Chapter 592 - 229: Harvesting Enemies, Old Six Devours

A full-scale assault? Why does it feel like the entire Sea Race has aged a fair bit...

Through holes torn by the Defense Towers’ Cluster Attacks, Shen Fei saw the gates of the distant Sea Race Dragon Palace swing wide open. Swarms of Sea Race members, piloting unique-looking war chariots, charged out directly toward the NPCs and bosses.

What Shen Fei found strange, however, was that the members of the Sea Race now looked noticeably older than when he had seen them six days prior.

I’ll wipe them out first!

All sorts of attacks crisscrossed the battlefield as the NPCs and bosses scattered, quickly responding to the assault. Although he was puzzled, Shen Fei didn’t immediately call any of the Sea Race over to question them. His eyes and ears were everywhere as he rapidly scanned the battlefield, swiftly annihilating every cluster of NPCs that could launch a powerful attack.

PFFT! PFFT! PFFT!

At Shen Fei’s side, Number 0 and Xiaohong had also received significant boosts from completing Missions Two and Three in the Dinosaur Era. While Shen Fei focused on controlling the Defense Towers for rapid-fire attacks, they, aided by defensive-type Defense Towers, blocked the sporadic NPC and boss attacks aimed at him.

Black Tortoise went even further. Without needing Shen Fei’s command, it knew he intended to annihilate every last enemy. It manipulated the seawater with its powerful Water Manipulation Technique, creating a massive sphere of water that completely enclosed the entire region for hundreds of kilometers, ensuring not a single foe could escape.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Meanwhile, the Sea Race also realized that in the face of Shen Fei’s unparalleled attacks, their own counter-offensive was having minimal effect. In fact, with the Sea Race mixed in among the enemies, Shen Fei was sometimes forced to hold back.

Upon realizing this, Vanas quickly adjusted tactics. He led the Sea Race to the wall of the water sphere Black Tortoise had created, where they began herding the NPCs and bosses, clustering them together to make them easier for Shen Fei to annihilate.

With Shen Fei’s entry into the battle, the tide, which had seen the Sea Race taking a beating, turned in an instant. The entire battlefield instantly transformed into Shen Fei’s personal slaughter.

"It’s him!!"

"It was definitely him last time!!!"

On the other side, amidst the NPCs and bosses being rapidly annihilated by Shen Fei, the panicked commander and his subordinates finally remembered: tens of thousands of Giant NPCs had been wiped out in this very place before. Witnessing Shen Fei’s attacks instantly turn any NPC or boss they touched into ash, it clicked in the commander’s mind. He realized this was how that group of their brethren had mysteriously disappeared.

"Boss!" one of his subordinates cried out, having already gathered intel. "I’ve figured it out! That human player is controlling Defense Towers! His ability must have been inherited from a tower defense game! If we want to escape, we have to get close and assassinate him! The weakness of a Tower Master is their own body."

"Good!" the commander snapped. "Let’s do it! Gather everyone with rapid Teleportation abilities! Take out that man standing on the giant turtle’s head!"

With his subordinates being wiped out by the second, the NPC commander instantly agreed to the proposed plan.

Originally, when he had seen the blood-red veins appearing in the Sea Race’s Shield, the NPC commander felt that the war to eliminate the Dragon Palace was all but won. But he never expected the situation on the battlefield to reverse in an instant. After the human player on the giant turtle appeared, it was no longer a matter of them annihilating the Sea Race and their Dragon Palace, but a question of how they were going to escape with their lives.

Previously, the Sea Race acted as a third power, sharing this special region of the Pacific Ocean in a three-way balance with the NPCs and bosses. The Sea Race’s overall strength was weaker, but not by much, especially since the NPC and boss factions were often hostile to one another. Therefore, when they decided to eradicate the Sea Race’s forces, both factions had committed at least a quarter of their Combat Power to the assault.

But now, even with a full quarter of their combined Combat Power, they were still being effortlessly wiped out by the human player before them.

Faced with this reality, the powerful NPC commander, their chief strategist, was utterly dumbfounded. After Version 4.9, their objective was to annihilate all human players. This rule, inherited and deeply ingrained in their minds, was crystal clear to every NPC and boss. They had all been supremely confident in their ability to carry out this mission. But now, seeing Shen Fei, this NPC commander began to tremble in fear.

If a player this powerful exists among the humans, how are we supposed to fight them in the future?!

He immediately tried to transmit this information to the remaining three-quarters of their comrades in the Pacific Ocean region but was shocked to discover that his message couldn’t get through. He didn’t know that the massive, isolating sphere of water created by the Black Tortoise Water Manipulation Technique not only prevented anyone from escaping but also blocked all forms of information transmission.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The shocked NPC commander confirmed the bad news: he couldn’t get a message out. Soon after, however, he received some good news. A dozen or so NPCs and bosses with spatial Teleportation abilities had quickly gathered by his side.