Kill one monster, stack one poison, and I alone will poison my way across the world!

On the other side, inside the instance.

Dark purple mist swirled among the ruins, and the intense stench of blood was almost tangible.

[Successfully defeated the Abyss Ghoul (Elite), Experience +2400]

Successfully defeated the Abyss Stitches Monster (Elite), EXP +2400

A series of system notifications kept ringing in Su Chen's ears, but he didn't even bother to look at them, mechanically waving the World-Destroying Wrath in his hand.

boom!

Another blazing white fireball, five meters in diameter, exploded at a street intersection a hundred meters ahead.

Seven or eight level 50 elite monsters, which had just crawled out of the ground and possessed 40,000 stamina, were instantly dissolved into puddles of green bubbling pus before they could even show their complete form.

"Walk."

With his hands in his pockets, Su Chen walked forward slowly across the scorched ground.

A dozen meters behind him, the "Iron Turtle" defensive formation, composed of forty-nine senior elites, was writhing at an extremely strange rhythm.

silence.

Aside from the sounds of footsteps and the friction of clashing armor, none of the forty-nine people uttered a single word.

Or rather, they've become numb.

It took about fifteen minutes to walk here from the teleportation point.

In those fifteen minutes, they encountered at least ten waves of monster ambushes.

The attributes of each wave of monsters were enough to make even the top instructors at Sky Dome Academy shudder.

But in front of Su Chen, they all only had one move.

Raise your hand, fireball, melt, and keep going.

"I... I feel like we're not fighting a Cataclysmic dungeon, but rather grinding slimes on the outskirts of the starting village?"

In the middle of the line.

A usually arrogant assassin stared blankly as Su Chen unleashed another fireball, turning a Bloodthirsty Gargoyle that was trying to sneak up from the roof into green liquid, and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"I need to finish off the slime with two more hits..."

The archer beside him swallowed hard, his voice hoarse, "He doesn't even stop moving."

Chen Shan held up the heavy, dark gold-grade tower shield, his arm aching terribly, but he dared not relax for a moment.

He watched as those elite monsters vanished into nothingness before they could even utter a scream, and a strong sense of absurdity welled up inside him.

Their team had prepared for three years and written over ten pages of tactical analysis, but they probably wouldn't even be able to push past the first wave of monsters in the outer city.

What does that even mean?

Want to take a walk?

"Su Shen... what kind of skill does he have?"

Li Huo'er gripped her fire-based staff and asked, "What about the casting animation and cooldown of Fireball? Why can he just throw it around like a basic attack?!"

No one could answer her.

Everyone felt like a primary school student just starting school.

"Stop talking, everyone, and concentrate!"

Zhang Ming whispered to the group, "We're almost at the edge of the inner city. Ash Town is just ahead, and that's the real meat grinder!"

Upon hearing the words "Ashtown," everyone's heart sank.

The first major challenge in the Fallen Capital dungeon is the defense of Ash Town.

These soon-to-be graduates had consulted countless guides on the forums and knew that it was a defensive phase where they had to withstand the onslaught of tens of thousands of abyss monsters.

A dozen minutes later, the fog ahead suddenly dissipated.

A dilapidated town appeared in the heart of the ruins.

On the ten-meter-high obsidian city wall, the light of the magic defense array had dimmed to an extreme level, and it could break at any moment.

Outside the city walls...

"hiss--!"

When the forty-nine senior elites saw the scene outside the city wall, they all gasped in shock, and their formation even briefly broke down.

A dark, swarming mass of monsters!

Like a boiling black ocean, it covered the mountains and fields, stretching as far as the eye could see!

[Abyssal Limb-Splitter (Normal)]

[Level: 50]

【Strength: 14000】

[Agility: 12000]

[Stamina: 15000]

【Spirit: 10000】

[Skills: Deadly Pounce, Limb Regeneration, Death Plague]

……

Shadow Thrower (Elite)

[Level: 52]

【Strength: 24150】

[Agility: 23300]

[Stamina: 31500]

【Spirit: 13000】

[Skills: Deadly Chains, Abyssal Fireball, Death Plague]

……

The monsters were piled up in a dense mass, frantically stepping on the corpses of their companions to climb up the city wall.

The throwers behind kept hurling black fireballs at the city gate.

The NPC guards on the city wall were screaming in despair, their blood staining the entire wall red.

"Fire arrows! Mage squad, seal the breach! We absolutely cannot let these bastards get in!"

Captain Rein, wielding his greatsword, had half his body corroded to the bone by the monster's acid, yet he still stubbornly blocked a gap.

"Captain! The city gate is about to collapse! Cracks have also appeared in the west wall!"

The messenger's voice, choked with sobs, echoed across the battlefield.

An atmosphere of despair pressed down on everyone's heart as if it were a tangible weight.

"This...this is the defense of Ash Town?"

Looking down at the thousands upon thousands of abyssal monsters with monstrous attributes, Chen Shan felt his legs go weak and a chill ran from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.

"This quantity...this attribute..."

Li Huo'er's voice trembled, "Even if all the top students on our team were gathered at full strength, we definitely couldn't hold out for half an hour!"

"This is outrageous! Is this really a dungeon designed for players below level 50 who have changed jobs?!"

"No wonder so many predecessors have failed here... This is simply not a place where humans can win!"

"..."

Fear spread among these children of the Heavenly Blood.

Faced with such a massive number of enemies, no matter how powerful Su Chen's fireball technique is, even if he can kill ten people with one shot, how many can he actually kill?

Tens of thousands of monsters piled up, and each person could drown them with a single spit!

Just then, a loud "boom" was heard.

The western city wall finally succumbed to the impact and collapsed, creating a huge gap more than ten meters wide.

A tidal wave of monsters surged in instantly!

"It's over..."

Zhang Ming's face turned deathly pale. He instinctively looked at Su Chen at the forefront, his voice trembling as he asked for instructions, "Su... God Su... the city wall has fallen! What should we do now? Should we split into four groups, with the warriors blocking the breaches in the four city gates, and the mages engaging in a tug-of-war from behind?"

This is the only foolish way to prolong the situation among all the strategies: use human lives to fill the gaps.

Su Chen stood atop a protruding, ruined boulder, looking down at the Ash Town about to be slaughtered, and yawned.

"Splitting the troops into four groups?"

Su Chen turned his head and looked at Zhang Ming with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot.

"Your charge wouldn't even be enough to fill the teeth of those limb-splitting demons."

"Then... what should we do?"

Chen Shan panicked. "The monsters have charged in! If all the NPCs die, the mission will be considered a failure!"

"There's no need for that."

Su Chen turned his head, his gaze fixed on the huge gap in the city wall.

He slowly raised his right hand.

Within his spiritual sea of ​​consciousness, immense magical power instantly surged.

"Smack."

Su Chen snapped his fingers.

"Corrosive Serpent Guard".

Om-! ! !

The entire ground of Ashtown, along with the ruins outside the city walls, emitted a terrifying, teeth-grinding tearing sound at that moment.

"Swish swish swish swish swish—!!!"

The next second, under the horrified gazes of the forty-nine senior elites...

Thirty-five thousand dark purple totem poles, each over ten meters tall and carved with ferocious snake heads, burst forth from the ground like a flood bursting its banks!

Densely packed!

It blotted out the sky and blocked out the sun!

These 35,000 corrosive serpents almost filled the entire field of vision!

They not only completely blocked the gap on the west side, but also spread out of Ashtown like a purple forest made of totems, encircling the entire town's perimeter ten times!

"hiss--!!!"

Thirty-five thousand snake mouths opened simultaneously, emitting a screech that sent chills down one's spine!

On the city wall, Raine, who had been waiting for death with his eyes closed, and the remaining NPC guards, opened their eyes in a daze.

On the high rocks of the ruins, the forty-nine senior elites seemed to have been struck by lightning, collectively crashing into a state of malfunction.

"Bang!"

The dark gold-grade tower shield in Chen Shan's hand slammed directly onto the instep of his foot, but he seemed to feel no pain, his eyes almost bulging out.

"What...what is this?!"

"Summoned creatures? These pillars all over the ground... are they all summoned creatures?!"

Zhang Ming roared at the top of his lungs, his voice shrill like a eunuch's, "One, two, three... there must be tens of thousands of them, right?!"

Li Huo'er clutched her hair tightly, her worldview shattered at that moment.

"Isn't he a mage?! Isn't he a poison mage?!"

"Which mage can summon over 30,000 creatures in one go?!"

"The pinnacle of summoner classes, even a seventh-tier summoner with all skills activated can only summon a few hundred battle pets at most! How can a mage summon over thirty thousand?!"

"..."

The forty-nine people went completely mad, their common sense crushed to dust by Su Chen's unreasonable "layout".

While they were in a state of frenzy and shock, the 35,000 Corrosive Serpent Guards had already automatically locked onto the abyssal monsters within their range.

"Hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss—!!!"

Thirty-five thousand dark purple venomous rays were spewed out like a torrential downpour!

They have woven together an absolute net of deadly firepower with no blind spots!