Following Mo's gaze, everyone on the field looked toward the black-armored warrior walking over from the distance.
The Ironblood players immediately became even more suspicious.
"Boss Mo, you're saying that metal lump is as strong as you?"
The Ironblood players said, "Can he hit me for 80,000 damage in one slash?"
Mo: "No."
The Ironblood players said, "Then does he have an Ancestral-grade pet?"
Mo: "No."
The Ironblood players said, "Then how is he equal to you, Boss Mo?"
Mo wasn't in a hurry to explain. He only asked Lu Ye, who had just walked over, "How did Nannan's surgery go?"
Under the heavy metal armor, relief showed in Lu Ye's eyes, "It just finished. The surgery was very successful. After resting for a while, Nan Nan will completely recover and become a normal person again."
"That's good," Lin Mo was genuinely happy for Lu Ye too.
After all, in his previous life, before Lu Ye could gather enough money, his daughter died in the hospital and left him behind, causing him to give up on himself and eventually walk down a dead end.
It was truly tragic, and hard not to feel regret over it.
In this life, Lin Mo had finally managed to change the fate of Lu Ye and his daughter.
Lin Mo returned to the main topic and gave Lu Ye a task through the clone, "I've got a mission for you."
Now that his daughter had been saved, Lu Ye respected and appreciated Mo even more.
"Okay. Whatever the mission is, Boss, just say it. I'll definitely do everything I can to complete it!"
From the clone's perspective, Lin Mo turned to Ironblood Ruthless.
"Pick a hundred people from your guild and beat him."
Ironblood Ruthless glanced at Lu Ye.
It seemed only he could sense the unusual presence coming from him.
So he agreed.
"Alright."
Then Ironblood Ruthless personally selected a hundred strong players from the guild.
"Everyone switch on blood-lock attack mode. Stop once the point is made."
"Yes!"
At the same time, Lin Mo looked at Lu Ye, "Your mission is to defeat them."
"Okay."
Without another word, Lu Ye immediately entered combat mode.
Clang!
The moment he reached behind his back and pulled out his sword, countless dark rays from the surrounding ground gathered into Lu Ye's body.
The several hundred Gale Studio players who had just been wiped out by Ironblood Guild not long ago became Lu Ye's natural source of power reserves.
In the blink of an eye, Lu Ye activated the hidden class ability of Shadow Sword God and stacked Shadow Breath to 100 layers.
The next second...
Swish!
He planted the long sword into the ground.
Breath Burst!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The hundred strands of Shadow Breath that Lu Ye had just absorbed into his body were all released again, scattering across the ground and turning into a hundred Shadow Sword Puppets.
"Holy crap! What kind of skill is this?"
"First time I've ever seen a warrior use summoning magic."
"Who cares, attack together and beat him!"
Amid the shock and confusion, the hundred Ironblood Guild elites personally chosen by Ironblood Ruthless picked up their weapons and charged at Lu Ye.
At the same time, under the Breath Burst state, the hundred Shadow Sword Puppets, controlled by Lu Ye's mind, charged toward the Ironblood players surrounding them from the outside.
According to normal logic, the more summons there are, the weaker each individual summon should be.
They originally thought that with so many Shadow Sword Puppets, each puppet's strength would definitely be average.
But what the Ironblood players never expected was that every single Shadow Sword Puppet was insanely powerful.
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
-13258!
-12964!
-14111!
Under the massive five-digit damage, the Ironblood Guild players were beaten into chaos.
The hundred elites were defeated almost instantly. Before they could even get close to Lu Ye, they were all reduced to 1 HP by the Shadow Sword Puppets.
Meanwhile, only one-third of the Shadow Sword Puppets had been destroyed.
This scene shocked everyone present.
At the same time, the ID information above Lu Ye's head, which had originally been hidden, was forcibly displayed in gray text—
[Dark Hunter · Black Night] (Lv55 Tier Three Shadow Sword God · Rank 3 on the Heavenly Ranking)
At this moment, when Ironblood Ruthless looked at Lu Ye again, his eyes were filled with shock and admiration.
"Hidden class!"
"Third on the Heavenly Ranking?"
Clang!
As Lu Ye raised his sword again, the hundred Shadow Sword Puppets scattered into the wind.
At this point, Lin Mo asked Ironblood Ruthless, "Guild Leader Ruthless, what do you think of the person I recommended to you? Satisfied?"
"Good! Very satisfied!", Ironblood Ruthless walked up to Lu Ye and said excitedly and seriously, "Brother, join our Ironblood Guild. I'll make you vice guild leader."
Lu Ye didn't rush to state his position. Instead, he looked at Lin Mo.
Only after receiving Lin Mo's approval did he agree to Ironblood Ruthless.
"Okay."
Lu Ye knew Lin Mo naturally had his reasons for doing this.
He only needed to follow the arrangement.
And even if he joined Ironblood Guild, he would still only obey Lin Mo's orders alone.
At this moment, Gao Han looked at Ironblood Ruthless.
"Still fighting?"
Ironblood Ruthless burst out laughing, "Brother Gao, what are you saying? From now on, Ironblood and Golden Age are one family."
"What's yours is mine, and what's mine is still mine "
Gao Han: "?"
While the players from both guilds shook hands and exchanged greetings, Lin Mo controlled the clone and walked over to Zhao Lingyun, who stood there alone like an outsider among the crowd.
"I've protected you for a whole day already. When are you going to pay the protection fee?"
Right after he said that, on Lin Mo's side, Ning Xi beside him couldn't help saying, ["Brother Lin Mo, Sister Ling'er is already so pitiful, and you're still bullying her?"]
["You don't understand,"] Lin Mo said, ["Her biggest problem right now is inferiority. Only after overcoming that can she move forward without hesitation."]
On the clone's side, Zhao Lingyun lowered her head, too ashamed to show her face.
"I... I don't have any money on me right now..."
'Wait,' the next second, Zhao Lingyun suddenly reacted and looked up at Mo in disbelief, "You... protected me for a whole day?"
Controlling the clone, Lin Mo replied naturally, "Do you remember what I told you before?"
"Gold will shine one day. And I will wait for the day you bloom."
Tears filled Zhao Lingyun's eyes, "But I'm not gold. I'm just useless trash who can't do anything right..."
Lin Mo shook his head.
The number eleven player on the Dragon Nation national top 100 ranking in his previous life. The number one Magic Illusion Mage on the class ranking. How could she be trash?
Nobody thought highly of Zhao Lingyun.
Yet she fought the hardest for herself.
In his previous life, when Divine Oracle descended, she accidentally activated the system-sealed SS-grade talent Thousand Transformations after mistakenly drinking the blood of a royal Black Dragon prince.
From then on, Zhao Lingyun stepped onto the path of a strong person.
And the reason Lin Mo cared so much about Zhao Lingyun, never giving up on her no matter when or where, even when Zhao Lingyun herself had already given up on herself, wasn't only because she had the potential of an SS-grade talent.
It was also because in his previous life, Zhao Lingyun had once saved Lin Mo's life.
During one mission, Lin Mo and several teammates accidentally fell into a wormhole and were attacked by a huge swarm of insects.
Just as they were on the verge of death, a Magic Illusion Mage stepped in and, with a flick of her fingers, transformed the countless insects into powerless sheep.
("Run!")
Even now, Lin Mo still remembered that figure standing at the peak of light like a goddess, reaching out to help him while he was trapped by the insect swarm in a hopeless situation.
So in other words, even if Zhao Lingyun didn't have an SS-grade talent, even if she truly was a "cripple" born without talent, Lin Mo still would never abandon her.
And it was also because of that incident that Lin Mo saw just how powerful Zhao Ling'er's talent was.
In the world of Divine Oracle, the advanced class of mages, Magic Illusion Mage, specialized in unpredictable skills like turning enemies into sheep, pigs, cats, and other forms.
While transformed into these powerless animals, enemies would also receive different weakening effects.
For example, Sheep Transformation could reduce the enemy's physical defense;
Cat Transformation could reduce the enemy's magic defense;
Pig Transformation could reduce the enemy's healing effects, and so on.
No matter how strong an expert was, they still had to obediently surrender when facing a Magic Illusion Mage.
Just like no matter how impressive a man is outside, once he gets home at night, he still has to obediently hand in his homework to his wife.
Because the transformation mechanic was too broken, Magic Illusion Mages had one major limitation: all the skills of this class could only control one target at a time.
Even an SSS-grade Sheep Transformation could only turn one target into a sheep. At most, higher skill grades only increased the transformation duration (5 seconds) and made the weakening effect stronger (reducing physical defense by 100%).
But Lin Mo had personally seen it before: every one of Zhao Ling'er's skills carried an all-target transformation effect.
So Lin Mo boldly guessed that the effect of Zhao Ling'er's SS-grade talent Thousand Transformations was to turn all single-target attacks into area-wide attacks.
This talent was extremely strong no matter what class it was used on. Even for Lin Mo, it would be like adding wings to a tiger.
But it matched perfectly with Magic Illusion Mage alone.
Once this talent awakened, Zhao Lingyun would become the undisputed number one "Shepherd" in the world of Divine Oracle.
Through the clone, Lin Mo looked at the deeply insecure Zhao Lingyun and said to her, "Give yourself a chance. I'll help you realize your dreams and your value."
"Of course, just like I said before, I do have my own motives for helping you. After you realize your value, I want you to join my guild. Can you agree to that?"
Zhao Lingyun raised her head and looked at Lin Mo with tears in her eyes. Finally, she nodded deeply, "Okay!"
Lin Mo finally let out a relieved breath.
This time, he had finally completely won Zhao Lingyun over, from body to heart, inside and out.
Besides that, the clone was on Golden Age's side.
Lu Ye was on Ironblood's side.
Through the clone's vision, Lin Mo saw Gao Han and Ironblood Ruthless shaking hands and reconciling on behalf of their guilds.
———
Over on the Hall of Yama side, Lin Mo said happily, "Another powerful ally gained! Double happiness!"
Chaos!
Blood Dance!
Golden Age!
Ironblood!
"Looks like tonight's operation is basically guaranteed."
Thinking that, after clearing the Fourth Hall of the Hall of Yama with Ning Xi, Lin Mo didn't rush to push into the Fifth Hall immediately.
Instead, he returned to the city and logged off to eat dinner.
When he logged back in...
Ding!
Ling Xue suddenly sent a message ["Lin Mo, if you have time, can you help me with something? I've got a quest over here that's a bit too difficult. He Xiao and Zhao Jun couldn't handle it either. You're the only one who can help me."]