Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

Even extraordinary individuals on missions at the edge of the Flame Realm need to be Iron 3 stars, but players with Iron 2 stars are all looking for opportunities to kill weaker flame monsters. There are even some rather strange Iron 1 stars joining in the fun.

They were well-prepared and had many methods. Most of them worked in teams of three to five or ten people to hunt fire monsters, collect fire-attribute extraordinary resources, or complete specific tasks in the game.

Unfortunately, the America authorities couldn't organize them, and there was no unified command among them; otherwise, they might even have been sent to the core area as cannon fodder.

"Quickly! Doctor! Doctor! Superhumans with healing abilities, come quickly! There are wounded here, many wounded!"

"The offensive in Sector B21 is not going well. The monsters from B22 and B19 have been drawn there, and they have joined forces, greatly increasing their strength. Casualties are heavy!"

"Support! Alpha, Gillia, and Torchwood cleanup team, go to support! Dispatch psionic demolition robots! If that doesn't work, use ice bombs, don't skimp on supplies!"

"The Bronze Leader of Sector S06 has repelled the Strangulation Squad. We need backup! We need backup!"

"The Red Gate team has eliminated the leader of Sector A19! Prepare for logistical support."

"The A12 area strangulation mission is complete, but there are wounded! Priest Fetman of the Guild of Reason is injured, and the fire poison has been temporarily sealed by the sealing sorcerer. Please summon Father Deva! Quickly!"

It seems even bronze-level experts get injured in battle.

That's normal; those fire monsters are truly the most lethal among their kind. Many monsters even self-destruct!

You're like Fatty. If it weren't him being chased by that fire hawk, but rather Nanaya Saki or even Prada, you wouldn't be able to escape unscathed.

Winston was hit by the scorching jet for less than two seconds, and 83% of his magical armor was destroyed, leaving him with large areas of burns.

That is, Fatty, who is now at the Bronze level, has a really tough body and can withstand a lot of beatings. He is generally not injured by explosions or fires.

After resting for twenty minutes, Zhao Hao and his team noticed that the strangulation mission in the neighboring area had also been completed, so they continued their mission with supplies and equipment.

If they continue advancing without waiting for the surrounding squads to complete their elimination mission, they might end up isolated and isolated.

These fire monsters have one characteristic: the more of them there are, the more powerful they become.

Putting everything else aside, if the temperature rises to over 100 degrees Celsius, you don't even need to be hit; how long could you last? You'd be roasted alive!

Not to mention that once the numbers increase, the ground catches fire, spews lava, melts, and so on, creating all sorts of favorable terrain conditions.

Furthermore, when other fire monsters die, they may strengthen other monsters, or they may turn into flames or lava after death, which can be used by other monsters for attacks and spells.

It must be said that the plan devised by the think tank—to advance along eight main routes simultaneously, divide and eliminate all the monsters, and finally surround the Iron Palace—was correct.

If we concentrate all our strength to push forward along one path, we might attract all the monsters halfway through. At that time, the power of the fire monsters might double, and even give rise to new bronze monsters.

Then the battle will no longer be a small-scale, localized skirmish; it will become an extraordinary campaign!

……

Continuing their advance, after leaving the valley where the Firehawk was, other fire monsters began to appear outside.

Large and small fire elements floated on the barren, scorched earth; they were clusters of fire with human-shaped upper bodies.

It has two eyes and a mouth, and its combat power is not bad. Moreover, after it is killed, there is still flame essence left behind, which can be regarded as a good fire attribute extraordinary resource.

Unlike the naturally grown essence of the inner world, this flame essence is a refined product, a high-end item that can be used directly.

Fantasy Westward Journey players enjoy hunting these elemental monsters and often reap considerable rewards.

Besides fire, there's also the Flame Turtle, whose carapace is made of lava and stone. These creatures are very durable and have excellent stealth abilities. Lying in a fire, they're like stones glowing red-hot in a fiery pit. Initially, many superhumans and players were ambushed.

At the beginning, when we knew nothing about the monster, there were heavy casualties.

In addition, there are lava golems.

This is a three-meter-tall humanoid monster made of black stones. It moves clumsily but has tremendous strength, and red lava flows between the cracks in the stones.

This thing sends scorching hot rocks flying everywhere when you hit it; those melee superhumans have suffered terribly from it.

They also have a scorching impact attack, which can unleash a wave of heat from the stone hand.

Some unlucky ones were swept away and fell into the lava pool, dying without leaving a trace!

Therefore, this geographical advantage is actually a huge disadvantage!

What's even more infuriating is that in the lava pit churning with viscous lava, a magma golem would suddenly appear out of nowhere, its entire body made of scorching magma, splattering magma with its hands and burning a large number of people in no time.

If your fireproof suit is burned, you won't be able to continue your mission in the core area.

Zhao Hao and his group cleared out dozens of small monsters before being blocked by several Burning Treants and a Black Iron 5-star Molten Fairy.

"We can't take a detour, this is our mission area, kill them all!"

It's impossible to tell what kind of spirit this molten fairy was before; it was probably a plant-based one. Now, it's a type with its head on fire and its whole body emitting smoke.

It can fly, possesses a wide variety of magical abilities, and is accompanied by seven or eight Black Iron 3-star and 4-star Burning Treants. If an average superhuman team were to encounter it, they would probably have to resort to large-scale psionic weapons.

After the group eliminated the molten goblins and treants, they found the bronze leader of the area on a lava platform.

A giant lava golem, six or seven meters tall—no, it's called a lava giant.

Zhao Hao pressed the communicator, "Bronze boss spotted in Sector C06. Nearby superhuman teams, please evacuate. Repeat, intense fighting ahead, evacuate immediately!"

The information about the discovery of the leader was also received from the rear, and immediately many images, sensors, and probes focused on this area.

"One good news and one bad news," Zhao Hao said.

Gou Quan/Xiro: "First, the good news/bad news!"

They exchanged a glance: "Shall we tell you the bad news/good news first?"

Zhao Hao ignored them. "The bad news is that there are quite a few monsters. Just from here, we can sense sixteen lava golems, eight magma golems, and twenty-six fire elementals, four of which are at the peak of Black Iron 5-star. There are also probably dozens of fire imps..."

"The good news is that this rock golem is only Bronze 2-star, so we can make things a little easier."

The fat man chuckled upon hearing this: "Overall, it's good news! So what if there are a lot of mobs? We'll just take them down. The boss is really strong!"

Nanaya Saki and Winston nodded in agreement. The Bronze 3-star Firehawk had been relentlessly burning them.

Those five-star Dark Iron characters aren't very useful. But now that there are lots of mobs, their usefulness becomes apparent.

The lava giant was no pushover; after all, it was a behemoth six or seven meters tall and weighing over thirty tons. A single stomp from it could cause the ground to tremble violently. A single punch could send magma gushing from the ground.

And it's really meaty!

He had a lava shield around his body, and Gou Quan's treasured curved sword, which was an automatic attack weapon, would startle sparks with each strike, and then he would stop attacking.

Winston's palm-sized armor-piercing projectile only created a small crater about ten centimeters long.

Moreover, if this lava shield is shattered, it will also cause people to be hit! The power of the falling rocks and lava is immense.

If a lot of armor fragments are dropped, it will spawn a lava hound that's over a meter long! It's incredibly fast!

After fighting for seven or eight minutes, the Lava Giant's "skin" was still not broken, but more than a dozen Lava Hounds were spawned!

This lava giant looks clumsy, but its attacks are all real. It not only has physical, fire, lava, and psionic attacks, but it also uses magic!

A scorching lava attack is unleashed, and psionic energy automatically locks onto the target. A fissure will appear in the ground, spewing out scorching lava. Just run, the fissure will be chasing you.

So far, Zhao Hao has run the farthest—he ran three laps around the area, a distance of three thousand meters, but he still couldn't exhaust the spell. In the end, he had to rely on the barrier to withstand it.

This spell is practical and not flashy at all.

In addition, there are massive earthquakes; any movement can cause a tremor in a certain area, making it impossible to lie still and shake yourself to your feet.

The most ruthless move is undoubtedly the Heaven and Earth Collision!

A lava giant, six or seven meters tall, spews magma from its back and crashes into an area at high speed, instantly destroying everything within a 30-meter radius and turning it into dust!

This tactic forced Winston to abandon his attire and escape using a "golden cicada shedding its shell + octopus jet" maneuver. He lost more than half of his fighting ability and had to quickly put on protective clothing to avoid being burned by the high temperature.

Fortunately, aside from the Heaven and Earth Collision, all other abilities are acceptable, but the ultimate move, Lava Giant, can't be used all the time.

After more than forty minutes, the group finally managed to remove the lava giant's shell. Then, they used the Arctic Glacier Essence Bomb, provided by the Mysterious Bureau and said to cost over three million dollars and be extremely rare, to freeze it instantly!

Zhao Hao and his team eliminated the second Bronze Leader, and other squads and areas also reported good news. So far, they have eliminated eleven Bronze Leaders, and the area to be wiped out has shrunk by more than half!

A giant fire demon clad in metal armor, with a human body and a snake's tail, wielding a steel fork and engulfed in flames; a two-headed lava hound over four meters tall; a gigantic fire elemental elder; a giant lava worm capable of burrowing into the ground...

Basically, all the teams on the eight roads could already see the fiery red molten iron palace in the distance.

The crucial moment is approaching. Although it hasn't fully arrived yet, we are facing God!

Chapter 393 The True Use of a Bronze Master

"From now on, all superhumans below the Bronze level, leave the core area and return to the logistics base. We will evacuate collectively in twenty minutes! Repeat, all superhumans below the Bronze level, leave the core area..."

This message played in everyone's headphones.

Communication in the Inner World is inherently very strenuous, requiring a great deal of spiritual energy.

To address this, the logistics base constructed five temporary psionic communication towers on the edge of the core area.

They're all obsolete now; a million dollars spent on construction went from being built to being abandoned in just three or four hours.

Nanaya Saki, Winston, and Gou Quan told Zhao Hao and the others to take care, and then they withdrew. Those below the Bronze level were not qualified to participate in the remaining battle, and were not even allowed to be nearby.

In reality, logistics bases nearly ten kilometers away would be completely evacuated, because no one could predict the extent of the battle's impact.

But after all, it is a god, and it should be given the respect it deserves.

The people on site quickly left, and all the bronze-level superhumans gathered not far from the fiery red molten iron hall, where the atmosphere was slightly oppressive.

Xiluo tugged at Zhao Hao's sleeve: "How about I sing a song for everyone?"

Zhao Hao: "Let's have something more upbeat!"

"Alright, watch me!"

He pulled his instrument from his pocket—an Italian mandolin, a large-bellied stringed instrument that looks somewhat like a pipa.

Then he immediately played a section of the Wedding March for everyone!

Ta-da! ...

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" The fat man saw that all the big shots were looking at him with expressions like "old people on the subway." He quickly called for a halt.

Older, veteran Bronze players probably think this: You guys are the worst Bronze generation I've ever seen!

"Stop playing that damn thing! You're making me want to go back to my hometown and get married after this battle!" the fat man said in a low voice.

"Oh, how about I change it! Change it to 'Flight of the Bumblebee'!" Xiluo was unwilling to give up and wanted to show off her talent.

The fat man immediately rejected the idea, saying, "Forget it, I feel like we're just throwing ourselves into a flame!"

Although the Bronze-level players were divided into eight teams and advanced in parallel, not every Bronze-level player participated in the battle.

People like Uncle Tie, and several Song Dynasty bronze-level masters contacted by the Red Gate, did not participate in the battle; they had their own missions.

Zhao Hao's side includes: Uncle Tie, the wise monk Zhi Dian, Dr. Sun, a renowned doctor whom Zhao Hao had met before when he was working for the Green Gang and the Red Gate, and Granny Ma Dongmei, a shaman from Northeast China.