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

Liu Nian narrowed his eyes. A legendary BOSS at level 499, well... that's not a big problem.

After all, he has already crushed the world boss Pharaoh, so a level 499 Abyss Warlord is not enough to make him back down.

The Abyss Warlord seemed to have some mission on his mind, as he was standing on a high platform issuing orders.

Around the high platform stood a dozen or so abyss sorcerers dressed in blood-red robes, constantly chanting incantations and deploying various magic stones.

The warlocks were all between level 399 and 450, exuding a strong demonic aura. Their blood-red robes were embroidered with twisted runes, and their hoods covered their faces, revealing only the withered skin on their chins.

Liu Nian couldn't quite understand what the other party was doing, so he quietly summoned Arachne.

Arachne frowned as soon as she landed beside him.

"Master, where is this..." she said in a low voice, her gaze sweeping over the surrounding fleshy buildings, a hint of wariness flashing in her eyes.

"Can you help me see what those guys are doing?" Liu Nian pointed to the sorcerers around the platform.

Arachne glanced at it and his expression changed. He said in a deep voice, "They are setting up an abyss passage, and it's already complete. Look at those magic stones—they're already embedded in the ley lines, and the patterns on the magic array are fully lit up."

"You mean a portal?"

"Faster and more stable than a portal, almost like a rift," Arachne paused, then added, "and it's bidirectional. They can continuously send troops from the abyss here, and they can also send things back here."

Liu Nian understood.

Judging from this, they intend to completely turn this place into their territory!

This is not just a temporary occupation, but the establishment of a permanent stronghold.

The area around Forgefire Fortress is rich in mineral veins and is an important transit point in the third layer of the Underdark. If demons were to gain a foothold here, the ancestral land would never have a moment of peace!

Just as he was considering whether or not to make a move, he suddenly heard a loud laugh coming from the abyss passage.

The laughter had a distinctly devilish quality.

Then, the light in the passageway began to shine brightly.

A dark purple beam of light shot into the sky, piercing the dome of the gloomy region and illuminating the entire area in a stark white light.

Within the pillar of light, a gigantic figure slowly emerged.

The first thing to be revealed was the hands, or more accurately, the claws. Dark red fascia covered the skeleton, with no skin and muscle fibers exposed one by one, as if the skin had been peeled off alive, which made people feel a bit of pain just looking at it.

Next came the head, with curved ram horns jutting out from both sides of the forehead, their tips burning with dark purple flames. The face that followed was also devoid of skin, with dark red muscle tissue taut on the skull, teeth bared, and a grimacing expression, as if it were constantly angry.

When its entire body emerged from the passage, Liu Nian finally saw its full appearance.

A tall, thin demon, over thirty meters tall, with not an inch of skin on his body, like a skinned anatomical specimen.

It held a long, flaming whip in its hand, the whip made up of countless burning vertebrae, segment by segment, like a centipede.

【LV999 Skinner - Ferghras (Eternal-level BOSS)】

Liu Nian's pupils suddenly contracted.

It really was this guy!

It was the demon that Gruba Flamebeard summoned back in Forgefire Fortress—that guy had barely shown his face before being punched back by him.

Now, the person in question has arrived in person.

Without a doubt, this is the real person!

But this is just the beginning.

Bograss stood at the exit of the passage, flicking its flaming whip in its hand. It turned its head and said something to the depths of the passage.

Then, the light in the passage shone brightly once more.

This time, it wasn't a demon that emerged.

It is a dragon.

Frost Dragon.

One after another, they flew out of the passage, their wings spreading wide enough to blot out the sky. As they flapped their wings, a gale howled, and sand and stones flew everywhere.

The icy dragon breath spewed from their nostrils, condensing into fine ice crystals in the air. As the number of dragons increased, the originally scorching abyssal aura in the air was actually neutralized to a considerable extent.

These ice dragons all look very similar, with the same pale white scales and dark blue frost covering their joints.

And their levels are all 999!

Liu Nian counted them and found that a total of twenty-three level 999 frost dragons flew out of the passage and found their own places to land in the city.

Liu Nian frowned.

We can't fight them, we simply can't fight them.

Among these ice dragons, there are quite a few of them that are of the same eternal level as Ferghana!

A sense of powerlessness welled up in Liu Nian's heart.

The same group of level 999 eternal bosses...

Although he previously believed that Dragon City was protected by natural defenses, he now has no confidence in those defenses at all.

Even if he can defeat the Pharaoh now, these level 999 eternal BOSSes are guys standing at the top of the entire Cyber ​​Hell!

Liu Nian may boast that he has great talent, but the gap in levels is too big!

He couldn't help but feel worried about the future of the ancestral home of the competition area.

Even he was helpless against those demons, let alone anyone else.

Does this mean... we should abandon our ancestral homeland?

But what about the players who haven't reached level 99 yet? They just used the Ancestral Land Ascension Gem not long ago, and all the resource points... especially Dragon City, what should they do?

Liu Nian frowned. Right now, he had to find a way to resolve this matter as soon as possible.

First, go back to Dragon City. If that doesn't work, we'll have to transfer all the players to the Centaur region next door via the inter-regional transfer channel.

Liu Nian couldn't stay here any longer. He put away Arachne and was about to activate the Boundary Breaker to escape when he suddenly stopped.

Because another familiar figure emerged from the passageway.

Liu Nian's eyes widened suddenly.

That was a snake-man.

Dark red scales, a slender body, and chilling flames burning in its vertical pupils. The way it walked, the arc of its tail's flick—that creature was clearly—

Scales split!

For a few seconds, Liu Nian's brain short-circuited, with only one thought remaining: Rift Scale? How did she get here? Didn't she ascend to the final realm?

Could it be...?

Liu Nian's body trembled as he realized a possibility!

The figure that appeared next undoubtedly confirmed his guess.

The last one to emerge was a demon player, his body shrouded in dark purple demonic energy, his skin an unhealthy grayish-white.

On its forehead grew a pair of short, curved horns, distinctly different from those of a demon, resembling newly sprouted bamboo shoots.

His level was not high, only 163, which made him stand out among the group of level 999 monsters.

But his face—

Liu Nian recognized the face.

Matt!!

A traitor from Earth, who betrayed the Divine Dragon Guild and later betrayed the Ratmen!

Liu Nian slowly clenched his fist, his knuckles making a "crackling" sound.

It turned out to be the case.

He figured it out.