Chapter 365

Zhuxing Town.

On the rooftop of an unremarkable business hotel.

They had brought a discarded sofa from somewhere and placed it on the rooftop.

Augustin and Samuel were sitting lazily on the sofa, exuding elegance.

Raj from India was staring intently through his telescope at the direction of Qianjun Pavilion on Qianjian Street.

At that moment.

“What the hell?”

Raj let out a startled cry.

“My lord!”

“Look quick!”

“What the hell is that over at Qianjun Pavilion?”

Hearing Raj’s shout,

Augustin and Samuel both looked up, following the direction he pointed.

The next instant,

both of them narrowed their pupils.

Above the distant Qianjun Pavilion,

in broad daylight,

a blindingly bright column of light had erupted!

Five radically different colors, still vivid under the sun, twisted and spiraled wildly in midair like an aurora.

“This…”

“What kind of celestial phenomenon is this?”

“In broad daylight, can forging really produce an aurora? This is way too extreme!”

Raj’s face was filled with confusion and shock.

Samuel stared at the colorful sky for a moment in silence.

“If I’m not mistaken,”

“This should be the celestial phenomenon triggered by the birth of a five-element perfect cultivator.”

Samuel’s eyes narrowed slightly.

“Judging by the scale,”

“Lin Mo’s forbidden-grade specialized weapon is probably about to be forged.”

At these words,

Raj froze in place.

“F-Five-element perfect cultivator?!”

“Lord Samuel, are you joking?”

“Five-element perfect cultivator?”

“Can anyone actually achieve this?!”

“Isn’t it said that dual-element balance is humanity’s limit? How many brains does Lin Mo have to balance five elements?!”

At this moment,

Augustin sneered, cutting off Raj’s shock.

“Enough.”

“Stop guessing.”

Augustin glanced at Samuel beside him and spoke coolly:

“It might not be a five-element perfect cultivator.”

“Who told you a five-element perfect cultivator would cause this phenomenon?”

After all,

in all of human forging history, no one had ever accomplished this feat.

No one knew what the celestial phenomenon of a five-element perfect cultivator even looked like.

Hearing Augustin’s words,

Samuel shrugged indifferently.

“Whatever.”

“It doesn’t matter.”

He leaned back comfortably against the sofa, his tone brimming with confidence.

“Even if this phenomenon truly is a five-element perfect cultivator,”

“so what?”

Samuel sneered.

“Lin Mo is still just a Gao Jie mage. Even if he gets a divine weapon, he’s still just a Gao Jie mage.”

“To us, there’s no difference.”

Hearing this,

Raj instantly switched to a fawning smile.

“You’re absolutely right, my lord!”

“As long as Lin Mo remains at Gao Jie,”

“in the hands of Lord Samuel and Lord Augustin, you two Super Jie experts, he’s nothing but a fart!”

“You two could crush him like a bug!”

Listening to Raj’s flattery,

Augustin raised an eyebrow and couldn’t help teasing:

“Heh.”

“Raj.”

“I haven’t seen any other talents from your Indian people yet.”

“But your flattery skills are truly impressive.”

After being teased by Augustin,

Raj scratched his head awkwardly and chuckled nervously.

“Heh…”

“Lord Augustin, you flatter me.”

“I’m just speaking from the heart, truly!”

At that moment,

the rusted iron door on the rooftop was pushed open.

Sha’er entered in a hurry.

“Lord Augustin!”

“Lord Samuel!”

“Big Brother!”

Sha’er hurried forward and bowed respectfully.

Samuel glanced at Sha’er.

“How’s it going?”

“What’s the status of that outdoor boss outside the city?”

Sha’er immediately straightened his posture and reported:

“Report, my lord!”

“The outdoor boss is progressing perfectly!”

“Our ‘Accelerated Hourglass’ is working exceptionally well—the earth vein energy in that area has boiled completely.”

Sha’er paused.

“We estimate the outdoor boss will fully spawn tonight!”

“Ba Ho is still watching it—no mistakes will happen!”

Hearing this progress,

Samuel nodded in satisfaction.

“Hmm.”

“Good.”

“Once the boss spawns and triggers a large-scale beast tide to attack the city, Feng Cangqiong won’t possibly ignore it.”

“Once he leaves Lin Mo’s side,”

“it’ll be Lin Mo’s death.”

However,

after hearing Samuel’s words,

Sha’er’s expression grew hesitant and conflicted.

“Uh...”

“Lord Samuel...”

“It went smoothly, but...”

Shar hesitated, unable to speak.

Seeing Shar’s hesitant demeanor,

Samuel frowned, his expression instantly turning cold.

“But what?”

“Speak out.”

Seeing this, the elder brother, Raj, kicked Shar hard in the buttocks and roared:

“You idiot!”

“In front of two lords, what are you pretending to be so mysterious for?”

“Are you trying to die with all this nonsense?!”

After being kicked by his elder brother,

Shar shuddered all over and dared not hesitate any longer.

“My lord...”

“There’s bad news.”

“Last night, Bahe and I patrolled outside the city several times. For some reason, the wild monsters within a thirty-kilometer radius of Starforge Town...”

“Are all gone!”

“?”

“All gone?”

Augustin frowned, seemingly unable to comprehend what Shar meant.

Upon hearing this, Shar nodded heavily and continued:

“Yes, Lord Augustin!”

“It’s as if a swarm of locusts had swept through— not a single hair of a monster remains!”

“Even though wild monsters normally respawn on schedule.”

“But with the current respawn rate,”

“By the time tonight’s Boss spawns, the number of scattered wild monsters around will be nowhere near enough to form a beast tide!”

As soon as he said this,

the entire rooftop plunged into deathly silence.

Samuel and Augustin both grew grim.

Not enough to form a beast tide—that would be catastrophic.

For a town,

the threat posed by a wild Boss, if judged solely by the Boss itself, is actually minor.

Any town’s city guard, unless it’s an isolated village,

will have at least twenty or more powerful warriors with high-rank skills stationed there.

Twenty or more high-rank warriors working together can easily handle a normal wild Boss.

What truly endangers a town

is the tens of thousands—or even hundreds of thousands—of monsters drawn by the earth’s energy when the Boss appears!

That dense, overwhelming beast tide!

That’s what’s truly deadly!

Remember,

although high-level players are powerful and their skills devastating,

the vast majority of high-rank warriors possess only one or two high-rank skills.

Moreover,

casting high-rank skills drains mental energy and has long cooldowns—often several minutes or more.

Furthermore, most high-rank warriors’ high-rank skills are single-target damage.

Thus, when a wild Boss appears, the truly deadly threat is the massive, terrifying beast tide that follows.

Dozens of high-rank warriors alone are utterly incapable of handling it.

They might barely finish unleashing one round of skills before the next wave of beasts surges forward and swarms over them.