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Chapter 99 The First Rift in a Level 3 Territory (Third Update, Please Follow for More)

"Hey, it actually opened. It seems that the level 3 territory's tolerance isn't very high. Two level 4s have already triggered the rift."

Although Erhu was making sarcastic remarks, there wasn't a trace of a joke on his face.

For him, the rifts caused by level 3 territories are very different from those caused by level 2 territories.

Even he wouldn't dare to underestimate them.

"Brother, the rift has opened?" Although Fang Nian could not feel the fluctuations, she was still aware that the atmosphere in the room had suddenly turned cold.

"Hmm, it's open~" Fang Si squinted, staring intently at the starlight in the south.

Fang Nian asked softly, "Brother, can I take a look?"

"Come on!" Fang Si bent down and stretched out her arm to Fang Nian, pulling Fang Nian up onto the wall.

Following the direction Fang Si pointed, Fang Nian saw the glittering starlight.

"Is this the fissure? It's so beautiful!"

"It looks nice, but nobody will like it."

Sui An raised his binoculars, and the crack several hundred meters away was now clearly visible. The flames were gradually rising upwards, reaching a height of about three meters, but were still slowly moving upwards.

"Something's not right, this time it's over 3 meters!"

Erhu's expression also darkened. The last 3-meter rift brought a level 3 source beast rock golem and four level 4 breakthrough bodies.

If the rift continues to open this time, it will be larger than the last one.

But something's not right. There's no way two level 4 professionals could attract a group of level 4 source beasts.

The flames finally stopped about four meters above the ground, and a thick, ice-blue arm stretched out from the starlight.

"Could this be an Ice Crystal Giant—?"

Fang Si frowned deeply. He had traveled all over the country and had seen a lot. He could make a judgment from this arm.

Under the dazzling starlight, a three-meter-tall humanoid ice crystal appeared. Its entire body was composed of rhomboid ice crystals, almost identical to a human, except that it was more robust.

"It really is a Level 3 Elite Source Beast, an Ice Crystal Giant!"

"This is troublesome!"

Sui An put down his binoculars. Unlike Fang Si, who was very knowledgeable, he opened the illustrated guide to check. Fortunately, it was recorded in the guide.

Ice Crystal Giants are elemental source beasts. Adults are level three, nearly three meters tall. They generally live in groups in extremely cold regions such as snow mountains. Those with strong talents can break through to level four, growing to about four meters tall. They are born with the ability to manipulate ice source energy to form various shaping attacks.

The kill risk is elite level.

Sui An frowned. As elemental beings, the rock golem was only of ordinary risk, but the ice crystal giant was a true elite.

This shows that the Ice Giant has far fewer obvious weaknesses compared to the Rock Golem.

The level 3 Ice Crystal Giant is the same height as the level 4 Rock Golem.

Although it is taller, it is not as bulky as the rock golem.

Compared to the other, one is a super-obese person and the other is the size of an athlete. Naturally, the Ice Crystal Giant is more coordinated and faster.

Its ice-based energy attacks are more powerful, and it possesses higher intelligence.

This may be the difference between the names "puppet" and "giant".

"A level 4 Ice Crystal Giant!"

Fang Si let out a low cry as he watched a nearly four-meter-tall azure ice crystal giant suddenly appear in the rift in the distance, its straight sword already drawn.

"This thing is extremely adept at ranged attacks. Erhu, let's go and kill it first. Otherwise, once it gets close, the energy shield of our territory might not be able to withstand a single blow, and the pressure will be too great!"

"You think you can beat him?" Erhu was stunned. His first reaction wasn't whether or not to go, but rather that Fang Si meant he could kill this level 4 elite source beast!

This is a level 4 breakthrough form of an elite race; its combat power is not something that ordinary level 4 source beasts can easily rival!

But a voice came from beside Fang Si: "No need!"

"What?"

Fang Si suddenly turned her head to look at Sui An on the watchtower beside her, somewhat puzzled.

Sui An said solemnly, "Just guard the wall for now, you don't need to go out."

Fang Si looked at Sui An's expression and was about to continue speaking when she realized that Sui An was not joking.

He turned to look at another level four professional in the territory, who was still sitting on the wall playing the erhu. Suddenly, he felt relieved and sat down like the erhu player.

He then remembered that this territory had easily wiped out a level 4 hunting party, and in his nervousness, he had even forgotten about it.

A blue barrier spread out from around the wooden house, quickly covering the entire area within the walls.

Having learned his lesson from the long-range stone-throwing attack, Sui An dared not underestimate the ranged attacks of these level 4 source beasts and immediately activated the Thousand Wind Barrier to replace the energy shield.

"What is this? It's so beautiful!" Fang Nian asked softly as she returned to the courtyard. Even under the blood moon, the cyan barrier was still dazzling.

"It's a barrier-type building!"

Fang Si seemed to be deep in thought. This type of building was rare, and judging from the energy reaction of this barrier, it seemed to be very powerful.

Three streaks of fire rose into the sky. Fang Si suddenly looked up and muttered to himself, "Are these the legendary three purple buildings?"

"Let me see if it's really as shocking as those people say!"

Beyond one of the flames, a massive eight-meter-long flaming sword rapidly condensed, shining brilliantly in Fang Si's eyes.

"Whoosh~"

With a sudden whooshing sound, the flaming greatsword was already thrown at the surging group, led by the four-meter-tall ice crystal giant.

As expected, the ice crystal giant was much more intelligent; it seemed to have sensed something when the greatsword was being condensed.

A massive prismatic ice mirror condensed in front of it, instantly expanding to seven or eight meters in size, protecting it and the ice crystal giant behind it, shining brightly.

boom!

The flaming greatsword collided with the ice mirror, and the enormous roar was still clearly audible more than two hundred meters away.

But the ice mirror only lasted for less than a second before it quietly shattered, and countless water droplets rose up instantly, only to be burned away in an instant.

The greatsword slammed into the level 4 ice crystal giant, the immense impact slamming him into the ground, shattering countless ice crystals and leaving his limbs mangled.

But the Sword of Flames had finally exhausted its power and quietly dissipated, transforming into a fiery phoenix that spread its wings and soared, sweeping past the rear of the group.

The level 4 ice crystal giant, who had just sat up, was hit by the fire phoenix and knocked to the ground again. Its already broken body began to melt, and even its elemental core quietly fell from its chest.

Extreme cold and extreme heat collided in an instant, causing steam to rise from the ground and water vapor to permeate the air.

However, in its fire phoenix form, the temperature of the flames was greatly amplified. The ice crystal giants along the path used defensive measures, but they all melted quietly in the flame waves, and countless eerie roars came to an abrupt end.

The icy blue team in the distance dwindled significantly in an instant, and the terrifying pressure emanating from their elite-level strength quietly dissipated.

"This ice crystal giant's defensive capabilities are rather average, or perhaps it's countered by the high temperatures of fire."

"In its level three Fire Phoenix form, it flew about twenty-five meters. As expected, its attack range has increased again!"

Looking at the results of the battle in the distance, Sui An was somewhat shocked. Apart from the high consumption, the Sword Star Totem was just too unreasonable.

Attack power, attack range, and destructive radius will all be improved with upgrades.

Pure violence is the epitome of violence!

"I like!"

With a single sword strike, he annihilated an elite-level level 4 source beast and also eliminated dozens of level 3 ice crystal giants.

Fang Si was shocked, but gradually her mind calmed down.

Three great swords were in the sky, two bright and one dark. He guessed that the cooldown time for the swords' attacks might be quite long.

Because the level three army was already surrounding the territory, Sui An did not continue to unleash the Flame Greatsword attack.

"Is this because they're waiting for the source beasts to gather in a denser concentration?"

But the next moment, a huge witch phantom made of lines appeared before his eyes, and just like when Erhu first saw it, he rubbed his eyes hard.

"What is this?"

Before he could figure it out, he saw the ice crystal giants let out hoarse roars and begin to charge towards the illusion.

Countless ice crystal giants gradually gathered below the illusion. Although the giants were very tall, they looked like children under the 8-meter-tall phantom.

Ice spear, ice hammer, ice arrow, ice spike —

Countless attacks hurtled toward the lines of the phantom, but unsurprisingly, they all passed right through it. Some disappeared into the sky, while others struck the ice crystal giant opposite the phantom with clanging sounds.

"Is this an illusion?!" Fang Si slumped against the wall, feeling his brain wasn't working properly. He rubbed his temples hard with both hands.

He looked at the empty walls beneath him, then glanced at the ice crystal beasts not far away. His mind gradually went blank, and he began to accept these absurd things.

"Boom~ Boom~ Boom~"

In Fang Si's view, only these three elemental statues within this territory were still within his acceptable range.

"This thing seems to have much weaker defense than a rock golem."

"However, their attack power is really fierce. I feel like if I went in, I'd be turned into a sieve in an instant!"

Erhu sat on the wall, watching the elemental statue continuously release lightning bolts. As a level 3 blue elemental building, it could theoretically take down any source beast of the same level with one shot, unless it was a source beast with high defense.

After all, this is the builder, the most lethal class of all professions.

Even for an elite-level Ice Crystal Giant, if no defensive measures are taken in time, a lightning bomb hitting a level 3 Ice Crystal Giant will create a huge gap.

But under the power of the illusion, these ice crystal giants attacked like madmen, as if they had seen their father's killer, with almost none of them defending themselves.

"No, not really. Back then, without the illusions to restrain them, the rock golems would still defend."

Sui An's gaze swept across the field. The level 3 elemental statues were still in use, and could even be said to be at their peak.

At this point, the lightning bolts should probably no longer be called "bolts" but rather lightning balls, almost the size of a person's head. The corresponding blast radius has also greatly increased, probably to a range of two meters.

Such an explosion radius is already considered a small-scale attack. Even an ice crystal giant of this size could be hit by two or three of them at once under this illusion.

"Erhu, I'm leaving the upstairs to you. I'll stay and watch my detection station!"

"Okay, the situation is quite stable now."

"By the way, don't take Tiger out to have fun today. This level 3 elite source beast is not something Tiger can handle. Let Tiger take the crossbow and clear out the wandering source beasts nearby."

"I know~"

Sui An climbed down from the watchtower and then brought a chair from the house and placed it in front of the detection platform.

Not far away, Fang Nian quietly looked over. She had only been in the territory for a little over a day and was not yet familiar with these three young men who were not much older than her.

Even her brother was just someone she recognized.

Looking at this young level 3 lord, who was sitting in the courtyard with a teacup in his hand, seemingly unconcerned about the opening of the rift, he appeared quite carefree.

Curious, she looked up at her older brother's back and asked softly, "Brother, aren't you going out to kill source beasts?"

Fang Si touched the hilt of his sword, and for a moment felt a sense of bewilderment as he looked around after drawing his sword. The area under the wall was empty; where could he find a source beast to kill?

Not needed at the moment.

"Wasn't it said that when the rift opens, there will be a beast tide, with lots of source beasts?"

"There are indeed many, but we don't need them right now."

"Huh?" Fang Nian didn't understand, and even found it confusing.

Fang Si stretched out her hand: "You'll see when you come up here~"

In the distance, Sui An kindly reminded him, "If you want to see, go to the watchtower, don't go outside the barrier~"

After all, Fang Nian is a real ordinary person. Even if his brother protects him, he can still be killed by area-of-effect attacks.

Once outside the barrier, without your control, no outsider can get in. If you're not careful and don't activate the barrier in time to let her in, something bad will happen.

Looking at the barrier in front of her, Fang Si suddenly realized that Sui An was right.

"If you're bored, why don't you go check out that watchtower over there?"

"good!"

Fang Nian nodded and ran to the watchtower next to him, not the one Wang Hu had.

This made Sui An feel a little regretful. He looked up and glanced at Wang Hu above, only to see that he didn't seem to care and was staring intently outside. Suddenly, he felt that he had worried for nothing.

Sui An withdrew his gaze and happened to see Fang Si also turning her gaze away from Wang Hu.

"Cough~ cough~"

"The stars are so bright tonight!"

Erhu subconsciously looked up, only to find it completely obscured by the blazing firelight, unable to see a single star. He turned back, bewildered, to look at Sui An in the courtyard.

"Where is the light coming from?"

"I told you it was bright!"

"What's wrong with you?" Erhu grumbled as he turned his head back.

"Beep~ Beep~ Beep~"

Suddenly, the detection station next to him went off. Sui An turned his head and looked over. Two beams of orange light rushed over from the outside.

The sound of the erhu came through just in time: "Two more level four players have arrived!"

"Alright~" With Sui An's operation, 16 flaming swords cleaved through the sky, locking onto the two level 4 ice crystal giants.

Fang Si suddenly looked up sharply: "Is this the second type of building, or the second attack form?"

He prefers the second form because, in his view, both the greatsword and the small sword have the same shape as the giant sword floating in the sky.

The trail of flames in the sky was more brilliant than fireworks, and the two ice crystal giants below, two hundred meters away, were hit in the blink of an eye.

The fire sword clashed with various ice-based creations.

"Boom~ Boom~ Boom~"

Countless roars overlapped, and countless water mists rose instantly, completely enveloping the area, making it impossible for outsiders to judge the scene inside with the naked eye.