LWGP - Chapter 177

Chapter 177: Pulling Monsters

As the lord, with another race invading her territory, Wang Jiu would naturally investigate further. Fortunately, the information from the new expansion pack was quite complete, at least providing some intelligence on the Catacomb Undead.

First, the Undead race was a large system, divided into the Catacomb Undead and the Icebound Undead. These two types of Undead were not just a divergence in bloodline, but also a division in rank. This story began with the history of the Undead.

Once, the progenitor of the Undead was one of the most ancient Primordial Spirit Race in this world. The people of the Primordial Spirit Race all focused on spirit cultivation, but there were always some individuals with deviant personalities or talents who walked a different path. The goal of this Undead progenitor was not wrong.

Spirit cultivation, spirit cultivation—wasn't it all for the sake of achieving eternal life, to live as long as heaven and earth? It was just that his method was different. He walked the path of the Undead Corpse Dao.

Even in ancient times, unorthodox paths were not accepted by the masses. Thus, this person was ostracized and targeted, which ultimately led to a great war. This progenitor was truly formidable, single-handedly fighting against countless foes. He manipulated the dead things of the world to crawl out of the ground as Undead corpses, commanding them to commit suicide attacks against countless members of the Spirit Race. That battle was exceptionally brutal.

It was brutal because the Primordial Spirit Race suffered considerable losses in order to annihilate him.

It was also brutal because this progenitor was ultimately defeated.

Because if the Primordial Spirit Race could produce someone like him, it could also produce other monstrous, peerless geniuses. The heavens collapsed and the earth split, mountains and rivers were overturned. The progenitor was routed, and just as he was about to be exterminated, he made a decisive move, leading his remaining Undead corpses deep into the catacombs.

The catacombs were boundless and maze-like, but the environment was absolutely atrocious. Aside from subterranean creatures that had evolved over countless years, perhaps only cockroaches could survive there. In such an extreme environment, a schism occurred within the Undead corpses.

One part remained forever in the harsh environment of the catacombs, never seeing the light of day.

The other part, led by the progenitor and his direct bloodline with the strongest Undead corpses, traveled through the catacombs far away from the territory of the Primordial Spirit Race. They eventually emerged from the catacombs at an extremely distant border, the frozen lands. In this frigid region filled with icy power, they gradually became the Icebound Undead.

Therefore, the Icebound Undead were the descendants of the progenitor's direct lineage, while the Catacomb Undead were the proliferative branch of the Undead race.

The content of this expansion pack was that the Catacomb Undead were unwilling to remain underground forever and wanted to come to the surface to stir up trouble.

The Four-Directions Corpse BOSS was a leader-level character among the Catacomb Undead. It was the fastest and the first to emerge, but it ran into Wang Jiu and died just as quickly. This enraged the Catacomb Undead, and they swarmed towards the Gobi.

At this moment, everyone had entered the territory and heard a territory notification: "Your Lord has chosen to go to war with the invading Catacomb Undead. Are you willing to follow and fight bravely against the enemy?”

Everyone responded one after another. The momentum was overwhelming, like a single call receiving a hundred responses—very impressive.

On Wang Jiu's side, however, the System secretly poked at her, saying, "Five or six out of ten people in your territory are asking if there's an option not to follow. Jie jie, you're some lord..."

Its intention was to mock Wang Jiu, but she retorted, "In this crappy game of yours, if you gave everyone a choice, how many do you think would choose not to play? Don't you have any idea?"

System: "..."

You're just fantastic, aren't you? Such a venomous tongue!

The System, peeved, grumbled, "I'll just wait and see how you win this battle."

Win? This Dog System... its body resisted, but its mouth was honest. Did it actually think Wang Jiu could win?

But Wang Jiu paid it no mind. At this moment, she was observing the specific information of the invading Catacomb Undead.

There were about thirty thousand of them in total, divided into three ranks.

The lowest rank, the Catacomb Three-Legged Corpses, were short and scrawny, with three legs. Their average attributes were around three hundred, and they had no skills, similar to Bronze mini-elites. They made up about 90% of the total number of invading Undead.

The intermediate rank, the Catacomb Black-Armored Corpses, were slightly larger than the Three-Legged Corpses. Their abdomens and backs were protected by black metal armor. Their average attributes were around seven to eight hundred, and they generally had two or three skills, similar to Silver mini-bosses. There were three thousand of them.

The high-rank Four-Directions Corpses, as seen before, were Gold-grade. Their average attributes varied, but they fluctuated around six, seven, or eight thousand. Currently, twelve of them were visible.

This was the strength of the invaders. When Wang Jiu posted this data in the territory channel, many people exclaimed "holy shit" and once again began to habitually curse the System.

But it was just cursing. After all, 444 Novice Village had faced the ferocious Rat Tide. Back then, their village had so few people and no protection from a large territory. Now, facing such a grand scene, the residents only grumbled verbally, but their preparations were steady.

The higher-strength elites had a separate elite channel. Zhao Shanxiao, Lin Fengmian, He Ruguang, and others were already there. From the day the game appeared, they had grown accustomed to the mindset required to face powerful enemies. Someone had already posted the data on these Undead, just not as detailed as Wang Jiu's.

They were all gathering their forces to prepare for battle, and were also waiting for Wang Jiu's deployment orders.

Wang Jiu didn't have any extra steps. In any case, a battle within a territory involved no more than four procedures.

1. High and mid-tier combatants collectively man the city walls.

2. Prepare the territory's own offensive and defensive systems to coordinate with the players' combat power.

3. Have backup recovery ready, meaning the priest group and the stamina and spirit power recovery buildings within the territory.

4. Non-combat personnel on standby to replace combatants who fall back to recover and heal.

In territory wars and the like, details determine success or failure, but the prerequisite is that the basic strength meets the standard.

Wang Shu and the others were initially panicking, but seeing the number of people in the elite channel, their confidence returned.

The Undead were formidable, far surpassing the previous Rat Tide. But in the current Gobi Territory, there were no fewer than ten people with average attributes over 4,000, and no less than thirty with average attributes over 3,000. Moreover, those with average attributes between one thousand and 3,000 could form a three-hundred-person legion.

It had, in fact, gathered seven or eight-tenths of the strongest players from the two hundred novice villages in Luoyang City—that is, from the east, west, south, and north divisions.

The elites selected from over a million players were all here. If they lost, wouldn't that be a failure for the human race?

Anyway, on the city wall, Wang Shu stole a glance at Wang Jiu's expression and suddenly calmed down. He asked her, "Master, are you going to command?"

Wang Jiu took out her scepter and tapped Xie Lu's chest with one end. "I'll handle the direction, you handle the details."

Without waiting for Xie Lu's consent, she directly transferred secondary command authority for the war to him.

Xie Lu was surprised, yet also not very surprised. He immediately divided the troops, assigning everyone to small teams.

Among them was one priest team, with a total of 40 priests whose average attributes exceeded 1,000. Lin Guiwan was the captain.

One support team, with a total of 60 people whose average attributes exceeded 1,000. Qiao Xuejing was the captain.

One main combat team, with two hundred people. Xie Lu himself was the captain.

Overall, it was a three-hundred-person legion, divided into smaller teams for easier control.

After the three hundred people took their positions, the secondary combat groups stood on both sides along the wall. And right before their eyes, the territory's barrier was active outside the city walls.

They were in a completely safe state, taking no damage.

But looking out, they could see densely packed Undead frantically ramming and tearing at the barrier less than three meters away from them.

"The defensive capability of the advanced barrier is insane. If we use the previous Rat Tide as a measure, those rat swarms wouldn't even have been able to break its defense. But the damage from thirty thousand Undead tearing at it will probably take down 3% of the shield's HP in 5 minutes. That means our territory's barrier can only last for about 165 minutes at most."

After 165 minutes, the barrier would collapse, the Undead would pour into the territory, and everyone would face death directly!

Real death.

The Undead had twelve high-level Bloodthirsty Bosses.

"Holy shit, the Lord!"

After the deployment was complete, the main combatants were all preparing to attack when they saw their leader leap lightly off the city wall.

Everyone: "???"

"Are we supposed to jump down with her?" Liu Guang and others, as newcomers to the Gobi Territory, were immediately awkward when they saw their newly pledged boss being so "heroic."

Even if Lao Wang is Rose, we're not Jack.

Nicholas Zhao Si said sheepishly, "It's pretty nice up on the wall. Let's not go down, shall we?"

His reputation was so bad that if he didn't act selfishly for once, it would ruin his character persona. So, no one was surprised by his reaction.

But as for Lord Lao Wang's performance...

She activated a barrier the moment she landed, standing amidst the densely packed Undead with the barrier protecting her.

Oho! Wang Shu's eyes were practically glowing. His mouth opened, ready to activate rainbow-fart mode.

"Could it be that she's going to attract the mobs' damage herself to relieve the pressure on the territory's barrier?"

"As expected of the Gobi Lord! A true role model for our path, sacrificing herself for others!"

"It's so moving."

"So amazing! It's blinding my eyes!"

"It's not just her courage. The most important thing is that she has the courage and can take the hits without dying! Who is she? She is the Gobi Lord!"

A stream of rainbow farts flew up from the city wall. Wang Shu: "..."

These people are a bit annoying.

"Cut the crap. She doesn't like people who talk too much, unless you have lucky hands. Get ready, save your ultimate moves. Priests, prepare to buff depending on the situation—she's not pulling mobs."

When Xie Lu said this, everyone was surprised. Not pulling mobs?

Then that means...

Everyone observed carefully, but only a few with exceptionally powerful insight could see it. Liao Luo said in a low voice, "The corpse qi released from those twelve Gold BOSSes is spreading into the bodies of the others. It should be some kind of buff. If we take out these Gold BOSSes, the mob group should be weakened considerably."

This was likely the key strategy for this territory war, but taking out twelve Gold BOSSes was easier said than done.

They had already cunningly hidden themselves behind the Undead's offensive line, only using ranged attacks on the territory's barrier.

With her barrier up, Wang Jiu crossed the entire Undead offensive line. Her right hand was ready to cast the AoE skill Black Flame Swamp at any moment, while her left hand used the ranged attack Witch Bolt, which she first threw at a Gold-grade Four-Directions Corpse.

Normally, this kind of high-level BOSS had high intelligence and wouldn't be stupid enough to charge to the front and get hit, but Wang Jiu used Witch Bolt.

The skill description for Witch Bolt was a single-target ranged attack, but it had a taunt effect—in other words, what was commonly known as ranged monster-pulling.

Wang Jiu used one Witch Bolt to hook a BOSS and pull it back. The Four-Directions Corpses now held immense hatred for her, because one of their brothers had died at her hands earlier. There was a natural point of hatred within the race. With this taunt, it charged over. Wang Jiu ran to the side, moving in an arc, clearing the mobs blocking her path with Black Flame Swamp.

Her attributes and burst damage were high, so she didn't need any other skill bonuses. Coupled with the reversal effect of her Universe talent, Black Flame Swamp instantly killed all the mobs. Only the Silver-grade Black-Armored Corpses could hang on with a sliver of health, but they too fled the damage radius of Black Flame Swamp out of fear.

This was clearing a path. After clearing the path, she maintained her distance from the first Four-Directions Corpse, then threw another Witch Bolt to pull a second one. This second one used a charge skill. Wang Jiu used Shadow Step, flashing to the intersection point of their two attack lines, threw Blind and Paralyze at each of them respectively, and once again pulled away to aggro the third one...

It was too thrilling, simply heart-pounding.

These were three high-level Gold Bosses, each with average attributes exceeding six thousand.

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