When the system announcement rang out three times in a row, echoing above hundreds of tier-three main cities across the Divine Oracle Dragon Nation server, the entire Dragon Nation region, with over three hundred million players online, fell into a frenzy.
On the official Divine Oracle forums, an enormous uproar erupted—
[Pillar Holding the Sky (Level 22 Archer, Elf Race, Holy Light City): "Holy shit! Just the system achievement reward for clearing a hidden dungeon is 100 gold coins? At the official exchange rate, that's over nine hundred thousand RMB. Then wouldn't the actual dungeon rewards be even more insane?"]
[Farewell My Concubine (Level 25 Warrior, Human Race, Sky City, Heavenly Rankings No. 1): "Brother Rulebound, could you share the strategy for the Shadow Holy Hall dungeon? I've got three Hearts of Shadow, but after simulating the dungeon three times, I didn't survive even ten seconds once. How did you clear it? I'm sincerely willing to buy the strategy from you for two million RMB!"]
[Money Makes Me Do Anything (Level 19 Shaman, Beast Race, Earth Soul City): "One strategy worth two million? Are rich people really this crazy when they play games?"]
[Quite a Bit of Charm (Level 22 Priest, Elf Race, Wind Moon City): "This ID Rulebound sounds so familiar. I feel like I've seen this name in system announcements more than once already. Brother Rulebound, when you go to a tier-two main city later, can you take me along? I can blow for you, you know!"]
[Blue Poison Beast (Level 21 Assassin, Beast Race, Energy City): "War is a dirty game, and I'm a dirty player… sorry, wrong channel!"]
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[Dragon Nation's capital, the Imperial City]
[Tomson Riviera]
In the villa district, beside a private swimming pool, a girl wearing a pink bikini, with a perfect figure, snow-white skin, and breathtakingly beautiful features, had just climbed out of the pool. Sitting by the edge, she picked up a tablet, casually swinging her long, fair legs as she scrolled through the announcement posts on the Divine Oracle forum.
A trace of surprise and delight surfaced in her clear, bright eyes.
"So it's you again, Rulebound."
"This time it's actually… a server-wide announcement? Looks like you're even more extraordinary than I imagined."
"Hehe~ congratulations, you've officially passed my test."
"I hereby announce that from today onward, you belong to me, Ling Xue."
As she spoke, the girl picked up her phone and dialed a number.
She instructed the person on the other end, "Within twenty-four hours, I want to see Rulebound appear on my guild's core member list."
The voice on the other end replied respectfully, "Understood, President Ling. I'll take care of it immediately."
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Outsiders were merely shocked.
But at this moment, those who were both shocked and terrified were none other than the Chaotic World guild players inside Shadow City.
As soon as the system announcements had just ended, the instant they saw Lin Mo walk out from the Shadow Gate, every Chaotic World player present felt as if they were staring at the Grim Reaper stepping out of hell, plunging the entire scene into panic and uproar.
"Rulebound… cleared the dungeon?"
"He actually soloed a hidden dungeon?"
"How is that even possible… the official announcement said the difficulty of hidden dungeons is insanely high! And he cleared it in one go?"
Just as everyone was reeling in shock, only Wang Junjie felt a surge of rage explode in his chest, shooting straight to his skull.
"Rulebound! You dare steal my dungeon!"
"I'll fack your mother!"
As he spoke, Wang Junjie angrily pointed at Lin Mo and Liuli and shouted, "Get him! Hack these two dogs to death!"
The moment his words fell.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
All around them, every Chaotic World archer and mage within attack range locked onto Lin Mo and Liuli at the same time, launching a ferocious focused assault.
In an instant, arrows and magic orbs filled the sky, pouring down like a violent storm.
This kind of large-scale carpet bombing left no room to dodge at all.
"Careful!"
Relying on his thick skin and high durability, at the split second before the arrow rain arrived, Lin Mo instinctively pulled Liuli into his arms and turned around, using his own body to shield herm
"Thank you for helping me obtain the Heart of Shadow and for guarding the dungeon for me."
"This time, let me protect you."
As Lin Mo murmured softly, the next moment, countless arrows slammed into his back.
-13!
-27!
-35!
-71!
Faced with over a thousand points of defense, the Chaotic World players' attacks were utterly insignificant to Lin Mo.
But just as Lin Mo thought he had successfully protected Liuli, he heard a muffled groan from the person in his arms.
The next second, Liuli's body began to fade.
Lin Mo's heart trembled.
Only then did he realize that the Chaotic World' attack coverage was simply too wide. With just his body, it was impossible to fully shield Liuli.
And Liuli's defense was clearly nowhere near as high as Lin Mo's.
The damage she took was uniformly in the hundreds.
Under such dense attacks, her already dwindling HP bar above her head was completely emptied.
At such close range, before Liuli disappeared, Lin Mo finally saw the face she had always concealed beneath the black cloak.
And in that brief instant when their eyes met, Lin Mo's eyes flew wide open.
Shock. Astonishment. Utter disbelief flashed through his pupils.
"How could it be you?"
"How is this possible?"
Before his words had even finished, Liuli had already completely turned into white light and vanished from Lin Mo's arms.
Yet Lin Mo remained frozen in place, his entire body stiff, as if immobilized.
His mind was filled with the face he had just seen…
"Ning Xi!"
"The number one female emperor of the Divine Oracle Dragon Nation server in my previous life, Xi Yue!"
"How could this be? This can't be possible!"
Lin Mo was utterly stunned.
"According to the course of history, Ning Xi should only have been forced into the Divine Oracle world three months later, when Divine Oracle devoured the real world!"
"And right now, shouldn't she be working at Listening Rain Pavilion? How could she have entered Divine Oracle early?"
"Why did this happen? Could it be because I… changed the trajectory of her past-life history?"
Just as Lin Mo was struggling to comprehend it all, Wang Junjie's vicious laughter rang out behind him—
"Beautifully done! Liuli had several thousand points of evil value on her. With this death, her level goes straight back to zero! Heavenly Rankings No. 1? Ruined!"
"Hahahaha! This is what you get for going against me!"
"Brothers, keep going! Kill Rulebound too!"
Realizing that Ning Xi had ended up like this just to help him guard the dungeon, the sound of Wang Junjie's wild laughter instantly ignited Lin Mo's inner fury to its limit.
"Wang Junjie!"
"You're asking to die!"
With a furious shout, Lin Mo raised the Venomous Crossbow and charged straight at Wang Junjie.
Seeing this, Wang Junjie, who had already died who knows how many times at Lin Mo's hands and long since developed psychological trauma from him, had the smile freeze on his face.
Pointing at Lin Mo, he shouted, "Stop him! Stop him right now!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
From all directions, massive groups of Chaotic World archers and mages attacked at once.
Countless arrows and magic orbs rained down toward Lin Mo.
Relying on his absurdly high defense of over a thousand points, Lin Mo charged straight through the storm of fire, tanking dozens upon dozens of negligible damage ticks, and continued his rush toward Wang Junjie.
Wang Junjie's face turned deathly pale, "Fa… fack!"
"Shamans, control him! Shamans, hurry the fack up and control him!"
Never having imagined that so many of his men couldn't stop a berserk Lin Mo, Wang Junjie panicked completely, turned around, and bolted without caring about anything else.
But with over eight hundred points of agility, even while being slowed by archers' E-rank Ice Arrows and mages' E-rank Ice Spike spells, Lin Mo caught up to Wang Junjie in just a few steps.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Raising the Venomous Crossbow and aiming at Wang Junjie, arrows poured down like rain.
Right in front of all the surrounding Chaotic World players, dozens of arrows riddled Wang Junjie, making him scream in agony.
Crash!
By the time a Chaotic World shaman's Halo Spell landed on Lin Mo and stunned him, Wang Junjie had already turned into a streak of white light and flown away.
At the resurrection spring in Blazing Fire City, the freshly revived Wang Junjie went berserk.
"Kill Rulebound!"
"Kill him for me! Kill him! KILL HIM!"
Upon receiving Wang Junjie's command, countless Chaotic World players inside Shadow City launched a siege against Lin Mo.
Meanwhile, outside the resurrection spring in Blazing Fire City, Su Muqiu, who had just revived, heard Wang Junjie's order and hurriedly said to Dragon Soul · Aoshi with worry on his face, "Boss, we have to rush over and back up Rulebound immediately."
"Otherwise, with all of Shadow City full of Chaotic World people, and Rulebound alone, I can't think of any reason he'd be able to make it out alive."
Dragon Soul · Aoshi nodded, "If he dies and drops the loot he got from the dungeon, that'd be a huge loss."
"Everyone, follow me back to Shadow City! Go support Rulebound!"
With Dragon Soul · Aoshi's command, all Dragon Soul players rushed out of the city at full speed, heading straight for Shadow City.
But the moment they left the city, they were intercepted by the Chaotic World army that had already been lying in wait outside.
"Looks like Wang Junjie prepared for this long ago!"
"This time, Rulebound… is doomed…"
———
On the other side.
[Shadow City]
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Dozens of Chaotic World shamans took turns casting control spells on Lin Mo.
Just as Lin Mo was locked down so hard he couldn't move an inch,
Rumble! Rumble!
The entire Shadow City suddenly began to shake violently.
"W-what's going on?"
"What just happened?"
Just as all the Chaotic World players fell into panic, looking around in confusion—
BOOM!
The Shadow Gate was suddenly smashed open.
The next moment, a massive group of level 30 Shadow Iron Cavalry, riding shadow warhorses, burst out from within the Shadow Gate.
A huge crowd of Chaotic World players gathered near the Shadow Gate was caught completely off guard, knocked to the ground by the iron cavalry, trampled madly, and in the blink of an eye, casualties were everywhere…
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