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

Liu Nian's pupils contracted slightly.

The Sand-Swallowing Beast's body emerged completely from the crack, raising its massive head and opening and closing its mandibles. With each opening, a wave of elite undead clad in dark gold armor surged from the depths of its throat.

Those undead were not ordinary skeletons; their equipment and weapons were far superior!

Rows and columns of elite undead emerged from the throats of the sand-swallowing beasts, stepped onto the Gobi Desert, and quickly formed ranks.

The shield bearers formed a shield wall in the front row, the spearmen set up a spear formation in the middle row, and the archers drew their bows and nocked arrows in the rear. Their movements were perfectly synchronized, like an army that had been trained for thousands of years.

Along with it flew out, there was also a bird-man with an eagle's head and a human body, with a wingspan of over 100 meters.

He held a huge golden scepter in his hand, with a constantly beating heart embedded at the top. With each beat of the heart, a dark golden ripple would spread outwards in all directions.

【LV199 Eagle God Clone (Eternal-level BOSS)】

Liu Nian had defeated the Eagle God's clones more than once, but this Eagle God's clone in front of him was clearly different from the previous ones!

The morale of the Shadow Hand and the snake people instantly soared.

"An eternal-level boss! The Pharaoh hasn't abandoned us!"

"See that? That's the Eagle God! We made the right bet!"

"Brothers! Kill! Kill them all! Leave no one alive!"

"Long live the Pharaoh! May the dead live on forever!"

The Snakemen and the Shadow Hand members unleashed astonishing fighting power as if they had been injected with adrenaline.

Gamor's face turned ashen.

The veins on his rugged, ox-like face were throbbing at the temples.

His bull horns were stained with the blood and ashes of the undead. He looked at the avatar of the Eagle God and at the elite undead legion that kept pouring out of the giant beast's throat.

He knew that if no one stopped these newly joined forces, the Bloodhowl Guild and all the reinforcements might perish here today!

Those elite monsters or players are actually irrelevant to the overall situation; what's truly deadly is that the enemy has an eternal-level BOSS guarding the area!

On their side, the strongest was only Gamor himself—seventh on the combat power list, but even with the help of thousands of players, he had absolutely no chance of defeating an eternal-level BOSS!

Just then—

A golden beam of light suddenly descended from the sky and landed on the other side of the battlefield.

The beam of light, as thick as a centuries-old tree, cleaved straight down from the clouds, exploding into a blinding golden light the moment it hit the ground, sweeping away all the corpses and flesh within a hundred meters. The beam of light lasted for several seconds, then slowly dissipated, revealing a tall figure.

【LV199 Lion King Ryan (Eternal-level BOSS)】

The lion-man, standing over four meters tall, was one of the deputy city lords of the Savage Fortress. His entire body was covered in golden mane, which fluttered in the wind like a golden banner. He wore a full suit of silver-gray armor and held a massive golden warhammer in his hand.

His eyes were dark gold with vertical pupils, somewhat similar to those of the snake-man, but instead of cold, poisonous fire burning in his pupils, they shone with a blazing, sun-like light.

Another eternal-level BOSS!

Liu Nian frowned slightly, sensing that something was amiss.

After the Lion King appeared, the pillar of light behind him slowly converged into a massive portal. Golden flames burned along the edges of the portal, and the space inside twisted and rotated. Then, a steady stream of high-level NPCs emerged from the portal.

The first group consisted of the Lionman Guard—lionman warriors over three meters tall, wearing the same silver armor as Ryan, with identical silver lion-face masks on their faces, wielding long halberds, marching in unison, their imposing presence overwhelming.

The second group was the city defense legion of the barbaric fortress, and the third group consisted of figures riding giant flying beasts...

Gamor's eyes lit up.

"Reinforcements from Savage Fortress!" His hoarse voice crackled through the channel, brimming with the elation of surviving a catastrophe. "Lion King Ryan! And the city defense legions! Brothers, our reinforcements have arrived!"

The morale of the Bloodhowl Guild also began to rebound. Those orc warriors who were just struggling on the verge of despair seemed to be injected with new life when they saw the golden portal and the endless stream of NPCs.

"Fight back! Fight back!"

"The Savage Fortress hasn't abandoned us!"

"Take down those snake-man bastards!"

Liu Nian mingled among the snake people, watching this scene thoughtfully.

Both sides continue to escalate tensions, and the scale of the war appears to be spiraling out of control at a visible rate.

One moment it was a guild war between the Bloodhowl Guild and the Serpent People, and the next it became a battle between the Beast God Legion and the Lion King Guard.

If this continues, will the Pharaoh himself and the lord of the barbaric fortress have to personally intervene? This would definitely be a good thing for their anti-Pharaoh alliance!

But Liu Nian was wrong, terribly wrong!

Because Lion King Ryan did not order an attack.

The deputy lord of the barbaric fortress raised his golden warhammer, swung it around, and then slammed it hard into the ground.

"boom--!!!"

A golden shockwave exploded from the point where the warhammer struck, spreading outwards like ripples.

The shockwave wasn't a damaging skill, but rather a functional pressure—golden light swept across the battlefield, and wherever it passed, all players were disturbed by an invisible force.

Players belonging to the Savage Fortress faction were swept by the shockwave, their combat status instantly vanishing—warriors' berserk stance was forcibly deactivated, mages' spellcasting was interrupted, and archers' fully drawn bowstrings automatically released…

On the other side, the Eagle God's avatar raised his scepter, and dark golden light surged from the tip of the scepter, enveloping the undead army.

The charging Sphinx constructs abruptly halted, their four legs digging deep trenches in the ground; the flames in the eyes of the undead warriors shifted from madness to calm…

The battlefield immediately fell silent.

Just moments ago, the Gobi Desert was filled with the smoke of battle and the deafening sounds of fighting. Now, only the sound of wind, panting, and the groans of the wounded remain, as if someone had suddenly pressed the pause button.

Is this the ability of a permanent NPC?

Liu Nian was secretly shocked by what he saw.

He can deal hundreds of millions of damage with a single punch, and can intimidate thousands of troops with a single move, but he cannot bring the entire battlefield to a standstill in an instant, or cause tens of thousands of people to lose their will to fight at the same time.

This is no longer simply a matter of combat strength, but a matter of rules.

Players belonging to the Savage Fortress faction leaned on their weapons, panting heavily.

Many of them were still bleeding from their wounds, and the claw marks on their armor were still smoking. Their eyes were filled with resentment. They had fought for so long, lost so many brothers, and just when reinforcements arrived, they thought they could turn the tide. But look what happened—you came here to call a halt? Isn't that ridiculous?

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