The Monster is Coming

Chapter 334 Card Drawing Time, Arrogant Face (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
The Imperial Tomb Mountain Range.

Another round of fierce fighting is breaking out.

The opponents matched by the system are still familiar faces.

Whenever the God-King's allied forces click "match" in the Emperor's Tomb Mountains, the Earthly Bully will appear as scheduled.

Occasionally, you can even be matched with special guests, the "Battle Zerg".

This time, the number of guilds in the joint battle group has expanded to 18, with a total of 21 participants.

Players converged like an iron torrent, crushing across the scorched earth. The God King stood at the very rear of the formation, holding a white feather fan that could amplify mental recovery effects, looking every bit like a strategist in charge.

He raised his hand, pointing directly at the Evil Eye Tower, and shouted sharply in the battle channel:
"Brothers, kill the bullies, break down the tower, seize the Evil Eye, charge in, and victory will be ours."

The God-King's words about "stealing the Evil Eye" were not a joke.

After all, they were old enemies who had fought for two years. He was well aware of the gap between himself and the Earthly Bully, one of which was that the Earthly Bully possessed powerful war assistance abilities provided by the Evil Eye.

Within the player system, there exists a magical essence that allows the player to utilize other things: control.

In theory, as long as the Evil Eye is imprinted with the rules through manipulation, he will also have a perfect war aid.

Although the manipulated Evil Eye will disconnect from the Black Tide node, lose its ability to retrieve information from the database, and even communicate with the Evil Eye, etc.

But the Evil Eye itself is incredibly powerful.

With this control pet, his battlefield command ability will be exponentially enhanced.

Upon hearing the God-King's call, the battleband channel instantly became incredibly lively:
"The God King said, kill the bully and sleep with the Evil Eye. Although I don't know why the God King wants to sleep with the Evil Eye, I support his decision. Charge!"

"Since the boss wants to use the Soul Control technique to control the Evil Eye, then I'll use the Soul Control technique to control the Earthly Bully as my mount. I'll have it drag me around the map every day, and I'll take my former rivals as my mounts. I'll be the most dazzling player in the monster world."

"Stop talking nonsense and just charge! Today, either the Earth Bully dies or we die. We must use up all our reserves of medicine."

On the other side, the Earth Spirit stood atop the tower, its emotions fluctuating as it heard the players' wailing cries from afar.

"I won't call myself a local bully until I kill all these bastards."

Evil Eye added insult to injury from the sidelines:

"You weren't originally called 'Evil Bully,' it's a nickname the players gave you. Why did you take it seriously? Are you just used to being called that?"

Earthly Evil Spirit: ...

"Shut up!"

Enraged, the evil spirit waved its hand, and the black mist surrounding the tower surged and rushed towards the player army like a flood.

Countless malevolent figures rapidly coalesced within the black mist, falling like dumplings.

The first unit to appear is the Cataclysm unit: the Gold-Eroding Colossus.

They marched through the black mist with earth-shaking steps, forming a natural disaster wall at the forefront to welcome the player legion.

Behind them, the Death-type unit, the Curse Weaver, spawns immediately.

They floated in mid-air, wrapped in tattered strips of cloth, their pale fingers forming in the black mist, each wave etching jet-black curse runes into the air.

Following that were the Razor unit from the Frenzy faction, the Corruption Ball unit from the Plague faction, and the Slaughter unit from the Destruction faction... Finally, the Pain Tide unit, which is independent of the Black Tide system, made its appearance.

The figures of five pain-type units—the Lamenting Daughter, the Wrathful Corpse, the Death Knell Attendant, the Regretful Spider Mother, and the Throat of Terror—emerged from the mist, their bodies shedding the jet-black of the Black Tide system and replacing it with blood-red as the main color.

This is also the type of unit that players find most troublesome.

The Earth Bully is truly inhuman in the eyes of players... even though he wasn't human to begin with.

The units in the Pain Tide system are not very lethal, but they are far more annoying than the Scourge units.

It's like placing a giant mental pollution transmitter on the battlefield, specifically designed to stab players in the heart with a soft knife.

Under the increasingly severe emotional torment, some affected players knelt down and wept, some trembled with their heads in their hands, and some fell into a state of furious rage, swinging their weapons indiscriminately, friend or foe.

As for the player's built-in mental defense safety threshold.

The Earthly Bully has already thoroughly researched it, and as long as the strength meets the standard, it will never be increased. It even actively weakened the Pain Tide system units generated for this purpose.

In order to combat the Painful Tide of the Earthly Bully, the players of the Allied Battleband had no choice but to collectively sacrifice one Star Pulse Slot and embed an Unyielding Soul.

Especially for magic-based players, equipping this Soul is entirely for dealing with the mental damage inflicted by the Tide of Pain units.

The special effect has no other use.

(PS: Unyielding Spirit effect: After releasing the ability, it consumes Qi and Blood to offset various negative statuses on the body (including mental negative statuses). The effect is affected by the intensity of the negative status; the higher the intensity, the more Qi and Blood are consumed.)
With the arrival of the Tide of Pain, players were already donning the Pain Mask even before its range covered the battlefield.

The chat channels of each sub-group were filled with players' complaints.

"Crush it." Just then, the God King's "White Feather Fan" slashed down from mid-air.

The healing squads of the eighteen guilds activated simultaneously, forming a mobile wall and charging towards the Evil Eye Tower.

Ten thousand magic-based players in the rear simultaneously unleashed their Life Soul abilities, illuminating the entire battlefield as if it were daytime.

The evil spirit stood atop the tower, its five fingers suddenly clenching together.

The Tide of Pain Legion let out a shriek, and the emotional damage transformed into tangible crimson ripples that swept across the battlefield.

This time, the player's indomitable spirit simultaneously burst forth with golden light.

"Full resistance activated!"

All negative status effects were forcibly dispelled by the surging blood and qi the moment they touched the player's body.

The wounded warrior, whose blood-burning properties had been applied, had bloodshot eyes and defied the emotional erosion on a spiritual level, swinging his fists with a surge of qi.

The two armies clashed instantly.

In the familiar brawl, psychological taunting tactics also make their appearance.

"You brat, what kind of skill is it to hide in Evil Eye's arms? Come out and fight me one-on-one."

The player at the forefront, taking the brunt of the attack, punched back the colossal body of the Gold-Eroded Giant, and continued to roar with a sinister grin:

"If you dare to roll down and take ten of my Qi-based punches, then you're a coward who's been tough since birth. If you keep hiding on the tower like a turtle, I'll dismantle the base of your tower and use it as a chamber pot."

The moment the words left his mouth, the Earth Spirit on the tower locked onto the figure, and with a flick of its finger, 20 Tide of Pain units simultaneously targeted the player taking damage, unleashing an emotional shockwave:
"You talk too much."

The next second, the wounded warrior's offensive suddenly faltered. Overwhelmed by extreme grief, he began to shed tears uncontrollably, and his fighting spirit quickly faded.

"Palm mouth."

A Scourge unit took a giant step, its truck-sized paw slamming the injured player into the mud.

"Coward, if you're so capable, don't unleash the tide of pain, let's have a clash between warriors."

Seeing his teammate being targeted and attacked by a vengeful bully, the player next to him who was taking damage immediately started to mock him.

As soon as the words were spoken, the evil creature in front of the injured player suddenly opened its mouth and spoke:

"That's called tactical wisdom, unlike you bunch of filthy bastards who only know how to be disgusting."

As he spoke, the Calamity-type evil spirit slapped the tanking player into the mud.

As the war intensifies, the evil spirits controlled by the local bully and the players exchange profanities.

The battle gradually escalated into a massive war of words.

The entire Imperial Tomb Mountain Range echoed with waves of mocking voices.

But the truth is, all the evil voices come from the same source.

The Black Tide Evil Spirit itself has no intelligence and no language; it is merely an extension of the will of the Earthly Tyrant.

At this moment, the Earth Bully was fighting the player legion alone, multitasking and spewing insults that shook the earth, but his own blood pressure was also soaring with each taunt.

Emotions are something you simply can't control.

It's like playing a game where your opponent keeps calling you bad, disgusting, and cursing your whole family.

At this point, blocking it can indeed prevent you from seeing it.

But a line of logic will instantly form in your mind:

What if I block them and they still keep insulting me? Then I'll have been insulted for nothing. What if they think I'm scared...?

All the logic ultimately leads to one result: No, we have to fight back!

So, the evil spirit was completely possessed and decisively started interacting with the other person via microphone.

Anger builds up during this period, like a pressure cooker about to explode.

Although the evil eye kept reminding him to "adjust his emotions," the evil spirits on the ground were no longer listening.

All I want to do is punch all the players' heads off.

The same applies to players; in the early stages, they joke around and sarcastically call someone a bully.

However, under precise attacks that break through defenses, they may gradually lose their mental balance.

Because the local bully's words hit a nerve.

Players' mistakes, captured nervous expressions, and even the slightest hesitation in their actions can all become openings for the Earth Spirit to relentlessly attack.

It controls countless evil spirits, like a malevolent mirror, reflecting in words all the mistakes players least want to face.

"A cowardly turtle."

"Disgusting human-machine interface."

"God King, you idiot, mark your grandpa! Hurry up and go to the crematorium to mark a rally, then drag your idiot teammates to the crematorium together. Group purchase gets a 30% discount."

"You idiot Di Nian, you're just a black turtle cowering on a broken tower. A dignified Black Tide Warrior, yet you're as cowardly as a little turtle. Is Evil Eye comforting you now: 'Don't cry, Di Nian, we must strive, we must work hard, you are the most promising Black Tide Warrior...' I can almost see you cowering in Evil Eye's arms, whimpering. Ugh, disgusting."

Once the psychological taunting tactic is initiated, both sides become the victims of torment.

But no one can stop.

Stopping will only make you the one who suffers more damage. This is the psychological warfare unique to the Imperial Tomb Mountains.

Players who persevere in the fight here have all developed a heart of steel.

If it weren't for the game's built-in death purification mechanism, many players felt they might have died of a heart attack.

Even in reality, I will die from heart failure.

The battle intensified during this process.

Both sides are growing and learning, although the Earth Bully's command ability is growing much faster than that of the God King.

However, the God King's advantage lies in the continuous replenishment of player troops.

In this battle, eighteen top guilds joined forces, unleashing terrifying combat power.

After 2 hours.

The camera pans across the devastated battlefield, arriving at the end of the Emperor's Tomb Mountains, at the Tianyuan Domain node.

The viewpoint shifts upwards, passing through a towering structure ablaze with jet-black flames that pierces the sky, hovering atop the tower.

A burly figure stood suspended in mid-air, with a swirling vortex of dark flames beneath his feet.

It was clad in ferocious armor, with shoulder armor protruding upwards like the fangs of an evil dragon, and a huge, jet-black eye hovering behind it.

"Aaaaaah, I'll knock your mother's head off..."

Hearing the roar of the evil spirit, Evil Eye frowned and leaned back, a hint of helplessness appearing on his face.

Just then, the Evil Eye seemed to sense something, and its pupils suddenly trembled:

"Earthly Thoughts, have you noticed?"

The evil eye's whisper echoed in the mind of the earth-worshipping evil spirit.

"What did you sense?" The Earth Spirit, which was suspended in mid-air, suddenly opened its eyes, its chest heaving violently, its anger still surging in its heart, showing no signs of waning.

“A certain aura… is vibrating at a high frequency,” Evil Eye said, his pupils slightly contracting.

The evil spirit remained silent for a moment, then released its senses, its violent mental energy sweeping across the tower like a tidal wave, but found nothing.

The senses then swept across the battlefield, but still found nothing unusual.

"what exactly is it?"

"A certain ancient and chaotic rhythm is playing, and its fluctuations may tear apart our predetermined destiny, and we don't know where it will lead our fate..."

"You idiot eyes, speak like a human, and I'll knock your mother's ass." The Earth Spirit's forehead veins bulged, and black mist exploded around its body.

"The moon is fluctuating and is about to change phases."

Upon hearing this, the evil spirit was first taken aback, then flew into a rage, its ferocious face contorting as it cursed loudly:

"Can't you just be straightforward? Why do you have to act all mysterious like a charlatan? Do you really think I won't beat you up?"

After speaking, he suddenly looked up without waiting for Evil Eye's response.

The dark red pupils suddenly contracted, reflecting the strange phenomenon in the sky.

On the surface of the crimson crescent moon, a faint, almost invisible ring of ripples was spreading.

"It's begun. Time to draw cards. Prepare to face the judgment of fate." The voice of the Evil Eye echoed in the mind of the Earth Spirit.

The next second, like ripples caused by a pebble thrown into stagnant water, the waves vibrated violently, and Xie Yue twisted and deformed as if being kneaded by an invisible hand.

As time went by, the edges of the crescent moon began to wriggle.

The waning moon enters a state of chaotic alternation.

One second the crescent moon becomes full, the next it rapidly shrinks into a thin crescent.

It had just taken on the outline of a crescent moon when it suddenly expanded back into a full moon.

The entire process of change occurred at high frequency, with the lunar surface constantly oozing a viscous, blood-red halo as it twisted, turning the entire sky crimson.

The eyes of the evil spirit were fixed on the sky.

The moment I've been waiting for has arrived.

On the other hand, players noticed that the Black Tide's attack frequency had decreased, which puzzled them.

When a player shouted:
"The phase of the moon is about to change."

All the players stopped what they were doing at the same time, and 21 eyes turned to the sky.

In sight, the crimson waning moon began to undergo astonishing changes.

Sometimes it expands like a full moon, and sometimes it collapses like a sickle.

Their worst fears have come true.

For the Earthly Bully, the worst outcome would be to keep the crescent moon intact, which would have no impact on the situation.

However, for players, the Earth Bully is a way to draw buffs on top of the guaranteed minimum.

If any one of these four lunar phases is drawn—waning crescent, waxing crescent, full moon, or great crescent—then the tyrant of the earth will surely reveal his ugly and arrogant face.

They will be facing an enhanced version of the Earthly Bully.

Especially the full moon and the great evil moon; if these two lunar phases appear, you can immediately cast your spell.

There's no way to fight them; the combined forces will all face total annihilation.

This is no Ah Le's training camp. In the eyes of the local bully, every player must die.

Regardless of your strength or weakness, you must be forcibly eliminated.

The players in the battle channel were just as tense as the bullies.

"Please, no full moon or evil moon. I'm still waiting to collect sacrificial power to open up new star vein slots. God Emperor, please bless me. When I'm strong enough, I'll offer the evil moon to you." A player clasped his hands together and muttered to himself.

"The Earthly Bully's card draw time is over again. It's so frustrating. How did this bastard survive past the Crescent Moon? I hope he stays in the Crescent Moon state and doesn't mess with my mentality."

"Everyone was having a good time in the Crescent Moon dungeon, why do we have to start drawing cards now? The Earthly Bully's mechanics are already so strong, isn't the guaranteed Crescent Moon dungeon enough? Why do they have to add another buff to annoy people? What are the beings in the Upper Realm thinking? We need to nerf the Bully!"

"Damn it! Where are the beings from the upper realms in the battle group? You're close to the Star Network, hurry up and go to the data center to unplug the network cable. Don't let the Earthly Bully actually draw the Enhanced Moon Phase, otherwise how can we fight?"

At this moment, the God King also looked up at the moon with a serious expression.

We hope that this phase of the moon will remain in the waning crescent stage.

"God King, what if we draw the Full Moon?" asked the vice-leader of the battle group, God's Right Hand, in a solemn tone.

Faced with the question, a hint of helplessness appeared in the God-King's eyes:
"What else can we do but proceed with Plan B?"

"Plan B?" God's Right Hand was taken aback.
"When was it decided? How come I didn't know about it?"

"Plan B is to pretend to disconnect (serious face) and take your hands off the keyboard."

The tense atmosphere was immediately dispelled by the God-King's answer, and the players in the battle group couldn't help but burst into laughter.

As everyone held their breath in suspense, the distorted crescent moon in the sky finally slowed its fluctuations and began to converge its phases.

At that moment, both sides roared.

From the player's perspective:

"Waning moon! Waning moon! Waning moon!"

21 players roared in unison, the sound waves shaking the earth.

Earthly Evil Spirit's Side:

"Winged Moon! Full Moon! Great Evil Moon!!"

Both sides were like gamblers, their eyes bloodshot as they awaited the outcome.

The distorted spatial fluctuations on the surface of the evil moon gradually stabilized, and the crack that ran across the moon's surface suddenly burst out with dazzling blood-red light, staining the entire sky blood-red.

After a final struggle, the distorted moon phases finally settled into a waxing crescent moon, as if bound by invisible shackles.

[Challenger's Note (All Channels): The moon phase in the Imperial Tomb Mountains region has changed to: First Quarter Moon. The region's strength has been enhanced by the third stage of the Evil Moon.]

In an instant, the air on the battlefield seemed to freeze.

Immediately afterwards, the battle group channel exploded:
"Damn it, I'm doomed. He got the third stage of enhancement. It's worse than killing me."

"If you type GG early, this wave will completely fall apart, it's over."

On the other side, atop the Evil Eye Tower.

The Earth Spirit stared intently at Xie Yue, its face gradually contorting, its lips twisting into an exaggerated, almost ripping arc, its dark pupils flashing with a manic light.

"Haha...hahaha." The Earth Spirit let out a hysterical laugh.

At this moment, Evil Eye also let out a completely emotionless laugh, as if to applaud:
"Hahaha."

The laughter of the evil spirits gradually amplified, echoing throughout the entire Imperial Tomb Mountain battlefield, with the evil spirits on the battlefield acting as the main players.

"Hahaha... Hahahaha."

This laughter drove the players crazy.

As expected, the local bully's ugly and arrogant face was instantly exposed after he gained power.

He even had his microphone on full mic and laughed so loudly it was practically a direct taunt.

As the scene distorted, countless high-level evil spirits descended from nowhere, and the Earthly Tyrant's undisguised, gleeful laughter once again echoed across the battlefield:

"You cowards, are you ready for real suffering?"

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