Chapter 332: Bloody Battle (Part 1)

After Zhu Zhiquan controlled the Five-Star Sword to bring Chen Ligang and Lin Ziyao into the level above, he discovered that this place was extremely luxurious, with various wood carvings everywhere.

On both sides of the room were shrubs; these shrubs first grew stone torsos, then a treant split off from behind them, and thus a treant knight was born.

At the very front of this room was a staircase five meters high, and upon it sat a throne full of bones, on which sat a withered, mummy-like figure draped in a robe with wide sleeves.

In front of the mummy was a floating mirror; at this moment, due to the angle, the image in the mirror could not be seen at all, making one feel that this mummy was quite vain.

Suddenly, the mummy let out an excited laugh, its tone carrying a hint of arrogance as it said, "Very good, very good! To think you could fight your way here; if I can drain all your blood, I will be able to resurrect within a hundred years!"

Crackle—

Boom!

A bolt of electricity flashed by, and Lin Ziyao arrived instantly before the mummy, his hands also slashing toward its head, only to be blocked by a metal staff the mummy had pulled out from who knows where.

The mummy's reaction was so fast that it immediately piqued Lin Ziyao's interest, and he then quickly brandished his dual blades at the mummy, but no matter how tricky his angles were, this mummy could still neutralize his attacks.

At this moment, the mummy's hoarse voice spoke to Lin Ziyao: "What a truly foolish human; do you not know that your attacks are useless against me?"

Unaffected by the mummy, Lin Ziyao continued his storm-like assault on it, while each of his strikes carried lightning, bypassing the mummy's defenses in various tricky ways.

Yet his attacks were simply too weak for the mummy; even if Lin Ziyao managed to land a hit on the mummy's body, for the mummy, it was at most a surface-level ache.

Seeing that Lin Ziyao could not gain the upper hand, Chen Ligang immediately brandished the Meteor Hammer in his hand and charged toward the mummy, but the treant knights on both sides of the room also moved.

The monsters beneath them launched a charge, their wooden spears aimed at Chen Ligang, intending to pierce through him.

"Get lost!" Chen Ligang roared, swinging his Meteor Hammer back and forth, knocking down the approaching monsters one by one like a barrier.

Seeing Chen Ligang so valiant, the treant knights immediately switched their combat style, circling around him constantly and throwing wooden spears from time to time, attempting to wear him down to death.

Unable to get close, Chen Ligang could only dodge while looking for an opportunity to smash the Meteor Hammer into the treant knights.

At the same time, in the shrubbery on both sides of the room, another group of treant knights was born, attacking in the direction of Chen Ligang.

Just as Chen Ligang was feeling a headache, a gunshot knocked a treant knight that was preparing to throw a spear off the back of its monster.

Hearing the gunshot, Chen Ligang immediately retreated to the side of the hole and saw out of the corner of his eye that two squad members had already been sent up, while Zhu Zhiquan was using the Five-Star Sword to bring up the squad members from below.

Chen Ligang patted Zhu Zhiquan on the shoulder, "Well done, brother. Just keep bringing the people from below up, and we'll take down the boss together!"

Zhu Zhiquan brushed off Chen Ligang's hand and looked down into the hole; at this moment, there were still a few agile members climbing up on the Jingtian Pozhen Gun.

There were also some squad members struggling to fend off the attacks of the surrounding monsters; if the Five-Star Sword were sent down to pick people up, would the remaining people be able to hold on?

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhiquan decided to have the remaining people grab onto the Jingtian Pozhen Gun so that he could bring them all up at once when he retracted it.

However, there were quite a few people here, and Zhu Zhiquan found it somewhat difficult to speak up; if only Zhao Yuxin were by his side, then he wouldn't have to say it himself.

But in order to kill the World Boss and ensure the remaining people wouldn't sacrifice themselves in vain, Zhu Zhiquan still tried to speak: "Ev... everyone, please... please grab the st... stick."

Yet his voice was truly too soft; let alone the people below, even those around him didn't hear it.

"What are you doing? Hurry up and bring the people below up, or if that doesn't work, help fight the boss; what's the meaning of standing here dazed!" a Black player looked at Zhu Zhiquan standing motionless in place and couldn't help but scold him.

Zhu Zhiquan was startled by this scolding, and the words he was about to say again retreated, his breathing also becoming heavy.

Seeing Zhu Zhiquan panting in place, Chen Ligang placed a hand on his shoulder and encouraged him: "Brother, if you can't hold on, you can take a rest; we can buy you some rest time."

After saying this, he gave Zhu Zhiquan a thumbs-up, a bright smile on his face.

Although Zhu Zhiquan didn't like people touching him, he felt warm inside and didn't push Chen Ligang away. He then took a deep breath and said toward the bottom: "Everyone—grab the stick!"

Hearing Zhu Zhiquan's words, the people below reached out one after another to grab the Jingtian Pozhen Gun. Seeing this, Zhu Zhiquan gripped one end of the Jingtian Pozhen Gun and controlled it to shrink rapidly.

As the Jingtian Pozhen Gun shrank, the people below were all brought to the room on the level above. At the same time, this caused the monsters below to watch their prey escape, and they could only let out bursts of angry roars.

Once all the squad members had arrived in the room on the level above, they immediately deployed into formation to launch a counterattack against the treant knights, while some others attacked the shrubbery, attempting to destroy the possibility of treant knights being born.

Meanwhile, Zhu Zhiquan and Chen Ligang charged toward the mummy together, attempting to kill it alongside Lin Ziyao.

But the mummy, which had been defending the whole time, suddenly exerted force, knocking Lin Ziyao to the ground, then faced Zhu Zhiquan and Chen Ligang as they rushed toward it, waving its staff at the two and knocking them flying.

Seeing the mummy was so powerful, the others immediately braced themselves, aiming their weapons at it, while simultaneously using their respective means to raise their total attributes to 30 points.

Sensing that the strength of everyone in the squad had increased, the mummy did not appear flustered; on the contrary, it was very excited. It lightly tapped the floor once, and suddenly a sea of flowers spread outward from it as the center.

Soon, the five-meter area around the mummy was surrounded by fresh flowers; the structure of these flowers was similar to dandelions, but they were not quite the same as ordinary dandelions.

Their tops were flat, and the small flowers on top were arranged closely; as the mummy channeled its Magic Power, the small flowers flew into the air, forming individual flower-shaped monsters.

Suddenly, almost everyone felt that something was wrong, but only Zhu Zhiquan and Lin Ziyao were full of excitement upon seeing this; after all, since this mummy could actually summon minions, that meant it was very likely the World Boss.

"Oh—right," the mummy suddenly said in a hoarse voice, "My name is Jiemodala, and I am a great Plant Archmage. Please, do be good and become my food, because this will be your honor!"

As he spoke, Jiemodala waved his staff, and those flower-shaped monsters launched a charge at the squad.