"Screech—!"
A sharp, piercing eagle cry, as if capable of tearing through the soul, suddenly resounded throughout the entire Moonlight Forest!
Under the night sky, the giant blood-red falcon, formed from crimson energy, its wings burning with raging flames, descended like a blood-red meteor from the heavens, trailing a long fiery tail, plummeting towards the ancient tree where Lin Mo was hiding!
Along its descent path, a pillar of light, crimson as blood, accurately descended from the sky, completely enveloping and locking onto the tree canopy area where Lin Mo was located!
[System Notification: You have been marked by the skill 'Eye of the Blood Falcon'. Your Stealth status has been forcibly removed, and your location has been exposed! This effect lasts for 5 minutes!]
"Found him!"
"He's in that tree! Everyone, focus fire!"
On the ground, Raging Dragon Howls to Heaven, the guild leader of Mad Dragon Guild, looked in the direction of the blood falcon's dive, and a savage, cruel smile instantly appeared on his face. He fiercely pointed his great flaming sword forward, letting out a thunderous roar!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
In an instant, the earth shook!
A an elite team of nearly two hundred people, at this moment, erupted with terrifying, world-destroying energy!
Dozens of mages simultaneously raised their staffs; scorching fireballs, icy frost arrows, lightning snakes entwined with electric light... countless magical energies converged into a colorful torrent, tearing through the air, carrying a sharp whistle, and engulfing the tree canopy locked in the blood light!
At the same time, hundreds of rangers and hunters simultaneously drew their bowstrings; dense arrows, like a swarm of black locusts passing through, blotted out the sky, sealing off all possible evasion routes!
This was a true inescapable net, woven from magic and arrows!
This was an all-out, no-holds-barred, decisive kill!
Raging Dragon Howls to Heaven believed that under such a dense, saturated attack, let alone a Level 16 assassin, even a Level 30 giant dragon would be instantly pulverized!
"Lin Mo! Die for me!" He vented the long-accumulated humiliation and anger in his heart with a voice that was almost a roar.
However, just an instant before that world-destroying torrent of attacks was about to engulf the entire tree canopy, an imperceptible shadow, like a hallucination, silently slipped from the tree's shade.
Lin Mo's face showed no trace of panic or fear; instead, it was as calm as a thousand-year-old block of ice. His pupils reflected the magic and arrows raining down from the sky, but his brain was racing at an unprecedented speed.
Taking it head-on meant certain death.
Dodging was impossible; the space was completely sealed.
The only way out was in that flash of lightning!
"[Poison Shadow Shift]!"
Just as the first fireball was about to touch his body, Lin Mo activated the absolute divine skill attached to the mentor's ring, a skill capable of reversing life and death!
His body, in an instant, transformed into a pure, insubstantial shadow, silently merging into the shadow of the giant ancient tree beneath his feet.
Boom—!!!
The next second, a terrifying torrent of energy solidly struck the enormous tree canopy!
The violent explosion almost shattered people's eardrums! The entire towering ancient tree, which required several people to encircle, was as fragile as rotten wood before this destructive force, exploding with splinters flying and branches snapping, finally collapsing with a teeth-grinding "crackling" sound!
-MISS!
-MISS!
-MISS!
A series of "miss" notifications frantically flooded Lin Mo's vision.
He was like the calmest reef in the eye of a storm, unharmed despite the world collapsing around him.
"Is he dead?!"
"He must be dead! With this level of attack, even a god would fall!"
"Damn it, we finally got rid of that bastard! What a relief!"
Looking at the devastated, flattened area, the members of Mad Dragon Guild erupted in cheers as if they had survived a great calamity.
However, Raging Dragon Howls to Heaven, as the commander, frowned tightly.
Something was wrong!
No kill notification had appeared in his combat log!
"Everyone, stay alert! He's not..."
Before he could utter the word "dead," a system notification that sent shivers down everyone's spines suddenly exploded within the Healer team at the rear of Mad Dragon Guild's formation!
"Pfft!"
-988!
A huge, crimson critical damage number erupted from the head of a core Light Priest!
As the five seconds of invincibility ended, Lin Mo, forcibly entering Stealth, appeared silently in the very heart of Mad Dragon Guild's formation, like a vengeful ghost returned from hell!
His goal, from the beginning, was not to escape, but to... counterattack!
"Enemy attack! He's behind us!"
"Protect the Healers!"
The players in the back instantly fell into Chaos; they couldn't understand why the target who should have died under their focused fire had suddenly appeared behind them!
But Lin Mo's speed was faster than their reactions!
Poisoned Weapon was already active; the Deadly Poison-coated dagger, like the Grim Reaper's scythe, brought forth a series of blood blossoms from the priest crippled by Shadow Strike!
-102! [Poison -41!]
-201! (Critical Hit!) [Poison -41!]
In just one second, that core priest, hailed as the "lung of the team," turned into a white light amidst endless terror and confusion.
"Next, it's you."
Lin Mo's cold voice was like a death-calling curse. Without any pause, his figure flickered, and he once again activated Shadow Strike, whose cooldown had already ended, targeting another priest who was frantically chanting "Holy Light Spell"!
"No!"
The priest let out a desperate scream, but it was all in vain.
Another clean, swift kill!
In an instant, Mad Dragon Guild's proud Healer team was torn open by Lin Mo in a devastating manner!
"Kill him! Everyone, kill him!"
Raging Dragon Howls to Heaven's eyes were bloodshot; he finally understood that what he was facing was not a prey that could be surrounded and killed, but a prehistoric Tyrannosaurus Rex that had charged into a flock of sheep!
The melee professions roared, turning to encircle Lin Mo's position.
However, Lin Mo made a move that no one expected.
Instead of retreating, he actively charged into the dense crowd!
His figure flitted through the crowd like a Butterfly, unpredictable. Each of his attacks did not aim for a fatal blow, but only for efficiency.
-85! [Poison -41!]
-91! [Poison -41!]
-88! [Poison -41!]
Each swing of his dagger precisely left a wound and a layer of the deadly Endless Poison Source on a new target!
In just over ten seconds, he was like a tiger among sheep, forcefully applying at least one layer of poison effect to nearly a hundred elite members of Mad Dragon Guild!
"What is he doing? Is he just scratching them?"
"No! He's stacking poison! Interrupt him quickly!"
Raging Dragon Howls to Heaven finally realized Lin Mo's terrifying intention, but it was already too late.
Lin Mo's figure suddenly took a step back, creating distance. Looking at the "wheat field" in front of him, where gray poison damage numbers continuously popped up above their heads, a death god-like smile curved on his lips.
He slowly raised his hand and gently snapped his fingers.
"The feast has begun."
[Poison Burst]!
Buzz—!!!
An invisible, destructive wave suddenly spread outwards, centered on Lin Mo!
The next second, the entire battlefield seemed to have a hundred bombs detonating simultaneously!
All Mad Dragon Guild members who had been afflicted with Lin Mo's poison had their Deadly Poison instantly detonated at this moment!
-850!
-910!
-880!
-1760! (Critical Hit!)
-895!
...In an instant, nearly a hundred terrifying damage numbers, like dazzling fireworks, exploded in the middle of Mad Dragon Guild's crowd!
Those squishy professions like mages and rangers, whose health was already low, didn't even have time to scream before their health bars were instantly emptied by this sudden and terrifying burst, turning into white lights scattering across the sky!
Even the tough-skinned warriors and knights had their health plummet and everyone was injured under this group attack, which could only be described as a "nuclear explosion"!
Just one attack!
Mad Dragon Guild's proud hundred-man elite team instantly lost over a third of its members!
The entire battlefield fell into a deadly silence.
All surviving Mad Dragon Guild members were as if struck by Petrification, staring blankly at the hellish scene before them, their minds blank.
In their hearts, only endless coldness and fear remained.
Morale, at this moment, completely collapsed!
"Devil... He's a devil..." a warrior muttered to himself, his longsword clanging to the ground, then he turned and fled frantically towards the forest's edge without looking back.
His action was like lighting the fuse of a powder keg.
"Run!"
"We can't fight him! He's not human at all!"
Panic spread like a plague. So-called elites, so-called honor, all became worthless in the face of death.
The army collapsed like a crumbling mountain!
Raging Dragon Howls to Heaven stood dumbfounded, watching his legion crumble in an instant, watching the figure standing silently amidst the mountains of corpses and seas of blood like a demon god. For the first time, his face turned ashen white.
He finally understood what kind of existence he had provoked.
But Lin Mo did not give them any chance to breathe.
He looked at the scattering "prey," his cold voice echoing in everyone's ears.
"Only thinking of running now?"
"Too late."
With that, his figure flickered again, activating Stealth, silently merging into this hunting ground that belonged only to him.