msmithbooks Chapter 364 Run! Run fast!
Chapter 364 Run! Run fast!
[Defeat "Lava Crystal Soul" (Lv.50) to gain +22 Upgrade Points and +33 Overlord Power.]
He didn't go into the cave to collect the items dropped by players; those things held no appeal for him.
His gaze fell on the ore vein, and a flash of starlight appeared at his fingertips. A slightly thicker [Star Ray] swept across the richest area of the ore vein, violently shattering the rock layers and shaking out several "Lava Cores" (Grade A materials) that were the most energy-rich.
The system notification sounded, and the materials were automatically added to the backpack.
He didn't even glance at the other ordinary crystal ores and left directly.
......
A small group of about seven or eight casual players witnessed the instant annihilation of the "Rock Squad" from a distance (they only saw a beam of light flash before the people inside the cave disappeared), and were terrified.
"Run! Run! It's Lin Tian! He's really here!" A player with the ID [Sun Yu] (Lv.26) turned and ran.
"Where do you think you're going? This is a lava river!" [Han Mei] (Lv.25) was pale.
"Go to the sulfur swamp area! The terrain there is complicated; maybe we can escape there!"
Another warrior, Qian Yong (Lv.27), roared. He was the highest-ranking among the group that had been temporarily assembled.
Like headless flies, the group rushed towards an area of boiling, bubbling sulfurous swamp, attempting to use the complex and dangerous terrain to escape their pursuers.
Lin Tian changed direction, seemingly intending to intercept.
His speed far surpassed that of these players who averaged level 25, and he quickly closed the distance.
"He's coming! Quick! Get into the swamp! Split up!"
Qian Yong glanced back and was terrified, because Lin Tian seemed to be walking leisurely, but each step covered an extremely long distance.
As Han Mei ran, she tried to cast Frost Nova to slow herself down, but just as the spell was completed, a beam of starlight swept past, and she turned into white light without even uttering a sound.
"Han Mei!" Sun Yu exclaimed.
"Don't look back! Jump over!" Qian Yong rushed to the edge of a boiling mud pit and leaped over it.
He succeeded, landing on the relatively solid black hard ground opposite.
But the people who followed behind weren't so lucky.
Lin Tian simply waved his hand casually in the direction they were fleeing, and an extremely slight but subtly directed [Universal Attraction] force field swept by, affecting the vector of their jump.
"what!"
"Thump!"
"Help!"
Three of the players screamed and veered off course, falling into the scalding mud.
The swamp immediately inflicted continuous burning damage and a powerful slowing and entanglement effect. Screams of agony erupted.
"Li Qi! Zhang Wei! Wang Na!"
Qian Yong, who landed on the opposite side, and another thief who successfully jumped over, Zhou Peng (Lv.25), shouted anxiously but dared not go back to help.
Lin Tian didn't even get close to the edge of the swamp; he just kept a hundred meters away and tapped the mud with his fingertips, like he was shooting at a target.
laugh!laugh!laugh!
Three beams of light precisely struck the three players struggling in the swamp, ending their suffering.
Then, the beam turned to the two people standing frozen on the hard ground opposite.
"No! Don't kill me! You can have all my points! I still have equipment!"
Qian Yong screamed in despair and dropped his weapon.
His answer was a cold starlight.
laugh!laugh!
......
A player named Gao Xiang (Lv.28), who possesses a rare flying mount (a fire vulture), is soaring higher in the sky, taking advantage of his aerial superiority.
He witnessed Lin Tian's carnage below, and was too frightened to descend, yet he couldn't resist his curiosity and a sliver of hope—
Perhaps he can pick up the rare items dropped by the dead players that Lin Tian didn't collect?
He opened the regional channel and said in a trembling voice:
"Coordinates (7788, 9012) confirmed! Lin Tian is moving northeast, killing all players and monsters he encounters along the way! Again, it's Lin Tian! Everyone, get away from these coordinates!"
The channel instantly exploded.
"Another person has confirmed it! It really is him!"
"Northeast? Isn't that the road leading to the 'Boiling Heart' Canyon? That's a high-resource area on this plain!"
"Damn it, our guild's main force is gathering at the entrance to the canyon!"
"@Guild Leader of War Soul Guild, get your people out of here!"
"Retreat? Where to retreat to?!"
"Are there any experts who can join forces to stop him? We can't let him run rampant like this!"
"Snipe? How are you going to snipe? Didn't you hear the witnesses say? They were all instant kills! They didn't even see the skills!"
"Waaaaah, Mom, I want to go home! This preliminary round was terrifying..."
While watching the cries of agony and fear flooding the chat, Gao Xiang nervously kept his eyes on Lin Tian's figure below.
Suddenly, he saw Lin Tian stop and look up, seemingly in his direction.
Gao Xiang's heart tightened, and he subconsciously raised the height of his mount.
"He shouldn't be able to hit us from this distance... Air units have an altitude advantage..."
Before he could finish the thought, he saw a flash of deep starlight in Lin Tian's eyes.
The next second, Gao Xiang felt as if his head had been hit hard by an invisible giant hammer. His vision went black, and the intense pain and dizziness caused him to lose control of his body instantly, causing him to fall directly off the back of the Flame Vulture!
The true mental impact of the [Dominator's Eye] was activated remotely.
"Ah—!" As he fell, Gao Xiang only had time to let out a short scream.
Before he even landed, a [Star Ray] swept upwards and pierced through his body.
The world was plunged into darkness.
The fiery vulture let out a mournful cry and vanished as a speck of light.
In the regional channel, Gao Xiang's profile picture went gray, and the last message remained frozen there.
This silent disappearance brought the panic on the channel to a new climax.
......
Lin Tian continued towards the "Boiling Heart" canyon.
Along the way, whenever a player's dot appears within a certain range, regardless of whether the player is fighting, gathering resources, or fleeing in panic, they will be met with a precise [Star Ray] that ignores terrain.
He passed through an area filled with scorching steam vents, where two small teams (eleven people in total, average level 26) were carefully dodging the vents while fighting several Lv.50 "Lava Crawlers".
Lin Tian, from afar, pointed eleven times with his finger, as if calling out a roll.
Eleven beams of light pierced through the steam, creating eleven white lights.
The monsters were bewildered and lost their target.
He crossed a narrow stone bridge over a lava river.
On the other side of the bridge, five players (average Lv.25) were celebrating after killing a Lv.50 "Flame Armor Turtle".
Lin Tian stood on this side of the bridge, raised his hand with his fingers slightly spread, and five rays shot out almost simultaneously, crossing the scorching river a hundred meters wide, turning the celebration into a funeral.