CHAPTER 411: CHAPTER 154: THE TRAGEDY OF EARTH-EATING, BONE FIRE MISSION_6

The remaining Stone Statue Players acted from the outer circle of the team, using the Taunt Soul to forcefully attract the Evil Armor Warriors and protect the central players.

Ink Flame, Magic Tower, Rushing Thunder... various Magic System output traits also bombarded the Evil Armor Clan warriors at this time.

However, they were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers.

"Guidance, how many of them are there?" Fang Zhi asked.

[278.]

"Damn!"

Upon learning the specific numbers, Fang Zhi felt it was bad and then shouted on the voice channel:

"Everyone, don’t spare your medicine. Fight a war of attrition with them, hold on... Ah Le, call all the guild brothers here to help, try to hold on as long as possible."

"Captain, I’ve already contacted the boss."

With the protection of four Stone Statue Players and the occasional Light Shield Defense from support players, the squad held onto the pressure tightly, preventing the Evil Armor Clan from breaking through.

But as the Qi-Blood energy was consumed, the squad’s players gradually became unable to hold.

On the Black Armor Clan side, Evil Nine quickly broke free from the taunt suppression, retreated swiftly out of the taunt’s coverage range, and its red eyes abruptly looked towards the stone slab protected by the players in the center.

It discovered that this group of beings seemed to greatly value the central stone slab.

Realizing it couldn’t break through from the outside, it immediately had an idea; its hoarse voice rang out:

"The stone slab seems to be their flaw, three teams burrow underground and attack the stone slab, looking for an opportunity to kill."

When it finished speaking, a team of Evil Armor Clan members burrowed into the ground.

This utterance translated into the players’ ears, causing the squad players’ faces to change drastically.

"Warriors, take position; Stone Statue Stream, follow me into the inner circle and protect." Fang Zhi roared at this moment.

The four Stone Statue Stream players in the team retreated decisively, while the warrior players moved forward.

As soon as they reached the inner circle, the ground began to loosen, and several figures emerged breaking through the soil, their weapons striking directly at the stone slab.

In the critical moment, three Light Shields formed around the stone slab.

The weapons in the hands of the Evil Armor Warriors smashed against the Light Shield, scattering countless golden light points.

At this time, several more Evil Armor Warriors emerged from the ground, their sawtooth blades turning into phantoms, slashing continuously at the Magic System players.

Immediately, two Magic System players disintegrated into black mist and vanished.

Under simultaneous internal and external attack, the team formation was quickly scattered.

Evil Nine cleverly had the clansmen choose to fight around the stone slab, discovered that as long as they fake attack the stone slab, this group of beings would risk their lives to protect it, making it easy to find a breakthrough point.

This proved its guess correct; the seemingly ordinary stone slab was indeed the flaw of this group of beings.

This tactic made the players burst into curses.

Usually, they fought uninhibitedly, but this time there truly was a flaw.

After all, they’ve received the Inheritance Treasure, next is the task of transporting the ashes wall.

Though the task failure wouldn’t result in any loss, the Inheritance Treasure had already entered the Space Bag, yet their conscience couldn’t cope with it.

This group of deceased Earth-eating Clan members had warmly entertained them; as the captain had said, meeting was ultimately fate.

But now facing the siege of the Evil Armor Clan, they simply couldn’t resist with their current strength.

Under the constant attacks of the Evil Armor Clan, the team continuously lost members, until only four Stone Statue Stream players were left alive.

Even the Light Spirit Feathers in the sky were killed by the Evil Armor Warriors using some kind of ranged weapon.

The remaining three Stone Statue Stream players, led by captain Fang Zhi, circled the stone slab continuously releasing taunts, still gritting their teeth to persist.

"Captain, we can’t hold on anymore."

A teammate’s voice sounded in the voice channel; Fang Zhi turned to look, and the player beside him faded out of the Petrification Form, instantly focused by a dense barrage, disintegrating into black mist.

"Damn it!" Fang Zhi’s eyes turned red, activating taunt again to attract more fire.

But at this moment perseverance was undoubtedly in vain.

Not long after, the other two Stone Statue Stream teammates also followed suit, disintegrating into black smoke.

In Fang Zhi’s eyes of anger, the stone slab was shattered by Evil Nine with one strike, flying debris.

With Qi-Blood energy exhausted, Fang Zhi also faded out of the Petrification Form at this time; under the dense assault, the screen in front of him gradually darkened.

After killing Fang Zhi and the others, Evil Nine squatted down to pick up a piece of shattered stone slab:

"Ordinary material, worthless."

In fact, their original target wasn’t the protected stone slab; they wanted to devour the Qi-Blood within this group of beings.

Unfortunately, after death, they disintegrated into black mist, making it impossible to capture any traces of Qi-Blood energy.

"Next target." Evil Nine’s deep voice sounded.

Before long, the Evil Armor Clan members retreated, leaving only fragments scattered by the wind.

But the Evil Armor Clan didn’t know, they had provoked such an existence.

Just as Evil Nine had speculated, this escort had indeed made the ashes stone tablet the players’ squad’s flaw.

But now, the flaw was gone.

...

Several minutes later, a help post was posted on the forum.

The post detailed how Fang Zhi led the squad’s first encounter with the Earth-eating Clan, being warmly entertained, and subsequently the Earth-eating Clan being village-wise slaughtered by the Evil Armor Clan, as well as the entire process of the posting player’s squad receiving and subsequently encountering Evil Armor Clan’s attack during the ashes board escort task.

The post’s popularity kept climbing; after watching the post’s clip video, many players broke their defense.

The first half of the video was very heartwarming, the squad players happily drinking with the Earth-eating Clan at the village entrance, during which the Earth-eating Clan served all sorts of delicious Spirit Food to the players squad, and the players squad also left Mall resources behind.

Each subsequent visit, Earth-eating Clan members greeted them with smiles, warmly entertained.

But the latter half of the video was chilling.

The village turned into an ocean of fire, black smoke billowing.

In the video, Earth-eating Clan members who had been grinning a moment ago were now scattered across the village, blood trails winding on the ground, many damaged houses on the verge of collapse, surviving elders lingering under the shadow of death, faces showing despair.

The erstwhile vitality and signs of life disappeared like an illusion, leaving only suffocating tragedy.

Having learned the entire process, forum players were infuriated and cursed within the thread.

Once Fang Zhi resurrected, there were already masses of gathered players waiting at the Resurrection Point, voices sounding out:

"Bro, take me along for this strike. We’ve always been the ones bullying others; when has anyone bullied us? Start a warband and pull me into the team."

"Such kind villagers, just slaughtered like that; watching the video, almost made me cry, count me in."

"Brothers, hurry and start a warband, I’m determined to kill this Evil Armor Clan, simply Defying the Heavens; have they tried knowing who the real boss is in the Colorful Mist Coast Region?"

"I was about to go offline, but after watching the thread, I was so angry I was trembling, sign me up for revenge action, I’m going to use Light Shield to smash these Evil Armor Dogs."

...

Looking at the dense crowd of indignant players ahead, Fang Zhi felt moved in his heart.

He then decisively started grouping, pulling nearby batches of players into the warband.

Even the Guild Leader arrived at this time, leading hundreds of players, joining the group.

Upon leaving the Colorful Mist Space, thousands of players marched grandly toward the site of the previous encounter.

During this period, players continued sending private messages, seeking to join the team.

Several guild leaders also reached out, stating they would soon bring guild members to support.

With more and more players joining, the warband’s size continued expanding as they advanced.

The players joining the warband all harbored resentment, swearing to obliterate the Evil Armor Clan.