novelraw Chapter 178 -178-Blood-Soaked Slaughter, Unafraid of Gods and Demons
Chapter 178 -178-Blood-Soaked Slaughter, Unafraid of Gods and Demons
After reading the quest panel, Daniel understood everything at once.
[To the Last Drop of Blood] was the final battle of this hidden instance.
And the reward for clearing it just happened to be the starting point of the next instance.
That next instance was the main storyline of the game’s new version: [Flame of Heritage].
So everything had been linked together all along, one chain interlocking with the next.
What surprised him even more was the Class Awakening Scroll.
With that item, he would no longer need to take another class advancement quest.
He was only level 170 right now, but once he completed the [Holy Angel Legion] class change quest, he could use that scroll directly.
At that thought, he suddenly stopped walking.
Kelly looked at him in confusion.
Daniel said calmly, "I’ll wait here for the powerful enemies of the non-human races. You go prepare for the coronation ceremony."
He was a forbidden-grade archer, a class with rather unusual traits.
Protection had never been his strength.
Destruction was.
If a real battle broke out and he dropped a forbidden spell at full force, Luminara City would probably be reduced to ruins.
So he could only remain outside the city gates.
Kelly smiled faintly and said softly, "All right."
Riding her dragon steed, she flew toward the city.
The moment Kelly returned, the human powerhouses finally let out relieved sighs.
They had truly thought Her Majesty was not coming back.
Mounted on her war dragon, Kelly looked down upon her people and declared in a ringing voice, "Continue the ceremony!"
The master of ceremonies heard the order and hurriedly shouted, "Continue the ceremony! War drums—sound!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
At once, rhythmic war drums thundered across the city, each beat like the pulse of the earth itself.
...
"They’re finally here."
Daniel hovered in midair, his robes snapping loudly in the wind.
At the edge of his vision, boundless black clouds came surging forward. On the ground below marched infantry and cavalry clad in black robes and black armor, stretching so far that no end could be seen.
"The Soul Devourers!"
They were the first non-human race to appear.
This time, they had mobilized everything they had. Their numbers reached several million.
When the players below the city walls saw the Soul Devourers, their eyes turned red with rage.
"Brothers, enough talk! The ones in the sky are for the guild leader—those on the ground are ours!"
"Stop yapping and kill these non-human bastards!"
"Charge!"
Several hundred players brandished their weapons and rushed headlong toward the millions-strong army of Soul Devourer warriors.
Watching them, Daniel’s lips curved upward slightly.
"After today, there will be no more Soul Devourers left in this world."
Whoosh—
His figure flashed and vanished.
When he appeared again, he was already charging straight into the black clouds.
"Hunting Domain!"
"Shadowfont!"
...
Inside the clouds were nothing but legendary-grade experts of the Soul Devourers.
"Arrogant human, you seek death!"
"Surround him! I’ll savor his flesh bit by bit and make him die in agony!"
"Cripple him!"
In an instant, attacks from the Soul Devourer elites poured down like a storm, blotting out the sky as they smashed toward Daniel.
Whoosh!
Daniel used Flash and slipped out of their encirclement in an instant.
When he reappeared, ninety-nine clones had lined up in the void behind him in perfect formation.
"Skyfall Strike!"
"Permafrost Prison!"
"Thunder Abyss!"
Terrifying forbidden spells surged forth like a wrathful tidal wave, and the heavens and earth changed color.
Every Soul Devourer expert was swallowed within their range.
Only now did they finally taste what true despair felt like.
-300,000,000!
-300,000,000!
-300,000,000!
A dense flood of kill notifications exploded in Daniel’s ears like a tsunami.
He did not even spare them a glance.
The loot dropped in this instance no longer meant anything to him.
In almost the blink of an eye, the Soul Devourer elites were completely annihilated.
Daniel stepped out from the Godscar.
At that very moment, yet another army of non-human races arrived—it was the Shadowkin.
And within their formation were several terrifying presences, beings at the transcendent legendary-grade.
"You there, blocking the path ahead—what exactly do you mean by this?"
In the distance, a Shadowkin expert shouted sharply.
Daniel answered indifferently, "I’m borrowing your heads for a little amusement."
"Idiot!"
The Shadowkin expert’s face darkened, and he no longer bothered wasting words.
Whoosh!
Murderous intent boiled in Daniel’s eyes as he shot into the air to meet them head-on.
...
Inside Luminara City.
Tap.
Tap, tap!
Kelly ascended the high platform step by step.
Before her lay more than a million human subjects prostrated on the ground.
"Queen Kelly!"
"May Queen Kelly’s radiance endure forever!"
"Long live Her Majesty the Queen!"
The cries shook the heavens, the crowd roaring like a boiling sea.
Yet Kelly’s gaze was fixed on the distant horizon.
A bloody battle was raging there.
Countless corpses and torrents of blood were falling from the Godscar like a storm.
"May Her Majesty the Queen deliver her address!"
The crowd instantly fell silent. Millions of eyes turned toward their queen.
A blazing battle intent burned in Kelly’s eyes.
She suddenly drew her sword, its edge cold as frost.
"The ideal our human race pursues—equality and dignity—shall never cease!"
"Whoever stands in the way of that path, humanity shall declare war upon!"
"Whoever seeks to enslave us, humanity shall strike down!"
"The warriors of mankind are willing to fight for all living beings, fearing neither death nor gods nor demons—until the very last drop of blood is shed!"
The moment her words fell, the roar of the human people rose like mountains collapsing and seas overturning.
"War! War!!"
"Fear neither death nor gods nor demons!"
...
"Hunting Domain!"
"Shadowfont!"
"Skyfall Strike!"
"Permafrost Prison!"
"Thunder Abyss!"
-300,000,000! Critical!
-300,000,000! Critical!
-300,000,000! Critical!
At this moment, Daniel was like a supreme god who governed life and death.
Under wave after wave of forbidden spells, countless Shadowkin experts screamed in agony inside the spell zones.
Those Shadowkin who had once stood high above all others, who had enslaved countless races and regarded all life as ants, were just as fragile before Daniel.
"This is impossible! Since when did the human race produce someone this monstrous?"
"If a supreme-grade being doesn’t appear, who could possibly defeat him?!"
"Damn it, where did this freak even come from?!"
In no more than a few breaths, the Shadowkin army had been slaughtered to the last man.
Once again, the players’ understanding of Daniel’s combat power was completely overturned.
They themselves were fighting fiercely against the lesser enemies on the ground, and plenty of them had already fallen. But compared to their guild leader, their battle looked like little more than primitive men swinging clubs.
"So this is the guild leader’s true strength?"
"Good lord... one forbidden spell from the guild leader could blow an entire forest to pieces!"
"The key point is, it’s infinite forbidden spells! His MP seems bottomless, and they’re all instant-cast! Who the hell can withstand that?"
"Holy shit, this is our guild leader’s power!?"
"You’ve got to be kidding me. Back in the Battle of Desperation, he wiped out hundreds of millions of monsters in two days—did you think that was a joke? Do you even know what a forbidden spell is?"
"This is way too absurd, isn’t it? Isn’t he basically a walking nuclear strike? Wherever he goes, everything gets flattened!"
...
Daniel stepped out from the battlefield of the Demon Realm.
The Godkin, the Demon Realm, the Undead Realm, the Spirit Realm...
The experts of the myriad worlds of the star sea came pouring in like a flood.
The sheer scale of it was so vast that words could hardly describe it.
On the enemy side alone, there were over ten thousand legendary-grade experts!
With such an overwhelming number of legendary-grade beings, even a supreme-grade existence could probably be buried alive under sheer numbers.
Yet the players were not the least bit worried for their guild leader.
Numbers?
To the great god Faustus, that was never a problem at all.