Afternoon.
Yu Xian and Little Nora sat together on the city wall of Jiangli City.
In truth, neither Yu Xian nor Little Nora cared much about occupying Jiangli City. If it weren't for the fact that taking the city would trigger a monster siege and help them level up faster, they probably wouldn't have bothered to muster the motivation to do it for ten days or half a month.
"Three, two, one, start!"
Licking his ice cream, Yu Xian gazed into the distant sky and suddenly counted down.
Sure enough, the moment he called out "start," a colossal magic circle materialized across the distant sky, and a formidable surge of aura billowed out from it.
A great number of class users in Jiangli City were already watching from a distance.
Meanwhile, Ximen Wangcai and Situ Xingye wove through the crowd, promoting the Sparkle Troupe and inviting skilled class users to join.
Outside the city, the Chaos Evil Beast stood before the gate. In front of it was a dense swarm of serrated-mouthed monsters, and even further ahead stood Xielina's skeleton army.
Although the skeleton army had suffered heavy casualties against the Guoba Legion, Xielina had replenished their ranks over the past few days. As expendable cannon fodder, these skeleton soldiers couldn't be more suitable.
Soon, the first wave of monsters appeared.
The first wave consisted of lizard-like wyverns. Perhaps because their bodies were too heavy and their wings too small, they could only fly at an extremely low altitude; any creature taller than two meters could easily strike them.
Seeing the monsters appear, Yu Xian immediately inspected their attributes.
He primarily wanted to find out the base level of the monsters in this siege.
[Purple Batwing Lizard]
[Level: 50]
[Skills:]
[Piercing Sonic Arrow: Condenses sound into a fine line, fired to attack the target.]
[Sonic Shock Bomb: Launches a shock bomb composed of sound waves at the enemy, dealing damage while having a small chance to inflict Stun, Nausea, and Weakness.]
[Sonic Batwing Slash: Coats its wings in sound waves to slash at the target.]
[Latching Vampirism: Descends from above to land behind the target, using its fangs to rapidly drain their blood. Deals damage while swiftly recovering from injuries.]
[Explosive Sonic Wave: When more than 10 Purple Batwing Lizards gather, they can unleash a combo skill that creates a massive sonic shockwave affecting all targets over a wide area.]
[Note: Although they resemble Western dragon hatchlings, they are actually just lizards.]
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The monsters were rather average in strength; the only slight threat was that combo skill.
However, with the Chaos Evil Beast present, even that combo skill shouldn't pose any problem. After all, these Purple Batwing Lizards began losing health the moment they entered the Chaos Evil Beast's radiation range.
On top of that, Xielina had "I Believe in Light and Hope" active, causing the lizards' health to drain at an astonishing rate.
In the end, they only managed to launch a single wave of attacks before dropping dead one after another, dissipating into shafts of white light. The skeleton soldiers didn't even need to lift a finger.
The onlookers watching from afar couldn't help drawing in sharp breaths at the sight.
While they knew Yu Xian was powerful, very few had ever seen him fight. They had come hoping to see his capabilities, only to be left completely empty-handed—all the monsters were wiped out before they could even see what happened.
Terrifying as it was, no one had any clue how it had actually occurred.
After the first wave ended, the second wave was up next. Xielina ordered part of the skeletons to clear the battlefield, gathering all the loot and carrying it up to the city wall.
However, Purple Batwing Lizards were merely normal monsters. While they had some potential, they were only slightly stronger than ghouls.
Yu Xian felt that even without any new skills, a Giant Ghoul of the same level could probably solo a Purple Batwing Lizard.
Naturally, the loot from the Purple Batwing Lizards was pure trash.
Things like [Purple Batwing Lizard's Fang], [Purple Batwing Lizard's Wing], and [Purple Batwing Lizard's Pacifier] made Yu Xian roll his eyes. In the end, he dumped them all on Ximen Wangcai to handle.
Shortly after, the second wave of monsters descended from the sky.
Yu Xian couldn't even be bothered to check their attributes this time. He simply sat beside Little Nora eating snacks, lazily watching the new batch arrive.
This wave consisted of mechanical monsters called Rampaging Electric Irons.
Their bodies were entirely mechanical, and their heads were giant flatirons. When attacking, they would fling their heads out, inflicting bludgeoning damage as well as burns.
Facing just one was fine.
When an entire horde of Rampaging Electric Irons appeared, however, the sight was downright eye-searing. When attacking, they would whip their heads around until the iron detached from the body, connected only by an electrical cord.
Thus, the Rampaging Electric Irons hurled their iron heads through the air, crashing into their targets.
Once their numbers reached a certain density, their cords would inevitably get tangled with one another. As a result, many of the Rampaging Electric Irons ended up destroying their own comrades before they could even strike the skeleton soldiers.
"These monsters... feel so stupid," Little Nora couldn't help complaining as she watched so many Rampaging Electric Irons get bashed apart by friendly fire.
"Well, at least our troupe won't ever be short on electric irons now," Yu Xian said, caught between tears and laughter as he looked at the field covered in irons.
It seemed every Rampaging Electric Iron was guaranteed to drop an iron upon death. In the blink of an eye, the ground was littered with them. This world had neither washing machines nor tumble dryers, so irons might actually prove useful.
A few minutes later, the second wave of monsters was entirely wiped out.
This wave had indeed put up slightly more of a fight than the first; quite a few skeleton soldiers were struck by flying irons, their bodies shattering across the ground.
"Too bad they're all just normal monsters. Wouldn't it be better if there were more elites?"
Looking at the irons scattered everywhere, Yu Xian felt somewhat helpless. These normal monsters offered very little experience; killing a thousand might not even grant a single level-up.
He silently prayed that the third wave would be all elites.
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Resurrection Space.
Wufentang and Jasmine Bladeflower wore gloomy expressions as they discussed what kind of monsters to dispatch for the third wave.
They felt they had suffered the most rotten luck lately. First, while on a mission, they had encountered a mysterious class user and lost a life before even catching a glimpse of their face.
Dying was bad enough.
Yet in the Resurrection Space, they had run into a brain-dead Armored Swordback Tyrannosaurus, followed by an unreasonable, idiotic gorilla.
They had nearly perished under that gorilla's fists.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, Wufentang decisively used the Armored Swordback Tyrannosaurus's core origin, evolving into a "Mechanical Armored Artillery Tyrannosaurus."
After evolving, Wufentang relied on the "Armored Tyrannosaurus Howitzer" to blast the idiot gorilla to death with a single shell, barely managing to survive.
And yet, just as they caught their breath and wanted to leave this troubled place, the Resurrection Space selected them to serve as boss monsters for a monster siege.
The main reason was that after Wufentang absorbed the Armored Swordback Tyrannosaurus's core origin, it had just barely reached the boss tier. Likewise, after Jasmine Bladeflower absorbed the steel gorilla's core origin, it too had reached the boss tier.
However, because both had only just crossed the threshold into boss tier, either one alone was somewhat lacking as a final boss. The Resurrection Space therefore simply paired them up to serve as the boss encounter and test the class users.
Yet they didn't want any part of this rotten task.
All they wanted was to hurry back to the Class Hunter Society and report the information regarding that mysterious class user.
Chapter 483