In the end, there were only a few spammers among the Players, which was why Xi Wei's adjustments to the rune system did not affect the Players apart from Marni too much. In fact, the Players were even more excited to pummel the hill-folk after making the light effects of their skills cooler.
That was why the hill-folk, who already felt as if they had run into an iron wall, were having it even worse as they were beaten into a frenzy by all sorts of skills.
It was true that they were buffed by the Lord of the Peaks' divine power — it wasn't a benefit they were given in the first place, but a blessing the Lord of the Peaks had given to his own believers over the last two days so that they could kill the Church of Games' believers. Even so, how could a temporary buff compare to the Players who had been accumulating EXP bit by bit, familiarizing and training themselves at every moment?
If it wasn't for the points that were three times higher than killing them directly, the thousands of hill-folk who were surrounded by the three hundred Players would have been killed without a single survivor!
Just as Xi Wei had planned, the Players had survived the difficult initial stages and were now starting to take shape, becoming one of the strongest armies on the continent!
As the Players continued to grow stronger and feed the God of Games in various aspects, he would then raise the level cap so that the Players could become stronger as well. That was how the Church of Games would rapidly rise, becoming a force that the other churches could not ignore!
The only thing that kept them in check right now was that there weren't many Players, and they couldn't form a strong enough insectoid swarm effect …
Anyway, even Kaven Mor, the Mountain Shaman, the Lord of the Peaks' Chosen One, appeared powerless against the Players' ferocious assault.
As more hill-folk were killed or captured, Kaven Mor's state of mind was worsening.
Even when he had led the hill-folk of his village down the mountain to join the Brilliant White Church's Sacred Corps, he had never been in such a sorry state!
And yet, he couldn't choose to surrender like before. After all, this wasn't a free-for-all, but a war between two churches in the truest sense of the word!
With such a backdrop, surrendering was equivalent to betraying the god he worshipped, which was a terrible thing to do in this world.
That was precisely why wars between churches were usually serious, solemn, and cruel. Kaven Mor knew that very well.
"No, that guy's resistances are too high, and he has Dominating Form that protects him from most crowd control skills! It's hard to capture him alive! "
"It might work if I hit him a hundred times! Just now, there was a Hero with high resistance and willpower who fainted after being hammered seven or eight times by a Holy Lancer! "
Which f * cking church are you from? The only thing left in this world was cruelty, right?
Kaven Mor, who had been immersed in the solemn atmosphere that resembled a self-destructive ritual, almost cursed out loud.
His breathing became chaotic, and he staggered. He had almost been hit.
Kaven Mor lost his composure as he stared at the youth who wandered around him, wielding a greatsword that might even crush an Earth Dragon egg.
If that thing were to strike him on his vitals, even if he was buffed by the Lord of the Peaks and wouldn't lose everything, he would still be temporarily immobilized by the excruciating pain in the balls (physical).
In fact, if this was a normal battle, the Players would only reduce their enemy's HP even if they attacked their vitals, and it wouldn't be reflected physically even if it was a critical hit.
But the problem was that the hill-folk were now buffed with the divine power of the Lord of the Peaks, which came with Rule Resistance. That was why the hill-folk were able to resist the Rule Resistance that Xi Wei had invented in the first place.
At the same time that they gained resistance against the Players' crowd control debuffs, the hill-folk's attacks that could only reduce their HP would be faithfully reflected on their bodies.
It was hard to say if that was good or bad, but at least for now, it was worse. After all, the Players' offensive skills mostly came from Xi Wei's gaming experience, and the game he played was so varied that the Players' skills were all over the place. Many people in this world would think that it was a circus, and they simply couldn't imagine how they attacked.
For example, Divine Earthbreaker Blade was a divine art ripple similar to Sword Qi that would fly along the ground towards the enemy's crotch. Since it was one of the more advanced skills, it wasn't that powerful, and the Players basically learned it because it was a prerequisite for the ultimate skills later on … but today, it had achieved miraculous results again and again, with the rate of Chicken Burst being unbelievably high!
Kaven Mor finally regained some rationality when he realized that the situation was irreversible and that he had completely screwed up. Of course, he might have been worried about his HP, but that was not important.
Knowing that he had lost the upper hand, Kaven Mor decided to come up with a way to escape and meet up with the other hill-folk tribes.
In any case, he was a Mountain Shaman. Even if the other two villages didn't like him, they wouldn't do anything to him. Instead, he could borrow the power of those two villages to rescue his tribesmen. Who knows, he might even be able to poach some from them.
Hence, Kaven Mor abruptly switched from defense to offense, punching out at Joe who could not react in time. Still, he didn't linger in the fight, and simply shook the ground beneath his feet to create a small earthquake. While the Players surrounding him couldn't attack him at once, he directly ran towards the gap in the encirclement he had been aiming for!
Thanks to the Lord of the Peaks' divine power, every step he took on the ground would reflect a force much stronger than a normal person, allowing him to flee extraordinarily quickly and reach the edge of the forest in the blink of an eye!
If he managed to escape into the forest, it would be even more difficult to catch him with the Lord of the Peaks' buff and the hill-folk's ability to escape.
Even so, the Players led by Edward were not in a hurry.
In fact, Edward, who had already reacted in the split second the earthquake started, did not summon the Blackfire Dragon to carry him and fly away from the quake.
That was because Kaven Mor's escape was already expected. After all, the HP bar over his head clearly told everyone that he was weak, not to mention that his armor was almost gone.
In the blink of an eye, a cold glint flashed like a bolt of lightning.
In the very next split second, Kaven Mor's underpants, which were woven from vines and leaves of some unknown plant, burst into flames! And even then, the smile on Kaven Mor's face as if he was about to escape death had yet to vanish …
In the next split second, he dropped to the ground and fainted, foaming at the mouth and rolling his eyes.
On a nearby treetop, Gou Dan moved his eyes away from the 8x scope and put away his AWM, spitting a mouthful of phlegm at Kaven Mor's mangled lower body in disdain.
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