Chapter 220: 220. Xi Fan Must Die!_1
Translator: 549690339
The magic circle quickly gathered 10,000 players. Without any further ado, Xi Fan re-initiated the Frenzy Ceremony.
Once the ceremony began, the pitch-black fog flowed rapidly within the circle. Influenced by the fog, the players’ eyes turned blood-red as they fell into an uncontrolled frenzied state, drawing their weapons and attacking nearby targets.
[Fireball Skill], [Charge], [Backstab], [Hammer of Judgment]
The players furiously unleashed their skills against their surroundings until they were either eliminated or all nearby targets were destroyed.
The Frenzy Ceremony for the players was a bit different than that of the natives.
The players wouldn’t bleed nor lose limbs. Some players’ health points dropped to zero under the frenzied attacks of their peers, disappearing in a flash of white light. Others were critically injured and lay nearly dead on the ground with just a sliver of health left.
The entire Frenzy Ceremony lasted about ten minutes. It ended only when the last player fell.
In this ceremony, half of the players died, while the other half survived narrowly with only a sliver of health left, but they all received a [Heavy Injury] debuff.
[Heavy Injury]: All attributes decrease by 50%, movement speed decreases by 60%, duration of 10 minutes.
However, there was also good news.
After the ceremony, Old Li, dragging his heavily injured body, walked out together with a few teammates. Yet, he looked relaxed.
Stepping out of the magic circle, he said loudly to the players outside, “It’s okay! Everyone can safely enter, the pain isn’t as intense as you can imagine.
At the beginning, you all will feel some nausea and dizziness. After being controlled, you will lose consciousness entirely. When the ceremony ends, the half of the players who died shouldn’t feel any pain. Those who are heavily injured will wake up feeling pain all over, but this sensation is akin to the one you feel after falling from a 3-meter-high platform. It’s totally within everyone’s tolerance range.”
Hearing Old Li’s words, the players outside the circle breathed a sigh of relief. Falling from a 3-meter-high platform shouldn’t be too painful, right?
After giving out his explanation, Old Li turned to Su Yu, who was busy assigning tasks to players, “Nemesis, I heard there’s no limit to the number of times this mission could be completed?”
Su Yu nodded, “That’s true. As long as you don’t die, you can re-enter the magic circle.”
“Then I’ll go in another time! Getting a skill scroll in ten minutes seems quite worth it.”
Old Li walked over to Su Yu, completed the mission, and then accepted it for the second time.
“You’re still in a heavily injured state, don’t you want to rest a bit before going in again?” Su Yu was worried.
“No problem!” Old Li waved it off casually, “I just want to test for everyone if being in a heavily injured state would intensify the pain when entering the magic circle.”
“Alright then, be careful Old Li!”
Including Old Li, another ten thousand players went into the magic circle.
Xi Fan glanced down and re-initiated the Frenzy Ceremony. Again, the players began to attack each other.
Now, all the players in the game who were on the side of the Empire had already gathered around Forest City. The situation around the Magic Circle had been recorded by the players and uploaded as videos to the official offline forum.
Especially the video of Xi Fan brutally slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, which was widely spread.
Seeing this video, the whole forum exploded!
Watching the helpless struggle of the civilians in Forest City within the magic circle, everyone couldn’t help but relate the event to the real-world situation between the Blue Star Humans and the Skuru people.
From their empathized perspectives, criticisms against Xi Fan blanketed the sky:
“Xi Fan is totally inhumane!”
“Those are ten thousand lives!”
“Xi Fan doesn’t regard civilians as humans at all. His saying ‘used civilians’ is absolutely cold-blooded!”
“Boss Ke, you must lead us to vent our anger!”
“Boss Ke, you have to give it your all!”
Su Yu, who had been keeping an eye on the official forum, seeing the excited outcry from the players, immediately expressed his stance, “Rest assured everyone, if I get the chance to kill Xi Fan, I will risk my life to do so, to vent this anger for everyone!”
As the video spread widely, Xi Fan’s actions sparked public outrage in the entire gaming circle, causing all players to share a common hatred against him.
Although the Empire’s players couldn’t do anything to Xi Fan directly, they did their best to treat the civilians who survived the Frenzy Ceremony, or they personally joined the ceremony to reduce the frequency of Xi Fan using civilians.
As for the rebel’s players, they too could enter the Forest City and participate in the Frenzy Ceremony.
After the ceremony, they would return to Goldfinch City, using their own power to urge the rebel troops to march towards the Forest City faster. The earlier the rebels arrived, the fewer civilians would die in the Forest City.
Given Xi Fan’s blatant breakthrough, his opponents and foreign forces would surely disagree.
Six hours after the Frenzy Ceremony began, the northern sky was filled with a large number of small black dots.
The high-ranking powerhouses of the rebel side had arrived!
Duke Anzu Seifer and Duke Landilus, leading all fifth-order and above powerhouses in the rebel army, reached the sky above the Forest City.
The rebel side had 5 seventh-order powerhouses, 43 sixth-order powerhouses, and 387 fifth-order powerhouses. This does not include the reinforcements sent by the neighboring Lai Yin Empire – the pinnacle seventh-order Holy Knight Tula Yang and the pinnacle sixth-order mage Antondidas.
In terms of high-end combat power, the rebel side even exceeded the Empire’s side.
Besides humans, the appearances of seventh-order powerhouses from the Elf Race, Dwarf Race, Dragon Race, and Beast Race also appeared around the Forest City. However, due to the “Peace Agreement” signed between the major races, they could only observe silently and could not participate in the war.
With Xi Fan at the helm, the Empire’s side naturally went on high alert, with all powerhouses of the fifth order and above converging around Xi Fan. A large-scale battle was about to begin.
Duke Landilus, flying at the forefront of the crowd, looked at Xi Fan in the sky above the magic array and loudly questioned:
“Xi Fan, you unscrupulously harmed countless civilians to upgrade your realm! Don’t you feel ashamed?”
“Heh! You speak so loftily.” Xi Fan gave him a cold glare. “If you had such an opportunity, would you miss it?”
The expression on Duke Landilus’s face changed slightly, but he immediately said loudly, “I would certainly not do such a heinous act! We, the Kalet Rebel Army, always prioritize the safety of the people ”
“Really?” Xi Fan interrupted him, “At the Black Water City Battle half a year ago, you forced a group of farmers with no military training or equipment to charge to the front as cannon fodder for the regular army;
When Black Water City couldn’t be broken for a long time, you even had people throw blankets infected with plague viruses into the city, causing a large number of innocent civilians to contract the plague ”
Hearing Xi Fan’s words, Landilus looked a bit uncomfortable.
This information was top secret. He had disposed of the soldiers involved, so how did Xi Fan know?
Duke Landilus hurriedly told the powerhouses behind him, “We can’t keep arguing with Xi Fan. The longer we delay, the more fragments he will gain from the Frenzy Ceremony.
Mr. Tula Yang, your attributes counter Xi Fan the most, we’ll rely heavily on you this time!”
“Don’t worry, leave it to me!” Tula Yang drew a gleaming giant sword from behind him, and like a golden lightning bolt, charged at Xi Fan.
All the powerhouses on the rebel side followed Tula Yang and attacked the enemy formation.
A earth-shattering battle was about to unfold in the sky above Forest City.