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The last 10 minutes of Chapter 404
An assassin asked in a very low whisper.
"No, the [Po Jun] people are still over there and haven't moved."
The other listened attentively before answering.
"The president's move was brilliant, making them take the brunt of the damage..."
Before he could finish speaking...
boom!
Without warning, a huge hole exploded in the pipe wall above their heads!
It wasn't destroyed by violence, but rather it was as if the stones there instantly vaporized and disappeared!
The blinding sunlight mixed with dust shone in.
The five looked up in horror and saw a figure silently floating in mid-air outside the breach, looking down at them.
That look in his eyes was chillingly calm.
"Found one."
The suspended figure (Lin Tian) seemed to whisper something.
The next moment, an invisible, terrifying repulsive force poured into the pipe, centered on his palm!
【Shinra Tensei】.
The narrow pipe became a deadly pressure cooker!
Before the five assassins could even use their skills, they were crushed against the pipe wall and instantly turned into white light.
Lin Tian didn't even look at the result before disappearing again, reappearing dozens of meters away above another seemingly ordinary pile of rubble.
Three rangers with the [Dark Blade] skill are hiding there.
They didn't even notice how Lin Tian appeared; they only saw a blue-purple beam of light flash by, and the three of them, along with the pile of rubble, were pierced and annihilated.
"Enemy attack!!"
"He's in the west!"
"Come out! Come out now!"
The piercing alarm finally sounded in the area where the Dark Blade guild was hiding, but it was too late.
Lin Tian was like a ghost; every time he used his short-range [Star Leap], it was accompanied by the release of a skill that had a small area of effect but was absolutely deadly.
For scattered and hidden assassins and rangers, [Star Ray] is the most efficient for single-target elimination; for those that are slightly clustered together, use [Shinra Tensei] or the small-area [Universal Pull] to clear them out.
"Focus fire! Don't spread out! Focus fire on him!"
Li Ying's voice, filled with shock and anger, rang out in the channel. He himself rushed out from his hiding place, his figure transforming into several afterimages as he pounced on Lin Tian, who had just appeared and killed two of his subordinates. His dagger was tempered with deadly shadow energy.
However, Lin Tian only glanced at him casually.
[Law-bound].
Four chains shimmering with pale gold light appeared out of thin air, instantly binding Li Ying and several assassins who had just appeared nearby, fixing them firmly in place, unable to move, and even unable to use their skills.
Immediately afterwards, an even thicker [Star Ray] swept across.
Li Ying watched helplessly as the beam of destruction rapidly enlarged in her pupils, her last moments filled with resentment and horror.
They couldn't even force the opponent to use an extra skill.
One minute later, the low-lying ruins area to the west returned to deathly silence.
The Dark Blade guild, consisting of 150 elite members skilled in stealth and assassination, was completely wiped out.
To the east, the vanguard of the [Broken Army] on the ruins of the "Watchtower" stared dumbfounded at the brief but intense flashes, explosions, and patches of deathly white light that suddenly lit up and then went out in the distance to the west.
"Wait...what happened? Is there fighting in the west?"
Zhang Han's face turned pale.
"Captain! All life signs in the west... have disappeared!"
The mage responsible for monitoring life fluctuations trembled.
"What?!"
Everyone felt a chill run from the soles of their feet straight to the top of their heads.
More than a hundred people, gone just like that? And it hasn't been that long.
"It's...it's him! It's Lin Tian! He's here!"
Someone cried out in terror.
Panic spread instantly. They finally understood why the central area was so "clean"!
Just then, Lin Tian finished dealing with the "rats" in the west, and in a flash, he appeared in the sky directly in front of the ruins occupied by the [Broken Army] vanguard team, looking over calmly from a distance of about two hundred meters.
"Fire! All ranged units! Attack! Don't let him get any closer!"
Zhang Han roared almost hysterically.
Already gripped by fear, the team members instinctively carried out orders: fireballs, ice arrows, arcane projectiles, arrows...
It poured down on Lin Tian in the sky like raindrops.
Lin Tian neither dodged nor avoided, but simply raised his left hand.
【All Things Guided by Heaven】.
All the ranged attacks that flew toward him immediately became chaotic and deflected after entering a certain range in front of him, either colliding and exploding with each other or being diverted elsewhere, and none of them could get close to him.
Then, he raised his right hand and aimed it at the ruined buildings below.
This time, it's not about single-target elimination.
【Starstorm】.
The sky seemed to have been ripped open with a huge wound, and the destructive energy of the stars poured down like a waterfall, completely engulfing the entire ruins of the "watchtower" and the surrounding hundred-meter area!
"No--!!!"
Amidst the desperate gazes and screams of Zhang Han and the others, a five-second torrent of star fragments engulfed and tore them apart along with the sturdy building.
The final explosion marked the end of this 200-man forward team's campaign.
In the distance, Lei Hao, the guild leader who had just led the main force of the [Broken Army] to the east entrance, witnessed the star storm that covered half the sky and the destruction of his own vanguard team's stronghold. He was struck dumb and stood frozen in place.
"Retreat...retreat! Get out of here! Get out of the central area! Quickly!"
He gave the order in a hoarse, almost roaring voice, and led the way, turning and running.
Final rankings and guild honors are all jokes in the face of that kind of power!
All he wanted now was to get as far away from that monster as possible!
Unfortunately, it's too late.
After clearing out the strongholds in the east, Lin Tian's gaze was fixed on the last and largest group of "newcomers" at the entrance.
The main force of the [Po Jun] group consists of approximately six hundred men.
He didn't pursue, but simply raised his hand again, this time mobilizing even more magical power.
The combined release of 【Shinra Tensei】 and 【Bansho Ten'in】 is unleashed.
Two opposing yet equally terrifying force fields intertwined and erupted in the area where the main force of the [Breaking Army] was located and along their retreat path!
The earth cracked, rock layers flipped, and space distorted!
The 600-strong team was instantly crushed and swallowed up by this attack, which was as powerful as the heavens and earth!
When everything calmed down.
The central area was once again completely silent.
Only the wind carried an even stronger aura of death than before.
Lin Tian landed back on the tallest broken pillar, as if he had never left.
He glanced at the system time.
[Time until the next safe zone shrinks: 00:10:00]
"Ten minutes left, the circle is going to shrink again." Lin Tian muttered to himself, his gaze calmly fixed on the countdown that was about to reach zero.
"This should be the last time the circle shrinks."
He waited quietly for the final moment to arrive.