MMORPG: The Elementalist

At the meantime, outside Buried City, in the Mythical Continent, every player from the Angel Faction had no idea what was happening in the Buried City. It was just a day like any other. They were busy with leveling up, defeating monsters, hunting treasures, gulping shots of alcohol, and chatting with their friends. Suddenly, a system message beeped on everyone’s system chat all at the same time. Then, a surge of excitement was felt across the Mythical Continent.

The Buried City is now connected to the Eternal Portal.

Every Angel Faction player can now teleport to Buried City via the warp portals in safe areas, with a fee.

To most players, the Buried City was a mysterious, dangerous place that was filled with opportunities and treasures, one that only the higher tier players can venture in. They did not think it would be open for the public this early.

This was definitely wonderful news to the Angel Faction players.

The Demon Faction also got the news. There were also members from their Five Leagues attempting to clear quests in the Buried City. They witnessed the entire change in the Buried City with their own eyes—the Eternal Corridors slapping onto the city, the violet beams, everything! Although they had no idea what happened in the middle of the Buried City, it was quite easy to guess what was happening.

The Angel Faction had activated the warp portal first.

As the Demon Faction players were groaning in dismay, the Angel Faction players were overjoyed with excitement. They scrambled to purchase potions and supplies to prepare for their adventures in the Buried City. And it was then, another system message shocked everyone in the continent again, “Eternal Portal is now activated. The Spawn of Hades is personally commanding the Army of Liches and Underworld to invade Mythical Continent!”

Every player in the Mythical Continent was psyched.

The Underworld!

It was the fabled foreign world that was discussed repeatedly on the forum since the opening of the Graveyard of the Gods.

Hades… The Lord of the Underworld…

And there was also the Army of the Liches—an entire army of Tier 6 Megabosses.

Even though they knew these monsters were dangerous, the players still could not wait to personally experience and explore the Underworld. They were all, deep in their veins, true adventurers.

***

Back in Buried City…

Qin Ruo and his friends were still standing on the Eternity Peak, completely stunned at what was happening right before their eyes.

Waves after waves of Underworld creatures, led by the Liches, marched into the huge warp portal.

And the portal turned them one by one into glaring lights, teleporting them out of Buried City—like a glutton that could never be satiated, swallowing the Underworld creatures that were marching into its giant mouth.

As the ground forces were teleported away, more and more Liches flew out of The Tower of Hades and glided into flares of light above the warp portal.

Evidently, their destination was the Mythical Continent.

As time passed by, Qin Ruo and his friends could not help but stare at all of that, trying to fully understand and digest the entire incident.

The Lord of Underworld had this planned all along and was anticipating everything that would happen after the Eternal Corridor was laid onto the Buried City. That was why he was able to respond immediately by rallying his armies and sending them, all of the monsters that he had accumulated in those one hundred years, into the warp portal and, in turn, to the Mythical Continent above—almost like they rehearsed.

Qin Ruo and his friends could not help but worry about the dangers that lay ahead. Qin Ruo was certain, with the speed Hades was sending his army through the portal and the combined might of the several hundred Liches, only Moonrise City, which had Demigod Champions in it, was sturdy enough to handle this formidable army.

The other cities would not last long when faced with the Lich Army’s wrath! They could all end up like Buried City—their cities wiped out in a blink of an eye and falling to the hands of the Underworld.

***

Wait!

Qin Ruo suddenly realized something and turned to Majestic Hero.

“Where does the warp portal lead to?”

Qin Ruo’s hopeful words lifted his friends up from their feet.

Indeed, the portal should be connected to Angel Faction’s warp portal system and provided direct access to the Buried City to Angel Faction players.

However, there was no Portal Handler on the Eternal Portal and there could also be a chance that the Eternal Portal’s destination was decided at random. If that was the case, where had all these Underworld creatures and the Lich Army been teleported to?

“I’ll send my men to check it out!”

Majestic Hero immediately prepared his private message interface but Darius suddenly spoke, “There’s no need to do that. These Spectrals have their own warp portals.”

“Their own warp portals?”

Everyone was surprised as they heard that. They turned to Darius together at the same time, expecting him to tell them more.

For Darius, it was a checkmate for him and the other Guardians. They had no counter-measures to handle the current situation in the Buried City. Just as they thought they were successful with their objectives by activating the Eternal Portal, Hades had used this very same portal to send his legion to the Mythical Continent above before any human reinforcement was able to reach them.

Darius and his peers had not only failed to liberate Buried City from the grasp of Hades, they had made the situation worse—now that the Lich Army was set loose, they had also exposed the entire Mythical Continent to the danger of the Underworld.

Darius spoke in a defeated voice, “The Eternal Portal does not only connect to the portals in your cities. It would connect to any portal in areas that are under the purview of Angel Faction. So, even if it’s a new warp portal that was created in the wild, as long as it’s still within the Angel Faction’s turf, the Eternal Portal can still establish a link with it…”

“The human cities will not authorize the Underworld creatures’ entry. The creatures also could not teleport straight into your cities. So, your cities are safe.”

“But how is that possible?” Subjugator asked.

“Where else could there be warp portals outside of the city walls?”

“Such portals exist.”

Qin Ruo’s reply reaffirmed Darius’s words.

He did see some small single-way warp portals when he was completing his Tier 4 Advancement Quest. And that was summoned by a Tier 4 Miniboss. Hades had this planned for a century, he definitely had done some preparation for this.

Darius nodded, “Every high-tier Underworld Creature is under the command of Hades, the Lord of the Underworld. According to historical texts, Hades could establish direct communication links with any Underworld creature anywhere in the world. If there’s any existing high-tier Underworld creature in Mythical Continent, that creature would have prepared the warp portal for its master.”

“….”

Everyone exhaled in relief as they understood that their friends on the surface were not in immediate danger.

Nevertheless, Darius still had more bad news. “That’s not all.”

“Although Hades will not launch his attack right away, his Lich Army will scout the areas first and then find well-hidden places to construct huge warp portals, the same thing they did before they conquered Buried City.”

“Construct warp portals? What for?”

“To gather their troops.”

Darius, as he remembered the day before Buried City fell, smiled bitterly. “This time it’s not the same as the Buried City. Hades is not going to be satisfied with just one Eternal Portal.”

“He will have numerous huge warp portals constructed and then send his entire legion directly from the Underworld over to Mythical Continent!” As everyone heard this terrifying news, they turned pale.

‘Gathering troops?’

Just a while ago, there were at least two hundred Liches infiltrating the Mythical Continent. There were also countless Tier 5 and 6 Underworld Creatures and Skeletal Dragons. These were already enough to cripple and conquer Moonrise City.

And yet, Hades still intended to station more troops before he decided to advance.

“Shit!”

Qin Ruo cursed secretly in his mind as he watched the teleportation light beaming away from the Eternal Portal.

“Oh no.”

“Someone’s teleporting in!”

“These poor bastards are going to get their asses kicked!”

The players on the Eternity Peaks could do nothing but watch the large group of players who were eager to start their adventures in the Buried City walking straight into a death trap…

***

“Ahhh!”

“Holy Shit! Liches!”

“What the fuck?! There’re so many Underworld Creatures!”

As soon as the players walked out of the warp portal, screams of terror were heard everywhere. They had no idea what the situation in Buried City was like—they were oblivious of the areas that they were warping into, the status of the surrounding area and etc. Being completely surrounded by the Underworld horde and Lich legion was the last thing they expected. They certainly also did not anticipate that they would warp right next to the Tower of Hades!

These “forerunners” suffered extremely bad luck.

If they knew that there would be so many Underworld Creatures welcoming them on the other side of the portal, they would certainly not have gone through it! Shit! They had to pay a whopping 100 Gold too! They paid this much money just to die!

Yet, it was too late to regret now.

They were immediately pulled into “Combat Status” while being pushed by countless players who teleported in from behind.

Thus, more and more screams of horror were heard as the Lich army inched closer to these unlucky adventures…

Roar!!!

Suddenly, a loud deafening roar could be heard from the Eternal Portal.

Then, over hundreds of golden holy rays beamed into the scene!

In an instant, powerful Holy energy took its presence near the portal!

A hundred pairs of Angelic Wings rose to the skies from the warp portal, brightening the gloomy skies of the Buried City with the pure divine lights.

Angel Faction’s cavalry had arrived for the rescue!

***

The entire Eternal Portal had turned into a golden battlefield!

Surges after surges of visible shock waves could be seen bursting from the Demigod Guardians, gushing over the players in the area and into the oncoming Underworld creatures like ocean tides.

When an Underworld creature was so much as touched by the Shock Waves, it would combust and turn to dust. The Liches in the air, seeing that the table had turned, shrieked in horror and then turned their tails toward the Tower of Hades.