ebonymovies Chapter 464 The Prelude to the Melee
Chapter 464 The Prelude to the Melee
Lin Tian gently ruffled Celia's hair.
"I'll let you play first next time."
Celia pouted: "You always say that."
Lin Tian did not answer.
He looked in the direction of the cave exit.
From there, the faint sounds of fierce fighting could be heard.
The overlapping period has already begun.
"Let's go," he said.
He led Celia and Little White towards the cave entrance.
Behind them, the lava pool continued to churn, but the king that once reigned there had vanished completely.
......
Eastern border.
Zhang Tianya was staring at the battlefield when he suddenly froze.
Because he received a system notification.
[System Announcement: Eastern Realm player "Lin Tian" has defeated the fused wild monster "Flame Demon Black Dragon" (level 62 boss), granting all players in the Eastern Realm a 30% buff to all attributes for 10 minutes.]
The buff has been activated.
The announcement was repeated three times over the border area.
The battlefield, which had been filled with the sounds of battle, came to a brief standstill.
The players in the Western Regions were stunned.
The players in the Eastern Territory were also stunned.
Then--
"Holy crap! Lin Tian is our teammate?!"
"30% boost to all stats! That's fucking awesome!"
"Brothers, charge! Kill those little brats from the West!"
The players in the Eastern Territory erupted in excitement. Those who had been struggling suddenly felt stronger, faster, and had higher skill damage. People who were previously unkillable could now be taken down by a single strike, losing half their health.
The players in the Western Regions all changed their expressions.
"What's going on? Is there a boss buff in the Eastern Territory?"
"Who is Lin Tian? He killed the BOSS all by himself?"
"Damn it, how are we supposed to fight like this?!"
The balance of power on the battlefield has begun to tilt.
......
Zhang Tianya felt his body become lighter, and his strength, speed, and defense all increased significantly.
His eyes widened.
"A fusion monster? No, the announcement said 'Fire Demon Black Dragon'... That's not a fusion monster, that's a boss!"
Li Weiwei also received the notification and was equally shocked.
"He...he really went to fight the boss? And he killed it?"
Zhang Heng jumped up beside him: "Holy crap! Boss Lin Tian solo-killed the BOSS?! Is he even human?!"
The sisters of Blood Romance were also in an uproar.
Li Weiwei looked at Zhang Tianya with a complicated expression.
"Just how strong is your old friend?"
Zhang Tianya was silent for a few seconds, then smiled.
"I don't know. But I think it's stronger than we imagined."
He looked out over the plain.
"Let's go, now that we have the buff, it's our turn to make our move."
He gripped his shield tightly and strode forward.
Behind him, members of the War Alliance and Blood Romance followed.
Meanwhile, on the distant western border, Kenichi Sato and Marcus DuPont also received the same system announcement.
Sato's face was ashen.
Marcus laughed.
"Interesting, very interesting."
He clenched his fists, his blue eyes burning with even greater ambition.
"Only people like that are worth killing."
He strode forward.
"Let's go, it's time to close the net."
......
With the increase in all attributes, Zhang Tianya felt three times lighter.
He gripped the shield tightly; the tower shield, which had been somewhat heavy, now felt as light as a feather.
Power surged through his veins, and the exhilarating feeling of increased speed made him want to roar to the sky.
"Brothers!" He turned to his guild members behind him, his voice booming, "The buff only lasts ten minutes, hurry up!"
"Charge!!!"
More than a hundred men, like tigers descending a mountain, rushed from the eastern border into the plains at the border.
Li Weiwei, along with her thirty-seven sisters of Blood Romance, followed closely behind. The mage corps began chanting, and the light of frost and fire flickered within the ranks.
The battle on the plains has reached a fever pitch.
Players from the East and West were in complete chaos, with flashes of skill light rising and falling, and screams and roars mingling together.
Countless pieces of equipment and potions were scattered on the ground, dropped by the killed players. Some of them were still glowing, clearly top-tier items.
But few dared to bend down and pick it up—in this chaotic battlefield, bending down meant death.
Zhang Tianya led his men to cut in from the east.
"Warriors, hold the front! Mages, deal damage from the back! Healers, keep a close eye on health!" he commanded as he charged in. "Don't be greedy! Kill as many as you can!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a group of players from the Western Frontier rushed over. The leader's eyes lit up when he saw Zhang Tianya—this guy had decent equipment; killing him would definitely yield good loot.
"Brothers, take them down!"
The group charged forward, yelling.
Zhang Tianya sneered and advanced instead of retreating.
He raised his shield and charged at the warrior.
boom--! ! !
With a muffled thud, the soldier was sent flying backward, rolling seven or eight times on the ground, spitting out blood.
He stared in horror—how could this person be so strong?!
What he didn't know was that Zhang Tianya currently had a 30% boost to all attributes. More importantly, his talent—the SSS-rank [Eternal Defense]—possessed extremely terrifying defensive and damage-reflecting abilities.
However, apart from Lin Tian and Li Weiwei, no one else knew about this.
"kill!"
The members of the alliance swarmed forward and wiped out the group of Western Border players as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.
Zhang Heng shouted excitedly, "The president is awesome!"
Zhang Tianya ignored him and turned his gaze to the battlefield.
On the east side, a group of Western players are besieging several lone Eastern players.
Those few independent fighters were clearly on the verge of collapse.
......
The western border.
Kenichi Sato stood on the hill, his eyes fixed on the battlefield.
He witnessed Zhang Tianya leading his men into the battlefield and saw the group of Western Region players being instantly defeated.
"That soldier..." he squinted, "Who is he?"
Kobayashi Hikaru adjusted his glasses and quickly reviewed the information stored in his mind.
"Zhang Tianya, guild leader of the War Alliance. Ranked in the top 100 of the first round of preliminaries. S-grade talent... should be [Iron Barrier], specializing in defense."
Sato gave a cold laugh.
"S-rank? That attack just now didn't seem to be S-rank in terms of power."
Hikaru Kobayashi remained silent for a few seconds.
"Perhaps it's due to the gains in the East."
Sato did not speak.
But his gaze lingered on Zhang Tianya for a few more seconds.
Chishima Rin walked over from the side: "President, aren't we going to make a move?"
Sato looked toward the black arena in the center of the plain.
The fusion monster "Two-Faced Colossus" resides there.
It was a giant stone statue over a hundred meters long, its body composed of two different types of rock, half of which was crimson red from the eastern border and half of which was grayish-black from the western border.
It is wielding its massive stone arms, frantically attacking players who try to get close.
Each strike turned several people into white light.