Chapter 63 -63-So What If It Has 200 Billion Shield Durability? I’ll Break Into the City Anyway!
John stared at the barrier with its terrifying Shield Durability value.
There was not the slightest trace of hesitation on his face.
"You think this can stop me?"
John let out a light chuckle.
The next moment,
a vast amount of black smoke erupted from his body.
In just a few seconds,
it spread out and covered the entire Storm City.
The players and NPCs inside were all plunged into pitch-black darkness where they could not even see their own hands.
[War Smoke]!
Within the smoke,
everyone who had originally locked onto John and was preparing to attack
instantly lost their target.
Cries of alarm rose up one after another.
"What is this stuff?!"
"I can’t see the enemy anymore!"
"Who the hell shot an arrow into me?!"
"Damn it, we have to clear away this black fog first!"
The entire city wall instantly descended into chaos.
Many NPCs even ended up injuring their own side by mistake.
...
Meanwhile, beneath the city walls,
John had already closed in on the barrier.
He raised his hand slightly.
Roar!
Screeeech—
Accompanied by a dragon’s roar and a phoenix’s cry,
two terrifying figures appeared.
They were none other than the Crimsonflame Dragon and the Frost Phoenix!
Under John’s command, the two giant beasts began launching a frenzied assault against the barrier.
[-59018!]
[-51238!]
Dragonfire and frost-phoenix energy continuously battered the barrier.
Every second, they reduced its Shield Durability by 100,000 points.
But that still was not John’s limit.
He waved his hand once more.
The next instant,
the ground around the main city split open,
and undead creatures, their bodies hanging with scraps of rotting flesh, slowly crawled out.
At a glance, there were 999 of them!
And every one of them was Level 40!
Naturally, these undead creatures had been summoned by John.
[Deathcall] could summon 999 undead creatures ten levels lower than himself.
Ever since plundering this summoning talent from the Catacomb Complex,
John had never used it.
Because every enemy and opponent he had faced so far could basically be one-shot, so there had been no need to summon anything.
Now that he was facing a barrier with 200 billion Shield Durability, he finally had a chance to use this talent.
[-10299!]
[-10982!]
[-12998!]
[...]
Although the single-target damage of these undead creatures was lower than that of his two summons,
their overwhelming numbers made up for it.
Every second, they chopped away 9.99 million Shield Durability.
But even that was still not enough!
John rolled his neck, then moved his mind.
In an instant,
his body began multiplying at an exponential rate.
Within only a few breaths,
999 Johns had appeared beneath the city walls.
These John clones all wielded daggers as they slashed at the barrier.
Their movements were perfectly synchronized, and each one counted as John’s true body.
When the damage numbers were finally calculated,
an outrageous, terrifying figure appeared!
[-50,000,000!]
[-50,000,000!]
[-50,000,000!]
Faced with such absurd damage output,
even though Storm City’s barrier possessed 200 billion Shield Durability, its total durability still began dropping at a terrifying speed.
...
At the same time, inside the city,
because John’s smoke was so bizarre, even the strongest illumination items
were unable to pierce through it.
Left with no other choice, the Storm City guards had no choice but to retreat back into the city.
They then hurried to the Arcane Academy and invited over the strongest cleric.
Storm City’s cleric was a Level 100 old man.
He wore a magic robe and had a stern expression.
"Outrageous!"
Looking at the smoke filling the entire city, the old cleric was furious.
"To think such a rebel exists! We shall surely sweep away this evil fog and restore peace to the people of this city!"
As his words fell,
the cleric raised the staff in his hand and lightly tapped it against the ground.
In an instant,
a vast and intricate magic array spread out around him.
"O God, please grant me the strength to banish all darkness from this world!"
The old cleric shouted loudly.
At once, his staff burst forth with dazzling holy light of divine magic.
Under the illumination of that sacred radiance,
the smoke in the city began melting away in大片 patches, like snow beneath the blazing sun.
When the NPCs and players saw this, joy instantly appeared on their faces.
"Wonderful! As expected, darkness still cannot triumph over light!"
"Now that the black fog is gone, that evil player has nowhere left to hide!"
"John, just wait for your death!"
...
Only after all the smoke had been completely dispelled
did the cleric lower his staff.
Enjoying the praise from those around him, he turned his gaze toward the city walls and smiled.
"Next, it will be our turn to surround and kill that—"
Boom!
Before he could finish speaking,
a terrifying explosion suddenly erupted from the barrier in the distance.
The entire Storm City shook violently.
Urgent warning notifications rang out in the ears of every player in the city.
[The Storm City Barrier has been breached. Zone 5 player "John" has invaded!]
[The Storm City Barrier has been breached. All players within the city, prepare for defensive combat!]
...
And that was not all.
A world announcement followed immediately after.
[Global Announcement: Zone 5 player "John" has invaded Storm City in Zone 4!]
[This act of invasion has triggered the hostility of all NPCs in Zone 4. Zone 4 has entered War Mode!]
[War Mode: Zone 4 players receive a 200% enhancement. If the invader "John" dies, he will lose 10,000,000 EXP; all equipment will drop, 50% of skills will be erased, and all currency in his wallet will be deducted!]
All the players who heard the world announcement were stunned.
What was going on?
How had John invaded Zone 4?
How did he even manage to do that?
Wasn’t this still the early game?!
And they were already going straight into war mode?
Are you kidding me?!
...
In Zone 5,
the players of Overlord Guild felt their blood boil the moment they heard the announcement!
"So that’s why we haven’t seen Boss John lately—turns out he went off to beat up Zone 4!"
"This is insane! He actually blew up their main city barrier!"
"The only thing I hate is that there’s no way for us to support him, or else I’d definitely go to Zone 4 and smash those bastards too!"
"Boss John, you have to beat the hell out of those dogs from Zone 4!"
...
In stark contrast to Zone 5’s excitement,
the players of Zone 4 wore expressions of pure terror.
Because at the city gates, a huge mass of white-robed figures and undead creatures was rapidly charging in.
And that was not all.
High above the city, a giant dragon and a demonic phoenix had appeared.
With one breath of frost and one blast of dragonfire in alternating turns,大片 sections of the city’s buildings collapsed.
It was almost impossible to imagine that this level of commotion had been created by John alone!
"Rebel!"
When the old cleric saw this scene, his face flushed red with rage.
His body rose into the air without wind, and dazzling divine light appeared in his eyes.
"I will make you pay for this!"
The cleric raised his staff and began channeling a forbidden spell.
However,
before he could truly cast it,
John’s throwing knives arrived at the speed of light like a rainstorm!
[-50189!]
[-59971!]
[-58381!]
A string of explosive damage numbers burst out one after another.
If even the 200 billion-durability barrier could not last more than a few minutes,
how could this cleric possibly endure it?
Especially since he had ostentatiously floated up into the sky,
completely losing the protection of shield warriors.
His frail HP was instantly emptied.
He was actually one-shot by John!
Boom!
The cleric’s body exploded straight into a shower of white light.
He did not even manage to cast a single skill.
A prompt sounded beside John’s ear:
[You have killed Storm City’s Level 100 Cleric!]