How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

However, she didn't think about one question.

How could someone who is usually cautious easily expose himself to the attacks of the crowd without making corresponding preparations?

Of course, it’s because the plan has been made.

"Let me guess, do you want to gather all the troops that were left behind? It's no use."

Seeing the figure hidden under the cloak, Isabella realized something was wrong from the tone of voice even though she couldn't see the other person's expression. She suddenly felt extremely uneasy. "What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything. I'm a good kid, but the same can't be said for the kids under me." I smiled slightly. Although I could only see the shaking figure through the black cloak, it was like a dark phantom that gave people an indescribable sense of tension.

The other side wants to start a group fight, and I can't be confident enough to resist so many troops and players alone.

Ivan, Cecilia, and Satasia did not appear next to me, so they naturally went around behind this group of people to deal with the troops left behind on the three routes and the players who came in later.

"I believe the fight is very intense over there now."

Upon hearing this, Isabella quickly turned around, as if she wanted to take the team to check on the safety of the remaining troops.

However, she seemed to have forgotten that this was not a situation where she could turn her back to the enemy.

"Sister, don't forget that I am your enemy."

I swooped down from the air again, using the speed of my dive to swing the sickle with all my might. A slash that seemed to be able to tear through space swept across in an instant, and hundreds of players who were accidentally caught in it were torn to pieces in the blink of an eye.

Fortunately, Isabella's reaction was not weak. She turned around and blocked it with her sturdy hand shield. She took a few steps back before stopping the impact. "Damn it, it seems that I have to get rid of you first!"

However, just as she turned the knight's lance and prepared to charge at the enemy with her men beside her, the figure lightly returned to the air again, and leisurely used the shield that had finished cooling down to block the incoming ranged attacks and magic.

"mean."

Isabella saw through the other party's intention to delay, and immediately asked the officer next to her to give orders, "Christine, Bernice, you hold this guy back, the others will assist, and Sister Anna, you take charge here."

"Peggy, you and I will bring some people back with me."

At the same time, I would like to ask for help from Anna and Peggy who have recovered.

"You're quite smart. You know how to have someone hold me back." Seeing this, I couldn't help but admire him. He was indeed a man who grew up in the military and could make excellent judgments in the first place. "But don't think that I don't have any men to use."

But the other party seemed to have forgotten one thing.

The Evil Corpse Queen is actually a "summoner" rather than a single command-level BOSS.

The familiar scene of the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons reappeared, and with the evil spirits entering the bodies, the monsters below once again replicated new individuals. The sudden increase in pressure immediately made the army and players dare not be careless, and they quickly dealt with the attacks on the surrounding monsters.

Seeing the sudden increase in the number of monsters, his subordinates were overwhelmed in a short period of time and were unable to delay the Evil Corpse Queen.

Anna had already used a large-scale divine spell and could not use it again. The figure above her head was staring at her and paying attention to her actions at all times.

Isabella, who was worried about the safety of the troops behind her, gritted her teeth and thrust the knight's spear in her hand into the ground.

Boom.

Countless tiny cracks instantly appeared on the solid rock surface, and these cracks looked like special patterns, forming a glowing magic circle.

Roar--

Along with the flashing light, a pure white giant tiger phantom, several times larger than an ordinary elephant, leaped out from the magic circle and let out a shocking roar when it landed.

The low-health monsters that were close by were killed instantly upon contact.

The power of the sound waves alone was enough to kill all the nearby monsters. One can imagine how powerful this white tiger phantom is.

Not to mention, he was now being fixed firmly by the White Tiger's eyes, and could feel the powerful pressure.

"It seems that one of the opponent's trump cards has been forced out." I thought to myself. I didn't dare to be careless. I quickly retreated to the rear and summoned the leader-level monsters around to the front, intending to help block one or two.

"Ephis! Go!"

At the same time, under the instruction of Isabella swinging her spear, the white tiger phantom that had already accumulated strength finally launched an attack.

Its already huge body suddenly grew several times larger. Driven by its strong hind legs, it jumped high and pounced on all the monsters in front of it as fast as a meteor.

boom--

A sound like an explosion was heard, and with just one strike, several leader-level BOSSes with about half their health were killed. Other monsters blocking the White Tiger's attack path fell to the ground in pieces, with corpses piled up one after another. The scene looked extremely tragic.

Even I had to retreat more than ten yards in mid-air before I could stop the impact, and the shield that had already cooled down had fallen by nearly three-quarters of its amount.

However, Isabella on the other side was not feeling well either. It seemed that she was not able to exert the full force of this attack, causing her to run out of energy. She could only lean on her spear and gasp for breath on the spot.

But the surrounding troops and players were greatly encouraged. They rushed into the monster group and killed those monsters with low health. The few remaining leaders were also surrounded and seemed unable to hold on alone.

"What a powerful attack. It seems I need to be prepared. I'll wait for you on the next floor." Seeing this, I smiled slightly, put away my sickle and retreated towards the spiral staircase.

It is obviously a profit to use up the opponent's two trump cards.

After all, from the very beginning, I was planning to engage in a war of attrition with the opponent. Since I have the home advantage, I naturally have to make good use of it.

"Damn it! Damn it!" Seeing the figure leave without hesitation, Isabella, who had recovered some strength, knew that she could not stop it. She could not help but angrily clenched the spear whose light had dimmed a little.

She really wanted to vent her resentment on these monsters, but as a commander, her rationality made her lead a part of the troops and quickly rush to the rear of the team.

Chapter 148: Continue the Fight

It seemed that the Evil Corpse Queen also notified her subordinates when she retreated. When Isabella led her men to the middle of the three areas, they only found the remaining troops who were resting and looking exhausted.

Perhaps the remaining army was not weak, or the subordinates sent by the Evil Corpse Queen were not too strong. In addition, with the assistance of the player group that was teleported over, these people only lost some manpower.

Although this number is not small for the army as a whole, it is at least much better than the total annihilation that Isabella had expected.

Through the descriptions of these troops, Isabella roughly understood what had happened.

The troops in the maze encountered an evil corpse queen who could summon all kinds of evil machines. Not only that, her combat capability was also very strong. She could take out all kinds of bombs from under her skirt, which really made these people suffer.

The troops in the trap encountered an evil corpse princess who was proficient in sneak attacks and various insidious tricks. She was familiar with coordinating with the traps and monsters in the area. It is unknown whether these soldiers who survived by chance would find a familiar petite figure under the quilt when they woke up from nightmares at night.

As for the swamp area in the middle, the one fighting was an evil spirit corpse princess who could use fire. According to their description, she was very powerful, which caused the troops left behind in the middle to suffer the heaviest losses.

"Aren't these the same guys we encountered before?"

"Sure enough, he is in the same group as the mastermind behind the ruins."

After hearing the descriptions of these troops, several of Isabella's subordinates, including Peggy, were whispering. As the leaders of the previous operations, they were naturally familiar with the appearance of Ivan, Cecilia and Satasia.

Isabella, who had already sent one of her men to take the wounded back to Nalton for treatment, heard the discussion of the other men and looked at a quiet figure next to her. "Sister Anna, what do you think?"

"For the second level, I don't think it's necessary to split up the team. You saw what happened just now. We don't know if the other side will use the same trick again. If we do, the damage to the army will be huge."

"Well, Sister Anna thinks the same as I do, but I still think it is necessary to leave a teleportation array here as a safety precaution."

Anna nodded, almost understanding what the other party meant, and called some people sent by the church to leave.

Because of the battle with the Evil Corpse Princess, plus the back and forth care of the remaining troops, it took quite a while, and it was already noon.

Isabella took her men and some other people and entered the second floor first, allowing the troops in front to rest temporarily in the open space in front of the fork, a safe area.

The rest of the players and the following troops temporarily stayed at the entrance of the spiral staircase to rest due to lack of space.

It just so happened that the players also needed to have lunch and take a break, so some of the individual players went offline without hesitation, while the guild members went online and offline in batches according to the instructions of the president, vice president or team leader to ensure the safety of the surrounding areas.

Therefore, it was difficult for the group of monsters at the entrance.

It had just been refreshed not long ago when it was cleaned up by the players and the army. Because the bosses and leader-level BOSSes would not be refreshed for the time being, it was not too difficult for these people to clean up the surrounding area.

Yili Qingqiu, who arranged for others to take over the shift, asked the two sisters to go offline to eat and told them to have a good rest. They just had to go online before 1:00 when the army's rest ended.

After all, she is not the kind of black-hearted capitalist who would want to use "child laborers" to work at this time.

"Qingqiu, what are you thinking about?" Qingyu, who also arranged the order of shift changes for his guild members, saw Yili Qingqiu thinking and asked curiously.

Beibei, who was assigned to take over the command, has already gone offline to eat.

"I'm thinking about this defeat." Yili Qingqiu put his hand on the corner of his lips and analyzed, "According to our data analysis, the average number of deaths in the ruins so far is 1.16, which means that most people have died once."

"Of course, it's not a big deal for us, because we can be resurrected and the experience penalty is not a big deal, but it's different for the army. The battle with the evil spirit corpse princess, plus the attack on the remaining troops, roughly estimates that the damage rate is close to 10%."

"According to the theory of war, this number has actually reached a warning line. In addition, Sister Qingyu, you also saw that the army has been forced to reveal two trump cards. And according to the idea of ​​the Evil Corpse Princess, she is already fighting a war of attrition with the army."

"With the enemy occupying their home turf, the army has not gained any advantage before. To be honest, I don't see any chance of success in this operation."

Qingyu thought about it and felt that it made sense, but she still had another thought in her heart, "But the system can't possibly come up with an activity that no one can complete, right?"

"I hope so." Yili Qingqiu murmured.

This was the conversation between Aurora and Paradise Lost. The leaders and team leaders of other large guilds also held more or less the same or similar ideas as the two of them.

There is pessimism about this failure, but there is also hope, as Qingyu said, that Jiyuan will never hold an event that no one can complete.

Soon, with the handover, players came online one after another, and the army's lunch break came to an end.

"The teleportation array has been set up, and I have also deployed defenses around it. As long as we leave some people responsible for maintenance, there should be nothing to worry about." Anna walked over and said to Isabella who was about to get up.

During the previous lunch break, she and the people of the church gave up their rest time and set up a teleportation array on the open space on the second floor to facilitate the teleportation of adventurers and to cover the retreat of soldiers who might be injured in the battle. They treated this place as their base camp.

In order to prevent the previous situation where the evil spirit corpse princess attacked the rear, Anna took the time to create a defensive spell. As long as she sensed that the defense formation was under attack, she could immediately use the teleportation formation here to teleport some troops to defend.

“Thank you for your hard work.” Isabella saw the tiredness on Anna and the others behind her and hesitated for a moment. “Why don’t you guys rest here for a while, Sister Anna? Peggy and the others will leave first, and you can follow us using the teleportation array.”

"No need, we are not paper dolls, this little bit of fatigue is nothing." Anna joked.

Seeing Anna's insistence, Isabella said nothing more and notified all the soldiers to get ready to set out again.

Chapter 149: Situation in the Fork Road

The second floor is different from the first floor, in that there are nearly half as many forks in the road ahead.

After all, compared with the first floor, the second floor has five different area changes. Although the terrain is the same, it is still separated by rock walls, forming a more varied path.

Faced with this situation, although Isabella was prepared to concentrate the troops, it was obvious that this approach would greatly slow down the team's advance, and in the end she adopted a temporary small team combat form.

The army of more than 3,000 people was divided into more than 50 teams, with each team consisting of about 60 people, ensuring that there were at least 12 priests or clergy in the team, and they dispersed and advanced towards the more than 50 branches in the middle.

In order to ensure the overall combat capability of each team, Isabella specifically asked Anna, Peggy and her officers to lead the team. She also led a team of ordinary soldiers into one of the forks.

The army did this, and the many players that followed followed suit.

"Qingqiu, why don't we follow the commander's path?" Qingyu saw that his friend next to him chose another fork in the road that Anna led the team into. Although he followed without hesitation, he still couldn't help but feel curious.

After all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that commander has the strongest combat power.

However, before Yili Qingqiu could speak, Yun Xian beside him spoke first, "Cousin, you are so stupid. The priests and clergy in these teams are enough to deal with those negative effects, and can even assist us players, so it doesn't really matter which one you choose."

"But if that sister is very powerful, she might take away our contribution." Yun Qian thought about it and added following her sister.

Yili Qingqiu looked at the two sisters in surprise. She had never thought that these two little ones could guess what she was thinking. "Xiao Xian and Xiao Qian are right. Besides, I chose this NPC because she is a priest and can provide us with more help."

After all, although players and the army have the same idea of ​​clearing the level, they also more or less have the idea of ​​earning contributions. Points are secondary because the event is nearing its end, and any points will be wasted in the end.

Upon hearing this, everyone in Aurora and Paradise Lost nodded and couldn't help but admire the thinking ability of the two sisters.

"Wow, I was actually disliked by the kids." Qingyu was still worried about being criticized.

However, this kind of thinking is not uncommon. What Yili Qingqiu can think of, the leaders and senior executives of other large guilds can naturally think of as well. It is better to say that this is the habitual thinking accumulated from being in a high position for a long time.

So these guilds each chose another branch road and followed the other officers in front to advance.

The individual players did not have such complicated thoughts. Perhaps they knew that their team's strength could not compete with those of the guilds, so most of them chose to follow those NPCs who looked more powerful, especially the one that went to Isabella's fork, where the most people followed.

However, this situation only occurred to the first group of players. The others who came down from the first floor did not see the specific choice of the army. They might have just heard about taking the forks in the middle. As a result, the number of players at each fork was actually not much different.

There are even some players who don't even know the basic information and randomly choose a direction that actually has no army to help advance. The result that awaits the opponent is obvious, but such examples are only very rare, and those players can only blame themselves for their bad luck.

Even though there were more than fifty forks, tens of thousands of players poured in together, and each fork had nearly a thousand people in addition to the sixty people in the army.

This size meant that except for the players in the front who could keep up with the army, the other players were forced to lengthen the team. Fortunately, Isabella seemed to have foreseen this situation and specifically informed the officers leading the team.

Therefore, each team advancing in the fork was divided into three batches of small teams again, with a distance of hundreds of yards between each team, fighting with players in different areas in front and behind, to ensure that these players would not be disturbed by the suddenly refreshed monsters and cause a gap.

On the side of Aurora and Paradise Lost, because they occupied the first echelon, the four elite groups led by Yili Qingqiu and Qingyu respectively had the opportunity to come into contact with the advance team led by Anna.

As for the remaining elite groups, they were left behind, following the teams in the middle and the back. Even Beibei was assigned to be in charge of the command there.

The twelve priests or clergy in each team are divided like this, resulting in only four people in each section. It seems a bit difficult to handle the purification of everyone.

However, after Yili Qingqiu's observation, he found that although these priests and clergy were not elites, they were also the best among their peers, and each of them mastered at least two group purification skills.

Using them in turns can ensure perfect connection. Not only that, the effects of these group purification techniques are also extraordinary. They can remove five negative states at one time, greatly reducing the risk of transmission of the infection mechanism.

I think the army had made preparations in advance and invested a lot of money.

In addition, with the assistance of the player's priest and paladin, it is enough to deal with the special mechanism of the second level.

What's more, the one they followed was Anna, the elite clergyman who was chosen to be the next head of the Nalton Church.