Chapter 448

The Players, who had been searching and capturing hill-folk in groups of two or three as if they were catching groundhogs, were caught unprepared by Kaven Mor's sudden ambush of an entire village.

Aside from a few reputable second-rate Player parties that were caught off guard, even Marni had accidentally fallen into a trap. The hill-folk stripped him naked and stabbed him dozens of times before he was resurrected naked at the Sky Horizon. The picture of Marni's agony had contributed to the Player forums' atmosphere of joy, and was still pinned at the top of the forum even now.

Still, they were still in the middle of an event. If the hill-folk army that appeared out of nowhere managed to find the Sky Horizon, it would be a small matter if they lost all face, but it would be a real pity if the promised hidden class flew away!

To prevent the worst from happening, the Players quickly gathered at the Crookes survivor camp as they usually did.

"Currently, we've discovered that there's a huge gap between the upper and lower levels of the Highlanders."

As usual, Edward was the first to speak, "Although there are no old, weak, women or children, the lowest level of the Mountain Folk is only around Level 10. As of now, we have confirmed that the highest level of the Mountain Folk is the Mountain Shaman, Level 46, suspected to be a God's Chosen Template!

"Doesn't that mean he's a noob?" Joe couldn't help exclaiming in delight.

The average first-rate Player was around Level 50, and after learning the powerful colored skills, a mere Level 46 Boss wouldn't be much of a threat to them.

After all, Chosen Ones weren't invulnerable, just that they had higher Rule Resistance. With a level advantage, first-rate Players with rich combat experience would be able to wear them down.

"The problem is that he has more than three thousand hill-folk under his command, with many of them being Level 40 elites."

Edward continued.

To current players, 3,000 monsters wasn't a lot. Even if there was a Boss and a few Elite monsters, it wouldn't matter. With their Immortal Body, they could clear them all in a few more attempts.

The problem was that their objective this time wasn't to wipe out all the hill-folk, but to protect the Sky Horizon.

If the Players' main force was pinned down and the enemy used some unknown method to find and ascend the Sky Horizon, it would be the Players' defeat!

"Be that as it may, there's no point thinking about it. It's better to face them head-on."

Marni Wilf shook his head. "Actually, the current situation is a good thing. According to what I know, the hill-natives have three major settlements near Valla, and there is only one hill shaman among the attacking enemy. That means that only one settlement has come, and we have the chance to take them down one by one!"

"That's true …" Edward thought about it and found it to be true.

Instead of nagging here, it was obviously better to directly defeat all the enemies.

Therefore, he immediately initiated a round table vote to let Sky Border City soar higher. Then, he used the new roll function of the players' forum to draw a group of players with long-range attack abilities to stay behind. Then, he led the other players to face the mountain people who were attacking like a flash flood!

In his rage, Marni could not punch through a fifty-meter steel plate, but he could slide with a dagger in hand, cutting off the lower half of the hill-folk who had ripped off his clothes.

He was holding a short sword in his hand, and with a slide shovel, he sliced the lower body of the mountain man who had stripped his clothes in half. As the man screamed in pain, he got up and chopped off his head with his sword. That was a way to vent his anger.

Soon, he was struck by the nearby Hill Shaman, Kaven Mor's divine spell.

The divine spell that resembled a rock ball pierced Marni's chest. It was so powerful that it flew dozens of meters away even after piercing Marni, and finally blasted a crater that was six meters wide with a loud boom, killing both Players and hill-folk who were caught off guard.

At first, Gou Dan was about to shout 'Marni's dead again', 'How inhumane', or 'But we're done for this time' as usual when he realized that Marni's blurred form had reverted to normal, leaving Gou Dan dumbfounded.

"How did you come back to life?" He asked Marni.

"It's the power of runes," Marni replied smugly. "Someone had studied runes for some time and realized that the Tiga rune is very special. It has a 'photonization' ability that prevents physical damage for one second after activation!"

"Isn't that invincible?!" Gou Dan exclaimed in surprise.

"It's not that simple. Aside from prediction, this thing needs to be charged. You have to hold equipment with the Tiga rune and chant 'boil bones into soup' in front of the statue of the God of Games fifty thousand times to charge it. Moreover, it can only be used once each time, which is very troublesome. "

"Mister Marni, you actually have so much time to chant that …"

Gou Dan clicked his tongue.

Even if he did not know what 'boil bones into soup' had to do with photonization, he knew that he definitely did not have the patience to do such a thing. It seems that he was not fated to have such a good thing.

"Hey, I have hundreds of thousands of gold coins per second, where would Valla find the time to do this!" Marni said smugly. "I asked those newbies who had just become Players and didn't have much money to help me do this. I paid them 1000 game coins for each item that was charged, and now that all five of my items have been charged, I can dodge five fatal attacks!"

Gou Dan promptly looked at Marni with an expression that said 'So this is the power of money, as expected of you!'

In the next split second, every Player received a System notification.

[Ding! Player System V3.1 upgrade completed.]

[New changes made:]

[Fixed bug where Tiga rune does not need to be charged]

[Minor changes made to the light effects of all class skills. Damage and effect are unchanged, but it's even more awesome]

[Happy gaming.]

Marni gaped at the new notification. He was so shocked that he did not even realize that a hill-folk had ambushed him and was knocked to the ground. If Gou Dan did not help him, he might have been stripped naked and beaten to death again.

Even as he fell to the ground, he was still thinking, 'I'm probably being targeted by the God of Games!'

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To be fair, Xi Wei was not targeting him.

Still, if he allowed that bug to exist, the Tiga rune would definitely become popular. While it was beneficial for the Players and could improve their overall ability, it was a pain in the ass for Xi Wei. Since he did not have the Authority of Light himself, photonization was very taxing on his divine power …

In order to save divine power, and to make some adjustments to the rune system that he had been too reckless before, he released this patch.