How Do We Play If This Boss Isn't Nerfed?

Every member of the Eight-armed Race, from the elites to the slave soldiers, turned their fanatical gazes toward their Chieftain.

Kargath walked to the center of the altar. Facing the three-headed, six-armed statue of their god, which stood dozens of meters tall, he brought his eight arms together before his chest and bowed deeply.

Below the altar, every member of the Eight-armed Race dropped to their knees in unison, prostrating themselves fully to express their utmost reverence.

Then, a few elite Personal Guards standing beside the Chieftain issued several short commands.

Soon, squads of four-armed slave soldiers, just like the one Lin Ye had previously disguised himself as, carried heavy stone chests onto the altar.

The chests were opened, and an ethereal blue light instantly bloomed forth.

Lin Ye’s breath hitched.

’Those are Source Crystals!’

’And they’re Source Crystals of extremely high purity, radiating incredibly potent energy fluctuations!’

With just a cursory glance, Lin Ye realized the quantity of Source Crystals was greater than the combined reserves of the vein he had previously discovered.

In addition to the Source Crystals, dozens of massive iron cages were carried onto the altar.

Inside the cages were members of the Stone Ghost Race. Their fleshy wings had been severed, and their mouths were sealed with metal gags.

Their eyes were filled with terror and despair as they struggled futilely within the cages.

Realization dawned on Lin Ye.

’These are all offerings for the sacrifice.’

’That elite of the Eight-armed Race who was ordering me around earlier probably saw me wandering about and wanted to put me to work moving these offerings.’

However, as the final batch of offerings was brought to the altar, Lin Ye’s gaze suddenly froze.

It was a relatively small cage.

Imprisoned inside were three students, shockingly wearing the standard-issue combat uniforms of the training camp!

Their hands and feet were bound with thick chains, and their mouths were stuffed with rags, allowing them to make only muffled sounds.

Two men and one woman. Unspeakable despair and terror were etched onto each of their faces.

’What about their Space-Folding Devices? Why didn’t they teleport away?’

The question flashed through Lin Ye’s mind.

But he quickly pushed the distracting thoughts aside.

’I don’t know these three unlucky souls. In the brutal Nirvana Tower, anything can happen.’

’Save them?’

’If it were convenient, I wouldn’t mind. ’

’But if it interferes with my mission, then I’m afraid I’ll have to say sorry.’

For now, his primary objective remained the assassination of the Chieftain.

Using the perfect concealment of his Shadow Scale, Lin Ye began to move silently toward the altar.

The sacrificial ceremony officially began.

Under the watchful eyes of all the Eight-armed Race, the central, furious face of the colossal, three-headed, twelve-armed statue slowly opened its mouth.

The members of the Eight-armed Race below the altar were instantly driven into a frenzy. They slammed their heads against the ground with even greater force, muttering and chanting an ancient prayer that was completely unintelligible to Lin Ye.

Chieftain Kargath stood at the very center of the altar, presiding over the ceremony with a solemn expression.

He was surrounded by several tight rings of six-armed elite guards. Beyond them, hundreds of Eight-armed Race Warriors formed a perimeter, sealing off the entire altar completely.

The sheer scale of the security made Lin Ye’s scalp tingle.

Trying to force his way across the ground to complete the assassination was completely impossible.

From this distance, even if he activated [Frenzy] and [Instant Body] at the same time to dash forward at maximum speed, he couldn’t possibly reach the Chieftain before being discovered.

’The moment I make a move, the mission will fail.’

Lin Ye forced himself to calm down and analyze the situation.

His gaze shifted between the altar, the Chieftain, and the airtight ring of defenses.

’The ground approach is a no-go.’

’What about from below?’

’Impossible. Below is a bubbling, scalding Magma Lake.’

’Then... what about from above?’

Lin Ye’s gaze drifted upward, finally settling on the head of the colossal statue behind the altar.

The statue was immense. The straight-line distance from its head down to the Chieftain at the center of the altar was no more than a hundred meters.

A bold and audacious plan began to form in Lin Ye’s mind.

...

「Meanwhile, outside the canyon.」

More than a dozen decapitated Eight-armed Race guards lay strewn about the entrance.

They had been killed almost simultaneously, giving them no chance to sound an alarm.

Nie Cang’s expression was grim. Behind him stood five figures in matching instructor uniforms, their auras as deep as an abyss, their eyes filled with unconcealed killing intent.

Half an hour ago, the command center received simultaneous emergency distress signals from five students, along with a system notification that their Space-Folding Devices had been triggered.

However, only two were successfully teleported back to the Rift’s entrance. The signals from the other three cut out abruptly at the last second and vanished completely.

An unknown, bizarre power had interfered with the stability of the space-folding, causing the teleportation to fail.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Nie Cang assembled a team and personally led them into the Celestial Abyss Rift to conduct a rescue.

"Mr. Nie, we’ve identified and dismantled all the wards at the entrance. We haven’t alerted the enemy!"

Upon hearing this, Nie Cang immediately ordered, "Everyone, conceal your auras. Prepare to infiltrate."

"We have one objective: find the missing students and rescue them at all costs."

However, when the group of six slipped silently into the canyon...

...the sight that met their eyes made the pupils of these battle-hardened instructors constrict in unison.

On the massive altar in the center of the canyon, a bloody and perverse sacrificial ritual was underway.

Crates of ethereal blue Source Crystals were being fed into the open maw of the three-headed, six-armed statue.

The moment the Source Crystals entered its mouth, their ethereal blue glow was instantly replaced by an ominous crimson, as if they were being instantly corrupted by some unseen power.