Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

As soon as we entered the city gate, we saw a huge notice board that read:

[Monster Invasion Defense - Recruitment Order]

Meeting point: Central Square of Greystone Castle

[Rules: Loot will be distributed among participants based on their contribution. After defeating a monster, players can claim rewards at the Glory Guild's temporary office using the kill count recorded in the items distributed by the Glory Guild. The top ten contributors will receive additional rewards!]

[Note: This recruitment is open to all players; everyone is eligible! The more kills you get, the more you earn!]

After reading it, Yun Xiangrong felt a little more at ease.

"Let's go to the square."

Hundreds of people had already gathered in the central square. Members of the Glory Guild were maintaining order and distributing a special badge to each participating player—a badge used to record the number of kills.

Yun Xiangrong led her team to receive the badges and pinned them to their chests.

A player from the Glory Guild glanced at them and noticed the words "Divine Dragon Guild." A barely perceptible unease flashed across his face, but he quickly returned to normal.

"Your level is too low, so I suggest you defend the middle section of the city wall and not go to the front," he said.

Yun Xiangrong nodded and led her team up the city wall.

The view from the city wall was excellent, offering a clear view of the wasteland to the east. At that moment, the distant horizon was a dark mass, with countless monsters surging towards them—dire wolves, man-eating pigeons, giant spiders, and all sorts of twisted creatures whose names they couldn't identify.

"Wow, so many..." Kal'tsit swallowed hard.

"Don't panic," Yun Xiangrong said in a deep voice. "We'll fight on the city wall, we won't go down. Ranged attackers, melee defenders, watch your positioning, and don't get hit!"

The players of the Divine Dragon race nodded in agreement and found their places.

In the distance, the monster's roar grew closer, and the earth trembled.

"Ready—" came the commanding shout from the city wall.

Yun Xiangrong gripped her staff tightly and took a deep breath.

coming!

Monsters surged in like a tidal wave, one after another, seemingly endless. The players on the city wall went from initial excitement to exhaustion, and finally to numbness, sustained entirely by sheer willpower.

Yun Xiangrong's lightning magic was almost nonstop. She didn't know how many times she had exhausted her mana or how many potions she had taken. Just casting spells had exhausted her stamina. Her hands were so sore that she could hardly lift them, but she still gritted her teeth and continued to output. When she saw some emergency situations, she endured the pain and drank precious high-level potions to provide support!

Kal'tsit's engineering tools were also exhausted, and in the end she could only shoot arrows one by one.

The other Dragonborn players also fought with all their might. Two warriors, in their desperation, even jumped off the city wall to intercept the monsters that had broken through the defenses, and almost did not make it back alive.

But they all held on. Until the last wave of monsters was cleared out, the section of the wall defended by the Dragonborn players had no flaws and they were even able to support other players on both sides.

Everyone was thinking that they couldn't lose face in this situation, so they were at the lowest level and under the most defensive pressure, but they performed exceptionally well!

At this moment, a deafening cheer erupted from the city wall.

"We won!"

"Damn, it's finally over!"

"My experience level increased by four and a half levels!"

"Ha! I killed 44!"

Yun Xiangrong plopped down on the ground, her hand holding the staff trembling. She gasped for breath as she gulped down a bottle of stamina potion.

Kal'tsit slumped down beside her, saying weakly, "I killed over 70..."

Yun Xiangrong smiled: "I killed 349!"

She looked into the distance—members of the Glory Guild had already begun cleaning up the battlefield, collecting the equipment and materials dropped by the monsters.

"Let's go get our rewards." She stood up and called to her teammates.

More than twenty Dragonborn players helped each other down the city wall and headed toward the temporary office set up by the Glory Guild outside the city.

The temporary office was set up in a row of tents in the center of the battlefield, which was convenient for collecting spoils of war.

At this moment, long queues formed in front of each tent, filled with players waiting to claim their rewards. Yun Xiangrong led her team to the back of one of the queues, watching the players in front of her collect their rewards and leave, a sense of anticipation rising within her.

"Sister Yun, how many did we kill?" Kal'tsit asked.

Yun Xiangrong did the math: "There must be at least five or six hundred monsters in total, right?"

"How much can I get?"

"I don't know, but there must be quite a lot."

The line moved forward slowly, and finally it was their turn.

Yun Xiangrong stepped forward and handed over her badge.

The staff member in the tent was a level 140 human mage. He took the badge, glanced at it, and then looked at the team behind Yun Xiangrong, his brows furrowing slightly.

"The Divine Dragon Guild?" he asked.

"Yes." Yun Xiangrong nodded.

The monk didn't speak, but turned and walked into the depths of the tent, where he whispered a few words to the others.

A few minutes later, the monk returned and gave the badge back to Yun Xiangrong.

"Your rewards cannot be issued for the time being," he said.

Yun Xiangrong was taken aback: "Why?"

The mage said expressionlessly, "There's a problem with your guild's kill log; it needs to be verified. Just wait."

"Is there a problem?" Yun Xiangrong asked anxiously. "What problem? We fought the entire time on the city wall. How could the records be false?"

The monk waved his hand: "This is a decision from above; I'm just relaying the message. You just wait."

After saying that, he ignored Yun Xiangrong and called to the people behind him, "Next!"

Yun Xiangrong stood there, sensing that something was wrong.

Kal'tsit shouted from the side, "Why?! We've killed so many monsters, why won't we get it?!"

The monk gave her a cold look: "I said, wait. If you make another sound, you'll be disqualified."

The players behind started making a fuss:

"Hurry up, or get out of the way!"

"Don't waste time!"

"Small guilds just have so much trouble..."

Yun Xiangrong bit her lip and pulled Kal'tsit aside.

"Wait," she said. "We'll wait."

This wait lasted for half an hour.

During this time, Yun Xiangrong asked several times, and each time she received the same reply: "Still verifying," "Wait a little longer," "What's the rush?" Meanwhile, the other players all collected their rewards and left happily.

In the end, only about twenty members of the Dragonborn and a few members of the Glory Guild remained in the square.

Yun Xiangrong finally couldn't hold back any longer and rushed into the tent.

"Can you give it to me or not?! Give me a straight answer!"

Several people were sitting in the tent, led by a level 170 human warrior—the same one who had been directing operations on the city wall earlier. He was currently drinking tea with his legs crossed, and when he saw Yun Xiangrong rush in, a playful smile appeared on his lips.

"Oh, you're still waiting?"

Yun Xiangrong gritted her teeth: "What do you mean?"

The soldier put down his teacup and said slowly, "It's nothing. We just checked your kill logs for a long time and found a problem."

"What's the problem?"

"The badge numbers are wrong. How could a few of you, all below level 120, kill over six hundred?"