System: Congratulations to the player for destroying the Evil God's barrier magic array, successfully preventing the opening of the Evil Energy channel. Human Race reputation +100. War God Temple Merit +10,000 points.
Shi Feng heard the system notification and felt a slight jolt of surprise.
He hadn't expected that simply destroying a magic array would not only boost his Human Race reputation by 100 points at once, but also award him a whopping 10,000 War God Temple Merit points.
After all, War God Temple Merit was extremely valuable — an ordinary epic-tier item cost only 4,000 Merit points in the War God Temple.
But Shi Feng didn't dwell on it for long. He picked up the dark-gray magic-inscribed crystal that had dropped on the ground and rushed out of the magic array.
Although the magic array had been destroyed, the dense evil energy still posed a lethal threat to players. Without the protection of an Absolute Domain, even a Tier 2 class would surely be killed on the spot.
Meanwhile, outside, the sudden collapse of the magic array left the frenzied Yi Xiao Du Zang stunned on the spot, while Yan Xue, who had been controlling the evil creatures from the shadows, stood with his jaw hanging wide open.
"How is this possible?" Yan Xue stared at the magic array as the evil energy gradually dispersed and weakened, his face full of disbelief. "Is he really a player?"
The magic array the Beast Emperor had created was no ordinary formation. Because four hundred thousand players had been sacrificed, the concentration of evil energy inside was so dense that even he, an apostle of the Evil God Temple, didn't dare to enter — to say nothing of other players.
Anyone who dared to enter would meet certain death, let alone attempt to destroy the magic array itself.
Although Shi Feng had previously used a Silence skill to prevent the magic array's self-destruction, the Silence could only delay it for a time. Once the effect wore off, the Beast Emperor could still detonate the array and turn this area into a death zone.
But if the magic array was destroyed, triggering its self-destruction afterward would be impossible.
The sudden collapse of the magic array also lifted the seal that had shrouded the entire Stone Claw Mountains. An expanse of clear sky appeared before everyone once more, and the outside world, which had been impossible to contact, could now be reached directly without any obstruction.
"The seal has been broken?"
"What's going on? Did the Tianzang Guild succeed?"
"Quick! Report this to the higher-ups immediately!"
Members of various guilds who had been monitoring the situation outside the Stone Claw Mountains watched the pitch-black barrier vanish. After a moment of shock, they prepared to report the matter to their superiors.
But before the players outside the Stone Claw Mountains could even relay what was happening, they suddenly saw a massive horde of players fleeing toward them as though they had gone mad. These players bore either the badges of the Tianzang Guild or the emblems of the Heishui Guild — every single one of them looked as though they had seen a ghost.
Before long, another large group of players appeared. Although they were fewer in number than the players fleeing in every direction, their momentum was overwhelming as they relentlessly pursued the fleeing Tianzang and Heishui Guild members.
"What's happening? Why is the Zero Wing Guild chasing down and killing players from the Tianzang and Heishui Guilds?"
"Could it be that Tianzang and Heishui lost?"
"That can't be right. Tianzang and Heishui gathered so many people, and they had the evil demon army backing them up — how could they possibly lose?"
The players watching the battle had never even considered the possibility of the Tianzang and Heishui Guilds' defeat. After all, the evil demon army was far too powerful — not something current players could hope to withstand. On top of that, the Tianzang and Heishui Guilds held an overwhelming numerical advantage. Breaking through Stone Forest Town should have been a piece of cake. How could the Zero Wing Guild possibly be chasing them, and all the way to here?
But before anyone could react, three humanoid monsters, each standing over thirty meters tall, appeared on the scene. Every one of them radiated a terrifying aura as they hunted down the fleeing players with wild ferocity. A single sword swing took several lives, and in mere moments, over a hundred players had been killed. Not a single one could hold out for even a few seconds — all that echoed through the valley were screams of every kind.
And when they took a closer look at the Baphomets' stats, the players monitoring the battle in the Stone Claw Mountains couldn't help but shudder.