Transcendent, this level of power had already exceeded the limits of ordinary people’s imagination.
One could instantly destroy a city in this rage.
The primary mission was to upgrade. Destroy the Spider Temple.
The transcendents guarded the temple.
One would have to collide with the other party if one wanted to obtain the sealed heart of a god. One could only shroud such treasure in the temple.
This was a threshold one could never avoid.
Richard calmed his emotions at this time.
He had just tried. But he could not communicate with Fire Elemental Lord Klose in this dungeon… His mightiest external aid could not help him.
It made sense. Windsor could have already surpassed this dungeon if she could summon external help.
He took a deep breath, and his gaze gradually sharpened.
An encounter with transcendents brings unspeakable pressure. But this pressure could not depress him. Instead, a strong fighting spirit rose in his heart.
Slay the Transcendents from the Abyss. This is the primary mission.
This perilous target soared the ambition in his heart higher.
The Dune Lord fell before Twilight City… So what if he were transcendent in the instance dungeon?
So what if he could not summon Fire Elemental Lord Klose in this dungeon?
Richard would slay this transcendent!
The flame in his chest burned.
He turned around and looked at the god’s ancient tree while it spread its branches.
The god’s ancient tree displayed an extraordinary sharpness in the battle where it toppled the Dune Lord down.
It could quickly slay transcendents at level 17.
Richard had spent countless resources and efforts to nurture this promising giant twisted human-faced tree. This has now become his most trustworthy soldier.
This boss gradually surpassed the scope of ordinary life with the blessing of rotten authority and the awakening of magical power.
They gradually walked toward a dark path one could not know the end of.
“Where are those grace mainland overlords?”
“East → five kilometers away.”
“How many are there?”
“More than a hundred.”
Richard narrowed his eyes.
More than a thousand people had entered the instance dungeon. Where has the rest of the overlords gone? Has the enemy killed the others?
[Sub Mission 1: You will receive another 10,000 units of rare resources for every grace mainland overlord you have rescued.]
This reward was more tempting than anything else.
“Let’s go and find out!”
The stone statue of the dead immediately led the way after Richard spoke.
Richard quickly ordered his troops to follow.
The sandstorm controller turned into yellow sand again. It enveloped the troop.
Thick black clouds surged above their heads under the dim sky. That gave people a sense of urgency and psychological pressure.
The Twilight City swiftly advanced under the dark clouds.
Vast spiderwebs appeared on the ground adjacent to the giant spider statue.
A layer of snow-white frost seemingly covered the entire ground. One could barely see its end.
Thumb-sized spiders spat silk in the spider web. Their colorful appearance inexplicably flustered people.
The god’s ancient tree entered the instance dungeon without the support of the yellow sand and could not control the movement of the quicksand. The giant twisted human-faced tree root could only walk on the ground in its primitive form.
Treebeard’s roots swept the spider web away, and the ground incessantly shook.
A spider was far from the god’s ancient tree and seemingly jumped on a bed. It moved up and down.
Other spiders were trampled on and wanted to fight back. But their poisonous thorns could not even leave a mark on the bark.
Richard watched the whole thing in silence.
Spiders were synonymous with evil and darkness in the “Shining Era”.
As a result, many evil god believers used spiders as their totems.
Richard recalled everything about spiders in the “Shining Era”.
The troops quickly advanced.
They quickly completed a few kilometers of travel.
The troop stopped in the distance. They followed the signal from the stone statue of the dead before them.
Richard calmly waited for the main force to press in. He drove Alves forward alone.
It looked down at the ground.
Giant spider webs crisscrossed on a gravel forest seven to eight meters tall a hundred meters away.
The spider silk web interchangeably wrapped the players and hung them in the air. These sand eagles had their heads exposed and stared at each other.
Some players cursed, while others stared at the sky in a daze.
Suddenly, some players realized the air had quieted down. They were those in a daze.
They felt quietness in their ears. They immediately felt sparingly uncomfortable. They turned their heads in confusion.
They were shocked in the next second.
Their pupils reflected a terrifying figure with a wingspan of more than 40 meters. The figure burned with blood-colored energy. It gave off a strong sense of oppression.
“Undead dragon!!”
The word in their minds instantly confounded them.
Wasn’t this dungeon the spider’s territory? How could there be undead?
Question marks flooded their minds.
The players below felt bewildered. They saw how the undead flapped its wings and flew directly above their heads.
The players looked at the figure up close and the pressure it brought. The figure’s body size suddenly multiplied.
A ferocious aura, seemingly majestic as a falling mountain, accompanied the figure–Dragon Might.
The players below felt like their guts were about to split apart under the three-layered oppression of sight, heart, and soul.
They felt like a giant hand grabbed their souls and made cracking sounds.
It would crush them momentarily.
The Grim Reaper stared at them…
“F*ck! A spider demon at first and a hybrid dragon now!! Do I still need to experience the hardships of learning from the scriptures when I’m just clearing an instance?”
“F*ck your grandpa! If you have the guts, let me out. I won’t call you grandpa if I don’t kill you today!!”
“Sob! Sob! Sob! I don’t want to play anymore. I want to go home…”
Anger, roars, fear, deathly pale faces, and eyes ashen as ashes…The players below were exceptionally lively at this moment.
The pressure on the players reached its limit…
A gust of wind blew suddenly, and the spider webs swayed.
The scattered sand on the ground also blew up. To the players’ surprise, the sand gathered into a small sandstorm in the sky in the blink of an eye.
Several players sensed this scene as familiar. They couldn’t recall where and when the scene had happened.
The players hesitated.
The sandstorm slowly floated down from the undead dragon’s back.
The players were shocked to find a figure in the sandstorm.
“Who was it?”
Grains of sand shrouded the figure and blurred its face. They could hardly recognize and understand the abstruse image.
Yellow sand and undead dragons burned with blood-colored power… This classic scene stirred up many people’s dusty memories… A name that quickened their breathing surged into their minds.
“Big Boss Qingqiu!!”
An excited sharp shout accompanied that hopeful exclamation.
The others came back to their senses. They screamed hysterically and wildly.
“Grandpa Qingqiu, save us!”
“Big Boss, let us out. Those bastards are trying to kill us.”
“Big Boss Qingqiu, I have more than ten half-elf singers in my territory. They are all the best of the best. Just save me, and I’ll give them all to you…”
“As long as you save me, you will be my father…”
Richard had felt pity for these unlucky victims. The corners of his mouth twitched when he heard the wails and the howls.
These idiots were still like this even when they were dead.
He narrowed his eyes.
The indifferent voice resounded in everyone’s ears. In an instant, the hundreds of players felt an aura a hundred times more ferocious than the Dragon Might that pressed down their chests.
He seemingly saw a sandstorm sweep the world across in his trance.
Their souls were about to be torn apart.
The crying voices were cut off, and the players’ exaggerated expressions froze.
As far as the eye could see, the faces that cried and laughed appeared like an act.
“I’ll ask them one by one. Don’t talk nonsense.”
Richard looked at the person closest to him and asked, “How did you get trapped in the spider web?”
The player who was called out shuddered. Fear engulfed his eyes as he stared at the figure that floated in the sky.
Behind Richard was Alves’s ferocious and majestic figure.
A thick black cloud that pressed down on the city was further up.
All of this had become his backdrop.
At this moment, Richard felt ten times more pressure than Alves.
He was like a great demon king who could dim the world as soon as he appeared.
“Hmm?”
Richard heard the cold snort. The player immediately woke up and hurriedly said, “Reporting to Boss Qingqiu. After I entered this instance dungeon, I saw spiderwebs everywhere. I didn’t mind too much about it and set it on fire… A group of top-tier soldiers with half-human upper bodies and half-spider lower bodies came shortly. These abyssal spidermen appeared.”
Fear engulfed his eyes.
“Those abyssal spidermen all have the same potential. Their levels are as high as 15.”
“Those bastards wiped my troop out in just two rounds… But for reasons I could not know, those abyssal spidermen didn’t kill me. They imprisoned me here instead.”
“I only discovered other players when I got here.”
Richard sensed he was not lying, so he continued to ask.
“After you entered the instance dungeon, what was the mission you received?”
As he spoke, he seemed to have thought of something. The power of the yellow sand on his body surged. That directly isolated him from the surrounding crowd. Outsiders could not hear their conversation.
The player did not notice this. He calmed down and spoke in a much more stable tone.
“The primary mission is to Slay the Transcendents from the Abyss and Destroy the Spider Temple…”
“The sub-mission 1 is to rescue overlords. Each will receive another 10,000 units of rare resources.”
“The sub-mission 2 is to hunt for monsters. One will receive an additional unit of undead crystal for every monster from the abyss one has hunted down.”
Richard nodded thoughtfully.
It was the mission of everyone who entered the instance dungeon.
Richard momentarily pondered, then he continued.
“What other news do you have?”
The player hesitated and whispered.
“I heard from other players that those abyssal spidermen brought a portion of people to sacrifice every other week.”
Richard’s eyes narrowed.
“Sacrifice?”
“That’s right. There’s a temple 20 kilometers away from here…”
“The Spider Temple?”
“No, it’s not the temple from the primary mission the system wants us to destroy. It’s a subordinate temple… One could not call it a temple but a church.”
“Where do the abyssal spidermen perform the offering?”
“I do not know. They murdered the player who knew about this two days ago when he tried to escape.”
Richard narrowed his eyes.
‘What did the church have to do with the primary mission?’
He then asked for more information about the spider church.
However, they captured this player shortly after he entered the dungeon. So, he could not know much.
Richard could no longer obtain valuable information. So, he waved his hand. The yellow sand around him turned into a sharp knife, cleaned the spider silk web off the man’s body, and freed him.
The player who fell to the ground coughed a few times, then got up and bowed to Richard in ecstasy.
“Thank you, my Lord!”
The other players’ eyeballs almost popped out when they saw this scene. They all called Richard Grandpa and Dad. They were just short of offering their buttholes.
Richard moved and began to question each remaining player.
This time, he asked more than ten people simultaneously. He asked everyone after a few rounds.
That helped him ponder a general idea of the dungeon, although the silk webs captured most of the players shortly after they entered the dungeon and did not know much about it.
The main enemy in this instance dungeon was the evil life forms from the abyss–spiders.
[Average Potential: Crown, Level 15 and above.]
Their numbers were unknown, but one could describe their battle power as ferocious.
None of the players they had encountered could withstand the spiders’ attacks.
The primary mission was Destroy the Spider Temple and occupy the central area of the dungeon.
Transcendents guarded it.
No one knows about the exact strength of the spider temple. One could only describe it as supremely soul-devouring.
In addition, 12 spider churches surrounded the spider temple.
They stationed a team of abyssal spidermen for every spider church, with at least two vast squadrons.
These churches held sacrificial ceremonies every other week.
Players were the sacrifices.
No one knew about the purpose of the sacrifice, but they could feel that the spider churches paid attention to it.
At this thought, Richard returned to his senses.
He looked down at the players who stared at him.
Richard said slowly, “All of us have the same mission… As such, you should understand where your value lies.”
He would receive another 10,000 units of rare resources for every player he has rescued.
These hundreds of people meant millions of units. That is an enormous number. Twilight City couldn’t earn this much in a month.
They all heaved a sigh of relief when the players heard this.
They all knew what the mission was. Qingqiu wouldn’t risk his life to protect them from this temptation, but at least he wouldn’t slay them all.
This dungeon would not allow resurrection.
One is dead upon slay.
The player who had given Richard the information had sparingly recovered and was no longer so timid. He took the initiative to talk to him.
“The spider webs transmitted information about the odd movements in the silk webs to the spider church once one destroyed a strand of silk web lattice. The abyssal spidermen will appear very soon.”
The other players nodded when thoughts of how terrifying the abyssal spidermen were flashed in their minds.
“That’s right, Big Boss Qingqiu, let’s run first. The abyssal spidermen are coming!”
“The level 15 abyssal spidermen are roughly fierce.”
“Let’s retreat first. We’ll think about it later. This isn’t something we can resolve in a short period…”
Twilight City troops did not heed them. Alves alone flapped its wings in the sky.
The players knew the enemy was too mighty, although they never underestimated Richard.
Now that everyone was in the same boat, no one wanted anything to happen again.
Qingqiu was their only hope.
They could not think of other players who could clear this dungeon than him.
He would have to face a transcendent eventually!!
He was the only one who could give them a trace of confidence in their despair. That’s right, just a track.
Transcendents were too powerful.
They had already exceeded the limits of what players could deal with.
Even Richard wouldn’t stand a chance in the eyes of most players.
This was not a war crime.
How long had it been since the players entered the “Shining Era?” How could he compare to those top-notch existences that had grown for decades?
Suddenly, a player looked back in horror.
“Deep, abyssal spider…”
Fear engulfed its tone.
Everyone subconsciously turned their heads.
On the white spiderweb land.
Abyssal spidermen with half-human upper bodies had eight spider limbs that rushed over.
These limbs seemingly covered the horizon.
The players felt their heads buzzed and dizzied.
Only one thought appeared in their minds… It was over. Everything was all over!!
The spidermen had discovered about the escape!
“Big Boss Qingqiu…”
The players before him sounded like they were about to cry.
They had barely escaped death, and now they had to die here.
Something was way over desperate than falling from heaven to hell.
An indifferent order came from the sky while everyone panicked.
“All troops, attack!”
Richard spoke, and afterward.
The players raised their heads in unison and saw that the yellow sand surrounded the figure and inexplicably became imposing at this moment.
The aura on its body became increasingly turbulent and majestic.
“What was this?”
That startled everyone.
‘Phew!’
A sharp whistle tore through the sky.
Everyone subconsciously turned to look.
In the sky, countless spears condensed from sand tore through the void. They left long afterimages behind.
Before the spiders could react.
The spears pierced into the abyssal spidermen like lightning.
‘Puchi!’
An abyssal spiderman charged before the enemies suddenly felt a creepy aura had surged.
It subconsciously turned its body to dodge. But just as it moved, its head felt a soul-tormenting pain.
The strength in its body was like a broken kettle that leaked out.
The spiderman’s consciousness instantly blurred, and it could no longer understand the romantic Qixi Festival in the outside world.
The spider saw a sharp yellow sand spear pierce through its head while it focused its gaze.
The sand-condensed spear nailed the abyssal spiderman to the ground.
Green mucus splattered out. That stained the surrounding ground and emitted a sizzling sound of corrosion…
The scene was fierce and violent.
That sand-condensed spear instantly slaughtered the level 15 abyssal spiderman. A Crown 2-stars soldier!!
Not all soldiers had the natural talent of the Twilight City troops. The such terrifying physical damage was irresistible.
The players widened their eyes as they watched the spears fall from the sky and slaughter the abyssal spidermen they thought were the devil kings.
The shock they felt was indescribable.
The Grim Reaper’s scythe incessantly waved. It harvested demonic souls!
And this was just the beginning.
The players had yet to regain their senses after a round of attacks.
Terrifying sandstorms swept up from the horizon and attacked with the force of a thunderbolt.
‘Whoosh!’
A voice was as sharp as a demon’s roar and entered their ears.
Under the shocked gazes of the players…
‘Whoosh!’
The sandstorms have already surged into the abyssal spidermen before them.
The players with sharp eyes saw the moment the sandstorms enveloped the enemies.
Sharp yellow sand spears condensed.
They stabbed straight at the abyssal spidermen with terrifying lethality and the aid of the sandstorms… The sandstorms became meat grinders.
Blood splattered everywhere, and limbs were shattered.
Some players could no longer hold back the shock in their hearts. They raised their heads and looked at the blurry figure covered in yellow sand in the sky.
The other party stood there calmly, still as before.