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

For example, Bonebreaker Garrag is one of the leaders among the goblin players in this area. Leaders are much larger than ordinary goblins and possess greater personal strength and more sophisticated engineering creations, such as Stormclaws, Battle Engines, Large Modified Beasts, and Bolt Guns.

The goblins are here primarily for their two major plans:

First, the "Glittering Heist" plan:

The objective is to seize the rich mineral deposits and elemental springs of the second level of the Underdark.

They established several mining sites here, using noisy, inefficient drilling rigs and explosives for brutal mining.

This behavior severely damaged the local environment and triggered fierce conflicts with gnomes who also coveted these resources, resulting in several large-scale battles between the two sides near several major mineral veins.

Second, the "Bigger and Hugeer! Modified Beasts" project:

The goal is to capture local creatures, such as fire salamanders, frost giants, and mimic stone golems, and through brutal surgery and mechanical modification, create biological weapons with zero intelligence that obey only the goblins.

Inside the defensive fortress, they set up a "modification laboratory" that resembled a combination of a slaughterhouse and a junkyard. The place was filled with the smells of blood, engine oil, and the painful screams of living beings. They had successfully modified some "steel-spiked fire lizards" and "terrifying giants," but most of them had various problems and could only be considered one-time experimental products. However, their technology continued to improve with each modification.

Liu Nian's idea was good—to go directly to cause trouble for the goblin players—but he didn't expect that he would run into trouble himself as soon as he left the fire lizard's territory.

He was originally going upstream along a tributary of a lava river. At first, the journey was relatively calm, with only the gurgling sound of lava and the scorching heat from the rocks under his feet. Liu Nian was thinking about his next hunting plan and didn't pay attention to his surroundings. As a result, he accidentally entered the encirclement of a group of lava mayflies.

"Buzzing—!"

A dense, chilling sound of flapping wings suddenly arose, and countless crimson points of light burst forth from the dense, tiny holes in the rock walls and the ground, quickly converging into a sky-covering "fire cloud"!

【Lava Mayfly Swarm (LV.42)】

These creatures are only the size of a fist, resembling mayflies, and their bodies are made of molten lava and semi-solidified rock. Their transparent wings vibrate at high speed, radiating high temperatures and chaotic fire elemental fluctuations.

The tricky part is that these things are extremely small creatures; a group of hundreds together only counts as one monster.

Moreover, this kind of thing is very troublesome to deal with with fists or swords, and it is basically immune to piercing damage.

Dealing with someone like Liu Nian who fights with his fists is very difficult.

Before Liu Nian could react, swarms of lava mayflies, numbering in the thousands, locked onto him as the "intruder" like an enraged swarm of bees, and swooped down like a torrential downpour of fire!

Their attack is simple: sting and self-destruct!

Each lava mayfly that hits Liu Nian will cause minor damage, but if you punch them, they will explode into a small ball of scorching flame, causing damage after the explosion!

Snap snap snap snap~

-25! -18! -33! -22! -29!

-587!

……

Although the damage numbers are just a drop in the ocean for Liu Nian, whose health is as high as 140,000.

But what's terrifying is the sheer number!

In the blink of an eye, Liu Nian was completely engulfed by the endless "fire cloud"! His vision was filled with swirling crimson figures and constantly exploding sparks. Countless damage numbers jumped wildly from above his head, converging into a continuous red rain!

-29！-25！-18！-33！-22！……

His health points were dropping at a visible rate!

The number of health points lost per second easily exceeds four digits, and it's still increasing!

"Damn it! So many?!" Liu Nian frowned.

He tried to attack with his fists, and one punch could smash a few mayflies, but compared to the huge number of them, it was just a drop in the ocean.

What's really annoying about this thing is that it can't trigger [Heart of Steel] and [Hell Curse], and even Soul Drain Strike can't wipe out a whole group in one hit!

The earth rumbling was useless, because these things were flying in mid-air...

However, Liu Nian was not without options; he still had Unstoppable Force and Deliberate Punch.

The problem is that there are just too many of these things, and the cooldown of the two skills is not short either. How long will it take to clear them all?

At this moment, Liu Nian regretted it a little. If he had known this would happen, he should have raised the level of the Echo. Its sonic attack could easily wipe out a large area of ​​such things!

Just as he was pondering whether to use a deliberate, powerful punch to clear the area, he suddenly heard laughter, as if there were many people—

"Hahaha—!"

"Look! There's a stupid shrimp surrounded by moths!"

"Look at how clumsy he is! Even with a strong fist, how could he kill so many flying insects?"

"He looks like he's dancing! He's jumping up because he was stung!"

"Serves him right! Who told him to trespass on the Fire Moth's territory! He was asking for it!"

"Huh? Black hair? Human? I feel like I've heard that name somewhere before..."

A burst of gloating laughter came from a high ground to the side.

Liu Nian peered through the gaps in the swarming crimson insects and saw seven or eight goblin players standing there, pointing in his direction and laughing so hard they were doubled over. Some were even excitedly patting their companions on the back. Only one looked like he was thinking about something, but quickly gave up and joined the mocking group.

Their equipment was noticeably better than the goblins they had encountered before. They were no longer carrying crude guns, but rather a more complex weapon with fuel tanks and thick, long nozzles!

Liu Nian's tightly furrowed brows instantly relaxed, and even the corners of his mouth curved into a barely perceptible smile.

Just when we were at our wits' end, the firewood deliveryman arrived.

He sneered inwardly, ignoring the mayflies attacking him frantically, and fixed his gaze on the high ground where the goblins were located—

"Unstoppable!!"

boom!

His figure transformed into a violent shockwave, forcefully pushing through the dense swarm of mayflies and charging towards the goblins!

The mayflies he hit burst open, but many more mayflies immediately changed direction, like iron filings attracted by a magnet, and followed him closely!

"Shadow Strike!"

Liu Nian chained his skills together, his figure flashing like a ghost, instantly traversing the final distance and appearing behind a goblin player!

And the sky-covering "fire cloud" surged toward these new targets like a tracking missile!

The goblins' laughter stopped abruptly.

The schadenfreude on his face instantly turned into terror.

"Wait, what?! He...he's right behind me!"

"He attracted the fire moths!"

"Quick! Fire! Freeze those bugs to death!"

"That black hair... black hair... Oh! I remember now, this is the Black-Headed God of War!"