All players: I can choose my own dungeon rewards.

Outside the valley shrouded in a barrier of light, Li Zhenguo and other Xia Kingdom players continued their all-out attack, causing the barrier to tremble more violently.

Suddenly, Li Zhenguo, who was wielding the Han sword in his hand, felt some unknown force touch the edge of his mind, which immediately set off alarm bells in his mind. But the next moment, this abruptly appearing entity left a linguistic message in his mind, and then disappeared without a trace.

"Be careful! Other players are..."

"Huh? Foreign players are going to gang up on us? Aren't they afraid of the penalty level? And who was this person who just reminded me?"

As the current leader of the Xia Guo team and a highly educated young man, Li Zhenguo possesses standard foreign language skills and easily understood the voice message left by the unknown entity, which was reminding him that the Xia Guo team was currently surrounded by other Earth players.

It has to be said that Li Zhenguo was caught off guard by receiving such a reminder at this critical juncture. He was busy rescuing Wang Zhifan, who was trapped by the barrier, and had no time to analyze what had just happened. However, his responsibility as the captain made him more cautious, and he secretly sent a message to Gu Xingchen behind him, regardless of whether the information was true or false.

Gu Xingchen, as his old partner, reacted quickly. While maintaining his spell output, he used stealth spells to detect the surroundings without making a sound. As a result, he did discover some unusual movements and quickly reported them to Li Zhenguo at the front.

In this way, Li Zhenguo was certain that the mysterious man's warning was probably true, and he realized that they were likely in a dangerous situation and had to come up with a way to deal with it.

"Captain, what should we do now?"

Inside the mental portal, Gu Xingchen asked Li Zhenguo for advice, hoping he would make a decision.

Li Zhenguo responded without hesitation:
"Since things have come to this, we have no choice but to play along. Use your mind magic to warn the others to be careful of foreign players attacking. We'll rescue Brother Wang first, then teleport away as quickly as possible to let those people confront the otherworldly players..."

With timely intelligence, the Xia Kingdom team, while not eliminating the crisis, had a basic response strategy, significantly increasing their chances of survival. Moreover, as a mature team, each member was an excellent actor; knowing they might be surrounded, they showed no abnormality, all pretending to know nothing and focusing their full attention on attacking the barrier in front of them.

Inside the barrier's alternate dimension, Wang Zhifan, with his keen senses, discovered the series of secret actions his Xia Guo teammates had just taken. In particular, he noticed that an outsider had made brief mental contact with Li Zhenguo, which made things even more interesting.

"Did Captain Li plant a spy in the foreign team? I never knew this kid had this skill."

He mistook the mysterious figure who secretly tipped off Li Zhenguo for Li Zhenguo's doing, and for a moment he didn't realize that the other person was actually someone he had met before.

Thus, this unexpected situation occurred. Wang Zhifan felt that the show was about to reach its climax. He controlled a clone of Mengwo who was disguised as being seriously injured. He turned around and slashed back the otherworldly person who attacked from behind. Then he slashed the barrier with a knife, causing the light barrier, which had already reached its limit, to shatter!
In an instant, the space inside and outside the valley was opened up. Li Zhenguo and others on the outside of the valley discovered Wang Zhifan's seriously injured main body clone and rushed to its aid. Meanwhile, the aliens inside the valley also sensed that the situation was not good and their formation became chaotic. After all, they were already struggling against Wang Zhifan's dream clones, and now with another batch of enemies, they were even more overwhelmed. They subconsciously wanted to shrink their formation and retreat as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, further out in the valley, the foreign players, who had concealed themselves using special methods, also sensed something unusual about the situation in the valley. The Xia Kingdom team was currently only having a group of clones fighting against the otherworldly players, and the optimal situation they had been hoping for—a two-way battle where they could launch a sneak attack—had not materialized.

Upon seeing this, the wizard, who was in charge of planning, had a hint of doubt in his eyes. But when he saw Li Zhenguo and the others reunite with the seriously injured Wang Zhifan, and Gu Xingchen immediately raised his staff to activate a group teleportation spell, he couldn't think about anything else. If he didn't act now, he would miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"All forces attack! I'll interrupt their teleportation!"

With his command through the mental portal, players from various countries around the valley immediately launched a silent, coordinated attack, each group of two or three targeting a different Xia Kingdom player, striving to kill their target in the shortest possible time.

Among them, the short, ninja-clad captain from the island nation, Okasaka Himawari, was the fastest. He and two other island nation members set their sights on Gu Xingchen, the mage player from the Xia Kingdom team, aiming to eliminate the Xia Kingdom team's only mage first.

The captain of the US team, Hercules Gize, and the captain of the Evil team, Loves, soared into the sky together, preparing to attack Xia Guo's captain, Li Zhenguo, from both sides. This shows that they highly value Li Zhenguo's combat power and are willing to use two top warriors to keep him firmly in check and prevent him from supporting his teammates.

Other well-known players, such as Kim Sang-myung, the captain of the Korean team, and the Indian expert Lizardman, also had their own goals. The mage expert Kim Sang-myung chose to focus on dealing with Lin Feng-wu, the priest of the Xia Kingdom, while Lizardman summoned lizards to join forces with dozens of other players to deal with Han Yuan-hou, He Long, and Lu Guan-wen of the Xia Kingdom team, attempting to suppress the Xia Kingdom team from the very beginning of the battle.

As for Wang Zhifan, who was in a critically injured state in their eyes, he was naturally handed over to the American magic expert wizard who had long ago demanded his head. What this guy wanted most was the secret on Wang Zhifan's body, and the others agreed not to compete with him for it.

At this moment, in the valley, amidst the chaotic backdrop of the fierce battle between the otherworldly beings and Mengwo's clone, the six members of the Xia Kingdom, united together, protected the heavily injured Wang Zhifan in the center. They felt immense pressure as they sensed waves of murderous intent rapidly approaching from all around.

"Oh no! My teleportation spell was interrupted! It was that wizard who did it! Everyone be careful!"

Holding his staff, Gu Xingchen spoke in a deep voice, reporting the emergency while using a collective defensive spell to help Priest Lin Fengwu withstand the first wave of ranged attacks from all sides, such as bullets and summoned creatures.

Holding the ancient Han sword, Li Zhenguo sensed two familiar auras locking onto him from both sides. However, he did not immediately engage them. Instead, he quickly looked at Wang Zhifan, who was covered in wounds and pale-faced, in the center of the group and said:

"Brother Wang! Those foreigners are trying to join forces to attack us! Quickly send your clones back to defend! Use the otherworldly beings to cover our retreat!"

But Wang Zhifan, who looked to be in extremely poor condition, shook his head upon hearing this, then suddenly revealed a strange smile and said to Li Zhenguo in front of him:

"No, Captain Li, I'm almost gone... Let me use my last strength to clear the obstacles for you!"

After saying that, he vanished instantly in front of Li Zhenguo, his face pale and covered in wounds. Along with him, hundreds of Dream Wo clones who were fighting with the otherworldly players also disappeared, causing a significant change in the entire battle situation in the valley. Those powerful otherworldly players suddenly lost their opponents, and the pressure on them was greatly reduced.

However, Li Zhenguo and the others immediately sensed that a closed alternate dimension surrounded them, firmly protecting their surroundings. Undoubtedly, this was the work of Wang Zhifan, who was skilled in spatial powers.

"What is he going to do!"

"Why are we locked up?" "We can't get out!"

……

The six people from Xia Kingdom immediately felt themselves trapped in another dimension, unable to leave the outside, and unable to be disturbed from the outside.

But the otherworldly players who had lost their enemies and the foreign players who were charging in from further away were unaware of this. They only saw the six members of the Xia Kingdom team standing like fools in the center of the valley, waiting to be overwhelmed by various attacks from all sides.

"Retreat immediately! Let the people of Xia fight the otherworldly beings first!"

Foreign players like Okasaka Hikawa and Lofsky immediately turned back and expanded their encirclement upon seeing this, unwilling to confront the otherworldly players head-on. They knew that the average strength of the otherworldly players was greater than theirs, and that it would be the right time to make a move only when the Xia Kingdom team had exhausted the strength of the otherworldly players.

However, the otherworldly beings were not mindless monsters. They had already noticed that enemy players were surrounding them and subconsciously judged that they were in cahoots with Wang Zhifan and the others who had attacked them earlier. Therefore, they decisively broke through to one side of the valley without engaging in battle with any of the Earth players. Of course, no one dared to stop them.

The wizard outside the valley was overjoyed to see this. He had just thought his plan was going to fall apart and that the Xia Kingdom team was going to escape in the chaos. He never expected that the aliens would run away even faster, leaving the Xia Kingdom team isolated and helpless in the center of the valley like lambs to the slaughter.

So he shouted:
"Let's all attack and take them down! After dividing the spoils, everyone immediately surrender and leave the battlefield!"

Upon hearing this, everyone's spirits lifted, and they began to surround and advance towards the Xia Kingdom team in the center of the valley, sticking to the safe strategy of having multiple people watch out for one person, just like they had done not long ago.

But the wizard soon noticed a detail: his main target, Wang Zhifan, seemed to have disappeared, which made him a little unhappy.

"Could that guy have run away? It doesn't matter, I can use the bronze mirror to find his location, he definitely can't escape."

While other foreign players launched an attack on the six Xia Kingdom players, the wizard took out a bronze mirror to search for Wang Zhifan's location. During the process, he did not forget to guard his surroundings, as he was never careless as a mage.

It was precisely this caution that caused an invisible and colorless high-level energy shield to automatically appear around his body in the next second, stubbornly resisting the attack of hundreds of scarlet, thin tongues that suddenly appeared behind him.

The attacker was none other than Alice, a powerful newcomer to the American group, the strange white woman who had revealed Wang Zhifan's information to him.

At this moment, she appeared behind the wizard for some unknown reason, opened her mouth and used the signature attack of the mutated route, but the wizard's defense was too strong, and her ultimate move that had killed countless enemies was useless.

Slowly turning around, the wizard looked at Alice, who was cautiously drifting backward, and shook his head slowly with a look of great disappointment. Then, he sneered at her and said:

"Heh... Alice, you don't think I didn't notice your little trick just now, do you? It's hard to believe you actually chose to betray us... Women really are incredibly stupid and incomprehensible creatures!"

As he spoke, the wizard suddenly gathered powerful energy in one hand and launched a magical ray attack at Alice that was difficult to dodge, giving Alice an immediate and strong premonition that she might be killed instantly.

After all, given the strength of a veteran top wizard and his understanding of Alice, a new member of the group, Alice would be severely injured even if she didn't die from his targeted attack.

The wizard's strength is among the strongest of Earth's players, but Alice, who has recently entered the ranks of top players, is far from being able to compare with him.

But just as the wizard thought he had casually dealt with a fool, he suddenly felt a chill in his chest. He looked down and saw that a cyan blade had pierced through his heart and was protruding from his silver robe.

"Impossible... My... Thirteen layers of absolute defense... My... Damage reflection... Fatal curse... Emergency teleportation... Impossible... Impossible..."

At that moment, the wizard was utterly shocked. As a mage who loved to roam, he was extremely well-prepared for his own safety. Not to mention how difficult it was for others to get close to him, even if he stood still and let others attack him, very few players in the world could really hurt him. Instead, they would most likely be killed by the reflection of his various spells and equipment effects.

Ignoring the wizard's dying words, Wang Zhifan swiftly pulled the Azure Emperor Blade from the wizard's back. As the wizard slowly collapsed, he spoke to Alice, whose forehead had been pierced by a ray but who hadn't died instantly:
“Old friend, I see your sincerity. I will help you restore him, and all the remaining loot on this guy is yours.”

After saying that, he casually took some of the wizard's equipment and disappeared in a flash.

Alice, who was on the verge of death, felt the hole in her forehead rapidly healing, becoming indistinguishable from normal. This made her instantly feel that her choice was absolutely right, and that the life-or-death risk she had just experienced was well worth it.

“I was right…this man now possesses power far greater than they do…”

Looking at the wizard's gradually cooling corpse in front of her, Alice thought to herself with relief.

It turns out that her decision to betray the US team and help the Chinese team stemmed from her understanding of Wang Zhifan's strength. After experiencing the dangerous and lengthy Calamity Realm dungeon with Wang Zhifan, she was very clear that Wang Zhifan's strength far surpassed that of other players and was incomparable to any Earth player.

Therefore, when she learned that the wizard was planning to harm Wang Zhifan, she had the idea of ​​betrayal out of the desire to survive, and did a series of secret actions to help the Xia Kingdom team.

Wang Zhifan didn't recognize her at first, but after noticing her strange behavior, he decided to approach her personally. He discovered she was actually his former teammate from a dungeon run, so he had her attack the wizard to definitively prove her loyalty. Finally, he confirmed she was genuinely on his side. (End of Chapter)