. Thus, they were tragic.

In this situation, what should Kuang Fa do? Everything seemed to have fallen into an unsolvable situation.

The gradually increasing casualties made Kuang Fa somewhat anxious. Was this battle in the Land of the Dead destined to be a tragedy for the Mage Union? If it was just because their strength was not enough, he would have accepted it, but he was really unwilling to lose like this.

Kuang Ze Nie Yan, dare to fight a fair and square battle?