Chapter 331: Death Castle (Part 5)

"Damn it!" Chen Ligang spat, "So what do we say now? Just kill our way up?"

Before Ma Linlin could speak, those monsters hanging from the ceiling dropped to the ground in unison, simultaneously firing green Energy Balls at the group.

The moment the Energy Balls were fired, everyone in the squad immediately dodged to the sides, causing the opponent's attacks to all land in empty space.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle~

Where the energy struck, plumes of white smoke began to rise, and the immense heat melted the floor.

Seeing that the first strike had failed, the chandelier-flower monsters prepared to launch another attack on the group.

On the tree vines on the other side, those pods suddenly split open, and basketball-sized imps fell to the ground, revealing ferocious faces.

Just as the chandelier-flower monsters were about to fire their Energy Balls, Zhu Zhiquan controlled the Jingtian Pozhen Gun to grow to his height, simultaneously activating the Nightmare Demon Eye and letting out a roar.

The next second, Zhu Zhiquan turned completely red and appeared in front of a chandelier-flower monster; to the monster's shock, he knocked it flying with one strike of his staff.

This monster that was knocked away collided with two or three of its companions, causing three Energy Balls to veer off course—two fired toward the ceiling, one fired at an imp to the side, and its own hit another companion.

The other chandelier-flower monsters also shifted their targets to Zhu Zhiquan, preparing to deal with him first.

But a blade and a Meteor Hammer landed on them first, and in an instant, they were hacked to pieces. The remaining chandelier-flower monsters were quickly killed by the three before they could even see what had happened.

The imps saw all of this very clearly; the other two who had just wiped out all the chandelier-flower monsters in one go were none other than Lin Ziyao and Chen Ligang.

After killing all the chandelier-flower monsters, the three ignored the imps and focused their attention on the tree vines that were hatching them.

Sensing that their existence was being ignored by the three, all the imps rushed toward them like madmen.

But the rest of the Decapitation Squad were not just air; they launched attacks on them at the same moment.

In just one exchange, this group of imps suffered heavy casualties, and many tree vines began to squirm, recreating a new batch of imps inside the pods.

Lin Ziyao held his dual blades and rushed fiercely to a tree vine, hacking at its stem with one blade, but the blade got stuck in the middle, which made him frown deeply.

Some imps wanted to turn back to protect the tree vines, but Zhu Zhiquan and Chen Ligang quickly arrived behind Lin Ziyao, killing the approaching imps one by one.

The others also seized the opportunity to attack the remaining imps, further accelerating the speed of their destruction.

Seeing that the tree vines were so tough, Lin Ziyao stabbed himself in the abdomen; this scene startled everyone, and even Zhu Zhiquan showed a curious look.

Immediately, Lin Ziyao's HP dropped to 30%, his muscles swelled and tightened as if he had been injected with hormones, and his skin became like a steel plate.

Finally, Lin Ziyao pulled out his blade and hacked heavily at the tree vine in front of him again; this time, the tree vine was cleaved open by Lin Ziyao's blade as if it were tofu.

After Lin Ziyao cleaved the tree vine, he cast a provocative look at Zhu Zhiquan. However, Zhu Zhiquan was busy clearing away the approaching monsters for him and seemed not to notice him at all.

"Boring!" Seeing that Zhu Zhiquan had no interest in such an explosive strike, Lin Ziyao immediately swung his blade to cut off the next tree vine.

Subsequently, Lin Ziyao formed a bolt of lightning around himself and then charged fiercely along a straight line, cutting off all the tree vines along the way.

Just as the others finished clearing all the imps and prepared to help Lin Ziyao cut the tree vines.

They discovered that the tree vines Lin Ziyao had previously cut had actually grown back, and at this moment, the pods of the other tree vines had produced new imps again, rushing in their direction.

Seeing that slashing posed little threat to the tree vines, Zhu Zhiquan immediately unleashed Phoenix Cloud Fire on the newly grown vines.

After four fire phoenixes circled around him, they slammed into the tree vines, and with the sound of an explosion, a sea of fire bloomed amidst the vines.

But to everyone's surprise, these vines were not afraid of fire!

Some skeptical players in the squad also set fire to these vines, but after repeated attempts, everyone finally confirmed that this thing was not afraid of fire at all, and even had a tendency to grow larger.

Just as everyone was still feeling frustrated about this, a large number of vines began to spread from the walls all around, approaching them like snakes.

Looking at the incoming vines, Chen Ligang couldn't help but frown and say: "This won't do, our ultimate goal is to kill the World Boss, we can't waste a huge amount of time on this!"

Bao Erjialuo: "Hey you, Ma Linlin, right? Can you find the exit out of here? Don't tell me we have to go back to that endless staircase!"

"I'll try." Ma Linlin began to release Magic Waves to find the location of the exit. Others also gathered around her to reduce the possibility of her being harmed.

But this time, even though sweat was constantly dripping from her forehead and the vines and imps had beaten a player in the squad into critical condition, she still couldn't find the exit or a suitable spatial node.

At this moment, a hole was suddenly broken in the ceiling, and a group of Treant Knights jumped down from the floor above.

This jump by the Treant Knights made Zhu Zhiquan's eyes light up immediately, and he then rushed under the large hole opened by the Treant Knights, clearing out an area.

He then thrust the Jingtian Pozhen Gun in his hand heavily into the floor, letting it continue to grow longer, while drawing his Five-Star Sword to fight the monsters around the Jingtian Pozhen Gun.

His actions left the rest of the squad confused, and Bao Erjialuo couldn't help but shout at him: "Hey! What are you doing? Get back here quickly!"

At this time, the squad's priest was the first to react, directing the others: "Everyone charge over together, then climb up along his staff!"

This remark from the priest made everyone in the squad suddenly realize, and then everyone rushed to the side of the Jingtian Pozhen Gun, but a new problem arose: how could they help everyone get up?

After all, going up from here would inevitably be attacked by other Treant Knights, which meant the first person to go up had to quickly clear an area, otherwise, the others would have no foothold at all.

And the others could not provide any support for that person; they could only let them hold on by themselves. This difficulty was no less than a vanguard assault.

Fortunately, the Five-Star Sword came with flight capabilities and could carry people to the floor above together.

The squad members did not speak to each other, tacitly letting Zhu Zhiquan, Chen Ligang, and Lin Ziyao act as the vanguard, while the archers helped kill the Treant Knights jumping down from above, and the others were responsible for keeping other monsters away.

This level of tacit understanding was as if they were a team that had already experienced countless life-and-death situations together, but who would have thought that this squad was just a group of players temporarily assembled, and they might not even know each other's names.

Of course, the culprit for everyone being so tacit was the World Boss of this world; if it hadn't pushed the players into a corner with no way out, how would the players have sought an explanation from it?