Heroes' Prison

Chapter 220 - 216: Racing Against Time

The crowd exchanged glances, their expressions tinged with fear, and their steps involuntarily retreated a few paces. Although they hated Huang Yi and were filled with rage, when they actually faced him, they dared not even make a sound.

The scene suddenly became incredibly eerie; three hundred thousand people were being blocked from their path by just one man—Huang Yi!

"If you don’t want to die, don’t come any closer," Huang Yi warned them with a steely gaze!

Afterward, he turned around and walked toward the direction of the city gate.

"Whoosh!" Just then, someone from the crowd fired an arrow that flew over everyone’s heads and struck Huang Yi.

The next moment, Huang Yi halted his steps and slowly turned around, his gaze fixing on the three hundred thousand players as he tightened his grip on the hammer in his hand.

The air suddenly became heavy, and the crowd immediately felt an immense pressure, especially those standing at the very front. They kept backing away, swallowing hard and staring at Huang Yi with terror.

"You’re seeking death; don’t blame me when it comes!" With a cold snort, Huang Yi charged into the crowd and began a merciless slaughter! His powerful area-of-effect skill instantly covered hundreds of meters around him, engulfing swathes of players.

The players were as fragile as a flock of sheep, and quickly began to scatter in panic, any semblance of order gone.

"Don’t panic, everyone! Keep hitting him!" At this moment, Feng Zhi’s command reverberated through the crowd.

But his command was too feeble; apart from the two hundred thousand Half-Beast players who might still listen to him somewhat, the other hundred thousand players fled in all directions.

Huang Yi scanned the area but had no idea where Feng Zhi was. With over three hundred thousand players packed tightly together, it was incredibly difficult to find one person. He needed to kill Feng Zhi immediately to leave the players leaderless, otherwise, they would cause significant trouble for his breakout plan.

"Instakill, what are you turning your head around for? Are you looking for me? You must be eager to flee Dragon City right now, you must be afraid that Guifu Heilang will kill you, right! You want to kill me so badly, is it because you want to leave our team leaderless? It’s useless, you won’t find me unless you waste a great deal of time, killing all of us! Haha!" Feng Zhi’s smug voice rang out among the crowd, carrying with it the thrill of revenge.

With a sneer, Huang Yi immediately transformed into a Half-Beastman form, wiped his nose with his hand, and used the Racial Skill "Tracking Scent."

The reason he left Feng Zhi for last in the Void Battlefield was to remember his scent, and now it finally came in handy.

Soon, Huang Yi identified Feng Zhi’s location using Tracking Scent. He was hiding under a tree two hundred meters away, surrounded by Half-Beast players. From a distance, one couldn’t possibly notice his presence.

"What? How did you, how did you turn into a Half-Beastman!" Feng Zhi cried out in shock!

"Pursuit!" The next moment, Huang Yi locked on to Feng Zhi’s direction and charged repeatedly five times, crossing a vast sea of people and almost instantly appearing before him, his hammer smashing down!

"Boom!" Feng Zhi had no chance to dodge and his body burst apart instantly, without even a corpse left behind.

Then, Huang Yi continued his massacre among the crowd. His Orange Weapon possessed the Devouring Attribute, and those killed by him couldn’t be revived by any Resurrection Skill, not even Combat Resurrection would work; other than Reincarnation, they could only respawn at the Respawn Point.

After the bloodshed, Huang Yi received a message from Demon Sect Yueguo: the team of over six hundred thousand was arrayed in battle formation outside the city, ready and waiting for his command to strike at any moment.

Huang Yi wasted no more time and immediately carried Qin Shiyu’s lifeless body and headed for the city’s exterior. He had to break through the Skeleton Ocean and escape to safety before Guifu Heilang arrived!

Soon, he arrived outside the city. At the moment, the Skeleton Ocean stretching in front of him glowed with ghostly fire, confronting the six hundred thousand players but not advancing.

"Everyone, follow me and charge together!" Huang Yi dashed to the front and began leading the team to break through the boundless Skeleton Ocean.

The breakout had officially begun!

Huang Yi was the first to engage in close combat with the Skeleton Ocean outside. These were mostly Skeleton Bosses, whose strength was formidable. However, now that the Sand Thief King was trapped, their power had greatly decreased, making them much easier to kill.

The next moment, Huang Yi activated Scorched Earth, Judgment, and End of the World! It was almost like the level grinding he used to do within the Skeleton Ocean, a well-practiced route.

The sixty-plus thousand players behind him, like a well-oiled machine, set into motion, pouring countless Skill Radiance into the Skeleton Ocean, instakilling a large number of bosses in a flash!

The Skeleton Ocean quickly retaliated, and numerous attacks also fell upon the ranks of players as both sides exchanged heavy fire!

This way, Huang Yi led six hundred thousand players, like a sharp knife, thrusting into the Skeleton Ocean, forcibly carving out a bloody path and struggling towards the outside world.

After ten minutes, all six hundred thousand were charging into the Skeleton Ocean. The outermost circle consisted of Defense Class players, withstanding skeleton attacks from all directions. But this team had too few tanks and couldn’t hold off so many bosses’ onslaught. Players were dying every second.

"Don’t use combat resurrection now, those who die should respawn in town and then continue to rush out to fight," Huang Yi immediately issued a command, preventing some priests who wanted to use combat resurrection on their teammates.

Subsequently, the deceased no longer waited for combat resurrection and immediately went back to the town to respawn.

"Instakill, Feng Zhi is leading his followers to besiege our people at the Dragon City Respawn Point, preventing them from coming out," Fu Yizhi’s intelligence suddenly arrived after a round of killing.

Huang Yi frowned, Feng Zhi really was like a haunting ghost, sticking to them like a dogskin plaster, always resorting to the basest measures.

"After everyone dies, don’t go back to the town to respawn. Priests, use combat resurrection to save them, Demon Sect Yueguo, you are in command next, I am going to Dragon City to get them out," Huang Yi dropped the words and raced back to Dragon City, heading straight for the Respawn Point.

Huang Yi was very fast and soon arrived at the Respawn Point, where indeed, dense crowds of players surrounded it, not allowing those who respawned to leave.

Huang Yi didn’t say a second word and charged into the crowd, killing wildly. Scorched Earth, Plague, End of the World—all burst forth, instakilling thousands of players. Only then did the crowd notice his arrival, scattering in fear and daring not to clash with him head-on.

Huang Yi turned to his teammates at the Respawn Point, "Everyone, get out fast! Follow the main force and continue the breakout!"

The players immediately left the Respawn Point and headed back towards the city gates.

"Tracking Scent!" This time, Huang Yi once again used the Half-Beastmen’s Racial Skill to locate Feng Zhi and charged at him.

Seeing Huang Yi coming, Feng Zhi’s face showed panic, and he turned to flee, having already died twice at Huang Yi’s hands today, losing two levels.

"Every time you respawn, I’ll kill you once more!" Huang Yi’s voice suddenly rang out in his ear, crushing him with a hammer blow.

Though Huang Yi killed them as if they were dogs, he no longer had the time to entangle with Feng Zhi’s troops. These players were unending and would surely keep harassing him.

Huang Yi decided on a ruthless move, he took out the Book of Heroes and summoned the entrance to Heroes’ Prison...

A minute later, his figure reappeared in Dragon City, running swiftly toward the city gates.

And right behind him, the entrance to Heroes’ Prison vanished, as the massive, sinister outline of a Level 105 gnoll faintly appeared.

"Huh? What’s this thing?" Feng Zhi’s 300,000 plus players stared blankly at the huge and ferocious gnoll, taken aback for a moment.

"Woof!" The next moment, the gnoll discerned its surroundings, seeing that it was surrounded by dense crowds of players, it immediately went on a killing spree.

Without their original consciousness, this gnoll’s clone only had the most primal desire to kill.

After that, Dragon City would turn into a purgatory, and it would be very difficult for the gnoll’s clone to escape, with the surrounding Skeleton Bosses heavily encircling the city.

Soon, Huang Yi exited the city, catching up with the main force and immediately gave an order, "Right now, split off a thousand priests. You leave our main group, then form a separate team inside our encirclement. Don’t heal us or attack the monsters to avoid entering a combat state. You’ll be out of combat the whole way, and your sole mission is to use Resurrection Skill to resurrect the dead within our group."

Huang Yi’s tactic was essentially to have a group of priests out of combat at the ready to normally resurrect the deceased.

Quickly, a thousand priests split from the crowd and formed a separate team, following Huang Yi’s main group of over 600,000 players, resurrecting their deceased teammates.

This move noticeably sped up their breakout, as members no longer needed to return to town to respawn.

"Instakill, many of the magic-based class are out of mana," reported the head of the Mages Group to Huang Yi after some time into the breakout.

Huang Yi thought for a moment and said, "Mages who are out of mana, leave the group instantly so you can regenerate mana outside of combat. Once your mana is full, rejoin the main group."

As one problem after another arose, Huang Yi solved them one by one, directing the orderly advancement of the 600,000-player main group.

At this moment, the secret phone line between Shanghai, China, and Los Angeles, USA rang again.

"Mr. Zhuge, according to the forums about Dragon City, there has been a huge turnaround. The area announcement showed that Number One successfully trapped the Sand Thief King and greatly weakened the Skeleton Army. Now Number One is leading over six hundred thousand players to breakout, and it looks very hopeful that they can escape, saving Dragon City’s six hundred thousand players. However, there is one last crisis—Guifu Heilang (Ghost Ax Black Wolf), one of the Sand Thief King’s Great Generals, is heading their way, and it’s uncertain when they’ll clash."

"So based on your intelligence, what are his chances of successfully breaking out before the Best Rookie Award?"

"There’s a 50% chance, and what he needs most now is time."

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